Zebra's 2010 Mra Gts-t Build

[zebra]

well providing the guy in Melbourne gets back to me the car should be wearing a set of dunlop slicks shortly =]

[MBS206]

not much to report....decided to completly re wire the thing after i move...the whole car is a mess so i think the only safe thing to do is re wire it from scratch with one of these.

http://www.vpw.com.au/productgroup.asp?Cat...p;PrdGrpID=4180.

I think ill only need the 12 circuit one as all i can think ill need would be

1. fuel pump

2. ign

3. brake lights

4. starter

5. wind screen wipers

6. guages / dash

7. water pump for the flux capacitor

8. head lights

9. windows (if i dont go lexan)

If i have missed any thing please let me know.

The heated seats, the ball scratcher, the undercar neons, the strobe, the sub... Yeah you forgot heaps!

Hopefully I get my car moved soon and can start work on it.

[zebra]

Did a bit of work on the dash yesterday.

I think its come up ok apart from the switches not being quite inline but it was getting dark and i was drinking lol.

Also had some fun out at MDTC last weekend I think i want an mx5 now lol lots of fun!

[Noddy]

Hahaha, MX5 Hmphahahaha.

they are fun, for a bit. Then they become tediously slow

[zebra]

hahaha i dont care if they are slow....id just be nhappy if it didnt break every 2nd time its started lol.

Speaking of started i fired the 33 up today for the first time in months.

was great untill it caught fire lol.

I really need to buy an exhaust cam cover gasket lol...it poured oil all over the exhaust manifold which in turn put on an awesome smoke show.

so now that i know it still runs, all I have to do is throw some dry ice at it once i get the car to my new house in canberra and bolt up the seat and harness get it out on the track.

[Noddy]

I had a fire moment this weekend too. There i was seam welding the drivers door jamb........ there was a different smell...... look up and there is SOOOOOO MUCH SMOKE!!! Discreetly I said; "Oh, bother" the dash came apart in guinness record time. some minor damage to some wiring.

[zebra]

haha...mine wasnt that bad...no damage done.

Well Ive bitten the bullet and decided the car will run slicks, ordered two 2nd hand dunlop formula Rs from UAS today and ill try and pick up another 2 in a week or so...so if anyone has any 2nd hand 235 or 240 17" slicks they wanna off load cheap let me know.

Also ordered a new exh rocker cover gasket and a lower timing belt cover from Just jap to replace my stuffed ones.

Next up will be mounting my commodore coil packs and re wiring some stuff to suit.

Also, does anyone have pictures of how they have mounted the waist straps for a harness in a skyline....there doesnt look to be much room to weld a mounting plate in there on either side...and id prefer not to mount them to the seat rail.

Thanks

[zebra]

I had a fire moment this weekend too. There i was seam welding the drivers door jamb........ there was a different smell...... look up and there is SOOOOOO MUCH SMOKE!!! Discreetly I said; "Oh, bother" the dash came apart in guinness record time. some minor damage to some wiring.

just thinking of seam welding.....i've only got a cheapy arc welder...do you think its worth while adding a few more spot welds to the car with it...or will it be fraught with danger using an arc welder from super cheap......i know there is no point trying to seam weld stuff with it lol

asn where should cocentrate on?

[Noddy]

Is there a cage in this thing yet? is it getting a propper 1 or a lap bolt in? a cage makes a huge diferance to the stiffness of the shell. I would look at the engine bay area including the A pillers first. the load that goes into the front shocks/springs makes a std front twist, alot. The 2nd a less needed area is from the B pillar back into the rear bulkhead. this area is boxed in an naturaly a lot stronger that the enginebay. I've seen some ppl copy someting from a jap mag, Popriviting as many seams as tey can with alloy rivits. I could't think of anytting worse!!! To my mind it makes it something like a perferated sheet, just tare onthe dotted line!

I have put up plenty of pics of what I have done in my thread, It's what I have found to be effective. As for a SuperCreepy welder, I have seeen Gasless MIG ones do a decent job. That said, practice and set it up on some offcut pannel steel first. Get confident there before attacking the car.

hope this helps?

[MBS206]

haha...mine wasnt that bad...no damage done.

Well Ive bitten the bullet and decided the car will run slicks, ordered two 2nd hand dunlop formula Rs from UAS today and ill try and pick up another 2 in a week or so...so if anyone has any 2nd hand 235 or 240 17" slicks they wanna off load cheap let me know.

Also ordered a new exh rocker cover gasket and a lower timing belt cover from Just jap to replace my stuffed ones.

Next up will be mounting my commodore coil packs and re wiring some stuff to suit.

Also, does anyone have pictures of how they have mounted the waist straps for a harness in a skyline....there doesnt look to be much room to weld a mounting plate in there on either side...and id prefer not to mount them to the seat rail.

Thanks

My waist straps have eye let bolts going straight through the floor with the certified mounts underneath that they are bolted too. That's on the door side. The gearbox side uses the seatbelt hole mount

[zebra]

ool, thanks for that Matt

Well 2 Dunlop Slicks turned up at my work yesterday Thanks to a Mr John Pelingon

aswell as a Bosch 910 External fuel pump and bracket, So im sorting out fuel lines and stuff now...might have to modify my surge tank though as the 910 has a 13.5mm feed fitting and my surge tank is 3/8 from memory.

So now im just waiting on another SAU NSW'er to sell his rims so i can grab 4 more Dunlop slicks.

So really all I have to do is tidy a bit of wiring, dry-ice the interior and mount the harness and ill be out on track:

Oh that reminds me...does anyone know of a bolt in Harness bar for the skylines?

Thanks

Andrew

[Duncan]

you don't need a harness bar assuming you are caging it....good cage builder will put eyebolt mounts in the cross member between the rear wheel arches, and if not you just loop the harness around the whole cage bar.

[zebra]

Im just thinking for the short term, Im not sure how funds will go, So i have nfi when It will be caged.

and I dont wanna do the dodgy and bolt it to the rear seat belt mounts

[MBS206]

Im just thinking for the short term, Im not sure how funds will go, So i have nfi when It will be caged.

and I dont wanna do the dodgy and bolt it to the rear seat belt mounts

That's still easy... The rear seat belt mounts, it is where my eyelets, bolt through.

As I still have the actual belts ( but no seat... Lol) the eyelets are the bolts holding the seatbelts in.

[Duncan]

yeah thats not really ideal though. as per the cams manual, 10o up or down is recommended, more than 45o does not pass. And most seats will have the rear eyebolts at more than 45o.

still better than just lap sash at holding you in place, but I think it can be genuinely dangerous in a big crash (pushing down on your shoulders/spine)

[DJRIFT]

I had a fire moment this weekend too. There i was seam welding the drivers door jamb........ there was a different smell...... look up and there is SOOOOOO MUCH SMOKE!!! Discreetly I said; "Oh, bother" the dash came apart in guinness record time. some minor damage to some wiring.

sorry to back track. and o/t. but when i was seam welding around at the base of the A pillar area i blew a whole in the body and started a small fire. i had 2 mates watching and they thought it was funny as shit as i ran past the hose into the shed to find somthing to put the fire out with. no loom damage just a bit of burnt sound deadener.

[MBS206]

yeah thats not really ideal though. as per the cams manual, 10o up or down is recommended, more than 45o does not pass. And most seats will have the rear eyebolts at more than 45o.

still better than just lap sash at holding you in place, but I think it can be genuinely dangerous in a big crash (pushing down on your shoulders/spine)

Where my seat sits, I'm pretty certain my angle would be less then 45 degrees. Once I get the cage in mine will be mounted to the bar that will run on the uprights between the bpillar.

If he just wants it mounted for now for track days it'd be worth doing.

As for a big crash, if you're done up properly the angle shouldn't effect any impact on body I would think as there's no slack etc that gets taken up...

[BOZ22N]

You will get knocked back at some events if you use the rear seat mounts i know this because Chubbs and i used to have to bluff our way through some times. Just get a bar made up, cheap as chips if you consider the amount of money and time you put into the car to get to some events to be just turned away due to some harness mounts would be very disheartening.

[TiTAN]

you cant just put some eyelets on the parcel tray?

[zebra]

unfortunatley not...its not strong enough....i might just get one of the welders at work to knock me one up one day...or ill just lump it and get a cage