Lunacy's Targa Car Build

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:21 am

JAS wrote:Have you shifted man??? Looks like a bigger garage??

Na still in the same place mate, just cleaned the whole garage before i started stripping the car down which gave me ALOT more room haha :)

smodgee · Post by **smodgee** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:01 pm

If you need any photos of roll-cages justr let me know. I've got some sitting in my computer of my cars(both cages slightly different), might give you a few ideas for when you do yours,

Website · Post by **WidebodyWoody** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:17 pm

Man it is looking good and I am jealous. It is looking very nice. Well done. Can't wait to see how it handles/moves/looks.

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:34 pm

WidebodyWoody wrote:Man it is looking good and I am jealous. It is looking very nice. Well done. Can't wait to see how it handles/moves/looks.

Thanks woody :) Am hoping its gonna be balls to the wall fast, and on rails round corners :)

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:34 pm

Well last minute update before i go back to sea for the last trip of the year.
Engine bay is totally bare, ready for sanding and painting.
Am just waiting for my flywheel insert to arrive from Australia, before all the engine parts go to the builders (hopefully tomorrow morn before i leave for work :) )
Everything else is boxed up and ready to go.
Spent the last week down south and did a wee bit of shopping:
Spec stage 3 clutch
Tial 38mm External Wastegate
BSE kit
Mitsi OEM Metal headgasket
New flywheel bolts
Crank spacer to eliminate balance shaft cog
Racepro bonnet pins

Also got all my front subframes and brackets back from the powder coaters which look just as good as the rear ones i had done earlier.

So fingers crossed should have a new engine ready to go in after the next 4 weeks at work.

:beer :beer :beer

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:32 pm

Well engine is at the builders as of yesterday so all going well will be done in a couple of weeks :)
Flywheel insert arrived ok, and also been splurging on a few other new bits.
Bought a vr4 loom to strip down to the bare essentials, that plugs strait into my EMS ecu.
Also bought an OBX lightweight crank pulley, as my harmonic dampner was well stuffed.
And a Sard fuel regulator :)
And won a set of near new RC 750cc low impedance injectors yesterday on ebay for a very good price last night.

and last but not least, a set of 3.90 gears for my LSD :)
Oh and a Mazda B2600 bellhousing haha yeah spent far too much lately!!!

Have managed to do a few things at work too.
Have stripped down and overhauled one of my 4 pot callipers, and rebuilt it with a full new seal kit. Hopefully gonna get the other one done in next day or so.
Also stripped down my rocker cover ready for breather mods, and paint.
Have my front suspension arms on the ship too to burn the bushings out of since a certain suspension shop in Auckland managed to completely stuff the ones i sent them to have the bushings removed :glare:
Couple of pics:
Brake calliper after rebuild

Stripped rocker cover

FPR and crank pulley

More to come soon.

JAS · Post by **JAS** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:57 pm

:beer

Nice man. This thing is going to be to nice to bang about on a race track lol

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:56 am

JAS wrote::beer

Nice man. This thing is going to be to nice to bang about on a race track lol

Thanks man :)
Yeah will be pretty gutted if i stack it first time i take it out but gonna try hard not to.
Then again i do have a rather heavy right foot :beer

RiceThief · Post by **RiceThief** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:12 pm

Quite a collection of parts you have there. This is a great thread to give me more motivation to work on my car. :beer

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:09 pm

RiceThief wrote:Quite a collection of parts you have there. This is a great thread to give me more motivation to work on my car. :beer

Haha yeah hopefully said large collection of parts may 1 day make a fast car :)

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:02 pm

Looking good Bryce :beer

Bitza · Post by **Bitza** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:46 pm

Can I ask what the calipers are off of?

Are they a direct bolt on?

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:10 pm

OLD FART wrote:Looking good Bryce :beer

Thanks Rad. Seem to have had alot of downtime at work during the past couple of weeks so getting the 'important' work done for a change :)

Bitza, the calipers are off a turbo R32 skyline, and they bolt on with a custom steel bracket, the specs of which are floating round here on the forum somewhere.

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:18 pm

Well been awhile since i updated this. Have actually been getting quite a bit done.
With the engine bay empty ive degreased it, and have started cutting off all the unnecessary brackets. Then just need to sand it back and have it painted (hopefully soon)
I dropped in on my engine builder to see how the build is going and so far he has tanked the block, line bored it and installed the arp main studs.
He did a clearance check with the old crank and found 1 rod journal wasn't going to cut the mustard so have given him yet another one to use (think ive been thru 4 or 5 cranks so far :(
So he said should have the short block done by xmas which is gd news.

Yesterday i went on a cleaning spree and degreased most random engine bay parts that will be going back in.
After doing the brake and clutch lines, i then repainted them in high temp silver paint which came up awesome.
Other stuff is in a pile for the third round at the powdercoaters.
Also overhauled and checked the brake booster.
Enough babble pics tell the story.

Head mocked up

Painting brake lines and rocker cover

Brake booster

More to come soon :)

enthuzed · Post by **enthuzed** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:59 pm

Pretty, pretty! :D

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