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so picked up this boat from trademe, drove it back from nelson over the weekend, thanks to fuel for stopping when steam was pissing out just after taupo haha.
plans are to get it running mint, tidy up a few imperfections, eventually get some wider wheels and decent suspension

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few more photons and also pic of electric fan i added this week as the one that bolts to engine is nowhere to be found, not sure if i like the electric one may try find the viscous one and the proper shroud






new headunit i bought this week, going to make a panel for surround so i dont have to cut the factory one


mean factory boost gauge

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in the last week i have pulled out the dash to find the 100kmh chime and ended its life, added a headunit and some speakers and today i scored a bonnet cable from a rwd sigma at pick a part, just installed it and it works, so stoked was getting pissed off with crawling on ground with large screwdrivers....

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picked up spare engine on saturday, its going to my dads workshop tomorow to get stripped down so i can start putting on go fast bits and repair whatever needs repairing




who needs a ute/sation wagon/van parts hauler when you can just take out passenger seat... haha boot was to small.

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please discuss/criticise
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big end gave up on weekend still running but sounds like theres a pigeon in my engine so picked this up today from starion low ks driven on weekends and looked after compared to the boost tap driven kid i picked galant up from plans are to put this in tomorow/this week

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redtop racer is in the hole an runs sweet without using 4l of oil every week like last one stoked with it will upload pics tomorow also shits about to get seeeeerious with 14" dish on the way

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pictures of new engine in, running so much better due to lots of dodgy stuff on engine that came out. one balance shaft had been taken out with a bolt in place and lots of bolts covering up oil feeds an shit like that, also removed all the aircon which was so unbelievably heavy just the bracket for the pump must have weighed atleast 2kg

also scored a viscous fan


gap where aircon pump was

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new rims, going to repaint centres in same colour i think and get new bolts and polish to infinite fronts are 14x6.5 and rears 14x7.5 unsure on offsets (dont know how to measue) have been pricing up tyres today most likely going for 165/60/14s for the 6.5s and 185/55/14s for the 7.5s

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put my spare cut springs in today here's the result

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just got dropped home by mr policeman after he kindly pink stickered my car for smooth tyres (what do you mean not even any wires visable yet ) and makita one way adjustables
so time to do something serious with suspension and give it all a re-vamp

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picked these up today ,they're tein s13 fronts with camber plates im planning on adapting to use for the rear, quick measurements show that they should be perfect for the rear with mid adjustment having the car as low is it is on the cut springs. they do need a reco so anybody with information on that or whos done it let me know!!

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so before i got pink stickered i neglected to mention i broke an axle (night after i had just finished putting cutties in) so heres a few pics of pulling the whole rear subframe out.was so suprised at how easy it was (thanks to mr phillip weston for online refrences) and also got these recaro seats tonight which are so mint.
going to adapt rails after i get pink sticker off (hopefully by the weekend)
still need to reco adjustables and get my bottom brackets put on and change top hat and find another pair to mod for the front. But atleast im getting somewhere after so many failed projects (this is around my 25th car if not more)

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5 series bmw made me the ham in the sandwhich with a peoplemover of some sort