Lawler' box car playing and trying to decided on diffrant st

[lawler]

Yeah but the water lines are gonna be heat wrapped and same with the dump pipe. also Ive gotta make brackets up to hold them a way as much as possible. but Ill keep and eye on them and if they show problems Ill have to get metal ones made up

[lawler]

Well I started heat wrapping the water lines, working out what brakets I need to make and worked out my oil drain fitting I have is the wrong one for the turbo

Please excuse the cable ties I need to get the tap for the heat wrap

[Dansedgli]

Is that tinfoil?

Those hoses are going to last 5 seconds.

[lawler]

Is that tinfoil?

Those hoses are going to last 5 seconds.

They should last longer than that due to the fact that a lot of people run them there.

Also don't judge on the tinfoil you would be surprised how well it works. A mate brought an s13 with an rb20 in it from the mainland with the hose in the same spot and it had it on there and my mate pulled the foil off because he wanted the hose to show out less when he pulled the foil off the hose looked and felt like new but 20min after driving it with out it the hose cracked. he ended up just replacing the hose and putting tinfoil on them again and that was 13 months ago and he hasn't had a problem

Tho I'm starting to think I should just bite the bullet and get ether solid lines or braided ones done just to remove the chance of problems but these one will stay for now

[lawler]

Ok welll Ive been think. Its time for me to sit down and work some stuff out and do this thing once and properly

Basically neat a heap of stuff up
Re run a heap of stuff
Braided water lines, oil lines
New catch can set up

And I will explain once I work a few more things out

[juiceman]

Sounds like a solid plan dude. Doing it right the first time is the new best thing ever. Nothing worse than having something you're not completely happy with. I've been there before and you always have it off the road fixing things you didn't do properly.

As an added bonus, doing things properly equals reliability which further equals enormous amounts of skids.

[lawler]

Well Ive just started working now and I'm sick of doing stuff then thinking later I should have done it different so Ive started slowly working out what I need and how I want it.

So all part buying has been put on hold for a few weeks while I work out what I need and what order because Ive been kind of been doing a bit of this and a bit of that and end up with a lot of half done stuff that I'm wanting to re do some of

First port of call will be braided water lines, braided oil feed, Finish cooler pipping

Then re do catch can set up, breather system, cold air intake

Then fuel system tidy up and tidy up the other hose under the bonnet

While they sound like a simple list there is a bit involved getting then to my new standard for the engine bay
After that side of stuff is done Ill work out what bits to do next

[lawler]

Well quick up date, Its for sale because I don't have the time or energy for it.

Plans for next car is a nice cruiser that handle alright and has a little bit of power but will spend more time driving than being worked on

And most likly an e series

[cjstephens]

Idiot.

[misk]

lol dont sell it now man
get it together, you'll get there eventually

[lawler]

Idiot.

How?

I worked it out the other day what I need for it then worked out the clutch isnt going to last being tuned then Im over weldy so thats even more money and time off the road and I dont have time to work on it and I need a car to drive so its being parted out and the money is being out away towards another car that will spend more time on the road than being played with