Knightrous

• Finish Flares and cutting wheel arches
• Service whole car (fluids, filters etc etc)
• Fit Oil cooler + adaptor
• Wire up gauges and senders
• Swap street tires to steelies, semi's to grids.
• Paint Steelies white
• Weld up new seat rails and fit bucket seat
• Weld up harness bar and fit harnesses
• Get wheel alignment
• Fit rear braided lines and bleed brakes
• Strip boot carpets, liners and air pipes
• Mount ECU properly to firewall
• Fix ignition coil issues (setup up on relay?)
• Swap over rear left tie rod from SkidDub
• Fit new B pipe and weld up exhaust
• Build and fit 6 speed gearbox
• Make rear camber tops
• Setup Launch Control and Flat Shift

But what are you going to do after lunch tomorrow?

My list is shorter.
1. Wait for courier with my third and hopefully final PWR Radiator.
2. Fit radiator and bleed cooling system
3. Drive car on to trailer and head for Wakefield
4. Business finally sold. Apply for Aged Pension (instead of playing video games)
 
 

TO DO LIST:
- Finish Flares and cutting wheel arches
- Service whole car (fluids, filters etc etc)
- Fit Oil cooler + adaptor
- Wire up gauges and senders
- Swap street tires to steelies, semi's to grids.
- Paint Steelies white
- Weld up new seat rails and fit bucket seat
- Weld up harness bar and fit harnesses
- Get wheel alignment
- Fit rear braided lines and bleed brakes
- Strip boot carpets, liners and air pipes
- Mount ECU properly to firewall
- Fix ignition coil issues (setup up on relay?)
- Swap over rear left tie rod from SkidDub
- Fit new B pipe and weld up exhaust
- Build and fit 6 speed gearbox - Ain't nobody got time fo dat.
- Make rear camber tops
- Fix up air scoop with new base seal and reconnect intake pipe
- Setup Launch Control and Flat Shift
 
Couple more bits completed.
 
Exhaust welded up and bolted on, including the straight pipe, which should be EVEN LOUDER now with the cleaned up flex join...

 
 
Fixed the tray up in the base of my scoop so it keeps the hot engine bay heat separate from the cold air intake which enters via the scoop. Just a quick 10min job with polycarbonate and a jigsaw. Might put a couple of rivets in to hold it into place properly and then run a bead of sikaflex around the edges.

 
Intake pipe clamped on.

 
Then mounted back into it's place. Scoop to enclosed pod filter to ITB air box...

 

As you can see here, Toyota did a top job on making the Primaries very nicely made, however, it seems like they spent the night on LSD when they jigged together the Secondaries...

Looking good man!

One step forward, two steps back....
 
Replaced battery, looped the oil cooler back to the sump using the remaining leak free hose and then rigged up direct power to the coils with a jump wire to do a start up. It fired up first go and all was good. Removed the jumper wire on the coils, did some other work on the car, finished up for the night, removed the keys and went to bed. Get up the next day, decide to do another start up to listen to the sweet roar of the straight through exhaust, turn the key.... Nothing, absolution no voltage....
 
Check the terminals, no difference, stick a volt meter on it, 4.8v...
 

 
So I've stuck the battery on charge to try to revive it, if not, a quick trip back to SuperTheif Auto for a return/swap of the 4 day old battery... Now I have to take my chances with disconnecting the battery every time I park it up or piss a lot of time chasing a ghost of an electric issue... I think when I get back from the MTC, I'm going to rip the whole loom apart and start from scratch and relocate the ECU to behind the passenger seat while I'm at it.
 
5 days till we leave....

In a strange twist of events, the awesome bearing & belt shop I frequent happens to have oil coolers in stock and they were open today, so instead of just fixing the hoses on the stock cooler, I grabbed a 30 row cooler for $100. This will bolt directly onto my thermostatic oil cooler plate and will use the same hoses and fittings I already have from my half built W2O cooler. So will be a busy evening under the car swapping the oil cooler plates over now!

Do you see me complaining about LSD?? Oh wait thats right I have BEAMSSSSSS