Yeah exactly haha. When the Malaysians do their own thing, they do some pretty unique stuff, not sure if thats a good thing or not though
Alrighty, so there has been some slow progress on the build, just been really busy with uni.
I tested out some green LED bulbs off eBay for the indicators in the taillight. Absolute fail. The light turned out just as pink, and more dull. I'm guessing that might be because I used an LED and not a bulb, but, yeh, the experimenting still continues. Might also have to mount some external reverse lights, or maybe just go back to stock taillights.
I then started and finished my battery relocate. I used this picture as inspiration for the box (Doesn't look that great, but just gave me some ideas)
I used the battery box that i bought off eBay, which is a perfecttt fit in the boot (In place of the plastic tray kept for tools). Fits very very snug, and is mounted by one of the bolts that runs through the boot.
I drilled some holes in the box for some rivnuts to mount the 120A circuit breaker:
Then drilled some more holes and added some rubber grommets for the different wires running through the box. Goal is to get the box completely sealed to meet regulations. (Including vent pipe)
I then bought a plastic box, and cut up the lid to shape, heated it and moulded it to a shape that would protect the circuit breaker:
Worked pretty damn well. This is the finished product:
(Still yet to cut the carpet and make everything look better. Also need 3D print a lid for the box, to get it completely sealed.
In terms of the engine bay, I used a stinger distribution block. Only temporarily mounted until I test fit the 6a13tt. But the whole battery relocate works perfectly. In the distribution block, I'm using 100A, 20A, and 120A maxi-fuses for the starter, distribution-post and alternator respectively. My headlights are the only thing that are mounted to the distribution block currently, but it'll be used for extras such as dash-cam and accessories.
Apart from that, the car was running pretty well, having my last drives with this beautiful engine.
My last drive ended on a bombshell though
Driving to meet some mates, i was running low on oil, I pulled over at a petrol station to top it up (about 40 minutes from home). As i filled up, i noticed a small piece of rubber on the engine bay. Looked around to see if everything was okay, and I notice my belt looking like this:
It was pretty badly chewed up, since it must've slipped and sat on the pulley itself. Didn't want to risk driving it like that, so I pulled over the bumper, adjusted the belt, and made it run properly before I left.
Took quite a while since I did this at the friggin' petrol station with only a socket set. Not only that.... I was in a super dodgy neighbourhood, where a group of festy-ass-druggy girls came, sat on the floor a few meters away from the car and had some smokes. Every now and then a group of guys would pass buy asking how much my FTO costs (One of them asked if it was around $20,000 ahahaha woooop <3 )
And a bunch of 'hella gangsta' kids would pass by telling me how siiiikkk my car is XD
Anyway, got it all fixed, and also noticed that my front right tyre had somehow become completely worn out. Looks like some serious camber wear, probably because the retard at the tyre shop didn't adjust my camber properly
Super annoying because I'm running Toyo Proxy R888R's, and I haven't had them on for very long. But I guess its now time to get some new tyres..... which means I might as well buy new rims which are brembo-compatible.... and may as well buy some brembos
So that ends my very last 6a12 drive.
Got home without the belt snapping, not sure how, but thank god I got home okay
And lastly, I built my engine crane:
Which meansss, I can now begin the actual build!!!