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tricky Regular Location: Canberra Registered: July 2005	Re: Tricky's RA23 Tue, 13 September 2005 23:51 For sure. No bogging for Tristan. I only wanna deal with the rust once, so I'm not taking major shortcuts like that. I've got an update! I had a productive day yesterday, taking full advantage of hard earned leave/uni holidays . I got rid of the rust in the drivers side, around the drain hole, accelerator mount, accelerator pivot and a bit on the sill. That means I'm ready for carpet and seats. There was a bit of rust I found under the battery carrier. So, the only remaining rust I know about is a tiny bit of surface rust under the rear seat and a few spots in the boot. Two of these will need to be cut out and welded up. I also took care of this: with this: cost me $255. Wasn't too bad, and it was definately the best deal in Canberra. I also replaced all hoses, the thermostat and stuck new hose clamps on. There is, however, a leak and no, it isn't with my home made head-->thermostat housing gasket, it's at the upper thermostat housing gasket... Shitty adhesive gasket I'll have to stick some goop on it. I also have this: apparently it is a genuine 18RGEU electronic dizzy. Problem is the vac. advance servo is fooked. Turns out they aren't readily exchanchable with the points dizzy due to the octane screw. Bugger. So I used the points dizzy housing and the elec. dizzy internals. And it started first time!! It did die a couple of times, but it was simple things like a wire the ignitor not being tight and one of the wires from the battery +ve not being tight. Only problem is this: Yes, that is a dodgy bracket. So ideally I'd like to track down a GEU vacuum advance servo and get the captive bracket thingy installed. There seems to be heaps of blowby, so It's time to track down some 18RG bits and pieces to rebuild over Christmas(preferably not costing $1000 from a wreckers ) . What I wanna do is take any block, bore it to 92mm (2.2L) stick in some 10.5-11.5:1 forgies and top it off with a 88270 head with some work. The 45mm DCOE's should love it, but I may consider changing to 20V quads and redesign the ignition (probably with CAS and 4 x coil packs). I love the sound of Webers, but I have to admit, there is more midrange power available with EFI, and better idle control, and you don't need to tune it as often... So there is the progress thus far... [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Tricky's RA23	tricky	Sun, 04 September 2005 13:18
	Re: Tricky's RA23	tricky	Thu, 08 September 2005 11:54
	Re: Tricky's RA23	74gt	Fri, 09 September 2005 15:55
	Re: Tricky's RA23	tricky	Sat, 10 September 2005 10:38
	Re: Tricky's RA23	Steve M	Sun, 11 September 2005 02:03
	Re: Tricky's RA23	tricky	Sun, 11 September 2005 07:28
	Re: Tricky's RA23	Steve M	Sun, 11 September 2005 12:35
	Re: Tricky's RA23	tricky	Tue, 13 September 2005 23:51
	Re: Tricky's RA23	Steve M	Wed, 14 September 2005 03:23
	Re: Tricky's RA23	tricky	Wed, 14 September 2005 08:33
	Re: Tricky's RA23	Steve M	Thu, 15 September 2005 13:57
	Re: Tricky's RA23	tricky	Sat, 17 September 2005 07:27
	Re: Tricky's RA23	Steve M	Sat, 17 September 2005 12:59
	Re: Tricky's RA23	tricky	Sun, 18 September 2005 00:23
	Re: Tricky's RA23	tricky	Sat, 10 December 2005 14:00

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