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  1. I have had this thing a while but have just started working on it again so I thought I would make a post. It was orginally my Great Grandma's grocery getter and, bless her, she had a bit of an incident involving a concrete post sometime in the mid to late 70's, anyway it go fixed by a reputable shop in Christchurch and she keep driving it untill the mid 90's, when it was parked up in a garage. Anyway, I pulled it out of the shed in 2010, and spent some time working on it to get it going, which I did, and after redoing all of the ball joints in the front end it got a WOF, so I dailyed it for a while until I got the job up here, so it sat idle at Riverside for a while I got my shit together to move it, and once I did it proceeded to sit in the garage for another year due to having some rust in the bottom of the front guards that needed fixing. The plan was to get it going for the Leadfoot Cruise, but as it transpired it didn't work out, but nevermind, I got the rust cut out of it and then decided that the average paintjob needed to redone. I digress, but here are a few pictures of how it is progressing. This is how it looked as my Daily In pimer In the booth After the Basecoat And the Clearcoat And unmasked After blacking out the guards So all in all I'm super stoked with how it came out, especially seeings as I had never even set my eyes on a spray gun before a couple of weeks ago. Now I just need to get it back together. Discussion
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  2. I've almost rewired everything under the dash. It's taking a while and my soldering is improving vastly, but it's all going well and I've probably removed a few kgs of wiring. - Installed my slotted ball joints yesterday. They're used to adjust the camber - unfortunately at maximum negative camber they foul on the control arm where it starts sloping up. I'm going to need to smash them with a hammer or weld in a flat section. Pictorial description of problem.
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  3. Yeah hopefully haha. God dammit I need to get some lowering springs!
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  4. i cut my chassis in half. twice. but first i thought it would be a good idea if i bolted it to the floor. once id done that i was able to mark out the frame on the floor to give me a reference line to measure from. i pie cut the longitudinal rails so they could flex inwards and i could move the rear part of the rails in but keep them parallel. you can see the cuts in the photo bellow this one. then i cut the chassis cross braces. i wanted to take 15mm out of each side so i did one side at a time so the upper control arm mount would stay in the same place relative to the centerline of the car. oh, i cut the back off because i wanted to keep the body pickup points and the bumper mounts in the same place, ill weld this back on and plate the joint when the chassis is finished. so you should be able to see that the chassis is now narrower, the original position is the line on the floor.
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  5. was gonna splash out on some good tyres...however trademe got the better of me and i bought a saiga 308 semi auto rifle instead...its basically a variant of a AK..hells yes!
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