Widebody V6 SW20

[Benckj]

Having a qualified mechanic do the work for $200 is great. He sounds very trustworthy and willing to work with his customers (rare breed).

I think the car looks awesome as the wide body look is very distinct. I will be interested in your pearl white colour choice should you decide to do as I have the same objective. Mine needs a little TLC and then full re-spray. My brother works for PGP and will send over some supplies when I need. No garage and working outside puts that job down priority list.

[carnetics]

I remember seeing a S2000 once with such a type of white. It was hands down the nicest white I have seen. Will have to hunt around for the colour code. Also seen a S2K with a deep red which might be an option.

Although just black or white might be cheaper than doing anything else. Will definitely tell you when I find it.

[Benckj]

I want a pearl white which has lister and depth. Saw a US car like this but can't recall model.

[carnetics]

Right so quick update.

Went for a WOF. Failed due to a few things.

1) Engine oil leak. - Its still leaking oil from the rocker cover area and dripping down onto the exhaust and filter and gearbox. Rocker covers have been sent to be grinded down and fixed and re sealed

2) Brake hoses not attached to the shocks. Easy fix.

3) Left front wheel had a bit of play. Turned out it was the wheel bearing which was tightened.

4) One rear brake light not working (easy fix).


Considering selling the whole V6 set up to someone who wants to do a conversion. Will provide all the stuff necessary from my car to get that done.

Would swap the whole set up for a E153 LSD (whole gearbox or just the LSD), loom (optional), speedo/tacho (since the V6 uses a different one anyway so straight swap with the person), 3SGTE block and head (or a whole engine in reasonable condition).

Still deciding.

[Benckj]

Strange issue with wheel bearing as these are not adustable with axle nut. Usually if they are loose then the bearing is shot.

[flying_wedge]

Surely its cheaper for parts and engine (also considering time=money) to sell this SW as a working/running V6 conversion, and then just buy an SW with 3sgte that you are after rather than re-converting?
Sounds like a lot of unnecessary expense and effort given the V6 is in a running/warrant-able/cert-able state to have to go through the hassle and cost of tracking down a good 3sgte clip, buying, converting, troubleshooting, certifying etc.

Get the small niggly issues sorted with this, flick it on and buy what you are after?

[carnetics]

Strange issue with wheel bearing as these are not adustable with axle nut. Usually if they are loose then the bearing is shot.

I will need to check about that. No more play in the wheel now. Will have to ask for a few more details as to what was tightened.

I was expecting that one day I would have to change all my wheel bearings. Just because the hubs came from a '92 car of unknown KMs.

[carnetics]

Surely its cheaper for parts and engine (also considering time=money) to sell this SW as a working/running V6 conversion, and then just buy an SW with 3sgte that you are after rather than re-converting?
Sounds like a lot of unnecessary expense and effort given the V6 is in a running/warrant-able/cert-able state to have to go through the hassle and cost of tracking down a good 3sgte clip, buying, converting, troubleshooting, certifying etc.

Get the small niggly issues sorted with this, flick it on and buy what you are after?

Ideally, I would buy that black SW20 on trademe and start from zero basically (Think its fresh off the boat from Japan?). The car as it is now, has had more than 10 grand spent on it (i'm not exaggerating I have all the receipts) just fixing things and making things right. I'm never ever going to get that back. But its nice seeing something get sorted out correctly. Which is why I still do it.

By selling the V6 seperately, it means that who ever does the conversion can do a proper job. The wiring is a mess on it (ECU wires are black taped together just to give you an example). I wouldn't want to put someone through what I've had to do to get things where they are. Plus, no one is going to pay the money that has gone into this car. Unless someone really wanted it. Which is quite unlikely.

[carnetics]

Another update (again)

Niggly WOF issues got sorted out. Took the car out of the garage. Drove it down the road. Brake pedal pretty much hit the floor on braking.

Whole system has been bled and a full upgrade has been done. Think it might be the master/slave cylinder as the brakes were not touched in the last 2 days and it was braking fine before that with good solid brake feel.

Gotta look into that now.

I'm not sure if the master and slave cylinder is shared by both the brakes and the clutch but if either is wrong I'm replacing both just in case. (can anyone tell me?)

Just happy that it happened at 30km/hr not 110km/hr on the motorway.

[Logan]

Not sure what you are talking about. The brake system doesn't have a slave cylinder. The brake master cylinder (on the left when you look under the bonnet, has a big vacuum hose going into it) pumps brake fluid to the calipers on all 4 wheels. Can't remember if your car has ABS, don't think it does. The Clutch master cylinder (to the right of the BMC, a lot smaller) pumps fluid to the clutch slave cylinder on the gearbox. Sounds like your brake system hasnt been bled properly by the garage to me. I would think it very unlikely the BMC would go from working perfectly to complete failure in a span of 2 days.

[Benckj]

Each wheel has a brake slave cylinder while the master is in frunk as described above. The system will be broken into 2 systems (front & rear) so if you loose one the other can operate. Both go through a proportioning valve to split fluid supply between each for proper bias braking. It can als fed through an ABS module if you are equiped.

From your description I'd firstly look at each slave and try and identify leaks. Following this bleed again and if not sucessful or if problem persists then re-build MC with new seals. Any doubt take into a brake specialist and have them diagnois the problem. Brakes are one thing you wanat to ensure are correct without any doubt of a fault!

Unlike an old Landrover there is absolutly no connectin between clutch and brake hydroulic systems.