Well between buying huge amounts of meat and salad materials, i had a bit of time in the afternoon to get stuck into the car. First up was filling the diff full of LSD oil, a nice boring and slow task.
After that came putting the fuel tank in, pretty easy and straight forward, excpet that i realised now that its in i cant get to the fuel feed fitting to connect the pump to the filter. EPIC fail for whoever designed it in that way.
Anyway, shortly after that Gav came around and procrastinated a bit, and then we got slightly worried about radiator to bonnet clearance (despite Rob’s assurances). A quick testfit of the bonnet revealed that Rob was indeed correct:
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And nothing will foul there.
Then Rob, Miick and Nath arrived down from Sydney, after getting a little bit loose in Mildura.
With them they brought a 5M-engine.
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Hand delivered all the way from Sydney, for pretty much the cost of fuel. Thanks guys, you are champs.
And a set of wheels, which i didnt take any photos of.
After hanging around, drinking Asahi, and eating snags on the BBQ they headed off to find their caravan park for the night, and i set about trying to figure out where to store the 5M. In the end as it was already on the crane i decided to put it in the car.
About half an hour later, with much changing of engine mounts, and generally getting annoyed at the 5M, Gav and i had it looking like this:
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One 5M engine securely in the engine bay. Hopefully not there for any longer than it needs to be too. Over the next couple of weeks ill refit the interior and hopefully get all the fueling sorted out from the pump and filter, and then have it ready for going through Regency.
I also have to wait for a guy in Adelaide to swap over a set of stock MX83 struts for his new coilovers so i can buy them off him and take the Supra through with completely stock suspension.
Thats about it for now.