Thanks mate :) I actually dont have a video sadly, i had a bit of a stupid moment and forgot to turn the camera on during the excitement building up to the last session. Posted my times and then turned the camera on just to catch my head gasket blowing :/
The cause was because of two reasons. The first being the heat and stress getting to the motor, and the second was the dodgy engine builder who "reco'd" the engine 2 owners ago was a bit silly and put a shim in between the gasket and the block so the driver could run the car on 91ron fuel. When the 4 materials of the block, shim, gasket and head are all flexing in different directions all it takes is a little of the shim or gasket to go into the combustion chamber to blow that gasket to bits.
After assessing and working on the car the last few days the engine builder was a butcher! missing bolts and mismatching bolts on the head and everywhere in the engine bay! not happy with the head of that engine one bit!
Guess I was just stuck behind the wrong people :(
LOL thats my favorite photo, its an awesome shot! :)
Theyre an awesome tyre! probably the best street/track compromise tyre you can get, I daily drive on them aswell and theyve lasted easily over 6000km including the previous owner using them as just a track wheel as i had bought them second hand. I saw in your thread a picture of you driving along kings road here in delahey, so youre local to me. When my car is back on the road ill be taking my wheels off and you can take them for a spin if you would like to try them out :)
My car in current spec is about 915 kilos give or take a few... but it will weigh roughly 875 by the end of next week... ( youll see some pics below)
Remove your seats Phil! get rid of that extra weight!
With my new setup and a wheel alignment done im hoping there is a sub 1:48 on these tyres. Rece you to 1:45? :P
once again thanks for the shots Jeff! :)
So today? Frustrated and fed up from working on this stupid FWD Bigport, which has a few stupid design flaws and the fact that a butcher had rebuilt the engine in the past, I cracked it with the engine and decided to rip it out. All is good now, Im happy :)
So what are the plans?
- Ditch the power steering! Why you ask? Well having heaps of issues with it with exploding PS lines and on the track leaks everywhere, the mess and clutter was not worth its benefits. And I will be installing a stock manual steering rack from another AE82 (random pic of stains under wheel well is from the PS, stained my wheel too :( )
- Ditch the AC. Wasnt gassed, therefore it is useless weight and more clutter.
- Place a smallport 4AGE in the gap that is hopefully a bit more healthy and is a whole lot easier to work on... and 17KW more power!!! :D
Hopefully this will leave the car with 103KW and weighing in at about 870KG which is pretty much ideal for this car :) Bring on the sub 1:48's!! (hopefully lol)
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