Mitch.W

took this for its maiden voyage tonight, seems to run good and didn't fall to bits or blow up. Ran a little bit leaner than before from having the larger dia header pipe so smashed a bigger main jet in and it seems to be good! 

i skipped some stuff but i added a billet tail light, new headlight and front guard, gave the motor a quick birthday refresh and did a skid and all seems go for te urewera next weekend 

soo my wheels arrived and couldn't help but slap them on and tape my flares on for a test fit, they fit perfect and look nice and aggressive.

The height needs adjusting a little bit/lowering but am slightly limited by my rear arm angles but will get onto that later down the track when I do a new diff setup. 

looks rad though.  

got a package from Barry at mrp too, wildwood big brake kit, lower arm traction brackets and some orca's. its enough to get me going for now and hopefully some good lap times. 

been trying to get this thing done fast, got it stripped down and sent it off for a rollcage, came back this week and i am over the moon, Nick Stewart at SAFEngineering smashed it, the fitment is amazing nice and tight and super simple exactly what i wanted  

some parts i've ordered have started to roll in 

6 point 3x2 takata harness and bride zeta 2 for max fanboy 

mike shaw fibreglass n2 kit mocked up for now, will fit it this week all going well

also picked up these potenza TR-3 wheels but cannot get lips to widen them until march next year so have something else coming in the mail 

still waiting for my brake kit to arrive so i can put that together, now the fun part of prepping it for paint which i'm really not looking forward to.

east cape is coming up so thought i better actually fix this from last year/make it faster. 

started off by making up a new seat and brackets to hold bits and pieces this weekend, will fire it down to Lewis and he can work his magic on it for me.

then stripped it down to a bare frame and packaged all the bolts up to get sent off to get re zinc plated.

will do the standard sandblast and powdercoat for everything to tidy it up. 

next is motor work, big carb upgrade, stainless exhaust etc. will see how motivation goes and how distracted i get by other projects 

sooooo i sold this directly after breaking it.

and then proceeded to buy it back this week since its my favourite past time. 

got it back in more or less the condition i sold it in 5 years ago, didn't run, had some questionable "upgrades" done and the front end had been taken off. 

i got it put back together and running on the weekend and took it for a hoon, it needs some ahhhhhh, refinement you could say. Plans are n2 kit, 13x9 or so with slicks, cage, paint and all other associated race car thing and then fall into a spiral of wanting to go faster and end up blowing all my money on it so here we go. ordered a bunch of stuff that should be here this week all going well. 

really want to try and replacate the Trust starlet cup car livery too. 

How it looked when i got it.

after a bath and some wheels i had laying around for the time being, if someone has some 13x6 or so 3 piece wheels that they want to sell that would be grand!

so yeah, tell me in stupid for doing this etc in the discussion/suggestions on what to do,

thought i might as well make a build thread for this thing to keep track of whats going on with it. 

popped up on trade me locally and i couldn't help myself, there was no pictures and the guy had no clue what it was or the parts it had. i went and checked it out for shits and gigs expecting it to be shit. 

had to hide my excitement when i was looking around and seeing more and more PJ'S parts, managed to convince the guy to withdraw the auction and sell it to me on the spot for $400 which was ideal. 

Story was it was sitting in his friends garage and he did some panel work to his car and got the jetski as payment. starter motor was bung so he bought a china replacement and kept jamming on the flywheel (he didn't know what was wrong) i got it home and tore it to bits gave everything a good clean up and checked the starter motor wasn't too munched. i Have a new genuine starter motor on the way  which will hopefully fix the issue. 

so far i have found it has pj's full exhaust, intake grate, ride plate, pump nozzle, steering and straight bars, finger throttle. 

also has a skat-trak impeller.

it has had a bunch machined off of the head as it has bigger washers to space up the head bolts. 

Plans are to get the rest of it cleaned and back together for summer enjoyment, trying to not strip it to bits and give it a full restore yet as i want to enjoy it. feels like it has good compression, going to tidy up the exterior paint and new hydro turf and graphics and a reproduction fuel tank and SBN38 carb

after a bit of a clean 

This was after about 2 hours of cleaning, previous owner thought that oil went in with the flywheel which was cool too as it just went in an came straight back out the bottom of the cover and went into the hull 

afew of the bits in tonight after giving everything a quick clean 

heres the starter motor eating the flywheel

got a bit carried away, ended up with a freshly rebuilt late red top motor, j160 and some Niteparts headers. 

ended up doing a rwd cooling system conversion which was wayyyy more involved than I ever thought and cost far too much for some crusty old parts. 

I have no photos of the new setup in the car but its all running and driving now. 

I just happened to order a set of Whitley tune itb's for my setup, and some kelford cams and a few other goodies to get this thing humming.

bump - I sold this about 1.5 years ago when I needed some coin to do grown up things (renovate house) regretted it deeply, this weekend just been I went and picked it back up off the guy who I sold it to. 

it now has a vvt-i 1jzgte and MAXX ECU all scratch built loom by nz wiring, that about all he changed, got raised up and put on some china 17x9's. 

while I was in wellington I picked up a set of bcnr33 wheels and slapped them on it and lowered it back down to a semi acceptable height. 

The plans are smash an r154 in it before I blow up the w58 doing silly stuff, then later on I will put a TD06 on it and hopefully make around 350kw just for shits and gigs, also potentially some 15's of some sort again would be nice. will also unyucky the intercooler pipes. 

Couple of pics from before I sold it with 9j mk1 on the back 

and current pics, needs to come down 6mm or so in the back to get it sitting level

couple pictures from doing more assembly. starting to look good now 

got my tank back from paint today and couldn't resist sitting it on with the subframe and seat to have a glimpse of what its going to be like. got me pining to get it all together

been hanging out waiting for some stuff to arrive. 

frame and wheels and a few other little bits came back from powder coat. turned out so good couple little bits of pitting but once the motors in you won't see those 

also got my seat back from lewis what is amazing couldn't recommend him enough.

also some moto gadget barend and pin indicators came in 

got a modern motorcycle speedo and tail light but haven't got photos, currently the carbs are getting vapour blasted and im waiting on a top end gasket and seal kit for the motor to come in so I can rebuild that and paint it and then I can start putting the bike together, and make the last few parts for it, exhaust, battery box etc