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MY GUARDS ARE FIXED!!!! Suffice to say I'm pretty happy about it. Guards where repaired with just 1 day to spare before a group of us riverside gang members were due to leave for Toyota fest down in Cromwell. So in one day and two late nights i managed to get the car legal enough to get a warrant and then low enough again to be cool. I would have liked to get the front down a bit more but virgin guards and stupid tyre profile would not allow it. Also ran out of time and patience. P.S rear guards arent finished yet either, still need a bit of careful shaping to get perfect and a proper paint as they are currently just in a white primer. After about a 800km round trip the car was still in one piece, despite all the tyre rubbing and chassis encounters with the road surface. Here is a bunch of pictures.

That is off a Hyundai Excell or something. It's the rear hatch spoiler

I just realized its been the better part of a year since an update on this! i haven't done very much but i have done things. Like this Some aggressive guard rolling by yours truly has revealed a nasty bit of a repair on the drivers rear guard. Me being me picked and prodded at it and now it looks like that. That will be getting fixed early January! also this happened.. https://www.instagram.com/p/82XYKKKZSl/?taken-by=be4ver Flashing stuff is fun. Got tyres for my 10s!! Now running 14x9 -25 front and 14x10-25 rear. I will look at getting a lower profile tyre at some stage for the front but for now im pretty happy. 185 55s are a dam good fit on a 10" rim

Cheers Kirk28 but I've sussed out getting the original tail light back.

Hey man thanks! The intake manifold I've used is just a standard rvr one that I chopped the end off and got welded back on the other end. As for the flywheel I use the standard rvr one which is 7 bolt. But it's a little smaller than the rwd ones so the starter motor doesn't engage properly, that's why I cut my gearbox to move the starter in closer. I wouldn't recommend doing that though cos it was a real cunt of a job. It depends if your rvr motor has a 6 or 7 bolt crank, 6 bolt flywheels are more readily available for rwd than the 7 bolt ones. I couldn't find a rwd one when I was doing my conversion hence why I chopped the gearbox. Also I would doubt very much that the rvr lsd would fit in your sigma

yeah it definitely is being borrowed, the 1st time the bung had been removed and the second time the filler cap was left on the ground next to the car.

I repair such things. If you feel like bringing it to Vegas of course

Had thoughts of rigging the car to blow up when the fuel tank bung is removed or the fuel cap is taken off. Unfortunately killing people is a little frowned upon regardless of weather they are crack heads or not

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*******WARNING******* This post contains coarse language Despite all consuming thoughts I've been having to burn this shit heap thing to the ground I've been making some progress. The last two months have had thier up n downs with this. Not long after my last post i decided to pull the pin on this 1g and bought another low kms one off a member and another gc brought it up here from duniden. CBF touching it / wasting time / spending more money on another 1g i decided to just leave it and chuck it straight in as is. In it goes. now is about the time i realise there are a few subtle differences between the 1ge and 1geu. like this; and this; and some plugs and the oxygen sensors etc also i discover this. Whatever, thats fine :/ Now with that shit all sorted and everything plumbed up etc ..... its time to fire it up again right? wrong. Some scumy fuck has stolen my petrol. Again!!! Whatever, got more petrol the next day and fire it up. It ran good for a minute or so then starts missing really bad and wont idle, i can hold about 5k revs on it and it sounds ok. So i take it around the block to blow it out and it dies and wont start again After looking around for a problem i discover the back of the oil cap has gone all milky looking. WTF No. Not this shit again. The curse of the 1g Threw my toys, pack shit up and give up for the day. Under closer inspection the oil seems to smell a lot like petrol. Hmmm?? As it turns out, lots of fuel in your oil makes it look a lot like it does when there is water in it! who knew..... not me. So why the hell is it putting so dam much fuel into the engine??? I then discover the fuel return line is completely blocked and the pressure is getting so great that there is fuel squirting out past the hose clamps on the rubber lines. AH HA, that will be the cause of the issue! NOPE! did not fix the problem. Different oxygen sensors? nope The coils are different. is it the coils? nah! I checked the resistance of the 1ge injectors and they are slightly different to the other 1geu ones. So i changed them over aaaaaand it made no difference. God dam it! What else? a bung temp sensor? swapped and tested all the temp sensors. Not that! Removed and checked the cold start injector. That is fine. That only leaves two things, the ECU or the airflow meter. Now i have no way of testing either of these so i give up for a couple weeks. Which brings us to today. I took the AFM off to take and compare to my 1ggeu one and maybe try that in there. That's when i realize that the fucking flap inside it is stuck at about 3/4 of the way open! Well that will sure as hell cause a shit load of fuel to be injected unnecessarily won't it!! Nasty Its now that i realize there was possibly not much wrong with the last engine i just took out, and the fact that the compression tested good amplifies the fact that it was just doing the same dam thing this has been doing. Anyway! i put the afm back together after I regreased the rusty bearing and gave it a good clean up. Start it up and WOOOOOOO success!! it idles and revs smoothly. Finally! So i take it for a hoon around the block and it dies. Out of fuel. Who the fuck is stealing my petrol!! I feel actually feel sorry for people who are scummy enough to have to steal peoples fuel. The price of meth must be going up or something. So with all that behind me i can now make some dam progress!

Swapped the injectors over and no difference! Took spark plugs out and cleaned them up, put them back in and it ran a little bit. It seems to be putting a shit load too much fuel into the engine. The oil has gone very thin and petrol smelling. When it won't start at all I can pull the fuel pump relay out and it will actually fire up for a couple seconds. Really starting to get pissed off with the whole thing. Anyone want to buy a gx60 wagon!!?

Distributors are identical apart from the different plug housings. Checked the injectors today and one set has somewhat different resistance than the other. Must be that. Will swap them over tomorrow and see how that goes. Fuel return line was blocked and the fuel pump was pumping so hard it was squirting fuel out past the hose clamp. So I'm pretty confident the fuel pump is working properly

Haven't checked but it should be. Came straight out of Patricks car and the dizzy hasn't been touched

Ok so my gx60 wagon had the 1GE-U in and ive just swapped that for a 1GE. Everything is pretty much the same on the two engines. The dizzy plugs didn't match and the O2 sensors are way different, the pulleys are also ribbed on one and V on the other. So ive made the original 1geu loom work with this engine. Anyway my problem is that it runs like a haunted shithouse when its cold and once warmed up it barely runs / starts at all. When cold it hardly idles and sounds like its missing on 2 or 3 cylinders but will rev out real nicely, will eventually die and be almost impossible to start again. Ive only just managed to get it going today due to a blocked fuel line and blah blah blah. I haven't had time to properly check things out tonight after work on it but i suspect the injectors could be different? even the injector resistors could be different or maybe the oxygen sensor being different is making wierd shit happen. Im just guessing at this point though. Has anyone struck this before?

Yeah! He had sold it on trademe for $100 a couple months earlier and never had contact with the buyer so he got sick of it and was gna scrap it! Once I had it at work It started straight up and I rode it to and from the smoko shop for at least a week without even touching it

So, scrap bikes you say? Yes! Over the last few months I've acquired these two old 50cc bikes thankfully before they made it to the scrappys. I have hopes and dreams of making them as cool as some of the ones I see on here and around the place lately. The first bike I scored was this beauty. A Suzuki M30 in very decent condition for its age. I was making my way back to work one day after lunch when I saw it sitting in some guys trailer amongst a bunch of scrap metal. I decided to follow it and sure enough it stopped outside the scrap metal dealers. Before he could get out of his vehicle, I ran up and asked if he was about to scrap it. Sure enough he was so I offered to buy it there and then. $100 was his price which I was more than happy to pay. (Even though he was about to get like $10 for it as scrap) Anyway here it is 2nd comes the Yamaha MR50. Out on a farm one day I spot an old fa50 in a shed so when I asked the owner if he wanted to get rid of it he said, nah but you can have this old Yamaha I want to get rid of. Shit yeah! Ok I'll take this off your hands! It's obviously had a hard life on possibly multiple farms and it's sporting some pretty awesome "on farm repairs" This I'd like to make into something like a cafe racer / scrambler. So one afternoon me and a couple mates hacked it up a bit for a laugh. Before and after. I may need some guidance.......

^this is all very true

Also compression tested my fucked engine today. All cylinders came up over 150 psi hah

1jz is actually a 1jz-fse which has electronic throttle etc, would probably be a massive headache. Not looking to convert to manual at this point either, unless something really cheap comes up

So this last week has been pretty average in regards to this whole thing. The engine went back together and in the hole all very smoothly Time came to fire it up... it started first pop! It was going good all bar a small exhaust leak. So put some water in it and 30 seconds later it died, Tried to restart it and it was farting around and not idling. This is the point in which i notice the fuel light is on..... hmm thats wierd i emptied my 20L fuel container into it just the other day. Ok thats fine, whatever, i'll put some more petrol in it then. Cue me poring 5 litres of fuel into the tank which promptly gushes straight onto the ground under the car! WTF Upon closer inspection i see some shit cunt has removed the bung for me from the fuel tank. I luckily found the bung back where the car had been parked. Fuckers! So someone ass hat has jumped a 7 foot fence to make off with my 20L + 10 of half stale petrol! Which they have emptied out using an old icecream container which they kindly left behind. At this point i give up and flush the water from the engine and push the car back to its park. Next day i filled my 20L container again with petrol went to work and poured half of it in. Turned key and it fired up and idled perfectly! Yuss! so i quickly drove it into the workshop and put it on the hoist and sorted the exhaust leak out. with that sussed i filled it back up with water and started it up. AAAAAAnnnnnnnd its running like shit again. WTF. Maybe i didn't put enough petrol in it? so i put the rest of my container in it. Still running like shit. Dies. Won't start. Finally got it going and it barely runs, i give it heaps of throttle and thats when i see it. Bubbles. Bubbles coming out of the fucking radiator!! Fuck sake! Oil under the filler cap is milky as fuck. Shit. But on the plus side, i found the spare key while it was on the hoist! So at this point i see myself having 3 options; 1 - persevere with this shit heap of a motor and replace the head gasket. (I've never done a head gasket before) 2 - Put the new water pump and cambelt on the original 1g and get new oil seals for it. and cross fingers its ok (this engine has done 280thou kms) 3 - Find another 1g-ewww and hope for the best. 4 - Buy my work mates crashed JZX 110 and put engine and transmission from that into GX60 (low kms and very reliable but lots of fab work needed and cert etc) PS - my budget is not very high. please help //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/48689-be4vers-gx60-wagon-discussion/

Nah I'm not havering much luck with finding a tail light! That would be great if you could find me one over there!

Reassembled and ready to go in Took the old engine out... There is always one bolt/nut that will essentially double the removal time! If you have never used a hot water-blaster i very much recommend using one if you have a greasy engine bay with 30+ years of shit crusted to it. Cuts through it like butter! Also im after a decent rust free bonnet and a drivers tail light if anyone has anything??

Haha It's not sitting! It's Reg n wof currently and I drive it regularly. Will fix guards when wof runs out. Honest. Its ok to cry though.

Somebody's jelous^^

Brain: Hey get another project Me: Nah got 3 other cars to waste time and money on. Brain: go on, its a wagon. Me: naaaah... Brain: ahhhhh go oooonnn. Me: ok Here it is, a somewhat neglected GX60 wagon with a very sad, oil leaking 1G-EU power house The poor 1G is hemorrhaging oils from every oriface at an alarming rate. Thankfully the car came with a spare engine. So this lucky 1G will be receiving new oil seals, gaskets and water pump etc. + = Why the fuck am i even trying to make this lump look good?? Anyway that is it for now. I will leave you with this artists impression of the wagons near future. Discuss: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/48689-be4vers-gx60-wagon-discussion/