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Can see a wideband sensor fitted in downpipe in above photo started installing the unit for that under dash too.

Started some wiring fitted looks mint pity you can't see it for throttle body..... suppose that is the idea. More to do just a bit of soldering to finish off and put in braided sleeve so it can shed heat. Discovered the ignition coils could flip 180 degrees bolt straight back on and wiring is basically perfect once unwrapped reaches dead easy and won't melt on wastegate, heat shield will be a good idea though. Airflow meter new location on right side of engine bay set up in photo.

I'm all good with the current safety inspection of older cars, one thing I though.... I think there should be slightly more leniency for the testing of brake imbalance on old historic /classic.. I want the convenience of going to a vtnz, but I don't want the ballsache of having to get a 50 year old braking system to be as accurate and repeatable as a modern day equivalent when the car weighs under 700kg and probably couldn't do a 17 second 1/4 mile..

Drivers A pillar is no good. Fixable though. Found a hole under the wiper panel too, will see how bad that really is when i pull the dash out. Not looking forward to it tbh.

Went out this morning to pull the front bumper off and check out how things look. Got carried away but at least i know most of the front end is in good shape now.

Hahaha yea im just exploring options, give it a good chance to last more then 5000km, though who knows what this motor really went through before i had it

I vote no boat hipster stuff till v8 corolla is driving

Mindless automatons many of them.

the simple fact that people can back out of/ enter their garage during darkness, and not pick up on the fact that one headlight has blown, truly fecken astounds me. what other obvious things do not compute behind their retinas

This statement doesnt require any context whatsoever. If it were 2010, id be puting this in my signature.........

many of us squeeze a year out of our 6 month wofs

Trademe. Fkn iPhone keeps changing words like a politician

FC plates work perfectly if you are just building a street car. Besides who needs FD irons in an FC. It’s like those guys how stick Chevy motors into Ford’s because they think it’s more reliable. Who the hell builds a rotary for reliability?

Gotcha

Unpopular opinions (and wall of text from a non-expert) incoming. As a workshop that does a lot of newer stuff - the 3 year first WOF works pretty well for 99% of people. The average driver round here does about 10-15,000km per year. By the third year, it's time for tyres... The majority of those cars are inspected annually for servicing anyways so a cut tyre, puncture or crappy wiper blades gets picked up then. Hardly ever do bulbs or anything else within the first 3 years. If someone does really high mileage and kills their tyres quick - an annual WOF check would pass them, then they'd be bald within 6 months because the time between 1.5mm of tread and a bald tyre isn't very long for a high mileage driver. My argument for keeping 6 month WOFs on the older stuff is that things seem to go from OK to broken much quicker. A wheel cylinder starts leaking, brake caliper seizes up or a rubber bush splits or something starts dropping oil onto the exhaust. It's not that the cars are inherently less safe, they're just at that age where things fail from time more than mileage. So I'd put a 20 year sliding scale on 6 monthly inspections. The current most dangerous cars on the road (that we frequently fail) are the 2002-2012 high mileage shitters that get little maintenance and zero fucks given by the owners. They roll in with cords hanging out the tyres, one headlight out, valve covers pouring oil onto the manifold, ball joints knocking, smeary windscreens you can't see out of....and do you know what - they all passed the last WOF a year ago. The WOF requirement is really there to force people to at least get the car checked by a professional. It makes absolutely no implications that your car is safe to drive at any point other than the 45mins the WOF inspector looks at it. It's hopefully checked to a standard that most things would last to the next mandated check. We currently can't expect drivers to be responsible for knowing if their car is safe to drive because people are idiots and there's very little accountability. I'm pretty sure in blighty, if you got pulled over with 4 bald tyres - that's enough points for loss of licence? So whats the solution. It's fucking complicated. I don't know how much a slightly chafed seatbelt webbing, non functioning tail lamp or a stonechipped windscreen actually contributes to the accident rate and I don't trust the government to know or tell us the truth either. Perhaps we can continue fine tuning the inspection process to focus on the items that really make a difference to safety and spend less time failing cars for 34% tints or a slightly crusty rubber bush or a tiny bit of scabby surface rust on a subframe. TLDR: Tyres, brakes and lights should absolutely be checked often. Maybe other things don't need to be?

E.g. https://www.trademe.co.nz/4672534072

The yard?

Finally got a nice clean Wildcat wheel, console to be soon, hmmmm need to go faster

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My engine builder has S6 rear and middle irons extended ported for $350 each. But yeah, if keen using FC manifold then be issues.

There’s a few decent FC plates on the yard at the moment.

You can guarantee that'll be a fuck up too.

Yes inlet Manis are different and they're also more expensive. Fc plates are fine for what you are doing with them. Well capable of 5-800 hp reliably with just decent stagey. Unless u can get FD parts cheap - good luck with that lol Greens are about 2900 for a set of new plates then u can have them cnc ported for not alot more. If everything else u have is good then sweet, job done

And they think a firearms register is a good idea...

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