Poo's '81 Mitsi Eterna GSR

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So the bumpers on the car have always been tatty, with the chrome strip broken in places and painted over with matty B. The rest of the paint on the bumpers was cracked and there was a few dents. The lower sections of the front quarters has also taken a hit, so off they came. Upper and lower valances were peppered with stone chips.......

 

 

^^ Surprisingly there was no rust hiding under here ^^ 

 

The bumpers have had work done on them before. Nothing major, just some glue and a slim of filler hiding under there. 

 

 

Now, theres a metal strip that runs over the top of both front a rear bumpers. I was as careful as I could be to get the clips to disengage, but the plastic was far to brittle and most crumbled and cracked between my finger tips. 

Karl BDA780 to the rescue again. He printed off some clips from a sample old clip I gave him. Perfect fit first time. 

 

I've still got to put the grill and park lights back in. 

 

I will have to give the rest of the car a decent cut and polish now. That can be next weekends job. 

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also, I got a wideband for fathers day.

 

 

 

Care to comment? 

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Well, Oldschool Nationals 2015 weekend was a hoot. Those that were there will know. Those that weren't there missed a long weekend of good mates, sweet roads (including gravel), hooning, boozing, yahooing. 

 

Holy hell was I surprised  when prize-giving rolled around on Saturday night and the Eterna picked up Best Sedan. Shit the bed! There was a heap of other sweet Sedans there and it is honor to get the award.

 

 

After driving the hell out of the car here is how it sits in the garage. 

 

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Show us ya crack/s

 

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Discuss how a head can crack is so many places.

 

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New head. 

 

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Back to making 'pssh woboboble' noises.

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One job that I've had to do since ages ago is replace the rubber bushes in the rear suspension arms.

The car has always had a bit tyre shake or axle tramp when briskly accelerating from a standing start.

 

The rubber bushes in rear arms of the car were in good shape, just soft. 

 

So in preperation for the //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/53865-oldschool-christmas-tree-drag-day-mark-4-december-10th-meremere/

I enlisted the help of Dave/Sentra and the improved hoist. 

 

There's a couple of pictures that I took before the battery on my phone went flat. 

 

Not so wobbly hoist:

 

Floppy rubber:

 

Red stuff:

 

Dave!!!

Notice the hub bushes around the wrong way??? Whoops. They also needed to be linished to get the hub to fit back in.  

 

In:

 

And just because its a pain to get it into 3rd on the dragstrip (rest of the time the gearbox is mint):

 

We also changed the engine oil to a thicker grade......Not much of a change, it still smokes. 

 

The tyres shake less under heavy acceleration, but still present. I'll look at getting the car aligned and setup at some point. 

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So this thing when to 2016 Oldschool Drag Day. 

 

Such a sweet event put on by a bunch of good dudes, passionate about crusty old cars. And supported by us!

 

As mentioned before, I use to have real issues getting the car into 3rd gear on the strip. Redline MT90 has sorted that issue. 

 

Last year the best that the car could do was 16.4 at 85.7mph. Due to slow shifting into 3rd gear. 

 

This year was much better........15.2 at 90mph 

 

Stoked to get the 'Best Skid' award. 

 

 

Stolen pics from others with fancy cameras. Thanks for the memories. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

xoxo

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Déjà Vu

 

Another OS Dragday done for the year. 

Such an awesome day. Thanks to everyone involved. 

 

I picked up 'Best Burnout' again!!

 

I think doing a such a massive burnout that sets the mudflaps on fire sealed the deal.

 

After the rather large burnout the temp came up and the run down the strip was slow, as the ecu wouldnt let me rev past about 5k rpm. 

I didn't think much of the situation and traveled down the return road and slowed to pick my appalling time slip from Evan. 

Then two of the track officials came running over with fire extinguishers. My mud flaps had caught fire! After putting them out the track staff high five'd me and sent me back to the pits to scrape the remaining spent rubber off from the inner guard.  

Great shot from Andrew

 

Snow tyres for the win. 

 

 

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Long time no update. 
 

But the short story is:

The headgasket blew out between cylinders two and three. 
Taylor Automotive gave the motor a freshen up with new rings, bearings etc. While it was apart, I got the cam re-ground. 
Once back together it ran like a sack. 
Dyno tune highlighted there was a restriction in either the intake or exhaust. So I’ve popped a larger intercooler in there.  Plus a free-er flowing exhaust. 
There’s now an adjustable cam pulley on the end of the cam. So my old trigger wheel (was on the end of the cam) is now on the end of the crank (where it should be). 
Adjustable boost switch installed. Now running 16psi. 
Another dyno session. And I can confirm it’s running better than it ever has. 

pic for attention. 

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I need to re-do the paint pen on the new adjustable cam wheel. Was adjusted on the dyno. Cam wheel made by a chap in Hamilton, Brett Campbell. 

 

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I always wanted a blue stitched steering wheel. So I got this Tanida/Narita Dogfight wheel. 
 

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And while not being a massive fan of AliExpress/Temu, these RalliArt matts are better than what was in there before. 
 

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Someone help me make some AC lines please. 

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On 02/06/2013 at 15:40, Poo said:

 

 

Now Karl (BDA780) is a dab hand at the 3D printing. So armed with one of the original caps he drew up the cap (with 5mm locating tabs) and knocked some out on the printer.

 

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk117/fast135/photo_zps8200f2d9.jpg

 

I'll get them chromed and stickers made at some stage.

 

 

Umm, 13 years later….

I put some stickers on Karl’s/BDA780 3d printed caps. 

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Took the Mitsi to Cars and Coffee yesterday. It was a huge event and I heard they had to stop cars coming in after 9:30am. I got in slightly before that. 
Didn’t take any pics there. But stopped into Bunnings later. 
 

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Bigfoot wanted a pic of the trigger wheel setup.