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Progress Report
Posted by on June 2, 2011
Sorry for the lack of updates but ive been stuck playing computer games, being cold and CBF syndrome!
After having the go ahead from quality control on the manual steering conversion, Rowdy gave us the go ahead to start the fitting of the 7AGE
Josh with his epic beard had the gearbox all cleaned down with RP7 of all things. A whole seasons worth of grime right thur!
At this point in the evening we had managed to get 7 people around to help which we needed as the extra height of the 7afe block made it hard to negotiate the install.
Pictured here you can see the GREX oil re-location kit and the custom battery mount ( hunk of drift wood lol )
Motor and gearbox in, extractors and radiator in. still needs an exhaust wiring tunning and some other things but its all achievable in the 4 week time frame that we have 🙂
This is how its done
Posted by on May 23, 2011
Whilst having a chat with the crew earlier last week about the upcoming Mallala Matsuri that is on the 2nd of July i came to the realization that i have only 5 weeks to get the motor swap done on the AE86 plus a whole stack of other things including Dyno tunning etc. So a few phone calls where made and it was arranged for the available crew to meet at my gaff on Saturday night just gone at 6pm to do as much work as possible.
If you recall in a previous post i hadn’t actually moved the AE86 in quite some time (nearly 6 months) and so come Saturday night i couldn’t find the damn keys! After a good 2 hour search we had to drill out the ignition barrel 😦 i couldn’t actually bring myself to do it so ratboy did it cause he is a rough cat lol.
So with that done and a quick jumpstart the old 16v burst into noisy life ( getting me the first noise complaint of the night ) and was promptly put into the shed
This photo was taken at 9:38pm.
Within 10 minutes Ratboy and Lips had the bonnet off, intake and radiator removed
Lips and Timmy D (not in picture) removing tail shaft and draining gearbox fluid
Finally we had pulled the motor looking at the clock it was now 10:39pm meaning we had done it an a hour so a celebratory engine hump was in order.
After that we stripped the loom removed the power steering and cleaned the engine bay.
had some drinks talked some shit and had a second noise complaint from the cops.
Next week the 7AGE gets pulled from the Donor car and fitted up so during the week ill be doing some other tricks in preparation
stay tunned Love from TEAM GHETTO GARAGE
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