Dose's Sometimes DIY and Pay Someone Home & Boat Improvement Thread

[Kinkstaah]

1 hour ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

I've donated enough to the Nissan car gods lol...

The more I spend on this shit box, the less money I have to put towards a fast, stock, modern car.

That is slower, less fun, and less reliable in every single way.. not to mention much more expensive.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Picked up this mud kitchen from PL Fabrication for free. I assume I've spent enough money there so the least he could do is give it away for free LOL.

Anyhow, lightly sanded the cnut down and then hit it with Dulux outdoor paint, can't remember what colour it is (missus chose it) but I'm a bit colour blind so let's call it light grey. I suppose you could say #builtnotbought lol.

Next will fit a water dispenser.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Drove to Scarborough for lunch, snapper fish pie was decent, even had prawns in it.

Then drove home, gave it a hit and kissed the limiter and left my 50km old PS belt somewhere on the highway lol.

Shitbox tings.

[GTSBoy]

Yuh, PS belts are a bit like the inside of the engine. If you touch it, it will f**k up again immediately. I shredded a brand new PS belt. Threw another one on, taking just as much care as the first time (ie, enough) and at some later time had a look in the bay for another reason and found the belt had come off over the front of the pulley and was running with one rib off. WTF!? So the usual full dismantle of the intake piping etc ensued, to provide access to the PS pump area to back it off and prise it back on. Bastard things.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

RB shit box curse.

Don't see JZs with this problem. 

Just waiting on the Ross PS idler kit to come, hopefully a good bandaid.

I hate this car, literally drive the heap of shit once a month and of course once a month something breaks, albeit small.

#90sJDMshitbox

[The Bogan]

Needs more LS, I literally thrash the bejebus out of the bogan cruise ship every day, started at 260ish killer wasps, now around 360 killer wasps, stock heads, stock bottom end, not to shabby for a old dinosaur push rod engine

Over the 2 odd years I've had it it has racked up about 35k km, and at 150k km it is basically only just run in

It never uses oil, never really breaks, apart from the usual maintenance for a 20 year old mass produced shit box

You should buy that BMW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

I need to buy that BMW, first just need to offload this shit box.

Funny how Nissan went from a 4 rib to a 3 rib then back to a 4 rib belt power steering belt throughout the shit box RB era.

I suppose revving the car 2700rpm past its intended rev limiter doesn't help either LOL.

 

 

[r32-25t]

2 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

RB shit box curse.

Don't see JZs with this problem. 

Just waiting on the Ross PS idler kit to come, hopefully a good bandaid.

I hate this car, literally drive the heap of shit once a month and of course once a month something breaks, albeit small.

#90sJDMshitbox

Never had this issue with an stock balancer or the ati 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

37 minutes ago, r32-25t said:

Never had this issue with an stock balancer or the ati 

You have a 4 rib PS belt, for whatever reason they threw the intern to design the R33 RB25DET PS and he/she thought a 3 rib belt would have been great on the R33 RB25DET.

They probably realised it was a bad idea, a generation later they went back to a 4 rib.

[Jasoncauser]

On 27/01/2023 at 4:23 PM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Drove to Scarborough for lunch, snapper fish pie was decent, even had prawns in it.

Then drove home, gave it a hit and kissed the limiter and left my 50km old PS belt somewhere on the highway lol.

Shitbox tings.

What day did you come down?
Did you see this?

This is at the northern end of Sea Cliff Bridge.
apparently Liam Lawson did 3 laps of the bridge on the weekend
promo video before it runs at Bathurst
There is a vid on tictok of it doing a spin to turn around but I cant forward the link

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

26 minutes ago, Jasoncauser said:

What day did you come down?
Did you see this?

This is at the northern end of Sea Cliff Bridge.
apparently Liam Lawson did 3 laps of the bridge on the weekend
promo video before it runs at Bathurst
There is a vid on tictok of it doing a spin to turn around but I cant forward the link

Wow, that's hectic!

I was there on Friday during my lunch break 😅

[Jasoncauser]

yeah for sure!!
Spewin I missed it

They didnt tell anyone so not many ppl saw it. cops just closed the road for a while hahaha, similar to the harbour bridge movie shooting the other day

There is a vid on the FB page for "Wollongong Sporting Car Club - Home of Huntley Hillclimb"

if you wanna see it lol

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Just had a look, very cool.

They probably don't announce it so they don't draw a crowd. Makes filming and risk management much easier.

 

Meanwhile, donating more money to the car gods. Some donate to charities, some donate to churches, some to pokies, I donate to car gods.

[r32-25t]

You spelt astra pump wrong 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

30 minutes ago, r32-25t said:

You spelt astra pump wrong 

Man the thought of implementing it scares me, I have no time these days and no space to take on such projects.

Also not keen on getting a shop to do it because they would charge too much. 

[r32-25t]

It’s stupidly easy, 2 hoses and 3 wires (+ve, -ve, trigger) 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

35 minutes ago, r32-25t said:

It’s stupidly easy, 2 hoses and 3 wires (+ve, -ve, trigger) 

It's the mounting, and making hose part that is giving me anxiety lol.

Sure, I plumbed my fuel and oil system myself but yeah nah I'm done with doing shit now.

 

[MBS206]

6 hours ago, r32-25t said:

It’s stupidly easy, 2 hoses and 3 wires (+ve, -ve, trigger) 

Which Astra pump do you use?

Is there a certain year range, and do you end up buying from a wrecker and rebuilding, or is someone selling them new (with Holden now goneskies)

[r32-25t]

12 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

Which Astra pump do you use?

Is there a certain year range, and do you end up buying from a wrecker and rebuilding, or is someone selling them new (with Holden now goneskies)

I got one second hand off eBay and it came with the bracket that I modified to install it, I can’t remember what generation it came off 

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204211245022?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=6vyr4BQfQdW&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=qpegKwgQSeq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[MBS206]

50 minutes ago, r32-25t said:

I got one second hand off eBay and it came with the bracket that I modified to install it, I can’t remember what generation it came off 

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204211245022?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=6vyr4BQfQdW&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=qpegKwgQSeq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Cheers Brett!