EK Wagon

[BigMuz]

Fridays off sounds pretty fucking excellent to me.

[6000SUX]

Fridays off sounds pretty fucking excellent to me.

It's good to be the boss! The downside is that I earn less, but I reckon if I did my job 5 days a week that I'd be a miserable prick so I voted for quality of life over cash.

[Cal]

Oh.... funny story. I got busted big time by No-Pics. She knew that the engine had shit itself and I'd told her that I was putting in a new engine, but she had no idea about what I was doing which suited me just fine. Well at Rally Queensland a few weeks back I was chatting with an old rally friend and he asked me about my cars so I told him about the Camaro and what I was doing with the EK. Well it turns out he was doing commentary on a PA system at the spectator point the next day and No-Pics was in the crowd waiting for us to come through when she hears over the PA system exactly what was happening to the EK in great detail.... DOH!

Crossed off Xmas card list for certain!

[6000SUX]

I had a productive day ...

Be gone traction control!


Intercooler piping is done. I think it came up really well, and its quite short so I can't imagine that there will be much lag.






I made up the mother of all brackets that mounts the water-air intercooler radiator, transmission cooler and thermo fan all into one unit. The sides are closed in with rubber so the fan only draws through the IC radiator.



It mounts up inside the left hand front guard behind the headlight. I've cut an opening in behind the grill that will feed fresh air to it via a duct.



I'll get a photo of it in place once I've bolted it in place. It's all apart at the moment as I had to paint the steel brackets.

The tailshaft arrived and is in place. I need to extend the cut in the tunnel a bit more to give it some more clearance. We've already made up a new tunnel that will be trimmed to suit and welded in next Friday. The brake line guy arrives next week to sort out the new lines for the brakes and fuel system.

Fingers crossed this will be ready to drive in a few weeks time.

[BigMuz]

Hopefully it's soon!

[6000SUX]

I know they are shit photos but I finished off the ducting for the intercooler radiator. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out as you can't see any of it.

The radiator mounted inside the guard behind the head light.


I'm aiming to finalise the angle of the diff on Friday.

[6000SUX]

Well I had a prick of a day. I'd planned to get the diff sorted and instead got a good lesson in measure shit first! The bearings were shot in the Volvo diff so I ordered a replacement set but neglected to measure the diameter of the retaining/lock ring that presses on after the bearing.... The supplied replacement was 4 mm larger in diameter. I ended up wasting half the day redoing it and it fucked the inner seal so I had to order new ones also.

Anyway, I got the inlet tract and air box roughed out. I just used some pipe that was laying around the workshop (I'll be getting rid of the purple!), and used a VN Commodore air box inside the front right guard. I still need to cut an opening in the front like I did for the intercooler radiator and make a duct and bracket up but it all sits in place nicely.

Shit iPhone photos again...

[BigMuz]

Airbox looks super shit but I guess it's hidden :D

3 weeks to go??!

[6000SUX]

Airbox looks super shit but I guess it's hidden :D

3 weeks to go??!

Yeah it's pretty ghetto! You won't see it after I make the ducting, plus I liked the idea of being able to use a factory air filter and not sucking hot air out of the engine bay.

I reckon I won't get it done in time for Rally Australia. It's not so bad though as I'll make the trip in the Camaro. It will just cost me a lot more in fuel!

[BigMuz]

Well that's ok then :D

They have converted the old velodrome into the sss by the way. That should be really good.

[BigMuz]

Sorry for the hijack.

[6000SUX]

Well that's ok then :D

They have converted the old velodrome into the sss by the way. That should be really good.

Sorry for the hijack.

That's a good reason for a hijack!

[6000SUX]

I finished off the plumbing for the water-air intercooler today. It's turned out pretty well. The inline radiator cap can be unbolted from underneath and then raised to allow the system to be filled and bled





The pump is a Bosch Cobra Pump. I was able to mount it up behind the bumper.



I also arranged for a brake guy to come and sort out the brake and fuel system. He ran all new lines from the new master cylinder, made braided hoses to suit the new brakes, and also ran a new fuel feed line and then plumbed the old feed line as a return. It's come up really well but I couldn't seem to get a half decent photo of any of it with my crappy iPhone.

[6000SUX]

Baby Moons are in the house!

[big_pete]

noice!

Great to see so much progress so quickly!

PS. This has to be the most active build thread on PF no?