How many wheels does this guy have lol
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How many wheels does this guy have lol
If I never sold any of my wheel collection you'll be looking at 20-22 sets. During this year I have sold at least 13 sets to fund other things in life. Times are tough lols.
My work station for yesterday.
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Did some shaving and cutting. Long hours grinding and shaving away, intake manifold almost finished atleast.
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Tensioner pulley mounting point cut off and shaved down nicely. Still a little more sanding to do.
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Cleaned up some surface on the water pump housing while I was at it.
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Waterpump housing finished and painted, still curing. Turned out exactly how I wanted it to be and was well worth the time and effort.
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Mocked up a few things such as the K-tuned swivel neck thermostat and the aircon and powersteering delete kit.
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The weather was top notch today so I decided to wire brush and paint the alternator, starter motor and mid shaft.
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Now the waiting game begins. Need a good few days before the paint is fully cured and is safe to handle.
Not car related but my fish are looking good!!
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Water pump came out legit.
Rbc is gettting there
Water pump housing came out pretty good but I will need a new water pump though. Rbc is a lot of work, Probably wont ever attempt another shave and smoothed out for a nice curved surface.
I need to remove the factory pulley on the alternator and swap it over to the k-tuned extended one. Reason being is that the factory pulley doesn't align up with all the other pulleys after installing the AC/PS delete kit.
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I've decided to delete the heater as I have clearance issues with the Wastegate being in the way. So the Oem factory thermostat housing can go in the bin.
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Test fitted the colour coded alternator and it is looking a lot better than before. I will need to change that water pump, it has seen better days once upon a time ago and doesn't spin smoothly anymore.
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Removing the pulley on the alternator was quite hard but with a little bit of improvisation, it finally came off. You can also see how the pulley is extended so that it lines up with the crank pulley.
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The downstar beauty washers looking real good.
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What is that thing on top of your starter? I don't recall seeing that on mine.
I had no idea K-Tuned makes an extended alternator pulley! Good stuff, the motor is coming together nicely. What water pump will you be going with? EWP like [MENTION=56]PetefromtheStreets[/MENTION] would be cool