MrMcdoll Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 Is there a special way to force page breaks? Cos Jesus Fuck this is getting long! And of course it creates a break with this post!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrMcdoll Posted March 23, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2015 Anyway: 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMcdoll Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Have cut out that backing plate for firewall since taking these pics. I will be moving the car up to Auckland this weekend so can get some after work hours done on it over autumn/winter instead of having to wait for long weekends etc to travel. Can't wait. I'll take pics of the trailer voyage and extra stuff I've forgotten while I'm doing it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrMcdoll Posted April 5, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 5, 2015 So with the monumental help of Mike-E, I managed to get the car safely up to auckland. Loaded the car on first... Then filled it with shit... Put tables and an engine hoist on the trailer too... Thanks Marshall Profiling! In the end, I towed the car trailer up with my partners Landcruiser - it didn't do too badly at all! And here the Disiesel is all safely in it's new home: I kid you not, unloading this thing was such a fucking mission - it took from about 9ish until midnight - I had to reverse up this mega steep driveway, then detach the trailer and jack it up enough for the car to start rolling back, then gradually shimmy the trailer out from under the car.Pretty much by myself too cos my girlfriend has a broken ankle and wrist! Ahhhh fun! 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMcdoll Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 Finished trans tunnel and firewall: Goddamn the original steel in the floor was shit - kept blowing holes, no matter how low I set the MIG. Hence all the blobs of weld. When welding the new steel together, it was so refreshingly easy! Ah well - ugly but tough as fuck. Just bought a few parts from Ebay so waiting for that shit before I can mount the shifter etc. Gonna re-do engine mounts - make them bushing style mounts off chassis rail a la this: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMcdoll Posted September 14, 2015 Author Share Posted September 14, 2015 Did this: What do people usually have to go in the wheel arch? They not have little stone guards factory? Also E lasered me up these sexy mounts. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrMcdoll Posted February 5, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2016 So. It seems I really only update this thread like once every year... Holy shit I am slack... Anyway, this update sucks. For the last year, the car has sat in the garage in Auckland. I was really hoping that due to the proximity (it's in the same fucking house as me!) that I would be able to crack into the bitch and get it all ready for assembly this summer. Well, summer has come and it's far from ready. I've finished off welding on the sills (need to trim off excess), and finished all the firewall fabrication - It just needs some sort of underseal or something to make it look less shit-house: I have tried and failed multiple methods of actually mounting the engine now, and just can't seem to get it right. It's a combination of having an utterly shit welder, BEING utterly shit at welding and not being strong enough to wrangle the engine into position for measuring and fabbing. The sad reason for this is that over the last few months I have had monumental health fuck ups. Initially some sort of infection, then essentially flu symptoms (all-over aching and weakness etc) that have lasted for weeks on end. At one point, also was hospitalised by the pain, which turned out to be kidney swelling and tissue damage from this mystery illness. The latest, is that I have something wrong with my head. Now we all already knew that based on my choice of engine and car, but jokes aside, I've been having some rather interesting experiences, including Hallucinations, Synesthesia, paralysing headaches and constant nausea/ dizziness, in addition to a whole bunch of odd mood swings and anxiety. This has all obviously meant that working on the car has been VERY difficult. I managed to get mounts welded up and the engine in the hole, but then for some reason, after a bout of tears and weird paranoia, I cut it all off!! (seriously, I kind of came to my senses, hacking up the hours of welding I'd just done and muttering to myself all sorts of weird shit.) Pic here: The latest development is that after multiple visits to the doctors, (one of them seriously just googled my symptoms!) I have been referred for a CAT scan, but my work-perk health insurance just changed due to me getting a promotion at work (yay) unfortunately meaning that the policy restarts from the 12th and I am unable to make claims etc until then. I will have to wait it out until then to find out if I am growing a second brain, or have that psychokinesis tumor thing that John Travolta got in that 90s movie. My suspicion and hope is that it has to do with some sort of fucked-up sinus shape in my skull. My little sister had similar but much more mild (and less fun, if you enjoy seeing people that aren't there!) symptoms and ended up needing surgery to shave some of the bone away in her sinus cavity as it was putting pressure on her brain. Anyway, it all sort of sucks, so I have contacted a few fabricators around the city to get quotes for mounting the engine and trans up and therefore not having to worry about this bullshit. Failing that, or if my head stuff turns out to be worse than I hope, then I will look at selling the car. It does still have a rego on hold and I imagine with a shit-ton of work, someone could reverse all the blasphemic butchery that I have done to the car (or be awesome and actually carry on with this engine conversion!) I will let you all know if it has to be sold - and of course you motherfuckers will have first option! Anyway, wish me luck! 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrMcdoll Posted August 10, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2016 So. I didn't die, but yeah had a bunch of crazy head issues - mostly sorted through an influx of medication. Got the engine and trans mounts done at DKM - they did a jolly good job. Now lego-ing the car back together. Only it's like trying to build a spaceship, when the blocks you have are for a castle. And half of them are Megablox and Duplo. Got the front end of the interior finished, slammed in some sound deadener. Now just waiting on some parts for the engine - picking up an alternator today, then waiting on a longer shift cable, new pulleys and belts and a wiring harness (gonna rewire the whole thing from scratch - yay!) Should be fun. 26 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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