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| posted on June 2nd, 2010 at 08:57 PM |
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looks awesome mate! u have done a fantastic job. I hope to see it one day in the flesh!
Cheers
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| posted on June 2nd, 2010 at 09:54 PM |
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The first 4 pics are mine (a friend took them using my camera anyway), the rest of the pics are from Graham.
The mud will make sure everything underneath is nice and dirty now, no more nice clean freshly built parts
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| posted on June 4th, 2010 at 02:47 PM |
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Hey everyone.
Thanks for the pictures Wes.
I had an absolute ball on the weekend.
And Chippy, if you want to see it in the flesh I'm heading down to Killarney right now to visit my Grandma. I'll be there all weekend so drop in and
say hi if you want. I'll be on Ivy Street right next to the bank. No doubt you'll see it parked there.
I can't wait to get back up home so I can get stuck into finishing things off and making improvments.
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Good work dan!
i know i have already said this to you in person but WELL DONE! to get it done in the time frame you set and to get to brisbane on time was no easy
task but u did it ! ,and have to say i had my doubts but you got it done.After all those long hours doing the body work i have to say it was still
a pleasure being part of the build well done you should be proud which i know you are!
Also those action shots are great! makes me want to stop treating mine like a baby and get it dirty more....maybe after the wedding anyways got no
time got the buggy to build for next years trip!.
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| posted on June 15th, 2010 at 11:11 AM |
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Hey Daniel, i went to clark rubber the other day, they got rubber caps/inserts you could use to cap the ends of ur barwork.
Thought it might be handy, as you won't have to weld it, and u could even store stuff in the barwork if u take the cap off.. (i don't know what
exactly :S)
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| posted on June 15th, 2010 at 11:47 AM |
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posted by grease monkey253
Good work dan!
i know i have already said this to you in person but WELL DONE! to get it done in the time frame you set and to get to brisbane on time was no easy
task but u did it ! ,and have to say i had my doubts but you got it done.After all those long hours doing the body work i have to say it was still
a pleasure being part of the build well done you should be proud which i know you are!
Also those action shots are great! makes me want to stop treating mine like a baby and get it dirty more....maybe after the wedding anyways got no
time got the buggy to build for next years trip!.
Well done dan
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Thanks Scotty!
We'll have to get stuck into that pan! I'm keen for some welding!
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Hey Daniel, i went to clark rubber the other day, they got rubber caps/inserts you could use to cap the ends of ur barwork.
Thought it might be handy, as you won't have to weld it, and u could even store stuff in the barwork if u take the cap off.. (i don't know what
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Thanks for the thought Chris. I'm still undecided at this point. I might just go and get a few for the time being to keep the weather out of there. I
think I'm going to add a bit more barwork to the car over the next few weeks if I get keen.
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| posted on July 14th, 2010 at 12:48 PM |
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Ok it's been a long time with no update so I thought I'd throw a bit up here.
Many of you might have read about my clutch dramas in the tech section of the site. I'm fairly sure the main culprit was the big hills at Mt Mee, and
the fact that the clutch was an old one I had no knowledge of it's age. So I had a fairly badly slipping clutch. These next few pictures are from the
day before I drove back from Brisbane to Yeppoon.
This is at the guys place I was staying while I was down for TAFE. He seemed a little puzzled when I said, "All I need to pull the engine out is a
milk crate" perfect height.
Clutch plate was under 7mm.
Throwout bearing pins had grooves worn in them from the throwout arm.
Both the clips weren't even on the bearing! The remains of the were sitting the bottom of the bellhousing. The throwout bearing was sort of half
sitting in place.
Throwout arm was quite worn and bent down.
A massive thanks to Andrew (oztowdster) who went out of his way to drive hours to give me a hand and get me parts.
Next picture shows the offroad throwout arm next to the old one. You can see that instead of clipping around the back that the clips slot through
holes in the arm. This was they can't slide down and off the bottom of the arm, like what happened to my old one.
All in place. New throwout bearing, arm and and better 'curly' clips in place.
New clutch plate and good condition second hand pressure plate in place.
I don't have any more pictures after that cause it was quite dark.
Needless to say all that work was really for nothing because the clutch started slipping as I drove over the gateway the next morning on my way home.
Was quite a slow and shitty drive back to Yeppoon.
Have since replaced the pressure plate with a brand newy, the real main oil seal and the flywheel with one that is closer to spec. The clutch slipping
problem appears to be gone for the moment. I'm starting to get things together for a 200mm and 12V starter conversion.
Something I started to have a mess with a weekend or two back was the exhaust. The old muffler is very much on the way out and the pipe hits the rear
cage which I have to rectify with the new setup.
The old system, you can see it's very close on the LHS and does knock against the barwork on some bumps.
Quite tight at the back, will try and gain a few more mm here with the new system too.
Also on the RHS it blows a little soot onto the barwork. On the new one I'm going to have the tip facing down more because I eventually want to mount
reversing lights in this area.
New muffler and new exhaust tube bought from Mick Motors. It's actually exactly the same tube that's on the car at the moment. I just had it cut and
swaged so I can move it over a little.
I took the old system off (had to go for a blat up the road and back  ) And sat the new lot in place to see how things fitted. It didn't 
The curved elbow piece I have is too short and also causes the muffler to be too high. So I've decided to ditch that whole piece (it's fairly thin
shit anyway) and make my own. Ordered some donut and straight pipe which I picked up yesterday. So I want to try and get into this over the next day
or two. I want to try and get it with the muffler sitting forward further inside the curves of the exhaust a little bit. Like this
Last week I also managed to pull this from a Kombi out at the wreckers for next to nothing.
Next thing that I addressed on the weekend just passed was the rear suspension. I was finding that the extra coils were just making things too stiff,
and I was starting to get a little sick of having my spine shattered everytime I drove to work. So it was time to say goodbye to go-kart handling and
hello to offroadability.
It was very straight forward. Jack car up. Remove rear wheels. Unbolt coils. Done!
I took some before and after pictures of the car flexed up on a mound of dirt we have at home. I was surprised at the change, didn't think the coils
were holding it back so much.
They were limiting the upward travel of the wheel by a few inchs at full compression. Full droop remained the same with the springplate resting on the
stops both times.
Before
After
Droop the same.
Better full compression
Before
After
Despite how things look there is absolutely no rubbing throughout the entire travel of the rear wheels, which I'm completely stoked with 
The car is far better offroad, I didn't think such a small thing would make such a huge difference but it does. The car crawls over things better and
had way better traction. I think this is because the wheels are following the ground more closely and the weight on the car is being distributed more
evenly between the rear wheels.
I'm going to leave the second pair of shocks on for now, but I'm leaning towards dropping them too.
I just have to remember to slow down for roundabouts now
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| posted on July 15th, 2010 at 06:10 AM |
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Oh finaly you've done something u slacker :oP
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| posted on July 15th, 2010 at 09:20 AM |
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Looks like so much fun. The best thing is you are not afraid to use it. You see a few pretty ones over here in Adelaide but never dirty!
T54
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| posted on July 15th, 2010 at 09:47 AM |
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Thats a really shite version of what could work with ur zorst. Make sure you keep it all in tight though.
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| posted on July 15th, 2010 at 01:32 PM |
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posted by 71-BEETLE-SEDAN
Thats a really shite version of what could work with ur zorst. Make sure you keep it all in tight though.
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Thanks for your input. I'm not too sure it the muffler will fit over to the side though. I'll have to check. There's not much room between the
barwork and the runner pipes. This is my reasoning for wanting to tuck the muffler in as close as possible.
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| posted on July 15th, 2010 at 01:39 PM |
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im really god at it but aye, na it was hard to put inot words.
could just stick it straight up in the air.
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| posted on July 15th, 2010 at 02:01 PM |
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posted by 71-BEETLE-SEDAN
im really god at it but aye, na it was hard to put inot words.
could just stick it straight up in the air.
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Yeah, stinger straight off the 3-bolt flange. I'm sure that would go well with the cops
The car's fairly loud as it is.
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| posted on July 16th, 2010 at 10:01 AM |
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I hit a wallaby this morning on my way home from work.
It was crouched down so basically just busted it's skull on the nosecone and went under the car.
I hope the stupid thing is not dead and is hurting so much it wishes it was.
There's no damage to any parts of the car except the nosecone. Which is cracked and chipped some paint.
Keen for a respray Steff?
And yes, that is a tuft of fur in the first picture.
It was my intention to weld a cross bar in place to help protect the nosecone from rocks etc while offroading. I was going to weld it on this weekend!
So it'll probably be definitely happening now.
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| posted on July 18th, 2010 at 10:25 PM |
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I got a chance to tackle the exhaust on the weekend.
This is a shot looking down into the 4 into 1 collector. I just wanted to ask whether people think it would be worth cleaning all the welds up with
the die grinder? Slightly better/more laminar flow? Obviously I'd need to remove the entire exhaust to do this so I didn't bother at this stage.
Old system off I worked out how much of the donut would be need to be tacked to the muffler to aim it towards the top.
Here is everything tacked in place. Very simple, bit of straight, two bits of donut, a flange and a muffler. Far more compact and far lighter than the
old system.
Picked up maybe a mil or two between the rear cage and the muffler.
The clearance the the barwork on the LHS is a vast improvement over the old setup.
Added a brace, tip and fully welded everything. Will be getting paint tomorrow afternoon then going on the car.
Old and new.
That's all folks!!!
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| posted on July 26th, 2010 at 12:03 PM |
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Just a quick update.
I got in on the weekend and got the exhaust all painted. I fitted in up yesterday afternoon. There is a heap more space around it in every way and
I'm very happy with results.
For the short drive a took it on yesterday initial impressions are that is is noticeably quieter, and that the exhaust note sounds a lot better in my
opinion, a bit 'meatier'.
I'll see how it goes at 100km/h on the way to work this afternoon.
Pictures of it fitted. I painted it with muffler paint I got from work, which is good for up to 1000°F. Not quite sure how much this is in °C around
800 and something. Which I'm sure is alot more than the humble little Baja can throw out unless it's on fire.
Next picture shows where the exhaust tip exits in between the barwork.
Thanks for reading.
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| posted on July 26th, 2010 at 12:10 PM |
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Theres only on problem now Smiley, you will need to paint the rest of the exhaust !!!
Looks good.
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| posted on July 26th, 2010 at 06:09 PM |
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If you mount up a bash plate on the front bar, it will protect the front & also you wont be able to see the damage to the nosecone
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| posted on July 26th, 2010 at 07:33 PM |
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Theres only on problem now Smiley, you will need to paint the rest of the exhaust !!!
Looks good.
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X2
Even though looks don't phase me much, I must agree.
That muffler certainly out shows the header tubes!
Will be interesting to see how long that 'high temperature' paint lasts
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Theres only on problem now Smiley, you will need to paint the rest of the exhaust !!!
Looks good.
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X2
Even though looks don't phase me much, I must agree.
That muffler certainly out shows the header tubes!
Will be interesting to see how long that 'high temperature' paint lasts
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True. But I think the rest of the system is a little too knocked around to waste paint on
And I'm keen to see how long the paint lasts too, the trucks at work seem to be able to burn it off.
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| posted on July 27th, 2010 at 07:48 AM |
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I've tried a few different high temp paints too.
last one was a good quality one for 1500f and like all the others, lasted fine on the muffler but first time the headers get wet when hot its gone
I usually get an ok run out of potbelly black paint
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I did this work two weeks ago. I've just been slack with updates and have been in Sydney.
I decided that the front bar wasn't quite right, and I needed to change the blinker location to mount driving lights anyway.
After some spurring from Dubcrazy I chose to double tube the front bar.
This is how things were before I started.
Second tube tacked into place.
I then pulled the front bar off to fully weld all the joins, also added plates to mount my new blinkers to. They're still LED ones, just a different
style. And I've seen some different ones again yesterday, so they may be getting changed again yet.
Back on the car with the blinkers, they have since been wired and work fine. Though I don't think they're as bright as the old ones you can view
them while standing directly next to the car.
My car is also still having a few issues burning points. So on the weekend I decided to change the coil, the old one was so old I can't even tell
what brand it is on read anything on it. And was also quite dented.
So I went and got a Bosch GT40T solid state coil. These have no oil in them. And a new set of points too.
I hope this will tide me over until my new dizzy with electronic ignition shows up.
And yes. I'm aware that the wiring is very messy. It will all be getting a good cleanup in the near future, I want the car looking it's best for
Warwick!!
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This afternoon I welded a tow bar tongue onto the rear cage of the car.
This is the tongue I cut down to fit the car.
I cut a square slot into it so it would fit either side of the box section on the cage.
Welded.
I also made up some triangle pieces to brace it in a different plane and help stop things flexing.
And added a little bracket for the trailer plug, yet to be wired.
Cage fitted back to the car with the ball in place. I don't really like the chrome ball, it doesn't suit the look of the car. It will be getting
swapped for a black one as soon as I can.
That's all folks.
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 07:10 PM |
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yayaya!!!!! heaps better young man.
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yayaya!!!!! heaps better young man.
steff............
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Now I'm going to do the same on the rear and mount some LED tail lights and blinkers in between. So I might need someone to paint the holes in the
rear guards once they're filled
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Brilliant work on the tow bar Daniel
where abouts did u buy the tongue from out of curiosity? or did u have it spare from a donor or something?
That things pretty tough. Ready to take the boat out for a bit of fishin or sumfin? box trailer for camping or wateva? I luve the possibilities.
will certainly follow in the same footsteps.
I spose its time for an update, but hows your shofter rear suspension now? would u say its the way to go without those backup springs? alot more
comfortable and versitile? So it just rolls over the bumps alot easier?
It shouldn't matter about towing either i guess, caues you would just have the trailer weight dristributed over teh trailer axle instead.
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Brilliant work on the tow bar Daniel
where abouts did u buy the tongue from out of curiosity? or did u have it spare from a donor or something?
That things pretty tough. Ready to take the boat out for a bit of fishin or sumfin? box trailer for camping or wateva? I luve the possibilities.
will certainly follow in the same footsteps.
I spose its time for an update, but hows your shofter rear suspension now? would u say its the way to go without those backup springs? alot more
comfortable and versitile? So it just rolls over the bumps alot easier?
It shouldn't matter about towing either i guess, caues you would just have the trailer weight dristributed over teh trailer axle instead.
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Bought the tongue from the wreckers for about 10 bucks. I just went and picked one out
I have to say that the rear suspension is a million times better. I'm kicking myself for not having done it like this in the first place. The rear
end still sits up a bit with a small amount of camber, I guess when I did the spring plates I put them slightly above stock.
I could not believe the different that the softer suspension made to the car. Sure it has a slight bit more bodyroll in the corners, so i can't drive
it round like a go-kart anymore. But it's an offroader so meh. It's like a completely different car offroad. Especially when it's crawling slowly,
the wheels just want to grip so much more. I'm sure this is because the suspension is traveling more and flexing out and distributing the cars weight
better. I'm looking froward to my next trip down to Brisbane, should be alot better on the back.
I also removed the secondary shocks about a month back. No noticeable difference. I thought they were pretty rooted anyway.
So she's back to stock suspension really, except the slight lift at the rear and adjusters at the front.
The tow bar feels very solid, I do have some extra mounts I still have to finish for the cage. And I also have to wire the trailer plug before I can
tow anything.
Smiley
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I went for a bit of a mild offroad this afternoon with a mate from work that has an immaculate Baja.
He doesn't 'wheel' his as hard as me given it's condition, but we still had fun. Fantastic view that's only about 15 minutes drive from my
house.
Thanks for looking.
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bring those old bangers down this way before mine goes and we'll play, well me and you will but mister greenie mite just watch as its a tad rough and
his is to perfect!
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Always good to get the off roaders out for a play, nice view up there too.....Keppel Islands by the looks, I have friends with that view, they live at
Eagle Ridge, must be close by, and I know Rosland Bay Marina too , any
beach drivind allowed in the area? Thanks for posting.
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE
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