Project Greenstone.

got a question for ya^^ those front bumper side indicater did you do the wires yourself? i have them but not connected yet!

Mmm, long time since Ive updated here..Firstly, the lights have not been connected yet.
The rear tail lights were sourced from N.Z....at one hell of a price !

Saturday afternoon Im on my way to Japfest when I notice that in traffic and stop and go conditions my temp got a bit high..
Got home from Japfest and looked around to see wazz up..Mmmm, both those little stront fcukin aircon chinese shit fans are burnt out..Mmm.

Saturday afternoon I spend time trying to massage a single , proper rad fan into space that does not exist.

Long story short, I managed to fit an all aluminium Superboss Opel fan and shroud into my car.
It is sooo tight that I had to cut off the surplus studs on the waterpump pulley against the nuts !!
The surplus studs on the fan also had to go ! Tight, very very tight..

The ally fan shroud also underwent some extensive milling on my mill in the garage as well..

And just so by the way, anyone wanting to fit an aftermarket performance ally radiator into there cars ..look carefully. You will see that the radiator if its made specifically for your S13 or S14 will have two dowel pins (locators) underneath.

You HAVE to remove the stock brackets from the trailing rods that were used for the original radiator .
I discovered why my radiator was almost touching the bonnet..the brackets were never removed and the radiator was simply put on top of the two brackets.
With the brackets removed the radiator dropped straight into their receptacles and it all got lowered by at least 30 mm.

I can now say that probably for the first time the radiator is properly mounted and secondly the rad fan is working as it should.
Comes on for about 5 seconds and then switches off. This cycling of on /off at idling happens every 2 minutes or so.

Im very happy with temp control now.

Maybe get a fan controller.
Got one from autostyle after I sa the billion one was 3.5K a does the same thing.
http://www.autostyle.co.za/product/13858/AutogaugeFanTempController/

Now I have 2 water temp gauges and 2 oil temp gauges.On the block and inline for water temp ,Relocation Greddy adaptor and inside the sump for oil temp.
We checked the water temp to when the thermostat is rated and it was spot on.
And you can set the start temp and stop temp for the fan,which is very convenient.
Poizen fitted one also-really thinks it works well for the price.

Ah, a nifty gadget...will look into it, thanks...

Todays run to Swarties....John had the camera, I was out in front..

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b324/BarryHenning/th_MVI_4822.jpgdl_o1pyA0Ds

Mmmmmmmm, click on it, it works...

When I bought my car from Alistair , it had a dump valve fitted.
Sounded real nice and dumped an all. A while back I noticed that it just was not the same anymore. Opened it up and found the diaphragm to be fubarred. Ok , so I disconnect it from the system but leave it mounted.

Been wanting to take it off so today I whip it off and machine up a dummy cover for the "v" band mounting.
Bingo, all done.

I look at the DV and see that the valve was not seating very well. As a matter of fact it was leaking badly.
This is after I had re machined the valve previously but could not match it perfectly to it`s seat.

I also sorted out the accelerator cable mount of the Freddy manifold. Took her for a quick run after lighting the braai fire to see.

Mmmmm, what a difference. Also noticed that the boost is now up from 8psi to 10 psi. , the turbo spools much quicker and the reversion flutter from the comp. is way more pronounced and sharp.

After our run tomorrow Ill machine up an adapter to mount the quality TIAL dump valve.

chinese shit ??? Stay away guys, it makes you slower !

And iv`e now done 22000 Km since buying her in January !

😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 22000km?!?!?

Damn we need a Reliable SX award, and needs to go to you Barry!

Lol that's 22k on one car not one engine Peggy 😛

I know, But lets do this, On my white SX 2 motors, 2k km thats it..... just to give you perspective... 😀

Sorry for the Hi-Jack

First engine was damaged when we traveled back from Cape Town and it over heated so badly. In that condition it still did over 19000 km !

The new TIAL bov is just tremendous ! Machine up an adapter yesterday and fitted it all. This morninf II drive to work and nothing. Give it a few more runs and gear changes and suddenly ...aha ! It works and sounds rather ok.
Did about 100km today and the bov is superb. I do however need to give it it`s own signal pipe . At the moment there`s a little lag in it opening which is seen by a slight bit of reversion out the turbo.

TIAL ?? Quality stuff !

I got a tial wastegate and it is awesome

Sooo, Nick came for a visit last night at the shop. We chatted and chatted....and chatted...

He is busy with a 2.8 stroker for the R33 seeing as I am not buying it anymore.

Watch this space, I may just be faarkin off over the horizon soon... 😉

Any one interested in a brand new 800 HP capable Lexus V8 Turbo with CP`s , Argo`s ,Kelford`s , etc..??

Since going NEO iI have had nothing but crap with the chinese fcukin exhaust manifold. In two months I have had it weld repaired three times.
Today it cracked again.

I also commissioned a steam pipe manifold from a friend of mine. Problem is the oke is also not finishing it for me !
On Wednesday evening I saw what a stock cast mani can do with an external waste gate mounted to it.
Chap had a spare but when I called him on Thursday for it , it was no longer for sale.

I brought mine home tonight and got stuck in doing the external w/gate mod.
No where on the net can I get any pics of this having been done.

These may be the first.

I will, after welding, sit with a cirk grinder and remove the pipe sections inside the throat .After that I`l machine up a flange for the TIAL and get to fit everything.
Will have to re thing the down pipe gain but that's no biggy.....

Sheesh that's quite a interesting idea

got a RB25 std mani if you need

Cheers bud, will see how this one works and where it starts choking..

Today I sorted out the waste gate adapter and mount for the mani.
Tomorrow I will have it welded as I don't have stainless rods at the moment.
Looking at it like this I hope it will be low enough for the bonnet to clear.It should be..

Here I will simply cut a piece of thick wall pipe to use as a filler...

It also does not protrude as much as the first rendition of a pipe/ adapter..

The tube is simply a cast steel reduction piece that I used..
It is still nice a thick walled to allow for the TIAL flange to be machined.

Ive been wanting to improve the lights on my car for ever already..I really battle with not seeing well at night and prefer not driving at night.
The Merc has Xenon`s and they are fantastic at night, no fears there.
I saw an advert in Sticker and Speaker Mag , company selling HID, Xenon's..out in Helderkriun , Roodepoort..
Jump in the car yesterday and beetle off to get a set.
Chicky at the counter says no probs, they are Phillips bulbs.
Cool, I get them and get home last night wanting to fit them. I soon see that its going to take a bit more effort than the time I had at home , so take them to work today.
A whole 1.5 hours later they are fitted and working brilliantly !!
Was a bit peeved that when I opened it all up it was chinese bulbs and not Phillips..but nou ja..
Waited until it was rather dark tonight before coming home and WOW!! What a difference these have made !
As good as the Merc , no question about it. I am impressed with a chinese product ! The sky is going to fall !!

Cannot really take pics of lights at night but here they are..

The best about these is that they are all plug in, no soldering or fabricating at all. Most tedious job was taking the lights out to mount the little boxes behind the headlamp bowl. Tucked and tie strapped everything up and I am one happy customer...

Now for the brights.....

BigKriss wrote:

Now for the brights.....

Is it not a BiXenon HID kit? Mine works perfectly well on high and low beam

Uhmmm....Hell, I dont know ! Will check today !