Garage Meet - October 17. - 19.

[thomas]

Depending on my interview next week, I may be even more intrigued to come up. But a rough schedule would be nice to know.

 

[loose_unit]

ah, that is also a question we might take into consideration...

Indeed

Edit: We also probably need to be informed of the address at some point Via PM seems more sensible

 

[Beni]

Well, just come by on Saturday any time you like! I'd want to leave again on Sunday at around 6pm. Friday wont really work for me, as it turns out.

I'll send you the address via pm!

 

[eizbaer]

alrighty then, we'll see that we turn up some time before noon on saturday, cheers

 

[Beni]

So, is anyone else planning on joining?

For those who want to sleep in the Garage, please bring sleeping bags and warm clothing for the evening! How about a barbecue Saturday night?

 

[eizbaer]

will do! bbq sounds like a very nice plan joe and i should arrive at 12 or so, btw.

 

[loose_unit]

BBQ sounds fine

I got a bit depressed last weekend about not having any money so I went to the store and bought some useful things:

 

[MXM]

So what are you planning to accomplish? I addition to BBQ, of course.

 

[loose_unit]

It's pretty crap video, but here is the start of the zastava engine swap shortly after we decided to do it!

 

[loose_unit]

Picked up by the Eizbaer, we hit traffic:


It's okay, I have a carrot!

The traffic freed up:

Made it:

Moving the swift out of the way to get to the E30:

Alternator work bench:

After some hammering, pulling, cutting and crushing we found the cause of the issue:

The E30 on the stands so we can look at the bushings in the rear:

Off to the shops to get some food for the evening in this awesome car!

I got to drive on the way back, I think Beni needs to clean the windows a bit!

Waiting for the waitress to come around, sadly it didn't happen.

It's Grillin' time:

Halo of the gods

Back to the workshop to checkout the linkage of the Zastava's gearbox:

We were trying to think of a few things to do after pulling the alternator out of the E30 and trying to fix the gear linkage in the Zastava.

Engine swap on the Zastava, suggested Beni? Why not, let's do this!

It begins!

"What have we just started?" Thinks Beni.

Well, let'S get stuck in! - The bonnet provides a perfect place to hang the light!

Kind of a "before" shot:

"Maybe starting this was a bad idea..." Thinks Eizbaer

Pulling some metal parts off underneath the car

I'm from New Zealand where bad ideas are good!

Adding the safety braces to the engine hoist point!

Putting some tension on it so we can undo the mounts

While I was working under the car, Beni pulled something off the engine above which was full of coolant or holding coolant in ... And, well, he got me.

Undoing some engine mounts

After some hours of trying to seperate the gearbox from the engine we went to bed to attack it the next morning.

Morning, sunshine!

Just lift it!

A fresh (ish) look at everything:

I hope we're nearly there face:

After some cheering as the gearbox popped off and the engine roamed free, we realised there was still a fuel line connected, so here we are disconnecting it:

Everything is aweeeeeeeeesome!!!

Satisfied

Derp-happy-face:

We did it!

There are no photos of us removing the gearbox but here it is hanging from the rig:

Kart motor:

This is where we left it, as the oil was still draining from the gearbox and all the heavy work was done:

Time for some Sugar and Sun:

 

[nicjasno]

So awesome! I wish i could have been there.

 

[loose_unit]

Album here, by the way, with more images: http://i.coastingfish.com/album/U

 

[eizbaer]

i got some 2,5k photos to turn into some sort of timelapse thing... damn it. i'll try to get through it all asap and send it to the youtubes.

 

[thomas]

So, whos mini did you steal, Max?

 

[eizbaer]

my mum's, the same one i took to adus on new years.

 

[thomas]

Oh right.. forgot about that... I only remember our SSD-advice to you from that

 

[Beni]

Great meet and great pics. Quite a lot of hassle to get the bloody engine and transmission out. I promise better work and accommodation conditions for the next time!

 

[eizbaer]

importing 2,5k pictures for the timelapse via usb2 does take a while... i should've been thorough and not only set the damn camera to jpg but also to a reduced resolution 16mp really is overkill for a damn engine-swap timelapse...

edit 1: uploading... (3/0.5 dsl is ossum for this, yes...)

edit 2: the eagle-eyed viewer will notice the video speed up considerably at some point (fairly early on) because i switched from one picture every 2 sec to one pic every 6 sec after realizing i had goofed my calculations about amount of pictures taken and battery life and all that (still fairly impressed with the 2270 pictures i got out of about 1.5 batteries, considering they're rated at 350pics per battery).

edit 3: video will be here soon

edit 4: if anyone involved in FGTV (or anyone else, really) wants to edit this to have the intro and maybe show the final frame for a little longer, feel free to grab the original mp4 (still uploading, check back later) and mess about with it as much as you like (i can't be bothered, i still have sundays headache).

edit 5: added generic youtube music for your enjoyment

 

[Beni]

Awesome!

 

[eizbaer]

it's not even apparent that i crashed after 12pm and you guys kept going for two hours without the camera capturing any of it or, really, that the last part of the video is the morning (*cough*...) on sunday