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I vote for a mural of jesus/gal

Should still be able to close the bonnet.

holy lol at gal. This is so sweet. You know those cards that, like, when you turn them one way theyre one picture and when you hold it the other way it's another? You should do that on the van so that you can have to 4x huge murals. Wizards riding dragons that are burning ladies clothes that are made out of snakes that are shooting poison that is naked ladies that are unicorns who are being ridden by gal etc

Went for an evening cruise up One Tree Hill and back last night. Car drove like a champ - she loves hooning around the back streets. A chauffeur driving a pristine white wedding Rolls Royce even stopped to point Maggie out to the bride to be. Here's some eye candy to keep the thread alive. Chur

painted up the inside of the sill with some etch primer. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr then fucked around for ages trying to get the new sill piece to fit right. in the end its not prefect, its got a twist in the top piece right at the end of the door which is a bit shit but its there now. you won't see it when its finished but yea, i was a bit pissed off with getting it wrong. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr then i made the back part of the sill and welded that in. i haven't finished welding it yet but its pretty close. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr with a bit of luck ill get some more done tomorrow.

One door on: The second door handle was missing the metal hole that attaches to the door frame that the tongue goes in Back to Mitre 10 tomorrow edit: I know I have not cut out the window hole yet

I should be getting it back this week and will slam the body mounts in, take it for a re check and hopefully be legal

did a bit today but had a bad attack of can't be fuckeditus. finished the welding of this bit and i made the little corner bit that goes around the bottom corner of the door shut then i went inside. Untitled by sheepers-ra28, on Flickr

Our next meet will be graced with the presence of some members from the Christchurch precinct, So Alex and I have decided that we will have a delightful bbq at Kaiteriteri beach on Saturday the 2nd of May. I will do the usual start point at WOW. 12:00pm leave around 12.15, cruise out to Kaiteriteri Alex, how about you organize the Motueka crew to meet at the clock tower at say... 12.30? We can then do a larger convoy out to kaiteriteri beach. Rain location will be at the Riwaka Tavern. (I wont put that on the FB post) I only took a few pics of our last meet, which was small but still contained good quality vehicular discussions. Here are the pics anyway

Its amazing what $400 buys you these days aye.

Today was a good day as Ice Cube once said. I picked up the Mazda 618 and didn't even have to use my AK... Now it's at the body shop 10 min down the road from me...once that's done, back to my dry safe shed and the fun begins.

Holy fuck ! Your not the first one to mention that ! The other one was gal as a wizard ridin a chopper into the sunset

man, look at all that space for more blue acrylic bubbled ford oval portholes. cant wait to stain this at hanmer

Howdy all So as some of you know I sold all projects last year( apart from a bike I'm building) and to be honest I wasn't really looking for a he project. Anyway a mate rang me to ask if I know of anyone wanting a mk2 Tina.......I asked around and no takers........so fucking bang it turned up on Wednesday..... Even drove it of the truck So its 1970 ( I think) mk2 cortina 1600 super. Pretty much the least amount of rust in a ford shell I've bought in the past 8 years....even the ciggy lighter worked. Sat in a shed since 1988 So I stripped it down and cleaned the years off it Got up Saturday stripped the rest of the running gear and made a spit . mounted it to start on the underside And that's as it sits at the moment

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

Well Iv gone and done it... Iv brought a housebus to be cool like Alex and Hannah. Its a ex Army, ex SBL 1986 Hino ranger rocking a EH700 6.4 Litre diesel I get the impression the guy that started this conversion was doing a really good job but suddenly got the urge to finish it quickly/untidily. The good thing about it is that I don't feel bad for pulling some it apart to modify it This must be all part of the housebus starter kit! The current line up Let me know your thoughts/suggestions/experiences as ALL the systems need to be done Chur!

Yeah pretty much just that, out at the Meeanee Speedway, always a good car show and generally a fair bit of stuff for sale. Maybe make a weekend of it?

maybe keep it off facebook, i feel the meets have lost the close-knit oldschool.co.nz vibe they use to have, it feels more like a friday night pre skids meet up.

Not really much extra work to do it properly though. I will accept bog and dodgyness but only if its satin black and on turbos

Glad you have seen the light, looking forward to the updates

Hey man. No need to ruin it by doing shit work.

Wow... looking back at the things ive "been into" and the things ive done the this GX61 its actually getting me down... lol. Reading the bullshit gayarse comments about rotas being cool and stickerbomb going on I wonder if I was abusing the bulb abit to much :/ hahahaha. If there is anything I have learned from the other Members posting comments saying "just get genuine wheels and slam it job done" im sorry I should have listened to you then I look back an ill admit I didn't do this GX any justice. Time has gone on and my views on the whole "drift spec everything" and "rota wheels hard!!!" Have completely changed. I know now that the car doesn't need a whole lot to look good. So ive gone back to the drawing board an began to rewrite the fate of this old beast..... some of you may still disprove of the choices im going to do but that tends to happen now and again. But youll be pleased to know that only meaningful stuff is getting done to it. Yes I may be a bit "gay" but im trying to do it justice but still keep it "my" car and if any of you actually know me you'll know im abit "out there" to say the least hahaha. Anyway I will be posting more and adding pics more often because work on this beast has resumed. If anyone actually still gives a shit chuck a post on the discussion page of this thing lol. Other than that I'll just be here doing my own thing

Wow... looking back at the things ive "been into" and the things ive done the this GX61 its actually getting me down... lol. Reading the bullshit gayarse comments about rotas being cool and stickerbomb going on I wonder if I was abusing the bulb abit to much :/ hahahaha. If there is anything I have learned from the other Members posting comments saying "just get genuine wheels and slam it job done" im sorry I should have listened to you then I look back an ill admit I didn't do this GX any justice. Time has gone on and my views on the whole "drift spec everything" and "rota wheels hard!!!" Have completely changed. I know now that the car doesn't need a whole lot to look good. So ive gone back to the drawing board an began to rewrite the fate of this old beast..... some of you may still disprove of the choices im going to do but that tends to happen now and again. But youll be pleased to know that only meaningful stuff is getting done to it. Yes I may be a bit "gay" but im trying to do it justice but still keep it "my" car and if any of you actually know me you'll know im abit "out there" to say the least hahaha. Anyway I will be posting more and adding pics more often because work on this beast has resumed. If anyone actually still gives a shit chuck a post down lol. Other than that I'll just be here doing my own thing

Yeh this, pretty sure the battery acts like a regulator of sorts.

Small battery and a trickle charger perhaps

Was really hopefull, but unfortunately it didn't make any change. Rode scooter to and from work a couple of times last week and once I got it started, it ran sweet! Would do about 45kmh on the flat at WOT! But still be a pig to start. Decided this morning to pull the carb off, strip it and give it a clean out. Found a blocked idle?choke? jet Soaked the jets in carb cleaner and cleaned the rest of it out while they were soaking then blew them out. Re assembled the carb and put it back on. Connected fuel lines, and primed the fuel system. IT LITERALY STARTED FIRST KICK AND IDLED PERFECT. Left it for a hour and tried again. still first kick! Left it for two hours. First kick Took for a Hoon and according to my GPS speed logger I downloaded maxed out at 64kmh (must've been on a slope with a tail wind!) and had average speed of 40kmh.... Sweet! Only thing I noticed was that the indicators stopped working, checked battery voltage and it's flat flat. Checked charging rate, is about 6v at idle and goes up to 8v at WOT. That seems about right? Battery's currently on charge, I'm not sure if I left the ignition on by mistake so will disconnect it when I park it and see if it still flattens it. Turns out that it's missing the filter out of the housing. So gonna go find some filter foam and make a new one next week. SO KEEN FOR SCOOTING TOO AND FROM WORK

pulled the deck off today. have 50mm of rake now measured from either ends of sills on cab. so shitloads over whole truck. i did some super dodgy measuring before i pulled apart. measured from under the diff with wheels on. rear was approx 600kg. should loose a big chunk of that by the time im finished. Have some parts on the way from usa but more on that later... Pile as of today, minus wood off deck: actually some of that will go back on. keeping the outer frame, so can continue confusing angry farmers Because boring update; Bonus Video. mostly same as ones above, but with some kp and bmw action

Great work; such wood. I have a feeling that I used to go to school on this bus. The blue engine cover looks very familiar. Any idea when it was taken out of service as a school bus?

Yeah, impedance likely won't match but can always series/parallel some to make it work. I just used a 12v battery and 12v current limited PSU with adjustment to make a makeshift charger and ran all car gear from the battery and was ace... Just s bit big and hard to move

Small update, works progressing on rear bumper.

1899 landed, 100 less than the car cost. ha

Ordered my Mizuno Works Octopus legs. Only set to be sold outside of Japan afaik ? perfect equal length so paired with 50 straight pipe will be lethal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1WS-dYknf4

yup this is very cool!!! keep up the good work

so i went with the hole me and a mate can do the king pin situation goes something like this smash old bushes out clean up parts press new bushes in and file little grove in it grove is for this washer then we spent like 30 mins fixing his reamer............ (was not happy with his workers) then reamed a hole he then had to go home and cook dinner for his other half. so i went back to work and put some underlay in the vw pulled out all my scraps of nice cut pile carpet to make sure i would have enough to do my car got HEAPS!!!!!!! oh also yesterday i cleaned some shit up like this cleaned up my roof as well choice of weapon was made a huge mess and i got covered in so much crap

You already know how I feel about this.

HHHMMMMMMMM also I found a pic of the look im going to be going for (well the flares anyway) - gotta make wheels fit somehow with that wide S13 subframe. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=16697 - PROJECT DISCUSSION.

I feel you should inspect the back of your van with a blacklight and report your findings

I vote do a burnout. it won't matter if the car is high or low because you ain't gonna see shit anyway due to the copious amounts of burnout gas.

Will be there again and even eat burgers this time

Hopefully this can be of use to someone or other. I missed out the first few pages as it was useless jargon. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hasmc8sxbalmngy/W57%20repair%20manual.pdf?dl=0

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

Progress has been made.. been stripping it back to a bare shell so it can be sandblasted. Reason for this is to tidy up the whole body and allow everything to be painted mint. Rear windows out Pretty much made a massive mess of my shed pulling everything apart. Need to spend a good day water blasting all the dirty crap that came out I bought this seat off dad for the passenger seat. It's a racetech 4000 so the ol d 4009.. has been re foamed and covered not long ago so is in brand new condition. Only issue being the blue gel coat.. have stripped the seat so I can paint this black after I get back from holiday. Got doors and panels sandblasted. Didn't realise how much bog was in the front panels. These ones are rooted so I've sent my spare set down to get blasted which look to be in a bit better condition. Really happy with how the blasting came out did an awesome job and will def make the painting process easier.

Mark got the engine back together and it's up and running again, as promised. I picked it up tonight, and will be getting it re-dynotuned before I take it to another track day soon. A short test drive showed that the car runs a lot smoother than before, and definitely has more power/torque down below. Smells wicked on Mark's premix too.

only putting this here to follow so i dont need to find it again. btw who else has there cars towing the same car?

You should try being us and figuring out the imperial system! What a load of illogical shit!

oh and ordered body mounts from rock auto so i'll have to borrow the parents neighbors hoist and chuck them in, Energy suspension performance bushes the packet said. Its stilla bog ol' boat to drive

finally got bike back from the shop today. stoked on the new shoes! pirelli city demons, 300x18 front and 350x18 on the rear. massive stagger cos they were out of stock in the 325's for the rear. also covered seat with a sheet of foam i grabbed from work, not a fan of the pink treatment. signwriters fitting my stickers in to his busy schedule, so will have them some time next week. then looking at getting the seat covered. wanna go for a bit of tuck and roll, will look grouse!

Updates in a few days, I'm way too pedantic for quick progress haha. Also, don't you hate when you remember that one essential item you need, right after your order is placed? Yeah..

Got the turbo manifold today!!!!! Looks so dope, with the Genuine Tial wastegate and screamer pipe. Its made From seamless steampipe all TIGed up. Alittle over built and over the top for what im doing with it. Looks so dope though. Heres some pics. The turbos going to have to have a 90 degree on it so it doesnt interfair with the distributor Haha. So I may weld a 60 Degree alloy bend on it. Who knows what will happen haha. Hopefully next post will be of it with the wheelspacers on or with a turbo on it. Cheers.