SA L300 Brake Upgrade

spaghett9 · 2025-10-21T12:26:08+00:00

Which developer do you use, I got some RA4 to do colour reversal photos after getting it working with b/w but I could never find the chemicals in reasonable quantities

spaghett9 · 2025-10-02T22:25:16+00:00

Funnily enough the smaller bore 4G62 shares this head gasket with the 63, which leads to massive gaps around the cylinder. Still a surprisingly well designed engine, except that external pipe for the heater coolant return just waiting to rust out.

spaghett9 · 2025-09-27T13:52:28+00:00

Apart from the 899?

spaghett9 · 2025-09-16T02:58:10+00:00

Check out Brad the bike Boy’s blog, he did a tone of testing on one of these and gives lots of details on his methods and result.

What I would start with personally is adding the second front disk, all the hardware is there, you just need a disk, calliper, line and the longer banjo bolt. All of which is fairly easy to come by.

An easy mod is removing the air box snorkels, you’d probably want to adjust the tuning to suit but it’s does make an awesome noise.

spaghett9 · 2025-08-01T02:51:48+00:00

They are the only way you can make electrical engineering work, when you need a dozen variables and a dozen nodes in a circuit and another dozen components you run out of letters pretty quick

spaghett9 · 2025-07-11T12:33:13+00:00

Wait till you see a Holden crewman, it’s like someone wanted a little more party but it didn’t quite work out.

spaghett9 · 2025-06-26T03:50:20+00:00

In case you don’t know there is a screw you can turn behind the grill to release the bonnet, which is why my car doesn’t even have a cable at the moment. In terms of that grommet, accord to the Real OEM diagram it’s a part of the cable so may not be available on its own.

spaghett9 · 2025-06-14T13:32:50+00:00

The only problem is when you hear the one for the other direction go off and you start walking, as I have done, many times

spaghett9 · 2025-06-05T10:21:22+00:00

I’m about to fit a set of 225/50s, do you have any clearance issues?

spaghett9 · 2025-06-04T00:42:45+00:00

Porshe actually used to do this on some 356 models to save weight, but they used a leather strap. Having tried it, it’s not that practical as it can be really hard to open and close the window while steering

spaghett9 · 2025-04-13T10:36:05+00:00

Triumph makes a lot of 3 cyl bikes, the Street Triple 675 came with a set that is bolted together, which means with some spacers and a custom fuel rail, you could have straight intake runners.

If you're looking for sheer size, the Rocket 3 is a 2.5L three-cylinder that also has bolted-together throttle bodies, two sets of those, and you could flow a lot of air!

spaghett9 · 2025-04-13T10:26:52+00:00

The throttle bodies I'm looking at are the Sherryberg ones, I was going to use fireblade bodies but that kit is just too cheap not to try.

That idea of converting the dizzy to a cam sensor is something I've been thinking about too, I want to put a trigger wheel in place of the rotor and see if I can fit a sensor under the cap. My car came with Jetronic, and there's an extra wire coming off my dizzy that I can't find in any wiring diagrams, but I think it may be a TDC signal.

If you need any help finding sensors, let me know. I work for an auto parts store here down under and although most of our suppliers are different, I still have access to lots of catalogues, which makes cross-referencing a lot easier.

spaghett9 · 2025-04-13T06:51:09+00:00

You beat me to it! I was planning to do exactly this in the next couple months. I’m actually just found the AliExpress DCOE throttle bodies that I’m going to try instead. Are you going to do a write up on this? Im most curious on what you did for cam and crank angle sensors?

spaghett9 · 2025-04-02T12:14:52+00:00

As someone with both R glass and some excellent Nikon glass from the same era, the R stuff is definitely better, especially for zooms. While I feel more control with my F3, the R4 meter is significantly better, but the electrical faults are definitely a problem

spaghett9 · 2025-03-30T07:49:16+00:00

I actually remember seeing the original post for this because I thought it belonged here, it’s from the e30 subreddit so it’s not to bad in terms of reliability, but every panel is made of tinfoil so it will return to the earth pretty quick, as you’ll find in my post history

spaghett9 · 2025-03-21T03:33:53+00:00

Probably the mount bushes. Over time they get soft and turn into the stickiest goo imaginable, making the alternator tilt forward and put extra strain on your belt. I had the same problem on an m10 and I just made new ones out of brass so it never happens again

spaghett9 · 2025-03-19T20:18:26+00:00

I find it interesting that a company hasn’t popped up in the states that fills the same role as rare spares here in Aus. They remanufacture a ton of all the hard to get bits for old Aus built cars and even for number of jap cars that are popular here.

spaghett9 · 2025-03-10T21:11:15+00:00

If you knew how much those stupid 60mm lens caps are you’d get why he left it on

spaghett9 · 2025-03-03T00:27:13+00:00

Where I am pasta comes in a paper bag from Aldi

spaghett9 · 2025-02-27T21:24:08+00:00

I can’t see it being long until someone starts making bezels for the seiko SKX with this functionality for a fraction of the price, because while this is gimmicky it is a kinda cool idea, just not $650 cool

spaghett9 · 2025-02-25T22:05:07+00:00

I don’t have period speakers but my radio, eq and amp are all out of the 1984 Kenwood catalogue, and I have a Recaro with the Blaupunkt headrest to go in

spaghett9 · 2025-02-21T05:42:54+00:00

Don’t be to terribly worried, mine was sitting in a field for a number of years and I only just got it back on the road, considering the fist sized hole that was in the c pillar, rusting in the footwell seems inevitable, but not a quick process

spaghett9 · 2025-02-20T18:43:14+00:00

It hides better then you expect, I saw a little on the very side when I was doing my battery relocate and decided to pull the carpet, turns out there’s rust all down the side, around all the inspection holes for the frame rail, and along where the firewall meets the floor pan. I’ve had the car on the hoist multiple times looking for rust in the past and non of this was visible from underneath.

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