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  1. Booked this in for a WoF today. Didnt quite make it all the way. (run out of gas) Lucky i had someone who thought it was flippin hilarious driving the support vehicle Looks pretty cool even busted on the side of the road, but "get the fuel sender working" is now at the top of the list! Ive put about 30l of gas in it since i put the tank back in, and ive driven it maybe 3km, so not sure where it all went! Cruising in traffic. Goes pretty good, but i think i will get the radiator swapped out for a newer one that doesnt leak and maybe a couple of pusher fans. Dash guage reads near the top of normal when its sitting, but the mechanical one reads normal (~90degC), but thats in the lower hose. Up on the hoist. Nice to see the underside from more than a foot away! Guys were pretty happy with it. !!!WOF AQUIRED!!! After that popped around to Mr and Mrs Grants to show off, and went to Burger Fuel for lunch in it, gets lots of looks and thumbs up, and 'what is its?' Swung by the beach for a surf check on the way home No surf, so then made a start on the post-WoF list of things to sort! - Fuel sender - wheel alignment - radiator + fans - door & boot locks (no key for any of them) - more driving!
    15 points
  2. Just a little update. Made it into performance car mag Won best conversion at reunion Got best under construction and best euro at auto fest in the weekend. Time to do the last things ready for beach hop.
    10 points
  3. I ended up with this air pump from the shed tour. It's a Siemens 3 phase industrial pump and it caught my eye for the purpose of an extraction fan for my bead blaster. Initially I had thoughts of swapping the motor for a single phase 230v or even a DC motor with a controller so I can adjust the speed, I need the flow rate high enough to keep the cabinet free of dust but not too high so it starts sucking out all the media. Was just about to dismantle it for a clean up when wiped the dust off the top cap which showed the connection options and this is when it got a little more interesting, this motor can be wired in 3 Phase Star or 3 Phase Delta. (Obligatory warning, Dont ever try this unless you are qualified to do this as there's a chance of electrocution, explosion, fire, pestilence, flood and other nastiness) As you can see, in delta the windings are configured in a 240v config, but however if you did hook up a 230v source to say L1 and L2 the motor wont start, it'll just sit there and him and get hot! as there's no air moving to cool it down, you can get the motor running by spinning the shaft and eventually it will start but at a lesser power output and of course wont restart. Remembering a bit of my NZCE done years ago I know that adding a capacitor can have the effect of a phase shift or delay which is similar to adding another phase, there's a few calculations you need to do which I wont go into here in the interest of safety as things can go horribly wrong if you mess it up End result is a very use able 3 phase air pump on single phase, I have a Variac that can make this variable speed, win!
    8 points
  4. Bit more progress, I was trying to get this done so I could take it to the grasskhana that the Nelson car club ran today, but didn't quite make it, part of the reason is this When I was getting the front panel lined up ready for welding a crack opened up about 50mm from the join, so while I was cleaning up the welds I had made I did a little bit of investigating and found this. Left side Right side So it appears that I was not the first person to chop off the front sheet metal, I was however the first person to weld it up properly.... apparently a few spot welds and heaps of bog was the order of the day for that particular repair, in fairness they had used heaps of underseal behind it which kept the rust away so it was just a matter of cutting the welds re-aligning it all and welding it back together. Next up fitting the fan to the radiator, I got a bit lazy and just used those push through tie things And engine back in, oil cooler and radiator fitted, fan re-wired with a digital controller as the analogue one was a bit huckory So all that work was basically just for this Before After I have some bits turning up for the exhaust tomorrow so have decided to build the new one rather than fit the old one back on
    7 points
  5. well, the innaugral AGM for newly founded www.midschool.co.ng went fantastically. great turnout of enthusiasts with a passion for economic mid 80's japanese compact vehicles, and then some wankers with actual old cars turned up. first agenda item: banish all european vehicles and send them back to their country of origin via telegram second motion to be tabled: rummage some mega GC barry's shed full of awesome cars and bikes, and haggle some sheepskin seat covers. featuring glorious 2 tangs and 2m's once Mabel had listened to her favourite meatloaf tapes, it was off to the stoat and gristle with barbara for a drink. then, haunted speights were consumed in a haunted pub, and some delightful sharns were induced by locals who had never seen such an awful display of cars. after enjoying a bacardi breezer, ol man ky started breakdancing for the local patrons shit chat aside, what an awesome day. massive thanks to everyone who came, hope you all enjoyed it. see you for the next one!
    4 points
  6. Shit that was a good day even with wagon playing up, after the bonnet poping open for about the 5th time we stopped in alex on the way home and stropped it shut. Thanks @gettinroundtuit For the strop. The wagon started missing and struggling slowly getting worse till we found the battery cable had come off easy fix with the help of @kyteler's trusty pocket knife. I brought my mate along and he said it was one of the best cruises hes been on. Just shows how many GC's are in OS.
    4 points
  7. and as a bonus when you burn out a phase you have 2 more spare
    4 points
  8. 4 points
  9. safety cletus says new seat belts are much better. In the front it had a diagonal belt, plus a lap belt so you had to put both on which was te dumb. It had no belts in the back, so I put the laps in the back, someone had cut off all the original old belts and left them bolted in for some reason. Put new lap and diagonal belts in the front, they have old style chrome leg burner buckles which look better than new plastic ones
    4 points
  10. Unfortunately due to me being too lazy to change lenses, the tree and the stupid Toyota van being in the way, this was the only OK Vulcan shot I got.
    3 points
  11. Fuck yeah, thanks to all the good cunts and good vibes of the people who showed up at various stages. Good times again. Got back into town about 9pm which makes for 12hrs of OS real life times. Good times.
    3 points
  12. Bit more progress this week. Starting with getting the old trans tunnel brace drilled out (it must have had a different gearbox in it at some stage and someone had mangled the old one), then the new one welded in and sealed (Cheers Joe). Also Por15'd the cross-member and sway-bar so it's ready for the motor to go back in now. Pile of goodies also turned up from the UK. Cheers Matt
    3 points
  13. Probably just as well you sold the hard top.
    3 points
  14. and then there were two.. Going to part this one out
    3 points
  15. super fucking great news man!!! well done, just in time to buy that AC 124 too.
    3 points
  16. Top link mounts made and tacked in place. Next on the list is a brace/mount off the link mount, back to the chassis rail. will bolt it through the chassis with a few decent bolts. maybe something similar on the other side also, as the factory x member bolt locations are kinda limited, since the lower links take up the space needed to build something solid off them
    3 points
  17. Further to this yarn. At this juncture, we encountered some drunken Alexandra locals, a pair of which seemed genuinely offended by my moustache, much to my entertainment, though I'm not sure a mulletted, leather vest wearing air compressor rider with a mulletted wife has much ground for such statements. Still, as I said, entertaining.
    2 points
  18. By contrast I had a trouble free trip back. Found someone to race from ranfurly to Palmerston. Now I need to sort going back to retrieve mine and @Nick Ritchie's new projects. Cheers for an epic day guys!
    2 points
  19. I don't think there would be many, I've seen 2 other Plymouth valiants here but they were 4 doors. When my mate bought it, it had been on trademe for quite a while so I thought there must have been something wrong with it, but I think it was because they were the sort of car your nana would drive in america so never had a following like a barracuda or duster etc If it was a red mustang with cragars it would have sold quick
    2 points
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  21. I had planned on being on the road by 7am yeah it's early, but that should leave time cruise along at 80kmh /to stop and pine over junk on the way down, stop and buy food/refreshments for nats/ pitch tent in day light ect/ I just wanna get to nats also for route would it pay to see if any other people further down country wanna jump on the convoy and route route around that?? my 2c
    2 points
  22. Here's another rushed and average pic of my new carpet. its much darker than it looked in the auction pictures, I like it.. so I think I'll rock it as is, reminds me of my old valiant.
    2 points
  23. Quickly took the car down for an alignment this arvo to try and work out the pulling to the left situation. Well have a look at the "before" spec below.. haha! As they didn't have a listing for hako on the system I figured Kenmeri woud probably be closest. One of the front caster arms is bent which is causing some of that issue and the toe adjust arms are a bit shit but managed to get them back in line. There is a lot of rust underneath so I'll be loading up on repair panels in this next container! Went to stop in at the compliance place on the way back but it was closed Also I think I need a GT-Kai badge.. everyone thinks it's a GT-R and are crushingly disappointed when I tell them otherwise haha Oh, so result of alignment car definitely feels like it drives a bit straighter, still pulls to the side occasionally but I think that may be as a result of my spring situation. I received a few more bits for it from Kevin san (the aussie guy previously mentioned) so one day I'll get to putting those in and see if that makes the difference.
    2 points
  24. Brown car left on a trailer headed to dunedin on saturday, so spent the rest of the weekend cleaning out the garage and went and got the white one back from storage, so i could start getting this one ready for Nats. Had the radiator fixed, it had a couple of small leaks, I think the 16 pound cap probably didn't help, put a 7pound one on instead. Have ordered some new seatbelts from www.classicseatbelts.co.nz so just waiting for those to arrive. gave the brakes a once over, greased and checked the front end, and for now have borrowed the wheels off the vg, I didnt trust the tyres on a long trip. Also I thought it would be rude to not remove some of the height out of the front while it was jacked up, so I did.
    2 points
  25. I picked up this a bout a month ago from Penrose (not Wanganui!) Ended up getting it sent from Ralph Moore Autoglass in Sydney who had one in stock, and they shipped it with an MG one for some other bloke to halve our shipping. This week i finally got it installed. Cracking the parts cats screen has not only been a very expensive fuckup but also meant ive pretty much missed cruising this summer. I reused the old rubbers, i cleaned them pretty good but they are a bit cracked and stretched in the corners so i hope they dont leak Sorting out the best surrounds, and had just enough unbroken clips, less 2 And on Pretty happy about the close fit to the opening given all the work i did around the screen top and bottom (not so much about the runs, but thats what accessories to hide them are for!) And paint run hider back on Too much or? Nothing like a pending >1200km road trip to procrastinate on sorting the list of wee jobs to sort and a few miles to put on, before hopefully a WoF Next weekend! If not then id better get the brakes on the 125 sorted! Here is a pic to remind me why I aught to pull finger:
    2 points
  26. Right, so this happened then this Even managed to get it insured...... So yeah all done, well not really still needs an interior and some paint touchups but that can wait, its now time to put some kms on it, this has been a pretty long project so now all I am going to do is enjoy driving it. Pretty funny car to drive gets a fair few looks some good some not so good and mostly surprised, gas mileage is so bad, like next level bad, I took it out today and my average was about 4.4kms per liter but it is running really rich (yeah that'll be it, not the rotary under the bonnet ha ha), anyway combine that with the 30l Anglia tank and I am going to be spending some time at the gas station for sure! The biggest problem that I will have now is keeping it under 5000RPM (so hard to do when all it wants to do is rev....) for the next 1000kms which is what the engine builder recommended, work is about a 30km round trip so I only have to do that 34 times and at current gas milage it will only cost me about $500 ha ha ha Anyway it's all good And I will leave this as the last shot, and in my opinion the best angle of the car
    2 points
  27. They guessed which car you were driving correctly haha The driver genuinely thought we were tieing the wagon to her van for a tow lol
    1 point
  28. twas a big day. done and dusted now though. dropped the piggy-back off with help of a cobbers 3-ton digger.. reckons it will be easy enough to sort.
    1 point
  29. First video is me driving like an idiot - the second is my brother's smooth n' quick, I think his final time was 1:28.58. The top rally prepped WRX's were doing ~1:21. So pretty damn good!
    1 point
  30. I should have the clutch back tomorrow and I can make a start on getting the crx back to a drivable state. My friend popped over and clocked the turbo so the drain is sitting nicer. No idea why I never thought about... Learning is why we do this right? He also had a good idea on downpipe routing so when get the shuttle back from the panel beater I can make a start on that.
    1 point
  31. not leaving town til @ 10, bloody english cars & their lousy oil retention abilities & tappets need doing again bit tight after retorquing head. Must remember to pack earmuffs!
    1 point
  32. I had a look at the online destructions for that jaycar unit and I wonder if its unhappy as the gearbag sensor (I think is) 12v instead of 5 I probably have the schematic for the kitset one in a book somewhere if you wanted to try it that way - can just barry it onto strip board and try it out? Just had a look and it needs the micro etc etc so too hard. There isnt a option for a different speedo gear is there? I seem to recall there being a few options for a aussie barge of some description a while ago
    1 point
  33. also have playlist sorted for my factory tape deck. Pining!!!
    1 point
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  35. So the above list was remedied..........mostly, I may have missed 2 of the outer seat belt bolts, when I re-positioned the brake line to stop it rubbing on the airbag it turn out that I had moved it right into the path of the bump stop, I thought i had created enough clearance between the Tyre and the lower shock mount (I had shortened it by around 20mm when i did the rework on the shock angles) but still wasn't quite enough it turned out, And while i had stopped the bags rubbing on the diff, there still wasn't enough clearance so needed to sort that, so I: put 2 new bolts in the outer seat belt lower mounts, made a new brake line that ran onto the rear of the diff, as the original line couldn't be manipulated any more with out risk of kinking the line, as per Clint's suggestion I flapped disc'd the remaining thread that was stuck out past the lower shock mount nut, and gave the lock stops a tweak, I flapped disc'd down the weld seam on the diff and created an angled shim to sit between the top rear bag mount to roll it forward, not only did this create the clearance I needed it actually means that the bag is on a better angle when its aired out, that resulted in this: which resulted in a compliance pass, which lead to: Which mean we could get this: Pretty happy made my goal of getting the car legal for beach hop with 6 days to spare (must be an oldschool record haha), going to rack up a few miles this weekend before we drive it to Whangamata, pretty F#cking stoked to be honest, it drives great, nice and smooth, feels less boat like than it used to with the springs in it so I'm calling it a win!!
    1 point
  36. Been up to fuck all with all the vehicles lately since moving to chch and having a little girl last week! But I did pick up a mint pair of gtx seats so had a spare moment this avo and fitted them up to the factory rails with a bit of trimming and drilling a few holes they fit perfectly and are a shit tonne more comfortable to drive in!
    1 point
  37. Sigh* again, not as much as I wanted.. because Old mate from down the road brought his 1964 international round and did a bit of leveling.. in the rain for a bottle of bubbles for his missus. Not a bad job really, little high in some spots and a little low in others but I'm not complaining.. bit of rake work and she'll be all gravy. He bought it from vegas and drove it back to chch, took 5 1/2 hours..
    1 point
  38. Almost a month ago the 14point7 wideband kit turned up, finally got off my arse and got it running, for the sensor lead I just brought 2m of 7 core trailer wire, pick a part wanted $30 for sections of loom! As I haven't got the Niva running yet, I swapped the wideband sensor into the girlfriends Caldina for a test run and all seems operational. Now with a weekend of terrible weather i'll get the speeduino together with what parts I can scrounge from my drawer of goodies.
    1 point
  39. Depends what you want to model...definitely don't need a scanner. Fusion 360 is free for most...probably where I'd start. If you've never done any computer modelling at all TinkerCAD is a nice simple toy.
    1 point
  40. So this happened, nothing too major, and the smaller parts of the list should be done by the end of the week, leaving only sorting the rear airbags fouling on the diff/ brake line, and reworking the front shock mounts should sort 3 of the issues on the list, Guess there is a few more late nights and weekends in the garage,
    1 point
  41. Yep, pretty frigging happy with it, paint could be nicer, more stainless/polish/chrome etc would be cool, but at the end of it, no one is really going to see it are they!?Bonus shots.bolted in the shocks, painted the white front ones matt black like the rears.thought I may have a problem here. actually about 1cm away from the shock, should be okay? would be much eaier to change it now than when it's full of fluid.other random pics.this thing was super handy for bending up the brake lines.
    1 point
  42. She's on the ground and goes. Well kinda goes. Not that bad for 22 days including this morning
    1 point
  43. Been away for a few weeks camping, was supposed to take this as the tow vehicle but oh well. Next year maybe. Escort Van trailer went great, really miss having a van tho. Anywho, by the time we got back a few orders had showed up (ie not before xmans ), from LadaPower.com, Fiatparts.co.nz and WuM-Autotiele (ebay), main bits i was waiting on were the Starter bushes. No Shots of that but its all shiney in there new with new bushes and brushes. Still a bit intermittent tho :/ Will try better earthing. (I just realised what the red gear knob and rubber straps appear to be) A few parts are going to have to wait till the next rebuild like this adjustable cam sprocket: Anyway, with the starter installed and timing (finally!) set, it rolled under outside under its own steam for a wash and a drive. After a few more checks and tightening of varois clamps and nuts it was Family wagon outing in the the Familiare time And a bit of brum brum, this is after a few runs up and down my road and a blast up to the top of this hill: As mentioned the car seems to be getting better with some use (despite not having any advance at all) Engine so far has no oil leaks or majorly disturbing sounds, and seems to hold water fine. Ive since fiddled with some shakedown stuff: - ajusted the clutch - adjusted gear shift mechanism - swapped parts between 3 spare dizzies and new parts to heve one good dizzy with advance! just needed * advance weights * not ruined advance springs * not worn out pegs for weights and springs * working vacuum advance thinger * clean and lube, new dissy cap, rotor and points (already done before) - new oil light sender - actually a dud - dash out loose wires on some lights * also adjust choke on and handbrake on switches so they are not on all the time, and water temp guage wire so it works - changed out cheapo run in oil (no metallic flakes/poweder of any note) Tomorrow ill retorque the head bolts and adjust the tappets and take it for another blast. Feels good man!
    1 point
  44. So here are the parts that have turned up from chucks, Both front floor pans: All four shocks: And front and rear suspension bush kits, brake hoses (still need to source one more front hose) brake wheel cylinders (again still need to reco/source a r/r cylinder) a drum brake self adjusting kit, I also have started converting the headlights to RHD and moving away from sealed beam to semi sealed halogens in the hope that I may actually be able to see at night So the overall plan for the car once complied is to bag it, probably on 100 spokes, spats, some Mexican blankets on the seats (even though they are in good condition already), some lace/flake on the roof, and lastly a V8/auto conversion just to make it a bit lazier to cruise. Like to discussion: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/53628-bens-61-belair-talky-talk/#entry1739480
    1 point
  45. wow haven't updated this since November, oops, it isn't because things haven't been happening, just that I have been really slack at taking photos. Got this in the mail the other day I had the cage inspected after getting it all finished off and in the car and it was all good, so the car is officially a race car if I want to go that way with it. in reality I did it to make cert a bit easier and so that if I want to turn it into a full cage later on then it is already in the system but still... So that has helped with the motivation a fair bit but over the last few months I have done a lot to it Got the exhaust finished, wrapped the headers because I didn't like looking at the join between the schedule pipe elbows and the exhaust tube. Pretty happy with how it came out and learnt a valuable lesson on why you should wear gloves when putting this stuff on. I didn't and my hands itched for days Then it was on to the wiring, the old motor was running a generator so I ripped out all the wiring for that and wired up the new alternator, coils etc. I was going to leave the wiring in the engine bay (the standard Anglia wiring runs out through the firewall just below the windscreen) but it really looked bad so I rerouted it all through the guards where it is all out of sight. Wasn't too much work and makes the engine bay look heaps cleaner. And the engine bay all wired up Now I just need to deal to the washer bottle...... So what next? well I have been patching up all the little (and not so little) holes, finally go the gearlever all sealed up, ended up making a bit to cover over the hole and to adapt the type 9 boot to the shifter, that was the biggest hole to be filled so it is nice to have that one sorted. I decided to rivet it on just in case things have to move in the future. So that's where it's at, I am really just tidying up all of the little jobs now to get it ready to fire up, the wiring behind the dash is a real mess and needs some attention but that's about the worst of it I think. Hopefully the next update will be to say that it is all running........
    1 point
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