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  1. So I have managed to find some nankings ns20 in the 225 40 14 size. which I was very surprised at finding them, I had assumed that they were going to be the hard size to get. they are on order now. recons about 4 weeks. 600 bucks (ouch) for 2 off, but its what you got to do to keep cert man happy. so next is the 205 40 14 . and then a cert modification just for the wheels and tires. hopefully that wont be a drama
  2. So I got some 14x8 and 14x9 wheels for my car supper happy with the wheels, cant wait to get them on the car. going to look awesome ! I have had a look at this chart and spent a bit of time google searching sizes. I have come to the conclusion that I should ask the community. as you lot have probably already sused the info I need to know. 225/40 14 on the 9 inch wide rims. 205/40 14 on the 8 inch wide rim. these are probably the best solution?. but proving a little hard to find . and recommendations/advice welcome. or if you think I should be looking at a different size please let me know. thanks lads.
  3. So I did this in a rush a few months ago, I used BMW e36, or E46 rear camber bolts. I cant remember what ones specifically, but I do have spares so I can measure them for you. that way you'll get the right ones first time round. I got some box section to make my insert plates. I think it was 40mm from memory. and it was a prefect fit for the eccentric washers. Using the perpendicular walls of the box as the guides for the eccentric to run on. I cut the factory bracket locally; just where it needed to allow my plate to sit flat on the bolting face. I welded it all around. And I filled in the old factory holes too. I also fitted some triangle inserts at the bottom to fill it all in. add some strenght . The way I did it works , its fast. but its not that pretty. I did it with scrap I had in my shop and some second hand bolts. Just another way to go about the job. saves from having to make a jig, or buy premade brackets.
  4. was the other guy old mate "NaN" What I actually came here for was to say, you should talk to kelvin from car tune company. he has allot of videos on you tube, has a wealth of 1u information. Seams happy to help anyone.
  5. Lets drag this thread up from the dead ! its been about 4 or so years since this project had any love. Carina has been in 3 different storage locations. And in this time I've moved house 3 times. finished a qualification . and managed to buy a house !! After so many years, and moving so many times, and everything changing so much. Its hard to get started ; some times when you look at it all, such a huge daunting project full of half finished jobs and ideas, things start looking like a insurmountable task. So what do you do ?? you just look at it for awhile, look for one little job you know you can do, you break it down, ah, you make a list. and start from the top! Great idea ! So I made a list and then in my typical fashion, I just did what I do. . . I did none of the things on the list at all. hahahah I just picked something I didn't like and decided that I can do this better .I think , and with that thought I finally started , it wasn't long till I was right into it again . but ah, anyway Ill shut up now, and show you heaps of the pictures. this was how I left it, and I didn't like it, because the hoses are under allot off stress to make the bend, I can see this being a failure point. I tried to find some silicon hoses , that have sharper 90 bends at the ends, but they all have short tails and the long side here is 350. So i just decided to start again. because this all ties into the water bridge and the clearance issues there too. you can see the blue marker where the belt is going to touch. The idea , is I make the flats better ,first and then, tighten up the angle. and hopefully there will be more clearance. I was very nice here and just softly tapped it down with a panel hammer. making sure not to distort the other side, it worked better than I though it would Now I just have to tighten up the angle at the top of the water bridge . this was a bastard , its just kept bubbling up this black spotty stuff and making dirty as welds. eventually I ground enough away and welded it again then I got a nice puddle , and it flowed much better. (I'm only at home fabricator my welds are very average) here you can see that huge angle change First part done, now for the piping small adjustment has added allot of change, I hope its going to be enough clearance at the end . More supplies ! here my angles aren't as accurate as I wanted , it was meant to come out further and also parallel to the timing cover, I think I cut it a little short. and on a slight angle but it is what it is. will have to make use of it . this fit up, is not tacked, just sitting in place no tension, a lovely fit up. couldn't have done it better if I tried this is so damn hot, no one tells you when you start tig welding, just how obscenely hot aluminum gets to weld I had to hang it like this cause I couldn't touch any of it even with welding gloves on. Trusty block of wood, third hand, weight, prop, holder thingy and that is the cooling system update. seeing as that was going so well I decided to redo some more things. Some of this stuff when I do it I don't really have a end plan as such , some times its just trial and to see what its like . and then if it looks like it'll work then ill do some more research and ill make a plan later on. So the bonnet was one of these idea. where later on I would work out if it was going to be fiber glass, or I leave it to the panel and paint shop to make it look mint. or just who knows I have to cover this spinning thing with something ah shit I lets chop it up and see if I can hide it. Yeah that sounds like a good plan . . . . and then we have this monstrosity But as of now I think I can make it better. I never liked how I had left it and well now is a better time than any to give it another nudge. this is a hack job at the back of the bonnet, at the time I had no idea how to blend it all in, so I just did this, to get a feel for it. and as you can see it was a mash of a job. if I had been a little slower I could have made all this nicer right from the beginning. But its a lesson learnt. pencil line is how much i am going to trim off, this is al the way around destruction ! Tacking it all back in, but welded. back edge trying to keep it flat. this was going fairly well here. So much tacking, this took like 3 hours to weld up. do a weld., blow it down with compressed air. do this over and over. Another thing I learnt is I should have finished the extensions, completely. whilst it was off the bonnet. because effectively welding 3 strips the whole way down the entire bonnet added a shit load of warpage and heat. so much grinding !! almost there. out side done had to re trim the inside to give it strength again. i am unsure of the level of grinding i will do on the inside, i want it to look nice but i am also going to seal it all so there is no point of going hard out if the seam sealer just covers it all anyway. all metal , no filler yet......... but. yes its very very not flat. and it will need filler for sure, I hope it wont crack . time will tell. Now if I had to do this again I would go about it completely differently. There is so much i would do differently. I learnt so much doing this, and one thing I now know is warpage lol . I can make shit warp hard out ! I learnt this the hard way, so this was a valuable lesson. I will take this information forward in my next welding project. I cant do anything about it. I don't have another bonnet, so this is just going to have to be it. until I learn how to fix it, or what ever will come in time. so some of this is up loaded in the wrong order. the pictures get out of sink. but anyway , i hate the stupid rod bonnet stand thing. Its useless and it has to go ! here is it going. now I know it looks weird. but with the charger and throttle body, no gaps in the guards or on top of the strut towers. this is the only place they could go. and well for the convenience , I choose to have these and not have the bonnet hit me in the back of the head again. the first 3 times was enough Next is guards , front, and indicators, head lights, why wont it all line up? you can see here how much has been cut of them, that and no lower front valance, leaves no support for the out side of the guard or headlights. So i measured heaps of shit, found out the guards I started with were all beat up., and the mounts were all pushed back in. so I needed to make a slide hammer attachment to slide hammer the mounts back into place. This meant I needed to bend some 10mm by 50 flat I have kicking around. which means I get to play with fire ! and its a great excuse for me to use my new to me Oxy set ! shit yeah I love this stuff. ! finally the indicators fit well, the guards are where they need to be, and I got to play with a some new tools yay , no what else needs forming !?!? ah yes I need to add a support to the guard as its still pretty weak on that outer edge. heat up some 8mm flat bar, its super soft so will be mint for supports. strong, but they'll bend if then get pushed. smash flat. welded some nuts to the car. this will get finished welded on later., they just tacked there for now. this is the drivers side inner guard, you can see the guard support and the mount for the front bumper. So now the front is on , its all bolted, its firm, it has strong proper mounts, the bonnet is looking a bit better. we have a upgraded water bridge. and some bonnet stays. ! Fuck yeah I love finally having a shed again, I have been waiting for so many years to get stuck back into this project. ! This is my happy place making stuff in the shed at home!
  6. nice there is more of us now! looks good to see a complete carina ! aa60, so is it a solid rear , t series?
  7. oh man i can totally relate to the back issues i have a herniated L5-S1 disk , causes me nothing but pain. some times it livable but if i pinch the nerve cluster i'm fucked for months! i need to find the motivation to get work on mine too, its been moved a few times, set up in a new shed. but i just haven't touched it in years . i cant even remember what i was doing on it last time. my build thread is lost in oldschool somewhere. probably gone its been so long so like ah , do you have any spare ?, like motivation , where do you find it ? is it expensive ? how much for a gram ?? looking like a cool rebuild, are you going to do any other head work ? how many limbs were the cams ? if you don't mind me asking
  8. i don't have any of his details , i just knew him through a mate of a mate type deal, and it was just a first name thing. i looked over the car, it was good, i gave him money , that was it done. i haven't been successful in finding out anything else or where he has moved to . yes its still on car jam, but that doesn't give me any of the last owners details . i haven't paid for the report, if i buy that will that give me the last registered owners details ?? ?
  9. so what do i have to write on this? just that i am the legal owner now?
  10. hay guys, so i have read through some of this , and it does make me a little worried . . . so story is i bought a car about 15 months ago. was only going to be a track hack, but have found its in better condition that i originally thought. so i have decided to go down the track of looking to getting it re registered. Now i have no idea who the guy was i got it off, i didn't get any form of paper work from him, i don't know if he was the last registered owner, and hes moved and i cant find him , i have tried every avenue i can think off with no luck . i have the chassis code and the original license plate details. on the police web page search under stolen vehicles it comes up as not stolen. and on car jam it has the details of the car, vague details but they are in there. so this is good as i can prove it was registered in nz (yay) . but i am no where closer to proving ownership?? i just called the police station and asked about getting a "of no interest statement" , they told me that they don't do that and i have to "go look at car jam , or something " . ?!! i'm not sure what i have to do next. can someone please give me some advice on what my best plan of attack is , thanks
  11. oh that was fast response, i have a clubman gt 3 gauge dash cluster . is there an easy way to tell what it is ? im not familiar with rvi or rvc at all.
  12. hay all, so having a bit of a brain fart with this. looking for some electronics people to shove me in the right direction please i have upgraded to an electronic dissy in my mini, its bloody awesome, no more points yay. but the down side is my tachometer now doesn't work. well it moves ever so slightly but no where near reading rev's so in my mind i am thinking i have removed the ballast resistor thus changing the was 9 volts to the coil to the now full supply voltage of 14.2v . so i was thinking if i put a resistor going to ground in between the gauge and the negative terminal of the coil where the tachometer gets its signal from . that i could successfully burn up a few volts making the signal to the tachometer back into the correct scale of 9 volts ? now in my mind if i put it is series it would draw more current through the gauge and that would cook it, so if i just splice it in before the gauge and i used the correct resistor i could burn up some of them extra pixies making my signal back down to 9volts ?? so all this is just an idea, i dont know if i am on the right track with this. if i am wrong and there is no easy fix i will change my plan of attack , ill go and destroy and new aftermarket rev counter and make a mini/aftermarket mash up of sorts. i would in however like to try and get my head around this electric pixie stuff cause i do find it rather fascinating . and i do quite like these little battles thanks in advance . chur
  13. hay all, so having a bit of a brain fart with this. looking for some electronics people to shove me in the right direction please i have upgraded to an electronic dissy in my mini, its bloody awesome, no more points yay. but the down side is my tachometer now doesn't work. well it moves ever so slightly but no where near reading rev's so in my mind i am thinking i have removed the ballast resistor thus changing the was 9 volts to the coil to the now full supply voltage of 14.2v . so i was thinking if i put a resistor going to ground in between the gauge and the negative terminal of the coil where the tachometer gets its signal from . that i could successfully burn up a few volts making the signal to the tachometer back into the correct scale of 9 volts ? now in my mind if i put it is series it would draw more current through the gauge and that would cook it, so if i just splice it in before the gauge and i used the correct resistor i could burn up some of them extra pixies making my signal back down to 9volts ?? so all this is just an idea, i dont know if i am on the right track with this. if i am wrong and there is no easy fix i will change my plan of attack , ill go and destroy and new aftermarket rev counter and make a mini/aftermarket mash up of sorts. i would in however like to try and get my head around this electric pixie stuff cause i do find it rather fascinating . and i do quite like these little battles thanks in advance . chur
  14. on a roll this weekend, moved the mini to my new house, welded up the an fittings on my power steering hard lines , welded up the sump. made some trap doors . I made some out of hinges and welded them off , but I couldn't stop the heat from twisting them up. I tried 2 different sets, all moved so much the hinge would bind up. so I resorted to using nuts and bolts, I don't think they will cause any issue like this, I may drill and lock wire them, but for now this will do. . . . now just to wait for the sealant to dry so I can water test it. make sure it has no leaks !!!!! and now I'm caught up with what I was doing like a year ago its time to write a new list of things to get done.
  15. Ah yes that is them the little buggers !!! , shit I love the look of them in gold, fantastic looking wheel . a shame I couldn't find any 3 piece ones for sale, would have made life much easier for myself hahaha
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