rb drifter

 Absolutely blown away at the work your putting into it dude!

I myself struggle with a short attention span, so to see someone so consistent on progress and keeping the thread updated for our viewing pleasure really helps the motivation 

Do we just order burger and eat In carpark on our bonnets like the sophisticated Bogans we really are ?

Now that we know it's level 2 this week do we re organize a meet date? 

Pulled the gearbox out of my other car and will use it for this car behind the 4g63t  until I can afford something better like maybe a r154.

I've had this gearbox since I was 15 (now 27) so it's had a fair amount of abuse and has started a crunch into 3rd gear but it still works so I'll keep sending it. But decided it at the very minimum deserves a good clean after its years of good behavior 

That was after the first waterblast and oven cleaner soak, gave It one more soak with oven cleaner and it came out better.  Will give it some more another day just because now I'm eager to get it as clean as possible 

Note there was no scrubbing just waterblaster and oven cleaner. 

Forgot to add the before photos

Got my front crossmember and the body mounts for rear diff dipped in acid to clean off the rust.  

Quite happy with the results gave them a coating in this product called ripo aswell. First time using this method but been advised I works well, next is paint once everything has dried up

That brake fluid on the sprayed interior looks like it works well!  Will have to try that myself 

Decided to drop the motor and box during lockdown.  Didn't have an engine crane so just dropped it using a trolley jack where it was until I get my hands on one off the boys. Wasn't to bad doing it that way

Bought 3 more wheels to match the pair i had. Cheers to dave for those. They need a good clean up, some wider lips would be ideal once funds allow. And having 5 wheels so the spare matches too will be epic

Decided to document some of this build on YouTube for those that are interested.

I'm a rookie at this so excuse the shitty filming and editing, I'll attempt to get better one day...

Nothing exciting in the works lately besides fixing old owners repairs, 

First pic should explain well. Window Washer pump obviously shat the bed so they Jimmy up another pump to it just chilling there. 

Found a spare amongst my boxes of crap and fitted her up, the black paint drives me mad on the washer bottle, maybe covid will get me cleaning it well see..   

Simple fix is to trim a channel for the steering column, made a very good difference and I'm quite happy at that height. Next step will be to make mounts and maybe fit the centre consol too. 

I do plan on  putting a roll cage in this car so will get more trimming once that is done

First test fit was good but as you can see from pilots view the bulge in dash was quite high and possibly restricted vision as I sit quite low in my seat.

Next step was to make a stencil out of whatever I could find at home, then trace It onto the dash and cut 

No going back now

Always test fit the cut stencil too!

With aunty Cindy giving us another holiday and my son being at his mothers this week I had some time up my sleeve,  so finally getting into the job of fitting the s15 dash to the lancer

Job started with a windscreen removal and a better look at the rust I need to fix, yay!

there was silicon everywhere around the windscreen so plenty of surface rust was encouraged, gotta love home mechanics 

I'll try make it, maybe just a short visit even. Got some packing to do before heading south on a kawabunga snowboarding trip

Not much of an update but I decided these wheels could use a clean up. 

So removed the bolts and started with 600 grit wet sand

The couldn't locate my 800 or 1200 grit so left it at 600 and tried my best to polish it. Results are better than where I started but not satisfied yet, I will return with more sandpaper!

Now I want new hardware too, the old stuff is too rustic to suit the polish 

Quality turn out with the cars this week 

On 17/06/2021 at 18:30, gibbon said:

I could have a crack, been meaning to try out burgerfuel 

However I *think* my mate is planning a boozy zoom catchup that night 

Do appreciate being included though! 

Hmmmm.....   Boozy zoom from burgerfuel,

providing you have a sober d ofcoarse

Also pinched the fish nets from my green car as I find factory seats uncomfortable. Was trying to buy another set of fishnets but seems going rate is $700 which is stupid. I paid $150 for these and they're 9.5/10 condition.  

May aswell go buy brand new recaros instead. 

Stole the exhaust while I was at it and threw a flexi in, and mounted it more solid with cotton reel style mounts. Definitely the way to go. 

I never wanted to modify this so tried to make it as Nanna spec as possible by adding a blanket to the rear seat and a monsoon to the driver's door. 

Also straightened the front bumper out as it had obviously had an oopsie at some point. 

Took it all the way to beach hop even and had no issues 

I've had this 6 months now so decided it can get its own thread

So I swapped my 82 l200 ute that I had done endless hours on back to the guy I bought it off for this beauty.

A 1982 ex lancer gsl

Originally 1.6 auto but has now got a big block 4g63 sohc 8 valve and 5 speed manual conversion. 

It had no wof or rego when I got it

I put four new tyres on, replaced the fart cannon exhaust tip with a normal one and a few minor things it got a wof. 

And I daily drove the shit out of it

Must be due another meet surely!