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DannyGT4
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the GT4... she's back and she's bad	Tue, 15 April 2003 07:00

hi all! yes it's finally happenned... after nearly 12 months off the road... my baby is back from the dead and purring like an angry kitten what started off as a blown h/g and a weekend to replace it in kinda escalated into 12 months and a full rebuild ... lol ya gotta love cars the engine got back (in lots of bits of course) from the rebuilder a few weeks ago and i've been slowly putting her together. along with the engine work and porting i've added a few extra goodies including hks metal h/g, forgies, hi-flow turbo, custom dump-pipe, arp rod bolts/head studs. anyway... after delay after delay and waiting for parts and gaskets and stuff (ya gotta love toyota parts prices... $80 for a rubber oil hose... geez) the heart transplant happened over he weekend and boy it was fun (not) (um... ok i lurve gt4s but i aint gonna be working on one again in a hurry) anyways after much heartache... pulled an allnighter with mos and rod on fri night... went to start her... filled her with water... and water pissed out everywhere from the water pump... nooooooo!!!! in hindsight i probably should've replaced the pump as i had with just about everything else... ah well guess i missed that one... anyway after a depressing halt to the work i rang all over sydney looking for water pumps - finally finding one in campsie (on a saturday... almost had to go to gosford to get one!) which i went and picked up started work replacing it in the car but pretty soon realised that it wasnt going to happen and that the engine would need to be pulled out again.... nooooooo!!! by midnight we were demoralised and exhausted so we grabbed some sleep (my first in 40 hours) sunday arvo saw us back at it and by that night had the engine out and the waterpump replaced (goddam dodgy screws)... pulled another all nighter to put her back in monday morning she started!! hoorrayyy!! (ok not quite first go - um forgot the plug to the dizzy... hehe easy fix) took her straight to the exhaust shop to get hooked up to the custom dump-pipe and was ready to go that arvo - finally got some more sleep last night can't wait to run her in properly she still needs an aftermarket ecu and front mount i/c but they'll have to wait for some more cash mmmm.... then more boost i want to thank mos for being there throughout the whole transplant and putting up with my stupid questions at ridiculously early hours thanks also to rod who injected some enthusiasm into us and providing much needed help thanks to michael, joe, dave, joel, josh and karl for their various help and moral support... although the night they were all there together meant we didnt get much done... hehe so who wants to go cruising (if i remember how to drive that is)?? ps. will put some pics up soon [Updated on: Tue, 15 April 2003 07:21] [Report message to a moderator]

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