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 Golde60
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 06:02 AM |
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well, its finally arrived so here go a few new posts with pics
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 06:04 AM |
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and after some greif on shipping, taking 3 months on the water, and being lucky enough to share a container with another car enthusiast (and halving
the price - thanks Cam) it has finally arrived.
These pics were taken a week ago and I have done very little apart from drag it down into the carpark and buy a car cover today.
here it is getting here
as you can imagine, it is pretty exciting to actually see it after paying for it a few months ago.....
first look at the container:
looking happy:
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 06:05 AM |
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cams NSX in the background
Its an 8 year old imola orange one, about 7k miles on the clock and its the best one I have ever seen
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 06:06 AM |
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so anyway, here are some of the pics of mine getting unloaded
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 06:09 AM |
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my first problem that Im looking for some help with is the setup of the rear end
I have the front end complete with brakes, but the rear is minus the disc brakes, and I am looking for a setup thats the same as what is running on
the front.
my understanding is that they are off what is known as an Audi 4000 setup in the US.
I am not familiar with these myself, but my neighbour is a really technical guy from North Carolina (he looks after all of BMWs technincal issues
across the Middle East and North Africa region, so he knows his stuff), but I m not sure what the terminology is for the setup back in Oz, he knows
the different terminology.
IIUC, they are FWD CV joints that in the case of my JVA are running on both the front and the rear.
So if anyone has any tips on where I might find these, please let me know. Not likely to find much without a heap of searching here in the UAE, so I
might look at importing from a wrecker, or better still when I am in Aus in a couple of weeks
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 06:11 AM |
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here is the front setup
and here are a couple of shots of the rear
I need to find a set of disc brakes for the rear, as well as the correct cv joints for the irs rear end.
once I got that figured out, then I need to work out the preferred axle length....
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 06:12 AM |
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so from here on in theres gonna be alot of research and waiting on the engine and box before I can figure out the chassis mods and gearbox mounts.
all in all its pretty exciting......
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 08:22 AM |
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congrats on a sensational buy and the safe arrival! look forward to watching the thread develop 
love the first pic in the container - you could tell from the reflectors in the rear lights that it was a nsx! ssweet!
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| posted on September 28th, 2008 at 08:43 AM |
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yeah nice score there..
look fwd to the progrees pics to come..
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| posted on September 29th, 2008 at 09:04 AM |
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Hi
That looks so nice. I think in Australia we call the Audi 4000 a "80" or a 5+5.
Steve
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| posted on September 29th, 2008 at 02:15 PM |
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Very very cool.
Cannot wait to see how this progresses.
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| posted on September 29th, 2008 at 03:03 PM |
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that a dream car right there
show us your gates
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| posted on September 29th, 2008 at 03:20 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by 1303Steve
That looks so nice. I think in Australia we call the Audi 4000 a "80" or a 5+5.
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The Audi 80 is the big old 4 door Audi, rather rectangular looking sedan yes?
I might be able to pick up a set of brakes and cvs when I am back there......
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| posted on September 29th, 2008 at 03:46 PM |
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Hi
The Audi 80 is a smaller car, a bit bigger than a Golf of the era.
More info here http://www.audiworld.com/model/4000/content.shtml
Steve
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| posted on October 4th, 2008 at 08:55 PM |
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Nice work,congrats.
Just watched an 80's or 90's movie on foxtel with James Belushi and Michael Caine.
The producers saw fit for Belushi to smash a Spyder into a parked car to avoid a dog on the road,and what did he hit? A convertable bug fercrissakes!
Best of luck with the Spyder project
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| posted on October 5th, 2008 at 12:33 AM |
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thanks for the link steve
have pulled one of the front brakes off and having a look at it with my neighbour shortly to try and work out if we can find another here
also, I like the look of some crossdrilled and vented rotors for the front and some drilled ones for the rear, pretty cheap
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| posted on November 23rd, 2008 at 02:30 AM |
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bump for some help on axle length and cv size
see here
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=72972&page=1#pid680989
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| posted on March 24th, 2009 at 01:54 AM |
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no help, and no progress on these. some good progress on the engine though, pics to follow
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| posted on March 24th, 2009 at 02:06 AM |
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here are some pics of the clean up of the engine case halves, which have taken a bit more time than expected.
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| posted on March 24th, 2009 at 02:07 AM |
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engine stand, ready to go
this is the area that I have to work in, not to bad.
dtm taking pride of place
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| posted on March 24th, 2009 at 02:11 AM |
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close up:
all the rods are spinning very free on the crank and its good to finally make some progress!
now for the drive gears and crank bearings, into the case half so that I can cover it up and keep any dust out.
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| posted on March 24th, 2009 at 02:12 AM |
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here are some shots of the latest progress:
dissy and cam gears onto the crank
throughbolts into the case
and back out the other side
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| posted on March 24th, 2009 at 08:58 AM |
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Cool Golde, another type IV build yeeha.
Car looks great, bet you cant wait to be driving that thing, looks beaudifull.
With your axle length, its difficult to recommend a length as on any custom setup, axle length is usually the last thing as it all goes together, and
usually you would determine length at the shortest point where cv's are level with each other, a dummy adjustable axle is used so there is still play
side to side of the axle, then at max length, full suspension droop or bump which ever is the greatest, also have axle play. This will proove that the
cv inner races are not binding at any point of suspension travel. You can make a dummy axle by cutting up a used one and fitting some pipe with grub
screws in the center, or as a one off, maybe a piece of dowel that is a firm fit into the cv spline, and cut as you go, so to speak. If you need some
measurements from a std irs beetle, I have two here, would be no prob.
Hope this helps.
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| posted on March 24th, 2009 at 03:19 PM |
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awesome, thanks mat
i will be ordering the custom length axles when the engine and gearbox mounts are fabbed up and cvs installed for measurement, just like you said.
i couldnt figure out any other way.
as for the brakes, the search continues.
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| posted on March 27th, 2009 at 03:49 AM |
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galley plugs - with the numbers as noted from Jakes article marked with dots
[IMG]http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/Golde60/IMAGE_144.jpg
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| posted on March 27th, 2009 at 03:50 AM |
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and here are pictures of the progress, crank assembly in and still spinning nice and freely:
and then cover it all up to stop any dust getting in and ready for more work next weekend:
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| posted on March 29th, 2009 at 07:57 PM |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4&feature=related
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| posted on March 30th, 2009 at 03:10 AM |
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i like it
this ones a classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN0oDnoc3-c
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| posted on April 18th, 2009 at 10:00 PM |
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hey guys. been a while between pics.
had some difficulty getting the rings on, especially the oil rings, with the 80mm stroker, I ended up putting them on once I had the wrist pins in
place.
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| posted on April 18th, 2009 at 10:03 PM |
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longblock is now done
WHOO HOO
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