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That sux to see. maybe someone’s dropped the Torrington bearing at one point

Back in the day there was an old gulls in Whangarei that made his own mufflers. he did the exhaust on my fxgt one night, started at 5.. the deal was that I bought him dinner and $250 cash. it sounded amazing when I drove away. basically a folded up box, 2” in, 2-1/4” out, the was a 90 angle on its end on both ends to direct flow left and right, and a 50x50 box in the middle, he called them “race box mufflers “. He did 2.5” from the floor pan to the rear muffler which was glass packed. it blew the glass out after a year or so of 7200rpm abuse. my mate had the same set up on his mk5 cortina, shit that thing was quick with that exhaust and twin throat. the shop is no longer there, was opposite where pak n save is in town. id like a better muffler on the hunter, those stainless dummy’s don’t do squat

Yup also common for the water seal groove to disappear

Could be caused by a number of possibilities really, cracked housing, blown water seals, cracked plates. they usually still comp test fine too. Atleast you know it’ll be good after a rebuild

The original bonnet is getting trimmed and finished off

*girly screams of excitement * just got these through

So the above teaser was me dropping the ute off to a panelbeater near palmy. this is his update pics. i just didn’t have the time or mental energy to grind my way through the stitching phase, or attacking the mint bonnet with a grinder. he has made up new flanges for the front of the guards , he won’t use the rx3 guards on this set up, all new steel. have also tasked him to fill over the fuel filler hole as I can’t utilise that once I drop tank it out the back anyway. So now I’m forced to drop tank it now instead of when I bag it. it means that I can carry on with the tubs when it’s back. I will end up using push button bonnet pins, hopefully they’re ok as a bonnet pin for road use. I’ll also fit a check strap as a secondary safety measure happy days

Fuck that off with a sharp stick. I would never inflict that kind of pain on any individual looking to aggressively sharn and relax, I make dumb decisions, but I’m not a cunt

AIDS, I’m out now. Kids cockblocking the fun again

Yeah I chatted to the dude, he didn’t really say much about it, it’s a shame the wheel looks average as

Found the misfire. This was after I took the injectors out and had them clean and flow tested, new filters and seals. $175 later in platinum plugs

The upper arms on this can have the camber adjusted by packers between the arm bush bar mount thing and the chassis. Most have a couple of packers in from factory to correct the camber/castor. should be all g

Never really been into airbrushing ae

I had to fit a driveshaft hoop to the diff end on mine as the fuel line could’ve been taken out by a damaged driveshaft if the rear uj let go. my fuel line had to run along the side of the tunnel

Nah it hasn’t gone to Smugz unfortunately. yeah the bolts look pretty slick IRL