The Bogan

? Are you saying I need a Skyline, or, more boost, or, less boost, or, more timing, or, E85, or, a turbo, or a built motor? Or, obviously, skid vids?

Needs limiter, flames and 1000hp for insta car looks super sweet in the SAU though

Dropped car off at Autotech on Monday, and.....the supercharger has developed a rattle that increases with revs Autotech and Harrop have stated that it's covered by warranty, which is awesome, I cannot rate Autotech high enough, Spiro is a great and honest guy to deal with So far Autotech and Harrop have been diagnosing the issue and the blower is going back to Harrop (in Victoria 😭) to get pulled apart, inspected, rebuilt or replaced Once Harrop get it, it's about a 3 day turn around Bit of a PITA, especially with the shipping in and out of Victoria, but what do you do Strangely I cannot think of anything else that could be done to the old girl while it's sitting forlorn at Autotech, could I be content with it's current modifications????? 🤯, well apart from adding the 80mm pulley and getting the retune that is In saying all this, and not having the car to drive around, it's probably going to rain for the next couple of weeks and I'm going to be on the bike with a wet arse until the car comes back

The kind that does what he is told, I wanted to get her a Forester because AWD and the access road is dirt, she said the Forester looked like a box and didn't want one, she wanted a Yaris because cute and low running costs Now she wants big 4wd thing with a bullbar to plow the road with

She has already tested the guilt trip waters with "a 4wd with a big bull bar would be alot safer than the little Yaris you got me, wouldn't it dad" Meh, as she says, she's my favourite financial burdon...

Daughter's Yaris vs Skippy The daughter is fine and the Yaris came off unexpectedly well for hitting a good sized buck. The Yaris is already at the smash repairs She dragged Skippy off the road and it expired shortly after, without any help... The daughter now wants a bigger car... Stupid Kangaroo

Finally got to installing the "carbuilders" under boonet liner https://www.carbuilders.com.au/premium-under-bonnet Luckly I got 2 rolls for less than the price of 1 a few months ago Still need to trim out the vent holes and fit the pinch weld to the holes, (need to get to clarkes rubber to pick what I want) but you get the picture Next up will be lining the boot lid with the stuff Oh, and as I got the new bigger headers I'm going to get the tune checked, so, as you do, I'm getting a 5mm smaller pulley ($150?) for the supercharger, should add around 2 or 3 psi and is the smallest available that does not overspeed the rotors, so blower warranty is still good

Shiny

Boring day at work so took long lunch break to fit the tail tidy Like all simple bolt on parts, it wasn't a simple bolt on, I'm going to trim up the sides a bit but I need some new blades for the jigsaw No real rush anyway as it looks way better than the original big plastic thing that was there before

Consumers will consume Street Bob tail tidy and blinker relocator Disclaimer: may need some modifications with a dremel, like everything else I buy 🤪

Bike is back drom Sy's and it runs like a boss There was a new update for the Maximus tuner and then some road testing, it pulls like a train from idle I was assuming I was going to lose some power down low from the short shots exhaust, which I wasn't to fussed about, #becausenotaracebike, but in reality it makes noticeably more power everywhere, which is nice I also attempted a better job on the wrinkle paint for the air filter cover, it's better, but has 2 small blemishes from a little spatter from the nozzle on the spray can, meh, good enough, because of its shape, trying to get a even heavy coat, without any runs, that gets some heatgun action to wrinkle up, is tricky (the oven is off limits due to Jackie working from home, damnit...) The black alloy ebay mesh is on the way for the opening, I'm looking at using a very thin bead of black stikaflex to hold the mesh on Also, if anyone has a T400 laying around can I have it, please, cheap would be good, free would be better...I want to take my time and attempt to build a stout auto that can handle #moreboost, the current power has the "fully built" 4L60e at its "comfortable" max limit Fun little job for the car tomorrow, chuck this on and do 5k km service, it's a new design, as in, the hole in the thing is much bigger than the older ones I've used before

New exhaust is on and it sounds awesomeballs Bike gets picked up on Monday for some tuning to suit LOL

Damnit...🤯 6 x m5 x 20mm Yeap.....lucky I don't order stuff like how I post on here 🤪 LOL

Try spacing it by only 5mm. I'm sure that worked and was painless Again IIRC, whiskey takes it's toll on the memory

I should have just clicked and collected from bunnings for 6 5m x 20mm stainless nuts and bolts

Wrinkle paint came out OK, looks weird in the photo but not on natural light, the cover test fitted up fine, albeit I do need to find a nice stainless dome hex head bolt for mounting it, and a spacer that isn't a 12mm nut I've got some hard plastic washers which enable me to spin it down in the event I get caught in the rain The opening needs "something" like some mesh to stop bugs and stuff from pumping the filter

IIRC I spaced the bush mounting points down with a 5mm bit of flatbar to stop it hitting But that was a farkn long time ago, in a garage far far away

After lowering the rear of the Bogan bike I scraped the bejedus out of my lower exhaust pipe on tight right handers, whilst the rest of the bike is nice and shiny now, and the rear raised back up, the big rusty scrape down the side of the exhaust was doing my head in.....so.... New Vance and Hines short shots and quiet baffles are on their way from Bike Biz Whilst the short shots come with "baffles" they are no where near legal, so I got some quiet baffles to knock a few Db out of it, still loud (ish), possibly even a bit louder than my current pipes, but not ear bleeding, hello officer type loud This should also negate the common fault of Harley's doing the exhaust gaskets, the stock exhaust weights a ton, this removes alot of weight and length which would have the end of the exhaust shaking around like Michael J Fox signing his name

What about the renovations Renovations are awesome and more new content that a RB build Plus Solar, what about the Solar

I've got the 15x7 chasers all ready, just need some 255/60 15 drag radials, and WSID or the roll racing to open up again, I'm not buying the tyres unless I can wear them out straight away I AM THE BOGAN KING 🤣

Maaaaaad Paint match is spot on I'm loving the old school muscle car look, it even has the Mrs tick of approval, well she said it looked nice and shiny, which I'm classing as full approval In other, not really needed mod news: I'm getting some 1 7/8" 4 into 1 headers with ceramic coating, I was contemplating pulling my existing 4:2:1 headers and getting them coated, or wrapped because they look shite, but as they are 10 year old mild steel I came to the conclusion that it would be better to just get some new headers with internal and external ceramic coat, and get a shop to fit because #carntbefarkeddoingitmyself I went 1 7/8" because the small loss of torque down low from them isn't really a problem when it's making 950nm at 2500rpm Damn it Dunc, you beat my editing.....lol

This is the first I've heard of a brass shifter bushing failing and lunching a box Maybe a monkey fisted install? Maybe no lube during install, you need grease to lube that puppy...there's always time for lube Maybe cheap poor quality part? This is the how to I used years ago > Meh, mine never failed and the shifter was tight like a tiger Torque destroying gears, thats another story about 3 little cops, I mean 3 OEM gearboxes

Trunnion bushings are in Old bushings had alot of sideways movement and fell apart when removed Engine is much quiter now Dropped of the car at my local smash repairs on Monday, getting the bonnet and scoop colour matched, hopefully get it tomorrow or Friday Funny how it hasn't rained for ages, then when the car is in the shop and I'm on the bike it pisses down I'm now looking at an old Land Cruiser or Patrol wagon to start a bush pig project with, my budget of SFA is limiting my choices at the moment

Idle hands are "eBay's" plaything Found a intake cover from a electraglide limited, why, after the chop chop with the holesaw I did some "finking" and worked out that if the bike is caught in the rain it will have a free water injection mod....which isn't good, especially if it's parked up and drains into the TB So.....with the electraglide cover and using a nylon washer I can spin it around in the rain It isn't carbon fibre, it's just some plastic coating that will get stripped, and painted wrinkle black to match the engine I aslo purchased a fumoto drain valve for the LS, last time I changed the oil I ended up overfilling the oil by 1 ltr, trying to drain out only 1 ltr ened up in a oily mess, on me and the ground, I really should of got one of these for the old girl earlier, I've had one on most of my cars since the Skyline and it makes servicing so much easier when you can drain straight into a old oil container I got the adapter as well, I'm not sure if I'll need it, but the sump plug is slightly recessed and google says "I do need it" and "I don't need it"...meh

Bored at work, again, so hole saws are a go go.....again I've been looking for a better intake cover solution for the bike Prior to getting the bike tuned I had the OEM one jerry rigged over the larger filter with the rear section removed, this gave it enough air but it was shiny chrome and hit my right knee when I was throwing the big girl around in corners Then I got this black pot style, which needed to be spaced out 20mm so there was somewhere for the air to get in Then I bought holes saws and had some wrinkle black laying around, so in went 8 x 44mm holes and on went some wrinkle And with more luck than good planning, the wrinkle paint on the intake cover perfectly matches the wrinkle black on the engine, I just need to get some mesh shtuff to stop bugs and leaves So far so good, and most importantly, the induction sounds boss at full noise down the back road at work I could have bought one for a "couple of hundred #becauseharley", but this ended up costing $30