Noddy

well the motor is in and virtually ready to run... however the starter is not doing so well. It is off getting rebuilt this week. Otherwise it is all systems go.

The engine returned form my machinist on monday and have just started by painting the block and installing the crank. Im still waiting on a few items, oil pump, head gasket and oil sandwich plate so Im not in the greatest of rushes to get it all to gether just yet. If all goes well I might beable to get down to the sat arvo sprints next weekend at Queensland Raceway to run it in. I hope.

A stock viscous diff is nice and soft for street use. Used for drifting or track work they self destruct. A 2 or 1.5 way is much more durable and can be made to be much more aggressive to drive like a locked diff, but still have a diff action. They give you better drive out of corners and a better controled slide.

The body work has been a long and tedious job. Any one who does this for a living earns every cent. We diddn,t take the windows out but got advice from a mate who has a shop in brisbane, Camerons pannell works. The drivers sill was crushed by a water barrier at QR 1 drift day a few years back and needed to be cut off, bashed back to shape and welded back on. The passenger side always had some cracks and odd bumps, obviously from some dodgy jap shop. Everything on the pasenger side has been fixed or replaced at somestage. Looks like it had been T boned and rearended, bog every where. Looks good now after 3 or 4 weekends drowning in bog dust. Putting the primer took a long time as every weekend for a few weeks there were showers and made it very hard to transport a car that had baer metal here and there. Sara my partner is works at a company where they build grain conveyors and have a paint bay/booth that you could paint an entire semi in plus some. We did the painting ourselvs, Sara proved the steadier hand at it. Primer on at last. Then 1 week later edging up in door jambs, filler cap, in guards etc. and anothe week or two the outside

This is a very condensed version of what I have done to prep my 33 for drift and curcit racing. Dan has done an awsome job with his and I had a look at it at the QLD round, a job well done there. My rebuild started about 14 months ago when the cambelt tesionerstud snaped off. The end result was 5 bent valves and 2 broken off. The pic below is of the offending stud. The lesson here for all is to replace it with every cambelt change. This one let go 4000 shy of a schedualed timming belt change. With the motor out I started the Job of stripping the interior, and the sound deadening with a heat gun and paint scraper.... I wish I knew about the dry ice idea. The chasie did twist alot when we took it to the track so I set about seam welding with a mig at and inbetween the original sopt welds, about every 1/2 inch or 12 mm. Then we sent it off to get the roll cage fitted by Bruce Dumbit at NRW rollcages in Nambour QLD. An 8 point cage to cams specs with x intrusion bars. the cage picks up the rear struts, main hoop, down the A pillar dnt through the fire wall to the front struts. It has been tagged to the body in as many places as possible ti incraese the ridgidity of the chasie. I have painted it all in stone guard with a roller so it doesn't reflect the sun or lights. Being a drift car, stearing lock and camber have been modified for greater and adjustable angles. With the extra lock more guard clearance was needed. This process took some weeks to get just right. Cuttin pulling dollying etc. and the finished product I will put up some more latter, have to run.

I tried to warn the modorators a few weeks back with a pm. There are lots of scamers who use Alice Springs as a location, there not going to get any one going to pick stuff up. So check where they recon there located. I was looking at a RSM he had and was wary of him for this reason initialy and would only deal with him via COD with Aust Post. He was pushing for $$$ first and would not concider COD. That is when I warnd a mod about him. Did anyone sell him anything? he did post on some for sale stuff.

Bit pricy for a 2nd hand used item. Your price is very similer to a brand new one delivered.