Recent content by waikato willy

5S , lean manufacturing , one piece flow , 5S champion , red tag area I've been part of this crap and seen it fail miserably every time , to the point a few companies shut down and outsourced to china once they pissed off all the local customers for time to deliver and missed deadlines Luckily...

so this is the result of a failed module on my RA rodeo 4jj1 so either the key went kaput or the module itself ( module is located passenger side dash to the left of the glove box) now being the tight ass I am I was not paying a locksmith $500 plus dollars to code a new key or replace faulty...

rust all cut out and welded - rear guards and windscreen and fixed new windscreen rubber and screen installed without wrecking the rubber or breaking the glass sprayed the the windscreen surround 2K asteroid silver before fitting it back in car almost prepped , just got move all the kids bikes...

you can buy the VATS disabled memcals from Mace ( on trademe) or hunt for a complete VN / VP loom and ecu which are often on trade me I suppose it all depends on the BCM and key for the VATS , if the person who engine swapped left all the factory stuff it should all work , I only ever...

Torque performance (Avondale) used to do the memcal stuff and disable the security stuff , how did you check injectors? an easy way is to either pull the distributor or use another one and plug it in with the ignition on , if you spin the distributor by hand you will hear the injectors clicking...

the steel carrier wont locate , the two pins just rest on the shoulder , I run the exact same bearing now after replacing the plastic vn one, the whole lot shouldn't spin

back in the day when I turboed my 304 injected motor in my blue vk grpA rep I used factory cast manifolds flipped forward and mounted the turbo at the front ill find some pics , was more of an experiment , I used a factory garret TA45 turbo off some old international truck , with everything...

just to add something , anyone know of a complete after market kit that has been successfully fitted that might be an easier option than sourcing factory stuff? now I got my motor all running ( cant believe it fired straight up) my better half mentioned putting aircon in it , I scoffed at first...

this guy has a lot of expensive stuff on trademe , I'm pretty sure he has tried to sell these of for the last couple of years , possibly even a forum member?

I always thought you were meant to have a gap , how wrong was I , regardless of what clutch fork or bearing they are mean to run all the time , this is straight from my hook up at Clutch Industries , that burnt look on the pressure plate fingers is from the bearing constantly trying to speed up...

well I had the same thing , throwing PS belts every time I saw more than 6,000rpm was a real pain , even after lining the pulley up all nice a square I still threw belts , my fix was a a double pulley on the water pump and run the belt the same as the alternator , this fixed my issue straight...

well here's a win for anyone else out there that might have used these pistons , don't want to buy forged pistons or the horrible factory pistons and need something to match the weight of the now discontinued ACL race series pistons (the ones with Larry Perkins on the box) I bought the Hypatec...

get yourself another distributer and plug it in to the the little 3 pin plug , with ignition on spinning the distributor by hand makes the injectors all click , remember bank injection so all 4 on one side will click then all 4 on the other side , that's how I diagnosed an over fueling issue on...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kx3dbpkaf8wovc7/special%20final_mirrored.stl?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/nvgu2c56sfv2olw/special%20final%20fixed%20final.stl?dl=0 left and right , scanned these for a friend and will be printing them in a fancy sls nylon printer , so anyone at home with a desk top...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/towie-in-dock-over-113kmh-joyride/Q7JF2M4AD76N4E42NN7J6TLBLI/ this cracked me up back in the day , I used to worked just down the road from these meat heads and often saw then thrashing impounded vehicles after hours