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the PV skyline ones are big compared eh.

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unfortunately I found another car on Facebook that’s very similar in colour to what I had in mind for all these years. Essentially, I’ll have more stripes and gold pearl.. so will press on with plan, lol. 

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Put the clutch fork together and pulled the starter apart to clean, paint and lube. Cleaned the outside of the alternator too, Years ago I tried pulling one apart to polish it (I know) and it went crunch and was ruined instantly.

 

 

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Trying to get more project time in recently, all pretty sporadic and spread between many projects but all forward progress!

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yes, it took ages and cooked my back feeding tape into the fins to retain the Look of wound Internals and stuff

 

kitted the calipers. Couldn’t get correct pistons Cheaply so matched by size 
To a Renault one and machined off bits off each end until they were functional.

the listing had a typo and it ended up measuring the exact diameter 40.4, chur.

also scored a sandwich plate.

unboxed all spares and sorted the best parts, doubles and rubbish (Some of my ‘New’ rubber gaskets was perishing) so now engine is basically packed for the machine shop.
Made a pile to sandblast and paint ( hubs, backing plates, brackets etc)

brought another timing belt, I’d sold mine a few years back when a mate was in a pinch after hours.

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I jumped in on some free powdercoating and had the Silvia and falcon (rear) covers done after I sandblasted them.

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came out great!

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 Decided to chuck them together for a pine and realised they dont clear the calipers (need to trim back the curved edges but not a lot)

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and since it’s got larger discs, they sit hard up against them too!

c.l.e.v.e.r.  B.o.y
 

Live and learn


didn’t realise the discs were murdered out, it’s cool but was expecting nice clean raw look lol.

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