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Well, another knowledgeable person has posted on my “help me” thread on the Gemini forums. Seems that I might be able to completely avoid using one of the coolant chambers on the manifold – the one designed to provide heating for the runners, and feeds to heat the throttle body – which I don’t need anyway. Means I can just run a pipe from the bottom of the thermostat housing through to the heater, and that’s that. The coolant temp sender isn’t changed, and if I do need a coolant feed for a turbo or something down the track, then I can open up that chamber again and spend the money to modify it to allow for the heater pipes *shrugs*

I’m going to get it out of the way early – I’m a Corporate Mercenary®, and I have no qualms about that. I’m just like a lot of people out there doing things for money which most people with “normal” old style morals wouldn’t do. I have been given a set of rules, and I stick to them. It’s called towing the company line.

“Normals” working in big corporations don’t realise this. They are taking people’s livelyhoods for the sake of their own, thinking that they are just working a job. I work for a major phone company, and there are so many cases where something happens, and it’s nearly always the customer’s responsibility to deal with the results.
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Well, I got bored and needed something to do tonight, so I went to JB and wandered around for a while. Bought myself a copy of Reservior Dogs Collector’s Edition, on the recommendation of my good friend Mitchell, and a copy of 28 Days Later, a movie I’ve loved for a while. Cost me less than thirty bucks, so that was cool.

Ok, so previously I’d been able to put the manifold on the head and see how the engine goes together. I haven’t actually tried to make it fit since we bolted the gearbox in. Stupid me, I went to test fit things yesterday, and realised that all was not well.

The intake manifold that everyone’s said to use through the different EFI threads on the forums and so forth, doesn’t fit. In saying that, it doesn’t fit without a bunch of modification. Ugh.

Here’s the instructions I have, I know what it all means, now all I need to do is actually get it all done. The only thing I can’t do is cut/braze the coolant line, but after talking with a mate, I think I might be able to get a coolant feed from another part of the manifold.

Quoted from pizza’s reply on this ozgemini thread:

if it is an E1 manifold, the thermostat housing needs to be trimmed, to clear the rocker cover
the bottom of the headflange hits the block and needs to be trimmed
*IMPORTANT*^^^ IT WONT SEAL ON THE HEAD OTHERWISE
the ports wont line up exactly, but are very close,
there is a water hole in the head that needs to be drilled and welsh plugged,
the coolant pipe on the back of the maifold needs to be mitre cut, and brazed back on to follow the angle of the 4th runner
there is a threaded lug that hits the brakebooster and neds to be cut off

Ooh, and in other non-shit news, I finally got the carter fuel pump test-fitted, and it’s going to stay there.

I live on Brisbane’s South Side, and my project car’s in a mate’s garage in Clayfield – making it a bit hard to find a decent amount of time to work on it on my days off – it takes about an hour to get up there and back, not to mention fuel prices :S

So, if anyone has/knows someone with either a spare single garage/shed (lock up) or some sort of workshop with space to work on a car that they would be willing to let me use (and possibly pay for) for a month or two until I can at least get it going I’d love to hear from you. As per the topic title it has to be on the southside, and preferably close to springwood.

Either post a comment or email me and I’d be most appreciative.