JaiKai

After the new garage is built the old hut will be dismantled and thats where the driveway will continue.

Nice polished surface for the zed.

Yeh, Certainly alot faster than carting 100 wheel barrows back and forth. They finished 30 minutes ago and will be back in about 5 or 6 hours to polish the top after it starts to set.

The time has come

Area now compacted, layered and ready for a concrete pour tomorrow morning

can't get any type of socket into the area. Height in total is no more than 25 - 30mm, just enough to slip the bolt over the thread.

The knock sensor is under the lower plenum which has all the bolts in it. Its located roughly 5 to 6 inched in and is mighty sticky to get to with a spanner. No easy way in, and if you are thinking of taking the lower plenum off you will need to strip the cambelt and pulleys.

The workshop asked to bring my wheels in for a test fitting so had to get them out the loft. They have been up there for over a year now so after getting them down I dusted off the boxes. Couldn't help myself; got them out and took a few pics to show them off again :) All boxes up again ready for transport in the morning.

I've even grinded down the edges of the spanner to allow for more rotation but it still slips. Blow torch to heat it up is my next task this weekend.

GazWoz is in that area i'm sure he likely knows a few garages that work on his fresh imports.

Back left, drivers side.

And who doesn't enjoy looking at naked ladies ?

Work has started :)

Well when I fitted mine I had all intentions of getting some bose speakers at the time, I had no conflict of interest as I didn't even have any speakers fitted, just the covers.

I've got the Bose versions of these and mind when I fitted them, look real nice :)

Still have a stuck turbo and its held on by one bolt, issue I have now is the spanner keeps slipping. I may need to use some sort of cutting disc and slice the bolt open to get it off.

Back to the engine and now I've stripped off the belt covers and undone the belts. Belts looked fairly new and in good condition but I wanted to get the water pump off and reseal it while it was easy to do so.

I have my old purple painted rocker covers from my previous build which I was planning on doing a transplant onto the new engine. However not wanting to taint the new engine I was thinking of stripping and using the covers that came with the engine. One of the things that came up is to blast them or not as I've been told that the inner baffles can get the sand in them and its hard to get out. The previous zed was done like this but I don't want this new engine busted too. I have the blasting cabinet in my yard and its easy enough to use but should I ? I've could also blast it with soda but that's expensive and can take three times as long. Anybody else have experience with blasting there own covers or other engine parts ?

Done

Does it have some sort of 6th sense to do this ! Or did you mean detachable ?

Came into the garage early this morning; now there is a big space where the zed used to sit. The countdown to the rebuild has started, but will likely be a week or so before I see any progress. All I can do now is concentrate on the engine build and some other wee stuff still to do.

Its an automatic ban button; but it can only be used once on any member you don't like. Try it. committee and mods are excluded of course.

Can we have a membership lottery if its unclaimed ?

Happy Birthday Craig

I did look into it but the garage is a set size without really an option for it to be bigger without alot of costs. I did origianlly want a full 6m by 6m work unit built but the garden at the back is not square and i cant get a full 6m in. So we opted for a 5m by 6m with a 1/2 border and then a smaller addon hut at the left side. If we went for the full on border design i would have to gain more permissions each time i needed to work or treat the exterior. Also we have a 2.4m height restriction and bringing the boundary in a bit at the back keeps us well under it.