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Dropped the pistons off today to get the block bored, sorted out a Link g4 plugin ecu and boost solenoid then got some blitz and ct18 and started cleaning stuff

Got to work today and had some of my parts waiting

I ordered some parts from work today, after being messed around spending most the day on the phone, chopping and changing brands and suppliers i ended up with: Scat h-beam rods Wiseco 86.5mm 9:1 pistons and ring set Arp head studs Cometic mls pro street top end kit Timing chain kit Permaseal Valve cover gasket set My cranks been ground up and i gave acl race main and big end bearing, and the blocks been hot washed ready to be decked and torque plate honed

Cranks off at the machine shop getting ground at the moment and I'm pricing up a set of forged piston, rods, arp studs, mls headgasket, etc. The paint is just automotive acrylic so I'm Really happy with how it turned out Yerp spun big end number 3, apparently its really common

finally got this car licenced and permitted last wednesday ....then 3 days later also made a proper mount for the guages a few weeks ago

took the car for a bit of a road test drives well. calibrated the speedo but just having a problem with tacho not working, seems like a problem from the ecu signal. Got a set of s13 stockies for it to get ready for the pits. also finished flaring guards and gave the car a respray.

gave the interior a good scrub and put it all back together battery in boot pulled the engine back out and painted the engine bay, put some spot lights on it to help it dry but had a problem with mosquitoes thinking it was a good place to rest and dying in the paint but brushed them off after it dried and its all hidden anyway so didn't bother much with it. change the clutch to something a bit more mild for the pits, painted the box and all underneath the car.

I have put a fair bit of work into the car since the last post. Battery has been relocated to the boot, a new top water outlet was made so i could fit in a hose, bottom hose was shortened and radiator has been mounted. Also found some heater hoses that have a reducer built into them as the engine outlets are bigger than heater core and cut them to fit. tidied up the wiring which allowed me to remove one of the relay boxes (the 180sx one which mostly consists of headlight retract relays) and mounted it all up. Got an intercooler off a friend with stainless piping to fit an s14 so we cut it up and made it all fit in, piped up all the vacuum lines and charcoal canister and basically mounted everything in the engine bay and started making up a fan shroud. need to find a new drivers seat and do some rewiring in the interior as the connectors i used aren't that great and have been causing me problems so ill go through and just solder each wire in. Then the engine will come back out to tidy up and paint the engine bay so everything can go back together to stay.

Did some work on the fuel system the other week, had to change the pickup and return I'm the tank to 10mm and 8mm then run a 10mm line through the low pressure pickup pump the the vl pump and run new 8mm hard line out of bundy tube to the engine and for the return. Once I did this i made an exhaust to just before the diff rigged up a quick,dodgey intake and took the car for its first drive. Since then ive put the dash all back together and interior is mostly back in and have assembled a few other bits and pieces; rear window, right guard, etc. decided the other day that I'm Going to move the battery into the boot so i cut the tray outof the engine bay which gives me heaps more room for washer/overflow bottles and cooler pipes

got a heap of stuff done in the last couple of weeks, but mostly just finished off small incomplete things. connected up brakes and bled them up, welded up the cable mounts for the handbrake and put them together. tightened up all the suspension and steering. pulled the engine back out cut the shifter hole a bit bigger and made a plate to cover the rest of it. changed the oil pan to a tomei one i had, changed the oil and oilfilter pulled the turbo off and changed the gasket and gave the engine a good clean. also cut out the front a bit for the radiator to breathe a bit better, mounted up the power steering reservoir and ignitor and neatened the wiring up a bit. put the engin back in. put an exhaust up that I'm going to modify to fit. got my intercooler and started trying to see how I'm going to make everything fit

Dad must have got bored today while I was at work and decided to shorten the shaft. cutting on the lathe made it a tight fit and pressed it together when I got home i just grease up and reassembled the cv and put it all together

Yep, will be rego'd. which is why ive spend all the extra time with aircon, powersteering, etc. I have the approval in principle and have spoken to an engineer who seems happy to do it, so i just need to get the car finished and he will come look and hopefully write up the report

got myself a vl manual tailshaft on sunday (both ends fit up). Pulled it all apart, serviced the cv joint and made a bracket to fit the centre bearing and will be shortening the rear half in the next few days.

Diffs in, just need to mount swaybar to chassis and sort out the handbrake lines

started on my diff... cut mounts from r31, was going to keep panhard rod and swaybar, panhard rod was going to make things more difficult so got rid of that but will still use r31 swaybar. put the corolla up on the hoist dropped diff out measured it up and wrote up some plans gas axed mounts off corolla diff grinded them clean and setup r31 diff ready to weld

Realized that the R31 diff is 60mm wider than the ke diff and the wheels were definitely not going to fit so started rolling/pumping the guard which ended up being a mess as they needed to be re welded, bogged and painted. I've got them done now good enough to put the new diff in and see if it will fit but they are still going to need some work before they are perfect. Also can't decide whether I like the wheels better in black or white....

Bought a set of 16's off a mate so I wheeled it out of the shed, pulled the rear springs out and took a few photos

No real achievement as the car been at this stage for a while just hooked a fuel pump to the battery and a jerry can to test if my a/c compressors getting power, which it is not :( but still feels good to have the engine running in the rolla for the first time

Been a month or two since ive really done anything on this. Have been waiting on a heater core that I ordered which turned out to be the wrong one and then couldnt find another, so ended up just buying another wreck So pulled the heater core out of that pressure tested it, fixed the leaks and put it in. So today i started assembling it all into the car and piece the dash back together. I also ended up cutting my new stereo into the top of the dash and wiring that up plan is to spend some more time on it tomorrow. Want to start getting work done again!

didnt spend as much time on it as i wanted to this weekend, just tidied up a bit of my mess and finished off the pedals

silver-project off ebay, sent them an email and they changed them up a little to suit my needs, they were really helpful, highly recommended

the 31 is an auto Been a while between unpdates but Uni is finished for the year which should hopefully give me more time to spend on this as I haven't touched it in a while now because I've had exams and stuff. During the week I picked this up Reduced: 93% of original size [ 1024 x 768 ] - Click to view full image will be using this as my lift pump to surge tank 129lph low pressure pump. Had a look over my wiring tonight and realized the interior light and the handbrake light on the dash were not hooked up so spent some time wiring those up. So the wiring is more or less done now, need to tidy up a little and that should be it.

I ended up buying this yesterday for a diff; the rest of it will be wrecked so if anyone needs parts... Also tried the steering column from s13 and was more work than it was worth so continued to wire the corolla switches into the loom, so far i have managed to get the ignition and headlights (park, low, high, flash) all working so still have indicators/hazards and the wiper stalk to do.

made myself a gearbox crossmember the other day, the mount sits in a similar position as standard so i started with the standard corolla mount cut a section a welded the centre section of the nissan crossmember in. Standard: modified: My dads home from work at the moment so i took the opportunity to get started on the wiring. I ended up using the whole body loom out of the 180sx halfcut, so first started by cutting holes and mounting the fuse box being cut from the middle of the car we got started on wiring the back half of the toyota loom to the nissan loom also got my ae86 cambertops so put all the front suspension and steering together including shortening tie rod ends and rack ends to suit r31 control arms now the cars mobile i pushed it outside to clean the shed up a bit and took a few photos and got another one of those sticker on this thing so another trip to the pits soon

Hey does anyone know, or have a manual that states what the resistances are on the ke70 fuel sender at full and empty? cheers