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01-05-2014, 05:28 PM | #81 |
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Let me know if you want to order more stuff from UR. I'm scheming a sway bar and rear lower brace like you have pictured.
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26-05-2014, 08:23 AM | #82 |
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UPDATE
So there has been a reason why I hadn’t done much work on this thing for w while and its because I found some small rust spots..Last week I found another BF that wasn’t as bad as mine.. It didn’t have any rust, (not that mine has heaps but it just was a lot cleaner) Anyway was bidding on it and it was removed from sale on Saturday so back to working on my white beasty. I got to work and installed my new coilovers, lowered the front end, rolled the guards, and thru on my rims.. got to say it looks good now just need to finish the rear and its all done.
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27-05-2014, 05:09 AM | #83 |
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salt spray FTL
if this car lived inland, it wouldn't have rust... cars this old here in texas (except coastal areas) don't have rust, just faded paint!
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27-05-2014, 11:54 AM | #84 | |
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all good. she will be up and running soon
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17-06-2014, 11:12 AM | #85 |
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ITS registered YAY so after driving it for a while i found out a few things - the speedo cable doesnt work.. (i forgot to plug it back in) - the carbie is in need of a clean and rebuild - i have an electrical issue somewhere or a farked battery thats not holding charge - the rear coilovers need leveling out Also the now DONK came last week
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17-06-2014, 05:17 PM | #86 |
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lol donk such a good word
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18-06-2014, 01:16 PM | #87 |
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23-06-2014, 12:54 PM | #88 |
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Ok so kids over the weekend I went and decided to reset the rear coilovers in the BF. Now after pulling the wheels off I found that when I had put them in originally I thought I had the height all wrong. But what I had done is just sit the HUB Bracket up as far as it could go. So what I set aside and did was pretention the springs in the rear just so I could get the ass end to sit a little lower... And when I mean a little I mean 25mm. So after working on them I pretention the springs as much as I could then raised the HUB bracket which in turn lowers the car (anyone who has worked on coilovers knows what I’m talking about) put the wheels on and dropped her on the ground... im not really happy with how she sits atm... And man the ride quality is so **** now, due to the pretention springs.
SO I was laying in bed last night and thought that if I trim down the HUB bracket it would give me about 25mm worth of more lift which in turn would lower the car.. So imp thinking about trimming the HUB bracket to do this and then taking all the tension out of the rear springs as I’m not as young as I once was and the ride is harder than a pensioners penis after popping 5 Viagra. I also set p the rear toe in the car too with the help of a little jig i have
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23-06-2014, 01:15 PM | #89 |
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Can you remove the locking ring and squeeze the hub bracket up onto the spring mount ring? It would give you that 25 or so. You still at the same address? I forgot to give the injectors and a few random bits to cookie to pass onto you.
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23-06-2014, 01:40 PM | #90 |
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there isnt enought adjustment if i remove the locking ring. that will only give me about 5mm.
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01-07-2014, 10:37 AM | #91 |
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UPDATE TIME
SO this happened So what i did was remove the rear suspention (coilovers and strut brace) so i could see if i could lower the car some more.. what i ended up doing was removing the Hub bracket off the coilover adn machining off 25mm off the top of it. i did this for both sides of the car and redid my camber as well. and below is the result of my 3 hrs work as u can see it site alot better now. BUT it settled as i was driving home and is actually tucking rim now and looks alot better.. ALTHO i have now found another issue TIRE RUB the rear tires are JUST rubbing on the wheel flares.. so i'll have to pull out the guard roller and roll those bad boys..
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01-07-2014, 10:41 AM | #92 |
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Last night i started getting the BF ready for the Test N Tune tomorrow night and i started off with just replacing the Rocket cover gasket and dissy ring and ended up painting everything hahahaha OOPS
I know its a little hmmmm how do i say it.. common thing to do now But i was thinking about painting the Raising sun on the Air cleaner cover.. thoughts???? or should i just leave it all black??
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01-07-2014, 05:48 PM | #93 |
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Ha, the poor ba in the background, keen to see it done but loving the bf distraction.
With the camber do you adjust by the slotted top bolt holes on the hub mount part or by the inner lateral arm mount or a combination of both? |
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Good thing you have a cover for it
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01-07-2014, 11:54 PM | #95 |
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HA HA I just got it.
test N tune - that wat willows bank ? |
03-07-2014, 09:46 AM | #96 |
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haha yes rod a Willowbank.
SOOO it was a good night all around. Sam, myself and some of his buddies had a blast down the 1/4 yes I did a best run of 18.189 sec. every run after that was a little more and more worse.. i think it was the clutch giving way as it is nearly 30 years old haha.. Anyway i was wrapped with the result as i thought it would do a 20sec 1/4 haha
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07-07-2014, 09:15 AM | #97 |
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Update
Over the past few drives I have been noticing that the car would occasionally bog down... i put it down to a loose plug wire... UNTILL Saturday night at the top of Mt Tambo I realised that the carburetor was actually getting fuel starvation... so after babing it 120kms home i pull the fuel filter out the next day and found this So I put a new filter in it and BBBAAAMMMMM she is back to life Also found this photo from last Wednesday night drags
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07-07-2014, 09:18 AM | #98 |
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here are some videos from the drags as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBSSSayhUKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SznDWpCrHXw
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07-07-2014, 02:56 PM | #99 |
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the concentration LOL
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07-07-2014, 10:42 PM | #100 |
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Can you clean the finger prints please
And not bad, the rolla ran a 19.1
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