Some stuff arrived today. Blue incandescent T10s, a whole load of them, because previously I had a few and they were brighter than the regular ones. Though it seems these ones actually make the light pure white, at a cost of brightness, which won't do, so these are now spares.
As for the orange ones, these ones are dual filament... You can probably see where I'm going with that.
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Hey, look at that, another K11 appeared! Pretty cool fella from on here, check out his blog Franken-Mikey Build here.
Managed to get rid of my dash and a few other bits right away which frees up plenty of space.
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Later on I had another look at the cooling system. I decided I'd drain it out, and run some water through it while it was open. The coolant looked like murky water. I put in some used coolant that I recently took from Cassie, my first car. Using old coolant is of course like putting on underwear that you've managed to stretch to 3 days but in this case, it's temporary and it will do.
I've noticed that the top pipe on the radiator is squeezing. Also I had to squeeze it approximately a thousand times to burp out air bubbles to get the coolant in. Hmm.
Oh and I also took off the breather filter on the cam cover. It's just full of oil now and not, well, breathing. I left the pipe upwards in case oil does seep from it.
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Something I've never done before is tighten the throttle cable. A slack cable could mean that even when you're flooring it, it's not fully open!
I tightened it about as much as it would go, it looks tight but it's got slack in it. I'll get to see how this feels later.
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And to finish off I started prepping my wheels. I sanded and polished two of them, and got a little primer on one, but I ran out and don't have any backup cans. My tyres should be arriving any day now so once these are painted, the tyres are going on and the steelies are coming off. My all-season budget tyres on the front are looking pretty abused. Because they do get abused.
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I've got some holiday coming up, but hopefully after that I might get the engine swap done.
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