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Im getting another arm..

So here I begin. //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/47814-dannybattie-1973-colt-1600-discussion/ This little beastie was a little neglected on the side of the road and so I decided to rescue her. She is mostly original. I'm gradually fixing her up. Gearbox is freshly refurbished with an extra 5th gear. The Green Machine interior is good and the engine (1600 Saturn 4G32) is running fairly well from what I can tell. While I'm sure the purists out there will be disappointed, I am looking for parts/advice on simple and cost effective: Motor upgrade (extra power) Lowering kit/parts Lock or tight diff Any other bolt on upgrades Any feedback, comments, parts, motors etc is most welcome

I got my hands on a '74 FR50 for bugger all, but it wasn't running and looked like it had been neglected for some time by previous owners, it didn't run and none of the electrics worked. I later learnt it's a FR50K which was the very last of the '74s before they ceased production until 1981 (I think) but there isn't too much difference, just cosmetic stuff, like paint, the plastic piece that screws to the forks and the seat. that's all I've noticed that's different to a normal '74 FR50 so far. I don't have any photos of it together because I was far too keen to strip it down for paint/other mods. It was pretty rusty to begin with, nothing too major though just surface rust mostly. The front rim is pretty bad (that's the rear one) and has a sweet speed (rust) hole near the valve. she'll be right though. It also had a sick rattle can black paint job on the frame So first thing I got around to doing was painting it, but as it always goes I got too keen on sussing out some mods before I had finished painting it, so here it is post primer, and it looks shit. kinda looks like a slug in this photo I got my hands on some LTZ400 quad handle bar mounts and cut them up to fit in a narrower gap, and drilled out some existing holes to fit the 10mm bolts for the mounts, worked really well. Came out something like this; Ignore the bars, those are some random mock ups that were made out of a shitty warehouse broom handle. Also cut up the standard bar mount thing that houses the ignition and what not so it filled the gap between the head tube and the leg guard a bit and looks sort of tidier. Continued to mess around with bar mock ups; Thought these kinda looked silly, made it look sad or something so decided against making bars with that kind of downsweep. With the help of Mitch (Mitch.W on here I think) we got rowdy with the grinder and chopped the rear guard off and had a look to see what it would look like slammed. Definitely going to make it low (not this low though) in the future via some hard tail struts, kind of ghetto way to do it but it'll do the job. It then turned green.. This is pretty much as far as I have got with it so far, still needs a few things but I want to get it to run first, Needs headlight/tail light, throttle cable, and a seat and it's pretty much good to go. Here are some photos I took to see what I want it to look like when it's finished more or less. Probably going to paint the wheels black though. Still haven't made the hard tail struts so it's just sitting on the tyre here but you get the idea. Will keep posting updates as it progresses

The potato salad was a bit of anticlimactic experience..

Well got a door cut out today: And the other side cladded.. roof tomorrow?? then off to buy supplies to make the hatch and alloy trim

When I got home from work made a cardboard template and folded the 1st section of the firewall.......life would be a shit load better if I owned a folder.

also some other crap to add to the oh i should show you guys this stuff

Brother and sister...

more removal of the things. will get a glass guy to remove the windows i think. probably cheaper to do that than break them. no big rusty surprises hiding which was good i knew this bit was lurking not much more to come out of it. will probably make some sort of frame so i can flip it on its side or upside down to do the underneath stuff. also have to decide how to tackle the body- i might get it properly blasted and primed. im going to fix the rusty bits myself but i will give it to a panelsmasher to get it straight and paint it. also been looking at other mods im going to do engine wise- current plan includes a new exhaust, might use some of these or similar, they are for a dodge truck. turned around and the collector shortened and re angled, should be able to make the pre turbo part of the exhaust shorter, and flow & sound better

did a bit more today. started folding down the lip and clamped it up to see how it would come together. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr after a few tacks its starting to come together. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr and this is it all stitched back together. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr im not very happy with the result to be honest, i fucked up the folding of the first crease at the front and i didn't fix it before it was to late. its nothing that a skim of bog won't fix but still it could have been better. on the whole the result is acceptable and it will come up fine but id like to think i could do it better. the guard is now 15mm wider than it was but the important part is I've made it wider at the back part of the arch (where tires rub if they are going to) so there is more clearance there now.

My name is Todd im a 22 Year old mechanic from Rotorua, this is my 160j sss ill do proper updates soon with what iv done from start to finish but for now a picture of how it sits will put up discussion thread in a minute cheers guys.

New house, massive garage, time to get the Coupe worked on!

Got some louvers off trade me the other week came with everything even rear quarter louvers and mounting kit so stoaked i don't have to find all those individual things came up really good with a cut n polish They just make it look much better with the added bonus of keeping it slightly cooler inside think i need a dash mat now

This reminds me of that other great thread where the guy asked how he should fix his bent chassis. He got sound advice and then went his own way and fucked it. I'm kinda waiting for the OP to go SO I ONLY HAD A HAMMER AVAILABLE.

Also this is my new favourtie build on OS right now. You best finish this one before palming it off!

Jeeesus. Nobody in here is arguing that it is not illegal. But just because something is not legal does not automatically make it dangerous. Done with a small amount of forethought and an even smaller amount of information the process that OP is wanting to do can be done safe as houses. If a guy is going to straighten his steering arm regardless surely it is better to have a small amount of information on how to go about it rather than him just heating any metal to any temp and cooling it down in a bucket of engine oil. May as well ban Roman for putting up a cut springs tech thread and just about every member for having the wrong wheels and the wrong tyres and the wrong engines.

Just so I can keep score; 4 people who know what they are talking about say it will be fine, and 4 people who are mechanics with no metallurgical training say you will kill babies... I think that's it settled then.

So these pics are of the night i got my baby, spent a day in auckland looking at a few different dattos but finally settled on this baby and so glad i did. More to come, got a lot of pics etc so updates will keep rolling, please discuss

I was a mechanic for 15 years ,I was also an avi for quite a few of them years, i have worked on trucks cars and bikes , I have done truck wheel alignments which require bending the front beam . i know all about what you can and cant do . but i also know the law . i had to learn all the dos and don'ts and the reasons why and now I am an apprentice tool maker , so I am currently studying metallurgical science. in fact metallurgical science is its own entire trade. inspecting metals and why they have failed, for insurance etc. there is so much to it, i could talk ages about it, its fascinating. . . but the depth of this argument is to wide to sum it up with broad statements and comparing a solid truck front beam suspension or a ford I beam to a tinny Toyota steering arm is not a debatably angle that I would like to take, its silly, and i don't have to time to point out why its not worth trying to argue about you just cant fuck with cast , that is the law. this is it. now I know that it can be done, we do a lot of things in industry that is safe and fine . we test things and there are procedures created from metallurgical science , this is how we came up with the techniques . but at the end of the day this is a car forum , someone needed some solid advice so lets give them the right advice .

Id bolt one set in and measure it up with internal micrometer. Then do the same with the other set. Then fingers crossed one set is obviously the correct set.

My engine exploded! IMG_4030

Jeeze all i got to do was measure a k series engine gor someone to rebuild and build a shitty weathervane nice work on the hubs.

Finally got the c-notch pieces laser cut. So we pulled off the tray and started stripping it back.

The trick is to bolt the head down before the jb weld sets, then you don't need to file it down.

So just acquired this sweet Grand-dad spec commodore not so long ago its pretty tidy but it still needs a little bit of work to make it mint sooo many carpark dents and scratches ect Everything under the bonnet looks brand new

Fix Bumpers And other such things that are a bit rugged Its pretty hectic i couldn't get it to do a burnout until i put louvers on now it just does them everywhere no doses unfortunately have had ideas for big turbo still deciding if its too good for that Just lots of cruising when i can

There's a max rim ofset? I never knew that

Sounds like a job for ol mate mitch

Qualitat put a new carb on and didn't even connect the choke cable? The confusing mess of it randomly running rich and finding the choke flap doing its own thing made me wtf. More so wtf now that a mechanic did that.

In the Loading zone because wagons.

was a good line up of cars in the weekend... and on reflection please don't red wheels... I vote metalic lavender

It's illegal. It doesn't matter how safe or unsafe it's perceived to be, it's still illegal.

Chucked some pics up from the VW Nats, was heaps of fun but poor turnout from watercooled stuff, completely dominated by aircooled however hopefully slowly changing

Couldn't find the pics of my mates one but found these of one I saw for sale on the side of the road in Auckland somewhere, rough guess of 8 or 9 years ago. Cheers Matt

Hey why not cover blue silicone horrors with cloth braid

its a pretty pointless tech section if we cant discuss facts and ideas without constant weanerism? how about old mate getting chopped down for a legitmate observation in the radiator thread? locking it solves everything.

I wipe my OWN bum

pedal box is super illegal mostly because welded pedal, also the pedal box material is thinner than OEM so should not pass either http://www.lvvta.org.nz/documents/newsletters_pub/LVVTA_Newsletter_2014_Jan-July.pdf page 8 refers specifically to escort pedals being bought in from the UK

so, the other side. i ground back the massive amounts of bog to see what was hidden benith. no surprise, a few very bad repairs. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr this is how thick the bog is on the sill. i might have to make a whole new sill but we'll see when i strip the rest back. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr this is a rusty bit at the top of the arch. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr so its not as bad as the other side which will make life easier. ill start on this side tomorrow if everything goes to plan.

Cross member and engine mounts done......1ggte mounted in a mk2 cortina all by its self. Next firewall/trans tunnel.

Current mood : In other news, I have pulled the steering box out, its shot. It used to knock and always be really heavy after driving around for a bit. So thinking of putting a power steer rack in. Also ditched the column shift linkages and bought an ididit column shift cable conversion kit, that should free up a lot of room around the drivers side exhaust headers.

Finally got to take the old girl on a road trip! No over heating and no other issues! extremely stoked! Discuss Here

Anything ever happen with this?

Got quite a bit done so far.. got the skins glued to my door interiors: (didnt have enuff clamps so I improvised) Here are the (inner sprung) squabs Tomorrow I finish the doors (insert lock mechanisms etc)

So everything has been removed from behind the firewall. And also a whole heap of shit from the motor to trick myself into believing its smaller then it is. And I believe with a wee bit of cuttie Curtis weldie weldie it will fit.

So this happened! Finally got my rims and rubber sorted! Little bit of wheel arch gap so could go lower but i think it looks grouse Hate or love here

so i got a bored about an hour ago and decided to do this.... looks like my vw was a light blue in its early days of its life. what a prick of a designee the made there hoodlinings. (vw still havnt solved that problem) it looks like someone has been here before as well take a close look and you will see all the dots on the left side have been drawn in and on the right side it is actually perforated LOL here is a photo from underneath haha also earlier today i swapped out the back rest of the beige seats onto my bases so i could have some low back seats they fit up sweeeet as!!! took it for a drive and i have so much more visibility around me now its crazy!!!! so now that the seats fit and look super ugly i better do some upholstery work looking forward to this part. ah thats why i ripped the hoodlining out as well as it had some rips in it and what not. since im advertising Midnight Upholstery on the side i should probably have the inside looking good

so yeah SURPRISE!!!!! we made a bike rack for the vw made it to fit simons motor bike so yea thats what the brackets where for that 10speed was asking about. hahahahahahahahaha