Well its finally time for another update.
Its been a long long time but thats what happens when you tell the painter no rush take your time.
Im pretty crap at taking photos and the paint just doesn't look the same as what it does in the sun, Its kinda a grass green with a small bit of ocean thrown in there and a shit load of gold pearl and effect (thats a painting term or something). So far anyone who has seen it said they like it which is cool.
Every piece of steel in the car that we could get to has been painted in some form or another, Under side all as 3m under-sealer. Inside is all been painted in hard wearing stone guard and the rest is all colour matched primer and top coat.
Car was block backed a total of 3 times before the final prep for the top coats where applied,
The paint is straight off the gun at this stage have been told not to buff it for atleast 6 months the longer the better really. Or not at all if im happy with it, Paint job is mind not a run or a ripple anywhere that ive seen yet, A few little bits of dust that have settled on it after the paint has been applied (i have been assured that with a buff and prob even just a few washes that will all go. And thats by more than one painter and panel beater)
The thing is still dripping rust treatment from everywhere. I don't know how long its going to do that for but i did tell the painter to drown the thing in the stuff.
Now for the long slow process of slowly putting the car back together,
I fitted my new guard repeaters just for fun. But other than that first thing is door rubbers and then latches then i'll cover as much as i can with the dynamat.
On the engine front. Things have progressed a little over the last week, Head has been prepped valves and seats recut and lapped in in seals head skimmed etc. Was going to reassemble the rockers etc but then i emailed Kelford Cams and decided id do the cam first so gotta send that away soon.
Next up is the block. I have 2 options here. I have 2 options here. I can use the L14 block i have spare and rebore it to 85.5mm (new L20B pistons) thats 2.5mm over stock don't know if it will handle that or not) then fit the L18 crank and rods. This will give me a bored and stroked L14 to approx 1.8L. This option i think is cooler.
Or use the L18 block and overbore .5mm to fit the new L20B pistons This will lower the compression down a bit. Still not sure if thats a good idea or not only time will tell i guess.
T25g turbo on the side from a S13. If this works out to be to small i'll use the GTiR turbo i have in the cupboard.
Injection is stock manifold with 440cc VR4 injectors powered via CA18DET ECU loom all done and tested on test bench yet to see if it will actually work or not.
Intercooler will be custom made (anyone know any good places) and fitted in a special non conventional location i'll show you later if it works.
Tail lights are NOS gen Nissan items but i prob won't use these, Something else even better in the works.
Thats all for now still have alot of things to buy and finish off radiator carpet etc. But i can now atleast work on the car abit.
The aim for the car is,
100wkw reliable on 12psi or less.
I then want to drive it the approx 5hours north to top of the Island, Turn around and drive it to the bottom of the south island with a good stop off in Christchurch on the way to say hi to as many of you as i can and check out the cars.
Thats all still a very long way off though. But atleast something is still happening even if it is slowly.
I'll take some more photos and post them up later.
