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Thread dredge. I’m in the process of emptying our storage unit. We missed the property boom so our intentions of selling up have been shelved. Soooo drag all my shit home over next few weeks….

Gratuitous photo. To do list: Leaky weld on muffler Right rear wheel bearing protesting loudly Weeping heater core Left rear tyre touching the inner wheel tub on hard left turns One tappy tappet needs shimming Oil pressure switch weeping Build a good 5 speed from the two I have in stock and butcher modify the tunnel to fit it Rewire main beams with a relay fit electric radiator fan fit retractable front seatbelts, and fit rear seatbelts Otherwise, it starts and runs very well and I’m having fun.

I slapped some colour on it at lunchtime today. I didn't do nearly enough prep on the bonnet but I'm on a deadline for certification with other fish to fry. The fish being engine mounts but I'll get onto that tomorrow. Standard operating procedure for painting. Old paint. Not enough hardener/thinners to test fire so adjusting on the fly after too many dry spots or runs. Oh well. At least the shit job will match the rest of the bodywork so I'm not concerned.

Can't do as the tpm from the cable is about right.

It always was. They did good work though. Very good on Smiths gauges, esp chronometric tachos and speedos. At some point they carried a form of small gearbox which could be spliced into speedo drive cables to correct any differences. Had one put in the LD converted Bedford which was an annoyance as up till then it had under recorded mileage which was great for RUC. Wif insisted after she got pulled for speeding.

Does it have a miles to km converter installed backwards

Marked out 50m on the road and counted 44 turns of the cable which works out to 1416 turns per mile, speedo is marked as 1376 tpm so pretty close, it should read about 3% fast, probably due to radial vs crossply. Actually reads about 45% fast so will send it off for a lookey-loo

Another SCCNZ motorkhana on Sunday 5th, so of course I decided to do a full re-wire on saturday. Okay not a full re-wire, but I re-pinned everything on the ECU side, replaced the TPS wire and connector with 3 core+shield, and ran new wires for IAT and CLT. This photo was at about midnight on Saturday night, pulling the dash is a REAL pain but boy I'm glad I have a convertible. You can see the old bodged birds nest of wires in the passenger footwell. The motivation for these changes was that every analog sensor seemed to change a few percent based on RPM. So at 0RPM the sensor read "normal", but for example CLT increased 10* linearly with RPM, which is not how engines should behave so is not what we want. The other oddity was that my TPS signal had about 1-2* of noise, and that noise was hitting acceleration enrichment at cruise, resulting in weird rich conditions. Additionally I moved every single splice on a 5v or sensor ground out of the engine bay/loom and put them all into "bussed" connectors right at the ecu. Basically some cheap fake deutsch 4 or 8 way connectors with one side all bussed together. That way I can add or remove or replace ground or 5v wires if necessary without having to replace open barrel crimps in some awkward position under the dash or in the loom. The twin 4-ways are 5v, and the 8-way is GND. I did this so I could never accidentally plug them in to the wrong one. Also to solve some space requirements I potted the TPS connector and ran it to a 3-way deutsch connector in the engine bay. At about 2.30am I got the dash back in, and test fired it. You can see the ECU's new home in the dash, preventing passengers feet from strain testing my crimps. I was fully expecting nothing to work, but weirdly enough the car actually started up fine and ran. Unfortunately I made a mistake somewhere (?) and both CLT and IAT read strange, but they have 5v so I suspect I just swapped which ecu pin I put each to. I went to bed. The next morning I got the car "properly" running, assembled the rest of the dash and headed off to the motorkhana. I also changed the tune from hybrid SD/alpha-N to pure alpha-N and turned down the acceleration enrichment. It helped a lot. One of the issues I had with the blended system was that my acceleration enrichment curve meant I needed heaps of fuel for large ΔTPS at low load (SD, map-based load), but as load increased and it swapped to alpha-N, the amount of required fuel was less. My understanding is that this is because TPS updates almost instantaneously, but MAP can delay a small amount (in the hundreds of ms) so you use ΔTPS as a stopgap to throw in a bit of extra fuel until the map sensor catches up. Unfortunately if the ΔTPS means you are now using TPS based load, then the required fuel causes a rich condition. More tuning is required, but mostly I do acceleration enrichment by "feel" not what the AFR says. If it feels peppy, it's probably good. I'll post another update soon if I can eventually find any photos of my car from Sunday's motorkhana.

I know a guy who worked there in the last 5 years. He reckoned the place was a bit of a shambles.

*⁷Cough*cough*

On clearance too. Nabbed a few. Sick. Also, looking forward to your build.

Supercheap maaaayte https://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/p/toolpro-toolpro-silicone-parts-tray-2-piece-set/624068.html?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsOOB2_z5hQMVQqRmAh1M9g4HEAQYASABEgIeZvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Also, where did you get that sweet carb tray?

Hey guys I'm from the big smoke and working out how to collect a part from new Plymouth pick a part. The part in question is a silly part but fairly hard to come by. It's a pre facelift honda logo rear boot spoiler. If anyone is going there could grab it and I'll pay for it and pay for your help. Any help would be appreciated

Parrotts. They had an in-ground roller setup which I think was usable powered or car driven. Don't know if they moved it when they shifted premises. As the business changed hands at the time.

It's certainly more JFK than Ms Monroe.

This!! Injectors!!

Fingers crossed for a quality sharn over a cold one mate! (One of my highlights from Marahau nats was the quality discussions rolling over the Takaka hill, feeling like a US president no less)

When rucs come in for all, Fitting a KPH faceplate to an MPH speedo (where both options existed for the same dial) would be stealing from the government, and the thought has never once not crossed my mind........

Place in christchurch had a machine that would count the turns while the the vehicle was driven a mile/km.

Hadn't really done much with this. Mostly because it was just rubbish to drive. Bit the bullet and got stuck into doing an engine transplant. Brought a well used ms123 crown for the running gear. Gave the engine a paint job rebuild and proceeded to fit it into the coupe. For the most part it bolted in. Had to modify the crossmember and make a new driveshaft as the transmissions are a different length. Lots of small things need modifying as the coupes engine bay is about 100mm narrower and a 100mm shorter then the doner crown. Biggest battle was getting the wiring loom intergrated into the existing car loom, definitely not one of my strong points but muddled my way through. Replaced the steering box with a new one I got off yahoo,so stoked, made all the difference to the feel of how it drives. Happy days

Count me in and I will pay and register when I get home at the end of the month. Internet not good enough for banking out here. No idea if I will be home for it but it can be a donation if I am living the other life I have at sea.

I hope it hasn’t changed since 1994 when I last went… I’ll be there.

ill come if i can get a ride down in a Mazda

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