maxted Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Been looking for a tidy ex for awhile now since i sold my last one to my younger bro for way to cheap and the little prick wont sell it now, looks quite smart now with a bit of a tidy up was a bit off a pig wen picked it up with a locked diff, sun faded paint ect ect, giving him a hand to do all this lowering, cut n polish (all the things can do on his tight budget) kinda inspired me to get another, heres some pics so last week picked up a ex lancer from a nice old chap in christchurch while down there for work, just spotted it tucked in behind his fence on way to work so stopped in that night, bit of bartering and he caved as he needed money for his morris minor project, its nice and tidy hes looked after it well just had cambelt done all the fluids changed, interiors not too bad for age couple of cracks in the dash and drivers side door cards have come away at the top, also brought some 15x7 rims from phil (ke36) with intentions off putting on r31 wagon but dont think they would of filled the gaurds that well, should look smart on the lancer tho so just need to get the car back to nelson in 2 weeks so can start sorting out the suspension side of things, heres couple of pics of my old gsr ex miss this thing, regret selling it but really wanted to go live in england at the time so sold it, at a mates xmas bbq a few years ago thort it would be a good idea to pop its tyres haha also bit of a side project turned up last week more to come on this later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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maxted Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 got back from chch bit of a slow trip with the 4 speed stuck at 90-100km revving its tits out and a vibration at roughly 70km, scored a 5 speed so just finished putting that in, replaced clutch, pressure plate and release bearing, clutch was definitely on its way out, it was down to the rivets on the flywheel side and had made a mess of the surface so got that machined nice and smooth, got given the wrong release bearing so that made it a bit of a slow process and couldn't get one on saturday or sunday when it was all ready to go back together! then found a bit of play in drive shaft uni's so replaced them also, took it for a test run now does 100km+ and no vibration, result! also new rear shocks have arrived and scored a w55 for next to nothing in a deal so stoked with that. now to get wheels on and start measuring/working out some heights old 4 speed (bye bye) new 5 speed managed to snake a spot in the old boys garage w55 box (i believe?) ditch the bellhousing and sort an adaptor for the 12a new rear shocks, bilstiens suspension tech made for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxted Posted July 7, 2012 Author Share Posted July 7, 2012 Last night tried one rim on to see how it sat, then thought might swell temporary lower it to see what sort of heights can work with clearances ect, so in went some cutties till got new struts made. also put together a new work bench and got 12a out to start checking over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxted Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 had to get wof a couple of months ago so put everything back to standard and run it through only needed new brake pads in the front, then had just been using it as my daily until couple of weeks ago got a cheap run around, so put the lancer back in the garage, and stripped the dash, door cards and parcel tray out, to all be recovered, bogged up the cracks and speaker hole in the dash and re-made door card inserts and parcel tray out of 3mm mdf. dropped it all off to be recovered on tuesday so looking forward to getting them back and get it all back together,getting it all re-done in a similar to factory light brown vinyl, need to take out the front screen and re-seal as with all this rain it started to get a couple of leaks dripping onto the dash, also got a straight bumper to replace the buggered one that was on it but its really faded, ive heard wurth do a good plastic dye to bring it back to black anyone else used it or know of any good products out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxted Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 got dash, parcel tray and door card inserts back from getting recovered, got dash back in and together looks good, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maxted Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 thought better finish project thread for this lancer, heres a few snaps of it finished before i sold it, got all the recovered interior in, and replaced bumpers with straight ones that i re-dyed using the wurth plastic dye (worked so well). scrubbed up well i thought. was sad to see it go. off to brisbane in two weeks, will have to find a new project over there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maxted Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 also finished building first 12a, took awhile but was good fun, its a 12a twin dizzy block, had immaculate housing (thanks to running carbon apex seals all their life im guessing), its a oddball rx4 engine that has a single exhaust port instead of the funny 3 hole most twin dizzys have, and also has a 10a rear bellhousing pattern with low mount starter, rebuilt it using carbon apex seals, batty stat gears, all new seals springs, bearings, oil/water seals, gaskets ect from pineapple racing, gave it a full cut bridgeport, shimmed pressure regs, heres some photos.... heres vid of first start up also compression test it, did it with piston engine tester, got 3 even bounces on both rotors (around 30psi on gauge) and a overall of 90psi for each rotor got it advertised for sale if it does sell ill do another in ozzy, if not ill box it up and send it over for next project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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