Man that is one clean engine bay!! Good work!!

Sorry to hear about the crash, that GT bar definately copped a good whack alright

Clear indicators and side repeaters would look good the goods too while your fixing up the bodywork

Looks like you've got the exhaust side of things sorted. Considered a cam regrind? That would be another cheap mod. I noticed your in Chch, so your probably close to Kelford cams. Get in touch with them and see what they have to offer. They're supposed to be pretty good, probably one of the best Cam places in NZ.

And by the way, how did you clean out the inside of the throttlebody? Thats clean as!! I've got a spare T/B and ISC im cleaning up at the moment before it gets sprayed, i cleaned the inside a bit but i wanna get the inside looking like that

You should have seen the TB when I got it oily as and grimy
To clean it i took it all apart and let the body and butterfly soak in petrol then got to work with a bottle brush and pipe cleaner then blow it out with air that got rid of the oil and dirt on the out side but the inside was still blakc as so i got to work with a fine stello pad removed all the black suut and didnt leave any marks .
Next cam the Autosol Pollished to butterfly till it was a mirror then did the same with the inside of the TB and came up nice as
then masked it up and threw some paint on it

I would reccomend Autosol for pollishing everything
I finished cleaning the pistons today and are going to get some rings in the next few days aswell as an AU head gasket and bolts while i wait for that stuff to arrive i will start work or the head and hopefuly have it all back to gether within a few weeks
Also going to get the Cam done At Kelford cams

Is THat what they are called?
would you recomend VCT over non VCT?
And is thier a particula Version i should get?

i think going VCT is only going to create more work. i havnt felt the difference between the 2 yet.

just find any series HC motor. my mates AU1 Forte has a HC motor (looked up the engine number) so there is no telling what car they have been put in. i think it was sorta random

Got my self An AU VCT
after reading Troymans build thread I decided that was the way I wanna go
Got all the Acessories off the motor and gave the block a matt black coat
Also cut and rewelded the K frame about 2-3cm forward
Ill hopefully put up some pics tomorrow and keep putting them up as i go along.

I Have also been cleaning the Engine bay like mad

Here are the pics





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s**t dude that VCT engine looks clean as!! Nice pick up

Yea I couldnt believe it
I will have some more pics up as soon as i make some noticible progress

Long time no Post.
Benn a bit lazy lately on posting up in the garage.
Well The Car's been running for about 3 months now with the AU VCT motor. Havn't had any mechanicle problems so far.
It runs realll well apart from the fact it is using a s**t load of gas which a still can not get my head around.might chuck a different ratio'd diff in her and see what happens. i think its time for a LSD .
well not long after it was running i took it out to a skid meating. Had a brand new set of tires on her. Diesel all over the road a good 200+ crowd. was perfect. until the cops showed. Impounded for a week, should have been the 28 days but i got it out on appeal. And at the court case for sustained loss of traction went not guilty. The police never acualy saw who the driver of the car was. and didn't charge me until about an hour after they had been done. There was an undercover officer in the crowd taking down plate's. they let everyone do skids then they had road blocks set up in each road so they could catch every one. Any way the cops dropped the charges on lack of evidence and i kept my lisence. Stupid i know but also shows how f**k up the justice system is over here.

any way time for some pic's.



The engine bay as it is now. Hopefully have a turbo sitting under the hood buy the end of the year.



The car is a little bit rough at the moment. Need to het the rest of my SVO body kit and then i'll respray it. The Tridents could do with another polish and i need to source some fatter tires maybe even lower it a bit more too



Interior is pretty stock i'v just blacked up some things. Have mounted tweeters in the doors two.



basic sounds at the moment. These are running two 12's

Well that's me for now.
What do you think?

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throw the rest of the kit on unpainted... would look better then fat droppy side skirts and stock bars... apart from that looking good.. no vids of mad skidz???

Not as yet been trying to find someone with some.was at a nice Four way intersection out by the airport.One of the usual spots. I think the police managed to impound about 15 cars. was sad driving it up on to the tow truck
all good now though.
Can not wait to start working agian in feb and put some more money into it

Are you running a VCT ecu?

No mate its an EL ECU with j3 chip. The VCT is hooked up the the BBM signal wire. same as troyman had his before the RPM switch and supercharger. needs to be set to an RPM switch tho as it changes a little bit late still Haules a*** tho