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Well the bikes are nearly finished now which is good because im flying down to chch next Monday to start the ride! The top coat color has also been sprayed on all the parts. One of the last jobs that had to be done was to make the handlebars. I originally thought i was going to have to find someone with a tube bender and mandrels suitable for the job but i managed to find some 2.5mm wall hydraulic tube and this bent very easily without wanting to collapse at all. The handle bars are bent with a hump in them to clear your legs at the top of the peddle stroke. There is a piece of threaded rod welded into one end for the bars to screw into the head assembly Starting the bend With a little bit of heat on the outside of the bend the tube just pulled around And bending the other side to match (the hard part!) I got the bars and all the fasteners nickel plated, i did all the polishing myself to save time and cost at the platers. I can highly recommend Electroless Coating Systems Glenfield for any nickle plating you want done, top service and they do a very good job. I also did the grips, for those i raided my dads file draw, i was lucky i found 2 with exactly the same wooden handles After trimming a bit of each end a putting a 5/8 hole up the middle and giving them a good sand they looked like this And stuck onto the bars, they are still wet with the first coat of sealer, there are a couple coats of varnish to go on yet. All going to plan final assembly of both bikes should be tomorrow night

cheers to archetype

Bummer, that's interesting that it's pretty common. What happens on Altezzas when it happens, do they throw a check light and/or go into some kind of limp mode? I have been having a complete nightmare of a time with tuning lately, so far over half of the cars I've tuned in recent months have had fuel delivery issues and I am getting over it. Two Skylines, one with Trademe "brand new flowtested high flow injectors" and one with an engine from another car - both with lean misses at idle with reasonable rich measured AFRs, check plugs and things seem off. I bailed on both tunes, both guys understandably unhappy and it's a hard call being a non-professional/mate doing it for the love of it and saying "I'm pretty sure this thing which shouldn't happen is happening but honestly I know what I'm doing k?" - one of them sent his injectors to get flow tested and cleaned and semi-frustratingly the company testing them stopped before doing the full set because apparently they were all over the show but we didn't get a full set of data because they just decided to clean them and say they were all good. Oh yeah, one of these Skylines it was my second attempt on the dyno at as the previous attempt was aborted due to the old fuel pump not keeping up. A WRX that someone played around with a split fuel rail setup did basically the same symptoms, both running stock FPRs but one had a kink in the return line causing a creeping fuel pressure on one bank. All sounds like it wasn't stressful when I announce what the issue is, it's not fun when you have f-all time to get the car tuned and ready for an event and at the time you are trying to tune it you don't know that's what is going on, but you need to know and obvious end up working it out. Another Skyline which I have been helping for ages now and have systematically found ALL the problems you could think of with it, none engine related (yet? :/) due to shit parts and dodgy workmanship. Most recently it seemed like everything was finally sorted so did a check over, set base pressure to 45psi and did a road tune on it to make sure it was driveable and all systems seemed go - was happy with that so set aside another session to get it dialled in with a soft road tune at full boost to make sure everything looked good to book a dyno and get the damn thing out of my hair. Yesterday was the follow up session, was excited that it was going to be it - hooked up the laptop and didn't really do a full check over because the car supposedly hadn't been touched since last time I was there.... car hard started then idled lean and the more I looked into it the clearer it was that the whole map was out of whack in a lean sense. WTF? Checked the fuel pressure, it was ~6psi lower than the last time I was there - apparently nothing had been touched, everything seemed tight. WTF. Trademe-spec FPR, not sure what the cause is but threw my toys politely and have left him to work out why it's changed or replace everything or maybe gtfo and find a professional who gets paid good money for this kind of thing. THEN a Silvia (flex-fuel, yay!) which I have done tuning duties for from the point it was put together in 2011 and I had recently been happily celebrating the fact it has been running reliably for several years on a stock motor and probably one of the first (if not the first?) aftermarket flexfuel cars in NZ and it's been so long since I've touched the fuel tables etc that I hardly remember how they all look - decided to set up closed loop boost control to experiment with as I've never bothered with it before and we thought there could be some benefit, he took it out for a thrash with my changes and the boost control experiment seemed to work but the thing was running ~13.4:1 at WOT. Wtf???? Checked the logs, injector duty cycle was where it should be for the boost, rpm and ethanol content - something mechanical has changed. Great. Checked base pressure, that was also where it should be. Greeeeeat. He pulled a bunch of stuff apart and checked over things and everything seemed fine, replaced fuel filter etc then took it for a test run and still lean. Grrr. Decided to replace the vacuum hose to the FPR just because with all other things eliminated the symptoms pointed to fuel pressure but we had no means of checking it on boost at this stage, took it for another run and BOOM! all is mint again, though there was no obvious signs on the piece of hose that there should be an issue. Apologies for the rant, but bloody hell...wtf have I done to ask for this? People, don't skimp on fuel system parts. Buy "genuine" injectors and ideally make sure they all flow evenly, same goes for good fuel pressure regs, use suitable hoses and whatever else you have involved in fuel transportation, if you can get a fuel pressure sensor and wire it into your ECU for logging/warning lights, and make sure the fuel system you have chosen is suited to the application. If there is ANYTHING you spend the money on with a build you want to not have problems with, get the fuel system sorted. <deep breath> Hope everything is going a bit better with everyone else!

handbrake mount in line lock mount in made a surround for the gearlever battery tray fabricated and welded in seats in , back on the trailer to go home

So close I can almost taste the victory. First order of business: take a photo of the new front bumper support to prove it's on the car (and for future reference if compliance comes knocking). The weird flecks are a combination of rustkill and Brunox. Then reassemble the entire front end in the reverse order of disassembly. Carefully. Wash off a heap of accumulated dust and grime, then make the most of the afternoon sun. Much better! Discuss: http://oldschool.co....1-sc-chit-chat/

Hi All, Have been a member of the forums for a while but haven't contributed a lot. Went along to the monthly meet in Ellerslie last week for the first time and met the Escort brigade in the pub. Someone suggested I should post to introduce myself and my car so here goes. I bought a 1064 Mk1 Cortina GT in 2011 which looked like this at the time. Turned out the engine needed a bit of work so I decided to go for a YB engine. It has taken a lot longer than I had hoped but the car is now not far from being complete. Fingers crossed it may be on the road by the October monthly meet. Will post some more pics when I work out how to resize them... Cheers Nick Discussion- //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/50272-sods-64-cortina-cosworth/

Finally got this down to a track day. Wasn't many cars so had heaps of track time, car felt pretty good but definitely needs some improvements. Next on the list is knuckles to try sort out the odd steering, and a bucket seat so I dont have to fight to stay in the seat.

Have seen this in person, its one of the coolest cars ive seen in a while.

Cheers for everyone's suggestions and advice ! I was in my engine bay of the van during a Photoshoot for some workshop apparel and I had a 1/2" socket just checking bolts while my mate snapped photos and I put the socket onto the positive cable that goes onto the starter solenoid and it was loose so tightened it up. The shoot went late and forgot to test the van to see if it fixed then RWB & Jamie rolled around to have a look at for me and I put key in and it started on first turn hahahaha . So will give everything a once over with the spanners and should be ok . Cheers guys

Oops…….. Rigamortice and I had a few medicinal bourbons in the man cave last night and accidently bought these. Some say… the sound of 3 dual choke DCOE Weber’s is better than sex……….. (Gawd, the Trademe addiction strike again; here’s hoping Mrs sr2 isn’t following this thread or looking too closely at the bank statements!).

If you go DE you might find it easier finding manifolds etc Might even find a full second hand set up ready to go for 25de for not to much. I'm unsure what's involved in a +D conversion but I'm sure it's not hard to find info I'm also unsure of Nissan RWD Gboxs but it might be something to look into if a cam and snail could possibly double your power output

passengers side is getting pretty close now. there was a bit of mismatch between the panels so i had to put a bit of filler in to get the panels flush. wasn't much but it will make it look millions better. got a few things to do this week so it'll probably be the weekend before i can paint it all. then its onto the front and rear scuttle and starting to think about putting some colour into the shuts and engine bay. peter is going to do the roof week after next so its getting pretty close now. 2015-09-29_08-06-30 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-29_08-05-42 by sheepers, on Flickr

Guy in birch and does steelies wheel tech or something and they do

business at both ends for this hussy, oowee

I just came in to make that joke, snaked.

wooot 80 SKID time

In the event of a crash were parts of the body need to be cut out and replaced, how much of the body can be cut and replaced before its considered to be another car. Or during a full restoration of a classic car how much of the original car needs to be kept to keep it original. Example, I have a very rusty but original Mazda RX3. It needs new floors, quarter panels, roof, doors, bonnet, guards and chassis rails. The only part that's ok is the firewall with the chassis number attached. (along with interior and most of the running gear) Is it legal to replace all the panels as above and only retain the firewall as the only original part of the car ? If it is legal then it must be legal to swap the firewall into another shell. Although that doesn't sound quite right or legal. Anyone with experience in this ? (I don't have an rx3 just using it as an example)

would this help him ? sell engine, keep bell and box http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/ford/engines/auction-955510924.htm

Repping the 90's yo

Yep still keen as, hoping the date will tie in with me not having all the kids - this will determine my cruising abilities afterward. Shed is clean & organised, lots of junk to look at/fondle..

Can you paint this canary yellow on silver steels, and make it go zutututu, kthxbai.

Today, was a good day. To summarise. No barking from the dog. IMG_2329 by Richard Opie, on Flickr No smog. IMG_2343 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Bex cooked a breakfast featuring zero bacon. IMG_2378 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Went to $hort Dog's house, they was watching Yo MTV Raps. IMG_2392 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Rolled a seven, seven-eleven, seven-eleven and picked up the subsequent cash flow. IMG_2429 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Took another sip of the potion and hit the four-trumpet motion. IMG_2487 by Richard Opie, on Flickr No helicopter looking for murder, purchased fat burger at around 2am. IMG_2482 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Today I didn't even have to use my AK - instead we installed a four-age. IMG_2463 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

New lower crossmember has been fabbed from scratch, welded into place, and liberally coated with underseal/rustkill/Brunox. Parts of the front have also been tidied up with a lick of paint. The certifier visited this morning to complete his final inspection of the crossmember repair; but in typical tradesman fashion he won't be back until tomorrow to write up the actual paperwork for it The new front bumper supports also arrived courtesy of our man Mark at Manawatu Toyota. One of them will be affixed to the vehicle, and the other one goes into storage because you never know when it'll come in handy, right? Then I have to pull flnger this weekend to re-assemble the front, and the car will head back to compliance early next week... for what one hopes will be the last time. It ain't over until it's over! Dat TGP sticker. This one's in slightly better condition than the one which came off the car! Discuss: http://oldschool.co....1-sc-chit-chat/

Well, the bug bit again. I guess you could also call this thread "I lost my marbles and imported another shitty old car from Japan! Ask me (almost) anything!" Originally I wasn't planning on buying another AW11 for a couple of years... if at all. After owning five of them over the course of the last ten years and getting sick of repairing botch jobs on hacked-up local examples I firmly told myself not to bother anymore unless it was a truly tidy one, which meant most likely having to import one from Japan. Then a series of fortunate events including a career change, the sale of my Mazdaspeed Axela to a family member earlier this year (which freed up garage space and capital), and a strong dollar to yen ratio at the time all led me to engage Ewan from Stacked to check out a few nice looking AW11s on my behalf. Yeah, I'll admit that six months after selling my last AW11 the itch inevitably came back, so I'd been keeping a surreptitious eye on the car sites over in Japan for the last year to see what the market was like! After a few hits and misses I settled on a midnight blue hardtop from a yard near Tokyo called Marumi Auto which had low kms, very little rust, one careful owner, and had been quite well looked after. It wasn't cheap, and blue was never my first choice of colour (I was angling for either a Sherwood tone, white/grey, or white/gold example this time), but for the price nothing in NZ came close in terms of quality and condition, and after owning my last one the colour eventually grew on me. By some stroke of luck, this particular one had been specced with the much more aesthetically pleasing black interior instead of the default eye-watering blue that 99% of the midnight blue cars had! It arrived at Stacked's yard in Osaka around mid-May, having made its way across the country from Tokyo on a transporter, and Ewan made arrangements to load it on a RORO carrier departing in late May. Around the end of June the export certificate and some other documentation arrived, followed by a notification from Stacked's NZ based customs brokers in Tauranga that the car would be arriving on 11th July. The AW11 then spent the next week and a half on the wharf while Customs, MPI, MAF, and Land Transport NZ all poked around and carried out their various inspections in the name of bureaucracy. I was heartened by the fact that during the border check the car wasn't flagged for rust issues nor underbody damage! Then, finally, once all the Is were dotted, Ts crossed, and palms greased in the form of invoices paid, the car left the wharf on a transporter headed to North Shore Compliance and spent a few days there before I drove it a short distance up the road to the panelbeater where it now currently sits, and will undergo further inspection to pass a Repair Cert. Compliance revealed that the left rear quarter had been subject to a minor impact in the past (20 years ago or thereabouts), and because you could still buy replacement TGP panels at the time the entire section had simply been replaced. There are no marks to indicate the chassis had to undergo straightening, there isn't any cancer creeping in around the seams, and all the spot welds look good - but there are a couple of areas where surface rust has started bubbling (the join around the left hand tail light, for example) that will need to be cleaned up once the repair certifier completes his check. I've had very limited time to spend foaming over the car because of other commitments, so it was a nice surprise today to discover that it already sports a set of incredibly rare TRD lowering springs. I'd bid on some in Japan as the car was making its way over here and just barely lost the auction, so had been feeling a bit despondent about ever finding another set. So where to from here? I'm not all that interested in making the AW11 stupidly fast, but will eventually perform a few judicious tasks such as sprucing up the suspension further, now that I know it has TRD springs (some good Bilstein struts and a rear swaybar would be nice), adding a LSD, fitting a set of extractors I did manage to win ex-Japan, transplanting a few bolt-on bits I'd hung onto after selling the first '80S KID, and tidying up all of the little interior and exterior blemishes I come across. May even pull my Buddyclub P-1s out of storage, paint them a nice shade of bronze, and fit them to the car, and also hit up Yahoo Japan for any oddball accessories such as driving lights and roofracks that might pop up. Still undecided whether I want to go for a full period-1980s look similar to what I'm planning to do with squid (my Skyline sedan) but overall I'm hoping for a nice "clean-slate" build - not concourse spec but tastefully tidy and done up without a hundred things wrong or fucked with! Stay tuned for more. Discuss: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/49412-80s-kid-part-ii-eds-aw11-sc-chit-chat/

haha ohwell. ive realised i can use it for the heater hose aswell so thats not so bad and it was only $9.99

Pitty you didn't ask about the waterpump bypass hose, $4 at repco for the real part!

^ Ive done soo many holes , Im just on auto pilot now

Handbrake and locking system test fit

Bumping for next Wednesday night. Seems to have come up super quick too, come out for a burger and enjoy the extended hours of daylight

Gid jerb ed. Well done persevering with the system. Now time for doorts

Nice. That blue is unreal.

I'm excited.

Congratulations

That hurts to ponder. I reckon the physical swapping of firewall would be the same (in essence) between legal and illegal options. The only difference be how much you BS the paperwork.

Fantastic work man. Love it!

Where do you find the time to drill so many holes!!

alright iv been really busy/lazy lately, so havnt made much progress started welding the roof back together thats about it. Anyway heres the bike, A vtwin 250 Honda. I think it should be enough to cruise around in and at nearly 14,000rpm to find limtier it should sound pretty cool. a Also Had a party and thought it should get a load test, It passed.

Low vs High.

Sorry guys - yes Sunday was the intention... Facebook doing screwy things via my phone. Set it up from 11:00 to 1:00pm... but is showing from 10:00?? Anyway, the day is fixed. This catch up is informal just to check interest - if we get plenty of cars coming along then maybe something more structured can be put together next time.

Its because of the spin of the earth and magnets etc. ABOVE the equator these rust out the right front door first.

time for some of this soon. that sprocket then got the grinder treatment to get the teeth down to width, shit was way too hard to turn and i was too impatient to anneal it etc. clutch mounted-ish, shifter and neutral selector thingy whatsit in place. starting from the motor and grouping everything as close as possible together has pretty much meant everything was too close and needed notching, hammering, cut off and moving, all over the show. riding position wont be any different, will have to go around one knee to operate gears which, as per velobike stz, arent on the bars /cable too short so it goes there

Hi Mate, absolutely love your work on the EX, such a thing of beauty! Im looking for some tips and information with my build. Basically i have a 82 Sigma 2ltr manual and a RVR turbo manual. Im wondering about things like what you get the front facing intake manifold off, what flywheel you are talking about (7bolt)? and where they come from. does the RVR rear lsd fit in a sigma housing? and other bugs/trouble i may run into doing this conversion, and the bits i need to buy/make before i rip my cars apart because atm they are both wof'd and reg'd and in use. Cheers and keep up the fantastic work!

Decided to try and find out where this annoying rattle sound was coming from in the engine bay. At first I thought it was the water pump but was actually the tensioner bearing. So I replaced them both, along with a new cambelt. Also installed a thermostat as it didnt have one and the gauge struggled to move without one. All was going well driving this car daily till about a month ago. It developed (what I thought at the time) a strange miss The car would run fine and drive in a 50kmh zone ok. When I hit the motorway it would cut out, jerk and run like balls. Young Bigfoot came to my aide one night on SH1. So, I decided to replace items in the ignition system. I replaced the coil, dizzy cap, rotor, condensor, points, leads and spark plugs all with new items. Unfortunately this didnt fix it. I described the symptoms to my father and informed that the issue is fuel related. Carb off for a clean Tank out for a clean New (old) fuel filter from Dads parts stock Went to replace the fuel pump and as I removed the pump I found the spring that normally sits behind the lever arm sitting out of place Its fitted with a rare 2 piece spring Acquired a new fuel pump and installed it Drove it home for the first time since cleaning out the fuel system and it drives like a champ again! Happy days

Progress, I should really charge my proper camera instead of using phone photos.

Convertible????????

Managed to score a cluster with a tacho. Extremely useful for the big RPMs this car can hit! So, out with the old.... ...and in with the old. Also found a front bumper thats a bit straighter Ive got my eyes on an injected 4G15. Im just waiting for the guy to drop his pants on the price and ill grab it. This was meant to be my daily, its now turning into another project. Story of our lives!

Still havent driven this thing home yet. Its been sitting at work waiting for a replacement radiator. The previous owner said that the radiator leaks and that it has a blown head gasket (after money was exchanged ) They did include a head set..... When I picked it up from the car haulage company and drove it to work it was puking coolant. The state of the radiator was toast. Luckily someone was selling a MkI Mirage radiator on Trademe so I scored it, received it and installed it. In the hole I dont think it has a BHG as it struggles to get hot (no thermostat tho) The water that came out wasnt oily. It does need a new water pump (noisy).

With last Saturdays gymkhana coming up with the CJC guys, A few of the boys (Cam, Chris, Ned, Ed and Richy) and I stuck in a couple of long nights and got it fired up on the Thursday night. Pieced the rest of it together on the friday night and took it for its first drive. WHAT A DIFFERENCE THAT FLYWHEEL MAKES!!! So we made it to the Khana no problems and everything went well. Well everything we changed did anyway. So next on the list is the bunch of things that went wrong on the day but thats all 15min jobs like the fan belt and speedo cable I have to install these aswell