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all gone. 2017-04-22_02-37-50 by sheepers, on Flickr

mounts all on the diff for good. cant paint over the chrome..

Lets be honest Done.

Paint a massive cock and balls on it please before you cover it up

Awesome meet guys! Thanks for making the effort to come down. We had perfect weather, free food and good company. Cameron from Burgerfuel is stoked. I think we all agree that this should be the new location for our monthly meets?

One complete box ready for action. Body work will start again in a couple of weeks so looking forward to finally getting progress

I can't stop looking at that fucken wall..

I would be significantly more likely to keep following your build if it was all posted here rather than having to follow external links all the time. Its a cool car and interesting but meh to external links

Rustisize and mirageman in one car together!!! Unsure which picture fits better.

The proper way is the way you don't want to do it. But the secret of the pros is to twist and tape, err, I mean stagger the joins so you don't end up with a big fat spot in the loom.

he offered me the keys. which would have resulted in no house walls and probably no shed left either. would have been fun though.......

Happy days. Of to kaikoura for 3 nights with the kids tomorrow in this thing. Pics will come

Here it is Check out April's issue of New Zealand Autocar Found my copy Big shout out to "Snoozin" Richard Opie for arranging this , the great photos and the fantastic write up !

I've wanted an RX7 since I was about 11 years old. I think the first FD I ever saw was a bright red one parked in a driveway, while I was walking to school. I had no idea what it was, but its beauty stuck in my mind. One of my classmates was a big car fan, due to his father running a workshop, focused on rotaries, and had an RX2 rally car, and a HB Cosmo, and an RX7 dirt track car...! So my friends influence really set me on the path to RX7 obsession. 20 years later and I have bought an FD. I've daydreamed about it for a few years as my savings grew bigger. Since 2016 I've been looking seriously, having inspected 5 cars for sale. Then this one turned up. 1994 Type R with 45,000 genuine, verified kilometres. It was imported last year by an old guy who is an old-school rotary fan and serial car collector. big photo album: https://goo.gl/photos/1KavduxG5q638suD7 The current mod list is short, and were all from Japan. - Fujitsubo 3" cat-back exhaust, which sounds perfect to me. Quiet at cruise and idle, no droning, and a good sporty tone when pushing. - 17" x 8.5" / 9" Racing Beat RB-02 wheels. Allegedly made by Work Wheels, they are a nice 3 piece set. I have to measure the offset as the labels have worn off, and the centre caps are missing. - Apexi RevSpeedMeter mk1. This nifty but useless device shows a digital readout of revs and speed. It can estimate acceleration times and flash speed and rev warnings. I need to investigate if the ECU is standard. The sills have "Blitz Access Super Computer" stickers, which was apparently a plug-in ECU upgrade from the '90s. My current modification plans for the car, after tonnes of research: water temperature and boost gauges alarm & immobiliser - mandatory for insurance aluminium AST aluminium radiator full set of tyres (eg. RE003 245/40/17). The current ones are over 10 years old and still have the coloured streaks from when they were brand new... not safe! auxiliary injection (e.g. AEM water injection) General maintenance comes first of course. Then, just drive it. I love track days so I'll be getting into those as soon as I can. I don't have any desire for more power, as I drive quite sedately on the street. The car is only a weekend ride so it always feels special to use.

Least you could do would be to mount that window on the wall somewhere conspicuous and then decorate around it leaving a window into what could've been..

so the drain layers worked until 1am to get the new pipe installed. so i didn't get much sleep Wednesday night. but its done and dusted. there is still a pile of clay to be removed from the front yard and the digger is still here but thats minor stuff. after the drain was finished i did some more smash. tomorrow ill take down the last piece of wall (which will take all of about 10 minutes) and then clean up the mess. 2017-04-20_03-18-29 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-04-21_05-28-54 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-04-21_05-29-12 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-04-21_05-28-34 by sheepers, on Flickr and thats where we are up to. im hoping the builders will start next week.

So this happened: Long story short, I took it for a WOF, and it failed on excessive steering play, which turned out to be a worn bush (which is better than a fucked rack or tierod end, I suppose). While it was in the workshop we noticed a weird squealing/chuffing noise from one of the belts, so I got Karl to inspect further. What he found next will shock you! Nah not really. But he did discover that the cambelt was really old and perished, and chunks were flaking off it - and the waterpump seals have started weeping - even though it had been changed at 90,000km (less than 20,000km ago). We're guessing that it was done maybe 10 years ago and the car simply hasn't been driven a lot in Japan, then I got hold of it and drove to Nats 2016 and around the country like a lunatic. Ha! So with that in mind, out the hole it goes for another new cambelt, tensioner, seals, waterpump, belts, blah blah blah. I'm slightly disappointed that I haven't even had a chance to stockpile more upgrade parts yet, because I was so confident that it wouldn't need any serious work done for another 50-60,000km and I had ages to collect more shit for it. At least I will now be able to fit the shiny extractors I bought a while back, but it would have been nice to throw in an upgraded supercharger pulley, LSD box, and rear swaybar at the same time. Discuss: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/49412-80s-kid-part-ii-eds-aw11-sc-chit-chat/

gasser Its way less finished than it looks

Some people know, even though I've been all about keeping this on the downlow, but it's now time to make it official. I swing both ways, in fact I am properly batting for the other team now, well at least until I rekindle my old relationship... ...behind the wheel of my Commy. That's right, I've bought a Ford. Gah the shame of it all. So, after pulling apart the Commy last year for rust and consequently fucking around for the entire Wag-off season, I realised in November that it just wouldn't be right to turn up to Wagnats in a non-wag of the olden days variety. So I begun the search for an XD Wagon which frankly has always been a dream to own. I found a good looking beast (although it was an XE) in Gore, so I got our friendly southern gentleman Mr Old Man Southern himself @kyteler to take a lazy look for me. He came back with a reasonably positive report and heck I went for it. A few phonecalls, emails and PM's later and it was on a transporter to me in Wellington, turning up right before I went away for New Years. But still I was trying to keep it quiet until Wagnats for a surprise wagcessory. I was pretty successful at keeping it quiet, except for a drunken moment with a couple of jokers where I spilled the beans out of sheer excitement but I kept a lid on it, at least until @Aladdin drove past my lockup for the 30 seconds I had the door open to roll inside my new wheels and the bugger saw it. Luckily he didn't quite grasp the gravity and the rumours didn't go very far. So I bought it and while it was on it's way up to me I snaffled me up a set of Tridents from Hawera and picked them up when I went that way for Bizzo and Lozza's "engagement" party. Got them back to Wellington and the next weekend I excitedly tried them on - but to my dismay they ended up being Holden stud pattern. Even thought they were sold as "Falcon wheels" With Wagnats looming fast, I got out the oversized and seriously depleted chequebook and bought a brand new set of 8" Tridents off the Tard. A few days later I had them and some tyres mounted up and the car was finally rolling (oh yeah the guy sold it sans wheels and had sent it up on 4 different wheels, some held on with barely a thread holding the wheel on. They ranged from a 8"wide 12 slot to a stock Hiace 14" rim and a 16" EF Falcon XR6 mag wheel. Anywho, the car was now rolling and a week before Wagnats I snuck the car under the cover of darkness to my wheel alignment man, I hid it at his workshop for a couple of days and then stashed it at my house, away from prying eyes (my lockup is the entire other side of town) Wagnats rolled around and it had it's debut. Won "Mintest Wag" and Strokers Choice. Both of which I was pretty fucking stoked to win. I've done fuck all to it other than give it a bit of a birthday in the servicing department, got all the wheels pointing mostly the same direction and threw on a set of 14x8" Tridents. It is a solid 7.5-8 out of ten in the body (had a bare metal respray a year or so back) and looks like they did a good job, including all the shuts etc. Running gear and suspension etc is a really good 8-8.5 out of ten, very very little in the way of bangs and knocks when driving along. The motor goes grouse now and the transmission does what it needs to do (oh yeah - this wee puppy is bench seat & column shift.. shit yes!) Where it all falls down is the interior. I give it a 3-3.5 out of ten. It's all there (mostly) but half the trim has been broken or screwed back together with wood screws and what have you. The front bench is pretty fucking poked too and is supported by a towel or two wedged into the exposed springs - nothing a car seat cover won't hide for now. That's OK though, I can slowly accumulate all the stuff I need to renew the interior at not too great of a cost and then once I have it I can chuck it all in for hopefully a nice tight insides. It was hilarious getting rid of the rubbish all through the inside when I got it, an empty bottle of classy Chardon was jammed under the seat and random Waikato and Speights bottle caps strewn throughout. Good ol Gore pisswagon living up to it's heritage. I don't even remember doing it but managed to drunkenly procure a set of 9" Tridents one night recently. So those will be tidied up and go on the back, then I want to find a pair of 245-50-14 Eagers for the front and drop the front spring an inch or so too and add an 1-2 inch lowering block in the rear and I reckon she'll look the part for a bit. Anyhow enough numbers and letters. Here is a couple of snaps I took tonight after the monthly meet. It's still filthy from Wagnats and the back has some freight I picked up tonight. But it gives a nice start to the project. I reckon it can only get better. Your pal Seedy.

As for the never seeing them iv had 3 different people try to buy it so far for more than I paid.

These are such cool land barges that you kinda want to save them! Fix the rust properly, means you don't have to worry later. I love the standard look of these and you just never see them anymore.

Ill be heading through Richmond and can give you a ride Will. See you people tomorrow!

Motorcycle owner here. Got a Harley Davidson Ironhead, Yamaha F5 , Honda C50 , Honda C50 with 110 motor, Honda SL70, Honda SL100 , Lloyd 600. Pretty much ride the Yamaha everywhere tho

^ Good ones like this with heat shrink built in/on. Not those shit narva ones. Personally I would solder and shrink, you're not going to get much vibration when they're all wrapped up in a loom

What about i drive as far as somewhere near glenfield? That'd be cool of you though.

Beagle is getting an exhaust built, (although hopefully I may get to pick it up today! If I can't, is anyone heading through Richmond that I can steal a ride off?

a JZ in it and limmy bashing on a 2-step before the end of the weekend

Rear suspension is in and the front is finger tight so I can roll it out of the garage tomorrow. I am much happier with how the rear is sitting now, its a tad higher than with the other shocks which is good. That silly side skirt needs to go but I think i'll wait untill a piece of ground takes it off and deal with it then Ive gotten used to it being on axle stands and I forgot how low/small it actually is

And we're back into it http://www.tasteslikepetrol.net/2017/04/rover-sd1-back-into-it/

It is its pure therapy I often " borrow " mates digger and wreck stuff like cars

Did they leave the keys in the digger? It could take less time to remove that wall...

I will be bringing my boys along and I am assuming the boss will be into the cruise as well since I am planning on driving her car. 8:00 start should be manageable.

Nice FD. best shape car ever. will be remembered like the e type jag. Your rev/speed meter can also be used to remove the 180kmh speed cut.

Fucking sick bro. Good score. Glad you found one. It's like my one's twin bar the good paint and different wheels and such. They're such a good shape in stock form too so no need to add anything kit wise either, especially when you have the factory chin spoiler.

Great meat!

Stellar was launched in 1983, white plates started with "NA" in Nov 86. Plastic bumpers first appeared on the Pontiac GTO in '68, on the Renault 5 in 1971, and locally on the Todd assembled Chrysler Alpine from 1977.

I got to play with the lathe again. I turned the spacers down and got them pretty close

The externally adjustable konis need a fatter crush tube where it passes through the top hat. Because I'm a jew and didn't want to buy new ones I got some crush tubes off the radius arms and shortened them. The rear shocks are nearly ready to go in. I also did a couple of small things today, Fitted some more clips on the brake lines and put the rotor retaining screws in I made a bit more clearance between the gearbox and body, hopefully it hits less now. Time will tell. I'll be able to see exactly where it is hitting now that its got a quick coat of paint thrown at it. Yes its sfa clearance now but its not touching now which is better than before Power steer pump etc all in and hopefully bled

I'm okay with 8am. However I was discussing it with Ant the V3000 Man, and he's currently torn between not meeting up with OS and getting there super early to sift through the bargains, or cruising with OS and potentially getting there too late to score anything cool.

this is the engine bay in its current state i mean it looks alright i am getting somewhere at least right right? i think i am loosing my mind i got too sort out about 11 more items and ill attempt to get it all certed and road legal

And as for the problem under the bonnet, obviously you'd want to consider a 2ZZ. At least she's a beauty though. There were some other cars at the meet... ..and they were a little bit stellar, but not Hyundai Stellar.

well after a heap of time with the wire wheel....rust kill and some POR15 ive almost finished the bed liner.

a hole got dug. 2017-04-18_04-22-56 by sheepers, on Flickr exposing the main stormwater/sewer line 2017-04-18_04-22-47 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-04-18_04-22-38 by sheepers, on Flickr then they stuck this thing in the hole to stop the sides falling in 2017-04-18_04-21-59 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-04-18_04-21-40 by sheepers, on Flickr then the diggers had a nap for the night. 2017-04-18_04-21-30 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-04-18_04-21-21 by sheepers, on Flickr

Fuggin' chequebook builders.

failed hard, cant get bolts out of cross bar. yeh the towers look ugly from the top, but wont see them once done v2

Leadfoot Time - Part 2 Sunday Sideways Here's Leadfoot from behind the wheel Caught up with Tanner in the pits who was super friendly just like everyone else I had talked to over the weekend. Top Bloke Times are in and here's mine for the weekend Prize Giving time Cheers Rod , Shelly and the Leadfoot crew for a very memorable weekend One very happy Father , Son Duo

So its been a long time with no progress on this, those of you in the digger thread will have seen some of the other stuff ive been up to but we finally got this off te truck today, Bit of a fuckin mission since both the big diggers are out out site so we went full Barry n used our bin truck gantry! Next i have to shift my bobcat and fire engine to this yard then we'll start cracking into getting the Kaiser moving under its own steam.

Drove to Timaru. Entered a show. Had a good time.

Went back to this possum palace place again, super muddy and slippery. Only one way to get around the place, max rpm. I also mowed their lawn, since im such a good cunt