Dan's black coupe

[dansomerville]

Cheers, I can't stand all the dirty conversions getting around. It's not hard to have it neat and still use it.

Yeah it works a treat, I previously used heat wrap with metal zip ties. But the stuff falls apart as soon as it gets wet, and ends up looking dodgy.

Yeah I hope that's it, we'll find out anyway.

Yeah man good to meet you too, thanks again for the pulley. Hope your engine all works out. Cleanest e7 I've ever seen.

Haha not yet man, only dropped it off for tuning this morning. We'll see what happens.

[dansomerville]

So on Saturday after I finished work I made a quick trip out westish to pick up up water pump pulley as my shiney T3 ones didn't line up at all, don't ask me why. Then I made a quick trip out to Nimbin to grab a lend of my mates engine crane then we got stuck in to putting in the blacktop.

Post will mainly be photos because I'm to lazy to type I've spent all day every day working on it since the 22nd and I'm over it, haha.

On the crane.




Nearly there.


After a fair amount of dicking around and cursing it all jammed in there. It was a struggle to get the dizzy cover past the firewall with the gearbox attached.




Clearance between dizzy cap and heater lines. I shit myself because i slammed the engine into the brass heater outlet on the firewall and it started leaking, just gave it a good dent though.


Many lonely days.


Followed by lonely nights.


After a discussion on catch can routing and return I decided to not run mine back to the sump, so I dodged up my current setup with stuff at home to make it work and allow me to tell how full it is.




I decided it was to over the top so I just used a single piece of tubing.


Heater and water lines all hooked up.


Throttle cable all hooked up.


Loom going in, had some confusion with the ISCV so thanks goes out to Seamus for helping me out with some advice.


Made some brackets from shelving arms from Bunnings to fit up 2 Davies Craig 10 inch thermo's wired to the ECU.


Mounted up in car.


Extractors fitted up.


Filling the gearbox oil. Nek minute, falls off and attempts to roll out the door into the forester. Forgot to put the handbrake on.


Chucked on some Uni Filters.




And it's done and out of the garage, first move in 8 months.


On to the death trailer for short trip across town for tuning. Stupid trailers jockey wheel popped out and nearly ripped the rear bumper off the forester, will be writing a strongly worded letter about trailer safety to 'Move Yourself' enterprise, haha.


And some random pictures.














From here it's gone to get a little wiring cleaned up and then on dyno for a tune. Hopefully all will turn out sweet with no dramas.

Dan.

[mcBen]

looks mean as, what is your wheel fitment if you don't mind me asking

[Low Style]

Great work mate, "out westie somewhere" hahaha! Keen to see this thing!

[dansomerville]

Um they don't fit the best they're a tad mexican on the front guards and they scrub a little over big bumps. I'm not happy with them, will be doing some guard work to make them fit better later on. Rear guards are flared and wheel sits flush, fronts are stock and need a fair amount of camber to fit inside the guard.

Wheels are 15x8.5 -20, running RE002's in 195/50's.

Here's some pictures I took a while ago when I resprayed the rear end.




Hope that helps.

Dan.

[LittleRedSpirit]

Its art.

[dansomerville]

I've been away climbing mountains with work, but to anyone concerned or anyone who's heard the rumor, my engine is all good and wasn't popped on the dyno by the workshop tuning it. It actually hasn't even been started yet as he's been flat out building some wild big 8's.

Cheers to Lismore being such a small town where rumors spread like wildfire.

[Jacobxxx]

Hahaha, at least i straight up asked you when i heard!

[dansomerville]

Haha yeah. After you asked me I heard the same rumour through a couple of other people the next day. Scared the shit out of me.

[85Kai]

Hey Dan, is your car in Brissy yet? If so, would you been keen on doing a photoshoot with my car to get some nice pics for the 2013 calendar? Due date is Nov 7th. I think the two cars would look good together.