Have check it out later mate if your up there. Need to sort a bit on mine

yea I'm up there tonight bud :)

Lol Lee you idiot :D

Loving the general rambling there!

aha was abit of a ramble wasn't it.

think I'll just cover the head in satin black high temp paint and just be done with it redo all the gearbox too :) why not it'll look ace with a decent mani on there too.

I wander what the bottom end would look like white :oops:

Sounds like a plan, Joe (my mate who came the ring) is on his way to Oz as we speak so expect drunken texts over the next couple of weeks :D haha, F1 in melbourne next weekend as well woooooop ;)

awesome no doubt but it'd look rubbish after a few days my bays filthy and it's barely been driven lols.

lols look forward to it, I remember last time you wanted me to meet you at the cross but when we questioned it you didn't know what we was on about lols.

lucky fucker!!

We painted mine white didnt we but it would just be ruined straight away.

What's the latest progress?

{rubs hands together like Mr Burns}

o yea forgot about that. it would be ruined straight away yea.

latest progress dude is engines ready to drop out and the new ones ready and waiting for engine brackets alternator etc etc loads of parts really but i'm hoping to get the jp4 out and the j4 in over the weekend which is easily achieveable :)

What about turning the engine over sunday evening? Any chance of that? :homme:

depends how money is mate, got alot to get still yet.

Big things happening your way again Lee.

Am really hoping this cures the problems.

Oh and pull your finger out your ring hole and reply to me PM!

Lol, i want a vid of the first start up!! Fingers crossed for you mate, i dont think i can read this thread much longer with the upodates being problems!! :homme:

Jason

yea man theres always some progress going on lols.

iv replied to the pm in question and will be replying to your other pm shortly.

lols the first start up with be waiting a while then. cheers though dude, i cant build a car any longer if this still doesnt work for me :(

Update

Hey guys just a quick update to show progress is being made...

Started off on saturday morning getting the gearbox and engine bolted together and all parts swapped from the jp4 engine to the j4 engine once everything was swapped over and torqued up to the correct torque settings etc i begin fitting the wiring loom to the engine managed to spend 90% of my day doing that due to being such a whore which left me with this on saturday night :)



Anyways sunday morning came and i was happy with everything so started fitting my engine alone might i add, ran into a few issues along the way like trapping my arm between chassis and engine but we wont go into that... but anyways got the engine in all bolted in place after shouting alot at my group n engine mounts for being stiff lols so this gave me this



And then today got it all sorted and started bolting things back onto the engine and filling it with some much needed fluids. im quiet far away from getting it running though as iv broke some stuff along the way and decided that standard parts just dont cut it anymore for me so now before i can progress really need to source:

An alternator as i broke mine or get mine repaired.
A raceland or other GOOD make 4 branch.
Some of the heater matrix hoses due to either been old and worn or cut up to suit jp4 thermostat housing.
Various clips.
Ideally a new radiator as mines battered.
Front timing belt cover aswell.

But other than the above everything is fine now :) shes got some very good oil in there aswell so thats all good, im using mobil 1 0W-40 fully synthetic oil which should be plenty for my standardish j4 engine. im just missing some finishing touches to be able to fire the car over so hope it works tbh else im gunna be gutted but on the flipside at least its starting to look like a car again and is back on all 4 wheels.




Plenty more updates to follow :)

Lee Which TB have you got on there J4 or JP4?

Just wondering if the JP4 breather hose pushes straight on to the J4 TB connection?

I've just brought some JP4 covers but had forgotten about that breather pipe :panic:

James

j4 throttle body mate. it pushes onto that little nipple yea i just used some 45degree silicone hose in the right size if you get me.

lols you need the breather hoses dude.

I've got the breather hose i'd just forgotten about that little one lol

Would the JP4 hose fit onto that nipple without any extra piping?

James

nope it wont mate its at the wrong angle.

you'll see for yourself when you fit them like.