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Almost finished! Bores have cleaned up without any defects. Ports look a fraction off on some of the bores though so hopefully I can cut some valve seats that work! Not going to lie, its quite exciting!

Decided I didn't like it all jacked up in the bum, so got some 1.5" blocks to level it out. Much betterer

All sand blasted the new steel and ready for rear guards

Picked up rebuilt short block today, always get a bit depressed about my shed when I see a nice clean workshop... Will be wrapped for a while as I'm trying to sort out the piles of shit in my shed, working on knowing where my tools are and having clean working areas before I get back into it...

Is it wrong I want that engine for a weedeater of doom? /Nuts looking little scooter!

Just dumping a few of my projects from the last year on here. Most come under the category "pointless yet fun"... A mate I work with (civil engineer, genius who designs bridges) showed me this YouTube clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0 I couldn't help myself, so with a little bit of tinkering in the shed...3hrs later I whipped this bad boy up. I left it wrapped in gift wrap with a giant bow on his desk...he was blown away, which made me very happy. Yes, it is impossible to ride. Yes, guaranteed to make a total cock out of yourself, and yes pointless yet fun It got noticed and found its way onto TV3, which was cool. http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2016/03/riding-a-backwards-bike-should-be-easy-right.html Our next mission is to leave it in public places in the hope some shit bag tries to steel it...we'll be over the road in a pub watching the big fail - should be priceless! Kj

Probably great to have an officer of the law looking now that everyone's yarning about having no WOF and reg etc etc....

Hi all, New progress since last on here; I just bought a universal fuel pump to replace the mechanical Chrysler one she had as stock. Getting on with this build has been an interesting challenge; mostly due to my inexperience, the distance I have to drive out in the desert to where I store the car and the fact I work nights but I'm really keen to get her moving under her own power before I have to help my father move his stuff up to Oregon- once I get it sucking petrol from the tank like it's meant to I'm focusing on brakes next! Played with the electrics and half do work (Low beam lights, wipers, air con and the driver's side window) while the clock, radio antennae, radio, horn ring and turn signals are all taking a nap. Found that somebody disconnected the black ground wire on the L side horn *Has one hooter on each side of the engine bay behind the grille* so I wired it back up, put a little tape around it and... still no toot. Wish me luck haha >to be continued...

There are a few things in life that are never big enough...ummm yeah, well that too... But other than wishing I was hung like Dirk Digler, a mobile workbench was pretty high up on the list. Something to store tools in, be able to roll around, and assemble stuff on top of. But at around $4000 to buy one, it only left two options for someone like me...make one, or go without. So I'm making one: Collection of 3 draw filing cabinets. I cut about 60mm off the total height of each one. It would have been way to high otherwise. Some were also 4 draws, this didn't matter as I just cut them down to match the size of the others. Next was to mig weld all 5 cabinets together. I stich welded them around the edges. Then made up an angle iron base that it will sit in. 8 caster wheels were added to support the weight. Yes this is epic over engineering...but they are cheap, so I don't see any negatives in this. And paint time... Mounted on roller chassis. It wheels beautifully! All the casters are the type with brakes, so it can also be locked if you don't want it to move. Draws painted And assembled....Boom!!!! Pretty happy with it for the money. Basic cost breakdown: Filing cabinets off Trademe total $70 Caters x8 total $106 Steel $50 Paint $77 Grand total $303 Not bad considering the cost of anything remotely similar is $3000 - $4000. My brother makes kitchens, so the top is on order from his scrap pile. So it will be a freebie for me. But it's still very usable as it for now:-) Kj

I was 3rd car there, in the the Escort with no WOF, when the cops came straight over. Once I realised he was a car nut, I scraped the turd off the seat.

Some more photos Gemini Booster in place, note the not so deliberate mistake The mounting studs are not level. Bloody booster has to be rotated 18 degrees, yet another job that gets done twice. Here it is with the hinge down. During the shed raid Mr Vapour decided that he needed the VX commodore booster and master cylinder that I had got. I had the great plan of using an HQ PBR master. I thought they would be every where for not much money, not so. I'm going to have to go to Zebra parts to get another master cylinder, hopehully ther are still a couple of commodores there. Here is the diff with new mounts attached. Sorry Neal(threeonthetree), the yellow paint will be gone before this goes back under the car.

Shes a pretty big job. Been at the machine shop for a week. 1 more week to go! Casting is looking good. Yet to find any lumps of sand or porosity apparently!

Good evening Old Schoolers, I think it about time I posted this old thing on here. Firstly, some history. Last year I bid on this car on Trade Me. It was being disposed of by Turners along with a whole bunch of other stuff from a private car museum in Blenheim, some of you probably remember it. I have been pining for another Fiat 125 for many years now as my first car was a Teal green 1973 125 with high back seats. I copped a lot of flack from my high school peers at the time for driving a "Lada" Philistines... Anyhow, I did not win the auction, a Fiat collector from Hawkes Bay kept outgunning me and the Finance Minister was not happy for me to gun back. Wallowing in self pity for months after, I got a random phone call from said collector wondering if I was still keen on the car, as he already had several minter 125s and had just bought an Alfa he has been chasing for 20 years. A deal was done and he also offered to store it for me until I could arrange to get it back to to South Island because we were in the middle of moving South from Taranaki. I am very grateful to him for giving me first refusal and for being very helpful. Whilst being transported to my new home, about 25km short of the destination, this happened. The truck was involved in a fatal accident in Amberley. A local and well known businesswoman driving her Old School Civic crossed the centreline into the path of the truck and was unfortunately killed. I could scarcely believe it when the dispatcher told me. Discussion

Allegedly

I will probably attend the tour de oil leaks

Getting a bit of plaster on.. excitement.. My old boss/family friend/mate is doing most of it for me, he's fast and good. Gonna pick up the ply for the cladding tomorrow. Going with shadowclad textured seconds as its cheaper than normal ply and comes with ship lap edges for ease of installation. Yes it's not guaranteed by chi for residential cladding but by the time I clad or with mac you'll barely see the ply..

depends on the setup how much lift pump you need. if you return the fuel from the rail to the main tank it needs to flow more than the high pressure pump or the surge tank will go empty and the high pressure pump will be continuously cavitating as it only gets as much as the lift pump can pump in. not good. if you return from the rail to the surge tank then the lift pump only needs to flow as much as your max injector flow or you may get away with even less depending on the use of the car. if you are never doing sick 11s for minutes at a time the volume of the surge tank will keep you going for [tank volume/max combined injector flow]minutes. generally you can return to the surge tank if your lift pump has plenty of headroom above your normal fuel flow (which it should at idle/low load unless you have a total pinner lift pump), and your surge tank isn't enormous as it will exchange the volume of fuel in the surge tank with fuel from the tank surge tank volume/(lift pump flow - avg idle low load fuel flow) = time to exchange volume of surge tank

Looks good nice and level, surely you'll get some rake back with a heavier engine anyhow. Good being sensible safety clint. should probly look into getting seatbelts for the back of mine, used to be I'd try to catapult back seat passengers from one door to the other around corners on the slick vinyl bench, now i'd probably suggest they bring another car if we are going over 50km/h.

yea the pommy guy was next to me at the stop sign and asked if i was going to a show or a club meet in my car. i say yea and he asked me if there were going to be any Escorts to look at and i told him more than likely so they followed me up. nice enough fullahs.

Cool meet. Sharned some sharns. Here's a couple pictures: https://flic.kr/s/aHskRsDnrn Highlights here: Not up to the calibre of MJFox on prev page but still somthing^ Album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45457939@N08/albums/72157678363759483

So time for Mk2. Managed to get my hands on a commercial under bench stainless steel fridge with a buggered compressor. Stripped all the shit out I didn’t need, designed a box up to take 2 heat bulbs and a fan to push air past the bulbs into the fridge. Managed to get the shape laser cut and folded by some good buggers at a sheet metal shop, Got a mate to weld it up, as my welds aren’t up for public consumption yet. Testing Wired up the new controller, cut a hole in to take the hot air delivery device and bingo she’s cranking away now. First batch is in now. Beers in a couple of days will be infinitely better.

I'd been looking for some kind of sweet coupe type thing for the last ~3 years or so. 348s were high on the list of ideal vehicles, but I was also keen on 456, 512, 911, Cayman. 348s and 456s seemed to disappear off the face of the earth when I was ready to buy. 911s skyrocketed in price. Caymans seemed a bit too bland, and 512s a bit extreme. I'm still a little bit annoyed for not buying a mint $25k 964 in 2013 because it was a C4 and not a C2, and I'd just bought a Megane turbo. So last year I said "bugger it" and bought this 4.3 V8 Vantage. It's a 380hp V8, 6-speed transaxle manual thing. Goes alright, sounds alright. It's the earliest, lowest power version of the Vantage. Later on, they tweaked the 4.3 to get more power, then went to a 4.7 with even more power, and a V12 version is also available. It has VE SS inspired holes in the front guards, a Ford Mondeo inspired front grill, and a Jaguar radiator fan shroud. The best of all three worlds.

Annual event happening again, May 2017, Napier. Poster says it all really. Last year was my first, and was well worth it. There's an awesome drone shot somewhere of all the cars last year. From memory it was free to show your car, but spaces ran filled quickly so you had to arrive early on the day?

There was three of them. That would have been a (wet) dream come true.

^ This...I think might possibly be happening. I have now got the setup returning from the rails to the tank and the over flow on the surge also returning to the tank. We took the car for a drive to the big smoke that is Motueka. Nothing really wrong with performance and every thing is smooth but with noticable noise from the main pump. I thought it might be low tank volume as I only had 7 litres left. Filled the tank up and noise still there. Got home and climbed under car with engine running. Surge tank is only jus warm to touch so that problem was solved. However the main pump has a noisy cavitation sound. So as much as I thought my Carter lift pump was the boss and was pumping heaps of good volume, the main pump can obviously pump even more. But why the cavitation sounds when the tank is full??? Is the main pump for want of so much fuel that the lift pump cant supply that it then starts to draw air through the overflow pipe which enter the tank nearer the top? Well luckily its going to be a piece of piss to re-route the rail return back to the surge and then block off the extra inlet I had added onto the fuel tank. With this done I am hoping that the surge tank wont get so hot either, having discovered the blocked filter and replacing it which will should give the lift a new lease on life. Plus in other news, related to the above as I thought it was the hot fuel issue causing it, I have fixed the heat soak surging. 1 minute of table changing on that Mat correction thingee before we took off and it seems to be sorted. Having left it outside the steel merchants while I picked up supplies and then outside the supermarket later on and neither time did it lean out after startup. Sweet! I will play with it some more as I think I can get it even better. Interesting to watch the air temps changing with use too. Anything from sitting at 25 degrees when driving along to around 45 degrees after the car has sat for a while turned off. The new table here...

Yeah yeah nah. Grab a single speed sprocket. They are much thicker for 1/8" chain The track ones have less of a ramp so you could trim them back a little and have flat top and bottom

Cool little project. Does it do skids

Does about 50kph....maybe more? but it gets there super quick! Its direct drive, no clutch. So once started, you've gotta keep moving. It doesn't like you dumping gas into it from uber low revs, but if you bring it up to a running speed then flog it...you'll pull wheelies!

Well hot damn it worked Things i learnt theres enough adjustment in the gauge to shift the range +- 40 ohms for fine tuning to a sender (i.e E can be shifted from 40, down to 0 or up to 80, and same with the F) The heating wire is ovbiously bloody small, but it looks to be about 50 coils i unwound 10 of them, and spread out the remaining along the bimetallic strip. and it appears that i have now adjusted the gauge to a full sweep over 90 ohms at around 10v, which seems to be what the gauge will see i the cluster. The bench set up i used was a bit rigged because i have the minimum of electrical tools, but in any case it seems to be proof of concept. i will have to pull the sender out and test it though its full arc to see how accurate the gauge will be in the points between F and E. Will post up a full walkthrough of what i did, because i cant find anyone modifying a bimetallic gauge anywere (dipole types look to be possible with resistors on the full and empty sides). I did find a case of a guy modifying the sender some how, and various senders chopped up and put into other units. But this method would appear to be rather cheap and easy

How fast

Now that truly was a shit movie.

It takes a couple of seconds. But you will get the idea. Anyway jeeze guys stop spamming

For inspiration

It's alright mayte, the LNI wagon contingent drive on wagon time. Or as the police would call it a "rolling roadblock".

Lewl, I forgot about Easter. We could always do the 30th as it's not tied in with Easter or the potential ANZAC long weekend that some may take advantage of.

I asked a couple onto it people about this. Using push bike sprocket. All said cause the teeth tapper to an almost point/curve their not ideal as hall sensors operate better and clearer with straight edges. i did wonder if you could get a moto sprocket and lathe the end of the teeth off to give a sparser edge

I was exactly laughing at that as I was uploading it. I was intentionally avoiding my car incase they asked me what was under the bonnet. Hahaha.

Good Meet indeed, and thanks all for the positive feedback! Great photos too everyone. Ok to steal (with credit) photos for threads? Cops were pretty GCs, i think they just wanted to see what was up with reports of a 'car enthusiasts' meeting. They may have just been hanging out when people started showing up and decided to hang around, dunno? A good attitude* goes a long way Anyway, they left laughing, and pretty sure without issuing any tickets, tho im sure they could have if they wanted to (self included) They were poking at the camber/tridents combo on Richies trump for a while but i think ol Snoozin barry-sharned them senseless (i overheard talk of certain camber degrees stock and trailing arms when i glazed over...) . Anyway, A+ sharns! (*as in, getting a bunch of 'howzit, sweet bike mang', instead of 'fuck off pigs' probably made a difference)

Sexellent. Synchronizing watches...

Te Miro school, where it's remote enough to escape the PC curse that is taking fun away from kids "since ages ago". That project was done with minimal tools (okay I did use a lathe, but i could have done without). The welder i used was an old arc welder worth about $150, it even handled the thin pipe on the roll bar by basically doing a start/stop technique. I do have a mig... but I like to use the old arc welder whenever I can.

Photobucket sucks balls. Can't be bothered updating the pictures, and without them this thread seams pointless. So revised; long story short I've made a hardtail harley motorcycle. Started with nothing, now looks like this!

Or Aeroflow pump, generally cheaper than Walbro and long lasting in my experience. I buy them from Engine Parts Ltd in Silverdale. Get some discount now so yell out if you want one.

Managed to loosely assemble some bits while horribly hungover. That was it for the weekend...

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well, the innaugral AGM for newly founded www.midschool.co.ng went fantastically. great turnout of enthusiasts with a passion for economic mid 80's japanese compact vehicles, and then some wankers with actual old cars turned up. first agenda item: banish all european vehicles and send them back to their country of origin via telegram second motion to be tabled: rummage some mega GC barry's shed full of awesome cars and bikes, and haggle some sheepskin seat covers. featuring glorious 2 tangs and 2m's once Mabel had listened to her favourite meatloaf tapes, it was off to the stoat and gristle with barbara for a drink. then, haunted speights were consumed in a haunted pub, and some delightful sharns were induced by locals who had never seen such an awful display of cars. after enjoying a bacardi breezer, ol man ky started breakdancing for the local patrons shit chat aside, what an awesome day. massive thanks to everyone who came, hope you all enjoyed it. see you for the next one!

Haha you got married. Sucker.

I do this reasonably often at work, you just tap it with a 7/16-14 thread (which is an10) straight into the alloy and use a 10mm hole to pilot the injector holes for a 13.5mm pin guide end mill ( not all the way through of course) to make sure you get a nice surface finish for the injector orings to seal on.

So thanks to Josh for his efforts in getting this tank ready, its now in my driveway. Couldn't really afford it but couldn't let the opportunity slip. Kinda surreal in that I have never bought a car before that I've been content with at time of purchase. So far I haven't even popped the bonnet. Just jumped in, thrown the chronic 2001 in the CD player and clocked up a few kms getting to know the way it drives (like a 6 yarder truck) But I love it. Thanks again Josh.

So strip went well, much easier pulling them apart when you've used anti-seize on the threads, and the gaskets aren't decades old... Disappointingly i didn't find obvious ring issues, so no wiser why it's so smoky. Pulled the piston on the lowest compression cylinder and the bearings, bore and rings look ok (as far as I know, not really sure what I'm looking for) so hopefully a hone and ring job may sort it. I'll check how the ring gap looks and try to take it into a machine shop this week to get it checked out...