Marty are you a fan of tramp bars? some swear to not use them

Very little action happened with the shell this week, prolly because I've bought a couple of new shed toys and another on the way to keep me distractingly occupied .

1st item is a heater which runs on diesel... and yes my shed is open plan so getting gassed out will be very hard.



Second item is something I wanted for years and I've also started making one but got halted due to the design style I wanted, anyway here's the bought one, throat size is 480mm.

Came with a bunch of shaping dies as well

I'm planning on a removable mounting on the side of the bash table I made a while back. Have plans on making it electric but then it'll need it's own pedestal ... Or I'll continue to build the one I started and power that one as it's throat size will be about 750-800mm, will see how it goes...

Slightly off topic, last week we had some fierce cold weather here in Adelaide. This pic was taken at lunchtime last Monday at work, not long after it hailed beans for a little while , sky went so dark !



Back on topic but still off topic, I've been bouncing my time between the car and the ute , I been reading stuff about the Courier 2.6 motor, bit of a slug as power is concerned . Apparently it's ready to turbo as the computer can deal with the extra flow, mine doesn't have a exhaust gas sensor which is even better. I bought a manifold plate from Darren Salmon of Salmon Built Designs . He claims the motors can live on 7-9psi without much drama, I'm going to try for more boost.. The worst that happens is a head gasket failure . 1st off I bought some steam pipe angles and straights for the manifold and bought a few T3 turbo flanges Incase I mess up !
I cut these short lengths in the bandsaw at 12° once I've made the jig to hold them while being cut..

Once they were tack welded up and welded to the T3 flange .
This is the turbo balancing on a length of 4by2 plank to see where it'll be happily set.

Once I was happy with it's placement I welded a strap to secure the positions and got starting to make the tubes, just gotta say I'm not a brilliant Tig welder, prolly mediocre at best but as long as there's no air leaks I consider job jobbed..

I'm still buying bits n pieces for this conversion like exhaust, mufflers, V bands, and intercooler.

Deano Deano Deano lol, the ute is still a project of sorts.. once I've got the ute running again I'll be back on the 2dr , hoping to be another week or two , the ute is the only other working car I've got right now and it's very handy.
Btw I'll possibly be buying another vehicle this weekend or next weekend, something else to distract me haha.

Capri?

I'll give you a hint, it's modernish but very old school...

What , Nooooo hehe. Not a Ford, but can be if you look hard enough 🤔. Btw the car wasn't able to be viewed this weekend so hoping for next weeknd

Jaguwaar