Cletus's other projects

[cletus]

one thread to rule all of my side projects all in one easy to find place.

 

what does someone with too many projects need?

 

another one.

 

 

take it apart

 

of course it needs lowering, a scooter engine cause thats what was in the garage, had some spare go kart bits

 

 

[cletus]

Todays addition to the fleet

 

A little camper trailer thing.

 

Not sure what year but its been in storage for 22 years. NZ made, in auckland. it has a canvas top that folds out, its quite easy to set up.

Needs a new trailer plug, a clean up, some sort of canvas waterproof treatment, grease the bearings, new tyres, some slammage, might put some shocks on it cause it bounces around a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is this a jackson electrical product?

 

Should look good behind the val

[RUNAMUCK]

Does that have duratorque suspention?

[R100]

You need a bigger garage.

Hope your building that thing to LVVC standard

[cletus]

Yep has that susp Bart. Should be easy to lower, I'll just cut the bit that the axle bolts to off and shorten it

Before I bought it I had a measure up and there's enough room to park it under the house if I put another door in the bit under the house

[cletus]

got new tyres, wof, reg. Turns out it was made in 1975

 

For anyone interested it was $136 to re reg for 12 months, new plate, and a wof. Couldnt re reg with the old black plate, and couldnt register it as a new trailer once the lady at the counter knew it was previously registered, so im stuck with 6 month wofs, meh.

 

Probably should have taken it in without the plate

 

anyway, lowered it 60 ish mm, waterblasted it underneath, have to repack the bearings and apply some sort of canvas waterproofing.

 

chop that bit

 

clean

 

done

[cletus]

[Valiant]

Can you fit in it?

[cletus]

yeah it folds out quite big. under the cover is a double mattress on top, and the canvas bit folds out enough to fit another double mattress on the floor.

 

theres storage in those fold down doors as well

[Nominal]

Tried it out in the rain yet?

 

Sold the camper-matic we got from the MIL a few years ago because it always got wet inside, towing, sitting, camping.

[cletus]

Havent tried its watertightness yet, i was going to use some sort of waterproofing stuff on the canvas part next time its a nice day and i can set it up out in the sun

[cletus]

heres another one of my side project time wasters

BA XR8 ute, 6 speed manual, 5.4 , has done just over 300k. My boss sold it to me at a sharp price so I couldnt refuse

 

It has headers, exhaust, cold air intake, according to the stickers it has 310 killerwasps but i suspect some may have escaped or exist only in sticker KWs. These engines were a bit of a parts bin special, they have a dohc 4 valve head that flows well (good for high rpm) but a bore (90mm)x stroke (105mm) not really good for high rpm. It doesnt have much beans down low, gets a wriggle on at 3500, but the rev limit is 6000. It does sound good when given maximum jandal though

 

So far have done wof stuff, tyres ect, lowered the front a bit more- it has reasonably new shocks made by that german guy bill stein in the front with circlip adjustable platforms, removed the broken rear skirt bits, gave it a bit of a tidy up, new rear shocks

 

It still needs a few things but is more fun to drive than the townace was....

 

 

 

 

I have a few plans to improve the brakes, and would like to have a crack at some track day type activities in this

[kyteler]

I do enjoy that it's a stick shift V8 and in a rather useful form, a shame about the weird combo engine. What do people do crank/piston/rod wise to remedy that?

[cletus]

Get a XR6T/something with an LS instead? ha

 

i have not found many people doing much to them, i think they are an engine that responds to forced induction well, but the usual cams/porting/NA mods etc is quite expensive and does not achieve much. Apparently you need to upgrade the oil pump gears if the RPM limit is raised

 

The 5.4 is basically a stroked 4.6 so there is no room for increasing the stroke more, and with that bore-stroke ratio i dont think you would want to anyway, and i think the bore spacing is too close to go any bigger bore wise.

[yetchh]

Is it the same engine used in the fg gs? If so a mate of mine in aus got 380kw out of his with a flash tune and exhaust, couldn't get the power down at the drags tho..

[cletus]

after 2010 they went to the 5.0 engine in the FG. I dont know much about those apart from stories i have heard they go heeeaps better and are easy to get more power out of

[igor]

Is that the good old 302 Windsor? I've been reliably informed that putting 289 heads on a 302 block ups the compression by a useful amount.

[cletus]

nah the last 302w type engine was in the AU. 5.4 started in the BA, and the 5.0 in the FG is a quad cam all alloy v8 same as a mustang

[Valiant]

5.0 Swap please Clint.

[RUNAMUCK]

What is the bore and stroke?

90x3.31?