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Here's it's mate in the shed...gzg50 1GZFE V12

When I was a kid in perhaps the mid/late 80s, my brother and I were playing on the beach building dams in a little stream. By and by, my great uncle came driving down the beach (the only way to access his bach house) in his Rover SD1 V8. He saw someone he knew, so he stopped the car down in the path of our dam and got out to chat. I couldn't believe the opportunity for mischief that this presented! We quickly scrambled to break the dam and direct the water around the wheels of great uncle's SD1. The car got stuck in the sand and blew a radiator hose, sending clouds of steam everywhere. I bet he was pleased, being 50m from his house and far from civilisation... I suspect he put a curse on me, that I would one day buy a Rover SD1 and it would be rubbish and burst its radiator hoses and lose me a lot of money.. This great uncle, who had reached his late 90s, died just the other day. The curse must have lifted with his passing, because eerily around the same time, a madman contacted me interested in buying my SD1. I know he's mad because he has owned a full twenty of the cars in my buyers guide "LEMON: 60 Heroic Failures of Motoring".... This car is now SOLD to Zebra Dude.

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Great move, Ben. So sad to hear, Ben. You, dear reader can make that statement fit your preferred party in this torrid tale of SD1 passion/loathing.

Ben - do this..

^This. It has an epic snarl for something so close to death! Must be from burning ALL of the petrols, some of the oil and some of the coolant in its perfectly imperfect furnace of suffering.... This would also explain the smoke it makes. You guys were brave to give it the beans on its longest trip in a year or two (though this was probably necessary just to keep up with your Triumph). I'm glad you made it home! You mean Roverheated? And that's because it knows it's home! All I have left of it now are my memories, the Roverspeed warning device and this cheese board. Edit: Oh, and an oil stain on my garage floor.. And on my lawn, just yesterday blanketed in the darkness of the evil Rover, once again there grows a single flower.

haha, dont worry sam, all signs are pointing to wipeouts already. took it for a test at the velodrome carpark yesterday, as usual a lot of time pulling carb apart and then trying to find all the bits on the ground. reminds me of summer haha. first impressions - sheit, might need to put gearshift on the handlebars, it's about as wheelie-happy as it looks. motor seems ok, a bit spluttery in places. too rich with the filter on, see new airbox design exhaust is loud and splattery, tick standard clutch tests have resulted in spinning the hub axle/mincing gear change cable so that needs sorting out. it somehow also threw and jammed up the rear chain at the same time, sparks and all. for gearing comparison, the carpark was a 1st gear affair on the villiers, flymo was happy tootling around in 3rd.

This is getting picked up in less than 2 weeks..... I have been stupidly distracted while i should be doing uni assignments with sourcing bits.... Am still after a steel front grill and a pair of front struts to cut up and make coilovers Quick procrastination shop for thread

Oh God what have I done!!!!!!! Change Thread to my name? Horror in store

The original machine is now in the shed and operating. much coffee happiness this morning.

This car has a glorious engine note above 4500rpm. I was sitting in the passenger seat as Ben repeatedly gave it plenty of welly on the motorway heading home, leaving a blnding trail of smoke behind him.

Managed to get the ol Bug into the booth on the weekend. Came up pretty sweet and I only put one run in.. I'll cut that off and it'll buff out sweet as apparently.. Started chucking some stuff back in tonight, just taillights and loom stuff. Will hopefully get the brakes and a few other things sorted this week and then slot the motor and box in on the weekend. Then do some skiddies. Cool

LSD1 plz

Not a lot has been happening on the Trump recently (probably a good sign). All I have done is replaced the rear hand brake cable as the last one had stretched, the Triumph can now be left on hills unsupervised. Unrelated, a couple of photos of GreenTC and VKZAC out in Maraetai.

Not very much has happened recently, but now hopefully back into it. Most of that time was spent trying to figure out how to clamp the chassis down so it is all straight before welding on the boxing plates. Decided to make some trestle like things that are bolted to the floor, then put some spacers in between them and the chassis to get it all level. Chassis is then welded to the trestles to hold it in place. Managed to get most of it within 0.1 of a degree. So I'm hoping it comes out quite good. (Probably better than it was from factory anyway) Will bring the boxing right up to the front crossmember, just need to do some cutting to get the plates fitting. Thinking we might need to close-tack it all together, then fully weld the top and at least tack the new crossmembers in, so it can then be flipped to weld underneath of the boxing. That should then hold it all together without twisting too much, I hope.

Lock before and after Have had issues with rear brakes binding, thinking it was possibly due to piston over extending due to pads being so low so put some new ones in s13 top hats fit with a slight file to the holes, camber is sitting around 6 degrees front, 5 degrees rear awaiting throttle cable

cleaned the car out and took the sunroof out. somehow the sunroof glass got broken and the rest of it got fucking mangled so the cunt of a thing can never ruin another car. 2015-10-11_12-08-19 by sheepers, on Flickr so now its onto the roof. I've got to get a couple of patches fixed before Peter can do the sunroof. this is what it looks like now. 2015-10-11_01-08-37 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-11_01-08-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-11_01-08-45 by sheepers, on Flickr this picture gives a good indication of just how ripply the roof is. how the fuck they managed to fuck it that bad i have no idea but Peter sees no problem in fixing it. oh, and he's going to make some new gutters for it too because they've been hacked off. 2015-10-11_01-08-55 by sheepers, on Flickr

Engine bay blasted and zinc primed.

The Rover blew a small hole in an old cooling system hose, making a mess as all the pressure in the cooling system sprayed radiator stop-leak everywhere. So I went to Pick-a-part and got a Falcon hose to chop up to mend poor Rovie. By now, the cooling system is so pressure-tight that I'm concerned something very inconvenient could happen, such as an explosive heater core rupture. Time to put a bullet in the big six. Ideally at this stage I would find a cheap V8 manual SD1 for sale with the body beyond saving.

I cant stop looking at it on the drive, I love it. It has already laid waste to my crisp clean concrete.

Small update, have the prototype of the remote working. Throttle is black knob, down is off, to left is idle and turn it clockwise for full power, also a mode switch (yellow) and power switch. Easy start, just turn it on, throttle to min, then up to max for a second and back to min and it begins the auto-start process, to turn it off you just rotate the throttle knob to zero, much easier than trying to hold an RC remote or using the Ground Support Unit. I'll get some nice stickers made up at some stage. Got another lot of stainless with nice pre-formed bends and it's ready to start being built.

I used to have a v8 sd1 was lush as with twin 2.5" pipes into a single 3 chamber flowmaster dumping at the diff she sounded like a big block was moderately good on gas and could pull a half decent burnout. What it couldn't do was hold its spider gears in. 2 diffs in i sold it broken. Fit an ls1 and a decent diff you'll be in heaven just dont ever fall asleep in one the giant rear window will dehydrate you like a piece of fruit.

Cripes, you don't half ask for much. You're lucky I'm such a nice chap.

That is amazing. I will have to change the engine, I love the car, I hate,hate,hate,hate 6cyl Rover motors, they are the scum of the universe. Expect big things Can we have a name change here too

Oh Lee, so sad to see a veteran Wagooneers member flying the coop. lucky you've got such a lush replacement wagnats wont be the same. spotted by a workmate, headed south on a transporter through Dubtown. 'saw this bloody falcon wagon with one of those oldschool stickers on it. numberplate said cooon jees he's takin a gamble with that one aint he' Jeah

Nice work with the start up/idle stuff, can be some of the bigger headf*cks when tuning at times It's strangely rewarding tuning something that just runs and drives like a normal car, haha. Yay after this rant I ended up tuning a mate's Skyline which had a nicely setup fuel system (yay, ID1000s etc) so I was cautiously hopeful that things might go nicer than some of the recent outings I've had have gone. This tune was EASY, biggest stress was that it's a stock and already pretty well used RB25 and the owner wanted pretty serious solid power considering it's used exclusively for track racing. Everything went pretty smoothly and settled on 21psi on E85, and I'm pretty impressed with the power delivery: This is with a pretty cheap Masterpower R595 turbo with a .63a/r hotside on knock off intake and exhaust manifolds and the thing was still happily picking up more power with additional boost (17-21psi went from 326kw to 368kw), the gate was opening at ~.9bar at comfortably under 3500rpm and 21psi it was still opening by 4000rpm so very decent performance for the price - well impressed and would seriously consider these things as a viable budget option after this performance.

This is what happens when you let your car sit in a damp garage too long. Luckily all surface. This is post POR15. Next mission. Install these. So yeah, yesterday was spent taking out the RHF suspension set up, both control arms, spring and shock, pretty grubby. Then it was cleaned back and given a solid coat of POR15 - it's never going to be a show car, so I just want it covered and clean. All came apart with a bit of persuasion. The brake callipers were rebuilt about 3 years ago, since then it's done about 15km. So I will redo them. New hoses are a definite. Rotors are seeming like a good idea. Fucking money pit. I have tie rod ends but was thinking I might do those a bit later when I bin the Armstrong and put in power steering. Just a matter of locating the right PS mount and getting all those bits rebuilt. But first. This job. /edit: No the jack is not on the sump, the car is on stands.

Oh so after some blathering about idle speed, I datalogged the Echo tonight. 20 deg is about 2200rpm! An engine that happily idles at 630rpm when warmed up starts out at nearly 4x that. A graph, because Roman: I've set the Carina to same goal RPMs in the Link so tomorrow I'll adjust idle throttle angle targets to match those above and see how it goes.

Collected this thing today. Looks much worse than the pictures I was sent and I assumed it was a manual... It's not. Which also means it's single carb. Probably need a tetanus injection after touching it too. Ah well. IMG_1194 by GuyWithAviators, on Flickr IMG_1195 by GuyWithAviators, on Flickr Only eventful thing that happened on the 8 hour trip was the balljoint that undid itself. Hellastance bro. IMG_1204 by GuyWithAviators, on Flickr Got it to run when we got home. Has at least 3 gears, street wasn't long enough to find 4th. Couldn't find reverse either so will give that another go tomorrow. Also has no exhaust. Since the auto block is different to mine I will most likely sell it as a running engine/gbox combo. The autos have a habit of breaking if not looked after I've heard. Little things like the wiper switch and bootlid make it worth it to me. Seats are worse than mine sadly. IMG_1200 by GuyWithAviators, on Flickr Finally, here's a photo the neighbor took of me showing how stoked I am with the purchase. Discuss: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/35012-guywithaviators-1974-austin-1300/

May 2015 went drifting at Taupo, only difference since meremere was that I whacked in some T3 30mm RCA's which must have put a bit more tension on the castor arms as the auto steer was super responsive in comparison to the last outing, some new 165/55 xr611 nankangs in the back and also tightened up the handbrake. Unloaded in the morning running on 3 due to a dodgy injector wire, some GC with a soldering iron in his pocket came along to the rescue, drifted all morning till one of the wires came off it's lug for the efi relay solder guy to the rescue once again, skidded all day again till i chewed a drivers side brake hose due to rub on full lock drove down to repco 5 mins down the road to pick up two new ones, fitted and bled up then drifted for the rest of the day till I rain out of fuel. Since then I've managed to unlock 4.1 ratio locked centre on a nice sunday drive but have recently put in a 4.3 replacement. Going to enjoy a few more days this year then rip out the oem ecu, loom, intake mani and throw on my link g4 + ITBs for the new year and might expirment with my new 86 front susp and arms

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I assume you mean a DinoDaytona? I chortled. I'm glad Ben is sorted on this now.

Cheapest ferrari ever. (they look like a ferrari from really far away and likely much more reliable too.)

^ This. It's in a better place now. It can't hurt you anymore

I have a car that got a bit of a tickle up down one side. It would need work to the front guard(or a replacement), drivers door and the rear quarter. It would also need to be painted. PM me for details, pics, my number etc. Your pal, Simon.

Sorted out exhaust tip from the original not so nice looking tip, gave car first buff/polish. Travelled 1000km, seems to go alright, just got to sort out hanger bearing for drive shaft and clutch master cylinder due to a vibration and leak.

Got it. It'll cost you an appearance at a meet.

So Ive been doing some shit to this shit Stripped her down like a cheap hooker and laid into her. Went and brought the nastiest tarpaulins I could find and set up a sandblasting booth Had to buy a new nozzle and new garnet for works sandblasting unit but at least I'm now using good stuff. Also borrowed Reco's spare air compressor thinking it should be up to the task... it wasn't. So I trundled off in search of more air, ended up borrowing a mates petrol powered compressor thinking surely with these 2 combined... The sandblaster seems to work best at around 150 psi but even with one compressor feeding the other I could get about 40 seconds of good pressure before it went flaccid. Not cool! Ill look into hiring a big bastard trailer compressor to do the job. Anyway...some more pics Discuss //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/41479-sidewaysickness-1971-ford-ltdgalaxie/

thanks to everyone who came along yesterday. It was a great day, I recon next year we should make a weekend of it and camp out there on the Saturday night

Next up the front end got pulled down, stripped, acid washed and repainted. Really sick and tired of bending over shitty old car parts on the driveway while flicking stripper and acid all over the place but I keep telling myself that each bit I do is one I won't have to do again... Front end out Cleaned of years of crud and rust Nice new paint, been using Industrial 440 etch primer and Acrythane 805 for a topcoat. I don't know what I'm doing and I'm spraying out in the woodshed if it's raining or on the washing line if it's sunny and been getting quite reasonable results so must be good stuff. Going back together now with new nuts and bolts, new balljoints and tie rods etc... Just waiting on the next load of bits from Witors so I can finish this lot up.

chop, angle and Z some sheet, offer up and mark front lips?

Buy it anyway. It is the best one afterall.

Thanks for all the awesome comments guys! The place that we are staying at tonight in Rakaia has internet access so i can catch up on a few things. The ride is going extremely well so far and i am very pleased with how the bike is going, no problems yet and i think we have done a bit over 100km now. We went out to Erewhon station yesterday and had a good tour around which was cool. Tomorrow is the big day with a bit over 80km to do so i am looking foward to that. I have managed to master a few tricks now like no hands riding, peddle dismounts, coasting down a hill with legs over the bars and I am getting the hang of balancing on the thing stationary. Oh yes the newspaper article, The lies!!! its amazing what these reporters seem to be able to pull out of thin air haha although he did get most of the things i told him right. DIRTY6 yes that pic is of one of the 6 other penny farthing riders on the tour, there are also about 16 vintage safety bicycle aswell. Anyway thats my internet just about up, I will put some pics up of the ride next week when i get home.

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/50377-camel-and-liambs-51-chevy-gasser-discussion/ So Ky, Spencer and Myself road tripped from Brisbane down to Melbourne for Chopped 15' and decided to go a week earlier to help Camel and Liam with their build to try and get it ready to maybe enter the dirt drags, which gave us 4 days to do a great deal of work I took some snaps of it so will post them to this thread. Diddy hard at work doing something under there Camel mounting the master cylinder V8! Both the alternator and bracket needed modifying to fit between the rails mounting the front shackles Mounting the windows

OH WHERE'D YOU FIND A GEARBOX?! GOOD WORK!

Also high Zddp oil that's cheap and available lots of places. Where?

Beaver got any piccys?? Edit not of naked men..

With naked men.

Pretty much made my day.

I got a little resonator thingy fitted in place of the rusted rear muffler, and I had a torn steering rack boot replaced and a wheel alignment done. Also spent several hundreds of dollars and several days of my own time fitting phat soundz. The Rover came with an awful old cassette radio which seems to have been fitted in Nelson in 2001 - why would you fit a radio in NZ that only receives up to 90FM? I decided touring barges should have decent sound systems and I gave this radio the boot. I got a Sony head unit better than my Alfa's one - it does mp3 and wma CDs and has an aux input jack. Flash as. I got some new front speakers: The 'woofer' components of the new speakers are only 5 inch because the original Rover items (left) are 4 inch, and the size of the holes in the doors was obviously an issue. This size limit restricted me to a more fancy brand. Then I put my cap on backwards and said yes to a 600W amp and a 12" sub. I bought two sheets of chipboard stuff that were cheap because they were actually left-over packaging material. I installed the amp up under the dash in the passenger's footwell. The amp drives the front speakers but the existing Rover rear speakers are run directly off the head unit. It then came time to install the subwoofer. No problem, I'll just fake some typical Kiwi DIY woodworking skillz and whip up an enclosure before you know it. Unfortunately the wood knew I was faking. I cut out two bits of wood to make a new false boot floor (saving the originals), and then measured up and constructed a sub box to go under one half of the false floor: This makes use of the huge cavity under there, while still allowing room for the full-size spare tyre, jack etc and not sacrificing any boot space. I had to buy a whole jar of aggro wood screws for the construction, so I went on a rampage, screwing every crack that moved (and some that didn't..). I also squirted glue around liberally. The lid of the box isn't glued - I used foam window sealing strip and just screwed it down. http://www.axys.co.nz/ben/rover/sub/uncoveredenclosure2.jpg In an emporium I found some appropriately ghastly blue fabric to cover the box with. Some spring terminals allow the box to be disconnected for removal. http://www.axys.co.nz/ben/rover/sub/coveredenclosure2.jpg http://www.axys.co.nz/ben/rover/sub/coveredenclosure3.jpg http://www.axys.co.nz/ben/rover/sub/coveredenclosure4.jpg http://www.axys.co.nz/ben/rover/sub/coveredenclosure5.jpg Because the real floor of the boot isn't flat, my sub enclosure (which rests on the floor) needed to be shallower at one end than the other. It wasn't (see fake skillz), so I just compensated by raising the other half of the false floor to match. You'd never know! I'm pleased that the audio system isn't too conspicuous and hasn't sacrificed practicality, but is still the best I've owned to date.