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Drove the s3 to my mates place. Then i fitted a 355 stroker to his vs clubby. A brass button clutch and full stainless exhaust and ceramic coated extractors. 4 barrel throttle body and manifold, bosch green monster injectors. Gotta get dynoed and tuned during the week. He's expecting 350kw at the rear wheels. Goes like stink now, wait till its tuned.
That was my day. Shower and some sleep now i think.
Cheers Rod
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Got up this morning and was greeted by a flat lhr tyre on the s3. Bugger. More work.
Cheers Rod
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Took the flatty of and decided to check the brakes on the old bomb. Removed the lhr drum and had a quick look see. the brakes were just as good as when I fixed them up when I first got the s3. They don't even need adjusting. i'll just wait for the next thing to go wrong now:D:D:D.
Oh and i'll have to fix the flatty too. prob needs a new tube. they weren't very good when I originally fitted the 4 second hand remould tyres a couple yrs ago that I bought of ebay for .99 cents. I was the only bidder. good value I thought.
Oil and oil filters change.
Well, it's been two years.
Oh, I've got a flat too. That's next weekends job.
Well today i drove around to 6 different tyre dealers just to get a couple 750x16 tubes with tr15 valves. Still no luck. I ended up being able to order 2 tubes through beaurepairs which will be here tomorrow. I could get plenty if i wanted some with bent steel valves tr78 i think to suit split rims. Anyway problem solved for now. Puncture caused by old patch tearing tube at the joint.
Cheers Rod
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Loaded the chainsaw and recovery gear into the 2a and drove 18km each way out to the bitumen and back to check for problems for the trip to town tomorrow. Expected trees blown down, but there weren't any. Only one soft spot, only sank momentarily axle deep. Water over road in the half dozen expected places, but no problems. Stopped at Goan Creek and pulled a large branch further off the crossing.
John
putting back the drive shafts and linkages took longer than I thought it would. About 5 hours, thursdy night and friday morning. We had to change the Hi low selector to the defender one the lever has much more offset than the disco -2 one, and its trickey to get the gear lever mechanism connected. My defender doesn't have a hi lo range lamp, so we left the switch disconnected.
I also put the disco hand brake drum on instead of the defender one, its half the weight, that should make the life of the rear bearing a bit easier.
The TC is filled with semi synthetic 75-90 penrite transgear.
Packed up the car and finally got on the road to Hervey bay about 930 am.
The higher first gear was a little noticeable at first but not really an issue.
I seem to be doing less gear changes than before and rarely change into 5th around town, and use 4th gear a lot more.
On the highway, a big reduction in noise, I can hear wind noise now, and can easily hold a conversation with my wife. Touring is much more relaxed affair, keeping up with the traffic no problem, cruising at 100 -110 kms hr. ( its never going to go like a Td-5) The car can pull up all the hills on the pacific highway in top gear and maintain 100 kms /hr, the combination of the VNT and disco TC case is a good one. (add air bags on the back and its pretty good all rounder.) Counting the cost of the ashcroft ATB, I would say the cost of buying and rebuilding the disco TC was about $1500.
Fuel consumption is improved, ( even though I'mm probably averaging 5 km/h faster than before ), I used my 42 liter reserve tank as the test tank, 430 kms from about 40 liters. about 9.5 l/100 mostly on the pacific high way Brisbane to Hervy bay, with some urban driving at each end. We did 800 kms all up on the weekend and still had just over half of the main tank left.
Stopped a few times to check the temperatures with the IR gun, the TC sump cover was 55 -60 deg, and the front housing about 65- 70, rear housing about 55. R380 was running about 75 deg, similar to the engine sump. Front diff about 45 , back diff about 55, all wheel hubs about 40-45 deg. the ambient was 25 degrees.
Typical cruising at 110 ks, about 12 psi boost, 400 deg C exh temp, going up a hill the exhaust can get up to 600 deg, but not usually for long. at 100 ks and below the exh temp is usually in the 300 to 350 deg range
I did some slippery offroading but used the difflock, and didn't get a chance to try out the ashcroft ATB in the center diff..
We found some accommodation at HB, and did whale watching which was good, and fed the dolphins at Tin can bay on the way back. TCB to Pamona via the Coloola way, it was pretty rocky and rough in places. Kin Kin to Pamona was very pretty. cheers simmo
Took it for a wheel alignment. Found some tyres I want to buy.
Need to go buy steel for a rear bar.
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Had the s3 earning her keep today on the beach at Kingston SE. These are big beams from the Kingston jetty that partially washed away in the big storms a few weeks ago. They were buried at the beach about 1 km from Cape Jaffa. We have retrieved three huge beams so far only one to go now. Someone has cut the cross beams off and prob used them for firewood. Really old jarrah timbers. Bloody heavy too.
Got a bit sunburnt on my chrome dome.
Cheers Rod
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Couple more pics⤵
Im bloody sore now i can tell you.
Cheers Rod
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