Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted November 4, 2018 Back again with another gx61! Purchased this about 4 months ago from Christchurch. Listed as a 4 cylinder on trademe so I never paid any attention thinking it was a poverty spec sx60. It then halved in price as the cambelt broke. So I did what any sicko does and bought a car that doesnt run at the other end of the country. Had my legend friend Todd collect it and replace the cambelt and waterpump on the 1geu (non interference) ready for me to fly down and sail it 1000kms home. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 Grabbed a set of watanabes in 14x7.5 A and B type 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 Fitted a mx73 lip with a bit of trimming and reshaping, swapped to the earlier pre facelift twin headlights and grill 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 4, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 4, 2018 Went a bit loopy and bought THREE 1gge and obligatory trust headers. Although the current single cam has a fresh cambelt and waterpump its has horrendously loud lifters and paired with the slipping auto trans makes for pretty slow going. First engine is off to the reconditioners to get bearings and gaskets and clean 30years of grease from it then it will be paired with a w55 I grabbed to swap all in one go. Being facelift it has a smaller t series 6.7" IRS rear diff but I purchased an entire f series 7.5" subframe so that will go in at some point with a lsd of some variety too! 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 Working on getting this a fresh warrant so the fiddling can begin- failed on a small rust patch behind rear bumper, frayed seatbelt and spare tyre not secure- should be in for recheck tomorrow Now have a complete manual conversion attached to a quieter 1ge, bc gold coilovers already welded to cert spec that require crack testing and some watanabe centre caps and valves on the way from Rhd japan. The mx73 bcs have the camber plates orientated a different way and slightly different spacing as shown in parts car they came on so I'm having some cut to suit my strut towers to avoid nasty hole filing Had a friend tidy up the manual pedals- I actually bought two whole cars for the manual pedals which turned out to be bodged. Thankfully @Barnz.NZ had an old contact who had a correct set sitting there 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 Noise maker starter pack from @be4ver Apparently these trust headers hang quite low beneath chassis rail where they join to rest of exhaust so will be getting chopped and re-coated. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted December 15, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 15, 2018 @shandawg whipped up this sweet pair of camber plates So I chucked the coilovers in The rears I dont have the adjustable height perch with the springs as they didnt fit the solid rear end car they came with so they were misplaced so I'm stuck with this height of just the bc 8kg spring with body adjustable shock wound down to suit. I've been caught out swapping front struts before with there being a variation of brake caliper spacing so I was sure to keep the brakes that went with the bc spindles- I was glad as they ended up being different even though they're from the same year vehicle but nz vs jdm model.... Camber plates fitted End result is an even 90mm to sills front and rear. A nice smooth ride with no tyre rub or scraping. Will have to find a different offset 7.5j wheel for the rear as with fixing the rear camber necessary for cert and the current 185/60/14 not even being a legal size for 7.5j I'll be hitting the guards for sure. Currently theres about 2mm clearance from factory guard line to tyre 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Have been smashing around the upper north island in this for the last month burning through 50 litres fuel every 300-350kms Took the opportunity to use dads hoist while I was up there to do the tricky bits on my manual conversion. Removed the foot handbrake pedal and fitted a normal handbrake - still reach for the bloody release lever every time - and fitted the clutch pedal and swapped brake pedal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 While up at dads he walked me through giving one of my 1ggeu heads a bit of a tidy up. I pulled the valves out, all twenty f#@king four, then pissed four hours away sitting them on a wire wheel on a bench grinder cleaning all the carbon off. Next I degreased everything and waterblasted the bare head before pulling out old valve seals and replacing with new ($100 Ebay full gasket kit) Reassembled all the valves after lapping them in at some point, torqued the cams down and checked clearance to shims in buckets and all within spec, put my fancy wrinkle painted cam covers on and called it a day (better part of 3 days work) This was a bit of a low budget refurb to get one of these engines in and going for Toyota fest which is sometime around the end of March. Was also good to learn how properly disassemble and label everything to go back in order to the point where I'm fairly confident doing the two others I have in stock which I'll have resurfaced and acid dipped professionally. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Gave everything a good clean yesterday after maximum road tripping for the annual japanese old car meet in Auckland today. Fitted this wee 300mm sportline I purchased from upgarage Came home motivated and ripped the engine and box out to do manual swap since I'm still on holiday. The hydraulic lifters in this are doing my head in with their loud tapping so I'm swapping in another 1ge that's connected to the w55 I pulled from a gx60 temporarily untill I have a twincam engine ready to go. Quite possibly the filthiest engine bay or any car I've owned with oil of some sort everywhere on drivers side of engine bay and clean bare metal exposed on bottom of firewall so tomorrow's mission is to deal to that. You can also see my crude bracketry made to support twin headlights and grill which I will revisit at some point! Peep the gz10 lurking in the back ground - will get it's own thread when things get moving 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 Finished the manual conversion bar reverse switch and centre console this afternoon. Excuse the gearknob, somehow it's all I have in the shed after playing with dirty datsuns for a few years! I Decided I'll get the engine bay painted when I twincam swap it in the next month or two so just gave it a quick degrease and wacked it in. Retained the engine loom from the car as these engine looms have the wiper loom integrated and my fancy import wipers have a soft stop to tuck under bonnet/valance so had to piss around disconnecting crumbly 35 year old injector plugs with sausage fingers.For other people searching front half of driveshaft for auto is 598mm flange to tip of yoke manual is 698mm. Watanabe centre caps and valves finally arrived from Rhdjapan. Valves will go on with a tyre change at some point. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 Cut the shift gaiter washer off a legacy shift knob and snagged the rubber accordion boot from the soarer since it was from something else anyway both are temporary items untill I have a leather boot made. This pic also really brings out the colour difference from centre console to dash 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted August 11, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 11, 2019 Resurrection from the 8th page! Lowered the front some more and was rewarded with a pink sticker in march Sold the watanabes and replaced with 7/7.5j focus spoke 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted August 13, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2019 Raised it back up to get the outer sills painted white and straightened up and a few bubbles around rear guards seam tidied up. Struts have been crack tested, camber adjustable rear subframe ready to go in with f series 3.7 clutch pack lsd. Just need to fix various oil leaks and fit 205/60 tyres somehow and then try my luck at getting it legal 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 Pulled out 1geu to go to @Hachi-ichi have a hell of a mess to clean up in engine bay but thankfully no rust. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 2, 2019 Author Share Posted November 2, 2019 Resprayed engine bay in standard 035 white. Started working on wiring for gen 2 1gge (bluetop map sensor) both ecus have all the pins marked if you take off the cover which is handy. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 3, 2019 Repainted brake booster and did some more assembly today. Gave the guards a good scrub down and cleaned the drain channels out. What are you guys using to seal between guards and body along the top seam and what's the best website for acquiring m6 toyota bolt kits? Really struggling with putting crusty parts back on so if anyone could reccomend somewhere in Auckland to get front and rear crossmembers and castor brackets, sway bar and lower control arms powdercoated that would be awesome. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdarust Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 On 03/11/2019 at 17:38, dspec_tt131 said: Repainted brake booster and did some more assembly today. Gave the guards a good scrub down and cleaned the drain channels out. What are you guys using to seal between guards and body along the top seam and what's the best website for acquiring m6 toyota bolt kits? Really struggling with putting crusty parts back on so if anyone could reccomend somewhere in Auckland to get front and rear crossmembers and castor brackets, sway bar and lower control arms powdercoated that would be awesome. Look on flos.ie for bolt kits man or try NST even though they would be an arm and a leg flo has 150 pce kits 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 Head I rebuilt at the beginning of the year went to the engine builders with block and rotating assembly to get fitted turned out to be severely bent and very soft. Should probably have had this checked before spending the better part of three days reconditioning it. Pulled another one from stock that checked out ok so I get to do it all again. Practice makes perfect? After a bit of searching I grabbed some new m6 bolts from car clips nz working out to about 50c for 50 so have started piecing brake lines, air conditioning lines and powersteering lines back together. Also grabbed some new brake line grommets and distributor O-ring via megazip just awaiting brake master cylinder and some other pieces from rock auto to to complete brake system. Hit a bit of a snag with the air conditioning compressor in the way the lines enter it. 1gge (ribbed pulley) has a press in fitting with a bolt holding it down and 1geu (v belt pulley) just has a straight thread on sleeve and I cant un bolt and swap the housing as they're different pcd so hoping I can cut fittings off a set of ga70 lines and have them welded to my gx61 lines? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffs_Emporium Posted November 28, 2019 Author Share Posted November 28, 2019 Recieved 1x tanked and resurfaced 1gge block with new rings and frost plugs and everything cleaned and reassembled just in the process of cleaning everything that has to go back on it 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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