Release The Kraken ...

[tr8er 6,486]

4 hours ago, Skib said:

Welp this thing will run for the next 7 hours or so lol and hopefully a decent gauge pod comes out of it 😂

Only three more hours!

[Skib 3,005]

Had some issues lastnight and had to restart. But the current print is coming along nicely.

[]2eDeYe 9,603]

I hear a little whistle 😄

[Skib 3,005]

All aboard the boost train! Choo! Choo!

[Skib 3,005]

Lol wound up taking almost 11 hours to print.

[Skib 3,005]

Just a little mock up, doing an experiment and coating the whole print in fiberglass resin to see if it stiffens up the print. Also makes for a smooth sandable surface for paint.

[Skib 3,005]

Still have some more gauges to order but it's getting there. Also upgraded my typical melted 240z fuse box to a blade fuse box mounted in the glove box

[Skib 3,005]

Also found a factory fuel filler since mines hard as a rock and leaks like a civ

[Rhapakatui 1,646]

Oh crap! I ran out of crap to talk on the rest of the interweb. I saw that I had updates on Ratsun and decided to comment. Little did I know, the skibert was back with the project that I keep hearing rumors about!  Good to see you back in the game! I bet you're better funded than I am after a long time away.

[Skib 3,005]

I may end up going to a mega squirt, still fighting with the stock stuff and AFRs are all over the place.

[Skib 3,005]

spent a good two days heating and beating to get drums off lol its been along time since these have been off.

 

 

also got some JDM Celica fender mirrors in today

[Skib 3,005]

still waiting on wheel cylinders but got my mirrors on in the mean time...

[datzenmike 39,280]

The good news? I don't hate them.

 

Do your drums have the threaded holes in them?  Two 12mm?  bolts and tighten in against the WMS and it pries them off.

[Skib 3,005]

Nope lol just have to oil and heat...

[datzenmike 39,280]

And BFH.

[Lozer 152]

How did the resin work out on the gauge pod print?

[Skib 3,005]

4 hours ago, Lozer said:

How did the resin work out on the gauge pod print?

 

It didn't lol

 

It was better in theory than practice lol but now we know...

[]2eDeYe 9,603]

like so many experiments lol

[Skib 3,005]

Lol indeed

[Skib 3,005]

Bit weak since the AFRs are still all over, but had a bit of a laugh with it anyway 😂

 

 

[Skib 3,005]

Decided to go megasquirt. so while I wait, made up a mount bracket for some LS coils. Because with MS there's no reason not to go coil packs.

[slowlearner 162]

On 1/6/2021 at 9:11 AM, Skib said:

Bit weak since the AFRs are still all over, but had a bit of a laugh with it anyway 😂

 

 

 

I'm jealous of your weak burnout. 😆

 

And I applaud the switch to MS. When I stop moving house and get my garage back, my 510 is getting a microsquirt. Had one on my last car and LOVED it. Which ECU are you using MS2?

[Skib 3,005]

Going to MS seems to be a universally recommend switch from the 40 year old stuff lol. Going to be running MS2 V3.57

 

 

[Skib 3,005]

Have still been working on the Z

 

but also still doing a lot of waiting, I ordered my MS and harness in Dec which was meant to have a 4-6 week lead.... and still waiting....

I was going to leave the body just sorta ratty and run it, buuuuut... I found some rust that was worse than I thought...

 

and if I have to fix that I may as well do body work and paint it, even though I was trying to avoid that.

so blown apart again it gets...

 

 

 

Finally found where I stashed my original HKS Super that needs some clean up and fixing.

 

coming along so far...
 

 

Its missing the trumpet horn, but I found one for sale in japan marked as "Junk" but had the horn

so there goes 10K yen because who knows when Ill even find another one lol

 

[Noll 710]

Ouch, that's no fun. Hopefully the underlying structure isn't too bad, the outer skin shouldn't be too bad of a patch.