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So I seem to get the firing order wrong every time I work on these motors, but I got it sorted in the end. First attempt. FYI the dizzy spins anticlockwise and the firing order is 1-2-4-3. Then it actually went and the oil did what it was supposed to!?!?

Woooooot! Car's all back together, and HOLY SHITBALLS! It drives so much differently with the LSD adjusted. Previously, you would make a suggestion along the lines of "Please, may we turn this corner" and the car would be all like "FUCK YOU BATMAN" then you're all like "NO FUCK YOU" and then it turns. where as now, the steering effort seems about half, and it turns in soo soo much better. It doesnt single wheel peel either, and the diff noise has completely vanished so great success all round! It's still got miserable traction, but I'm due a set of fresh tires. Traction brackets might be the only thing that will really help though. I've been looking at the options of either R888, Toyo Proxes T1R, Achilles 123 or Nitto NT01. It's just a toss up between whether I want faster laptimes but shittier to drive any other time, or nice to drive but overheating tires. I think for now I'll go with the T1Rs (which I've used previously and found to be awesome) and then keep an eye out for a spare set of wheels that fit before getting semis perhaps. Either way, pretty happy right now! Fred: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/21625-romans-cod-piece

So at Nats this year I crashed it. And it looked like this, it was my fault, needed to cross 2 lanes of traffic to get into a petrol station making a right hand turn, lane closest to me the traffic was slow and someone let me pass, stuck my nose out to see if anyone was coming and boom, yes they were. Its amazing how little damage the Mark II wore compared to the other car, these things must be built pretty well. Bonnet was already rusty and bogged from previous owner, needed replacing anyway and so needed to get a new bonnet, bumper mounts, 2 headlights and a corner light. The rest was panel magic. Managed to find an old bonnet and got it rust repaired by mate, found a bumper with mounts and some trims. The lights and corner light I got in from Yahoo Japan. Car has been in the garage with the front pulled off since nats and finally went in to panelbeaters last week. The amazing Englishman (Bubblegoose) and his crew did the work and now it looks like this:

9/10

it's christmas eve, Wah i want my presents/roadtrip now!

We had some issues with the lights, small job ended up turn into a nightmare. But she is now rocking new sealed head lamps and all new bulbs and a few new lenses. The seals were stuffed so had to make up some new ones. The brakes have also been pulled apart and rebuilt with new lines put in, after Dad remembered were he put every little piece. They pull up pretty good for 57 drums all round. After it gets its re-vin and warrant, we'll start looking into lowering her and a few other little things

So latest on the Viva.. Its been repaired under insurance. Was really weird not doing the job myself but I did 'check in' a couple of times to inspect. Repair is good. Then Shane primed it last week and on Monday it got its top coat. Here is shane giving its bum a coat of high build (or something painty ish) picture upload The bumper is away getting straightened and rechromed. Ooooooh that will be flashy. I do hope they can straighten it out as it was quite bent. On Sunday we took it out and did some more tuning. Its running really well now. Just need to fine tune a few little areas to get the idle even smoother and remove the mild hunting at light throttle openings when on cruise. I have not been able to get the fan to switch on however. I have checked all the wiring and removed the main chip/daughter board to check the circuit there and all good. So maybe a software issue otherwise I have somehow blown a transistor? Luckily its really easy to get to the ecu and work on it!!! I really do like my roll out ecu drawer... WE decided to take it out to our land and get some photos of it while sunny. The parking area seems huge when its just a little Viva parked up... We went to the first OS Nelson area meet last Thursday night. The car was dwarfed by this big old girl... After getting some snaps I gave it a good hard caning and boy its quick on the hills! Sadly the extra power is showing up all the other 'old car' design faults. I think under really hard acceleration the back squats down and the 1800 magnum axle is possibly hitting the tunnel. The trailing arm bolts move/bang back and forth in the holes too. I really would like to fit an IRS setup into this car. I measured the track- from across the outer faces of the tyres and it came up at 1545mm so I need to look at something off a smaller rwd car. I think the mx5 setups I was thinking of using are 80mm wider and I want to avoid using front wheel drive offset rims. I need dish... I will continue to do some research on what might fit. Otherwise I keen to cut/chop/adapt/build my own setup. But If I can find a setup that is close to working it will save a big ball ache when it comes to re-cert time. I've lots of other things I want to make/modify as well but cant really start until we have our shed all built. Currently waiting on plans and then the whole consent application so it will be a while yet. I might pop the car up on the hoist and remove the springs. Then I can jack up the axle up until it hits and squeezes the bump stops. I can then spot what might be hitting. Anyway- I am very much looking forward to the drive to Hanmer tomorrow. Always a fantastic drive with great scenery. Gonna be good!

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT!

Proof that oldschool cars attended: Sorry about the extremely shitty phone pics. I blame Apple.

So its been awhile but I went up to dads yesterday and took her for a drive. Hadn't been started since last time I was there (ages ago) but she ran well once we found a battery that had enough juice. Dad tried to take her for a VIN but the fuel pump shat itself on the way in, now she has a new fuel pump and handbrake cable. Dad said he will take her into town for a VIN and drive her to work to get some k's under her belt. Hopefully she doesnt break down on the way like last time and passes and is all legal for Hawke's Boes.

Im bringing Shaz a Nickelback cd.........true fact

we can all sing Hymns. Shaz and Dane will be the leading vocalists.

A BILLION PICTURES OF WHERE RUST WAS/USED TO BE, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Home made window rubber, lewlz, So all the rust work is done (for the time being, it will be never ending on this I think) so the next thing to do is sort out the horrendously wobbly front end. I had a good idea it was all in the rack, which it pretty much was. There's a bush on the left side that's worn to buggery, but it's cheap and Toyota stock them (Chur to Mark once again). The UJ directly above the rack is also SUPER flogged out, these are not so cheap, so I will likely get a second hand one from a wrecker or something. But once those two parts are fitted, and the back windows are back in, ITS TIME FOR A WOF!!! Regards, VG. xoxoxox

I packed my bag tonight, pre flight... Zero hour, 10AM...

Do you anyway?

Shit pete. 2009.........

Pfft, I don't read stuff properly! Maybe they should have the area in the title then?

I look forward to the Snapchats that prove it.

Yes ! Tomorrow ! One more night of work tonite . Safe to say me and Bairdy won't be achieving much .

might hit up the op shop at lunch time to find a suitably awesome knitted vest/jersey as well.

What he said. Also, dusted off my one piece ski suit (fluro I might add) in preparation for the weekends activities.

Oh man I rate these. Was looking at a rolling body a while back. They'd look awesome slammed and tubbed

Yip, that was a top notch meet. Good to see a lack of daily drivers this time!

Good turn-out gents..

Fingers crossed for hawkes boes

Im so excite Speights check DoBros Check Warm clothes Check Mankini Check Just got to get the pig

You bought an austin. Your opinion is now void.

I now have the rhd windscreen wiper motor and arms from an rx2 to complete the conversion. I also picked up a new BNT clutch master $59 and a few more nolathane bushes for the front end. Now I have a full set of rx2 steelies that are going to get the sand blast treatment and a cheeky gunmetal powder coating. And because I need some serious help....I saw some cheap hotwires for sale so suffice to say I brought them. These are currently getting the wet and dry sanding treatment when I have a spare hour so should come up nice with a bit of time and effort. 13x7 4 x110 offset 0 You know I said I need help right....I saw a set of 14x7 in mazda 4 x 110 with lots of dish...they are now mine. I need a new set of 195/45/14 tyres but Toyo proxes are $170 ish. These are not to be mixed up with Chinese copies or cheap 13" ones. I've waited patiently for a set to come up of a long time. Still not 100% I will run them as I'm loving the hotwires.... Here is some inspiration Pulled the hubcaps out the other day...

Inspired by the Auckland chaps, weather looks like it could be rad for this weekend so perhaps we go for a little tootle too? Got an idea for a run, meeting spot in bunnythorpe. Nice and in the middle for most of ya. What are people up to this weekend? Oldschool cars preferred in the run, but it's better to have you there than not at all!

You are the man!!!! Wagoneers unite!

see some of you tomorrow when I join your convoy like a piner for a bit Then see you all again saturday

Your a wizard Dave

I'll buy you a milkshake, if we get to the cafe and you're sitting at a table wearing nothing but that leather jacket.

Most filims have cars in them. Unless space filim. Although, since Starwars is long long ago, maybe the spaceships in that are the original os inspiration for todays vehicles... No rules in brunch/os movies meets No bad suggestions except the bad ones, which is basically anything Berjjj suggests... Goonies. Lets watch The Goonies!

Mine is still active bei. ZOMG. THis is tomorrow Dayem. Can't wait!

yeah coffee at St Arnaud and a photo at the lake. lush

Forget about jerseys Beaver. Just bring plenty of blue tops. It's hard to feel the cold with a belly full of Blue goodness. If we get nice clear skies, it should be as cold as last year. Bit of altitude up there.

negative. Lunchtime consisted of 15mins to eat my sandwhich. Also couldn't find any nearby op shops. Will keep an eye out ont he way down

Stop complaining lol, it sounds like you have a pretty small list of things to sort out! Clint knows first hand the amount of retards who try to cert dodgy shit so hes doing us all a favor by checking the rest of the car as well!

Payment made. See all you weirdos there

Cheers mate! Think imgur fudged the quality a little bit on them though Put some more up here

Also, I'm cross training for this event tonight. Do-bro's, CC, and some swedish single malt. might crank into the goon juice next.

Hey man cool car! I'd love to own another Carina sometime in the future. Though it'd have to be pre-face lift as I am particuar . BC Red's (for AE86) went pretty low on my old Carina, though not sure what the availability is like these days. I never ran the rear seat/sleve because they didn't sit right on the rear lower arms. In the end I got rid of the rear BC red springs because they were too soft/saggy and put in some Mk5 Cortina ones and cut down to height. Worked a treat!

Awesome This is only a slight (very slight!) criticism - but straps on the seat might be a good idea as there is quite a good possibility of your kid banging her scone on the steering wheel??

Now for the main part of the grille. I had a friend (Hi Shane) cut the main bars and tig weld them together at the correct angle. I hand filed the welds then finished the joins with various grades of emery tape and a quick session with a buffer. Partially assembled here with some of the plywood mounts to see if it was all going to work. I started the assembly with the shortest (middle) bar and some more mounting brackets Adding bars. The shaped brackets made it really easy to assemble straight. It would have been a real pain to get in alignment any other way. Once fully assembled I blocked the bars up in the grille opening and made some body mounts to span between the existing radiator support structure (or hood latch in this case) and the triangular brackets. This worked well, and made it easy to assemble the grille first. Remember to check at each stage that the grille can be removed from the car without too much dismantling, and that all the mounting bolts can be reached with a socket or spanner. Cutting out some more stainless for the body mounts. This shear made life easy! Once all together I painted all the bracketry (and welds on the backside of the tubes) with a spray bomb. Overspray on the tubing was removed with thinners before it dried. The finished product. I am really pleased how this turned out. It cleans up the front of the car no end. Since this pic we';ve been on a long drive to the Whangamata Beach Hop. No problems with the grille except a fair few bugs stuck on it! (this was done back in 2013)

I'm just keen to go so I can witness Lewis Horrell have a shiver fit at 3am again.

So this is all sorted for a vin now, hopefully get it in this week, also spent the day flatting and buffing it, then put on a couple of coats of wax, came up pretty good. Also while we were in the states last month we picked up a set of braided leads for it, looks a lot nicer than the in your face red ones.

It's the oldschool.co.nz way. Even our resident certifier recommended it

I bought this machine in February for $450 from Christchurch. The freight cost more than the car, and it arrived on my driveway on Friday. Plans are to see what's in the millions of boxes of spares in the back, dry the interior out, get it WOFed, reged and reliable, then drive it to Waimate. Discussion link: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=13912