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Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby smouch1975 on Fri May 18, 2012 10:43 pm

Good work. Love it
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby trumpy955 on Sat May 19, 2012 8:39 am

Looking very 8-) mate !!!
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Sat May 19, 2012 8:08 pm

Cheers guys, good thing is I get to pick up my rocksliders tomorrow ;)
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Mon May 21, 2012 5:19 pm

Well now, I have finally come to a time where "Kate's Dirty Sister" is right where I want her to be. When I say that, I really mean that there are a couple of things that are on the wish list, but are not necessarily needed.

This has come about due to the fact that I picked up my Wasp 4x4/Hazzard Engineering Rocksliders yesterday, and then subsequently fitted them today.

As always, when new things are about to be put on, things have to be removed...so it was off with the original Mitsubishi Side Steps.

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I have always liked the look of the Tritons without the sidesteps, well, to be more precise, I LOVE the look of the Tritons with the Xrox Rocksliders, but bugger paying the grand or so that they are!!!

And so I got the new ones into place nearby ready for installation...

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And then this is the final product!!!

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I am so glad that I got all my checkerplate powdercoated, as I think the overall look is 8-) . To match the rest of the barwork, I will be getting my sports bar sandblasted and powdercoated black as well, so it will tie in with everything else quite nicely.

So as I said, thats about it for now. After all the work I have done, there is only really 2 more things that are high priority maybes. One being some roof racks, the other being an LED Lightbar, and then some minor bits and pieces here and there to tidy everything up.

Then again, I have no doubt that things will change...oh, and she needs a bath...she will be clean before I head off to the High Country, though I doubt she will stay that way for long...
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Tue May 22, 2012 4:06 pm

You know how I said that I was going to be done with mods for my Triton for a while? Yeah well... :lol:

Its not really much, just some small little bits and pieces that will hopefully make my car a bit more useful.

Firstly, I think I made mention the other day that I was resealing my tonneau cover due to the dog having a bit of a chew on the rubbers back when he was a puppy. Well, in addition to that I decided to have a look at those little side flappy bits that go around the bottom of the sports bar. You all know what I am talking about...anyway, I noticed that they were quite loose and floppy so I decided to investigate. Also, apart from being loose and floppy, there was quite a significant gap between a significant portion of the tonneau cover and these bits, which was the original catalyst for me wanting to seal everything up again in the first place.

I also knew that a bolt had fallen out of one of the tubes at some stage and I thought that would be a contributing factor. So I had a look and it seemed like these screws were there and not doing anything. Insert a couple of largish washers and a new bolt for one of them, everything nipped up and now, they sit at the angle that they are supposed to. This means that that bloody gap is no longer there!!! Huzzah I said, before promptly looking for any other gaps and light that I could seal up with the leftover foam strip (ie along the forward edge of the tub...where the lid hinges etc).

After doing all the sealing, and being adequately happy, I decided to throw in a bit of chain to tie stuff down with. I had always raged at the apparent lack of tie down points in my ute, and had seen what Snooozy and a few other had done. As I had been looking at Snooozys build recently, it jogged my memory and so off to Bunnings it was for me!

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I think this may only be a temporary thing, as later on down the track I might get those rail/track things from ARB or similar. I wonder if the noise of it rattling will get to me, overall its pretty tight, so it might only be the odd bump here and there.

While I was at it, I thought I might also tackle a MAP sensor mod. I had previously purchased the items required for Longrangers Mod, attaching it to the intercooler pipe etc, however as I cant braze it myself, or because I havent pulled the pipe out yet, I have gone for a slightly temporary fix in the meantime.

This photo shows the rest of the stuff for the Longranger Mod

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And a closeup view of the "temp" solution...

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And then the installed product.

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I dont know which is going to perform better or not. Im sure there will be a few tweaks to the setup as well, such as sourcing a better one way valve etc. So until then... ;)

P.S. Apologies for the crappy iPhone pics...it was a spur of the moment modification day, and I didnt want to get my SLR out. Meh...
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:10 pm

Its been a while, and after the High Country Trip there is now a long list of other modifications to do to Kate's Dirty Sister.

The LED's were ordered before I left, but they didnt arrive in time for the trip so I got to fit them now. All up, I did the Cabin Lights, all four door lights and then the air con lights. The doors and air con lights were done in blue to match everything else (including the UHF). So here are a few pics...

I really Pulled everything apart here...
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Finished product...
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And I might need to get a different LED for the top left, just to fill in the rest of the left dial a bit better
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More to come soon!!! :D
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Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby timbo on Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:22 pm

LED's look awesome mate but also looks like a lot of work don't think I could go through taking the dash off again never ends up back together right. Love your work mate
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:30 pm

timbo wrote:LED's look awesome mate but also looks like a lot of work don't think I could go through taking the dash off again never ends up back together right. Love your work mate


Nah it wasnt too bad, do it once and now I know how to do it... :lol: :lol:
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby har05l on Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:06 pm

I wish the MN had a blue instrument cluster :evil: , the red just doesn't do it for me :roll:

That's very ambitious GD, dash and sh1t everywhere :o .

Very 8-) finished product :P
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Postby joelzo on Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:22 pm

Hey looks sweet. Got any more info on the leds used?
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:33 am

joelzo wrote:Hey looks sweet. Got any more info on the leds used?


Yeah mate, the LED's were just ordered through ebay and they were a selection of T5 and T10 bulbs of the colours that I wanted.

If you go "HERE" you should be able to get a better idea...Kyjibo is the LED master (apparently) and has put up some useful information. Do yourself a favour though and get them off ebay. Autobarn are selling similar products but charging $30 for 2, whereas I bought 24 various LEDs in total and it only cost me $15.
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby gls_triton on Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:37 am

So when are you in Brisbane next GR???... 6 pack in it for you, if you do mine as well :)

Looking tops mate!
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:32 pm

For any of the SA Crew...

The call is going out for another session of drinking beers and doing a little bit of work on "Kates Dirty Sister". :D Though this time it is not going to be as epic!!!!! A little bit of wiring for some LED strips (unless I do it during the week when I get bored), maybe install a provent, and throw on my LED lightbar!!!! Then a couple of other small bits and pieces...

So if you want to come around and drink some beer, eat some snags (I will actually get them on the BBQ this time!) then I am thinking next Sunday the 8th of July. You are more than welcome to use the time to do anything to your cars, and if you have any dogs that would love to run around with Calvin, we can throw them into the back yard as well!!! So let me know if you are keen!!! ;)
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Postby big_bob_thefirst on Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:22 pm

Now that sounds interesting. I'll probably b free. Might call round with a few and the puppy. Hopefully have my awning by then which will need to b fitted.
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Postby motoz on Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:40 pm

Sounds great mate though we'll be in Hattah for the desert race.

I'll be doing some electrical installs on my rig after work this week if you wanted to do some then.
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:34 pm

I can always change the dates too mate!!! Maybe even the following weekend ;)
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:08 pm

So tomorrow I will be getting stuck into some more things on my car. I was thinking about doing my roof racks, but I have decided to go with moving my winch control box and installing my LED Light bar. There will be more details to come, but if there was anyone that wanted to cruise around at some stage...just send us a message and we can work out whats going on!!!
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:36 pm

ITS THE LATEST UPDATE!!!!

When I last look at when I did somthing to "Kate's Dirty Sister" well it really has been a while. As with probably a lot of you, I came back from the High Country Trip with a list of things that I wanted to do to the car. This list has grown and shrunk, ebbed and flowed, and little bits have been done here and there.

So to try and think back to around July when some of this all started. Looking at the photos sure does help jog the memory, but when you are one camera down (I dont know where it is in the house at the moment) it makes things just a little more difficult.

So the last thing that I wrote about/mentioned was that I was going to or had spent the day moving my winch control box to beneath my bullbar to make room for my Red Dog Offroad 22" LED Lightbar. This involved dropping the bullbar to get access to the winch cradle which would be its new home. This wasnt really that big of a job as with the TJM T13 Outback Bar you just have to take out 4 bolts and loosen 2. The whole bar then just hinges forward...as seen here...

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So I thought that this would be an awesome time to pull out the intercooler and give it a bit of a clean. There was a quite a bit of oil in there so it took a bit of time to get it all nice and clean. I was a little bit unsure as to the "not supposed to have residual fumes" left, so I tried to hurry things along a little bit... ;)

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Then it was the control box. I had to extend the cables so that it would sit there, but at least that enabled me to tidy things up a little bit. I did later rewrap the winch. It was just left like that after the High Country. It needed a clean and so again it was a perfect opportunity to.

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I think by this stage I had received my LED Lightbar from Boycee, and so I set about trying to figure out how to get it all set up. Originally, I was hoping to use the original mounts on the bullbar, but the distance between these holes, and the bolts on the lightbar were too far, so I got to brainstorming how I could go about attaching my lightbar. I ended up getting some aluminium plate from work and after measuring and cutting it up, drilled some holes to make use of the oringinal mount holes and the 2 that I had drilled for the winch control box. I sprayed it black and also got some leftover foam strip to seal up the front and sides of it. Mounted up and it turned out really well.

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As some of you helped me out with, I had inadvertantly wired everything up to be powered off the highbeam circuit, instead of drawing all its power from the battery. Not to worry though, as I fixed the problem now and it works fantastically. I even upgraded my switch to a 3 gang bank for future spots. It all looks a little neater now, although I am tempted to source a new lower cover bit and start again to neaten things up a little bit. Its good for now though.

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One of the main things I took away from the High Country that I wanted to put in was some LED strip lighting under the bonnet. I had seen this on Motoz's car and it really was a great idea. I pretty well carbon copied Daves setup (as we did it all at his old work) but because I have an ML and he an MN I didnt have anywhere to mount my switch. Another couple of bits of aluminium and I had a bracket made up and mounted to the front of my battery tray. I somehow also jagged the height of the switch so that if I accidently leave it all on, it all switches off when I close the bonnet.

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I also decided to expand the idea and light my tray. This now throws out a ridiculous amount of light from the back. Of course, still having the hard tonneau cover meant that it had to be removable as well. So a waterproof plug was included so that I could still take the cover off and everything still work. I have another bracket for the back here as well, and it still needs a bit of tidying up.

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And this brings me on to the roof racks. I had purchased a set of Rhino Racks and Heavy Duty bars through a mate quite cheaply. As with everything I was going to install this myself, but it was not without its dramas. The first major issue that I had was 2 of the rivets decided to shear prematurely leaving half a stem. This meant that I was unable to fully set the rivet, and the point would have been unusable beacuse of the stem sticking up. Not to worry though, because I just tapped it down, drilled the rivets out and started again.

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I have noticed with where the front bar is currently, is that I get a lot of wind noise/buffeting from it at speed. I am hoping with a slight adjustment that this may help that, or even if I just get a tray. Now I have to start looking as to the sort of tray that I want to throw on - alloy or steel?

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The other main issue was the fact that before I started everything was working, and I didnt perform any work in the cab at all. However when I came to drive it, the trip meter had reset, and the radio and display were not working. I checked all the fuses I thought were related, like computers and radios and everything but did not find what was wrong. It wasnt until I realised that the interior lights were also not working that I thought I would check that fuse. Low and behold it had blown. A quick change and everything was back and working.

So I think that brings us up to date. Just a few small mods done, nothing that major, but all included in one big update. Now the next mod is possibly a battery box/electrical setup of some sort. Though as always, this will probably change at some point. I really must tidy up the electrics just a bit more, but that shouldnt be too hard.
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby Crash486 on Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:21 pm

Nice write up and looks like some nice useful mods as well. Good job.
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby Cowboy Dave on Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:14 pm

With those rhino cross bars, is the bottom part of the bar open or is it sealed up? It looks like you have the rubbers across the top, yes? I had a rhino guy at one of the ARB open days tell me something about using extra rubber to make them quieter, but I'm struggling to recall it properly. It might have been a second rubber run across the bottom, or maybe it was just the top in which case you've already done it. Hate it when my memory isn't up to scratch :oops: :oops:
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby Fruity on Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:37 am

Was that a bit of T3 in the earlier photo?
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby godzilla_rising on Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:08 am

Yeah fruity, I would say it was. As it was all aluminum off cuts from work it most likely would be. Are you referring to the LED lightbar plate?

I might have to look into that rubber idea and try and source some from somewhere. But thanks guys.
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby Cowboy Dave on Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:27 pm

Rhino sell the rubber strips for the top and they fit underneath as well. Roof rack city or a company owned arb shop should have them. I got mine from auto pro - they fit the whispbar hd as well.
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby Kingbrown on Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:34 pm

On the Pajero Club Forum some time back there was a detailed description of reducing noise on roof bars.

A huge improvement was gained by fitting a rounded profile to the trailing edge of the bars - to minimise turbulence.

From memory it was some timber moulding (2 pcs of quad ?) glued together and painted and then attached to the bars.
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Re: Godzilla Rising's Build Up

Postby andyj on Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:34 pm

Nice work godzilla kept you busy for a while.....
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