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  1. Grass has been getting a little long. so time to give it a trim in other news, just been making a few things stronger, chassis panhard mount. added some braces to lower chassis links on the rear. pedal box was flexing the firewall/wiper tray even tho i took in all 9 of the factory bolt holes. added another bracket back to the cross bar. and hung the brake light switch off it grass trails p/s cap is out in the paddock somewhere
    11 points
  2. everything ready to pour floors on Monday. the diagonal bit out the front is the extra thick part of the floor that goes over the main sewer line. 2017-06-16_03-25-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-06-16_03-25-39 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-06-16_03-25-47 by sheepers, on Flickr
    7 points
  3. I'm back! had another jobs taking up all my spare time but that's out of the shed and I can forge on with Mine. in the interim, in no particular order I got some dobi springs and mk1 golf gas shocks, front of car bottoms out pretty bad when cornering and bumping. Probably doesn't have bump stops in there but may as well upgrade, they were cheap. Need to shorten the struts to accept the shorter golf shocks. nick the fab wizard at MFS has the manifolds and carbs to cobble together. I got Rob to spec up a cam and kelford ground it, gave stuff to ERS in tai tapu- head planed around a mil, he skimmed the block for free 'cause it looks good and the gasket will grip nice', and installed the cam bearings. brendon gave me a stack of rockers to go through and find a good one so I did, pulled it apart and cleaned up ready. picked engine up last nite so today I cleaned up the ports and casting marks, cleaned the head, lapped the valves, loaded the springs and put the rockers on. also cleaned and polished the crank, rehoned, cleaned out the block and galleries. i was in the mood to assemble it but a mate is keen to see how they go together so I'll hopefully do that this week.
    4 points
  4. Got up early, excited like a little kid on Christmas. Last night I was faced with the dilemma of where I was going to mount the compact bender. But in the early hours of the morning I had my epiphany! If I mount it with (4x) 16mm dynabolts, into the concrete floor it's going nowhere. And if positioned just out from a door pillar, I can get the full 270° of articulation when both doors are up. The arm can come off and hang on the machine, completely tucked out of the way...and it's in what I would call dead space in my shed i.e. a space that has no other use...win, win...win! It handled the 16mm cold rolled solid rod with relative ease, producing a perfect bend on my first attempt! Fuck yeah...love this tool!!!
    4 points
  5. Donor car, radiator bent but engine fine, almost every panel bent and tailgate window smashed, not pretty, won't be able to sell much in the way of panels, oh well, full running gear for 5 hundie.... can't really complain. Will be able to fully get into the project in the next few weeks, yippee.
    3 points
  6. I wasn't going to start the suspension work for a couple of weeks but I had some time this afternoon and decided to get stuck in. @Valiant was kind enough to send up his homegrown upper ball joint removal tool and I was itching to try it out. I tried to remove the joint with the upper control arm still installed in the car as a couple of members had suggested but it was super tight and I had no hope of moving it. I think this was mostly due to the fact that I was only using a 1/2 inch drive breaker bar and a 3/4 drive adapter. It might have worked if I had a proper 3/4 drive breaker bar. I persevered for a while but I was afraid of slipping and damaging the front wheel arch or guard so out came the control arm and I decided to go big and get some proper leverage happening. The control arm bushes require replacement to I ripped out the guts allowing me to pass a piece of round bar through. Next I held the removal tool in the vice so I could hold the ball joint and had a go at turning the control arm around the ball joint. It took a couple of good swings but I heard a delightful little crack and the joint started to turn in the control arm. Once it started to turn it was easy to remove the joint using the breaker bar and removal tool. After giving the control arm a bit of a clean up I installed the new joint. I had a bit of fun getting the joint to screw in straight but a couple of OS members who have done this job before told me to expect this. After few false starts the new joint started to screw in nice and straight and actually went in fairly easily. While I have the removal tool in the workshop I think I will do the other side so I will see my friends at BNT tomorrow and grab another.
    3 points
  7. pretty sure there is a 1275 lump at the VCC parts shed at mcleans island.
    2 points
  8. Haven't done much more to the dash apart from fit it into the cab, as I am undecided how to approach the rusty holes under the gauges yet, a bit too many complex shapes! My Dad had a 55 Chevy steering column laying around, so we started to mock it up. The shaft out of that column had been welded in multiple places so we found another column that had a mint shaft and it was also longer so didn't need an extra universal joint added. The outer tube of the column was pretty average, had lots of extra holes, cutouts and had been shortened, so drew a new one up in Solidworks and got it put through the Tube laser at work. It's now made from 2 inch stainless tube.
    2 points
  9. Discus------------> Well I gone and done it again I bought another Mini. This time I wont be selling it! overview: its a mini the plates are on hold! it hasnt been on the road since 2003! and its got some rust! I bought from a fella down in the catlins, what you see here is all It has Im guessing it was used a a bit of a parts car. the front floor pan has had a dodgy repair in the past Its going to be a big job and its going to take forever to do it its got a 998 motor however its not the original donk! plan is to see if i can get it going and go from there on wether I tickle the motor up turbo 998s are what the poms are doing these days so that may be where I go with this cheers for now
    1 point
  10. I did the 289 with auto conversion way back in the late 70s don't remember much about it except it wasn't that hard mate had a very hot 351 in his , was lethal in the wet it would just fry the tyres on every gear change recall late on night on way home from the pub ( I was driving cause he could hardly stand up ) I really struggled to get up the slope from the basin reserve to Mt vic tunnel cops were more interested in what was crammed under the bonnet that the drivers
    1 point
  11. I made this a couple years ago using a mates workshop, tools and help. He said to me if I ever decide to get rid of it, be sure to send it his way. Last year that time came...so I gave it to him to keep. It seemed only fair considering without his help I never would've been able to build it i first place. I told him about the drome racing and sent him a YouTube link...now he's keen as! So too are two more mates, so if possible we have a gang of 4 ready to take on the dome!
    1 point
  12. New shoes! Bridgestone Potenza RE003 in 225/50R16. I also sold my 17" Racing Beat wheels. The workshop forgot to do my WOF though!
    1 point
  13. I ended up getting a brand new one off a local company im friends with. And yes i know its probably very expensive but i wanted it asap. $285 for a brand new one never been used.
    1 point
  14. Brought two cool new tools this week to use. 1) step drill set Which did an amazing job cutting a perfect hole to fit this volt meter in. I feel stupid for not previously owning one, as I now appreciate just how good they are. The second tool is a compact bender. I'm feverishly googling and YouTube-ing up a storm on how to set-up and use one, as I've never used one before. Looks easy, so once I get it bolted down I'll put it to use tomorrow.
    1 point
  15. I am interested in this also. E34 sumps are hard to come buy and now have e30 tax on them. (ps there is a 7series sump that also fits.) but then you still have to chop it and fit wings to keep the capacity up and not have the sump make friends with the ground. I have seen on youtube where a dude has a scanner that he uses to create images of areas and parts then used it as a base to draw and design the part to fill the hole type thing. IT was the guy the the wheel chair from holigan but yes a sump flange for a m50/52/54 would be great.
    1 point
  16. Ben is still mint mate had been well looked after apart from the young guy I got it from done a dodgy wiring job but body is still straight as an arrow getting painted gun metal gray once I get a top mount single turbo manifold and link the ecu tidy it all up she'll will be beautiful again haha
    1 point
  17. So tonight a mate of mine (same one that sold me the motor actually) came around and bought his flash TIG over. weldy weldy i wish i could weld this well. Finished pipe setup including air filter. hopefully it wont suck too much hot air, but a heat sheild may be called for. To say that i am stoked would be the under statement of the century. and its not even finished! i was going to polish the pipes, but upon seeing it all together it would be far too much bling, so my mate and i agreed that wrinkle black on the pipes and blower is the way to go, and how all the old school turbo and supercharger kits were often done.
    1 point
  18. the good.the bad.the gun spat here on the left rear fender.so I stuck heaps of paint over it so I can hopefully polish it out so it sagged here.and when painting inside the air vent I made this mess, looks like I'll be learning to wet sand paint now!All in all I'm pretty stoked and glad it's over, heaps of runs and spots of over spray and areas of orange peel etc..but not bad for a noob in shed in west auckland.looking forward to assembly.
    1 point
  19. Girder frontend underway Still a fair bit left to do, but it will have to wait until next weekend.
    1 point
  20. The body is done! Just need to put some sealer on the underside of wheel arches then move onto the front guards and bonnet. Have a donor bonnet that's good apart from one back corner so will slice it off the blue one.
    1 point
  21. I hope you put some "artefacts" in the hard fill for people to find in the future, like m head gaskets or something. theres a house in Whitford that has a retaining wall full of chev engine bits and general workshop scrap courtesy of my boss and an apprentice clint.
    1 point
  22. by keeping a wall and the floor its classed as a reno and not a new build. made consent easier.
    1 point
  23. Made some brackets to mount the valves. For some reason the holes ended up too far out so had to slot them a little. They're held in with countersunk screws so it's all still flush underneath (not that anyone will be able to see underneath anyway haha). Played around a bit with the location for a while and decided this was the best. Wasn't really enough room for the compressor to fit in between. Will mount a compressor on each side of the bed, just above the exhaust area. Back to fitting and fixing the rust in the dash now. Cut out the good/un-butchered section of the dash that some idiot tried fitting a commodore cluster in. Glad to finally throw this shit out! Pic for motivation
    1 point
  24. Other end of the engine size scale, I picked up this non running scooter from Scrubb, what a top bloke. I got it home and managed to lose the key somewhere, I disassembled the ignition switch to get that working and it had some water in it, and the air filter foam had fallen to bits so maybe it had sucked some of that into the carb. Anyway after that it started, I fixed the indicators, made a new air filter out of a car wash sponge, cleaned it, and got rego on it. At first I thought there was something wrong with the clutch but it turns out it has a automatic 2 speed. I have had some funny looks when riding it.
    1 point
  25. Looking good! What sort of time frame have they given you for the 'reno'? I especially like the blocklayers PPE.
    1 point
  26. I was waiting for the long weekend to cross some bigger jobs off the list and managed to! - Put good dash pad in - Cleaned and painted instrument cluster - Cleaned and rust killed floors and etch painted, sealed up screw holes and seams, rubber bungs in - Cleaned and painted glovebox hinge panel (left as much as I could of the factory sticker with key info and tyre pressure/fuel chart) - Made covers for the rear wheel arches, lower B pillars and exposed parts of the floor the carpet does not cover with some patterned plastic sheet - Painted dash top and the area under the rear screen which are visible. - New carpets - Vinyl died seats. Don't know how long it will last but we will see. The cans sprayed too narrow so I emptied them into spray gun and got a great even application. - Put stereo in properly - Epoxy glued splits in the centre console - Factory accelator pedal back on Still need to make a shifter boot and pick up another demister vent from a mate.
    1 point
  27. Stripped an old gearbox for the main case and then stripped and cleaned the mainshaft etc ready for reassembly. Hopefully I should get the mainshaft assembled tomorrow and it all installed in the case.
    1 point
  28. So, today went alright. finished off my steelies, 8 and 9 inch. also my new cam turned up in the mail today. has higher lift and longer duration. will being getting ground once i sack up and get an aftermarket ECU and multipoint intake manifold, but for now it will do. still waiting to sell my rx7 to free up space in my shed as the galant is stored in my old mans back lawn which is not ideal to work on, especially when the jack just sinks into his lawn, ha!
    1 point
  29. Chucked a barbie together while I was there lol, 7 burner, again best price...FFRREEEEEEE. Also the look Im going for too.
    1 point
  30. big roll of newsprint paper plus i get the picture up on my 60" tv and trace it
    1 point
  31. Ha yeah man. Car is pretty cool for a "shit I have lying around" car
    1 point
  32. They are quite abit different to the mk3s, as mk4s were v6 factory and had spare wheel in engine bay etc....the mk4s had the good gbox that can handle v8 torque also. I heard the mk4 zephyrs were meant to be factory fitted with 289 and 302s and the zodiacs were To get the 351s, until some pommie gitt told them to run the essex v6s, which are absolute shyte. Can anyone put me in contact with someone who's done the conversion in a mk4, would like to pick they're brains Cheers boys
    1 point
  33. I profess to know absolutely nothing about Zephyrs. Canterbury Uni Motosoc has one with a 351 in it. I was told that it has a supra box in in so thats probably no help to you. The fit was quite tight, like doing up the headder studs 1/8th of a turn at a time tight. Went ok in a straight line, but lack of traction going round corners and massive amounts of body roll made for and interesting ride. All in all we need more of this sort of maddness in NZ. +1 from me
    1 point
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