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  1. No Crust Racing
    You can DIY a tilt adjustment easily enough. I have a big set of adjustable aluminium legs sitting in my shed doing nothing, kept them for the materials alone. I didn't need them as my roof pitch is bang on for my locale. Also these babies arrived.
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    Door section repaired, just need to tack in a couple sections that set the height of the glass and I'm right to start cleaning the unit for a lick of paint. This was quite interesting/challenging working with thinner materials, needing to tack, move, tack, move. I noticed that lower section of the door has not got a light curve in it from the process, should be fine but might need a gentle twig to get it back. Will have to clamp it down properly next time. Also the rust that came off when sanding/moving it etc seems to have stained the floor, as in still lightly visible after a basic wipe over. See if it wipes up with a basic cleaner/water/whatever. I also dropped a piece of steel and chipped the concrete, shed is no longer virgin. Dale tells me th head should be back hopefully this week, the Sydney lockdown causing grief.
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    They were completely surrounding my water tanks up the hill, if there was a fire we'd have no water 0_0 Had fun clearing those. I discovered the limb dropping is due to birds eating grubs from out of the wood.
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    Agreed, the big trees around the house are essential the wildlife here, I moved out of town to be closer to nature among other things. But that Wattyl... can eat a dick.
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    Mine is a 4mt tall scrubby wattyl piece of shit right on the embankment above the shed, it can go. That's all that's shading my on grid system, but it's a single tracker so on an old Kaco so 1 panel is enough to gut the output to 10%. The big euc's that shade the off grid array at various times, and our pool (filling it with leaves and seed pods constantly!) stay lol
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    Microinverters won't get me anything extra above optimisers in my setup. This is retro fit, I already have inverters in place, I don't need to convert to AC at the panel. I just have shade issues in winter. Optimisers will help that on the off grid system, cutting down the stupid tree above the grid system will sort that one lol At the moment, if nothing else, I am off peak all the time as I can fill the battery overnight.
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    Boohoo... My graph stops at the apex, and just drops away to almost zero as the shade hits 1 single panel on my old grid system with a single tracker...
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    Dollar vs gain for microinverters is still a ways off IMO. Especially when you can get decent strong inverters so cheap, ew or used. Takes a very specific install to warrant them. I wouldn't have bought these optimisers either if they weren't cheap AF.
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    No Crust Fabrication hard at it doing some maintenance on the Coonara before it goes in. Burn tube was toast, made a new one and fitted after straightening the baffle. 3 out of 5 welds were nice, the other 2 were ugly AF but seemingly strong - 3mm steel so quite forgiving for the learner that I am (this is my 2nd or 3rd ever welding project). Front door looks like it might have seen a little water damage from storage or maybe just metal fatigue from age. Cut that section out and made a new piece, welding in is proving a little harder as I was putting holes in both materials even on my lowest setting, it's only 1 to 1.6mm though. Spoke with a mate of mine who said you just wanna tack it, move to another section, tack again etc and continue as the metal will heat up too quickly then blow holes through. I have the piece "in" but it's not pretty, spent some time cleaning up that work then will give it another pass and tidy it up again. Going to give the heater a once over with a sanding disc and smash a coat of high temp on it for good measure.
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    I just bought 20 used Tigo optimisers for $16.25ea delivered, see how that goes with the shading on my off grid system. The on-grid system will benefit from a tree removal when it's dry enough for me to get the 4wd in there safely to assist. I'm getting slammed by shade all round.
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    I'm hopeful of a new Silvia/something similar. With he success of the 86, Toyota's willingness to allow another Supra to be released, even if it is a BMW, and the ever increasing interest in old Nissan's, I'm hoping Nissan does "something" in the RWD 4cyl space. to compliment the 400z.
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    Yeah I will, hard in Vic, they all vary so much. The current mob does a 69c day charge and off peak rates all weekend 😕 In good news, I have found some used Tigo's going cheap
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    I just got an email saying I can no longer get 10.2 it's now dropping to 6.7... what the f**k.
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    Pot belly might take hours but a proper wood heater doesn't, we are mostly wood heating in the house so I'm very comfortable with how to use them. It's actually mostly for social gatherings. Watching racing, pool/table tennis, beers with the boys etc. I don't recall ever putting one on to work, I just wear a jumper and keep moving lol
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    Sooo after almost 100m of tape, the insulation is now finished to my standards. It comes with double sided tape on it to hold each piece to the next, but I remember from last time it doesn't handle the heat cycling well and fails, then you get gaps as can be see in one of the pics below, starting already. If you leave it too long and you get a layer of dust etc on the surface it's then much harder to get good adhesion with the better tape so I went ahead and just did the whole shed pre-emptively. Also cut out a couple inserts for the whirlybirds for winter mode to keep the heat in. Also going to replace the pot belly, which never impressed me much, with a fan assisted Coonara (which even has a secondary burn tube in it) because I like watching the flames and it'll put put more heat more easily. I could add a damper and secondary burn to the pot belly, but wood heaters are by and large just a lot more efficient. Plus random ladder shot of Silvia because I was up there so much.
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    Vega prices are a bit rich IMO. If Brad is still wrecking GT-Rs I'd check with him or Chen Chung Ho.
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    GTR prices are just outright retarded now. Used 2012 R35. 115k. New Supra, under 90 lol
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    JDM prices are shit, it's a joke. I remember buying a used vspec condenser off Hawkins when I punctured mine putting my intercooler in. $150 shipped.
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    Update your build thread, I'm sure it'll be megadon, you always go extra large Keen to see a 1000hp SR so someone has a chance to keep up with the K swaps lol Received some pics of the CNC work tonight, looks good to my untrained eye, but I will post pics when it's complete.
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    Continued the chat with Kelford. Sent him pic of the retainers in question. "It’s hard to see in those pics but that does look a little rough. Titanium retainers wear when rubbing on a steel spring and base, there’s no escaping that. But if everything is under control then it’s hard to determine “normal” wear. I’ve had some of our retainers in my evo for about 30,000kms now and it’s had a hiding and you can see witness marks from where it’s been rubbing, but nothing I would call “wear” per se. I haven’t got a hard and fast number for you sorry mate." Asked if there was any special service interval or checks needed etc. "Nothing written in blood. We have some race teams that check spring tension every round and others that check every season. We don’t have failures so I haven’t got a timeline. We know what the retainer and spring have to control since we design both. Your setup is a matched combo of cams , springs, and retainers. Where some other companies have problems is that they don’t design cams or even make them at all so they try to cover too many bases with one product and then they maybe get a spring that doesn’t cut it and it’s the poor retainer that cops it." Consensus seems to be I should be fine. Benny I didn't go oversized valves due to the increased risk of cracking in the head, I went Supertech valves for the better materials, SS and Iconel, but standard P11 sizes. P11 specifically for the thicker/stronger stem size but put into the better flowing P12 head (which also has the extra cooling jacket in it and flows more, but that cooling jacket means if you want max margin for safety you don't oversize the valves). It's having chambers CNC'd ports are all being ported as well so our heads are quite different. DET/VE head flow characteristics are very different stock, once ported even more so. As for seats, standard were used in this as P12 seats are more than adequate for the application so says the builder and Kelford and that was knowing full well I was happy to spend if it needed it. Dale hopes to collect the head today he reckons. I'm keen for some pics.
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    Quick reply, not sure what else I really expected...
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    mmm, see what he says. I bought the springs and retainers from kelford, the blloody expensive beehive pecaloy springs so I would hope they are compatible. I'll flick them an email for another opinion.
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    Interesting comments from the engine builder yesterday, thoughts?
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    Pressure wash it when it's out of the car and leave the leaks for new owner to discover?
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    To me that says keep it in place, doesn't say you cannot modify it (weld shut and run external). To me that means you can swap turbo as long you keep the actuator itself, which is dumb.
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