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Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:14 am**

Clever….

FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:54 am**

Mate so lucky having the lathe makes those type of little jobs so much easier.

How long before fire-up

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:27 pm**

FireKraka wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:54 am Mate so lucky having the lathe makes those type of little jobs so much easier.

How long before fire-up

Yeah that $100 lathe has done a ton of work- it’s no good for precision stuff but I don’t do precision

Hope to have it ready to go on the dyno this month

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:50 pm**

That's cheaper than my hand held, well almost....

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Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:49 pm**

Blacky you forgot the laughing emojis after this line

Blacky wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:27 pm

Hope to have it ready to go on the dyno this month

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:42 pm**

Its all this fiddly shit that chews up the hours.

Getting there Blacky.

Greg

Posted: **Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:14 pm**

Blacky wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:32 am Then hunted around the shed for the 5/16” UNC die because the bloody thing wasn’t where it should be
Gave up and grabbed the 5/16” UNF die and ran it down the bolt - while I was doing that I looked over on the bench I was working on and there was the 5/16” UNC die under a bit of crap on the bench …..

Time for a shed clean up………. Or a garage sale over the June long weekend

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:26 am**

Got a bit more done today, the quarter panel is finally ready for colour

me mate Jules finished it off and primed it, he made me promise I would final sand it and not just paint it as it is now- we will see

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Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:34 am**

While he was doing his thing down the back we were fiddling around up the front - I wanted to put a heat shield between the pipes and the inlet manifold. This took some doing as the manifold was so close to the pipes that in a couple of places I could only get a sheet of paper in between them so the manifold came off for a bit of clearancing

I could now fit some CAD material in there so I made a template

Then cut a piece of insulation ready to fettle into shape

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Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:40 am**

When the inlet manifold came off I noticed the bolts were all loose, the running in heat cycles must be the culprit - I had a new graphite inlet/ exhaust gasket there so the old one came off and it went on.

Cut, trim, bend, test fit, repeat

Finished , need a new base gasket for the adapter and then the blower can go back on

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Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:26 am**

Nice work again

FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:32 pm**

Making headway mate.

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:37 pm**

FireKraka wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:32 pm Making headway mate.

You forgot to put “slowly” at the start of that sentence Neil

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:06 pm**

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:21 pm**

Did a little bit more wiring today, wired the temperature sensor to the computer, made up the loom for the idle air controller and the inlet air temperature sensor but the big achievement today was getting the quarter panel painted

Masked it up after very carefully sanding and prepping for a solid 6 maybe even 7 minutes

Still has some “character patches”

Mixed up some colour and let her rip

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