hazza6542
Eats Squid
Spraying it yourself is bloody cool, excited to see results. Always wanted to spray a car, might be a project for the bmtroubleyou some day.
Project Car / Motorbike thread. Let's see 'em.
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hazza6542
Eats Squid
Righto, indicators all working, just flashing too fast for my liking. Resistors maybe? Using some chrome diamond indicators that'll get mounted on the rear bumper. Haven't even looked at tail lights yet, I know they're not wired properly at all so that's tomorrow's job, once they're all going it's all getting ripped apart again almost so I can cut the wires I had to make up myself to the right length.
Question/Opinions please, I want a bloody loud stereo but don't want the speakers visible anywhere. Sub will be hidden in guitar amp, just replace the amp speaker with sub and hey its a working sub box. Speakers though, where could I hide them without ruining sound quality. Doesn't seem like there's enough space between kick panel and battery and I've got an ocd thing about symmetry in the car. Ideas?
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Question/Opinions please, I want a bloody loud stereo but don't want the speakers visible anywhere. Sub will be hidden in guitar amp, just replace the amp speaker with sub and hey its a working sub box. Speakers though, where could I hide them without ruining sound quality. Doesn't seem like there's enough space between kick panel and battery and I've got an ocd thing about symmetry in the car. Ideas?
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stirk
Burner
Need it loud to drown out the air cooled beast.
stirk
Burner
Wow, some interesting stash work there!
Elbo
pesky scooter kids git off ma lawn
Speakers in a suitcase behind the rear seat trick?
So everyone remembers my EL Falcon that got posted a few weeks or so ago... well, something happened that I didn't particularly want to happen...
The EL series engines use a distributor instead of coilpacks and unfortunately these distributors got shit quality gears. So, 4 teeth sheared off, wrecked the gear on the cam and the dizzy, there's metal all through the engine. Some of the freeze plugs have rotted out. New motor time
So, you may be seeing a one day engine swap post, hopefully not ending in the fuckwits thread, as I tear out the old 4.0l and replace.
Remind me to get an aftermarket distributor!
Will be sure to take lots of pics for you all.
Cheers,
Nitro
The EL series engines use a distributor instead of coilpacks and unfortunately these distributors got shit quality gears. So, 4 teeth sheared off, wrecked the gear on the cam and the dizzy, there's metal all through the engine. Some of the freeze plugs have rotted out. New motor time
So, you may be seeing a one day engine swap post, hopefully not ending in the fuckwits thread, as I tear out the old 4.0l and replace.
Remind me to get an aftermarket distributor!
Will be sure to take lots of pics for you all.
Cheers,
Nitro
hazza6542
Eats Squid
Please do, that's a big job I'd love to see a step by step through.Will be sure to take lots of pics for you all.
Cheers,
Nitro
Damn hoons...
I have a tail light! Only one, haven't bothered testing the right side, too dark already. Dying battery isn't helping, neither is the rust repair job, there's no ground through the bog and paint but tested with a spare wire it's sweet. Tomorrow hopefully lots of drilling holes and sanding and the rear end of the car will be assembled, install lights and indicators properly then test out the led strip brake light in the vent.
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hazza6542
Eats Squid
So I've just had someone tell me they were talking to a bloke about vee dubs and he mentioned I've got two beetles. This bloke mentions he's got a 58 bus, registered and he'd be keen on swapping for both. Seems too good to be true, surely a 58 bus would be worth more than a 71 and 61 beetle. Might look into buying it outright if he doesn't know what it's worth.
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hazza6542
Eats Squid
Bumper is on, looks great. Rear driver fender finally on, scraping the shitty red house paint off with a razor blade all day, didn't go too far but it works without harming the og paint, bit of cut and polish and bam, it's looking really good.
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stirk
Burner
:tsk: cut and polish a rat :tsk:
hazza6542
Eats Squid
Falcon runs!
215hp SOHC I6 with a 2.5" pipe, a meaty swaybar and freshly painted things all installed.
Took a couple of weekends and some serious time, but since I tore a hamstring I haven't been riding so more time for car work!
Most of it was plug and play which made it a little easier but some hoses were slightly difficult, holy hell the bellhousing sucked!!!! After a massive effort to get them out, turns out if you put a jack under the back of the gearbox, it's easier if you just undo the two transmission crossmember bolts, and drop the sucker down a bit, 18" of extension on a half inch drive with a flex joint, easy as.
It runs now, just got a little bit of vacuum line to figure out, and a new gasket on the thermostat, new radiator cos it's got a hole in it, get the engine serviced, and it'll be mint!
Driveway engine swap done! Cross it off the bucket list.
Will attach some pics when I get home from school
Cheers all,
Nitro
PS: Inbox me if you want parts off a 115xxxkm E series I6, got some excess stuff now
215hp SOHC I6 with a 2.5" pipe, a meaty swaybar and freshly painted things all installed.
Took a couple of weekends and some serious time, but since I tore a hamstring I haven't been riding so more time for car work!
Most of it was plug and play which made it a little easier but some hoses were slightly difficult, holy hell the bellhousing sucked!!!! After a massive effort to get them out, turns out if you put a jack under the back of the gearbox, it's easier if you just undo the two transmission crossmember bolts, and drop the sucker down a bit, 18" of extension on a half inch drive with a flex joint, easy as.
It runs now, just got a little bit of vacuum line to figure out, and a new gasket on the thermostat, new radiator cos it's got a hole in it, get the engine serviced, and it'll be mint!
Driveway engine swap done! Cross it off the bucket list.
Will attach some pics when I get home from school
Cheers all,
Nitro
PS: Inbox me if you want parts off a 115xxxkm E series I6, got some excess stuff now
stirk
Burner
Phoar, those welds!
hazza6542
Eats Squid
Shit yeah dude! Keen to see the photo's.
Mmmmm, VS are bloody nice, love mine. Those holes on the sides are for O2 sensors, makes tuning nice and easy but if you forget to put them back in it sounds like you've just added an extra 4 cylinders.
Did the VW nationals on the weekend, some nice cars out. Didn't bother with photos but my old man might have gotten some, if he can email em to me I'll post some up. Spoke to my mechanic out there, the beetle will be running the stocker 1600, for now. 1906cc project begins. 100hp should make for a nice way to get from A to B. Gives me enough time to throw all the cash into the suspension, brakes and the endooro build.
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hazza6542
Eats Squid
Shit hot dude, should be proud of that one. Same engine or does this one have more bells and whistles?
So after playing with indicators all night and not having them work, today I tried using the foz's battery and everything suddenly works, not sure on that but hey. So indicators work, tail and brake lights work but I've got them reversed for sake of testing/photos, and the custom 3rd brake light is in and I'm pretty content with how bright it is at night now. Will edit pics in when phone charges.
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