had a better look at the pic just a stock centre with a t4 rear with holes drilled and tapped to make the dump fit i thought it was bought like it.

5 hours, two crowbars one can of crc & a bearing puller latter. finally got the ****er off, What a **** was rusted on there solid !!!! And i'm talking about the geardrive for the cam not the balancer !!

Second hand rb30et oil pump bolted up.

Sump, adj cam gear & belt back on.

Your not tempeted to throw some colour at it ?

Na not at the moment, But have big plans later down the track !! (Which will include colour too)

Cam all dialed in...

Gave the crossmember & power steering rack a degrease today, Before After And most of engine back together, attacked the rocker cover with a bit of colour. oh and word of warning for anyone getting a jd plenium, buy a bottle brush with longish handle co'z the plenium is full of shavings ect and they don't just come off with a wash, it needs a good scrub inside !!

ooo looking good, you'll have it in today wont ya?

I wish........ Burnouts on, still couple little things gota build some new intercooler piping, gonna recon my driveshaft has a little play in the central bearing. Getting a new catch tank. And after seeing how RUSTY my repco pod filter got i'm gonna put it up behind the headlight and use a genuine k&n, those repco filters are **** !!! And today my mates are up from qeenstown and rotorua for a 21st so there will be no progress this weekend. unless you call drunk & stumbling progress ? ohh and thanks heaps to Hybred for the mint throttle body

any one else got a xf throttle body that they want to sell me?????

Engine in, Had to cut battery box up a bit for intercooler piping. And make new bracket for power steering resvoir. And remount sard fpr, fitted it under the plenium and had to fit new top barb very tight. ****en plenium takes up heaps of space !!! Gonna use a skinny battery for now, Will prob put in the boot later on in future. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Out with the old In with the new, noltec adj coilovers, k-mac 20mm sway bar with nolathane bush's. nolathane adj panhard rod. And new kyb shortened shocks, had to cheap out on the shocks as of funds running short at the moment. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

what are you going to do with the throtle cable???and aldo what xf throttle body did you get.is it the one with the small round grey tps or the big black box???

Its the same throttle body as yours, I'm not running factory ecu so i used the tps that came with it.As for the throttle cable I just shortened it at the peddle, Pulled the slack outa the cable then clamped it. I had to mount mine upside down so I could fit in the battery (hopefully) and clear the top rad pipe.

Intercooler piping all done, with worlds smallest car battery And also put in a dedicated power wire to the pump and used the old wires to switch the relay. The pump seems to go a lot harder, And sits at one constant speed rather than differentiate like it use too. Diff is together just waiting on silicon to dry, and top up of oil. And in need of some new tyres too, Also gonna clean out the cooling system this weekend and bleed it real well. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Wow is that battery big enough to turn her over ? are going to put one in the boot at all ?

Yea turns it over "just" but only takes one turn to start it. I'll probaly put the battery in the boot latter down the track, got no $$$ for any mods at the moment.

you can always have 2 small batteries

^^^ True, Never thought of that.