richminiturbo's clumban build
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very nice!

Danke Danke on the comments!!

Did some more today!

Got the bulkhead down to bare metal and gave it the red-oxide treatment, never sprayed with it before but I love it, goes on super nice!:




Then my friendly neighborhood fabricator (Ben) whipped up a nice ally blanking plate for my speedo drive:



And he also bought round a spare alternator that he had, seems a little thinner than the standard one, but longer which isnt a problem. Tis also lighter!!



Cant really see it in the pic but its about 20mm thinner, every little clearance bit for my rad helps!!

Going to give the bulkhead a lick of paint and do some other bits in the next few days, weather doesnt look too good though and back to work tomorrow, balls :(

Cheers!!

crack on mate!! your progress is alot more promissing than mine boooooooooo your making me look lazy stop it!!

why you blanking the speedo drive? digi dash?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Right, happy with the progress made today.

Starting to take shape now getting quite anxious!!

Gave the bulkhead a re paint so its looking fresher:



And got the engine out ready to be put in, was quite a mission and a stinking hangover didnt help!! :s



On the hoist!:



And with a bit of tweaking of the timing end mount:





Engine is officially in!!

Next is to fit the carb and plenum, run fuel lines in the car, wire the pump, mount the fpr and connect everything up fuel wise. Mount the rad and intercooler and run all the piping for that, install the megajolt and plum all the vac related bits in, starter motor and bits like that - looking good I think!

Thanks

Edited by richminiturbo. on 25th Oct, 2008.

NICE!

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ooooof so close. when you aiming for then?

wooop! looks great too, wish my rocker cover was that shiny

good progress bud

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Thanks alot!!

James - I have 98% of the bits to finish it! So its just down to how much free time I have and the weather lol.

Hopefully get it done by the end of November maybe? Fingers crossed!

Looking spunky!

Rich its looking fantastic. I love the look and colour scheme of your car.

Almost there bud keep it up !

"So wat we gonna do tonight Brain?"
"Same thing we do evernight Pinky!"
"Try to take over the world!"

looks brilliant mate - can i ask how you went about getting it back to bare metal around the tower bolt area?

dont any more to it yet? - bet you can't wait now its so close to being finished!

Thanks Ollie!

I used a flapper disc all over the bulkhead to get it back to metal, and just really coarse sandpaper in the hard to get places like the tower bolt area and to key the metal.

Theres quite a bit of seam sealer in the corners there, which I just "flappered" away and sprayed over like normal, going to put some sealant in it at some point.

Yesterday I cleaned up, painted and fitted the slightly smaller alternator.

Got the carb and plenum on.

Spruced up my master cylinders and fitted them back on.

Got an air filter, as well as a 2nd hand but never used oil pressure gauge:



Some braided fuel line for my feed and return, t-piece as well so I dont have to mod the tank.

Electric fan, dumpvalve, cold air feed, braided oil pressure pipe and rad hoses are all on their way aswell.

Thinking of getting a curley switchpod dash next week but not sure just yet.

In the mean time, wheels are being powdercoated and im making heatsinks for EDIS bits and getting ready to crack on with the wiring for that.

Then can make mounts for the rad and IC and crack on with the other jobs!!

Oh and I won a 2nd hand 7/16 and 3/8 combination snap-on ratchet spanner on ebay for £3.50 delivered earlier which im quite pleased about - random!

Cheers

Edited by richminiturbo. on 28th Oct, 2008.

lol if the spanner ever craps itself send it to me and i will get it replaced by my dealer

why would your dealer want spanner poo?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

mixes it with his goods and gets more money. you never heard the expression this is some good spanner shit?

Got the carb, pleniniarm, alternator, oil cooler pipes + filter, master cylinders and header tank on now. Ooh and most of the vac hoses on aswell.




And got a 9" fan through for the rad, gave it a bit of a personal touch!



Yarr!

oooooh aint it loookin posh & loverly! i like that rich, lookin sweet, good progressthere dude

SKYLINES ARE LIKE CLITS, EVERY FLANGE SEEMS TO HAVE ONE: see this sticker on my silvia

the Search-section on this forum is blummin superb & simple to use, unlike some other forums, without the search-section & the help of this bunch of chaps on here i'll never be able to !!!Start the day with a 998cc turbo!!! :) i'm getting closer though!

Tom Fenton says: I have it all, make me an offer

Looking good, making good progress. Nice header tank, where did that come from?

Edited by MarkGTT on 29th Oct, 2008.

tom you have a pm.

Righty, only a small update as havn't done much recently due to no light in the evenings and generally being lazy!!

But I got my wheels back from mr powdercoater tonight. And added a cool touch!! Came out well I reckon :) :





Really like them!

Hopefully the weekend will be dry so I can crack on.