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Made start taking the engine apart tonight to, tomorrow car off then will see about getting the head off to
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This is where play stopped for the night, plenty to do even once the the engine is apart ready for rebuilt head, new cambelt, waterpump, seals etc
Must say the blue works really well with the original silver in the engine bay. Looking forward to seeing the final result:)
Must agree , loving the blue Gavin. Did the side vents need much prep before painting? Got my faded red ones off and was going to wrap them black but don't fancy stripping the mesh bits off.
Yeah the contrast isn't to bad, as for vents just need to sand them down medium primer satin black once happy leave a day or so then fine sand
Many years ago had white side vents with white steelies for a few weeks. :p Looking at wet tranfer printing in carbon effect.
So bit more progress driver side rear quarter is as best as it can be without major work needs another 2 coats of paint, passenger side is much better again 2 coats and it should be ok. Rear bumper and under lip got another coat of paint also, the side skirts will get another coat to closer when I refit them, got 2 mint doors off Beardo a few weeks back will spray those off the car over the next few weeks.
Bonnet is so so will make the best with what I have there, windscreen surround and hardtop will get done satin black when it's near enough ready to go back on the road. Interior haven't got to much planned still going to find a mini amp and put it where original HU was and just run mp3 player through that direct to the speakers, but to keep it tidy will try and get an oem centre blank if one comes up. Seats I will keep for now but will eventually get some fixed back or recliners from Japan, I am still going with the 262mm front brake conversion over the next few weeks as well just need to modify the carriers a bit before fitting.
Oh this finally happened.....
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Torque mount needs replacing or new bush old ones had it
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All ready to go to the garage
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Going to be honest all in it was actually an easy job I think from start to finish it only took me and my mate 2hrs to drop the engine out that was subframe and rear arms off the lot. Dropping it off Monday at the garage to get it rebuilt will get the spare head port/polished and skimmed plus a deep clean done on it before it goes back on.
As always there are parts on the way for it, full silicone hose kit, 55mm funnels, customer induction kit to the side vent, clutch kit and aluminium radiator. There are some extras I am looking at probably to do over winter that would be rear anti roll bar kit and braces 100% will get front and rear, with the front having the cross bracing section with master cylinder stopper built in. Unsure if I will go for the under side ones will need to make a proper list up and see if they will be worth the time.
There you go some more waffle for you to read
That looks like an alright job and the bay looks like there is plenty of space when everything is out of there
Can wait to see this all coming back together again with all the new bits!
Cheers! Don't know if I should do the boot lid and bonnet blue like the rest or satin black them? blue spoiler though.
Both turning out to be a pain in the bum to get nice like the rear quarters
Some more updates engine has been stripped did a proper job and bent all 12 valves no piston damage and bottom end is good. Head has been ported and now off the the machine shop to get valves relapped, head skimmed and new valve stem oil seals. Will have the inlet manifold port matched as well plus the itbs clean out when I dropped them off, otherwise redid the boot lid in satin black looks better than I thought it would tbh for some reason every time the blue went down it just reacted despite cleaning it drying it and panel wiping it.
I'll get that finished tomorrow and hopefully make a start on finishing the spoiler to once done its the turn of both rear quarters to be sorted out, then the new doors, bonnet and more coats of paint on the skirts. Can not remember if I mentioned it or not but sorted a full silicone hose kit, dizzy with after market ht leads and 55mm funnels with hindsight I should of got the 75mm ones.
Managed to sort a new clutch release bearing to possibly have a 3 branch manifold on way to see how that pans out, also as you will see below the reason for selling the adjustable shocks and 30mm springs as I managed to sort some coilovers at a good price. Pics not in order and plenty of work in progress
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After initially fitting the rears above, below first lowering amount
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Then after the fronts got fitted and much fiddling around roughly got it set
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and again that is it for now, I'll do final adjustment tomorrow so ride height is even all round hopefully I'll have the boot lid and spoiler finished over next few days.
Proper nuts came for the wheels so got those fitted, refitted spoiler to see what that was like same with the skirts and side vents. Did a rough job on the bonnet to see where it needed work but overall no reactions so happy, fiddled with the rear coilovers a bit more got height set nicely now I'll do front once I've taken what I need to remove etc etc but final adjustment comes when engine is back in, boot is going blue again since the black did a good job of smooth everything over.
Still rough but it is getting there with it all back together I do love it more now.
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Need to make a new list of what's left to do been good working on it again these last few months motivation has come back nicely.
Dang, the colours match up really nicely, I'm glad you went for a colour matched bonnet, and those wheels really make your beat stand out.
Tasty Gavin!
Wow looking great!! Really looking good now.. Is that the height the suspension your selling sits at?
Cheers guys, Paul no these are the coilovers I won the ride height of the lowering springs on car is on one of the previous pages they need to go now since the coilovers are on.
I think my rough list goes something like this for the bodywork
2 more coats of paint on each quarter panel
2 more coats of paint on the boot lid and spoiler
1 more coat of paint on each side skirt
4 coats of paint per door and same on bonnet
Tomorrow morning need to make a start on removing the rest of the aircon system and fit what silicone hoses I can, then provided weather is ok will do as much paint as possible.
Done some more both rear quarters and boot lid now sorted all that had to be done was final smooth wet sand then paint, had to redo spare pass front wing as door dropped the wrong way when it came off, fitted both new doors, vents got cleaned and more paint.
Doors still need final fine wet sand and last bit of paint, mirrors still need to be done, bonnet haven't even had a proper go yet needs plenty of work that. Engine is still be worked on but should be near enough there now, possibly it will be running again by September.
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Also fitted the front half of the silicone hose kit, rest of aircon system will come out this week otherwise small jobs now hopefully!
Managed to get a bit more time on it today removed the rest of the aircon system so pipes under the car, engine bay, aircon rad plus pipes under the bonnet all gone. Also took the rad off and modified the fan housing slightly so the hoses had a better fit, whilst under the front end had a poke around and it's all solid still thank god lol cleaned up a few flakey areas and treated with kurust then zinc primered.
100% will be getting an alloy rad at some point current one is still just ok but showing age now, future stuff for next year will be adjustable rear control arms then some braces front and rear. Undecided on seats right now still thinking something different on that front.
Pic of the front below, quite empty now need to clean it up tomorrow but I think will do it satin black where I can. Once I figure out how the dash comes out I will take the aircon box thing from behind there out to, I think with the compressor, pipes, rad, space saver wheel plus removing all the soft top mounting frame, soft top itself then fitting the hardtop I've saved around 20kg all in.
The soft top with frame etc was surprisingly heavy when I removed it and the hardtop was much lighter than I thought it be to, getting closer to being on the road again hoping mid September it will all be done.
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Engine is all back together now :) New head was a bit pitted so had to skim a bit more than normal off otherwise valves relapped, new valve stem oil seals, new cam and crank seal plus a small amount of port work with the water pump, tensioners and belt all done to.
Not far off now with only a few things from Japan to come then it can be finished off, will probably drop the engine back in next weekend but hopefully by end of September everything should be done and I can re-mot it then use it from October again.
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nice to see my cylinder head put to good use. if all goes well you might make it to kkitp for its maiden voyage
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This is it out the boot and semi built up again ready to go
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