Project "Dr Grudge" Ke20 Ground Up Resto. New Video 29Th Jan

[Jono]

good to see this coming along nicely, and those bits you got of my purple car go to a good home!

[parrot]

That door is the most amazing effort I have seen for a long time.

 

Brilliant.

[Pieman]

good to see this coming along nicely, and those bits you got of my purple car go to a good home!

 

That LCA you sold me saved my bacon, scrubbed up nicely :dance:

[Pieman]

After a lot of stuffing around, here's my modified pedal box to suit a booster and hydraulic clutch (which is relocated for better clearance). I tacked it together and my tafe teacher welded it up properly (they jump at the chance after welding bits of plate together all day :dance:)

 

I'm using a mazda 121 booster and a mitsushitty L300 tandem mc with remote reservoirs. Any clearance problems down the track with the inlet manifold, I'll just make a custom one.

 

 

Slight clearance problem with the clutch mc because the pipe outlet faces towards the booster.. I've done a little research and I'm adamant that a girling clutch mc thats on a few euro and american cars has the same flange, stroke bore size as the one I have (think it's a celica item), but the pipe outlet faces upwards. So I'll grab one from the wreckers.

 

 

Paid a visit to clarkies and bought some soundproof mat, which replaces the sponge material in the roof lining. Hopefully the car wont sound too tinny:

 

 

Wandered through spotlight and brought this to my motor trimmer. Here's my custom roof lining. I'll give credit where credit is due: Charls effort really inspired me on his interior and got a few ideas :dance: . I'm going for the evil sinister look and thought skull and crossbones were rather fitting :dance: :

 

 

Unfortunately I'm missing 4 of these so I can't hook up the metal supports for the roof lining:

 

 

I've checked my local wreckers, fastener catalogs etc.. No dice anyone have any of these?

Edited August 11, 2008 by Pieman

[Jono]

yeah, i'll have them.

[Pieman]

yeah, i'll have them.

 

Cool, well I made these with a bit of tubing and rod at tafe, so I'll see what kinda results I get ;)

 

Cheers

 

[Pieman]

A few updates:

 

- Rear window rubbers and side glass back in with fresh rubber washers/mounting hardware etc

- Front apron fitted with custom fibreglass chin spoiler

- Roof lining is all in.

- Just about all the under dash parts are back in (vents, ducting, wiper motor etc).

- Heater tested, cleaned up and back in.

- Headlights back on

- Fuel tank in

 

 

In the not so distant future I plan on sorting out the carpet, brake circuits, fuel pump , the fuel line and dash components (autometer guages possibly). At the moment I'm weighing up whether it's worth the $$ buying a tube cutter, bender, flaring tool or just get one of the mobile guys to come around and make up the brake lines and fuel line. Anyone been down this road before?

 

Chris

[Doogs]

Looks like it is all taking shape quite well.

 

A mate of mine had advice from a brake shop that he could hand bend the brake

lines. (So long as he was not too harsh on them).

He managed to bend up his lines ok by just using his thumbs and fingers.

 

Although if the bender is not that expensive I would say that would be way to go.

[Pieman]

Hmm what might this contraption be?

 

 

Zinc plated a few things..

 

 

To be continued...

[Pieman]

Everything is condensed into a video. Fast forward to 3:35 if you want to skip to the newer pics.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiAtIyC7j4&feature=share

 

Engine is running! *does backflips*

[PMP020]

Epic !!!

 

You sir deserve a hell of a lot of credit, you've managed the unthinkable !!!

 

Well Done Champ.

 

Cheers, Scott.

[parrot]

Wow!

 

Everytime I saw your name pop up in the users online, I would think of that effort on the door skin, and wonder what had become of your car.

 

Well now we know!

[zeph_KE70]

coming along so well, keep it up!

[Pieman]

Still chipping away at it, thanks for your kind words. :)

 

Current to do list:

 

-Fix collapsed silicon hoses, on the cheap: push pipe bends into the silicone hoses as an internal sleeve. Or maybe tig weld solid pipes.

-Replace leaky water pump (I know, I should have done it when the engine was out). Lots of fun and games with the 4agze s/c in the road.

-Runs a bit lean it's hard to get the engine started unless I open the flap a little on the AFM. Getting combustion usually requires some priming of the fuel as well.

-Fuel prime missile switch wired from diagnostics box (When all hope is lost, remember, Jaycar still loves you. :laff:)

-Front suspension: shocks are short stroke tokico items with the adjustable damper, but are bottoming out on both ends. I'm thinking longer ae92 shocks and possibly taller 6kg springs for the coilover setup if theres any problems (current size is 200mm).

-Engine is a little slanted. Initially When I fabbed the mounts, I expected the rubber shish kebabs to slop a little. They didn't. I'm thinking of taking the rubber shish kebabs out and maybe one of the machinists at work can do me a favour and take some meat off each end. I have a strut brace but it hit's the inlet pipe and requires the engine to sit a bit more level by a few bees' dicks.

-Tail shaft.

-Stainless braided brake and clutch hoses.

-Take a second mortgage. :yes:

Edited February 11, 2012 by Pieman