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i know man , i was too excited and totaly forgot to do one,tho my mate got one ,ill see if i can get it off him

wow thanks very much for the kind words! , welcom to rolla club too! there will sure to be more things happening soon!! ive pretty much pulled off tubing and bits that got it started so i can go ahead and start seting up the proper intercooler piping and vacumm pluming, build a 2nd custom air box to specs that is required for engineering, build an exhaust system, finish off the wiring properly as the dodgy wiring was just to see if my circuits would work ,and they do! so can go ahead and get them finished off, also need to get the rear leaf springs reset and lower the back down and get some new shocks, then I'm going to make a set of caltracs,parts are on the way for them :) then from there redoing my hole front end shock into coil overs with a full hilux conversion so will be doing a full details on that one as some of the info ive come across isnt to clear,so will do a big speal about that . then onto interior, I'm doing some custom work to the factory seats, and getting round to installing my custom dash board, and building a centre console custom to fit of course ,and alot more , so even tho i got it started that was realy just a test to see where i was at with things,tho it was bloody fantastic hearing it fire up in the car, and this thing winds up so dam fast ,just breathing on the pedal sends it crazy haha for a stock engine faily sure shes a goer :) so be sure to keep watching ,and thanks again for very kind comments,i hope my burbling along the way has some kind of helpful info that you can use your self :y: :y: :y:

haha thanks alot mate not sure about that ,theres some pretty cool things going on this site,I'm just trying to do the best i can ,with what i got ,but it is starting to come together nice, and thanks guys !! was great to hear it come to life !! but even more than that it actualy moved under its own power !!! be it only a few meters lol but she still moved , pushing the car around for 3 years and soon it will actualy drive :) pretty exhuasted from the work over the last few weeks, going to try take a break for the week and orginise a few bits an pieces , before diving back into it , but happy with the progress and shouldnt take to much more to get thru the next stage of things :)

ahhhh awesum thanks for that, i had no idea about that sort of thing , ill ditch it right away and hunt for a more suitable one, an r33 wouldnt be easy to find I'm guessin tho , all the jap stuff seems to be a bit trickey and pricey, but thanks for the heads up, don't need more problems at this stage in the game :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y:

what happened was the main ciruit breaker at the battery cut and shut off all the power, i think mite have to up rate this breaker, i did have a 200 amp one in there that would have worked perfect, but i broke it so had to replace it ,and at the time i could only find a 120 amp one, so alot lower, how ever its kind of good to know that the circuit breaker does what its spose to do by cutting the power and protecting the battery cable and all the electricals, but in my case i needed to be able to crank it a bit longer be fore it cut, so probably need an up rate, no big deal i guess just another 40 - 50 dollars to replace. that kinda put a damper on the whole last few days work and progress,was pretty disapointed, needless to say wasnt giving up just yet, had to wait abit to be able to reset the breaker, reset it and got the power back on , tryed to do short cranks so it wouldnt trip the breaker again, but it tripped again :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: it wasnt going to let me crank long enuff to start the thing!! took a break and had a coffee and smoke and came back to it, reset it again ..... cranked again and again and again , NOTHING!!! i decided it wasnt firing for some reason, at that point i thought it could be anything at all! so many wires and circuits and things with these engines , could be the colour of the sky or the alignment of the moon even !!! so there was the first hurdle, circuit breaker needed to be up rated for a start, next have to find out why its not firing... stuck my head under the dash and just went blank... ill get a pic of the wiring under there, its rediculous , just a sea of spagetti going every where!! and all of it has to be there , aahaahahaahahahahahhaha losing the plot now, just want to hear it fire up!!!! looked at the computer and woundered if i had connected every thing i needed to make it work??? figured the computer must be working ,becasue it controls the main pump, by priming the pump at start up and then shuts it off untill needed. checked over my plugs ,every thing was connected tight and should have been working perfectly , i had wired it up exactly the same as the 2 preivous start up so why is it not working now i thought??????????????????? found that some of the wires coming off the computer hadnt been connected to anything , for what ever reason i had just ignored them, check out the diagrams and found the wires that wernt connected were , tacho speedo and temp ,so not exaclty what i needed to start the car, but then there were 2 more wires one an earth and one a orange wire turns out the orange was spose to go to the solinoid and the black to earth????? well thats what i figured from the diagrams , so connected the black to earth and the orange to the started solinoid, turned it all off, disconnected the battery then connected the battery back up turned all the circuit breakers back on ,turned the dodgy ign switch on and the batt and oil lights came on, gota be this time?? pressed the button .... not even 2 seconds , and it started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: all it was was 2 wires! even the battery circuit breaker didnt stop me! she fired up ,no exhaust on it just straight out , and f#%$ me it was LOUD AS f$%#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY HAPPY I GOT IT TO START!!!!!! was a great moment indeed , gave it a hard rev and f@#$#$$ me !! this things off its head!!!! so bloody responsive !! just breathe on the pedal and she wants to go! sounds sooo tuff winding up ,the turbo kicking in sounds mad as hell, ,let it idle for a while and settle it self been sitting for over a year on a engine stand lol, she goes tho thats the main thing! shut it down, jacked it up and checked over the engine very closely , oil leak :sob: as suspected right at the bottom of the sandwhich plate ,it wasnt a huge dripping leak ,more of a seap,just ever so slowly leaking its way out, big conncern , getting to that plate is very tuff, and fitting a spanner the right size somethng like a 32mm spanner , its big and long, and doesnt fit onto tight spaces well enuff to allow you to turn it, hunted the work shop, must be alternative to the spanner, we have a lot of tools in the shop, i have my own set , but ive got mostly basic stuff, tho my collecting is growing due to this car, so hunted and found a realy big ass multi grip tool that opened out realy large and had short handles, got the tool in there and tryed cranking on the sandwhich plate, it actualy did turn about 1/4 of a turn even tho i had it tight as F@#$ before , the heat must lossen things up abit? any ways , gave it my best crank i could , and it did tighten a bit, could still see oil around the bottom tho, a tiny bit but still there, now weather that was new oil after the cranking or oil that was just sitting there before ,i don't know.... so its something I'm going to have to keep an eye on , front cover...................... unsure about this one, no leaks so far tho which is great , but like i said before once things get heated up could be a differnt story, fingers crossed there but looks ok so far, wiring ..... well she started! so i must have done something rite, alternator wiring........... fully working, i had 11.6 volts in the battery at start up , with car running the batter is getting 13.9 -14 volts , which is realy good considering the lenght of the battery cable and voltage drop over distance, so my rebuilt alternator is working and so is the wiring for that fuel pumps..... well both are working , the 044 is very loud! did i say it was loud? ill speak up a bit ITS LOOOUUDD! something ill get used to i guess, the vl pump, is loud as well but ,once all the sound proofing and fuel tank cover and parcel shelf cover get all put back in and the back seat and carpets I'm guessing it will silence it a bit, but you can hear the fuel in the surge tank , bubbling a bit , so not sure it that vl pump is going to keep up yet , yeah so thats about covers most of it , so a massive weekend for me , been working my ass off and finally got the car ruff started, and it sounds monsta, its going to be very quick,

WTF IS GOING ON HERE!!!!!!!!!!! i lost my mind , ive been pushing so hard to get to a point where i can start the car, i pray that it will work after completely chopping the wiring loom in half,and all the hectic computer wiring thats been done, gets a bit over whelming the wiring side ,but i was fairly confident the wiring side would work, also i have many things i wanted to check over, there was a big concern about the front cover leak, i think i spoke about that a while ago?any way there was a rather nasty leak of oil coming from the front cover in 3 places, i scraped away all the sealer from around the area ,and cleaned it up the best i could, resealed the out side area and used a heat gun to make it dry quickly, then i resealed over the top of the first layer of sealer!!! then painted it up back to how it was, i big concern because of taking the front cover off properly to replace the gasket or seal it from the inside is a very big job and a major brick wall in the build, some thing i realy don't have the money to do or realy the time, ive also read about the problem online and alot of people have said that the engine can just gets replaced due to the way there set up its a absolute C#$%#$$ of a job to try repair it , so all that in mind , i have a big concern about it,another thing ive been worryed about is the sandwhich plate and oil relocation thingo, yeah it looks cool and all that , but also another item ive heard nasty things about , so theres 2 main concerns i wanted to check before going any further at all, then theres my wiring.. realy needed to get the car to start and run to know that the crazy wiring ive done is actulay going to work,, so theres 3 things, also small things the heater hoses, the hoses going from the engne to the fire wall were very very hard to fit, next to no room to get your hand in there let alone a rubber hose clamps and tools to fit them, that job took me about 5 hours , it was very hard and involved alot of throwing tools and foul language and yelling very loud at the car,lol so 4 things also ,one thing i can't realy check but at least get an idea , and that is the fuel set up, will the vl turbo in tank pump be able to keep up with the 044 bosch monsta pump???? have a fear of it sucking the surge tank dry before the little pump can re fill it??? 5 things! plus a few other little things but most definatley those things were my big main concerns, in the pic , well what i done was basicly the most basic form of seting the engine up as possible, fitted the afm with filter to the turbo fitted some turbo piping just ruffly to get from the out let to the throttle body, yes it looks retarded but all i wanted was metered air geting in there, made a few dodgy wiring looms and hooked them up connected the battery turned on the circuit breaker turned on another circuit breaker turned on the dodgy ass main ign switch i made and................ well the power came on, the fuel pumps turned on, THEY ARE VERY LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! had a dodgy battery light wired up as i have no dash in there , also had a dodgy oil light hooked up , the lights were on ,the pumps were working , i had air i had power i had fuel ,i had water for cooling! it was ready to start!!!!!!!! very nurvous at this point pressed the push button starting switch and what happened?????? well it cranked for a bit , done a few quick cranks , then held the starter button down and it cranked maybe 5 seconds and then boom /..../././.. all the power cut completely , the lights went out there was nothing :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob:

NEXT!!!!!!!! powering through the work at this point ,was awesum, the hose from the top to the outlet need to be fitted , was it going to fit??? yes it does as per the bottom hose! now thats custom fit :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: got the hoses all tight and clamped up ,sorted out the fan wiring and the thermo switch wiring, and then added antifrezze and water!!!! woo stoked at ths point , now i have completed fuel lines , engine has fuel!!!!! and NO LEAKS!!!!!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: AND engine has water!!! and NO LEAKS!!!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: can't tell you guys how happy that made me, after all the hard work and the failed attemps at making fuel lines ,and all the dramas to finally have it at this stage with proper custom fuel lines and no leaks ,and a half decent radiator also no leaks ,makes me happy chappy, definatley a huge step forward , after 3 years of busting ass to get this to this stage, its looking like it was worth it ,can feel the excitment building , realy realy want to take this for a drive! haha , so from here I'm guessing 80 -90 percent finished ,have to say I'm fairly proud of what ive managed to do on my own with next to no money ,and not much help, i kinda think i should be doing this sort of stuff for a job, I'm wasting my talents just painting smashed cars, but continuing on ! that was about half way thru saturday when the water went in the rad,thought id take a break from the engine for a bit ,still heaps to do in that department ,but things are becoming clearer and can see what i need to focus on , so steping back for a bit, i went to the boot, also needed to get this finished as well, most of this was just stereo wiring , but so many dam wires, i realy enjoy wiring ,but it sure takes a very very long time to do a proper job, working out where each wire needs to go, how to run it there and what sort of connection are needed, making custom looms etc etc , any got in the boot and sorted the wires out finally, only thing that was missing was a 60amp fuse for the fuse box to the amp, how ever today i was at jolly rogers, just went for a quick look as they have just opened up near my place, so wanted to see if any of the olded cars were available for raping, now this is a very rare sight indeed ,especialy in the local wreakers, found a s13 silvia , still faily intact minus the struts, not that i needed any thing from it but was surprised to see one around here, any ways i scored a charcoal canister from it ,as i was going to need to look at that at some stage soon any way, and there happend to be a 60amp fuze in the holder on it as well so scored that for freeee thanks jolly rogers lol back to the boot! got the wiring done and sub box bolted back in and fairly well finished, few more bits here and there but the overall state of it is complete ,enuff to keep me happy for a while,

need to deal to that lonely gap , so with the finished rad, i assembled my custom thermo fan set up and bolted that down to the rad, it looks mad ,love it, any way heres some shots of the welds all put together and ready to fit !!!looks like a 650 dollar radiator lololol :lolcry: bolted it in and got the custom bottom hose fitted on, i added clamps to where i had made the join between the two pieces, honestly i don't think it needs clamps , i gave it a good bending and its sealed realy well, but safe side won,so 2 clamps slammed on there, the hose fit perfectly , :) very pleased , i thought the welding of the parts mite have changed there position just a little bit, and i may have to adjust things , but no. it was pefect as if it was spose to be there :happy:

yeah this gap is looking rather lonely at the mo but wait theres more!

also started to lay a bit of the underlay inside , so that was friday nite taken care of, set up some things for saturday prior as i knew it was going to get hectic, saturday morning , raced down to pick up my radiator! got there and yes it was indeed finished , and the welding was great,they did a realy good job ,specialy since i handed them a choped up thing lol, but a quick plug :: RACE RADIATORS in dandenong is the place to go for alloy welding and radiator work, they do make full custom ones,and can do what ever in alloy, they also welded my surge tank and that came out realy great as well , so i can recomended them :happy: so got hold of the radiator! which ment big things! was very excited saturday morning casue i knew things were going to take off very quickly from here....... well thats what i thought at the time any way..... got back with the radiator, looked it over and they had done eexactly what i had asked! the spouts were perfectly welded in the exact spots and also the fittings and the engine water out let was welded very well, i decided that the factory polishing was shit , so i spent several hours sanding the radi back ,using the same process explained prievously when doing my alternator, 180 240 320 500 800 1200 1500 grits were all used, then pulled out the buff wheel ,put it on to the drill and went to town!!, came up realy nice and was happy with how it looked, a quick note, the guy at the rad shop asked me how much it cost me, i told him it was 180, which it was , he was like aww yeah nice you just got a custom radiator for 280 dollars! they usualy charge 650 for something like that , so i saved a big ass amount of money , even tho there were a few dramas and stuff arounds in the end, it was well worth it , you work it out 180 for rad, 100 cash for welding which was very fair price, = 280 verses 650 to 700!!!!! we have a winner :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: onto the engine water outlet, i preped the block , then on to the outlet it self, now this pretty much stopped my speedy progress dead cold, i had a fitting weled in , this fitting was for a temp sensor for my dash gauge, before habd the fitting and the sensor went together like a cock in a vagina :wink: HOW EVER!! when i went to fit the sensor :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: it wouldnt fit!! i threaded the fitting trying to force it in there ,it just refused to screw in nice like before,no idea why, any way what i ended up doing was i found a set of tap an dies , but the sizes there were totaly differnt from the sensor thread size and the fitting thread size :bash: :bash: :bash: ahhhhh come on!!!! started to get rather anoyed,managed to keep my cool and forced a threading tool in to the out let and change the thread size to a completely different size!! dunno how that worked but it did then to match it, i took the sensor and put it in the vice.... used the matching thread size tool on to the sensor it self and managed to completely change the thread size on the sensor!! was rather amazed that actualy worked! , any way from there screwed it in and it was a beautiful thing , ahhh vagina :laff: and fitted back to place minus a few mm of alloy ,lol

this is the fuel filter and bracket fitted ,happy with its position and where it managed to sit, the bracket and filter were rather large ,took a bit of stuffing around to get the right place for it. from there first i went straight up to the fuel rail line with a hose, but remembered that i had a fuel pressure gauge sender to fitt in the line some where, so again after much stuffing around and thought, i ended up squessing the sender inbetween the filter and fuel rail, but means of a small bracket bolted to the plenumm,...... wooo getting there now :dance: next the return line, was fairly easy, just went from the return line down under the plenumm with a hose clamp here and there, routed it to the fitting on the return braided line

big update!!!! :dance: well I'm stuft! been working like a machine the past 2 days , pushing to get things happening, thursday nite was spent making a few more hard lines to connect up the surge tank, ironicly while i was stuffing around looking for bits and pieces i came across a set of metal hole saws with a massive extention bar !!!!!!!!!!!! doh ,so could have used that on the radiator !! :bash: any way not to worry the job was done regardless, so finishing off the fuel lines, a job i was absolutely dreading after the previous expereinces.... but the main fuel lines fitted and connecting the fuel pump to a fuel filter and then from there to the surge tank, again these were hard lines i made out of bundy tube and speed flow hard line fittings ,along with the use of the 37 degree flair tool, that is deffinatley the best flair tool ive used ,makes realy nice flares with little effort, but more inprotantly these flairs seal realy well . friday nite was fairly hectic in the work shop!! got a call late friday afternoon that my radiator was finished!! was stoked about that ,thought it was going to be several weeks for sure, any way friday nite was a mission to complete the fuel lines the last pieces to the puzzel was the lines from the end of the braided lines to the engine and the return line, sounds simple enuff but took a lot of stuffing around and rolling around on the ground with my hands jamed in the tightest spots under the plenumm. i fitted a check valve to the end of the braided line , (for those who don't know what that is ,its simply a valve that lets the fuel thru but dosent let it flow back to the fuel pump,which can cause damage to your 250 dollar pump) from there added some more fittings, these ones were a 5/16 push on fitting that screws to the line via adaptors,the allows you to fitt a rubber fuel line , so much easyier to work with the efi rubber fuel line!@!!@!@!@!@!@ was realy enjoying putting these parts into place, just a simple rubber hose and clamps, wish the speed flow stuff was this easy,lol so from the new fitting i ran a hose up to a efi fuel filter, now i got hold of a fuel pump bracket , and used some rubber to close the gap down a bit,this held my efi filter, very snugg and looks realy pro :yes:

nice sounds like its a bit of fun , so rolla club members definatley go up there, well id be keen to tag along if any ones going, already got another rolla coming as well so should be a good drive up, i guess its still early days , but good to get something worked out before time, I'm keeenn did any one win any tropheys from your crew?

ok got the info !!!!!!!!! this was the reply i got <<<< Hi Ryan, It's most definitely on again this year... always on the October Long Weekend (Sunday). This year makes it Sunday, 30th Sept. Aiming to have it at the same venue as last year, but still to be confirmed..! Be great to see you there. Cheers, Dav so its on !!!! whos keen????????????? Sunday, 30th September..

i emailed the guy , so ill see what he says ,must be another one its been going for a few years now, ill put up the details if he replys ....

awww shit! my bad , but there must be another one around the same time , there seem to have them every year????

yeah its a long ass drive haha i was thinking maybe break it up over a few days , then wont be so heavy,ive driven from sydney to melbourne in a auto ke30 lol it took nearly 14 hours lol wasnt to bad but i was totaly wreaker afterwoods, just tell the misses its a work trip :wink:

hay guys i just came across this toyota fest show , pretty interested in going and entering my car, that is if i finish in time, just woundering whos going?? what yous taking ,and whos been before?? any info on what its like be good,if its on ,when ,where, is it worth the extremely long drive from melbourne ? was looking at some of the cars in the previous shows, and wow!!! quaility builds , love to see some of these in person, duno how id go , but il enter any way ,may give some of you a chance to see the finished product! heres the link to the show , is an old link but must be another show around the same time?? info any one http://www.toyotafest.org.au/

dammm this is awesum!! love the fab work , well done ,loving the choice of engine :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y:

just out of interest is there any one from melbourne that can get leafs reset cheaper than 350 ???? been getting a few quotes and thats what i seem to be coming up with,I'm sure there must be some one else who can do the same job for cheaper??? pedders is a rip, ive had a set done for 240 a few years ago, any one ???

thanks ,yeah thats what i figured too, i left it in there hands so hopefully they can sort it out ,and not charge me a lung a left leg and a ball sack ,lol , cars getting there , this weekend i should know if the radiator is all good and ill be off again full steam ahead!!

soo not much of an update today , tho have been working on the car,friday was a bit of a f#$%, i took the radiator down to a shop to get the oulets welded up ,but the guy told me that i can't use it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! reason being that the radi desgin is a 4 pass system, the water goes in the top crosses over to the over side,then drops down and crosses back to the other side so on and so on, now if he welded the outlet on the hole that i made , water would go in and only go thru one part of the rad!!! i just thought a radi worked like ,water goes in one side water comes out the other cooled , so i was wrong :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: the guy told me there is plates inside the tanks that direct the water and for it to work those plates need to be removed,he was saying to remove the tanks and make new ones, but the whole reason i bought this rad was to keep it cheap as possible, making new tanks and basicly rebuilding the radiator would cost big dollars, and they said for a full custom one it would cost 650 to 700, stuff that!!!!!!!! so i left the place very disapointed , :sob: i was on a good roll there for abit things were working out well, any way i got back to the work shop and decided to try and save the rad, theres no way i could aford a brand new custom one,that is just out of the question, so only option is save this radiator!! and i need it very soon so i can get the engine started, as that is my priority at the moment, so to see if this guy was right i sliced the bottom off both tanks to see if there were indeed plates in there.... there was :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: ,any way a very long story short it was a nite of making crazy contraptions and extended long drill bits i managed to hack out the plates blocking the water flow, spent a long time blowing out all the alloy chips and shavings then flushed it out with water, it was a mission and a half, needless to say i think i saved it ,and only extra welding that is needed is to weld the 2 bottom tank plates back on, sat morning was a drive out to the rad shop once more,and showed them what id done, they said it will work now and just requies all the welding up, so ive left it up to them to sort that out, wont get it ack till end of next week , but at least it should be fairly straight forward to fit it up then, next adventure was on the way back from the rad guys i went to pirtech which is a hose place ,they make all sorts of hoses, went in and had to get some fuel lines made up with speed flow fittings, as the last few attemps have failed and resulted in leaks, so this time i got them to use the proper hose with the proper fittings and they fitted the hose ends, so i expect that there SHOULD be no leaks from those fittings, but apperently theres no gaurentees , so its just another case of dealing with people in the automotive industry, any way i put them on to the car and will see how they go , getting back from the shop with some fuel lines.... in this pic theres lots of cash laying on the ground lol, -6 braided lines with speedflow fittings(not cheap )stainless bolts ,washers,nuts,and s/s hose clamps rolling around on the ground and got them on... after that i worked abit on the boot .alot of wiring and fitted the amp board, and got most of the speaker wires hooked up,trying to keep it tydy but so many wires! is crazy, but looks ok i guess

errghh more money more work and as it is i don't trust the set up ,maybe if it performs to hopes ,of not leaking that is, later on i could ,

so tonite,just spent a few hours and made a fuel line that goes from the pump to a small filter, thought it be a good idea to have a filter before the pump,keep the crap out of it, then made a small bracket to secure the filter abit better,even put some rubber on the inside of the bracket.. the other cover is over the fuel pump, made that just to keep the dirt and stones off it, so now i just have to make a line from the filter to the surge tank, abit more tricky that one will have some funky bends in it,

cheers,sloooeeely coming together, brave to fitting up the radiator? haha need something in there,it may not stay there for good but to get me going it should be fine,as for the hoses ,i bought a full s13 hose kit on ebay , there alittle bit pricey ,i just didnt want a hole bunch of random hoses ,so ive done the best i could to use hose from the kit, even tho ive had to custom a few of them , its seems to be working out with them,theres a hole bunch of differnt bends to play with . the radiator hoses for me were far to big ,and ive had to mod them a fair bit, id say jump on ebay and search the silicone hoses on there , sure you can get the top and bottom hoses seperately .