Fast eddies street duties 86

[ae8zn6]

Also a huge fan of the colour, you are doing a great job on this Eddie! Makes anything I have ever tried doing on body work like it was done by a two year old

[FAST EDDIE]

picked up the shell yesterday looking mint!
rebuilt the clutch master and the brake master, i had an issue with the rebuild kit supplied by powerbrakes a few years back where the brakes locked on after a very short drive, i questioned them this time and it turns out that there were 2 types of bmc, one had steel pistons one had ally pistons, and they use a different seal kit!!!!
went to reinstall the steering column and found it had collapsed in the accident which im sure Jesse was very happy about (they have 2 collapse points both were gone) so i replaced the column.

[FAST EDDIE]

Spent some time today fitting up the interior. I also painted the dash (steel section) its the body colour just with black added, reason for this is because the body colour would reflect on the inside of the windscreen too much.
the panels got painted today, it was 38deg in the booth but lucky my mate is a champion and powered on and finished them off!!!
Will pick them up tomora, hopefuly have the body completely back together by the end of the weekend and the motor in!

[ae8zn6]

I can't believe how quickly this is coming together

Especially considering the scale of the repairs

[FAST EDDIE]

Well im onto 12 days of full hours working on this. So today proved very productive, fitted doors fitted guards fitted hatch seats in. very happy with the outcome so far.
pumped 1l of cavity wax into the quaters, need about 3 more litres for the doors and the quaters and im going to have to courier them up monday, need to pick up some spray grease for the locks and hinges.
I also fitted my lock i rebuilt at the start of this build thread.
last thing today i ripped a t18t50 out of a wreck, so it turns out this has 20spline so i got a ke20 single piece tailshaft which is the correct length, also after some searching turns out the ke70 tailshaft is the same spline aswell so will chuck the motor in in the morning.

[FAST EDDIE]

first thing thismorning put the spiggot bearing in, backing plate on, t18 box, ae93 clutch slave with spacers because they differ from 86. the motor has a trd puk clutch. then dropped the motor in and bolted it up. and the first problem occurs, wiring loom too short....

[genkin]

Looks good man!
I'm loving the colour and what you're doing with it!
I'm so glad it's going to see the road again

[FAST EDDIE]

SMall update, as i only managed to do part of a quaterpanel with 1l of cavity wax i ordered 3l more which turned up today, and 2l of stone guard for the sill panels and under the wheel arches! i also built a workbench today and the first piece of steel i bought into the shed i managed to scratch the back panel grrr.

Alot of time is spent to do a 4ac to 4ag conversion correctly doing fidly bits and pieces. i fitted my new radiator today. ive never had any luck with 4ags and temp gauges so hopefuly fitting all the original item this one will not overheat.

i put a little spacer on the waterpipe out the back of the thermo housing and tapped it 1/8bsp for a barbed fitting. I also tapped the rear water housing on the back of the head for a barbed fitting for the coolant to the throttlebody, Ive also never hooked this up on a 4ag conversion so will see how it goes.

yesterday i fitted the extractors, they sit very close to the clutch slave, i also made a flange and welded it to them for the 02 sensor, this i fitted upside down under the back of the rack as it was the only place i could fit it where the 4 pipes meet, i will need to remember not to do any bush bashing or it might get bent up!!

[Matt]

For the 20v wiring i did, i ended up cutting a new hole for the engine loom to go through the firewall just to the side of the transmission tunnel on the drivers side. From memory it was about half way between the clutch slave and the edge of the tunnel.

I'll also have a look at the way i routed a small port loom recently to see if u can mount things like the coil near the battery to get a few extra cm on the loom. Extending 2 wires is much better than having to extend them all.

Great job on this, the paint / finish looks really good.

[FAST EDDIE]

Yeah i did think about putting another hole in the firewall but im not into modifying the body! instead i just lengthened it and was content.
great success yesterday, after i farked around with the wiring trying to troubleshoot some fuel pump trigger isues i found a proble with a wiring instruction i was using.
it says to connect the white with red trace wireto + which is suppose to be connected to the brake light switch which is a fuel economy feature when the brake is applied.
also the fuel pump trigger on a smallport is different to other ecus ive wired. the green with red trace wire is the fuel pump trigger, this is connected to the - pin on your relay no 85, ususaly the ecu will trigger a short burst of fuel pump when the ecu is powered up to presurise the system before cranking, on the smallport the fuel pump is not active until the engine is cranked.

I also fixed a water leak at the waterpump backing to the block (there is and oring seal) it turns out i overlooked tightening the 12mm bolts that hold it to the block, (this happens when you get older haha)

i got into the rear wheel arches with 1l of stone guard to protect them, i then fitted the rear bar and factory mudflaps.

i pulled the fuel tank out yesterday to have a look at the fuel system turned out jesse had put an intank pump in which was a hi5 all round great success.

so i managed to get the thing to run and drive ( 1m back and forth in the shed) last thing yesterday so i celebrated with a single pegger skid!

GREAT SUCCESS!!!!