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Just jump every time you need to use it

Its a shame that your bags cant lay frame.

We quite often discover things wrong with wheel mountings, studs too long / too short, slip on wheel spacers, things that the owners never disclose when they bring their cars in. Sometimes it's just a simple oversight. Sometimes they play ignorant. Ya can't take peoples word on anything so everything gets very thoroughly checked.

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Nice work man, these are both great!

Oh and if your claim about having a high "surface resistance" was even possible then it would have the opposite effect to what you describe. The voltage is a constant so the higher the resistance means the bigger the load. So if you got a shock the current would be higher and you even deader. Voltage doesnt mean shit, the current is what kills you

As an electrician I can say that if you are getting shocks then the appliance is not earthed. Electricity is lazy and takes easiest way to ground (path of negligible resistance). So if you get a zap its because you are that easy way. So earth the drill and check all earths back to the earth peg. The voltage is NOT being induced by the magnetic fields. Its a small motor with minimal load, it cant happen. The insulation resistance of the motor is probably low mixed with a poor earth. If you have wired the place (dont care if you wired you first at 15 as it doesnt mean its been done right just that you have been potentially doing it incorrectly for ages) then be sure polarity is correct everywhere, that maximum earth resistance is less than .5ohm and that you have continuity. An rcd probably wont even work if your wiring is incorrect.

Go copper my car used to eat exhaust gastkets got copper ones made and have never had a problem since I used Gaspex in penrose

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ive never seen that written on them before, and ive had a few sets. i would wager that they are exactly the same as a regular casting, and that wording is some sort of arse covering exercise by the manufacturer. like KK said, your option is to find a greybeard that worked at cheviot or knows why the wording was added and see if you have any joy there. the other possibility is to get them approved by the TAC, maybe if you could prove they are the same as one that doesnt have the writing on it, ie same casting thickness and material, they could be approved for use on the road. if you want to pursue that you need to email justin@lvvta.org.nz hes the guy that organises the TAC meetings. or just get some wheels that dont have the writing on them. slotted wheels can be used, if they comply with 2.3 (2) in here http://www.lvvta.org.nz/documents/standards/LVVTA_STD_Wheels_&_Tyres.pdf good luck, tridens are the ultimate in wheels, im not sure why anyone bothered making any other style of wheel after perfection was achieved, haha

Screw getting rid of the cabin, make it the playboy mansion of the seas.

one point of this whole project, which is quite contradictory to boat ownership (and we are probably dreaming) is to spend very little on this thing. my brother doesnt have much spare cash (3 kids) and wants to spend most of the spare fun coupons on his car anyway. selling not an option yet, grandpa gave it to us and he would get the shits if we turned around and flicked it off to make $$. hes one of those old buggers who thinks everyone is out to get his valuables te bro is an engineer so we can fix the trailer no problem have already suggested a turbo TD27 with a straight pipe over the back as a volvo replacement. kind of want a rugged boat version of my old valiant. no cabin, flat black, too loud, shitbox looking thing, the opposite of what boaters usually want ha, should put a crappy rb20 with china turbo, RBNAVY REPREZENT

Discussion: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/42081-slyones-rotary-datsun-racecar/ Hi all, met a few of you at Nats trackday Manfeild recently and couple asked me to post a bit about the Datto so here goes.... A little about me...sports mad bike mad car mad fella who was around when some of the old cars you guys cheerish were new, yep I'm old My Dad was a racer in the 60s/70s when racing was at it's greatest in my opinion, and was lucky enough to travel around the country with dad and watch some of the all time greatest race in NZ. It;s in my blood and i love it! I've done a bit of racing here in cars and bikes and in Aus in MX. I work in Aus but Feilding NZ is home. On to the datto.... I thought it was time to have a play car for me and my oldest boy Dan(who also has a kewl ke30). So when i saw this car i thought it migt be a marriage of two greats of the 70s...Datsun and Mazda Rotary. Not everyones cup of tea but my first car was an RX3 when i turned 15 and i loved watching the dattos in shellsport over the years.So i brought it from Mark Wade from North Shore who delivered it to Feilding when my Jeep decided to pack up on the way to pick it up, top bloke. We wheeled it into the shed and that's where it stayed for 6 months. Found this gem on the interweb The car was built in Wellington back about 1990 as a racecar so is far from pristine. It had a mild port midmounted 13B running a 48mm sidedraught and still the old dizzy and points(gawd i hated them way back when). Some handy work to get it in there for sure. In more recent times Mark had done some handy fabrication work to tidy it up and the graphics were his work aswell.Finally after purchasing some Kuhmo semi slicks from Palmside CHCH, we took it down to Manfeild for an Intermarque sprints meeting. We learnt a fair bit about it that day and what it needed going forward. I think it did a respectable club car time of 1.25 So we started out by removing the old 4speed RX3 box and fitting an MX5 5speed(not convinced this was a good move). Added a lightened flywheel, electronic ignition, button clutch and removable steering wheel(big fatty now). It has a four link rear still with drum brakes and an open diff from an RX3. Up front it has Capri rotors with Austin Princess 4pot calipers. Back to the track and had g/box troubles straight away. So in with a replacement and cut some more laps. The flywheel was very noticable as was the clutch, the box not so much. Down to 1.22 but a little smokey rolling off the throttle which made me nervous. I'd owned a rediculous amount of rotarys back in the day to know this was a bad sign..So the cheap fun car was getting away on me a little. So why stop now? Out comes the engine, 13BPP was decided on and replace the sidedraught with a 48mm downdraught. The original Datsun fuel tank and lines just weren't going to cut it so Palmerston North Automotive did me a 40l fuel cell flowing into a surge tank via holley pump then on to the IDA via carter pump and large braided fuel line. Now we're getting serious... This all created it's own little problems. Not so little really. With the tank now exposed in what used to be the boot meant the boot had to be sealed again from the main cabin. And with the Downdraught replacing the sidedraught meant more cutting back towards the windscreen to make it fit with the engine mounted well back. In steps my good mate Berky who's a genius in my eyes. We used to terrorise Palmy as teenages in our Rotary's. He did some great fabrication work for me and generally does any prep work i need done on the Datto between runs. I couldn't do any of it without him. I never had plans of posting anything up so don't have great pics but can add more later maybe?So a couple of not so good times with the engine meant 2 rebuilds and a bit less hair before it made the track again. It happens sometimes. I can credit Berky(Craig Berquist) and a lot of other locals for helping get the car up and running like Palmerston North Automotive, Kester Olivecrona and Bevan Parker (Feilding Automotive), Cameron Jones etc etc.The first serious hit out was in the MG classic(Whittakers) at Manfeild last year where we had a fantastic time. Went to 15" wheels with R888s but with the tall RX3(3.9) diff it left me a little slow out've the turns but very easy to drive with only 2nd,3rd required lol. The Falcon beat me by .2 over the finish line. Awesome car! Now back on 13" x 9" And as it was on Oldschool trackday. Bonnet still experimental as we try to get enough air in the thing. The 5.5" K&N we put on the day before worked a treat. When we decided early on to press on with the build we had a target time of 1.18 for Manfeild which we have now acheived. If i want to go faster now that's easy....stop eating.... Time for Dan to get more seat time. Reliability has been the issue and this needs to lift so we can travel to Taupo, Hamptons and Pukekohe with the car soon. We're getting closer. I took it to the Oldschool trackdays as a good opportunity to get some decent testing in with the winter series coming up and have a bit of fun. Also knew there wouldn't be a whole lot of cars with cages that could take passengers so intended to offer up rides in the arvo but unfortunately issues with the new box meant limited runs and early trailer time sorry. Maybe next year. I do spend a fair few Friday test days at Manfeild so feel free to come and have a chat and mention oldschool and I'm happy to take people for rides if I have the time. I was impressed with the cars and the passion you guys have...very cool As i was leaving a chap asked me for my email address as he had taken lots of pics which i always appreciate. May have lost my email simonhetterscheid@gmail.com Some more flickr pics .... http://www.flickr.com/photos/71670482@N08/ So we have just spent the weekend finishing the Datto for the upcoming round 1 of the winter series at Manfeild. The new crossdrilled slotted vented Capri front rotors fitted up no problem with the caliper spacer kit also purchased from NZAD fitted perfectly. We also replaced balljoints and tie rod ends. The Tie rod ends were flogged out and bent. Steering and stopping should improve 100% Wheel alignment number 4 today, sparky tomorrow to check whether we've cured the lack of battery charging and a quick polish and fingers crossed a successful fun weekend coming up. Now that we have sorted out the air requirements for the IDA, the new bonnet has been fitted with appropriate air intake. Fingers crossed for some fine weather!

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Discussion - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/42780-1979-ke30-project/ Bought me a KE30 that needs some doing up to get her perfect.[/size] Plan is to drop a worked 4A-GE Blue top into it for some more power. Don't know when but at some stage the car has had a new worked 4K engine in it and maaan does it haul. Dragged off a 160hp Subaru Legacy! Though it guzzles down too much juice being twin carbey'd so the 4A-GE should give better fuel economy with a little more power.[/size] Here are the trademe photos. Looks a lot nicer in those photos than it actually is! [/size] And here we have the work that I have started on her![/size] Basically just the Bog, fixed the vinyl on the front door cards as some muppet didn't do it properly the first time. vinyl doesn't have enough over hang so had to staple it in pretty much. [/size] Installed some component speakers. Wired in the new head unit.[/size] Replaced original creme door arms, door window rollers and window handles with original black ones. Ones that were in there had been painted red and then eventually it had all scraped off so looked piss poor. Also too much red in the car need to spice it up with some black. Some more chrome bits would be nice too. Will definitely put some chrome side mirrors on it[/size]

Repost in the correct forum section: I was made in the 1980's, I grew up in the 1980's and basically all of my formative years... were in the 1980's. Throughout my early car mad childhood, I held something of passion for a few of the decades finest. Styling cues like wild spoilers, boxed guards, pop-up headlamps, air vents for air vents sake etc all appealed greatly to me. Just a couple of months ago now, I finally had an opportunity to buy one of my dream machines from this era - sadly not a 308 GTS Fezza - in this case, a Porsche 944, in crispy clean white from the year 1987. This particular car has done a decent mileage (247,000 km) but has been maintained impeccably. Receipts for everything were included, and among other things it's had a full engine rebuild around 50,000 miles ago and has had new Koni and Bilstein shocks this year. Everything is intact, and everything works! Being a European spec car, the 2.5 is blessed with a mighty 163hp and due to balance shaft technology that Porsche paid Mitsubishi $8.00 royalty per engine to use, it's really quite smooth for a massive 4 cylinder lump. So the story goes, I picked this thing up from Tauranga, with epic thanks to Roman Dave for the lift over on his (and his lovely girlfriend's) way over to that area of the country for some reason or another. And I subsequently drove it home. Unfortunately for myself and my newly acquired fake Porsche, a possum of generous proportion decided it would be prudent to hang out in the Westbound lane not far out of Waihi. This proved detrimental to the front apron, which subsequently had repairs effected by the wonderful lads down at GT Refinishers in Penrose. Following on, I enlisted the services of everybodies favourite gym-goin' house-renovatin' sand-peddlin' detailin' enthusiast Alistair, (with contra deals on electrickery products for his home) to assist with getting the moderately tired paintwork up to spec. Six or so hours late after work on a Friday and the "alpinweiss" tone was looking spiffing. So below, is kind of where we are at now. Some things are on the way for it, but it's going to be some time before I can afford ALL of the parts I want in order to make it look not shit, which it currently does at the stock ride height of stiltiness. IMG_5827 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr IMG_5906 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr IMG_5982 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr IMG_6016 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr IMG_6041 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr IMG_5871 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr IMG_5929 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr IMG_5971 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr That steering wheel's not stock, it's an OEM item from a 993 RS and is reputedly quite expensive. I'm not that into it so it's going to get binned in favour of something a little more retro in flavour. Additionally, I removed the headunit the car came with as it featured far too many flashing lights for my tastes, and replaced it with the JVC unit from the Cedric. Thanks for looking.

Last year was good, this year should be bigger. $10 gets you in the gate and entry to the world class car museum.

Being an instrument tech for last 4 years has ruined my electrical knowledge still if his so called high surface resistance is the best earth conductor its going to be a bit more than a tickle

I think a read recently also that the later model falcons, XE/XF onwards had a larger front swaybar standard. Went from 22mm to 25mm or somthing like that. Look into that for a possibly cheap upgrade. Using the XG/XH steering boxes is good too. They have a needle roller bearing in the top of the case instead of the useless bronze bush that wears in about 10,000km and gives all that slop when straight ahead.

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Other way man lower resistance = more current drawn. Either way it doesn't matter you only need a milli amp across your heart to kill you.

here is a pics of the 2 stage injection

But no topless waiters?

Time to put the new engine together

sounds fine if you are following the rules for wheel spacers. nzed would know better than me about the material spec so that will be ok

While i was still getting stuff together for the suspension conversion i had a little bit of a accident involving a toyota hilux :/ Lucky there was no damage so his car! After i sussed a new bumper support and straightened up the bumper eventually i got all the suspension parts, Took me about a month or 2 to get all the parts i needed to for the s13 conversion and lowering it. Wit the help of a couple work mates and the boss for letting me use the shop and tools after hours on a saturday arvo we managed to get it done in a couple hours. This was the finished product of the night

but its a masterpiece

Awesome day... cheers all involved...

got the head back on, blocks been painted, valves been lapped and stem seals replaced, new head gasket. next up finish cleaning up the timing cover, inlet mani, rocker cover and other alloy bits and start piecing back together. haven't touched the bottom end or gone overboard with it as my plan is to drive it with this engine for a year or two then fit a mx5 motor and deal with cert ect.

Last pistons finally out, now to bore and hone any nicks etc...

Jesus Christ.

You can test your surface resistance by poking the relay big power lines with a steel pole

At a guess I'm going to say the wiring was done by you and the whole building is a deathtrap

ha. i dont even get that excited about boatery. every time i go on one, something bad happens. like the time i went on the ferry to waiheke and one engine shit itself and they couldnt steer it into the wharf or the other time when i was on the ferry and it hit the wharf so hard the guy with the motorbike fell over and broke his clutch lever or the other time when a mates dad bought a little boat and wanted to go for a test run, and i didnt want to go, but they convinced me, and it turns out the steering was backwards so it nailed the rock wall by the boat ramp. i was relieved because i expected him to stop. but he did not. and we ended up in the middle of mangere harbour doing half donuts while mates dad got used to wrong way steering. eventually it got water in the motor from doing half spins and wouldnt go any more. so we had to drift back to the wrong boat ramp cause the tide was going out and walk back to the car. then go back to my mates place and get a long rope to pull the boat over the 100 meters of soft mud with razor sharp feet slicing rocks under it exposed by the low tide. (mangere bridge for you local daves) or the time i went for a ride in a wakeboarding boat and the owner decided to do some barefoot skiing, and fell off the pole and dislocated his shoulder.

As they say, a hole in the ocean to throw money into

Bankruptcy and Masochism are two words that come to mind for boat restoration! Even by OS standards! haha

Gets a boat, first thing he changes are the tyres.

Check the batons that reinforce the hull. Often they arent glassed and prone to rot. Reckon most of the deck is toast? Hopefully the cabin itself isnt too bad as it looks nice.

He should have kept the Porsche! That'll tidy up alright though I'd have thought but I'd be having a careful look over the hull too.

The people complaining aren't looking for work. Those of us working don't have time to complain. And this is OS, we're all full time workaholics (or something), otherwise we'd all have sweet rides that were all complete instead of a "projects" thread 18 miles long I wish I knew someone to fit the role, but saying that I'd have them working for me instead

That tacho looks like the one I had in my Mini in the early '80s. Definitely period for the 1300.

Fuck. Those. Spiders.

Found this, screwed up and neglected in a box of parts that came with the bike. IMO this pic is better than any of the spares I got!

No don't have one yet,once I learn how to post pics up it will be up

Its xmas, now to get it in there.