Mark Persist and you will find a way.
A case in point. I poked my nose down the the driveway of a "noisy neighbour" today, to see what was making all the strange V8 noises that blast out of his shed after 10pm, and can be heard all over our town late in the night. This young petrol head started a couple of years ago with a VS Statesman V8 - which he promptly totalled. Whilst then without licence, he started building a TA23 Celica which he has set up for a 308 Holden with the biggest turbo I have ever seen (looks like a truck one!). This was what I really went down the drive to check out, as i had seen this work in progress in the driveway for some time. He got tired of this project taking too long and he already had his licence back, so and bought some cheap wheels, a Mazda E2000 Van. A proverbial white van. When I turned up he was just pulling up the engine cowl off to find out why the 253 V8 engine in his Mazda Van had, just half an hour earlier, caught on fire whilst being driven (fortunately near home). He has an extinguisher on board (Quote; "Its not the first time I've had an engine catch fire"). He put out the blaze and when her tried to restart, the engine exploded, blowing off the hoses and bending the rocker covers outward, shearing the screws that hold them on. All this must have been pretty exciting seeing he was sitting on top of it in the drivers seat. As I was about to leave him busily stripping out the engine, he apologised for making a lot of noise at nights. I reassured him it was like music to my ears (perhaps I'm a bit deaf) and not to worry about me, I am also a bloke who works hard to create interesting motor vehicles in his sheds at night - I invited him to come over to my shed when he gets his machine mobile again. As he started to unbolt everything to remove the motor he explained how easy it was to install the 253 Holden into the space left by the Mazda 2 litre four. Only one small bubble needed to be added to the engine cowel to fit the bigger radiator's top tank. The bell housing was modified to fit to the mazda gearbox which has proved unbreakable to date (and I've heard him trying hard to break it!). He says its the same as a rotary Mazda box so its pretty tough. He reckons the industrial diff in it is tough too. I noticed he already had a new (308 V8) engine in a stand in the shed, ready to instal into the Van - hence he wasnt too concerned about the "exploding" 253. Quite a "Q ship" I said, using an expression that shows my age. "Is it engineered?" I asked. "Not yet" was the reply. Methinks he may again revisit being "without licence". ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 7:45 PM Subject: water-air intercooler - suppliers in ACT/NSW > Anyone know of suppliers of a compact water-to-air intercooler that > sits in the standard intake pipe located across the front of FJ20ET? Or > am I wasting my time with such a set-up? Car is 1600 running about > 10psi for 130rwkw ATM (no IC) > > Got my little supra IC yesterday and removed chrome bits on Datsun to > see how it fits (unbelievably fiddling thanks to pop-rivets holding > grille to headlight surrounds, tricky to spanner off the bolts hold the > centre grille on, I can hardly get to them!) > Anyway at this stage with the donor wreck parked nose in to my street > car, to observe for template to cut the pipe holes, but there's nothing > to cut out since mine has all been neatly widened to expose N13 Pulsar > radiator to cool air. Also bit tight around the intake and radiator > in-let. (donor car ran z18t with stock rad). > > Pretty much give up on this I think, yes I give-in easily, but only > because I remember a neat water IC done in a white Fj20 1600 years ago > in Fastfours or similar. > > Mark.JT. > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
