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A few from months gone by

A few from months gone by

Would my little SV650 class as shite? I didn't know what to buy, I was drawn in by the low insurance cost for a new rider, the V twin sound and I love how it looks, it rides nice as well.

Would my little SV650 class as shite? I didn't know what to buy, I was drawn in by the low insurance cost for a new rider, the V twin sound and I love how it looks, it rides nice as well.

Would my little SV650 class as shite? I didn't know what to buy, I was drawn in by the low insurance cost for a new rider, the V twin sound and I love how it looks, it rides nice as well.

Would my little SV650 class as shite? I didn't know what to buy, I was drawn in by the low insurance cost for a new rider, the V twin sound and I love how it looks, it rides nice as well.

Would my little SV650 class as shite? I didn't know what to buy, I was drawn in by the low insurance cost for a new rider, the V twin sound and I love how it looks, it rides nice as well.

Would my little SV650 class as shite? I didn't know what to buy, I was drawn in by the low insurance cost for a new rider, the V twin sound and I love how it looks, it rides nice as well.

Would my little SV650 class as shite? I didn't know what to buy, I was drawn in by the low insurance cost for a new rider, the V twin sound and I love how it looks, it rides nice as well.

After fitting an axle location kit I thought I had better test the clutch, I found that it wasn't disengaging completely so slipped when the revs got up, I wasnt surprised with the mismatch of parts, spacing the bellhousing away from the engine appeared to sort this problem, so gave it a proper test, the old girl is a little lively

After fitting an axle location kit I thought I had better test the clutch, I found that it wasn't disengaging completely so slipped when the revs got up, I wasnt surprised with the mismatch of parts, spacing the bellhousing away from the engine appeared to sort this problem, so gave it a proper test, the old girl is a little lively

I've been chipping away at the little jobs on this, I replaced the used landrover master with a new one as the pedal was losing pressure gradually, because I had a couple of hours dry weather this afternoon i fitted a replacement steering link that had had a landrover polybush fitted to it and while the rack was off i centred it as I took for granted that the reconditioned steering rack that was fitted to the donor that i broke and swapped over to this complete with the engine crossmember was fitted and tracked correctly, guess what....... It wasn't and it bugged me as the steering wasn't a mirror image at the finish point as you went from lock to lock I set the tracking up quickly by eye so the wheels are straight until I get it done properly
 

I picked up some brake pipe and while it wasn't raining this afternoon I decided to do the drivers side pipe replacement, in typical fashion the lock nuts on the flexi fought me, one of the nuts had virtually no thread left in it so I scrabbled around in my old nuts and bolts to see if I had one, but no joy, that's when I spotted it a lonely ball joint castle nut I saved because it might come in useful, It blooming did, I cut it down to height with a 1mm cutting disk, it well and truly saved my bacon, proceeded to bleed the brakes up with the help of Mrs fp and an eezibleed, in typical fashion I finished as it was raining and light had gone, mrs fp took a picture but I will get some more pictures
 
Mind the dirt in the bay I'm not cleaning it until the engines out

 
After the pic was taken I sorted out the servo vac pipe etc

Well bugger me it stopped raining this afternoon, so I ran out as quick as I could before the weather had chance to change its mind, I did my best contortionist impression lying in the footwell and removed the old servo and master cylinder, fitted the replacement 2.0 servo and land rover master, found a suitable spot on the inner wing for the t piece, ran new solid pipes to the t piece and from the t piece to the drivers side flexi, replaced the flexi, the old one decided that it didn't want me to undo the locknut on the inner wing so out came the grinder, it soon gave in, i made up a new solid pipe to the caliper while i was there and that was it for today as I lost light and realised I didn't have enough brake pipe to do the long run to the passengers flexi. I'll get some pictures next time I'm out

I'm going to have to reign myself in a bit, I'm modifying the engine and I havnt even got it in yet, I've just picked up a ported head with everything to build it up
 

 

 

 
New valves and guides but did come with the old valves as well
 

 
I didn't bother to take a picture of the box of valve springs, collects etc

Today I have painted up the replacement 2.0 servo and landrover master cylinder and got some replacement headlights as mine are looking worse for wear
 
E30 outers with brand new inners, all adjusters are free and the backing plates look decent

This afternoon was spent running new fuel pipes and fitting the pressure regulator, Well threads are useless without pictures, here is where I mounted the pump

 
It sits partially in a recess on the tank out of the way
 

A couple of hours to spare this morning and the fuel pump is now mounted, i soldered wires to the pump wiring to extend, heat shrinked and wrapped the wires, then found a suitable space to mount it under the car where it's partially covered by the fuel tank so it's up out of the way nice and safe, i ran the wires through the gromit for the fuel sender wiring so it's nice and neat, it was a pain to get the cordless drill in so ran a small pilot up then ran the correct size drill from inside the car to make life easier, that's as far as I got because it was blooming freezing and I had to go out

I've not been able to do anything due to the weather piddling down, but i have got my replacement rear shocks
 

Another couple of hours spare and another job ticked off unfortunately no pictures because im pants, today I have had the interior in bits to run the wires for an electric fuel pump, to the relay and mount it under the dash, the live feed is now in the boot ready to be plugged into the pump, i then put the interior back together, also thought about the position for the pump, im thinking of putting in the boot under the false floor on the passengers side, it just seems a safer place to pop the pump rather than have it sitting under the car due to their being no decent places which aren't too close to the exhaust or the axle, I've just got to get some fuel hose, gromets and a step drill to make the holes for the hose then I can put the pump in

Well A couple of hours spare earlier, the vinegar bath on the headlight connectors did the job, after I washed it off and dried I gave the connections a thorough clean with electrical contact cleaner to make sure they were spotless, I also had to clean the stalks as main beam was working on the flash but not on the click forward position, I now have a full compliment of lights

 
Also I got around to replacing the tca to crossmember bolts as one of them was worse for wear, I also wired up the replacement electric aerial I've fitted, I also replaced the CD player for a tape player.
 
I'm trying to chip away at the little jobs while im waiting for a few bits

Well it's been a while on this unfortunately it took the back burner while I was welding mrs fps rs turbo up, now the weather is turning crap for welding and that's under cover im going to try and focus on getting the engine in this
 
Since I last updated ive decided to go carbs, so got a bogg bros manifold with a correctly jetted set of zx9r carbs, fuel pump and pressure regulator and the all important ignition controller, I went for the nodiz unit which comes with a terminated loom for the XE
 
Look how small the unit is, it will be easy to hide

Well since photobucket has gone all hostage situation with pictures ive been reluctant to update build threads, I have been chipping away at this,
 
I've rebuilt the front suspension with new inserts and -2" springs (it's what I already had in the shed so have spent no actual money)
 
The difference in length of the springs
 

 
I also have prepped and painted under the front wheel arches to tidy it up a bit, here one is with the strut built back up in it, ive still got to paint up the arb, it's having caliper spacers and 2.8i discs thats why I havnt painted the caliper yet or put new disks on (im also replacing all the pipes while im at it and fit the 2.0 servo and landrover master cylinder I have)
 

 
Back on its wheels this is the arch gap im left with
 

They aren't the wheels that are staying on
 
I have done more than i can remember to tell everyone about, all the welding at the front is complete and the only welding left to do is the rear panel when I buy one, but im going to focus on the engine conversion next.

Even though I havnt been updating my thread i have been cracking on with jobs, I have finished the welding to the drivers inner wing where I needed to repair the strengthening plate and behind in the engine bay, but to gain access i had to remove the radiator mounting panel, then fitted the new slam panel,
 

 
I also repaired the passengers strut top
 

 

 
After this I cut off the sill back on the passengers side, the lower quarter, also repaired the inner wheel tub where there was a peppering of rust, I also cut a rust scab from the bottom of the quarter where it meets the arch just above the sill
 
This was a scab until I hit it a few times with my corrosion assessment tool
 

 

 
I've still got to do those 2 scabs in the arch lip, for information purposes it appears to be on its original rear arches
 
I have also stripped the interior out to check for any areas requiring repair, cut out corrosion on the rear floor pans both sides just where the double skinned area is before the rear spring hanger, where they all rot but it wasn't too bad to be fair, I reproduced both skins and zipped it all up, I didn't take a picture of this though
 
While the seats were out i cleaned them up, these were from the LS breaker i bought to cut the front corner off so I could repair this
As you can see they were minging
 

 

 

 
A side by side comparison

 

 
Earlier on i cleaned the carpet and plastics then built the interior back up
 

 
 

 
Under the rear drivers sound deadening i found the remains of an original build sheet, the car mustve got damp years back and damaged it, mrs fp put the pieces back together for me while i was working on the car
 

 
 
There might be a couple of jobs ive done that ive missed off

Today I cut out the front of the sill on the drivers side and an area of rot i saw just in front pretty much exact to the other side i did, so proceeded to knock up a repair section and then cut up the sill repair section and let them both in
 

 
I then spent 4 hours getting the drivers pattern wing fitting something like, it was well out, the part that follows the line of the scuttle was pressed against the body and was nowhere near inline and the gap was well out, a mixture of heat and hammers and a couple of slits its about there now just a little more finessing when i get chance and weld up the slits