The Bogan

Watch out for Skippy and wombats during the night, dawn or dusk.

What killed the varex motor? Heat? Contamination? I've heard of them dying because people wire them up with constant power and not off the ignition. Mine is wired to the ciggie lighter which only gets power when the ignition is on. I just googled the metal motor, not to expensive which is nice, still, I hope mine lasts for the next few years until I flip it for something else when I get bored with it, not that I'm bored with it now, but historically I don't keep cars for long. I keep looking at old hilux extra cabs that will take me into my retirement, I'm quite fond of the mini trucks, just a nice little NA petrol build to modify with only cruising in mind. Like this, only bagged, and not 5hit rims > https://www.rodshop.com.au/ls1-conversion-kit-for-toyota-1994-2004-hilux I wonder if I should use the SS to donate its power plant and transmission 🤣

How to make a 8 speed slow, add a third pedal. I don't get the conversion.

I like a street car that I take to the drags, that doesn't break everytime I take it out #stillR33triggered

We need to end at a joint where there's lots of parking, maybe contact a coffee/ "good" food truck thingie, more time for ogling cars. It also keeps the cars away from random idiots/kids/footballs and other hazards in public parking lots. There's even some nice quite commercial joints on Sundays that shut down the warehouses over the weekends, that have little cafes which may be able to open for a few hours. There would have been more than 50 people that started the cruise, I'm sure most of them, including me, would like a nice quiet place to park up, open bonnets, and smash coffee, B&E Sanga's and cakes for a few hours, without Joe Public getting in the way. I look forward to the next one, and will try and move my schedule around to attend.

No photo love for the Bogan Cruise Ship 🤣

Bond put in some large base plates inside and under the car to spread the load. I remember talking to them about it and they showed me a picture or a flipped car with a crushed roof, they then pointed out the base plates of the cage that punched through the floor. Not as good as the big stuff you see on a good weld in cage, but alot better than alot of the bolt in cages I looked at.

Found an old pic, you did need to "negotiate" the cross bar though, I push alot of the old 33 out of my brain for sanity reasons , rear seat still fitted without the harness bar 

Fixed seat with a harness and only a harness bar is great, as long as you don't roll and crush your spine. Bond roll cages Australia built/installed the 1/2 cage in my old 33 with a removable harness bar. Fine if you don't need to comply with some regs

😞 fu ck my phone

My in cabin aircon temps haven't changed, my fancy pants FI interchiller aircon condenser and lines are wrapped in some thermal protection stuff so recieves no actual airflow, the aircon refrigerant does it all. Great for the street and drags. I assume long sessions at the track would see the the intercooler coolant struggle, even with a large reservoir. It does have a bypass to bypass the cabin air-conditioning to stop water from the in cabin air-conditioning stuff dripping water from condensation at/on the track.

Some idiots spent to much money fixing a WTA intercooler and high IAT by getting a interchiller fitted. 🤣

Water to air will heatsoak and never be close to ambient temps flowing over a air to air. Apples and Oranges. I had a W2A on my HTV2300 supercharged LS1, IAT just cruising around was 50°c with 25°c ambient, and would peak at 70°c after a run down the 1/4. Then I fitted an interchiller, it now cruises with a IAT of around 25°c in 25°c ambient, and hasn't gotten over 35°c on a 30° day after a good flogging. For a turbo I would definitely run a A2A for IAT and cost, just get the right size A2A and have good airflow through your heating stack. Good airflow is key. You want your engine bay air pressure lower than the high pressure zone at the front of the car. #fluiddynamicsblackmagic

My princess on lunch break

My favourite online radio channel. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/punk-fm&ved=2ahUKEwiGhOTzyrf9AhWXet4KHWXAAJMQFnoECAkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3dAfAhokU8XmZDl0H3680t

For at least a few hours of use anyway. I look forward to more posts.

A rose amongst the thorns?

Work out what overall size your new tyres are, then find anything that fits in the hole to suit. Example: my 275/40 17 R888R are 25.7" diameter, my spare is 205/65 15 with a 25.5" diameter. This gives me a difference on 1% diameter which "should" be fine with 99% of cars. You don't want 3% or over. https://www.tempetyres.com.au/tyre-size-calculator

Nice little cruise, I was super lucky though, clean air all the way from the weir to Austimer

I'm really hoping to head out in the Chchchchcherry Bomb tomorrow, the Mrs was with the eldest today doing girl stuff, so I fully detailed the car, it definitely needs cruise around in a clean state before it rains on it again, fingers crossed

Stuck in 6 ltrs of fresh HPR5 and a filter, then cleaned up all my tool boxes.....and found the new door strikers I grabbed a while ago, so I fitted them up, remembering to do one bolt at a time so the bracket inside didn't end up lost in the sills to rattle around forever and make Mark sad, no more door clunks going over bumps is noice, it's basically a new luxury car now 😂

The suspension is set to stock FE2 height and so far hasn't scrapped on anything since the 4" system was fitted, and the car has seen all sorts of speed humps and steep driveways

Lowest part of the exhaust is 120mm, lowest part of the muffler is 190mm

The same