Hello Everybody
Ive been hiding under a rock a bit, hardly been on any forums lately a lot has happened.
So i left my old job of 8 years at
Mainpower to go work in the big Chch Smoke doing some CAD work for a Building services company. It was a bit sad leaving my old job and a bit starange starting a new one but Now that i have been there for 5 weeks it has been awesome !
Got the deposit for a house together, been to see the bank and I'm Pre Approved for a Mortgage, and then started the House Hunting
. so after all the open homes I got shingles which is basically re activated chicken pox.
But I do have an Update sort of.
Ever Decreasing Circles from back at the Grasskana day
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Cloverleaf from the Grasskana Day
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During both of these video's i had severe misfire over 3000rpm, not much clutch and no power steering. And that was aftering busting ass assembling the entire car just to take it there on the trailer - but it was so much fun. And I'm ready for the Lab our Weekend Grass Skids well ahead of time.
So since February I have been waiting for a turbine wheel for my GT35 to become back in stock, this finally happened and I purchased the said wheel. Turns out my Copy GT35 has a funny version of the bearing housing so none of my new turbine parts could be fitted.
So a bit of a Change in direction was to take an old T3 Bearing housing, buy a T04S adapter plate and fit that to my DSR GT35 front cover. and use the previously purchased journal bearing rebuild kit, bullet nut & Compressor wheel to build a TA34 based turbo out of leftover parts. At this point every dollar is going on house savings for lawyers fee's so its all about cost recovery to use what i have.
Too the flapper wheel to the DSR cover to make it a plain cover with no markings, Ceramic Black it looks way better.
I managed to get for basically free a Tow bar from a Z31, long story short i spend ages cleaning rust off this thing painting it to find it didn't fit my car and was twisted up and not square. So out come the angle grinder to convert it into a Strapping down Bar to making towing, strapping much easier and safer.
And other wee job i finally managed to finish off was my LHD master cylinder swap, braided lines and heat shield
So between some disasters i have been able to salvage some stuff that didn't work.
Akaroa is not looking good to be Road legal.