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The body is done! Just need to put some sealer on the underside of wheel arches then move onto the front guards and bonnet. Have a donor bonnet that's good apart from one back corner so will slice it off the blue one.

Hi Thought I'd share a couple of pics of my HQs Ute is all legal and running an angry 408 BBC. Statesman is a work in progress with a certed 350 in it. Original black plates and Rego on hold. Looking to rat rod this one. Just need front Carpet,wipers, paint and wheels.

YH51 Supercustom turned up at the lowcal PaP so I grabbed the seat rails from it and found a set of Recaros lurking in a Bighorn A bit of flat bar, some average welding and fabrication So much comfier and they dont look too out of place

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Logical thing to do once you get something running mint , registered and legal- disassemble it. I rode it a couple of times but it was too slow to the point of being dangerous when a hill is involved, and there's hills everywhere where I live. I have a spare gy6 chingaling scooter engine so I'll swap that in and get a big block kit for it

This sux bro, my prayers go out to you in this time of need. I have faith that the wag gods will look after you. And this is for the Eager.

U WOT M8. One less eager on the road though so that's all good.

Build thread updoot. Drat and double drat. Good thing is I have insurance, truck that hit me has insurance and the guy admits full responsibility. Now to put the insurance companies in the ring together and see who gets knocked the fuck out.

I have bought a poorly treated, unloved 1981 KE70 Toyota Corolla, with the vision of restoring and also upgrading it to the 3SGE Beams Black Top. I want to set the car up so it can be taken to the track and also used as a show car. I have bought a 1999 Toyota Altezza with a 6 speed manual box and the donating Beams engine. Will post photos and discussion as the project goes on, please feel free to ask questions

track 3, then mulligans, then bobbys. so in.

Sorry to see that! I too was sad to see the sight of a busted Eager knowing that it would probably be hard to find a replacement - would look so dumb if the insurance co replaced just one tyre with a Linglong or something.

Took me a while to figure out you probably meant bolts and not books?

I think I've got my head around it now. I only had an hour to play with it today, so made up a bracket and bent up some rod. Then I jumped back onto the cvt connection to the motor. It had an internal keyway, so I milled a slot to receive this on the output shaft. Im not 100% happy with the hollow aluminum output. I have my doubts it will be strong enough...but if needed I can turn up a steel version later to the same dimensions.

shit man, condolences. clearly your wag/tyre combo is too phat for people to pass.

Worst thing is those tyres are a particularly cunty one to replace. They are a GR width which has no direct metric equivalent, they came off an American import with next to zero miles on them.

It'll buff out.

smoke it anyway, real man would also FUCK!

Shut your whore mouth!

Yeah sucks a little, but no. I'm pretty confident that hitting a parked car will be relatively indefensible though.

Bench top saga.. About a day after I decided to keep and pay for the dressed mac I'd been accidentally sent I decided for the short term it was too expensive to laminate my bench top.. que Trademe find of 45mm lvl plywood for 140 a sheet, and then subsequent delivery.. I was always going to do some sort of temp plywood bench but I ended up putting a fair amount of work into it. Suffice to say it's here to stay. Cut and test fit, Decided to narrow the kitchen width a bit a and add in a breakfast bar on the island while I was there. (can see my horizontal handles) Epoxied the two halves together using these handy clamps, Needed to find a sink that was small enough to fit with the carcase and tap centers, in my infinite wisdom I moved the taps 100mm to the right before I'd even bought the kitchen, then restricted what I could put in there. Found an insert that was almost right, then cut it up, Set it out, at 11pm at night the only thing I could find to measure the radius of the corners was a half used roll of ecoply tape, turns out the corner I measured was the only one with the same radius add the tape, the other three are slightly smaller, doh! It's also not square.. Cut with a jigsaw, did a great job.. Routed a recess for the sink and attached the clamps I cut off the old insert.. Had to make some minor adjustments to the carcase, Epoxy for the finish coat, soaks into the wood and won't peel like urethane, was gonna oil it but the edges of the ply aren't particularly strong, the epoxy also fixes that problem.. I then partially mounted it and set out and cut the hob hole.. I then had a minor anxiety attack, cursing myself for making life hard with a 900mm hob and worrying about the addition of a thermal block between the hob and carcase, got over it and just cut the carcase as I needed, turned out good in the end, just shows what 4hrs sleep a night does for your mental stability (that and having 4 days to do a 5 day job) Hob test mounted, Late night bench sanding The ply came with an annoying bow from side to side, really became noticeable with the island, so I mounted it bowing back the other way as much as I could in the hope that the epoxy would semi hold in that position, kind of worked.. The epoxy, Did a much better job with this one as I had more time, with the other side I got quite a few air bubbles but as I was doing it in work hours I had to go with it, will sand out back at a later date and do a final coat. The island looks a lot better.. Big thanks to Luke (bling) for easing my mind with regards to the hob and the gas install Cut and epoxied the sides, Then added strand board to the back, I like stand board, it's kind of industrial but not.. Still need to get another sheet to do the kickers and then the kitchens mostly done.

Stupid amount of effort going into this project, but it's kind of fun bodging together cheap parts to make something cool. Seat arrived today all the way from China. Fucked if i can work out how they can only charge $17 for a leather seat including free postage from another country door to door? Anyway: Seat stripped down, set back pivot made up and fitted Seat posts with a M8 captive nut in each. Plus pivot front mount. Test fit Hmmmm leather...sexy!!! Going to swap the leather on the tank to match. Will try simply sanding it first...nothing to lose trying that. But otherwise, back to the $2 shop to get another belt. Edit: Easy fix on the tank leather, simply turn it the other way around. I'll lacquer it another day to match seat.

Holly crap time flies! Its been over a year since I have done an update/work on this thing. Over the last couple of months I have slowly chipped away at the body work, its pretty straight now, just a couple of minor imperfections left to bog. Yesterday I started making this pedal box out of sheet steel, I cut it out in one piece and bent it up. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, I'v never worked with sheet before. I'v only tacked it together but haven't blown any holes in it yet.... Touch wood. I got a couple of these bad boys of Aliexpress $11 U.S. each. I'm all about Alliexpress at the moment Hopefully more updates to come soon

Other end of the engine size scale, I picked up this non running scooter from Scrubb, what a top bloke. I got it home and managed to lose the key somewhere, I disassembled the ignition switch to get that working and it had some water in it, and the air filter foam had fallen to bits so maybe it had sucked some of that into the carb. Anyway after that it started, I fixed the indicators, made a new air filter out of a car wash sponge, cleaned it, and got rego on it. At first I thought there was something wrong with the clutch but it turns out it has a automatic 2 speed. I have had some funny looks when riding it.

Well just when you thought i couldn't finish my current projects, i thought why not add another! Discussion click here So here is my 1972 Vauxhall Viva Estate. Last registered in 2012 and been off the road since. It use to have the stock 1259cc but that has since been removed. A bit of a special car too, being the first in NZ with plate number 1. The previous owner has spent a lot of time and effort in getting the new motor built up. Its a Blydenstein 1259cc (1.3L now) and lets just say its not stock anymore. Heres how the car sat when it was on the road: Stay tuned in the coming weeks

Just checked out this thread- bloody love the way you think with the cut down gas bottles and leaf sprung front end. Im pretty keen to use some of those bottles for my catch can... love repurpopsing shit like that

Oh Bugger! damage don't look to bad kk, shame about the tyre. Don't let the bean counters fuck you over! insist it get put back same for same.

Sorry to hear mate. That stinks. Best of luck getting it sorted.

shit news! Good luck and I hope the insurance don't dick you

For hype, here some photos of Aw11 drag cars from 1991 when drag racing started taking off in jap, and most popular chassis for it was a 240z under the miffker those are duel waste gates

If you can turn it 360deg with relative ease then ensure the coil is UNPLUGGED and spin it over with the starter.

Also goodluck in your insurance endevours KK's I hope for smooth sailing and full repairs without the slightest mention of cost vs value etc

That sucks! Hope you got the fault admittance recorded.

Today I had McDonalds for lunch, WTF does that have to do with anything? Well it cost me $21 for a coffee, fancy chicken burger and an M&M McFlurry... $21 dollars!!! Half an hour later I purchased a leaf spring for a trailer, brand new, made of real steel...$22. Hard to believe that both items cost roughly the same, my only fear is that I turn both purchases into shit? But life's boring without a little gamble every now and then, so here goes nothing: Cut with angle grinder, left purposefully oversize for now. Mocked up for size...yip, too big, but that's an easy fix. Will roll with this idea and see where it takes me.

Usually to avoid warping you do small stitch welds on alternating parts of the job, let it cool in between. Try and clamp it to something solid that can help it stay in shape and sink some heat, big bit of steel or if you are lucky a slab of aluminum.

I hope you put some "artefacts" in the hard fill for people to find in the future, like m head gaskets or something. theres a house in Whitford that has a retaining wall full of chev engine bits and general workshop scrap courtesy of my boss and an apprentice clint.

am making up for lost time by driving her everywhere, regardless of need to go anywhere! Am driving it to its new owner north of Hamilton next week, am looking forward to it. The people stuck behind me may not enjoy it so much however. Am planning to travel putaruru-te awamutu via arapuni, to pirongia, whatawhata, ngaruawahia. Will be bringing my finest tartan thermos, and a boom-box with "rule britannia" crudely & repeatedly dubbed onto cassette. Put the sides on tonight, man they're heavy for what they are, must be iron-bark or some such. I like to think the attention i've given her will help on her quest to outlive the nation of israel. Can hardly wait to start dredging 2003-era double brown out of the walls of this old marina of mine, still need to go check it out, determine whether its saveable, and if so determine whether to drag it home and diy or take it to a financial rape-dungeon for the inevitable flintstone floors etc.

So yeah, first priority has been to see if it'd run after its ~10yr rest. But the fuel tank had the drain bung, level sender, and pickup all removed because it had a 'problem' back then, maybe blocked lines? The tank looked in pretty good shape inside and out. So plugged everything back up, carefully tipped a few liters of diesel in there, and sure enough it came out the bottom pretty quickly. Fuel tank lives under the drivers seat. The sender and guage appear to work (pretty) well. IMG_20170603_094104 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20170603_094124 by John Bell, on Flickr Rusted fasteners, tank comes out. IMG_20170603_104539 by John Bell, on Flickr Degrease, waterblast, investigation. IMG_20170603_122150 by John Bell, on Flickr Hole. IMG_20170603_122220 by John Bell, on Flickr Tank is folded and soldiered together, so will have an attempt at picking it apart and plugging up the yuck bits. Clean up and paint etc too, this week hopefully. For those interested, the OE Land Rover fuel filter housing seems to be a fairly generic item used on British diesels from this era. It looks to be the same one used on our Lister, and Perkins(Massey Ferguson) diesels. So got a new filter cartridge from agspares.co.nz for a MF165 for $6ish. Bargain M8.

And a battery box. Cut about 100mm off its overall length, then cut out a hole out for the battery to sit in. I'll wrap fuel line around the sharp edge by cutting a slit on the outside edge. Welded together. Welding has never been a talent of mine, but I own a grinder! Mounted to frame. Its removable so I can get battery out. Kj

Oh Christ! Didn't realise the spokes would be under so much stress. My thinking was a wheel designed to be stoped by disc brakes should be strong enough, as rapid deceleration around the hub is equal and opposite to acceleration from a motor? Usually braking produces more torque than accelerating does. But the top end speed and weight of the bike has increased in this case...dam it...now I'm concerned. Has this scenario shown up in previous velobikes? Is it common to rip spokes out of the bicycle rims? Kj

Could also beef up the spoke size if necessary?

looks to have a fairly decent amount, just wider spread from the fat hub makes it look like fewer.

Gave it another nudge today, got a fair bit done. Welded in new rear end View from behind, with new fat rear tyre. Moved jackshaft location and made up a lower mounting bracket to support it all. Starting to take shape now. Kj

As they say...to make omelettes, you've gotta break a few eggs! So, fully committed here goes: Limited time to spend on it, so mocked it up for a rough overview. Looks crappy now, but should all come together at the end.

Even more shiny

I found some more photos The instrument lights were buggered when I got it so I got a repro light set and put it in. I put a radio in and rangid in some speakers. I REALLY hate seeing old cars with chopped up dashes for a radio so I glued the base onto the floor The step plates? were rusty so I chucked some underseal stuff on them. I'll see how it lasts And that is how its currently sitting

Weep out of your joystick?

Day after the warrant sticker went on cube racing bush arrived and installed as well as the marlin crawler shifter seat.gearbox feels like it should now! Before and after Full set of facelift chaser doorcards arrived from Todd down the line along with one of the headlights, corner lights and grill that match the bonnet already on my car. Doorcards cleaned up nicely with the turtle wax interior cleaner Few more photos to post over the next few days of recent acquisitions. Things are moving quickly!!

A photo I wanted to include, from when I pulled out the ventilation unit to no avail (it still sucks): I took the 33 on arrows collection and finish timing duty on two Dunlop Targas, I've been WRC-chasing a few times, I did a Cape-Reinga-to-Wellington-and-back road trip for the sake of it, I take the car on everything from Alfa club runs to business jobs, regularly at maximum attack the way it should be. In light of this, the present value of my 33 and in honour of my favourite Top Gear episode ever (where the guys buy old mid-engined Italian "supercars" for a few thousand pounds and put them through a series of tests which they all fail), I chose my forum name 'Thousand Dollar Supercar'.