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[Aaron]

Polisher wise I use nothing special, it’s just a 6mm Dual-Action, but with a half decent electronic speed control and soft-start. It’s Rockwell branded but was bought years ago so wouldn’t know if the model currently for same is the same.
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[Aaron]

Mission accomplished. Not the shittest looking Camry on the street. More importantly, a couple of coats of CQuartz to keep it that way for about 5 minutes ...

[Aaron]

I get paid to clean cars from time to time, so driving around in a coarsely compounded Camry wasn’t going to pass for long. That and the shame of having a Camry with tired paint…



The results of yet another decontaminating...

[Aaron]

If it’s an Ascaso then it’s set up for a bike head and TBs - they have video of one smashing out 9000rpm on an engine dyno. Sounds ace. Does a bit over 100hp/l...

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Ascaso Engineering Morris/Mini block?

[Aaron]

Yep.
It was one of the (less important) reasons why we bought the Camry - having a high-mileage XR4 as a daily isn’t an issue right until the Gearbag pops. Over the next few months I’ll start either collecting Gearbag parts, although I have...

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Ecoboost has two different bellhousings. One that’s shared with Duratecs (and the Mazda cousins) and one that’s very similar but not quite the same. I’m ignoring the <2.0 Ecoboosts and Duratecs - they’re a Zetec pattern.

I...

[Aaron]

Nice
It’s good to work this stuff out so that when you do the engine swap and it ceases to work you know what to bypass or have the Haltech trigger.

[Aaron]

Thanks.

I used to buy them out of the UK as the problem I found here was getting shorter lengths and a wide range of combinations across the 3-4 gauges OEMs tend to use. Back when I started playing with the OEM loom stuff (15 years now)...

[Aaron]

Pics above are after a quick wash and top-up of the coating with Reload. I’ve also finally relented and used the Mr Black (aka dye) on the mirror bases and roof rail strips.

The Eibachs make it a touch lower than it was on the coilovers....

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Radiator or water plumbing. It’ll be another safeguard against dumping heat in front of the radiator.

[Aaron]

I now have to do the OBD connector, and the cluster tail for this. Ultimately the cluster my just be replaced with and Arduino that will mimic the key code exchange but for now working on making sure it’s able to be wired.

[Aaron]

Had some more stuff turn up for the standalone loom job.

The big win was the PATS Key Reader connectors that I was waiting for from the UK, somehow Farnell/Element14/DigiKey etc all only had stock in the UK.



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[Aaron]

On the A/C thing, is there a pressure switch on the plumbing that has failed? It’s usually a safeguard that prevents the AC from being activated if there’s no gas and would result in pretty much what you are experiencing. I’d almost bet it’s...

[Aaron]

Notionally they’re 4.8mm spade lugs for the “trigger” and 6.3mm for the current.

I was pretty sure Jaycar sold them as bare items but I haven’t checked for ages....

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Tinkywinky, Layla and Poh
I think

[Aaron]

2GRFE says “I’ll sludge up and seize” to that.

On the bodywork front. The rear quarter metal is all factory. All the seam sealer is identical around the panel, all the spot welds etc are same side-side. It has been painted, or blended...

[Aaron]

Those things wouldn’t be much more than some deep cycle friendly battery with some basic chinesium control and inverter stuff on top.

Ive been thinking along rough same lines and figured a smaller deep cycle or just regular AGM baby racecar...

[Aaron]

Once, years ago, and yep it was shit. COVID probably doesn’t help, but I also got the feeling they just were disorganised.