GQ project.

Andrew1706 · Post by **Andrew1706** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:16 pm

No worries, seems to be a lot of wanting over needing

Just get it together and do some driving :mrgreen:

vvega · Post by **vvega** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:20 pm

Sadam_Husain wrote:Hows your progress or are you spending all your time working on Wayne's piece of jumk

lol #### you

im in levin ATM picking up my girl from grandma's

haydgq · Post by **haydgq** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:35 am

Andrew1706 wrote:
flyingbrick wrote:yeah not so keen sorry dude. Wanting tires a little more off road orientated. Not needing AT's

Good luck, seems you have a lot to learn

I agree with Nathan they pretty much are a slightly more aggressive A/T tyre so when he says he wants a more off-road orientated tyre its a fair comment.

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:07 pm

Had a good day today. Didn't achieve a whole lot but did manage to collect and order some additional parts.

Put the bar back in with the new brackets and welded bar in place on them.

Thought long and hard about front window demisting and heating and decided that the demister element is the best idea really. Means I dont have to piddle around with ducting and I can be more inventive with where I tuck the heater away.

It fits really nice up in here and also means the driver has heat priority.... :-D

which suits me fine. hahahaha.

Oh and put my first guard. One is still being cleaned up. and yeah its sitting about 5mm high. gotta do some trimming.

Fark is she hot now.

doggoneit · Post by **doggoneit** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:41 am

Hi, can you check your PMs - I replied to your PM about getting these seats on the 30th and haven't heard back. Cheers

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:33 pm

replied.

Went to coby again today- tomorrow i pick up my flanges and tons of pipe bends/collector cones etc.

Awesome guys to deal with and if you want to DIY your own manifold I very much recommend them.

The best part is the guy has offered to weld up my tacked manifold for FREE. Reckons if its tacked up it'll only take him 15min as they do so many.

AWEEeeeeesome. :mrgreen:

Sadam_Husain · Post by **Sadam_Husain** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:06 pm

When are you doing a trial fit of the body to see how well the motor fits in the hole?

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:15 pm

how it fits is not an issue- It'll be made to fit.

It'll happen when waynes ready :mrgreen:

doggoneit · Post by **doggoneit** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:37 am

Hi, just a heads up that I sent you the PM with my details. Cheers.

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:56 pm

thanks. recieved that.

Look what i got today :mrgreen:

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:02 pm

Ok, i chose individual flanges over one or two piece because I didn't want any issues with gaskets popping etc.

to hold them all in place I made a surrogate head :lol:

. Unfortunately after taking the time to drill holes accurately etc I got home to find that the 12 bolts i had were too bloody short :lol:

so ended up welding the flanges in place- welded straight through the paper and spray adhesive. ruthless

More pics tomorrow when all pipes are tacked together.

I think its looking ok for my first attempt at a manifold- but its certainly not what i wanted when I originally started. I didn't control the pipes. The pipes controlled me.

Got the rest of my cheap gauges. I'm going to swap the mechanical gauges for stepper motor ones as the stepper motor gauges I have are just so much higher quality than the ultra ultra cheap ones.

Thats 80mm stepper motor boost, 60mm stepper motor EGT and 50mm everything else in the pics.
EGT gauge seems to read far too high considering at 500 degrees start melting things

Guards, bonnet and chassis needs to be undersealed. Kinda going to enjoy some quiet painting.

REALLY am starting to get a compulsion to get into one or two events when its finished- I've never had that desire before.

Escudo boy · Post by **Escudo boy** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:30 pm

just a tip, try hold the X button and tap circle twice while in sprint mode

darinz · Post by **darinz** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:13 pm

500 deg is no big deal for a TD42? Or have I missed something and you have changed the motor?
TD42 can handle 600 deg and 700deg in bursts without much worry. Mind you 700 deg has life of about 30 sec!

I ran mine for years to 550, that was comps and on road as work truck. It isn't that long ago that we were racing our daily drivers!

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:51 pm

nah the problem is that my gauge is actually reading degrees C wheres i think you are talking about degrees F ( or visa-versa). I'll have to make little sticky tape arrows on there to remind me where the bad zone is.

Trucks now being taken to a place in town to have the work done as Vvega has too much on his plate with his own truck.

not a problem though- means I have access to plasma cutting magic eye machinery to trace out my templates on real steel.

Have also made some calls and decided on type of paint and color. I'm going to be using a 600 enamel with a hardner- easy to spray and touch up etc and 95% of the shine is there straight off the gun.

have taken two days off work to work on the truck- I'm undersealing everything to keep noise down and also fitting random parts like the bonnet pins and guards.

juz · Post by **juz** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:14 pm

Might have missed something but id underseal after any tunnel chopping/welding needs to be done.horrible shit to clean off for welds.

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:25 am

yeah havent been close to the tunnel yet :-)

darinz · Post by **darinz** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:48 am

flyingbrick wrote::lol: nah the problem is that my gauge is actually reading degrees C wheres i think you are talking about degrees F ( or visa-versa). I'll have to make little sticky tape arrows on there to remind me where the bad zone is.

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Nah I'm definitely talking degrees C. use to run mine at 1100 F or 550 C.

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:01 am

Yeah thats it :-)

my gauge reads in F. When i first got it i was like WTF 500 is barely even a reading.

haydgq · Post by **haydgq** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:20 pm

Any updates Nathan.??

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:13 pm

yeah going into the shop next monday! assuming I can find a hoist for an hour or so during the weekend.

haydgq · Post by **haydgq** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:49 pm

flyingbrick wrote:yeah going into the shop next monday! assuming I can find a hoist for an hour or so during the weekend.

Sweet is it going to shop for the cab swap or something else.?? have you been working with Wayne much lately.?

Cheers

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:04 pm

yeah cab swap. not been into car tune for ages.

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:55 pm

oooh sweet Jesus. Two more days then the body comes off and the lux body goes back on.

Sadam_Husain · Post by **Sadam_Husain** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:28 pm

flyingbrick wrote:oooh sweet Jesus. Two more days then the body comes off and the lux body goes back on.

Happening this weekend is it :mrgreen:

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:18 pm

yeah. Its pretty scary. :lol:

Up early tomorrow to finish stripping the body out and removing everything i need.

Phoned up Warren at 4wd bits and got a bunch of 4 alloy 16x10's arriving here on monday.
As always they went out of their way to look after me :mrgreen:

Escudo boy · Post by **Escudo boy** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:37 pm

12 pages and finally some progress

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:46 pm

Escudo boy wrote:12 pages and finally some progress

Escudo boy · Post by **Escudo boy** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:54 pm

12 freaking pages......

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:57 pm

Escudo boy wrote:12 freaking pages......

you are such a loser.

Escudo boy · Post by **Escudo boy** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:14 pm

ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE freaking posts in one year

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