Jacko

Havent tried, but be hard to be much worse!

Saving the Silver Lemon: Day whatever. Intake removed, solid amount of oil in it so will take a look at CCV. Rocker cover off, not the first monkey here as it was sealed on with rtv. Insides look pretty good, seen way worse anyway! Hydroformed exhaust cam (07 for reference) Headbolt has snapped, but thankfully the internal ones still have heads, so no major to solve it. Remains of the old micky mouse flange must have been floating around the engine bay, as found some of it under the car post wash #3.

For shits I thought I take a punt on these - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001544037965.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.41.4e641802ZLscJA Theyre genuine units, looking at them in my hand right now.

Other than the usual time wasting sh*t on Faceballs, these remain available Happy to take offers, hard to value them as market is small for 1 series fitment.

I know the guy that built it Tauranga, will be done well.

Source of the coolant f**ken everywhere found, O ring cut in two when they reinstalled the transmission cooler to the new radiator... (midas, they do WINZ work...) Oil leak source is pretty obvious : everything. A lot of degreasing and waterblasting to expose the engine underneath the cm of oil crud. Power steering leak, still elusive, but will probably find it when subframe comes out. Next job hack through the crud on the rocker cover, pull the manifold, then rocker cover gaskets etc.

My full conversion, including rebuilding the calipers and new pads, seals, pistons and disks cost about 3.5k starting from $900 calipers

Yeah classic leak, was the tail light on mine... made everything go insane till dried out as properly messed with PDC and CAN coms. Ended up conformal coating the PDC board, its never leaked again after retorquing the light, but if it does it can swim as much as it wants.

Interior back together, skanky to swanky conversion complete inside. Rear wiper is trashed, the usual issue, $40 on aliexpress for a new one Now the real sh*t starts, looking forward to sorting the headlights out will look way better when polished up. Yup, and the all belts and tensioner... things been leaking for so long everythings just soaked in oil

Interior carpets cleaned, made some f**ken disgusting coffee.... the good news is its starting to smell less skanky. Waterblasted all the interior mats and they changed colour. Got the headliner professionally redone, dirt cheap if I pulled it out and reinstalled it - Jimmy (aucklandautoupholstery at gmail.com) out at Ardmore is the absolute boss. Drivers door speaker was blown, 0 ohms, so easy fix there. Starting to go back together at least on the inside. Have all the parts to start doing the real work, short of set of B4 Bilstein's. Sump gasket kit Trans service kit Rocker gasket kit Engine mounts Power steering line mounts Headlight level sensor Oilcooler gaskets New plugs All the filters as they are all nasty. Also ordered an ACS replica spoiler and some ACS1 decals... will get some fresh tyres for the ACS Type IVs, because eurotrash Should be a nice 130 when done. Still have no idea where coolant was pissing out from, decided the best way is to pull the whole front end off (bumpers all skewed anyway) and pull the cooling system apart and put it back together will make for better access to everything else anyway. The radiator and all the lines are new, so best guess is something just isn't together correctly or an O ring is missing or something dumb like that.

Not hugely accurate, tape measure and all, but the smallest diameter is ~400mm, it steps down a little towards the spokes. Will be 400+ further in.

OK condition, 1 of them is mint. 1 has kerb rash, couple have corrosion under clear coat. Genuine units made by BBS, rare staggered E87 fitment and pretty lightweight (11kg and 11.93kg) 7.5x18 ET49 - Hankook S1 Evos - WOFable (225/40) 8.5x18 ET52 - Near new Michelin PS5s (225/45) If it was me, Id get them cleaned up for a few hundy and switch the tyres around with the some new PS5s on the rear... $1300 ONO

Epic work, saving 130's is now the jam it seems... its a pity the prices even for decently sorted ones are still so low. On the cams - I remember reading years ago about the hydroformed ones, from memory they had a switch in production around the time of going to the "black tops" LCI engine, where the game was to make N52s cheaper to make, and the solid cams came in then with some crossover.

Anyone got any use for these, box of stuff I kept. Boston black leather, aluminium glacier-silver trim bits. Everythings in good condition, just dusty. All four door cards, instrument cluster, glove box assembly, centre console etc etc. Free Also have electric boston leather Msport front seats sitting around if anyone wants them (my hoarding pile needs some culling)

Few hours on the Silver Lemon this arvo, its smelling less disgusting and the left side of the interior is no longer sticky. Done about all I can with the seats, drivers seat just needs redying, everything else cleaning up OK. Lots of scrubbing, multiple rounds, then leather conditioner. Wondering if I have a go at the headlining myself, anyone done this before? There is an interior place up the road that did my other 130 and its mint, but it also cost coin... and I can see myself losing money on this thing quickly!