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Well thought id add something here So I had been looking around for a old school car for a number of years. Something complete that I could drive and cruise. After being so picky and selective, I missed out on a couple of nice cars. Here I have recently picked up a 1973 Holden HQ Statesmen. Trademe special, saw it in Fielding and thought id go check it out. looked good in the pics. 57500km, 5 personal owners. First impression were it was a good looking car. Owner drove it in the first 5 years of ownership then sat in the shed till 2015 with regular startups and drives. also looked like it happened with all other previous owners, drive for a while and sat there. one was a deceased estate then stayed in the family with a son for a number of years doing nothing. First owner was an Auckland Holden dealer. All the windows looked brand new, hardly any scratches or water stains. The paint looked good, a little thin in places with specs of surface rust breaking through, to be expected after 42 years I guess. all the power windows worked. started easy. quiet running engine, no ticks or nothing. The interior was mint. one slight tear in fabric on drivers seat. original working AM radio with a dial to switch from front or rear speaker. Dealer installed Air Con by the looks. doesn't work, presumed to need regassing. doesn't bother me. the fan blows a lot of air and vented out front and side. much better than the standard HQ fan anyway. Engine was quiet, no oil or water leaks. though some gaskets could do with replacing as oil seeps through. checked the oil, it was down to the Low mark. so need to keep an eye on that. oh yeah, the doors. Sat in one of the front seats and closed the door. wow, no effort needed to pull the door shut. the springs are good in this one. actually I sat there and opened and closed the door about 15 times. just touch the door and it clicked shut. just like new. Checked out an ashtray in one door, it was half full with cigarette butts. the owner didn't smoke, so someone beforehand did and meant the current owner didn't clean the car super thoroughly. good old cable operated boot opener. original jack and accessories in the boot. I haven't even looked at the spare wheel, its still full of air anyway Owner took me for a cruise around the block. no squeaks, rattles as an old Holden does. Super comfy and smooth ride over humps and bumps. Has a little bit of kick for what it is Had another look over the car and took a few photos. ran it through my mind and bit the bullet. Sold. Ended up taking it for a drive around the block myself, oh so nice. Back to the house and inside for a cuppa tea before heading off on the long trip back home and figuring out how to get it home Discussion Thread

Needs 165 65 14 up front to replace the yuck 195 45 14. Rear needs a HUGE roll. Will take better pictures this weekend. Next up is Stainless pipes and ITB manifold being made i think.

Hello NZ .I bought this awesome car . Immediately after the purchase, I got into the car and drove it across the country from north to south. You can see some distance from St. Petersburg to Sevastopol. The road was just stunning, sometimes we accelerate to 200 km \ h, as the registration numbers were paper they were formed at a speed and speed camera sucking dick.It took two days, and then I just fell sleep for 14 hours. Machine RB26 crazy with his twin turbo do wonders. With the current dollar price is beginning to be very attractive. These photos were taken as early as 2004-2005, when the car just arrived from Japan. This photos were taken during playout machines from St. Petersburg. We expect the ferry. On the ferry : Home sweet home and my new registration numbers . This is soo close : Update is coming soon

I also started on the next door which needs a little more work than the last You can see the skin has a couple holes which did have braze filling them and you can see the frame is quite rusty in this spot. Sweet shot with a repco screw driver in the pic Replacing inner frame before working on the skin There is only 3 more spots of rust repair left on teh car to do after the doors but I'll try cut down on the patch photos as I'm sure they are pretty boring.

New shell, new thread. purchased this gx61 with a 1ggte with a blown head gasket, parted out all the things i didnt need or already have. got rid of the sportmaxxs and sat it on something a bit more worthy whilst i went on holiday purchased some new old stock wheels while in japan (big ups to my mate josh for helping me carry them on the train) had pine engineering take them from 6" A type to 8" up front and 9" in the rear which brings me to today, car is currently a rolling body, i will tidy up the engine bay and set up the wiring and radiator for the 2jzge +w55 setup from my rx60 cressida and then swap everything over including the coilovers and give the interior a damn good clean.

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Wof time! Having some time on my hands I got stuck in and gave her a good once over, making a list of to do; Steering box play - adjust Steering idler play - adjust Stuffed tie rod end - replace Rear brakes - adjust Check valve clearance Transfer case alignment Check for any rust and treat Clean out the dust in the rear lights After a few days crawling underneath and beating the tierod end with no effect I borrowed a tie rod splitter of h4nd which worked within 5 min, talk about correct tool for the job! Steering box and idler adjusted up nice, steering is much more responsive now (for a lada) Transfer case alignment I managed to get better but looking at it the vertical position is correct but for some reason its horizontally out, never seen this before and am thinking the engine has shifted a bit on its mounts, its not causing much trouble so i'm planning on keeping an eye on it in case anything changes. Wof check went ok except for a tyre, uni joint and rear brake balance so pretty chuffed with that, quick lap of town to pick up a new tyre and uni joint and she's back to legality again. With all that done, its time for a photo, unpacked a few flashes and set up in the driveway Also sorted out a mount so I could hook the choke cable up to the carbs, its going to be so much nicer to start in the mornings without having to tie the choke back and then having to stop once the engine is warm!

What's this "real mum" shit, dick? I'm your real mum. You came out of my butthole... Remember?

Awesome progress guys! Looks sweet. Kinda reminds me of this;

Update time. Wow! I thought this would be a quick little write up but actually turned into an essay length spiel. Best you put the kettle on... So a fair bit has been going on in our little valley. I've been trying to remember to take photos but usually get carried away and have finished whatever before I remember. I did go up to the ridge a wee while back and take a pretty photo or two of the sunrise. Very nice up there. Cant wait to build a cabin for that place! Coming back down to the truck via the ridge track- Tuis playing morning tunes in the Lucerne tree next to truck. Since getting that lathe in place the shed has been getting used and sort of just evolving in doing so. Things/tools have found a place. With the winter weather it feels cosy- especially in heavy rain. Really needs a wood burner or waste oil burner for the colder days because man can it be chilly in the evening. I will make something but accept that it will only heat up a little area and be hugely inefficient trying to heat it all. Maybe something arond the main bench/lathe area would be good. One thing that we are both stoked with getting is the hoist. We could only afford it because we bought the secondhand lathe instead of a new chinese lathe. The bank balance is getting low as and we ummed a bit about spending the coin on a hoist but so glad we bought it instead of waiting because man its useful! I ordered it from trademe and had it delivered to a Nelson depot. Just managed to squeeze it in the van for a slow trip home which saved on the silly rural delivery charges. Shane came round the next day and helped put up the main structure. It went up pretty fuss free and seems fine for a cheaper chinese hoist. I can see where the costs are cut when compared to a Heshbon etc but its strong and well built where it needs to be. Currently we just plug the hoist into extension cord. Must order appropriate lecky supplies and lights then wire up shed! It dwarfs the Viva. Oh yeah- also note the steel rack we recently built. Was great to get all the steel we have found while clearing the block out of the rain and inside. Stepping away from the workshop we have been busy with many other things. First off we needed to get the ever growing piles of firewood out of the coming winter rains. Into our pile of telephone poles and old iron and we built this. I also nabbed some old wooden shed doors left outside a nelson garage doorplace. Free to take- i like. These I turned into a storage bin for all them little offcuts of wood that are a pain to stack. So now we have some storage but will need more. We have at least 50 pine trees big and small to chop down over next few years. Some in the gullies will just rot or be made into north shore style bike trails. Many we can use to keep us warm. Then that little sailing boat. The sun and the rain wont help it at all plus it was in the way- taking up space I could fill with another old car. So more telepoles and the 6m lengths of NEW iron that had been left in the bush edge by previous land owner came in handy. We built this... (turns out to be also very handy for lawnmower, old pushbikes and bike trailer storage) Meanwhile our neighbour has offered us her field which was overgrown with gorse and blackberry for the past 20 years. We wanted to clear it out so our view was nicer and had been intending to ask her if that was cool. Then she just said one day- hey how about we make it into a fruit orchard. OK ! So it was out with the scrub cutter and chainsaw and with a couple of days hard graft we had it all clear. It looks so much better and the soil is amazing as it originally had two pigs there then getting nitrogen fixed by gorse for past two decades. Next step is to plant it out but for now its just great the have a view with out gorse and masses of blackberry. Before.. During.. After... That little fence we have left up to plant grapes and kiwis on. We are both still very much newbies when it comes to growing things but no being stressy types what grows will grow etc etc Our neighbour- well shes very green fingered and will help us out heaps. Plus there's the nerd net for info. Main thing is I'm enjoying this whole land thingee and planting stuff way more that I thought I would Then there is the track up to our ridge. We had been planning to clear it for ages so a day or so with the scrubcutter and now its way nicer to walk up. Horse and Jen happened to turn up one day whikle there were up here for holiday so they got a tour of our freshly cleared track. We have now almost cleared out the building site at the top where we are planning another cabin build. Not photos of the now cleared track but I did take this one the other evening when we went up to watch the sunset and drink beer. When we got to the ridge a huge deer went storming away from us over the gully. Quite a sight ! What is cooler was the picture on my beer bottle... Speaking of tracks.. Hannah went away on a few days trip with her sister who was visiting. While they were gone I hooked into the start of our first mtb track. We have always planned the first track to head as gently as possible up to the ridgetop- a gentle enough gradient for an easy ride or walk. I really wanted to get something done while hannah was away as a surprise. I cut, dug, raked, carted, stacked, walked, toiled, bashed a track through the Kanuka grove just behind the cabin over two days and built whole first track. I really enjoyed it and worked through till it was almost dark. I was knackered at the end of the second day. Hannah got back from the tramp and I surprised them both with my new track. Its still a touch too steep to ride up easily up so Ive worked out a path for a track that seperates off where it gets steeper and will head back towards the truck then back again. Pretty much..more hairpins = more track = easier gradient (but also = more work....) Big thing getting built right now is our outside bathroom. We have had this planned ever since first viewing the property but had not yet decided on where, what and how. The 'what' bit we have sort of picked away at since before moving here. Discussed over coffee or beer (but not both) we have gone over ideas that have come about from years of using various homemade showers and dealing with a variety of toilets. Fascinating stuff. The 'where' bit sort of just fell in place once the cabin was up in its new location. Its on a slope backed with bush which is ideal for what we envisaged. Situated halfway between the cabin and the back of the shed its in a handy location for us and the cabin and its private with lovely views. The 'how' bit is just evolving as we build. Its an elevated building over composting toilet system. For now its the well proven batch type setup with wheelie bins. Rotated as they fill with a minimum of 1 year composting in the bins before going into a seperate compost area up off the driveway for another 6 months. Then the compost can be used in places like the fruit orchard and areas we are building the native bush back up. From all the reading we have done this is total overkill as far as dealing to any pathogens but hey. No harm there. Its going to be awesome having a decent setup that has a minimum amount of moving shit about, he he, and not have to pay or worry about involving outside services like septic systems. In the future Id like to build our own 'Clivus multrum' style system, a setup that uses a sloped bottom vessel and is continuous in operation. You can buy 1 m3 capacity units made in plastic if you have a spare $4000...which is an absurd price considering our 25000 litre tank cost $2600. I'll use stainless steel to make the structure. But that still involves more pingas and time which we dont have- the latter due to the longdrop filling fast. The grey water will be treated using a reed bed system. This is pretty easy espicially on our type of land because of the clay below. The water will only go down so far and then move along. Moving water through soil is the quickest way of treating it. It does not take many meters before any nasties are dealt to. First off we dug out the bank. This did take quite a while. I had to take breaks and sit down to sip at beer while looking at the mountains. We would take turns at this after Hannah saw how nice that looked. Eventually a large 'void'? was created and funny enough a hill appeared somewhere else. Much of this hill appeared next to the graden because there's some very lush dirt with some mighty fine looking well fed worms in it. Kevin just watched or chased clods down the slope. We also had this fella stroll out of the dirt where we had sadly destroyed his underground lair. What a huge bugger he (or she) is. I released him later further up in the bush but not until Id worked out what brand he was.. Turns out he's of the 'Stanwellia' species- related to trapdoor spiders and quite rarely seen as usually underground. His burrow was massive and we had sliced right through it with the spade. See here for another one.. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11307026 Then we planted four H5 treated poles set well down into the granity clay below. A thick plastic groundsheet runs up past the decking and right up the walls sealing in the treated plywood clad basement. The decking is insulated below with 40 mm thick insulation and the inside has reflective foil insulation. We want to create a heat trap to keep the interior as hot as possible so promoting a decent heat in the compost. Inbetween building we cleared out the bush around that area. When intially clearing the land last year of gorse we worked up to the bush edge and only so far in. We had left the gorse hiding within because its dying back anyway. But this area was still pretty bad so a few hours and we not only had a lovely little spot but yet heaps more firewood. Some of the old gorse was huge! So much more light into that area and on the bathroom. The pile on the left is gorse from just that little area. Above this we've built a nice solid little bathroom that measures 4 m2. It'll contain sssb - the shitter, a shower, a sink and a bench. Then we built steps using some more of the telephone poles. Its quite high up and we have to allow for our olds etc when they visit so easy to climb steps they had to be. Must build a rail soon because man I'd hate to go trippin off that ledge... We have made a little track through the bush and once tidied up will be a sweet way to walk to the bathroom from the truck. The steps come right down to this track. We picked through our pile of Rimu, picked out some possibly nice bits- possibly because you really cant tell until it goes through the planer. These became window and door frames plus some rafters. When the main shed was delivered the piles of sheets were protected some extra packing sheets in a dark grey colour. There were just enough of them to clad the roof with a decent overhang. Sweet! We still have a little left over for another wood shed too My old boss gave us a whole heap of wood leftover from his house build. All Cedar, Macrocarpa and some Douglas fir. Ideal timbers for building things with! So the Douglas fir we ripped down and planed then made doors with. They are barn style doors and Hannah has oiled them. They look nice. Photos later of them completed but heres a action shot.. Hannah painted the outside of the window frames with paint left over from the housetruck. Then I scored 4 litres of 'mist green' paint from nelson house parts. Its the same colour as the water tank and similar too the main shed. It should help the building blend into the bush nicely. I have a neat idea on an overlay method using random wood to break up what will other wise look like a tall painted ply building. I think it will work well. We will see. Here is the building so far with the primer coat on...

I'm basically keen as fuck for this. Can I do skidz outside everybody's shed?

Just looked at the ram at pram, pramram. Looks very tidy, sign reads "$23500 ONO,1995 Dodge Ram, 5.9 v8, auto, overdrive and hard lid for rear tray. Ph 02108657303

Small amount of suspension re engineering

wider guards

Pump ze guardz

With your millions of HP you may as well get some sweet wheels made in perfect width and offset.

Haha how about a left hand drive one to match your bus?

haha there is no way they would fit on my kombie anyway..... just dreaming of owning a bug one day lol

If the weather is nice the Firebird will be out and I have a couple of spare seats. Wet weather and the Silverado will be there, it has 4 spares seats. Passengers must like V8 noises and loud rock music. Mike

So I've been back at work this week so I havn't got much done but her's what I've been up to I metal finished out a couple dents on the first door I was working on, havn't done this in a long time, picked it back up quite quickly and was pretty happy with how quickly I removed the dents. Unfortunantly this doesn't make a good photo. Small Rust repair Hard to know what happened here but it looked like someone actually stabed those holes in the door, the rest of the door was pretty rust free and the door was dented in a filled over where those two holes were... I went pretty Mad Max here, fitted the new drive belt pulleys and belt. Like everything on a old car it couldn't just bolt straight on. The pulley for the water pump was to tight to fit over the water pump four mounting holes so I had to grind a little off the water pump, then the center hole wouldn't fit over the thread in the center, luckily that thread is apparntly not doing anything on a escort because the pulley and the fan use the four bolt holes to mount on so the center thread is fine missing half the thread depth. Both of these were very quick fixes but the main pulley wouldn't fit onto the crank, It was soooo close but just too tight, I spent quite a while playing around with it try to make it work I ended up sanding the inside the the pulley but I was a bit of a nancy trying not to over sand it and try to sand evenly so I spent far to long doing this.

Bro google maps on a phone is the best shit these days, take it back. Get a flagship phone that's fast and has a snappy gps and you'll be away, just buy a sim for data whe you're there. They announced google maps will release a offline version at some stage which will be dope!

Things are snug

Build Thread Wow, you are really going all out and doing a proper job. It must be strange for you doing actual old school panel beating. Your boss must be a GC, letting you do this at work.

if the spring on the carb is strong enough to return it to shut by itself (including the cable/pedal/all the linkages), then i would say it only needs one more alternatively, get 2x weaker springs

they look wide. and not to ugly. average joe wont notice the difference.

Dunno, youll have to read through.... http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,17263.0.html Guy is talented/crazy/workaholic....

is that going to be wearing stock guards?

might miss my sleeper goal

far out. 63mm is a lot when you dont have much to start with! cut guards down the middle and add more metal to them?

Just put a 36-1 on the crank and use a hall effect sensor, seriously don't bother with a vr sensor. Fitting a trigger wheel to a crank pulley is pretty easy if you are smart about it/ your engine manufacturer didn't cheap out on materials haha

It can be arranged. Also, certs only going to be used as a bargaining tool for when i get pulled up as i will be lower/wider/have less tyre then the law states i should have. But having one is 100% worth it imo.

Oh and I have a 3 mobile SIM card that is super legit and it treats all of Europe as one so you get no extra charges.

Now I'm living in Denmark I am doing basically exactly what Spence said. I use Google on my phone, it is a bit of a bitch on the motorbike because Google maps uses GPS, cell tower, plus internet information to get super accurate data on traffic and road works and lights and shit so it whores the battery pretty bad, but a car it isn't a problem as you can just charge it. But yea Google maps is definitely the answer.

Nice car Eddie. I'm glad you washed it.

although upon saying that, having one vw is enough to drive me insane lol

and this is why the bearing shat itself......... cable to short... had pressure on the bearing 24/7 never had hope for it from word go.

Tricked off a couple of boxes last night... .....and found some news ones, Doh. The bigger tires are just touching the rear drum brake arm. Should be an easy fix, doesnt need alot of clearance. Cut up the new gear lever, and welded on the old arm. Now clamps tight on the shaft, [insert jokes about mothers and or teen daughters here] Finally re welded the foot pegs, after fucking them up and having them fold up the wrong way, [face palm] Good job Noticed while its been sitting on this box, as i keep adding parts the bikes got more and more balanced Dont real know if that mean dick, but yeah, cool story Mums (real mum) over from Ozzie next week, Ive taken a week off work, might try and lower the front end if I get a day where we arn't doing anything. that is all.

new rear brakes vs old

So its been a while since I've updated anything but I'll just keep it simple. Got the head in with the new cams and ECU, all tuned 96Kw and 150nm at the fly which is pretty dam good! So I had my first competition and first test day with the new engine setup. Stewy Bryant and Shane Van Gisbergen were competing too which made it more interesting. Managed to get used to it pretty quick and come away with second in NA and Turbo class! https://youtu.be/wredLvh9Ip4 The next day was just a fun day with more great drivers and some good tandems https://youtu.be/foyuni7BGjE Here's a couple of videos from the outside too https://youtu.be/oQ8jwu25xnQ https://www.facebook.com/obliquemedia/videos/631978156942617/?pnref=story

I also found with my Tomtom that the maps are so freaken out of date, even the latest maps are missing heaps of roads. It doesn't even have my mate's road in gissi and their house was built about 5 years ago. Not to mention mine only had the 3 month map update garauntee and no updates till just after that magic 3 months lapsed and then they wanted me to pay over $100 to update it. So my advice is get a unit that has free lifetime map updates (most Navmans do now) and use google maps to find all the cool shit, grab the address, and just punch that into your gps if you want to use one. I only use it on long trips now otherwise it's google maps erryday.

Amazing sticker on the back! All snug ready for a night under a cover

so this happened again so found a new "high performance" one to go in also it looked like the trans to hanger bearing angle was a bit off and probably not helping (not sure why when the engine is sitting slightly lower? as that should put it off the other way) so put in a new trans mount (old one was oil soaked and soft) and still looked off so cut and it shut it to add 10mm which also gets the back of the head some firewall clearance rather than the bees dick that it had. also got some new shoes 225/50/14 R888s mostly because they were the only cert legal tyre I could find to fit a 14x8 that was not a giant balloon/too tall

Update please!

Not a heap going on worth taking photos, so havent been updating this. Mainly been working on the tank, whole lota Weld grind weld grind weld blow hole weld grind, that'll do, then tank sealing But all done now, just waiting on it to harden. 96 hours cure time. CAM00423 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr Drying tank completely before tank sealer goes in, wife loved coming home to this shit! Laura "Yay your baking" Me "When the fuck do I even bake?" open oven, and pull out fuel tank Laura face = Anyway Had been into Boyles all lastweek trying to get the last few pieces of the puzzle. CAM00437 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr New 520 O-ring chain, CAM00436 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr New front sprocket, which was the last piece for the drive line, and probably the purchase Im most happy about with the whole build so far CAM00428 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr Brand new YSS rear shocks CAM00429 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr Got such a good deal from Boyles Kawasaki. $550 odd RRP, I got them for WELL below half price. CAM00431 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr Have turned out to be a sweet hook up. There colour combo is a spot on balance with the front end. Black, brushed alley and chrome all tie in with the front end and the whole colour shceme in genral CAM00433 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr Stocked! CAM00434 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr and the best part is that there ment for a Harley (no offence to the Harley boys) so now ive got GN250 and Harley parts on this bike. Living the dream! Just need a cam-am to complete the picture. CAM00439 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr CAM00441 by Hayden Rowe, on Flickr Next up, wait for tank to do its thing, then hand over to Mathers for bog life/ then paint seat order Muffler cut chain to size and fit etc etc etc Cheers Hay-hole

After 6 months this car is now mobile again! Thanks Dad (mo999) for the help this weekend. We put in my old crank, new bearings and mated it to the unknown condition Mini gearbox from Zerbra (which seems to have most of it's syncros but goes well, very quiet). It's running good! Oil pressure is normal for British car. Gearing is a little taller so better at speed. Speedometer is only out by 5km too. Very happy. Even still has a WOF. Will be at the next Auckland monthly meet with it. Although I've noticed the exhaust has been pushed up and the pipe twisted (maybe happened on the tow truck?) so it broke the rear mount and is now hitting the floor. Need to get it on some ramps or a hoist and shove it back into place with a new mount. IMG_4317-Edit by GuyWithAviators, on Flickr Discuss here.

so it's all done, bar some tidying up... have taken it for a proper drive this morning, and probably barely used more the 1/8th throttle, it feels fast... pretty pleased

so in a little more detail... currently has screamer pipe, might be legal this far back? also has muffler, but I also have a dump pipe to replace this with when going to the track has fuel pressure reg and guage in the crappiest place ever - but kind of works has a wide drop sump, total oil capacity is about 6l now, also provides a handy return point for post turbo oil also has a proper oil filter, first time I have had one of these on a vw it also has one of these bolted underneath...