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Old 08-08-2005, 10:24 PM   #11
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UPDATE: Well the new engine is arriving tomorrow morning all the way from Deer Park Wreckers in the western suburbs. It's pretty good that they deliver to the other side of Melbourne! I'll get some pics tomorrow night. It's an AU engine, just a regular intech one. I told them to get me one with low kay's so hopefully they do.

As for the engine bay, I decided to paint it in gloss black. Should look ok plus it works out cheaper than painting it blue cause you don't have to spray clear coat over the black. Over the last week Sunny and I have ripped everything out of the engine bay, degreased/high pressured everything and sanded it back. At the moment it looks like an absoloute mess as you can see below.







With a coat of paint it should come up sweet.....although it looks like crap at the moment, the surface is actually pretty smooth, it's just that the engine bay has had 3 different colours over the years and my battery virtually exploded before I took the engine out and the acid ate into everything.

On another topic, I'm wondering whether to replace the clutch while the engine is out. It's an RPM heavy duty clutch that seemed ok before but used to slip a bit when the turbo's were on the car. Here's a pic, dunno if you guys can tell if it's shagged just by looking at it???? The grooves look pretty worn down but I never saw it when it was new so I don't know how deep they are supposed to be.



If it's no good, I was thinking about getting an Xtreme Clutch. http://www.xtremeclutch.com.au/ They seem to have a good selection. Does anyone know what kind of price I'd be looking at to get one of their clutch kits? I tried ringing their VIC rep today but it went to message bank :(

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Doug.
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