Regies NB8B (The Tic Tac)

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Mon May 31, 2010 4:53 pm

This timing belt seems to be going better than i thought.

its beer oclock, ill do water pump in the morning, then its put back together time

the water pumps seems as though it has been leaking a tad. The front of the block it white

haha

i shall be picking up a Cooling Pro radiator tomorrow also

gobsmax · Postby **gobsmax** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:29 pm

nice one dude....we'll fix it properly at your dodgy day :lol:

broady · Postby **broady** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:35 pm

Yeah, I'll bring a hammer and angle grinder, that'll fix it.

RawSouth · Postby **RawSouth** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:38 pm

broady wrote:Yeah, I'll bring a hammer and angle grinder, that'll fix it.

Nah, you only need duct tape and WD40.

If it moves, and it shouldn't, use duct tape. If it doesn't move, and it should, use WD40.

You can trust us Regie, we'll have her fixed in a jiffy

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:41 pm

RawSouth wrote:
broady wrote:Yeah, I'll bring a hammer and angle grinder, that'll fix it.

Nah, you only need duct tape and WD40.

If it moves, and it shouldn't, use duct tape. If it doesn't move, and it should, use WD40.

You can trust us Regie, we'll have her fixed in a jiffy

haha it should be back on the road by tomorrow though

woo!

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:37 pm

1st June.

Project timing belt continued

woke up nice and early this morning, first thing was to replace the water pump and gaskets. not a bad job at all.

The back was sore by the end of it though, so i thought i would head down to Just Jap and pick up my new cooling pro radiator...man this core is like 3 times the thickness of the std radiator

i like!

next was the oil seals. I only did the crank and the exhaust cam oil seals. The timing kit i bought didnt have the correct seal for the VVT inlet cam. A quick call to Mania and it should be here tomorrow along with a new thermostat and gasket.

I also painted the rocker cover with that wrinkle finish paint.. i think the black will look good with all the polished bits in my engine bay

progress pics

two40 · Postby **two40** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:15 pm

I was just showing my colleague these pics. He just paid $1400 for a major service including new water pump. Pays to do it yourself if you can.

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:59 pm

two40 wrote:I was just showing my colleague these pics. He just paid $1400 for a major service including new water pump. Pays to do it yourself if you can.

oh wow....well its just about complete...ive just kicked it over and she starts... just gotta put belts and radiator in and then its a thrashing round the block

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:23 pm

Love the Wrinkle paint on the engine cover.

Top job.

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:32 pm

Hammer wrote:Love the Wrinkle paint on the engine cover.

Top job.

yeah it looks good with all the polished goodies in the bay

you coming tonight mate?

ITS ALIVE and running tops! i shall bring it down for a run tonight

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:40 pm

Afraid not. Still at work I'm afraid. :frown:

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:33 pm

3rd June

well i thought that while the spill tray is off under the car, i might as well order some new sway bars

so off to Whiteline i go, front one came today. Will have to wait till next week for the rear one.

I smacked the front on in just then and wow the difference it makes to the turn in of the car is amazing. I still have it on the "soft" setting. Cant wait for the roads to dry up

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:24 pm

10th June

Rear sway bar installed.. Makes the car a lot more flat. With my Koni's turned up full hard and both sway bars on the soft setting the car seems to be very tail happy. I will have to fiddle around with the settings.

Jobs still to do:

Fuel Filter replacement
Reinstall front spill tray

Tommorrows jobs i think

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:31 pm

some random completed pics

i think i might try and polish up the VVT actuator this weekend

RawSouth · Postby **RawSouth** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:31 pm

Regie wrote:10th June

Rear sway bar installed.. Makes the car a lot more flat. With my Koni's turned up full hard and both sway bars on the soft setting the car seems to be very tail happy. I will have to fiddle around with the settings.

Nice!

Try the front sway on its hardest setting, with the rear on soft. Thats how I have mine, it seems pretty good

No understeer, just a lot less oversteer