MickeyThief

You should do a skid.

Rad didn't know you were going to Leadfoot. Car looks pretty sharp all shiney and stuff. Does it feel a bit faster than with the old motor? A bit lighter on it's feet? If it doesn't quite feel mega fast then it might be related to that fueling issue eh... You must be quite pleased. Did old Rod look at your car? If you were bored one day and looking for something to fill that gap in your engine bay, a strut brace could do the trick aye - might stiffen up the old shell a little. Effing rad man. Well done. Can't wait to see/hear it in real life.

Dam and blast there is always one final hurdle isn't there! The fact that it is actually tootling about on the road is a pretty big deal tho! Yehah!

The rad is pretty rad. Deffo looks better than a shiney silver one. A lot of peeps will be looking in the engine bay so best it looks nice in there aye. So can TTT fix stuff like your wheel spacers? That could be good. Have you still got the old Hilux disks? You know, just in case? To get it operational for the deadline...

Mmmm. Very good very good. Good good good. Yeah I mean it has some sort of cert for the suspension anyway innit. You'd have to be pretty unlucky to get A: pulled over, B: have 'em look in the engine bay and C: know it's a different engine. Was that exhaust place some sort of recommendation? Man they can have such an influence them pipe benders - a muffler shop might give you summink that sounds a bit rubbish innit. You going 3 inch or 2.5? I say 2.5. Mandrel bent if poss. 3 inchers tend to drone and blare a bit and kinda all sound the same - no difference in flow either as the smaller diameter keeps the gas hot and flowing, wheras the bigger pipes cool it down and slow it up. So they say anyway. Oh no! Did it do much damage? Hopefully not in need of a third engine! And the little putt putt too out of action. What is your third car? The 'rolla?

Good luck man. Don't forget a air filter. You know with them brakes - does all the pad surface grip disk where they currently sit? Or is there a bit just grasping at air? (hence the need to move 'em at a later date...) Twats happening with the exahust? Are you just hooking them fancy headers up to the existing drainpipe? Does it need to be inspected by a man with a clipboard before you take it on the road?

Both myself and zep got ahead of ourselves when doing our engine conversions/builds. He ended up with race seats and a half cage, I ended up with a stripped car and race seats. All when the original idea was just to give the cars a bit more power. Don't lose track of your original goal just because it's going to potentially be a fast car. You want it to primarily be a cruiser and occasional track toy, not the other way around. An old car is never going to be the safest thing around, but that's not what they are about. Plus people still manage to kill themselves in new cars with 5 star ancap ratings, so providing you drive with care and don't get too carried away when not on the race track the engine isn't going to put you anymore at risk.TL:DR - just slap the engine in and go hooning as is True dat. Harnesses definitely cross a line. One of them removable half cages might be a good compromise - to keep pais happy.

Oh yeah not too bad eh! I thought you might pine for a little more side bolstering but these blokes obviously survive OK without it!

Phew. Glad that's what you meant. Methinks the arches will be too tight right? Hmmm dunno how it would look with wider tyres - not the same! Yeah no point in a cage without harnesses - you don't want to be bouncing around in there should the unthinkable happen. You might have to man - your seats don't even have headrests right? Stock seats and no cage will be just fine for tootling about on the street tho aye. Will the engine be ok oil wise on ze track?

Oh you mean wider rubber right? Not bigger wheels - yuck. Meh - it's only first gear wheelspin... More traction at launch just puts everything else under more stress. You know once Pais has a ride in it, she'll be calling for a roll cage right? One look at these calculations and you might be thinking about a cage yourself!

Yeah man fair enough eh. Good luck for the 3rd - it'll be hard yakka but good to have a deadline eh. Exthiting times. Nah you prob don't need to go all the to the front of the radiator eh - should be plenty of cool air behind it - at least until you fit that carbon fibre undertray eh... When you get your pod it's worth spending the extra on a K&N, you look at all the tests and the other brands will either flow poorly or let in heaps of crap - even the exxy Jap brands are no good. You know your car will have around 300hp per tonne, should make it pretty quick - 0-100 in under 5 secs... Should be a bit of fun.

Good update man, thanks. What are you thinking of for getting air into ze motor? Looks like quite a bit of room to get some sort of cool air intake - they say on an N/A motor that type of thing is very important... It should suck air from a cool spot and not meet much resistance on it's way into the motor. That's what they say I think...

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Those are awesome brakes. I like that they say Nissan on 'em as it gives a hint at what lies beneath. Wowee you are barely going to recognise the driving experience.

Hey pal looking good - I mean all that stuff 'underneath' - the nuts and bolts of the engine conversion so to speak... Technical stuff far beyond my capability... (I changed a headlight globe in my car today - it took me no less than two hours, + two skinned knuckles and much swearing and cursing) I am very impressed with the 'FM' engine position! Far! (As in Far Out that's a big gap... And also that is very 'Far' from the engine to the front) You know back in the day I thought a straight six was the only engine anyone should have, why would you need anything else? But now I have learnt that they really are rather long, and this does not bode well for weight distribution. This is a shining example of that point. (I also learnt that not all straight sixes sound as good as the RB's and Beemer's I'd been piloting back in the day - case in point: Mr Ford 'poo bum' Falcon) I did see you say you weren't 'gonna be dragging it'... Huh? May as well do a couple of runs tho right? Just to see what she'll do? It's not like you won't be dumping the clutch here there and everywhere anyway... You'll soon know whether that diff is strong enough or not... I am an excellent drag racer btw. Always win that shit from the lights. Eat my dust Mr Diesel van man! Ahh well, that's all a while away innit... Lots of 'underneath' stuff needs to happen first... I remember tho we were talking about exhausts being ages away and then suddenly they were there. Actually I remember even engines being talked about with misty eyes as if looking far into the future... Nek Minute... I wonder how she'll be progressing in early Jan... When I'm in Taupo... Cheerio now.