Next up, sandblasted my front brake calipers, put a new piston and seal in them and put everything together.
I also pressed in new wheel bearings.







And I started putting the engine back together!! looking nice.
Torqued down the head, did the valve lash, installed water pump, timing belt and much more.





This is what it looks like with the turbo stuff!

Some late night wrenching, installed my brake master cyl.






I noticed the two brake lines going to the bmc will not fit, I will have to fab up new ones myself soon.
left is the old one.




Painting the rest of the brake/clutch lines

Time to make some brake lines!
I wanted my new lines to match up the old ones to make them look as original as possible.

I used a flaring tool to make some double flares. afaik there's 3 known flare types which are used on different brands of cars.

Single flares, used on oldtimers, not as reliable as the other flares
Bubble flares, ive frequently seen them on european brands
Double flares, used for Japanese cars (this is what I need)

They look like this:






This is a flaring tool. I placed the brake line in the clamp, sticked the brake line out as far as the widest part of the adapter (black thing next to the brake line as shown in pic)





Next up is pressing the adapter in with the tool till it bottoms out. If you want a bubble flare you are done with the process now. It looks like this:




Bubble flare:






I need double flares, so I will be proceeding to the next step: pressing down the tool without the adapter on it.

Once you pressed down the tool without adapter, your double flare is done and looks like this








This is the finished product. Well, almost. I was just testfitting here. I will shorten the last bend to the brake master cylinder because this looks silly ofcourse. I need to paint the line anyways.
It may look a little weird but this is the exact shape my original line was.




All brake lines installed and painted! bad picture though



This post was edited by Gluurbuur on Aug 19 2022 09:51pm

Probably my favorite picture
24 cans of cheap a$$ beer, trash can pile, blue bucket of piss(no toilet) + coolant + oil, and fire extinguishers. because you never know, right?





I 'bench' bleeded my bmc, without it being on an actual bench
does the job.






Started installing my freshly painted subframe, steering rack,







And installed all other suspension parts. Back on the wheels!!
I also painted undercoating behind the fenders








Putting an engine in really soon!

This post was edited by Gluurbuur on Aug 22 2022 11:49am

Before putting the engine in I wanted to paint my gearbox.
It is still a stock gearbox because I don't know what condition its in before trying it out.

And I made a new valve cover, I think black will look better.
Didn't want to ruin the polished one since it took forever to get it like that.

Another thing I was not looking forward to do - swapping out my interior loom.

My new engine needs another ECU (computer) and my old interior loom will not connect to the new ECU.



There's 2 ways to fix this.

Easy/fast route: Buy a conversion harness which connects my old (OBD-0) wiring loom to my OBD1 ECU.

More time consuming route: Remove the entire dash and swap out the interior loom (which runs all the way from my steering wheel to my right headlight in the engine bay)

I don't like using a conversion harness because it is a cheap solution, so I decided to swap out my entire loom for an OBD-1 loom.



Here is a pic of the dash removed. and some wiring. After this pic I also removed my heater core and way more stuff, unfortunately I don't have a picture of this because I had to hurry and go to work.



This post was edited by Gluurbuur on Aug 25 2022 06:54pm

problems. I bought a used OBD-1 wiring loom to replace my old one.

One of the most important things imo:
ALWAYS compare your old and new parts. I do this with everything. brakes, gaskets, seals, anything.

And I'm glad I did the same here, because although the new wiring loom looks like it will fit, it will def not work without lots of cutting and soldering. That would of sucked if I were to find out after installing it.


old vs new, they look the same, but a few plugs are different. I will have to find another loom.

Some differences between my old loom and the 'new' one.

My current loom has just one plug that go into the doors. While the other loom has two. No clue why.
These plugs were full of dirt and sand too, as if the previous owner didn't even connect them.








These plugs are also different.






Someone messed around with this loom, It looks disgusting!