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Lame update time... Started off with trying to put the w55 tail section onto the w58 box. That didn't work because the shifter didn't line up in the hole and the bearings were wrong (not that big a deal but the aforementioned problem was the main one). So I put the 58 tail section back onto the w58 box and thought I could put the w55 selector shaft into the w58, nope has a way fatter bottom section which grabs the forks so wouldn't fit into the 58 as you can see below: So spoke to Brendon at Convert who had only had it once before, and easiest way is to drill and tap the w58 selector lower down at the same height as the w55 (thanks to Chris/EURON8 & Strange's drillpress) then put the w55 selector bush onto the shaft and mash it all back together. So the mishmash gearbox ended up looking like this: As before, both plates of the twinplate were fucked, also had to buy a new floater plate, fingers for the pressure plate and the flywheel got a skim. Also discovered when I sent the stuff back to MRP for skim and parts that it had an 800hp spring in the pressure plate. This has been replaced with something more in my realm of power now so it shouldn't be a leg press to use the clutch now... Nearly all back together now, gearbox in, driveshaft etc etc. Changed out all the fluids again and also changed rear main, rear gearbox and diff snout seals while it was all apart. Need to fap around with the slave cylinder as it has been mounted at a strange angle both vertically and horizontally and not pushing straight on the fork. Got sidetracked today and my need to bling things took over so gave things a bit of a polish up to look fresh again Thats all for now, might get to drive it again this week!

Spent the last few days sorting out grot, Shane found a full bottle of good rust convertor, so I put that to good use once all the ugly was cut out. This looked like a lot of awkward shaped holes to fill in, so fuck it, it can be all one patch... Then there were a few pin holes in a seam down the sides. This had been helpfully filled with bog and painted over, so it could become much worse without anyone knowing. How hard is it to put a bit of steel back in? This bit took 10 minutes max including cleanup... And a few little bits of ugly that I uncovered and rust killed. The bits around the lights will need welding, but that will be it I reckon... I have many hundreds of dollars of paint sitting in the workshop now. I just need to give the roof a wee cleanup before getting into the paint. Here you can just see the aluminium frames that I made for the windows.

yea, so it goes really well now. 14 pounds equates to about fuck all rpm so its interesting to drive. its got a LOT of pull from basically idle and it makes boost almost instantly. the joys of a small turbo i suppose. now to do some more Ks in it and see if anything wants to have a melt down. it would be nice if this is the end of things shitting themselves.

Righteo, today had a bit of motivation to do a couple mroe things on the truc, went for a drive to get coffee and ended up swinging past supercheap to pick up a couple things: Dash bulbs,Ciggy lighter/usb thing and also a windscreen washer motor. Ended up with a different model of ciggy combo as the narva one was just going to be too big to fit in the little draw. so grabbed a smaller (and half the price) supercheap item. and a washer bottle kit ( was $7 more then just the motor and came with a bottle, motor,hose, nozzles etc.) I also decided to mount the mirrors/mirror. \ I then moved onto the washer bottle, had to drill a couple more hole to fit, but they hide behind the new bottle and i got use reuse the old screws so thats cool. Took a bit of faffing about as i was getting confused with what wires did what, turns out the washer motor is actually mechnical and runs on a camm with ramped teeth. what a shit setup, so i over rode that and wired in the washer motor to give full noise electrical pump power, not some weird shitty spit spit spit carryon the mech one does. Then i routed the wires into the loom and tidied everything up. Working After this I decided that while not important , may aswell install the ciggy lighter because the dash was apart,i had a new part and it was easy. So i went about finding a feed, luck would have it that the fuseboard had a spare fused acc pin , yay! it also had a spare ground so made things super easy to wire up legit. i was going to epoxy it down but found it came with some sweet 3m sticky pads that hold it in place just fine. so now i have power in the cab. yay! Not the prettiest but it will work well. And all hidden away

It kindof looks like I am running out of time to get the bus ready for Hanmer, so I thought I had better get the backup plan well and truly sorted. I have not really been driving the Humber as the exhaust manifold poo didnt work out too well, probably cos I ran the car before it cured properly. I knew I had fucked up somewhere cos the exhaust was leaking worse than it had before. I was also a wee bit marginal on the Mighty Car Mods style surface cleanup that I had done on the manifolds, so decided to man up and get it right. I pulled a spare manifold out of the pile, this had an unusual bit of tin wrapped around it which turned out to be covering a pretty substantial crack - so that one got binned. Fortunately I have a rather large pile of spares and simply dragged out another one. This one I managed to attach to my little mill drill and proceeded to machine all the mating faces; Saturday morning I spent installing this along with copious amounts more poo. I then left it overnight to cure. I have been driving it around today and it feels well and truly sorted. It will need a warrant this week, so I will try and get it in tomorrow just so I have a wee bit of time to sort out any fuckery that might arise...

Don't be a plank mike. Clearly to much time in oz has rubbed off on you. Next you will be all about candy paint and bone colored interiors.

just a quick one. rims of the future ....turbos.. 14x7 so they clear the rear discs nicly thanks to the man that kindly sold them to me.........you know who you are.

I got this off a workmate recently after it had been parked up since 2003 when he went overseas. it has sat in a dry shed the whole time so is still in really good condition. The previous owner wanted to get it back on the road one day so has kept the rego on hold for all these years. but unfortunately lost the garage space recently due to his nanna going into a retirement home. its a jap import 81 lancer 1800se 5 speed. imported in 1989. she's all original with no mods. unless you count the pimpin pine centre console lid as a mod.

Got the roof paint finally finished this weekend. mrs a found this cool lace in an op shop a while ago, and ive wanted to use it on the car since Unfortunately the spray glue i used to stick the lace down was a bit too 'repositionable' and it didnt turn out as crisp or consistent as i would have liked. Lucky i have a massive roof rack to partly hide it! I swapped a visor with j.e.d. a while ago or a mustard one that it his HQ perect, but it was gloss black I so painted the upper side to match the of white roof, but the underside has a secret special glare reducing coating. Needs some trimming and a bracket before i can fit it (and a windscreen!). The boy and I put the doors on today as well as a few of the very many trims, and Ive just picked up the boxes of trims and random bits from the lockup, at least some of which that i have partially cleaned up to start mixing and matching with bits off the parts car. As you can they do look a bit 'bolted on' but hopefully the colour and shine will even out a bit more when I get around to waxing/polishing the doors and wet sand & buff the paint (you can see a few spots of putty on a couple of the bigger runs!) Car was runnning very rough, idling on 5 and missing etc, but I ixed it with on eor a combination of a - actual new spark plugs instead of carboned up 125 hand me downs, - the 'new' dizzy cap from the dizzy I got from Horopito and - some new spark plug leads - tighten alt belt - also tightened/changed a couple of hose clamps and stuff and shes seems to be running sweet as a nut again so hopefully leaks a bit less now too.

Since it seems like every other KP owner makes another improved set of adjustable coilovers, I thought I'd follow that tradition. Used some ae82 Corolla shock inserts this time, way shorter than the previous ones. Drilled off the brake hose mounts and dropped them 30mm lower as well, so the threaded sleeve could go lower. Picked up a pair of Recaro seats as well. So much nicer than the faded pink factory ones. Also so much better sitting lower. Need to do something to those belt buckles though! Coilovers can still be wound down 25mm (captive) or 35mm (non-captive) but was rubbing way too much. Back needs to come down an inch or so now.

Have been taking this for runs in the country every now and then. Fiddling with the tune each time and am slowly getting improvements. Was having a Miss above 3500rpm, seems that it was leaning out as another flat turn on the carb has improved that and given me 500more. So I can probably richen it up another for max performance. I made the mistake of then checking top speed against a GPS. How disappointing. It's cruising at a bit over 50mph on the gauge but GPS says top speed of 76 kph Chasing that 60mph dream

I'm unsure if I have the room in my shed for this?? JUST JOKES HAHAHAHaH!!!!

Cold Start down in Taupo ! On route to the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park All stickered up for Stage 1

I didn't really need another car. I was pretty set to pass on owning it due to already having a moderate to large fleet of broken down shitters, impending surgery and another child being due in the coming months. With sitting for so long. it needed a bit of recommissioning work. due to not having alot of time at the moment due to some of the above things I was going to throw it under a tarp and forget about it for a few months. Dan (DPNS) - a mega GC was not overly keen on this happening. Since his project is currently on hold decided that he would take the lancer and get it running. this was relatively uneventful. the hardest part of it being that the fuel tank was blocked. I took it to the radiator shop to have it steam cleaned. Turned out it had rusted out inside and blocked the outlet from sitting with fuel in it for so long. It took a wee bit of messaging and calling people to find a tank. i eventually found one through a friend of a friend of a friend Dan installed it then drove it around to mine. next up I need to do a full oil/coolant etc service, replace the super crunchy rad hoses and attempt a wof.

had first test drive this weekend. went fine, no issues except a bit of hesitation when getting on the gas. can jandel your way through it so no worries there. had an oil leak where the line to the oil pressure gauge got a pin hole so just disconnected that for now. had to fix a few exhaust leaks where i welded the flanges on, was expected though. heres a video. looks fine on a phone, was facebook messaged to me so looked a little crap after that now youtube has made it look like it was filmed in the early 90s. oh well.

Bonus photos!

This gunna look so swish behind my C10!

Hey guys bought camels C10 because it's the one that sold me on one when down for chopped, so when there was rumor he might be moving it on I pounced and owned it about 3 days later. Took a couple months to get down there and grab it but jumped on a plane Saturday morning and began driving it up. I'll put a better write up when I get home but for now. A couple pics. was a few good photo ops but when you've been driving all day there's little enthusiasm to do such things.

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/53732-snoozins-79-two-point-five-s-its-for-sporty/ I did it again. The pine set in too strong and I ended up with another of the finest 4 door sedans to grace this fine earth. A Triumph 2500, this time in facelift flavour (my first post 74 example) and a sport 'S' spec model to suit. I had arranged to grab it earlier this year, and finally got around to picking it up in May, after the previous owner completed a few classic car runs/shows/etc's in it. It was originally a white car, and has been resprayed some years ago, door jambs, inside of boot, under the bonnet, everything. The paint's ok, it's not super wonderful but it presents well enough for now. It's a manual overdrive model, good tan interior and has done a shitload of KM but underneath is solid and appears to have been looked after, with excellent condition bushes and wearable components. Pics the day we drove it home. 20160515_104545 by Richard Opie, on Flickr 20160515_105939 by Richard Opie, on Flickr 20160515_105955 by Richard Opie, on Flickr I set about collating my Triumph 2500 owners starter kit in the interim. Had these wheels forever and a day, but elected to give them a bit of a polish and tidy up. 20160417_141021 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Then I popped a Nardi I have also had for a number of years on it. 2016-08-16_09-25-39 by Richard Opie, on Flickr I've done some other stuff too. It's now leaking with a volume akin to a burst dam gushing from somewhere at the back of the motor, so that's this weekends task. Thanks ok bye see you at a meet one day.

so i haven't updated this for ages because i'm lazy and photo bucket is a dick and life is busy and stuff that doesn't mean i haven't been doing anything!!! although to be honest i haven't been doing a lot either got the trans to the point where if it wouldn't go into reverse i could turn it off, then back on again and it would be magically fixed. no fucking idea how that works. Had an electrical failure just as i rolled in the garage one night, the night before dyno day of course when it was due to go on the rollers and i had already paid and the crown was out of action to take its place if it did fail. so i called my mate Aaron and he came round with testing equipment and we fucking searched everything to see why the hell the alternator wasn't charging. at all. spent almost 4 hours on it before realising that the dash had shit connections and put some contact cleaner on them and all of a sudden everything works again, hooray!!! so took it along to the dyno day with high hopes of 180 ish hp, nope, it only had 118.5. it did however sound AMAZING!!! but fuck, thats shit. so i pulled a bunch of stuff off the engine, basically all the stuff that i can check myself/replace before i take it in somewhere to get it fixed, if this doesn't injectors off and cleaned, computer out and Aaron replaced all the capacitors and shit that could fail because 90's toyota computer, i still need to replace plugs and leads but am super broke right now so they're on hold. checked compression. everything is good. so put it back together and took it for a few drives since and its still got detonation, and power seems about the same. will replace plugs next time i've got a spare $80, then its time to take it to the experts. or maybe i just need to hook up a check engine light and see what codes its throwing, but thats getting well outside my field of expertise but for some reason the auto/reverse problem is gone. well, its to early to know for sure but i've taken it for 6 short runs to various places and all without a single fail. which is a record, so i'm counting it as a win. cheers Matt

As mentioned in my last post, I don't have much time to work on the car anymore; so basically I'm trying to say my updates won't be as large as they were. Probably a good thing looking back at the length of my first page. Before the engine blew I had taken the car for a WOF, it was all fine except for needing new tires. Rather then buy new tires I thought I'd try to find some nice looking aftermarket wheels with tires. So just yesterday I picked up a set of ATS Type 5's off Dave from oldschool. They do need a bit of restoring but I already knew this since Dave had told me and sent accurate pics. Thank you Dave. I also finally bought a new clutch master cylinder so was able to install the third pedal. Finally the manual conversion is complete (still transmission/engine needs to go in but chassis conversion is done). In order to install the clutch master/clutch pedal, some holes needed to be drilled. Thankfully Toyota had already marked out the position for these, I can't imagine how hard it would have been to accurately mark them out in such a location (without removing dash). In this pic I have started the holes, in order to get the center one to the right size I had to hand file using a half circle file (no large enough drill bit). New master: Finally three pedals: I forgot to take pictures but I did use some rust prevention spray on the bare metal exposed by drilling the holes for the clutch.

everything in life is possible with help help of oldschool GOOD CUNTS ay.

These things have been growing on me lately. There's a super clean one that gets around Perth: And a mates got one that's sort of for sale, and the late model version with IRS and 22RE, could be fun for khana stuff. But I always buy sedans and I want a coupe!!!

All of the wiring is now finally working, other than the horn which had to be relocated because of the front end. But that will soon be connected too. Other than that we have fixed the dent in the front fender until I find another fender:

Random snaps of the toy

probably fine to be honest I would just not mention it, and if it gets pulled up on it, then deal with it then.

cert time would be when you have to get that done, so if it already has a cert, nope

I need to get the trumpy out and meet a few of you jokers. I like beer.

Getting closer to on road status now. Since last update I have made a new exhaust, fixed all the remaining rust in the inner wheel arch and sealed all that up. New starter solenoid. Still need to get some crimps and connections to rewire a few things that are twist and tapped to just get it going but that will be taking place Saturday. Also got a spare engine to have a play on as have never pulled one down. Got a stand for it also just need to attach it at some point. Pictures Exhaust looking nice and new. Ignore the muffler, hasn't been replaced. Fixed a big hole here and was difficult as a few areas meet here. A lot of little patches on the inside then welded a big patch over and sealed it all up. Engine all ready to go. Hopefully a driving video this weekend if it stays sunny and the car actually works. //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/36619-daves-prince-b200/ Discussion thread here if you want to have a yarn.

So have done a bit of work on this old girl. Have replaced all the rear suspension bushes, the rear shocks and am just working on the rear brakes replacing the wheel cylinders and fitting a brake shoe self adjusting kit, no pictures of that as its boring stuff. Don't worry though I do have some pictures. Shakotom kindly loaned me a couple of Hundy spokes so I could gauge what size I wanted as you can get them in real OG 13x7 which will be too small in my opinion. You can also get them in 14's but they are only 6" wide so I'm thinking they maybe too skinny. Or they do them in a 15x8, which is what these are. The 15's seem to be the logical choice, they still have that huge guard/small rim look, but I cam still run a reasonable width tyre, but I think the 14's may look better/more traditional, Oh and here's a rough paintshop job that I did to give me inspiration Chur

Paint, yay! high build primer. Then the blue. Colour contrast looks good. What's better than eating a mandarin? Need to wait for the paint to dry for a couple of days then i will mask if off and spray it an off white to match how i got it, but just the roof panel not to the bottom of the window line, thusly:

So. I didn't die, but yeah had a bunch of crazy head issues - mostly sorted through an influx of medication. Got the engine and trans mounts done at DKM - they did a jolly good job. Now lego-ing the car back together. Only it's like trying to build a spaceship, when the blocks you have are for a castle. And half of them are Megablox and Duplo. Got the front end of the interior finished, slammed in some sound deadener. Now just waiting on some parts for the engine - picking up an alternator today, then waiting on a longer shift cable, new pulleys and belts and a wiring harness (gonna rewire the whole thing from scratch - yay!) Should be fun.

Picked up the new front strut assembly's Friday and swapped the springs and shorter inserts over. Pulled the other hub off the other strut (the one that didn't explode) Looking at the bearings between them, the one that let lose and the one that was still sweet, there's a huge size difference. The one that destroyed the hub being over twice the size. The chase had be pressed up onto the spindle and flared out. So I'm wondering if someone's put the wrong size bearing in there and when I've tweaked it up its gone to far up the spindle, and the bearing was set correctly but the chase was pressed on and caused friction witch is why the grease deteriorated then the bearing ate the hub as it was just metal on metal?? IDK but I'll fucking sure to get the right size and do both the new struts when I put them in. I had to cut the chase off the spindle witch wasn't to bad a job and I managed to do it well without nicking the spindle. The area the chase sits on is pretty rough where it welded it self on. I'm wondering if I could get someone to machine it nice again and then I can turn these struts into coilovers. Had intentions of giving the body some love but working 6-7 days a week is making it hard to get any longer jobs done that involve putting the car on stands. Hopefully I'll get some time free before we head into Christmas and I get swamped with work again

Wheels got the black zinc

Did a little photoshoot

Fucking boom. Added 20hp by fitting a roof rack

Bit of maintenance today. Drivers door handles return springs less is elasticity and kept getting stuck up. And they wouldn't close or lock unless I gave it a couple love taps. Pulled it off and had a look. Used multi grips the press the pin out. I ended up finding a clip that was perfect. Clips actually from a down light. Cut it and bent to where I needed. Bit of tak2 lube and it works mint. Next on the list was the indicator relay. Cheer to roman for pointing me in the right direction had a relay from j car for $20. Plug was a bit different so I pulled the spade clips out of the plug and gave them some heat shrink. I used a mate nail polish to colour code the space bits with the in/out puts and earth on the relay. Added some photos of interior as it's pretty mint. Looks to have had a cell holder mounted at some point witch is a let down but aside from that it's near new

Stage 1 Stage 2 Service Time Stage 3 Stage 4 Post Race selfie Back on the trailer home bound

Just be that 1st drive when I back out of the garage straight into the wife's car.

Here's a video with the straight pipe, needs a tune still. Will try and do a better one once the mufflers on.

So the 4K is all reassembled thanks to Hartley's! Not 100% sure on the specs yet, but I believe it is bored out to 1400cc, new pistons, bigger cam, ported, skimmed head, valve springs, lightened flywheel, electronic distributor. Weber carby has been rebuilt, have also acquired a Primera radiator, MSD coil, new muffler and Ramflo filter. Basically just waiting for the Rush automotive headers to be made then it can go in! So excited for some power!! Need to tidy up that yuck fuel pump and dizzy vacuum advance(?) somehow.

New clutch is in and is now much better to drive. Also bought a new clutch cable because the old one wasn't the best and had stripped the adjustable circlip part of it. Installed some new carpet from autodec, could do with some more work to get it fitting nicer. Made up an adapter plate and modded the intake manifold to suit the weber carby. Had an attempt to make the inside all smooth which worked well, just need to get further in.

Parts arrived from Toyota awhile ago. Engine is at Hartley's getting some work done to it. Second pair of starsharks hasn't arrived yet, hopefully this coming week. Gave it a polish today, came out pretty good. Also repainted the bumper end caps and fender mirrors satin black since they look average in gloss. Doing that I discovered one of the front end caps is actually a rear one, so is slightly different. So if anyone has a good r/h front bumper end cap they don't want, i'll take it.

Started to pull apart the 4K the past week. Looks to be in pretty good condition. Ordered some parts and a gasket set from Mark at Toyota, should be here soon from Japan. Need to get some bearings and piston rings at some point too. Gave the block and pulleys a coat of black engine enamel to tidy them up a bit. Started to polish the cylinder head cover and timing chain cover. They look a bit nicer, but will give them a bead blast at work and then another polish to get them looking better. Might take the head and camshaft to an engine builder this week and see if they can do some porting and give the cam a grind.

Got the new window rubber in. No more wet floor! Bought some semi-sealed beam headlights from Olds Cool Autos and some H4 bulbs. Sooo much better and brighter. That's about all really. New wheels should be here next month, can't wait!

Decided to just paint the bumpers with the gloss paint and see how they come out. It seems to look alright. So it can stay like that. Fender mirrors make it look so much better too.

Pulled off the bumpers and grill today and sanded them back. Decided to try the paint out first on the grill and headlight surrounds. Turns out the paint shop gave me gloss instead of the satin/matte black I asked for. Doesn't look too bad in gloss, better than before. I'll probably grab some matte or satin black to paint the bumpers though, mightn't look right in gloss. Also got a boss kit and pulled the Nardi steering wheel off the racecar to go on this for now, since I am driving this more often. Some fender mirrors and a new front windscreen rubber also arrived. Will get more pics tomorrow.