Finally some real updates! Stole Dad's car on the weeken and travelled over to Mildura to get all my gear out of storage.
I have made a little progress so far, removed the head and cleaned off old gasket and removed the std. cam ready for the Crow stageII item to be fitted.
15x7" Ceptaz brah, 225's
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
Ok, so in the last couple of weeks, I have bolted the head back on with the MLS gasket and ARP head studs and fitted the Crow stage II cam. Pat (pmac) gave me a Nissan rocker CHEERS! so I have modded that to fit over the head studs, just needs to be either painted or polished.. and this afternoon I knocked off work a couple of hours early and pushed the engine stand outside and soaked the whole thing in degreaser and hosed it off then blew out the ports with compressed air (none of the valve train is fitted so no water got in to the cylinders).
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
Yess, I have thought about PMing a mod but CBF lol.
Anywayz UPDATE!!
Today a mate from work and Myself knocked off less than an hour after we got to work and went back to My place to get some work done to My Berlina. We gave the engine a sponge bath lol, bolted up the lifters and rockers, replaced the water pump, fitted the timing belt and timing covers, fitted up the turbo runners and the altenator bracket and we also cleaned and gapped the spark plugs down to .8mm, fitted the dizzy, its rotor, cap and leads. So we got a decent amount of work done, I am basically waiting on injectors and a high stall torque converter before I can put the motor and trans in. I would also like to fit a shift kit and a fresh filterbto the auto before it goes in but meh, it all costs money..
Today I knocked off work early again and got a bit more work done. I bolted the altenator, water pump pulley and fan up and fitted the belt. Also fitted the A/C pump bracket to the side of the block. The head lights were looking pretty dirty so I tried to clean them with hot soapy water, but it just wiped the chrome strait off haha, so i just gave them a wipe over and painted them with some 'Export Chrome' for $3 . Came out better than they were, I'm not too sure how long the paint will last due to the heat coming from the globes tho..
Oh and I was devistated to find that my grill was broken, someone probly stepped on it in the EPIC mess my shed is in atm...
Anyway heres a revised pic of the front end as of today.
And a close up of my bargain basement headlight reco
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
Ok so I have sold the turbo, dump and lines I had for this build for 2 reasons. 1. to pay for some GTR injectors and 2. to give me a little more motivation to buy a KKR480 .
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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The head lights were looking pretty dirty so I tried to clean them with hot soapy water, but it just wiped the chrome strait off haha, so i just gave them a wipe over and painted them with some 'Export Chrome' for $3
Dodgy <unt lmao
We'll have to head out for a boost one of these weekends its been a while
Haha, well it turned out ok but dont know if it will last very long.. It all depends how far I take this build as to whether I buy new lights or not.
I'd be keen to head out one night, but it seems like everyone has turned to imports these days
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
LOL plans for this build change so much, I have decided to keep this build N/A. Slam it on ceptas and just tidy everything up! I need MINT red Berlina front seats!!!
Oh, now I understand the PM. Nah, those seats were terrible anyway. I know where some more are though.
Why would you keep it N/A? Cherry centered white Berlina N/As make baby Jesus cry.
Its just expressions of interest, not for sale keeping it N/A cos I want to use it as a daily or soemthing lol i duno
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
