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Re: Wil's Reshell/Rebuild 2015/07/14 07:55:14 (permalink)
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More progress.

Nate Reassembled the engine. meanwhile I lost one of the hollow dowel pins and had to drive two hours to get another one :(



Nothing like a fresh engine....


 





And of course we had the usual hangouts and bonfire. 



Last night ben and I got back into the freezing cold and put most of the accessories back on the engine. Not much left to do and the engine will be back in. If we are motivated enough it could be by the weekend



Note: Superchargers are damn heavy!

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Re: Wil's Reshell/Rebuild 2015/07/14 15:05:10 (permalink)
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Well done QLD MR2 Club/Chapter!
 
I can't believe I didn't see this thread earlier. This is why I love the AU MR2 community!

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Re: Wil's Reshell/Rebuild 2015/08/05 23:17:28 (permalink)
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nearly a month from the last update - wow.

Getting there... slowly. Had some stuff on between us all over the past couple weekends but its all fallen into place this past weekend/week

But any way, talk about bad luck Brian....

On the 25th of July, Wil awoke to find his Beautiful Honda VFR400 missing.

 

The police told him that he wouldn't be getting the bike back. It was long gone.
After a week of sifting through gumtree and ebay, the cops called wil and told him that they found his bike in a ditch on the side of the road. It had been painted black and fairings removed



Great that he got it back but the fairings were ruined. At least they got good fingerprints that they left in the wet paint!

One of my friends picked up the bike for Wil and delivered it to Ben's, where the AW11 is. Wil stripped the bike and cleaned it up. Fairing kit ordered and it will be back on the road in no time!



back to the AW11.

Last weekend we cleaned up the garage, got some shelves and tinkered with little bits and piece





I Put the flywheel and clutch on... twice. Forgot to put the backing plate on. Doh!



Everything was going great right up until THE FREAKING ICE CREAM MAN APPEARED!!!



Rob beat the kids to the van - and 40 minutes later work resumed. I prepped the engine to go in.


Jump to today. Feeling motivated I went over to Ben's after work this evening, and with Wil, Ben and Erin, we installed the motor. 










The life of an MR2 owner...





Done. Now for the accesories over the next few days, and then loom and ECU when a time is organized. 

More updates soon!




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Re: Wil's Reshell/Rebuild 2015/08/06 07:55:42 (permalink)
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Ice cream man! I got some ice cream.... You can not have none.....
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Re: Wil's Reshell/Rebuild 2015/08/06 08:38:20 (permalink)
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Not only do you look after the car, you also help with the bike. 
 
You guys rock.  
 

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Re: 2015/08/08 11:43:42 (permalink)
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Very inspirational story here Eric. What an awesome community, makes me really want to get involved with the club haha

Sounds like Wil has the worst luck, but the best mates

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Re: 2015/09/20 16:01:57 (permalink)
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Well no photos but the car is at the Dyno shop, should be running this week!

photos to come :)

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Re: 2015/09/21 00:24:25 (permalink)
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IS IT RUNNING YET?   hahaha...
 
 
was glad to be part of this build.
 

 
gotta love late night dash installs.

 
my beer bread definitely kept us all going!

post edited by feral4mr2 - 2015/09/23 23:54:28

if it's not blown, it sucks
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