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Today marks one year since Bart and Karl delivered this specimen unto my driveway. Seems like longer? Been a funny year. Good journey, plenty of highs and crushing lows but it goes good, looks decent and I have all my fingers, so. Recently lowered it more in the front, electronic dizzy conversion with appropriate coil, sorted a genuine ignition barrel, new gas cap. my mate wants it for a wedding car next year so that will force me to cut and polish it after fixing a few bits where things fell on it or it fell on things (bonnet fell on engine crane, cracked paint, and lamp fell on guard, sharp dent) will be good have the peel gone fer good. good journey with good group of fellas, I thought I’d spruce it up and sell it down the track but it’s good fun so I doubt that will happen!

i had a go. it came out pretty accurate but i think i can get it better. 2017-12-12_07-29-08 by sheepers, on Flickr

Also, A+++++ for citric acid cost me a total of 2 dollars besides the 6 dollar tub I bought which i now can use for all sorts Once machined this will be blinging

Been fairly busy recently so progress on this has been slow but I have a couple of photos of some things to share with everyone. What seems like an eternity ago Ned talked me into buying a 3D printer off Aliexpress, so that is exactly what I did, I ordered and paid for one Anet A6 3D printer and for some reason two arrived in the mail.... WHOOP. I then set about having a crash course on how to make it make things as I wanted to be able to print the above intakes myself rather than chew up someone elses recreational time. The above model showed one entire bank all joined as one piece, I broke that model into 3 so that it is actually printable given the size/speed of the printer, basically now they are paired so it is one manifold per carb. Because Ned had already printed the earlier version of the intakes for the front two cylinders on the right hand bank I decided to have a go at printing the middle two cylinders, this time as a single joined unit, hoping that my measurements were right. What you see in the next photo took NINE AND A HALF HOURS. I've since learnt that if I print the models upside down from what you see above it takes approx 2 hours off the print time, I think mainly from the need for less support structure. Good to know seeing as there are 5 more to go.... Anyway, chopped all the support structure off (what a prick of a job) and was left with this Now, the big question was, will it fit? is that joining bar the right length???? Hoorah! Next I put the earlier prints on the front 2 cylinders and chucked some carbs on with some appropriately sized bolts to locate the holes to get a feel for where it's going Next I want to print the other 5 'paired' intakes which, after knocking 2 hours off the print time for each one and having 2 printers running simultaneously should only take about 22 hours...fun and games.

Took it for a drive to the shop to get the cobb webs out! Waiting on some new gauges to arrive then it will go for cert. pic for thread

@Dolan @Sparkle we need to get some bum pinchers at this ride other that just myself. Im sure all these auckland / tauranga fags think that you guys are my imaginary friends

SATURDAY 20TH OF JANUARY Cost is 10 dollars. Covers stickers and recovery vehicle gas. Please message me or @MopedNZ regarding spots. Going to cut it off at 50 people. 1st in 1st served. (allows us to monitor people coming making sure they are gcs and will fit in) right. scooter rides are happening all over the show now days and id like to have a ride around the waikato to showcase that we aren't really a hole of a place and we have cool things in a days travel. so here it is. 210 kms roughly. heading to matamata via some nice back roads which will lead us to te miro mountain bike track. maybe a couple of you could have a little hoon around, or not. sweet little dam there also. from matamata we would head to Tiraui, could get a photo infront of the big sheep and dog, also a common pub close by that all bikes stop at for lunch we could maybe stop there have a lol at all the big bikers. from there we head over arapuni dam which is kinda cool to look at, also a rad swing bridge there too. maybe go do some bombs as im keen on some swimming. next would be pironiga where if we wanted maybe stop for another beer. next place would be lime works loop road, another sweet location for some bombs and a cool erm uh yeah tooth brush fence? from this location maybe we could head to brent shaws place if he would be keen to make a track for us and we could race on his paddock. and then nosy back into the beginning whic is going to be @Archetype place just out of whatawhata. im super keen. thats right SATURDAY 20th of JANUARY. now Brent has said we are able to camp at his place been a long day, all welcome to bring food, booze, tent and we will party till the nights young. brent has a nice sized lawn for racing on and tenting at. here are a few pics for attention needed to use the times he got stuck in vehicles for scale.... so far we have : @64vauxhall PAID @Shakotom PAID @MopedNZ @chris r PAID @Archetype @Raizer plus one @Geophy plus one PAID X2 @Truenotch plus one @Shewolf ? yet to be confirmed @flyingbrick @Firetruck Julio D Andrew Swinton @Zeubin Kass PAID @Tumeke Cam Walker @cletus @peteretep Via @sentra will add paid once i receive payment.

I really really want that one/an Up in general!! The fucked one is a Canopy that was spitting it's own piston out the exhaust pipe in dust form 2 will fit in my trailer no worries, there about the same width as @MopedNZ's Lead "50" and it squeezed on just fine with Plan B from the drags. And 2 2 wheelers fit in my van fine, but I'm wanting to make a mount to hold them in, got sick of trying to strap them back down all the time!

just put mine on the roof. but two gyros back and forward should work surely? there is one on fb atm for sale oh and a fucked one for sale as well @Raizer was trying to fix it i here

Been dialing in the suspension. almost getting to the point that need to re-valve the shocks to go any further. basically been messing with the spring preload and switch over to the 2nd spring rate. best results so far have been setting the rear soft as possible spring wise and also softening up the hydro bumps, gone from 90psi to 50psi. Then on front have it switching to the 2nd spring rate with only 20mm travel from ride height which also stops it rolling so much. so far im thinking it needs more compression valving in the front. bit of a learning curve to figure it all out. still having a nose dive issue. my jump at the end of the vid sucks, which isnt helping the cause. can see in the vid if hold it tapped it works a little better. try roll the jump does a sweet nose dive. seems to go over the first bump fairly nice. gearing kinda sucks and have a massive leak in the inlet manifold which isnt helping the cause. / need bigger paddock side effect of less pressure in bumpstops. that tuck

I still own this. got it woffed for labour weekend so it could attend datsun nationals in ohakune. but more importantly it got a wee upgrade. extractors next....

Oh man, imagine a 20B and 5spd in the Merc and it boned on it's ass. Oooooooh mama.

Just remembered I could take the Mercedes to this instead. That would be hilarious around the track. Decisions decisions.

No worries @MIRAGE-MAN not aimed at you personally mate, just a reminder for all that we have zero tolerance. catch you soon! jamming my junk in a box at the moment gonna go wrap presents later....

anyone after a bike im just going to offer andrews one out so lest his bike can do the ride

Long time no update etc. Now that I live in Canada I've been doing a bit of shopping from North American sellers, and will eventually send it all home to NZ in the future. Have bought: - Whiteline 26mm adjustable rear sway bar - Evo 8 AFM, Injectors, ECU, loom adapter and plug in tablet to update the fuel management side - HKS elbow + refurbished throttle body with new seals that has been bored out to 63mm - Evo 9 Bilstein front and rear struts - AMG grille and new Depo orange corner indicators

After a long harsh winter of no progress it's finally back on the ground. New coilovers, steering rack, RS hubs, track arms, RS tie rod ends, sway-bar bushes all fitted in the weekend. Should be able to get it really nice and low once the engines in and the coil-overs are wound down... looks like the tyres are gonna rub though so will likely need to swap them. The alloy RS hubs stick out about an inch further than the standard ones. This means the next step is getting the motor back in... which might even happen before Christmas. Finally more steps forward than back!

I just got this Rambler transported up from Christchurch last week, so at this point the plans are to actually drive a car and enjoy it for once, instead of having it in a never-ending project mode. I'm sure a full body restore + respray will come in the next 6-12 months but for now my goal is to lower it and just drive it around for a few months at least. So this thread won't be anything mindblowing, just keeping a classic running and giving it a tidyup in the near future. It's a 1966 AMC Rambler Classic 770, running stock (even matching numbers) 6 cyl 232 with 3 on the tree. NZ new, first registered in Christchurch, and it's been there up until last week. 3rd owner had it since 76 until 2010, and then last owner before me only seemed to take it out for WOFs and drive it about 50-100ks between warrants. The paint is original, pretty rough but very very clear of rust (for a car of this age). I suspect I'll fail a wof for some surface rust around A pillars, but that'll be a good reason to strip it all down and do a full panel/paint. I went to rip the suspension out of it to try and match it to something a bit more common, and thanks to the good people on this forum I found out that this is running "Trunnion" front suspension which requires a purpose-made clamp and using car's own weight to compress it by jacking the opposing rear corner. Although now I've had someone in a Rambler Facebook group tell me how to pull out the springs without it, but I'd rather not risk my life for the sake of sussing out the right part so will do it properly. So this will have to sit this high for a bit longer until I sort out this clamp. It runs drives / has WOF, Reg. Well, it drove when I dropped it at the transporters week and a half ago in Chch, got here empty on gas and flat battery. I suspect it was left running, ran out of gas, sat there for a bit and fried my points. The points are gone, so I'm replacing them and the rotor at the same time (picking them up tomorrow). Will then blow the fuel line through just in case and will see how it starts. A bit annoying but small price to pay to get this beauty up here. I'm the 5th owner, this is the first time I've owned a car of this age where I had the original ownership paper, and the plates and engine matched. So the ownership cert had to go in a frame, pretty anal I know, but I don't know if this will happen again so might as well make the most of it: There seem to be bugger all of these around, trying to find any parts for them all shops seem to try and juggle between other models of AMCs, so ill start a list of all parts that seem to fit this particular model, and if anyone happens to come across one of these in the future and needs parts, at least there will be a reference of what parts to get: Ignition Points - BOSCH GD 501C Distributor - Cardone 84-1646 or Cardone 301646 Suspension Front shocks: XA Falcon (TBC) Rear shocks: LH Torana (TBC) Front springs: VB-VK Commodore (TBC) Rear springs: ? will find out

Linkage and deetails? my misses would love the idea of me owning one of these sweet whips...

Shit bricks this is cool. After being at the drags on sat, im keen as for one of those 3 wheel beasts.

Can deliver to you probably @64vauxhall

@Shakotom woild probably be kind enought to bring it down also. actually im going to claim it for the mean time till i get a 2nd bike or untill i hear further details if beth doesn't want to ride a bike.

Actually yes if someone needs a bike I’ll offer my Honda CT90. First gear is missing teeth and the lights don’t work currently. It’s in Auckland.

Will be at a wedding that day. Lame. @Shewolf will probably take the tiki tour though. We're going to look at a small bike for her tomorrow night.

I've been on TM, added a few to watchlist. Might have to go for a drive to auk for a collection.

jack the pump with the relief open and see if it builds pressure or shoots a booger out and fixes it

shit thats awesome

Drove it tonight, exhaust tomorrow. driving there with open headers and excessive traction issues. borrowed wheels...

All this bad mouthing of Nissan boxes is going to upset @fletch

I got a 3.7 nugget from a Nissan Crew in my H190, LSD too

Usually the chain stretches till the cam and crank angle sensors no longer read close enough to start. About an 8 hour job. Chain prices range from like 350 to 800 depending on whether they include a new vvt gear or not. You get new oil and filter at the same time as sump has to come off. Advantage is when they are like this they usually have new spark plugs because people are idiots. I have seen these fail from as low as 80000km Seen some that have made it to 250000km. Generally an average to poorly serviced one fail around the 120 to 150 mark. I diagnosed one of these that was out side the work shop while I was inside working on another car just the other day What sort of car? Primera armadillo looking turd?

we gots some carpet. 2017-12-11_08-12-02 by sheepers, on Flickr its grey and feels amazing, like its a mile deep. so happy with it, it changes colour sort of when you brush it different ways and i think it rules. ive now put the wardrobe shelves/clothes hanger dealios together and Rhona has started filling her 7/8ths of the room with her crap. 2017-12-11_08-11-34 by sheepers, on Flickr and whats that in the corner of the picture??????????? its a fucking bed that i intend to sleep on tonight (probably wake up at 2am again like the douche i am). thats right kids, we're living in it! still heaps to do but the backs broken now. 2017-12-11_08-11-24 by sheepers, on Flickr

Déjà Vu Another OS Dragday done for the year. Such an awesome day. Thanks to everyone involved. I picked up 'Best Burnout' again!! I think doing a such a massive burnout that sets the mudflaps on fire sealed the deal. After the rather large burnout the temp came up and the run down the strip was slow, as the ecu wouldnt let me rev past about 5k rpm. I didn't think much of the situation and traveled down the return road and slowed to pick my appalling time slip from Evan. Then two of the track officials came running over with fire extinguishers. My mud flaps had caught fire! After putting them out the track staff high five'd me and sent me back to the pits to scrape the remaining spent rubber off from the inner guard. Great shot from Andrew Snow tyres for the win.

If you haven’t had a laugh today, read on. friday was a local holiday so I spent the day cleaning and sealing up the split I found in the gearbox.where the drain bung goes it has 2 vertical cracks, doesn’t leak till it warms up. Super couldn’t be assed pulling box out again so drained it, heated it up, brake cleaned,repeated, then RTV was applied. Then when it had tacked off added another layer. 24hrs later last smear and filled the box, added some ATF as it’s supposed to help keep things nice inside there. its held out mint so far. mint16 and I did some hoons and tunes on Saturday arvo with mixture and throttle, got it fairly good but lacked. Then I got him to drive home and he says ‘wow, you have have fuck all throttle...’ Had a look and it turns out THE GAS PEDAL IS BENT! he pressed, I watched the carb end and it was barely reaching secondary’s. i bent it up roughly half and achieved full swing. WELLL FUCK ME it was an Instant animal, I was fucking overjoyed! Pretty much what I was always aiming for but it just wouldn’t achieve. Has a twin carb sound to it, nothing on side draughts, but cool! Still had a quirk that we decided was def an air leak. so that nite I went out country for a mates party, car went great, 3300 at 100km, even has the torque to pass cars in 5th. On the way back I wound it off the clock but ran out of night vision at 150km. on Sunday I yanked the manifolds off, painted the flows again, replaced gasket, and zipped it up again. Then mint16 decided more tuning was better than doing other stuff so We went tuning again. Oddly it had developed a random, maybe every minute PSSST coming from the dizzy side or back. Sounded like compression when you turn an engine over with the plugs out. so we went to his lockup to get the vacuum gauge, car drove fine, didn’t really repeat the PSSST again. Vac gauge didn’t tell us shit. Also the fact we could pull the dizzy vac off and it wouldn’t stumble and die was very odd. Previously decided that cause it had an air leak it wouldnt stumble and die cause it was tuned to compensate because of a leak. then it struck me. Maybe we should take vac from the now useless choke/idle stability diaphragms..the 3rd port on the carb. the 2 on the right don’t appear to do shit, when on the mazda one was connected to vac hose and some was capped off. SUCCESS now we had vacuum, we had a stumble when we disconnected it and we had full dizzy advance when thrashing! So we had another tune hoon and pretty much ended up at the same idle and mixture we had before but with full throttle and advance to help.. wee bastard was proper singing. took it home, let it cool down and checked the head torque setting in case this was the reason for PSSSST. There was a very very minute amount on 2 of the dizzy-side studs but the rest were bang on. i then swapped in my HD crow valve springs, made a wee bracket to hold the throttle cable, tweaked the fuel hard line to tidy it up, re-positioned the vacuum lines, set the tappets and fire it up. All is good. Timing a little retarded. Advanced it a tad. then today I finally decided that after having my leads on backorder for months that they are likely discontinued from TopGun, so I wandered down the rack and found some bongo/econovan leads that looked like the go. tried them tonight and they are sweet, 2 a little long but very useable. I rage over leads that aren’t black. And one kept belting me so actioned a change. you can Also see a wee Shield I made to cover the alternator fan so I didn’t have to worry about it eating my timing light wires or hand. Now I just need the electronic dizzy, change coil and put the air box on, rack up some more miles and change the oil.

5 forward gears! Just need to fill it and go for a test. and the new wheel nuts from mint16. He also checked over the timing last week, I was paranoid I would put a hole in a piston cause things just weren’t lining up like they should but it went really well, and wanted a second opinion turned out I had an extra vacuum hooked up I didn’t need and it allowed the idle to be lowered enough for the timing marks to be bang on.

This is where I apologise for the loud lap on the gn250. Did not realise how loud it is was when on it. I will expect to see a trans on my door step in the next couple of days.

Let down by an Italian car. Who'd have thought.

I am 100% in, trying to sus finishing work an hour or so earlier but I will be there in the evening

But then, it also could be...

Don't worry Tom. It was more of a joke than anything. The Stellar cannot do good one wheeler peelers. I know the rules mate. Sweet as.

Your right. The diff must have been the reason a worn out 5 speed must have blown up.

These updates are getting a bit big, should really post more frequently. Made a new badge for the front of the heater since the old one wasn't in the greatest condition. Think it came out pretty good, but I reckon it could be better. Will give the low areas a paint and see how it looks. These are the dies I used to press it. Here's the finished thing made from 0.7mm stainless. Got the parts back from chroming. Shoutout to Wanganui electroplating for not charging for them to be done. My parents had some bumpers there to be done as well. The ashtray is a bit pitted but the raised bits aren't too bad and I was thinking of painting the low stripes anyway, so should look fine. Discovered there was no gap for the seat belts to fit between the seat, so bent up some 10mm steel tube and welded together some ovals for them to pass through. Made some new ecu mounts. Spent more time drawing up the triangle cutouts to look right than anything else. Couldn't quite get enough length from the wiring to mount them all the way back as I would of liked, but this will do. Took the rear fenders off the bed and took them, the runningboards, splash aprons and a couple of bonnet latch panels to the sandblasters. They did a good job so looks like it will be staying patina for a bit longer haha. Primed them all up on the weekend, would be soooo much easier if I was painting the whole truck! Sprayed some paint on today, pretty happy with how it turned out! Will be undersealing the fenders and running boards but gave them a quick spray with what I had left over. Was going to strip apart the front clip to take to the sandblasters, but decided not to as I still needed to finish the cutouts in the inner guards for the engine, as this was way easier to get right as one piece. Will sorta look like this except the bottom profile will have more of a "S" shape to it. Going to be a lot of work but hopefully should be able to blend it all in nicely.

been abit slack with updates on this thing. just been super busy trying to get it ready for compliance. had to sort the play in the idler arm. so i removed it and cleaned up all the bearings and parts then refitted it and regreased it. now have minimal play in the steering. i also replaced the front wheel bearings as i found one was ruff. so i ordered them from rockauto as they were super cheap. also cleaned and refitted with new grease after doing this for the second time as i did this when i did the front brakes but didn't realize one bearing was no good. also had to put another new wheel stud in as i had hit one out when doing the wheel bearings and when i put in back in the spline had stripped. this was a much easier way than using a jack and axle stands.

Is it a Misa?

urethane. of some description, whatever is shiny. the dude is putting the sealer coat on right now................ 2017-12-05_11-11-34 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-12-05_11-11-09 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-12-05_11-11-45 by sheepers, on Flickr

..Another 4 hours and the box met the engine. jesus so fucking sore and tired and angry. the spines on the clutch plate got a bit caned and it just wouldn’t go home. Ended up putting old clutch back in. Outside the car this time. also put standard single carb on, as yesterday I had twins on and it was shitty. Today it hauls fucking well!!

ive often thought about whats going to be a desirable vehicle in the future....cars often have a "cool"period when they are new/current, get to that 15 year old mark where nobody gives a shit about them, they get thrashed/cut up/crashed/scrapped, numbers go down, people start getting nostalgic about them, value goes up again nice car fuel, cool to see an original one