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26 November 2011

After not touching the car for about a month I thought it was about time I did something on it. Seeing as the oil cooler was all done I thought the radiator and grill could go back in. I'd tested the radiator a while back and it held water ok, so I'm just going to use this one for now until it proves that its not up to the job. It was looking a bit tatty, so I gave it a lick of satin black paint. Much better. Bolted it back in. Then the overflow bottle had to be moved up as high as possible to clear the oil cooler hoses, but it fitted back in neat. The grille went back on ok, but not before I smashed it with the broom while chasing a bird out of the shed. Of course my perfect grill got a big old dent in it. I straightened it up as best I could. Then the rocker cover has been annoying me for a while. So I whipped it off and degreased it, paint stripped it, and etch primered it. Now to decide what colour to paint it. Also, the water pump looks a bit ordinary, with lots of alloy corrosion. So it might need replacing too. Next job it to sort out the plug on the coil wires that I broke when moving it around.

6 December 2011

Instead of spending the little money I have on getting the car closer to running, I went and bought another pair of wheels. Not even a full set. Ah well, I do like wheels, and these 13x7" slot mags were too cheap to turn down. They're fairly clean, gave one a polish up and it looks good, but needs something a bit coarser to get the couple of blemishes off. I'm very happy with them though. I just need to find some nuts that fit now.

And wouldn't you know it, the wheels are the wrong PCD. Only about 95mm, not the 108 I need. Damn ebay listing being wrong!

16 January 2012

Not much at all has been going on with poor old Bandit. I'm kinda in a slump motivation wise at the moment. I think its cause there are things I need to get done on it that I can't do, like the welding of arches and brackets, plus a few other things. But hey, it can sit there a bit longer and when I get to use my Christmas present from Carlyn (which was a day in the shed to work on it) I might get excited about things again. I have been looking at the seat position and the gear lever. Its just a little bit too far away when in 1st and 3rd. I either need to get an extension that goes back, or move the seat forward. More thinking needed here. I've also played with a new (old) centre console and my collection of gauges. Its the right idea, but the switches won't be reachable once I'm strapped in the harness, so not much point putting them there. And I thought I had an oil pressure gauge, but I couldn't find it. And then the next problem was the back axle. I spend an hour cleaning the grime off the 2L one so I could start thinking about getting it back together. But once clean I noticed the massive cracks in it. So its scrap. Lucky I've got another mk2 axle in the shed, so we'll clean that and see what it looks like. And lastly, I've been doing a bit of thinking about the crotch strap on the harness and how I'm going to mount it. That's about all though, just thinking.

24 March 2012

When I was changing the radiator hoses I found the water pump was very corroded inside, so I grabbed a new one of them. And also my new master cylinder turned up. It was meant to be the same as the unboosted mk1 one that I already had, but of course its a mk2 one and the thread sizes are different and I don't know what bore size it is. Then I had a play with the twin cam arches to see what was what. Offered them up and they look like they'll do the job. But the sill trims and bumper were in the way so i pulled those off too. I hate taking stuff off the car cause I know it'll be years before it goes back on! The passenger side sill was ok apart from the jack dent. The drivers one might need some work, and the bottom of the front guard is cactus too. And finally, Matty was getting rid of some old Formula Ford tyres, so I had to grab those too :)

11 April 2012

Again with the offering up of the arches this time with nothing in the way. Next step, work out how the hell to get them on there. Better procrastinate a bit more while I work that out. You can see the rot in the bottom of the drivers side guard too. I some ways it'd be nice to put a whole new guard on there, but I'm not sure that is an option. Also my tax treat for myself turned up from the UK, a beaut GRP4 Fabrications alloy radiator. Its a thing of beauty.

20 May 2012

Denis and Leila came down for the weekend, and Denis brought the wheels that I'd bought in Qld and sent to Canberra (cause it was cheaper). They a beaut 13x7 slot mag, this time in the right PCD and also there are 4 of them. I love them. They need a bit of a cleanup and polish, but they will look awesome once sorted. Denis and I also whipped the old radiator out on Saturday night, then pulled the old water pump off too. Its a right mess inside. Hopefully the water jacket on the block isn't as bad as that. Then we thought we'd see how the new radiator fits. But of course it's not simple. It looks like it needs the front paneling cut away like they do on the 2L in mk1s. Damn it.

12 June 2012

I had a bit of a poke at the rust around the front guard. There was a heap of dirt and junk that came out of the leading edge. Then to see how bad it really was I buzzed it over with the angle grinder. The looks a bit holey. So now I need to decide if I have a go at patching it up, and then putting the twin cam arch on, or just ripping the guard off and sticking the twin cam arch on the brand new guard I've found. I've got the old guard off Bandit1 that I can use bits of, which might help things.

18 June 2012

Jim up in Sydney had a mk1 that he'd bought from Qld that had a 4AGE 20V Toyota motor in it. He didn't want the motor out of it so was selling it. I thought about it for a while and then rang him. I'd always wanted a 4AGE ever since Luke had one in Newcastle in his Corolla panel van. That thing was nuts. So a deal was done and it was mine! It came with all the trimmings, Escort crossmember, computer, wiring, fuel pumps, etc. So now I gotta work out how to get it in the Bandit. Or do I get it running with the 1600 in it first. If I go the 4AGE I can't get club rego. But it would be a fantastic track car with the 4AGE in it. SO many decisions. So it can sit around as a shed ornament for a while yet! Maybe it could go in the Anglia...

4 July 2012

Trev had a guy from the BMW club staying with him, and he was in the tyre business. So on the off chance he could do a nice deal on a set of 185/60R13s I dropped him and email. And for $45 per tyre I could get a set, and better yet his truck came down Nowra way so the tyres got dropped off at Better Tyres in town. And they were awesome and had them fitted to the 13x7 minilights in half an hour. I had to chuck them on the car and put it back on the ground for a look. I love it! I must find that digit extractor somewhere and get this welding sorted so I can bolt the front end together. Then try and get the thing ready to start up. Sounds so simple when you say it like that :(

16 July 2012

Slowly, slowly is the go. Last weekend I managed to get some time in the shed and put the car back up in the air and arced up the welder and got the compression strut brackets on. The welding is not real pretty, but they seem to be on there. Then I pulled the drivers side strut out and removed the headlight to have a go at the rust in the front of the guard. I cut a section out, then measured up the spare B1 guard and marked that out. Then the weekend I got the courage to cut the patch section out. I only had one go at it so double checked measurements etc and then cut. I still managed to get it a few mm too short, but it'll have to do. So now I'll cut a few more patch sections then break out the welder again and get them in. Then I can think about how I'm going to get those arches on.

30 July 2012

I ran into Matt down town and we decided to get into the arches on the car tonight. So he brought his compressor and air tools over and we set about getting the arch sorted. We made some little brackets that the pins would lock into to locate the arch. Once it was in position we cut through the 2 materials all round the arch. Then held it on there with our brackets and a few clamps. Then out with the welder and tacked it on. It took a bit to get the settings right and a couple of holes got blown in it. But Matt got some real nice runs going towards the end. It got a bit late so we didn't get it ground back and the 2 lower ends still need sorting too but I need to fit the brackets there. I tell you what though, I'm bloody excited that we've started on that!

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