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so yet again I have changed jobs, worked out that I was over fixing other people cars. and even thought I up skilled I just couldn't get the pay I wanted. so I have jumped in the deep end and now I am an apprentice cnc machinist/tool maker. back to the bottom of the pecking order once again.

 

ANYWAY. . . .  so couldn't move around in the garage, needed to re decorat

Started by making a dedicated metal working station, something that I could bolt everything to so they stop moving around when loading up.

couple hours later I had this bad boy

 

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Then the move around , shit is much better this way !!

So cool to have my tools at home, fuck yeah!

 

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So got some gas and continued making exhaust.  .  .

 

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And had to bend up some ten mm rod for hangers, I couldn't get my hands on a gas set, so I managed to borrow and old school torch. this thing is so bad as that I went and bought my self-one for any time I need some heat!!!

it got the rod to cheery red, so not quite white hot, but hot enough to bend and easily manipulate. this is a paraffin burner, or as we call them in new Zealand kerosene torch.

 

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I made some washers on the lathe at work, slid them on . Then I made a pinching tool so I could heat up and form the ends of the rod so that the rubbers won’t fall off . It was all really good fun , never formed anything before so this was a sweet thing to learn how to do .

 

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And since that is all done I decided to plug up some of the extra cooling system barbs that I won’t be using .

So it took this amount of fucking around to drill out the old fittings and tap them for a 1/8 bspt plug.

 

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I did a couple more but you get the idea, this was hard because nothing is flat or straight to drill and tap.

I also decided to mill up the original idle air control valve, got rid of the cooling barbs on this too, this is what it looked like originally

 

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and now this is my adapter plate , milled and new tinny air filter, IAC completed !

 

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with that all done I decided to move back to suspension and wheels .

I worked out that the spring rates from the Honda springs are up the shit, and they are not heavy enough.  and if I cut them any smaller they need keeper springs. So I borrowed some siliva suspension, and I made some rough template spring hats, my idea was to move the spring down so that the top mount could be narrower to make it fit into the rear shock mount. well long story short it all didn't work , really fucked me off . I got so fed up with trying to design and make suspension work that I threw in the towel and bought some mx73 bc's. so now I am waiting for them to arrive.

 

since I couldn't get them right away I thought I would tape on the flares so I could start looking at rims, borrowed my good mates wheels again for measuring .  

 

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8 inch on the front

 

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9 inch on the rear

 

and still got a lot to fill. looks like I will be buying some custom wheels ! my pockets are hurting already and I haven't even found out the price for them yet

 

 

 

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so back into the panel work , I like to chop and change up the order of things , I find it helps to keep me motivated . each time I put more bits on and it starts looking more like a car again it make me want to get fuck loads done. so with that in mind I decided to have a go at some panel work and see if I could tackle the bonnet and guard work .

start with a celica supra xx bonnet, ( big thanks to zestripper for the old school hook up )

attack with grinder heaps , then try and fil the holes your just made

 

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and well only after looking at this from the computer did i realize that the carina knows its going to be a death machine, and its prepared with its own coffin bonnet hahahahha . . and evil upside down cross which is actually the primer underneath the old supports that i cut out.

 

i capped the supports that i had to cut out, not for another reason than just to try and attempt to tidy it up. kind of worked, will have to seal it up and get some paint on it to know if it worked,.

 

 

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and trimming up the front guards to add a bumper mount, as i will be trying to use the ae corolla bumper. this is as far as i have gotten. need to get some box section to make up the main support frame . but its coming along nicely so far.

 

 

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got this far and then i stepped on the grinder plug on the floor. . . but hey no problem right, no ! just like a fucking key, once you bend it you cant bend it back with out it braking, so with that i finished all the beer and then called it a night,. but tomorrow i might just go and buy a new grinder then i can get a 1000wat one, and stop having to swap over cutting disks and linishing pads. can never have enough tools . 

 

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so bit more gard work, 

 

made a nice little 2mm plate to support the bumper and a bit of a gusset to support the plate.

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and with that bit done it was time to make a bumper bar/oil cooler mount. 

 

 

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the fit isnt as good as i would like but its only a bumper so will do for now or untill i find a better solution . 

 

here are some pictures of the front as it sits now in the garage. 

 

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am a bit all over the place at the moment, things on the horizon include custom sump, oil "an block" to conect up the oil cooler and remote filter , and finaly get around to fittig the suspension i bought months ago.

 

shit doesn't happen fast around here !

 

 

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well, been hard at it again, have made a small amount of progress. 

i have taken allot of time away from the sump modifications , i have been battling with learning solid works and trying to get other small jobs done at the same time, so i decided to just get some of the little things done and come back to the sump when i have completed the little jobs,

so firstly i decided to tackle the radiator modifications, i have been putting this of because i had never welded alloy before and the general consensus was that its a bitch , really had skill to learn and all that . but after i spent a day or too just getting the setting right i found that its actually very easy and bloody fast to weld aluminium. i even prefer to weld it now that i have spent a bit of time doing it , i find its very nice to weld almost like it flows differently .

 

so here is the shots that explains everything. 

 

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these are the setting i ended up with for welding alloy, i struggled to make it work at the beginning, and this is were i ended up at. hopefully this may help someone out there in internet land  : ) 

 

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next bit was to do the fans, 

 

unfortunately the fans i got were kind of oddly made, and if you didn't support the face of the fan the mount would fall out of the back. very shit idea, badly though out, pissed me off . because now i had to make some kind of lip for it to sit onto rather than just being able to weld some tabs onto the car and tap some holes. so had to completely re design how i had planned on mounting the fans.

 

i eventually ended up with this 

 

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well i wasn't happy with the original coil overs i had made i felt that although they worked and would have been ok, that i did actually want the benefits of camber plates and adjustable shock inserts so i bought some bc coil overs  , i forgot to take the finished pictures of my suspension, but the tubes are away getting crack tested. so when they come back i will add a picture.

 

now they don't fit my car correctly so i made these plates to weld in so i can also have adjustable caster too , i have yet to speak to my cert guy to see if they are acceptable so i wont weld then just yet. 

 

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not much more left to make, mainly the sump and high pressure power steering hose. soon it will be time for the strip and paint. 

 

oh and i have a sneaky plan to make some custom wheels , so that will be very interesting, hopefully that will work out well for me as i don't

want to spend 5 grand on wheels . . . that will be next after my custom sump is done : ) 

 

 

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so , here we are again , a new year, and time to get back into the swing of thing, I have been getting side tracked allot . need to get focused  . i went hard out on the mini project, and its so close to being finished, but then i got a bike. . . . 12000 rpm sounds so freeking sweet !!!

 

so any who, this is what i have been up to on the carina front

 

 

sump , its now real , just need to get the walls folded up so I can weld the sucker up. then make some kind of baffling I guess.

 

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this is the 3rd one of these I have concocted (water bridge) and yeah its not super great, shit as welding, the flat bit to miss the belt didn't go according to plan. it has been a pain in the ass trying to figure out a nice and clean way to plumb the front water bridge, the entire design from factory is very out of the norm. so this has and still is so far my biggest challenge. I may even do this again and try find some oval pipe and pie cut it . my ocd isn't  happy with the out come thus far .

 

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did some more plumbing, got all the vac lines done, booster done,  here is a pasanger side picture of engine bay

 

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and started doing some cad . .  but not with a computer, haha,  this intake pipe is a monster, its cause I chose to keep the m112 throttle body . and I couldn't find a 4.5 inch 45 degree bend and a reducer all in one. so I just thought fuck it, just stay at that size , I have the room for it, and hopefully it will make a sweet roar and awesome dort type sounds .  

 

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this is it in panel steel. I ran out of card board for the day. so tomorrow ill get stuck into it some more.

 

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got some other shit done , finally got some material for my wheels, and I made a sold works design of the wheels I want but cant find. the elusive Riverge . kind of like work equips but with a bit more style . so once I have a bit more things completed I can start milling them . I figure ill get the sump done first other wise I cant stay focused enough to do to big chunks of the project at once . I always end up getting of task and starting some other half pie idea

 

but yeah I still have completed a few little jobs like making the heater control panel work properly, made a clutch hose up. sold some shit to buy a bike, got a license to drive it, then I got some beer, and I got a new bbq.  . . . shit getting side tracked again . mmmmm bacon .

 

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So its been a year again. and well shit I ain't achieved much at all . not really sure where to start. 2016 was a absolutely miserable year for me , I've had allot of ups and downs, and well all I can say is ; I am fucking glad to see the ass end of 2016 !!

continuing with my typical fashion I haven't finished anything that I was doing ; well nothing completely,  but I have done heaps of random shit in no apparent order . . .
 
And so its now 2017 and I have to find a new place to live, I'm now a single man, and I have got to get this beast moving under its own power!!
 
sump stuff , was good fun to weld up. tig welding is the bees tits !
 
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AND HERE IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE MY EPIC FUCK UP !!!!!!!!
 
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but its ok cause I made the flange area to small , I was going to mill the weld off where the head of the screw would sit, but seeing as I completely made an entire fuck up of the whole thing it doesn't matter any more .
 
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so here I am starting again, I learnt allot about welding stainless on the other sump, so this time I am bolting it down to a massive bit of steel. should help to stop it from warping so much , and I gave the weld more clearance to the screws .
 
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with the sump on its way again I looked into the high pressure power steering hoses. This was always going to be a battle, and it didn't prove me wrong at all, I started out with 3 meters of 10mm of 8mm id heavy wall pipe ,I  broke 2 hand benders, stuffed up 1 fairing tool ; and with allot of mucking around to get them to this stage, I scrapped allot of pipe and spent allot of time to create these, and once again I haven't finished anything, all that is needed now is to weld on the an fittings, make a clamp block to clamp them to the cross member, and buy the braided ptfe high pressure hose and that is the last of the plumbing done!
 
all of this just because there is no room to get braided hose with an fittings to clear the exhaust/rack/clutch hose/cross member/sump. its all very tight , but this was the best solution something that has taken me a long time to figure out, trial and error . but I'm stoked that its going to work and I can keep power steering. never really liked manual racks to be honest.
 
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all that other shit aside, this is the cream of my year, and whilst it doesn't look like much at this stage this has been a huge driving force for me. and I cant wait to get some more operations done on these !!!!
 
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and this is my model that I drew up from pictures of the internet hahah, I like work equips 01 , and I really like star sharks , then I came across these, I cant remember what they are called but I nabbed a few pictures and went to work modeling them up. and now finally I'm making chips , just got to dig the rest of the wheel out of all that stock : )
 
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and that's me all caught up. merry fuckers new years !
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on a roll this weekend, moved the mini to my new house,  welded up the an fittings on my power steering hard lines  , welded up the sump. made some trap doors . I made some out of hinges and welded them off , but I couldn't stop the heat from twisting them up. I tried 2 different sets, all moved so much the hinge would bind up. so I resorted to using nuts and bolts, I don't think they will cause any issue like this, I may drill and lock wire them, but for now this will do. . . .  now just to wait for the sealant to dry so I can water test it. make sure it has no leaks !!!!!

and now I'm caught up with what I was doing like a year ago its time to write a new list of things to get done.

 

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