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exhaust looks great mate, keep up the good work
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Thats gonna be LOUD! Great work bud
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Dude, awesome work. I'm following you in insta and I was the one asking how you ovaled the pipe. Inspiration, if my exhaust/car turns out half as good as yours i'll be happy.
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thanks guys,
ratgreen yeh it's just a case of squashing it then shaping it by using a solid pole in the vice and a rubber mallet on the outside of the pipe to make the edge smooth and circular, not too bad to do tbh. thank you very much! it's been a lot of work!
not very much going on lately, the dog has gone through a serious leg operation so he requires constant care for the next 3 weeks, no walks or exercise, no climbing on/off the sofa or bed, no jumping etc
it's a complete nightmare to be honest
so the car has been put on the back burner for the moment
after the annoying vband leak, new vbands were welded onto the pipes with a new clamp
i'd wrapped up the exhaust with black heat wrap, soaked it in water first and it goes on 10x easier that way
the warped vband can also be seen in this pic
however, even with welding on the lowest setting and being left clamped together overnight there was still a slight distorsion on the brand new pair of flanges
gap can be seen here slightly
afr's are bouncing around all over the place on idle from cold as the wideband sensor is after this, so i'll get a vband gasket and some copper sealant paste in the join and it should be 100% as it's nothing like it was before
i had done some diff swapping with people/selling some and finally got myself another welded 4.3
cleaned and painted the diff, new oil and painted the backplate silver this time
looks much better than the green now
the diff had a little end float on the half shaft as the retaining clip was worn, shouldn't matter much anyway as the gktech spacers keep it pretty much pressed in tight into the diff anyway
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Jonny don't close your build thread, they will have to give you a big Crail day for being a proper hero!
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That exhaust looks exactly how i want mine to sit under my 180sx, clearance is an issue when you plan to run cm off the floor lol!
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had a few issues lately and all sorted out now
the top vband had not sealed correctly, turns out when the old vband was welded onto the back of the turbo, it had warped both flanges the same, then made the downpipe from there
however they had sealed fine since they had warped together against each other
then when a new flat vband was used when we made the new downpipe, the new flat face wouldn't seal against the warped vband face on the turbo from the old downpipe
however, it couldn't be heard which was odd, just noticed a tiny bit of water dripping out on first startup,
probably covered by the noise of the new viscous fan, the afr gauge was thrown off by miles so i knew i had a leak
had a piece of pipe welded inside the turbo to bypass the vband and create a sleeve, it was cut down a bit too so it's not that long
sealed perfectly exhaust is done!
moved the oil filter relocation block aswell to stop the oil draining back out the filter, also has made the pipework easier to access and clears the intercooler pipework fine now
awful pic, but basically it's 100x better there
nearly finished now wish my black turbo jacket would hurry up and need to make a fan shroud before i go skidding
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V band is a pita, I use the cometic gaskets to make them seal properly
Exhaust looks amazing!
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new turbo jacket turned up
thanks to my mate alex, we rolled the front arches as the tyres were constantly catching, wasn't too worried how they would turn out as i want vented wings anyway, plus one wing is slightly bent from my headlight hitting the wall at finalboss last year
one side came out really good
the passenger side, not so well, the arch liner retainer tab caught the inside of the arch and caused a crease so we gave up while we were ahead haha
it'll be sorted one day however i'm really keen on getting some vented +20mm front wings from srb power and a dmax bonnet so i'll see what 2015 brings
tonight i properly done the driver side harness, it's wrapped around the cage and properly adjusted for me now
with all that done i took her out for a run since the roads had sort of dried up
drives crap, needs alligned again so bad, since removing the front tension rod brackets for making the front brace, it has thrown off the allignment
pulls all over the place when accelerating and that's before the back end slips
unfortunately due to money circumstances i'll have to sit the car out of this month's drift practice day
me and the mrs are looking at selling my flat and getting a house together (WITH GARAGE) so i have to clear my credit card before we start a new mortgage deal so that's getting worked on at the minute haha
i'm going to the sxoc drift day at driftland in march anyway so that's something to look forward to!!
can't afford to spend the price of the drift day, fuel (£130 average), allignemnt (£150) this month, it's too much money that i don't have spare
however that's only for now, i'll be good to go again over the next few weeks !!!!
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not much to update, been busy selling my flat/trying to buy a house so not had time/money for the car
I managed to get the reverse light wired in using the old sr gearbox loom/Toyota gearbox switch, also managed to finally wire in the Dakota and calibrate it correctly to match the speed so I now have a fully functional mph set of clocks recording mileage in miles on the odometer
as for sxoc, my paid renewal is due, I won't be renewing my paid membership for now so this thread will be probably be closed as if I remember correctly, you can only post a build thread if you're a paid member?? if not I'll still post updates here
my reason is that sxoc drift days aren't happening anymore so there's no point in paying a membership fee just to post a build thread. I don't use the trader discounts either
if anything changes and sxoc days start to go ahead i'll definitely renew my membership however the last two days didn't go ahead under sxoc so there is no need for a paid membership anymore
however the forum has brought many good things for me, loads of buying/selling of parts, made such a big group of friends and certainly wouldn't be where I was with my car if it wasn't for the people I met through sxoc. 4 years of paid membership (I think it was?)
the build thread updates for those who follow will be carried on here:
http://www.driftworks.com/forum/drif...lowvia-11.html (link may not work as I've requested a thread title change)
and if that doesn't work I also keep mighty car mods forum thread updated as I love that show
http://forums.mightycarmods.com/show...n-Build/page13
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Enjoyed keeping up with this build thread. Will defo see how your car is doin on the driftworks forum
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don't know if i'm allowed to update this or not since i've not paid my new membership fee?
few updates, haven't been drifting yet, life got in the way, sold my flat and bought a house....ran out of time to get it alligned for a driftland practice day
going to head to the next private day with a few mates when we get it booked unless something comes up before then
pretty much the car is on hold until we get the keys next month for the new place, it has a garage so the car will now have constant dry storage
picked up a set of r33 gtr skid wheels and put on some 225's
reverse light sensor from the toyota gearbox wired into the s14 reverse light switch wiring
along with the dakota speedo converter, that was also calibrated correctly and now the car reads correctly in mph instead of kilometers
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got a mint set of 350z alloy wheels with basically new tyres all round
since rolling the arches out, i managed to squeeze the alignment gauges over the wheels at my work to set the front toe
anyway after alot of messing around, it didn't work as the gauges didn't sit correctly in the wheels as they fell inside the dished part of the rim,
so it's booked into wallace performance again for a full 4 wheel lazer setup
tried to sort out he wavy passenger arch, done not bad, it has a kink where the arch starts to flare out and i can't get rid of it. just in an attempt to get it looking better until i can afford new wings
bought a house with the mrs and moved out my flat, best bit....repainted the garage and got it ready for the car's arrival to it's new bedroom haha
it's not very big, just a basic single with a 7ft wide door and it has a bloody waste pipe for the upstairs bathroom runing through the garage making it again 7ft wide at one point inside
it does open out slighty as you go further in so pleanty of room to get the door open
going to put some racking up the back, one side for all the cleaning stuff and the other side for the jz spare stuff
good thing is though, there's just enough room to get in and clean the car....gave her a clay bar, polish and wax
also picked up another pair of work e wing, 17x9.5 (et10-15 at a guess) need to get these polished and i'm going to compare these to my current front wheels and work out if they will give more clearance on full lock as my current front wheels are 10j
booked into wallace performance this week for a 4 wheel lazer alignment,
and i've got a few more cooling system things to do before i go, going to swap to an s14 sr radiator so the top hose it on the other side, i've done some research and this will cool more efficently than the s13 rad
also got a mk3 supra fan shroud to collect from a mate to try on the car as my alloy tig welder is mega busy just now with other jobs so he can't manage
i desperately want a rear bash bar/jacking bar
then i'm off to driftland for a practice day with a few mates that we have booked so hopefully everything will go well with the cooling system/new power and it'll be good to get back out in it properly!
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had the car into wallace performance for an alignment check, they still couldn't get the castor set as the machine won't pick it up on my car
needing to get it checked somehow soon as it's never been set right!
then loaded the car up and made the trip to driftland for the may weekender
only done the saturday and went home as i ran out of tyres/had stuff to do on the sunday
arrived there after a long drive with the garage hobo lot, unfortunately paul's mk3 supra done the bottom end in on the way down so his weekend was cut short
got my first few laps in....was VERY nervous and shi**ing myself haha, first time drifitng in 10 months (ignore the temp gauges, camera caught them funny)
ran the full outside anti clockwise so loads of speed along the wall then a big throw into the corner
thanks to the photographers who took pics of me skidding, hit them up on facebook and give them a like!
new cooling system: works 10000% better and last thing i need to do is swap my s13 radiator to an s14 sr radiator as the hose is in a different place which apparently cools the water better due to being forced through the rad differently, also a fan shroud to be made up
new turbo setup: awesome! i have had to re-learn how to drive the car on the track, it requires a solid commitment to keep it in boost while drifting since it's a big laggy as it'll immediately grip throwing you wherever it wants if you don't keep your foot planted
however, all the upgrades have been worth it, the car sounds so cool now with the new stuff and the cooling system has bought me alot more seat time, temps still rise but nowhere near as quick as they used to, also that's with the bonnet and bumper still on!
Had loads of nice compliments about the car when people seen it at driftland which was really cool
i'd bought a gopro hero 3 white edition, here's a small clip from one of my track sessions, took a young lad out from the pits who loved it! was his first time in a drift car
i still refuse to skid/manji along the wall after last year's spin haha. MORE SEAT TIME NEEDED!! i was slowly building my confidence by the end of the day,
I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MORE SEAT TIME AND PRACTICE IN!!
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rad top water neck moved over and a new top tank made so it looks cleaner
put on a new top pipe with a 90 bend off the engine instead of having the water neck changed again
had a fan shroud made up but it didn't fit well enough so it has been put back to be changed,
pulled car out the garage to test fit on the other wheels and bleed the coolant
leading up to finalboss, i finally got round to fitting the sunstrip i bought last year
was rather tricky on your own haha! was good enough to last the whole weekend though
and one on the rear window
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arrived at finalboss, screen shot from jeek's video of the pits in the morning
heading out
didn't enjoy the first layout, the shiftlock layout, pickup alot of speed along the straight then have to go in at such a tight angle
like this:
it's basically a U shape but tighter, stuck in second gear giving it man foot
done one line completely wrong and clipped the grass verge on transition with the driver side 1/4, went wide and dropped a wheel of track putting a ding in the bottom of the rear 1/4
no paint damage, just an awkward part where it has been pushed in underneath, the bumper also broke off it's mounts and left them bolted too the car
snapped a magic aero spat in half which is more annoying as he has gone out of business now
thankfully it's nothing serious, all easily fixed and didn't stop me having fun the whole weekend
once the track opened up to the full outer layout i was having possibly the best time i've ever had in a car. such a good weekend and many thanks to finalboss/gary boyd for organising it
marshalls were ace, photographers were ace, banter in the pits was 1st class too, was good seeing all the english lads again
here are some of the pics
also getting my bumper back
team tekno guys in the 86's were so good to watch, let alone drive with, that's me up front
my fav pic, so good!
gave my mate fraser a lift home on the sunday, thanks to him and jamie for taking wheels down, bad luck his wheel spacer sheered and gave up down there
since getting home, the car has sat in the garage, been busy with other stuff
got the bottom of the rear 1/4 pulled out,
bought a new pair of spats and they are now off to get painted silver, i only needed one but couldn't buy them seperate
i'll get some of the footage i'd asked photographers to send me uploaded to youtube and on here soon
my changes for the next drift day, i want to put a set of anti roll bars on my car (never ran any), get the alignment done properly, soften the rear damping, run less tyre pressure on the back and run wider rear tyres
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spats arrived
dropped them off at stevie's to get painted
took the car for another alignment, this time at a different place
front caster wasn't too far off for having never been setup since i put the car together, annoyingly nobody could set it/had a machine that could that i knew of until now
all better! just got too try level off my front camber as one side has more, i think it's because recently i had the front hub bolts slack and maybe didn't pull the hub out when tightening them again
more updates soon! got another kouki bumper lined up in mint condition and some more engine work on my spare jz I have in bits for fun/experience and learning as I go
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