"Mighty Car Mods"

Marty: So it's a new day and we have our engine pulled out of the back of the shed and we've taken off the

Subframe II crossmember thing whatever it is that looks a lot like the Lance one

Al: Well, it is a Lancer one

Marty: Oh yeah

Al: So that's Probably why

Marty: There's a problem with this engine and that is it has air conditioning which we clearly don't need

because of race car

But Alan how are we gonna how we get a built? Because if we get rid of that just build on fit, right?

Al: no, so we will just

Chop the belt off and remove the compressor and we'll just reroute it. So goes through here

We'll keep that because then you you've got like you you need

Half the pulley to drive properly we've got rid of that and went straight down here. We wouldn't have much Drive surface

Marty : Yep,

16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:07,620 so

The best way to measure to get your new belt what I do is just cut the old belt in half.

18 00:01:14,439 --> 00:01:18,419 delete what you're going to delete and then overlap the belt and

Then cut it where it overlaps. So that's your size

Marty: Yep.

21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,540 Marty: and that's how you buy like it. This is what a

6 pk because it's got six reeds. Yeah, . Yeah millimetres

Al: Yeah

Marty: it'll be like a 11 whatever 70 or something

Al: Yeah, that's just a millimetre length

so if you use a bit of string or something like that, you just it's it's very hard to get the the proper length because

It's got to go through the ribs are got to go into the into

Marty: Oh yeah...

Al: the rib grooves and stuff like that

Just the belts useless anyway, because it's not fit anymore. So you just cut it and use that as your measuring stick cool

Marty : Cool!

Al: So it's easy way to do

Marty: it chop it man

*Tin snipper sound*

Marty: Oh Ahhhh... Ha ha ha

Al: So the only catch is because it's got an automatic tensioner when you measure it you have to

Well, I measure the tensioner away because otherwise it won't be mark it accurate

Marty: And what you justr get a texture or something and mark it there

Al: I put my finger on then cut it off

Marty: That's oh just a little bit tension like that she's good

Al: Yep, cool. No cut that bit off

Marty: your choppers

Like so

Marty: They're really good, Wow!

Al: Hmm

Marty: Then we just measure this

Al: and then we just measure that

Marty:Oh awh. The tensioners, there's only about length, although we need one that's joined

*tape measure sound*

Marty: 6pk Al: Bullet

Marty :15:40

Marty: Sounds good. Six PK 1540 Al: then I'll write it now.

Marty: Okay, I will

Marty: Well, first up we're heading to "Super Cheap Auto" to grab some supplies and maybe some kebabs on the way home

We're gonna pick up a new accessory belt and to help his hand. I'm gonna get our some gloves that he probably won't use

We also need an oil filter some engine oil and gearbox oil ready to go in the car before we fire it up

Assuming we get that far

Marty: Back at Al's shed

We can begin stripping down the 4G 69 and the aircon compressor is going directly in the bin

Marty : weight saving

Al: See that big lump there martin

Marty: This

Al: yeah, that's a balance shaft.

Marty: Oh Really?

Al: Yeah,

Marty: Is it on a cog or something

Al Its on the timing belt drive

Marty: Oh, so it's like a separate big separate thing. Yeah, cuz force it on the inline engines have what's called?

Al Yeah because 4 cylinders inline engines

Al: Secondary

Vibration.

Marty:yeah

Al: So that's why a lot of four-cylinder engines are horrible buzzy things like

3s GS and that's horrible MR2 Motors and sr20

Marty: *laughing at MR2 hate*

Al: Literally look at them and their vibrating. . I can't tell sometimes the severity of the engines off

Marty: Yeah

Al: that's a natural secondary vibration

Marty: I can't tell sometimes if supergramps if the engine is on or not

Al: Yeah, it's because its a six Cylinders

Al: Don't have it that they're one of the smooth engines

Marty: Benny Stagia

Marty: Is that the motor that they use and they put a glass of water or coin on something and it doesn't move

Al: Hmm

Al: Yeah, so the more cylinders the less vibes you get but also on the in lines are bad for it

So they use balance shafts to cancel the the secondary vibration out

Marty: I thought that one of them stuck to the end of the crank

Al: It's actually like a whole separates Al: It's separate thing with balance weights on it. To cancel out those vibration

Marty: people delete them

I mean, I'm not on it

But they do I guess to save weight and rotating mass

Al: and revving it to a eleven

Al: Yeah, you can't delete them but it's it doesn't it does do a job makes the engine nicer

Marty : *ahhh* *Metal crash sound*

Al: 'Boot kits' It's very cheap

Marty: Yeah

Al: Relatively easy to replace depending on how accessible the actual rack is, but it's obviously really easy to get it. We know, it's Jase

Al :Yeah

Marty: so tire its tire rods got to come off right and you don't want to mess that up because if you do you ruin your Alignment

because that's what they used to do the towing here

Al:Correct.

Al: So the tie rod end has to come off with just

Al: Which is this Marty: yep

That's called a rack end.

Marty: Yeah

Al they call it a rack in when it's on a rack

Al But they call it a tie rod end when it's on a box

Al: So

Yeah, we got to crack this nut to loosen it

Marty: Yep

Al: But we we need to measure the distance between that nut on the end of the thread

So he can put it back on the right way.

Marty: Yeah

Al: that way you don't have to get a wheel alignment. Marty: Yeah, that's good

Marty: So that good. Well the a wheel alignment is good and it's sticks

marty: So it will be nice not to have to change it

Al: So it is doable without getting a wheel on it. You just have to use bit of

Measuring and put it back together correctly and it's fine

Marty: I'm gonna crack the nuts you can watch and tell me if I do it wrong because that's probably quite hard to single handly

Marty: This maintenance stuff is nowhere near as exciting as dropping in a big-block engine

But it's also only 10 minutes of work now or more like two hours work later on

when everything is installing the car and in the way. By measuring the length of our reckons we can make sure the alignment is

Unchanged and it's simply a matter of the thrashed out rubbers coming off and sliding some new ones on in place

Some cable ties help hold everything together

With our rack boots fixed we can move on to our shifter

Marty Part of the problem

With this

And one of the reason why the motor might of gone

Is because the shifter was so vague like the shifters that long which is my fault as a screwdriver on it

But still like it's it's long

Marty: Anyway,

132 00:06:44,340 --> 00:06:46,320 Marty: and it definitely feels like as nice as that

But you can grease that up to your right like that's a bit smash, but just regress it and go again

Al : Spray abit of Spray greese

So cool, alright so got to go inside the car to get the old one out, right? Yeah. Let's do it

Al: Yeah

Marty: Might fix that

I just I can't wait to drive it again

Marty: It's going to be good and it feels good. Like it's a nice seat nice steering position. It's got a roll cage got those like pads all the gear

cheap-cheap track car

Mean you could especially consider you could probably buy

You could buy this car for 500 bucks

I reckon with like a day's Reggio on it and you could buy that motor for what we pay

$400 plus some plus and bit service item stuff that you have to buy no matter what car you get

The cage is a bit over a thousand bucks. Probably even less. Actually, I think if you put in yourself

Good tires some breaks. That's thou these things make over 100 kilowatts

Al Yeah, Marty: throw it in a naturally aspirated

You can we're doing it a bit differently because the wiring because we're gonna rewire it for a

Because we have the haltech might as well use it and we've got the wide band and everything

but if you're going in a you can use a wiring in my fur, I think it's a

4g63 no

1493 which is the 1.8 litre that came in this car and the motors are so similar

You can plug them in like a couple extra wires a different alternator plug in away you go

That's the ultimate way to do this or really on the cheap

Marty: The old shifter first needs to be unbolted from the transmission tunnel and also the firewall on the inside an

Epic stereo install from two Sexy's past-life means there's extra metal attached to the - that's getting in the way

with that chopped

it can be fed back out through the engine bay and we can check it next to the new one to make sure it's gonna

work

Mitsubishi must have nailed that with the original design as there's hardly any differences at all

Winning the newer CH lancer version will bolt straight in

With the ship disordered we can now start to prep our 4069 for its first test fit into 2sexy's engine bay

We're going to remove all the wiring plugs and sensors as they'll need to be completely reworked

So mad super got from Woody because you don't to lose this little sort of retaining clip is to put the plug back on and

Then push it down and then it stays in the plug and you don't lose it

And then when you go to put that on just clip straight back in

Marty I'm gonna do it?. I? Al: *Giggles*

Marty: We've reinstalled the front to rear engine support bracket back onto the engine to help locate it in the bay

Being that our original 4G 15 driver's side upper engine mount won't fit

we've ordered one from an Evo which with some minor adjustments to the studs will fit this car further proving that 2sexy is...

Actually an Evo

Al: Why do we do that Marty: Hmm

Al: Because these two

Bolt holes and fit that mount. Marty:Yep, Al: it's just reverse so that holds the third holes here, Marty: right!

Al: so if we take that out that mount will

will

most likely bolt on there cool at least just for the purposes of

Holding it up there holding until we get the Evo mount got it

Marty: The plan of attack is to get the engine into position and then drop the car down on top of it

We'll then use an engine crane to pull it into the correct spot and support it from underneath to then bolted it in

Mary: I am putting these

Crushed tube things back in. and I got these two really long bolts

That need to line back up

They may or may not cause right now they don't exactly

But it's only hanging on one mount very

Softly at the moment. So can move

maybe a pry bar or something just to wiggle it

Al: That's moved a bit it's supposed to just bolt straight in but it's it's half a hole out

Marty: And I can't like I if I can't pull the Forwards anymore because when I pull up try and pull it

Al: Yep

Marty: Because of where the motor sits

Just wrong

So the trick now is to get this crossmember that goes from the front of the back of the car

To line up

so we were told that

You've got to rotate one of these mounts,

but we don't actually know which one it is yet

And the only way we can tell is by

Trying to get this connected in and then see where the engine sits at that moment the tensioner for the belts rubbing on there on

The engine rail, so we're gonna see if we can just attach it and get our idea

We're missing the top driver's side mount which means we can't line it up off that either. We're waiting for that to arrive

It should be here either this afternoon or tomorrow

So we're gonna bolt this in see where all sits

So that also lets us start to plan out where everything else is gonna go so, it'll save us a little bit of time later

*power tool sound*

Marty: How do we know it's not right