Teds Project Ke70 ~ The Blue Car

[Medicine_Man]

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[Medicine_Man]

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[Teddy]

Hey All

 

Update on today:

 

Connected up front sway bar link pin assemblies;

Cleaned up, & installed caster bar's (& new bushes) onto car. Wow, what a mole of a job that was.. right wheel on, jack left ball joint, jack up car in middle, put on nut, reverse process, more load on car, let ball joint down.. ughhh etc. After 2 hours or so, it was all completed. Wow, Suspension work is all _ DoNe !

 

Also, went outo zee shed and found the Fuel & Brake lines / hoses. Taged & de-assembled all the lines, started to clean them up. All up, theres 4 lines grouped. 1 is the rear break line, other 3 are fuel lines (Main, Return, Breather?). Brake line is getting painted bling bling silver, and other 3 fuel lines are getting done in gold. I'm also painting the 8 mounting clips & the 10mm bolts the same bling red as the red used on the motor / pedal box pedals. Also painted the FR brake junction box black.

 

Went down to Tony's (local parts man), ordered new caliper o/h kits for front, and 4x new break lines (Caliper to strut, strut to body Front Left & Front Right + gota sus out rear brake line (diff to body).

 

Also, Hole was made in fire wall (thanks J!) for the clutch m/cyl setup.

 

Ted

[Teddy]

Also, for that pic above ^^ , complments from the boys last night, i scored this cool little assembly from an Ae92 4agze -> using Volt gauge on my dash (yup, you guessed it.. its already striped & being edited ahahaha)

[lappy]

nice work boys keep it up

[Teddy]

OOO I LOVE NEW STUFF !!!!!!! hahahha :)

 

Item one for this week...

 

 

New Clutch M/Cyl :hbang: !

 

Item 2 for this week...

 

 

Late 70's Skyline Dash, to be donated to the.. ugh.. science department :)

 

Still on the large, to be obtained

- Brake M/Cyl

- Check / Possible reco of brake booster

- Diff to body brake line

- Front brake lines (Getting them on sat via Tony's parts, Location = Burpen-farten)

- Under body h/brake mounting points.. hmmm.. i need the angle grinder, yo :P

 

Having second thoughts about exhaust colour.. I'm really likeing the idea of a full bling bling exhaust.. *scratches Chin*

 

Gota get a Cat & 2nd muffler welded into the system, to make it legal.. Besides, ill cry anway, considering this 100% JASMA exhaust system is about to get hacked up ! :hbang:

 

Ted

[Medicine_Man]

Oooh, Clutch master will definatly be in Saturday!

 

What are you creating with this dash, hahahah, It's made of so many things..

[Josho]

Hahah, that cluster looks awesome.

 

What is the car outline section used for? Open door warnings, etc?

[Rolla__Boy]

I had an XD ESP, and they have a grey dash panel, with red dash lights factory (Standard XD's had black dash with green lights) and the red lights looked awesome, they were easier on the eyes than the horrible standard green ones.

[Jono]

Is there a way to change the gauge lighting from green to red on ke models? i noticed the globes are just clear and that the green comes from a transparent sheet within the gauge itself.

 

are you going to reinforce the clutch master cylinder?

Edited August 22, 2006 by JC807

[Medicine_Man]

are you going to reinforce the clutch master cylinder?

 

I Don't see why it would be necessary when it bolts directly to the pedal box (Will post more pictures later so you can see when it is in properly).

[Teddy]

UpDaTe TiMe ;)

 

This weekend was quite good, more work done.

 

1) Went and saw Mr. Upholstery, re: this pic..

 

 

He like the idea, and doenst have any troubles with it. Made some suggestions, and I'm hooked! Have a look at these..

 

 

1 = Red velour = S on seat picture

2 = Black velour = S on seat picture

3 = Black hole? leather = V on seat picture

4 = Black velour = Not suing anymore

& Black marine vinal for the V1 on the pic.

 

Now, thinking of getting something like "GT Twincam" embroided into top of seats at front.. not sure yet. We all think its going to look s*it hot :D

 

Back seats will be in the same design also.

 

Roof lining is the other thing thats getting upholstered; goin a greyish colour = simply because black is too dark, and hot, white would stand out, yet grey wouldnt. Besides, its roof lining, its not the first thing you look at when you see a car :( - Possibly may get twin stripes down the middle in a black? just to kinda link it all together.. more thinking to be done.

 

Back to the mechanical sides of things, at much expense *shudders* ive got new brake lines all round, and caliper overhaul kits. Old calipers turned out to be foobared, so need to get 1 more set of those for the front, and the brake pads i purchased originally.. its going to be interesting to see how the work.. i don't want noisy brakes.

 

Justin worked religiously as per usual on the pedal box, cut a long story short - its basically in, and brake booster is needed to go any further. I'm pretty confident that the one we are using is ok, and if theres any troubles with brakes, when the cars goin, ill just get that attended to later on. It looks in good condition for the record. :(

 

I sanded down another fuel line (taking sooooooo long); weather was getting too cold, so one of the lines we painted (fuel return, gold) started to blush. Will repaint weekend after next (rally next weekend) & by then, theres not much more thats needed for underneath the car!

 

:lock:

[lappy]

The seats will look awesome i can't wait for it to be finished

Edited August 27, 2006 by lappy

[Jason]

thats why I'm doing my brake lines my self. horray for double flaring tool :lock:

[Medicine_Man]

Due to my extreme business last weekend I forgot to post up the latest progress shots. Managed to get the clutch master in the right place at long last! Had to make a little plate to go against the firewall to cover the oversized hole :thumbsup: