Follow me as I build up and drive my #4kgt86 as well as explore the UK car scene, show scene and track environments!
Currently in the process of building up my Toyota GT86, Originally purchased for just £4000 after the car been in a wreck I restored it to it's former glory and only went up from there! Installing Airlift Suspension, Work Meister M1 Wheel and a full Rocket Bunny V2 Kit! And the story only continues with an upcoming and exciting LS3 engine swap!
This moment reminds me of Caracatus Potts, where he spends forever all his time in his garage building his car and then eureka, it finally starts! Whoa, that sound! That is beautiful - Mad Max Interceptor!!! Now the Rocket Bunny Kit makes sense. I wasn't keen on it but I can see now that it needs it to match the character of the engine.
It's getting very exciting at this stage. Thanks for the immense effort in video, sharing and effort on top of actually doing the work and doing the day job. I didn't appreciate the vast amount of wiring work required on a new engine build.
Thanks for sharing this experience including your mistake. For a numpty like me, I did not spot the issue until you showed it. It's the whole experience with your ups and downs which makes this story so interesting to the untrained eye for me.
Yep that was impressive work making the heat shield. I saw that piece of metal and thought there is no way you're going to be able to knock that into a customised shape. Wow, you did it. Cool!
I will never be brave or talented enough to rebuild an engine. Thank you for the immense effort and putting these videos together. They are very interesting. It's great to follow your journey and I'm a fan.
Sorry I'm a bit late to the party. Only just this week started going through your PH thread. It's absolutely awsome and I'm taking my time going through each bit to follow your journey. I don't know anything about rebuilding an engine and found this episode very interesting. It was not boring or too wordy at all.
Last year was just really busy, the car was being a pain in the butt and I quickly fell out of love of the idea of trying to force out a few videos without much interesting content to show off. Sadly after I got it all up and running the engine spun a couple of bearings and it's been off the road since. I couldn't pull the engine on a drive way and the car got moved to a local farm but thanks to all the noise there it's a terrible place to make videos. The Engine itself is out and It's currently being rebuilt as I didn't fancy doing it again myself in a dusty old barn. Hoping to get it back on the road again for the summer and I may start making a few videos again but they'll probably be few and far between as I'd rather not try and force myself to make a video for the sake of trying to stick to some kind of schedule this time.
Loving the 86, that kit looks amazing, typical of Rocket Bunny and also amazing tunes 🎵 to accompany the videos too, are there any links or playlists for them, take it easy and keep up the good work, Ste 🇬🇧
I pulled this video of the help in my auto class, and the one part I’m stuck at isn’t even in the video, I’m stuck in on taking off the harmonic balancer.
Hi, I usually just measure the size I need, in this case the Rod Journal was 58mm so I simply bought a 58mm "Clock Insert" a quick google search brings up a few places you and purchase them or I think I bought these off Ebay
Hi, I just watched your video on making a Clock. I have a piston where can I buy clocks like that and I’m also looking for a bigger one that will fit in the timing cover for a Harley. Thank you for any help you can give me.
I’m so glad this bumper has the side-marker delete. Those side-markers are a pain in the ass bcuz they come loose if u hit a pothole or drive against the wind
At that moment i'm lapping the valves, give it a google for more info but basically over time the valve seating surfaces become pitted so you essentially use grinding paste to "Re-seat" them so that they make a good seal when the valves are closed
Great video. I'm itching to put an LS3 with a Tremec TKX 5 speed in my 71 El Camino. It currently has an LM7 with a 4L60e. Couple questions, how do you decide to do a full tear down versus just dropping a used engine in?
Soon after I got the engine it stopped turning over by hand, I decided at that moment that I had to get it apart to work out what was causing that and then in the process decided that it was best to rebuild it overall as it was quite grimey and sludgy inside with old oil
I’m just wondering how well would the car handle humps like would the kit scrape on it /when you lower the car wouldn’t there be issues (thinking of starting a project car when I have some funds)
Sounds awesome. Exhaust hack (literally) worked a treat! Congrats on finding and fixing the ground issue. When in doubt, check the logs! 😂🤣 Really looking forward to the post map video. Once it's all sorted you need to get the dB meter out!!
Yeah that's the plan currently! It's actually the weekend before i'm getting it properly tuned so assuming it's running okay to make the trip i'll be hopefully attending!
This vid didn't pop up in my feed! So close but yet so far! Gutted for you but I'll know you'll get it running soon. Can't wait for the cruising videos!
So close now! I'm sure it's something simple, no indication from the logs? I live in Coventry, who are you using for tuning? Didn't really know there was many tuners apart from protuner and Narco.
I've recently found something in the logs that may be the cause of all of my woes! Hopefully going to dive in to that possibility in my next video as its definitely a bit of user error! I'm hoping to take it to Greg at Protuner indeed, I know he does alot of the tuning on the Haltech equipped cars for Driftworks so I see and hear good things.
