13 January 2018
The workshop is closed for the weekend so I elect to drive 365k up to the boat factory drop off Adam's Volvo Axles for his Volvo and help them strip my boat and collect the 2JZ-FSE and bring it down for mods it needs before we install it.
Takes me 4 hours to get to Butterworth (Penang) the traffic was hell.
So we only start work at 11.30am on the boat.
By 4pm we had the boat stripped with only the seat left to cut out.
7pm we finally offload the Volvo Axles onto a pallet then we run through my 2JZ engine sitting on the boat shop floor. The list is compiled and then its loaded onto the Isuzu for the drive back to KL. So after the previous incident with Volvo 2's engine and gearbox and the polis I decide to return home in the dead of night. 8.30pm I leave Butterworth after the fisrt 100k after the speed camera's are over I really step on it and reach KL at 11.15pm in time for a meal and a beer in the pub.
Sunday is a rest day.
Saturday 20 January 2018
Sleep in 6:08am on the road. Traffic for the last 90k was hell trucks being arseholes. Had breakfast at
7:40am and then at the workshop at 8.30 to wait for it to be opened. I have the overhead console with me which I collected last night it looks ok maybe.
A quick fit trial shows it's not in good enough condition and needs to be remade with a different style so no welding is needed inside.
We bend up the top panel and the bottom panels. The bottom panel is trial fitted and looks ok.
I go out in the afternoon and collect new speakers and then spend hours preparing one speaker to fit the panel.
8.00pm decide its time for food and the hotel.
Sunday 21 January 2018
8.45am start
The bottom panel is trial fitted and looks ok.
8pm I get assistance from the boat builder and we work on the speaker panels again. All 4 base plates are cut away to fit nicely. The 4" speaker holes are expanded for the 6" speakers and we trim a tab off and a test fit reveals they fit nicely. When finish they need to be stripped and re powder coated.
We test fit the chair. I already have bolted in the middle panel and spent the afternoon getting all the holes drilled some 80 rivnuts and been drilled and installed incpuding redrilling the speaker rivnuts from 4mm to 5mm.
Then its time for a dash review and we set the drivers seat in then start the dash panel layout design.
However its 8.15pm and its really time for home.
Dinner before I leave Ipoh at 9.30pm for the 190k drive home. It's a 2 hour drive home.
Friday night - weekend is a bust. I wake up on monday with diaroeeha from dinner sigh then wednesday afternoon I'm down with the flu from the office. Any plans for the weekend on the volvo have gone out the window.