yoeddynz Posted November 8, 2020 Author Share Posted November 8, 2020 7 hours ago, cletus said: You might want to get your swap done and certed before February next year, LVVTA are increasing the cost price of a cert $50 I'll deal with the increase. Way too many other pprojects going on right now. Sadly I have also lost my local cert fella Barry Dowler - he's too busy doing council things and has stopped doing certs . I need to seek out the other cert fella in nelson, or go to chch etc. I must do an update on that... still have some progress up my sleeve to report on 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost_bryan Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 https://www.hobbycity.nz/collections/cars/products/fujimi-035468-1-24-nissan-march-g-ak11 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 I've been eyeing up that. However would like to find/buy the earlier discontinued fujimi pfl kitset but they sell for heaps! I was watching one on yahoo and it went beyond my budget. pft... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 So a quick update. Moved some cars about the yard a few days ago so I could get @Tumeke Triumph wagon onto our hoist. It was quite fun lining up the little cars and snapping some pics.. Still not sure which of the 1.3 engines we'll keep as yet to do compression tests. Once we know we can then work out the order of parts swapping. But more importantly - we have pretty much decided on the names.. Milly is the light blue one- the first. Seems to have the peppiest of the 1.3 , most likely due to having been trashed the most by various previous owners inc one who used it for food deliveries. Molly is the 2nd one- the dark green one with the full fat list of options. I think her heart is a little bit of an oil burner and this is still a common excuse I'll stick to when arguing my case in the economy run we did. Plus her tyres are wider and were flat.. The new one, the darling of the bunch in striking yellow has been named Minky. She is such a clean wee car, low mileage and gives her best when trashed- which is all you can do when faced with our local hill because that little 1.0 with slushbox combination requires it. So other than driving them we have not yet done any work or swaps. It will wait until after xmas time probably because we are behind on paid work etc. But still buying bits- stuff that we don't need but couldn't resist. I bought this from Ebay... I love car brochures and this one has not disappointed.. Must get some driving gloves for our sports march we are building... I think that Molly is a G# going by the spec sheets etc.... But possibly a mixture of G# and Autostrada. Looks like the Autostrada but they dont list them with the LSD or rear discs that Molly has. Certainly has the Autostrada seats though... I'll be looking to change my wardrobe attire to more in order fit in with the upper society levels of Micra ownership... Millies magic crystal that Hannah loves so much is an optional extra... And with such fantastic things like that crystal and all the other great features that a Nissan K11 micra/march offers its no wonder that passengers are obviously fucking thrilled to take a seat in one!... So back to our collection Big storm rolled through yesterday morning. Very heavy period of rain. Discovered today that both Milly and molly have got leaks into the passenger side floor. FFS- I thought we'd avoid all this sort of shit with the British cars but alas no. It appears that the Japanese can make cars just as leaky as the poms. I have looked into it and apparently there's a seal for the air intake under the scuttle panel that can shrink/perish. Not been an issue for us until this huge deluge. So ow Molly and Milly have their passenger carpets lifted up on blocks of wood and I'll have to pull Mollies carpet out I think- such is the Japanese efficiency of its carpets at sucking up water. Meanwhile Minky sat there, dry as a bone- pulling cheeky little facelifted smirks at the other two. Another tick for her while the others are in the dog box. Drove Molly inside this even so I can pull the seats out. Noticed a puddle of coolant on the workshop floor. Jacked her up and looked around to discover a weeping water pump - dripping from its drain hole... Grrrrrrr !!!! Oh Molly. Here's another nail for your coffin. A distant snigger was heard emanating from Minkys direction. 8 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sambo Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 You've got no choice. Kevin clearly likes Minky the best. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 Yep- decision made! Chosen by cat! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted July 10, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 10, 2021 On 20/11/2020 at 15:11, Sambo said: You've got no choice. Kevin clearly likes Minky the best. Update coming soon. However it appears that kevin has decided he likes pre-facelift cars the most. We've also now worked out that pfl actually stands for 'perfect feline ledge'. Luckily for kevin we will be converting minky to a full pfl interior. 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted August 19, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2021 Well then. Its about time for an update on K11dom. Leaks. Fucking leaks... Nup - not them. The more annoying ones that happen in a car that shouldn't leak because its not British. The ones that you cant locate the source easily. You think its fine, you've fixed the obvious hole or sealed up a gap and all is good. Then a week later you notice that the car has that stale wet whiff. Bugger. Back to square one. Well Milly and Molly already had this annoying little habit from the beginning and Minky remained bone dry. So we presumed it would be the standard k11 scuttle leak we had read about in plenty of threads on various Micra forums... OK. The Micra forum. Well actually there's two but one, an Australian forum, has fizzled out and has that look of a windows 98 created chat room where aftermarket ECUs were only just becoming a thing and wheels over 14" were considered large. I digress. So Milly and Molly leaked. Minky watched from the sideline all smug face and happy because she was the planned keeper. But she too wanted some leaky fun and started to go whiffy in the passenger footwell. FFS ! So after a few rounds of pulling the mats out on a sunny day, undoing some trims and lifting the carpets to dry out, propped up with wooden blocks, letting it dry out and thinking 'well that's nice now, dry and whiffy gone, maybe it was just our wet shoes or a door not shut properly' and then only to have it come back after another decent bout of rain, we couldn't put up with it anymore. So this happened... Hannah stripped both scuttle panel covers from Milly and Minky. Its actually a really quick job. One of those 'bloody wish I had done that ages ago' jobs. Sure enough they both had the failed clip seal that eventually craps out on all K11s... This little green clip sits right below the windscreen. Its a nothing more than a lower location guide for windscreen fitment. Its pushed into the panel and seals with a shaped rubber washer of about 1mm thick behind it. The rubber breaks down and falls apart. Now for some reason the person in charge of designing this aspect of the K11 decided take make sure that the hole the clip fits in is sited right above the ventilation intake... So the water runs right off the bottom of the screen, through the perished seal and down through the vent, through the fan and out the bottom onto the floor. In this pic you can see a drip of water making its break for freedom off the fan motor base below the plug. This will explain why Millys fan had stopped working... So we removed, cleaned and with some decent adhesive sealer sealed both the green clip and the one to the right of it. The second clip doesn't hover above the intake but its better to not have water festering about the clip holes anyway. We did seal Mollys clip later on, if only to stop fish from breeding in her footwells as she sat out the back of the shed (the area we now refer to as 'the place where cars go to die' ) Luckily none of the cars had any rust around the clip holes. Its a common rot point for UK cars due to the salted road spray running off the windscreen and doing its marvellous thing in good fashion. Here is just one sample photo taken from 'one of' the aforementioned micra forums of some classic clip rot... So all sealed up and now dry as a bone Hannah happily reinstalled the dried out interior bits and we revelled in such lovely clean, whiffyless and dry interiors. Until it rained again. Fuck. The floor behind Minkys passenger seat was sodden. Like properly wet right through the carpet, underlay and up the tunnel edge. I couldn't understand how it could get so wet? I presumed we must have left the passenger door cracked open and with the last torrential rain event (we've had enough of them already- it feels like the tropics here, only with frost) there must have been a leak straight from the top edge of the door onto the carpet. So out with the blocks of wood again. This time I had to remove the underlay stuff and wring it out. Most of it disappeared into the bin actually.. Anyway..same story. Dried it all out. Thought that was that and lessoned learned to check the doors. Then Milly started to smell bad. Really pongy. WTF!!! The back window started to go misty but the carpets were dry as. A few days later I popped open the boot and found a towel hidden in the spare wheel well that we had used to wrap up the noisy wheel nut wrench/jack handle. It was sodden and smelled like a dead ferret. So that got binned. Righto - here we go again! Some how the hatch was leaking. First port of call was obviously those world famous forums. "It could be the hatch seal. Or the seals between the rear light pods and the body" they remarked knowingly. But ours were fine. We tested them. We had great fun taking turns to sit inside the boot and watch for leaks as the other ran a hose around the hatch. Nothing obvious. There was a light gap at the top corner where the seal didn't quite press against the hatch but that wasn't the cause. We added some foam just in case. Kept looking. Nothing. So we left it, annoyed and feeling a bit defeated. 'Maybe it was the hatch not being closed properly" I muttered with a tiny grasp of distant hope. "bloody Japanese cars. They shouldn't do this. Might as well be British. Even my Imp stays drier" I muttered even louder. Roll on another week or so. Fairly dry weather keeps our spirits sailing high. Cars are dry. Things are looking up. Then more rain. And more smell. I could have lit a match. This time it was Minky. She had 'that whiff' again. It smelled around the rear seat area. We lifted out the seat base and sure enough underneath it really hooned. "fuck- there MUST be a dead rat under here" I proclaimed with a hint of almost excitement at the thought of not finding a dead rat but finding the cause. I could hug the dead rat I was so happy. But upon lifting the seat out we found no dead rat but instead a damp seat base. "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!!!" was apparently heard as far as Golden bay. The seat base was wet but the top was not. Right. This means war! "Get that hose!" I shouted as I scurried my way into the 'boot of certain death smell but no dead rat' and watched for tell tale leaks.. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing......hang on! There was a tiny trail of water running down the seal. It had to be crossing over somehow. We opened the hatch and followed the water beads. They tracked down the seal around to the bottom corner and disappeared. We popped the seal off and found a little hole between two panels... An intentional hole by the looks of it but in a silly place. Water tracked through the hole and down the inside of the panel. Its been doing this a while. Note the water track lines... The same shite design feature was found on Milly too and she even has the same little rusty water stains. From that hole it runs down the panel onto the boot floor and along a pressed channel that leads to under the seat (a perfect design..) Once the cavity under the seat is full it runs off forwards and cascades off the edge down beneath the carpet behind the passenger seat. It almost seemed unlikely when you glanced at the pathway, like as if a Nissan engineer had been reading a book full of Escher drawings while on the toilet and decided he'd design in a backwards waterfall into the K11 for shits and giggles. The tosser. So I had to design in my own anti waterfall features. My first line of defence was to block the hole. I used some self adhesive alloy tape... I then cut a hole in the seal so the water that was tracking down the seal would fall through the hole and out on the outside of the hatch opening.. My last line of defence, just in case the other points fail, was to drill a hole in the channel on each side, paint it, and build a wall with epoxy putty so any really determined water has no choice but to drain out... Take that water - I am the master of dry!!! So far its worked. We have had some huge rain events since and both Milly and Minky are dry and no horrid smells. Molly is still out the back, probably full of fish I shall sell my design fixes to Nissan. If they actually care. Hopefully this will be useful information to the hordes of future K11 owners residing on oldschool... 23 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUL8R Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 @ Alex, you could give the hole more of a dimple too to help with the runoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted August 25, 2021 Author Share Posted August 25, 2021 The pic doesn't show it but it has quite a dimple going on. Not that it's seeing any action anyway because the taped up hole and modified seal seem to be stopping any water getting in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted August 25, 2021 Author Share Posted August 25, 2021 Fucking done it now haven't I.. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post yoeddynz Posted August 31, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 31, 2021 Other things that have happened here in our little micra climate recently.. Hannah pinched the comfy sporty seats from Molly the G#/autostrada and bolted them into Minky... She found a few treats under the seats and carpet.. with all the seats out of both cars there had to be a rail swaps take place. In fact it was a bit more involved than that. Because the sporty seats were in a 4 door they didn't have the neat auto tilting function set in that the 2 door model seats have. So we took all the mechanisms apart and swapped bit around... The sporty seats then bolted into Minky... Then Molly was put up on the hoist and Hannah started removing her engine. We have no proof that Mollys engine is worse than Millys engine other than the feeling that Millys is possibly a bit peppier. Also when we looked inside the cam covers on both engines Millys is really clean and looks like its had more frequent oil changes whereas Mollys has a build up of older burnt looking deposits. Mollys engine still seems to pull hard and goes well, revving freely. But we went with what looks clean and feels right. Hannah then took her time and carefully took apart the front end and removed the engine and box complete with some help from me. It took longer than it probably should have but its sort of a new layout for both of us along with a fair few bolts being a bit stuck in place/awkward to get to. We rested the engine/box onto the large roll around steel bench and with the last engine mounts free lifted the car up on the hoist. Seemed the easiest way. Discovered a bit of rust on Mollys front cross member and also one of the guard bottoms... Hannah removed the guards, Autrostrada/G# spoiler, grill to suit and stashed them upstairs above the bedroom. They will, along with the bonnet and rear spoiler, be painted up later and we'll do the pre facelift swap on Minky. After the engine was out we pushed Molly out the back and rolled Milly in place and up on the hoist. This time things were much quicker. Hannah was now becoming well familiar with the layout and best order in which to disassemble things. Cool weather meant the hoists oil was thick and it seemed to take ages for the lightweight little car to drop each time she needed it to so planning this order of disassembly helped. All the bolts on Milly seemed a bit less corroded as well. One of the first things removed from Milly was her crystal. Hannah has had her eyes on that for ages. Millys magic crystal is going to be handed over to Minky. It mounts on a separate factory fitted bracket along with a little bit of extra loom that plugs in series between the lights and the loom. All very neatly done. The bulb inside is blown and its a funny little screw in jobbie we will need to source from somewhere. Millys engine came out fine- nothing different really except Milly doesn't have ABS so there's a bit more room about that side above the engine to get hands in. A mighty fine 1.3 big block... Hannah swapped the non LSD gearbox onto the engine from Molly, to be fitted into Milly... Actually having fun, becoming the valleys K11 expert.. There's a very visible difference to the diff casings on the LSD box- loads of extra ribs cast in to keep things stiff. The yucky corrosion look on the case is just aluminium oxide flashing from Molly having sat out the back of the shed over wet ground (where cars go to die...) Hannah has since cleaned it all off and with a bit more work its going to look very neat indeed. The LSD driveshafts (top) are quite a bit different too... Mollys engine with Millys gearbox were then plonked into Milly. We lubed her clutch cable while it was easy too and that made a big difference to the clutch feel. She started up with her new heart straight away and sounded fine. Took her for a test drive- all good. She's now been put back into regular service and will remain that way while Molly continues to get stripped of her interior dash and wiring loom. Later on Minky, who is now out of warrant, will come in for a transplant. There's a few question marks over how easy some of the wiring and certain components will swap across between a 1.3 PFL and a 1.0 FL. Both have mechanical speedos which is handy. Both have ABS and although they have slightly different pumps the wires are all the same - but in a different order in some places on the plugs. The dizzys are different - Minky has a later apparently improved dizzy. So that will remain and be swapped into the 1.3. The bulkhead area has the same pressings so but for popping a hole in place for the clutch cable I think the manual swap should be ok. We are fully prepared to have to swap out the entire front loom if need be but hopefully wont need to. There's also the disc brake rear end to swap across - having a look at it while Molly was on the hoist it all looks fine but will need a good wire brush and paint in order to be shiny enough to deserve being placed into Minkys immaculate underside. Lots to do but no urgent rush- just another fun project (that was never meant to be a project.......) 27 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 With a big job or of the way it's back into these little things. Minkys time to go under the knife and have her heart ripped out. But first... I have removed the brain box from Molly, who for those who can't remember (keep up - this is important stuff eh) is a PFL 1.3 manual. Then I removed Minky. A facelift 1.0 auto. If the brains are the same (allowing for different fuel tables) and Mollys brain will run Minkys engine, then this could potentially save a fair bit of loom swapping. So far so good. The plugs and pin count are the same... I wanted to test this out before we pull Minkys heart out. Tune in soon to see if the brain swap happens. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 YUSS!!! Hooray. A 1.0 facelift runs on a pfl 1.3 ecu! Started fine and revved up fine. I won't drive it because I'm sure the fuel table is different enough that it would be out of the narrowband o2 sensors range of adjustment. So the only other main difference between the cars now is the brake system (oh.. Ignoring the lack of clutch pedal on minky) They both have abs and the pumps are pretty much the same. However the molly, with her flash racecar spec disc brake rear end, has a few pipework differences and a couple of what look like pressure reducing valves in line. Not sure exactly but once we have Minkys heart out I can check it out properly. I wouldnt be surprised if the master cylinder on molly is a larger bore to suit rear calipers too. Id post up a video of minky starting on a pfl 1.3 ecu but its probably more fun for you all to watch some paint dry so I'll keep that bit of excessive excitement to myself.. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ajg193 Posted November 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 4, 2021 Can you please create a reference table and graph to indicate which parts are going into which car. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 I really should do a white board drawing. Not just for the readers entertainment but in case I get lost. There are soon to be a whole lot of k11 parts, some in boxes, scattered all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Roman Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 So whats the plan, big block motor in with the LSD box, into the best chassis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ajg193 Posted November 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2021 As far as I can gather the Yellow one is getting a 12A in front of an automatic with a locked diff and will be rolling on modgies wrapped in eagers 10 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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