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About a year ago my daughter the chef suggested that a hot smoker would be the business. Not wanting to rush these things I started looking for the necessary things to build it from. First up for the heat chamber/smoke generator I picked up a very small charcoal BBQ thing that was barrel shaped. Then a friend gave me a small Morris Lubricants drum. I raided a junk pile for a gas BBQ burner (It was always going to be GAS fired) and piezo igniter. Fitted the gas burner to the charcoal BBQ, joined the two together and added a chimney also reused an old camp chairs legs for the stand. Ended up with this. The smoke if generated but wood chips in a container in the black portion. The females in the house want to call it "morris" however I feel "Nessie" is a better fit looking at its overall form. The only other thing added is a fancy dual channel bluetooth attached thermometer (the chef insisted on this!) We did tried out a beef brisket for the first thing and struggled to get to a high enough temp - we were intending to smoke for 12 hours ended up with 15 and still not quite the internal temp we were after. The result was more like jerky than we wanted - I like it - but not quite right. I reamed out the gas jet and partially blocked off the flue and could now easily get to the required chamber temp ~ 170 deg c Next attempt was a very large chicken - started off by soaking it in brine for 12 hours and then smoking for 3 until cooked - Manaka was used. Looks like this at full noise. Resulted in this, which was excellent very moist and great colour - it was very big chook very happy with the taste.

SO FUCKING EPIC!! Bring on '19!! /Might need to build a working scooter again before then ha! I've got a lot of footage to try and sort through, but will try and get a vid together asap!

Pretty bloody happy right now!

FOAMERS!!

Right, that's good enough for now. Obviously will need some further work before paint, which wont happen until I shrink all the roof down. With a bit of panel beating I should get it pretty much spot on, I would like to get away with just a coat of primer filler. I might need a smear of filler on the top weld, I couldn't get the roof and patch to sit quite right, so I have a little bit of a valley. I did however just make up a panel spoon to get up in that corner and edge and got it 90% in a few minutes, so theres still hope. Not sure if that line along the inside of the drip rail is supposed to be there, its not there at all on the other side. Might be a seam from where the gutter joins the drip rail. I suppose il replicate it with a little filler. You don't really see it when the gutter trim is on (yes it still fits, I tried. not the drivers side tho, I need to remove a hair of thickness on my new inner A pillar)

That was awesome! thanks to Brent for accommodation, Beth for support car slow driving all day, Greg and Callum for organizing it, and everyone who participated in making it so much fun! Raizer can we have autopsy pics when you pull your bike apart please

fords, mate

Such a good day/night. Next time i think ill wear a camelpack to help keep fluids up. @Raizer i kicked the new scoot over this morning to test your coil wiring. I had bare feet and wet hands- got a zap through the handlebars LOL Also..super good to meet a bunch of you guys/get to know you all in person. @64vauxhalls wifes bike was such a dream. Keen to see what went wrong in the rear hub. I bet these magazine guys got some good snaps! Felt like every time i went past one of em i was tucked behind the bars trying to be aerodynamic. Must hsve been so lol for any of the public. Oh and thanks beth greg for letting me ride the bikes! Huge thanks to beth for driving the support car and massssive thanks to @nickrock for the leather jacket. I wore it for 12 hours yesterday - it fits me well, is comfortable and looks badass- you are all truely GC'S

Pulled out my old 65 Mk 1 GT out of storage today where it’s been sitting for about 3 years. Chucked a battery in after about a miniute of cranking it burst into life. The engine is as fumey as fuck so I reckon the rings are all gummed up and the tacho has stopped working plus a couple of lights.I have owned it about 14 years and in that time done about 2000 Miles if that. The paint is shit with humidity blisters and I bought it that colour which I have always hated, it was originally an Ermine White car, so I’ll work out in the next couple of weeks what to do with it. Current thinking is rebuild the engine and go over all the mechanicals, get Chris R to sort the electrics and get it back on the road. Then either sell it or repaint it Ermine white and keep it.

So getting exhaust looked at on Tuesday, was just going to get the turbo hooked up to the factory system but have since decided I really should commit and get a full system done. Downpipe off turbo is 2.5” I’m pretty sure so will likely go for that. also had a look at the non operational right rear brake, found the culprit (see picture, leaking cylinder) So now need to try and find a new cylinder and shoes and the shoes are pretty contaminated

Awesome weekend. Big thanks to Greg and the organisers. Hillblclimbing was great fun, need more cc next time I think

Found a rusty parts car. A big thanks to @Carsnz123 and @JustHarry for leading a hand to bring her home. Car is on trademe for anyone wanting bits

Time To Upgrade So It failed its next WOF on the front shocks ad ball joints, which I knew was coming. So it was time to start spending some cash money, and finally get the thing low. I will keep all the old parts so if for some odd reason i want it stock height again it can be returned simply. dspec_tt131 from here posted he was parting out his GX61. So I jumped on his modified S13 BC gold struts, to cut out the hassle of building my own. They also came with some RCA's. These have since also been crack tested and are ready for cert. I also managed to get a brand new pair of MX73 BC gold rear struts and springs. dspec_tt131 GX61 I have also pulled apart the front suspension and tidied it up. Replacing ball joints, tie rods, sway-bar links, and bushes. The wheel arches also got hit with some CRC Proseal. Two months till Toyota Fest….. It’s going to be close.

and also i finished the last two doors today. fucking long week its been doing all this but im pretty stoked with the outcome. while i was about it i gave the island benchtop and end a sand and another coat of oil. 2018-01-20_05-22-11 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-01-20_05-21-56 by sheepers, on Flickr

After making the shinker/stretchers ,i made a foot operated stand for them both.as i want these up against the wall ,a single post setup wasnt going to cut it.fairly simple to make,just box section and plate .the foot lever removes when not in use so its not a hazard

Piston received a little love. It was black as black can be with carbon build up. Here it is after 10 minutes sanding: Still looked shit...so I broke out the random orbital, couple minutes on that, then on the buffer wheel...finally got the dome polished where it needs to be. That was way more work than anticipated.

Will have to run premix as only going to hsve one tank.

Nfi why its gone on a stupid angle but @Raizer finishing off his scoot

MINE, thanks @Shakotom Going for the rusty minimalist look, I got stuck in today. Still full of enthusiasm from the ride yesterday. I realized the other half of the swingarm was under the belt guard (I thought the belt side was completely different until looking)- so drilled out the spot welds. Then removed a few other bolt on brackets and ordered another coil 3 in the box, the only one that kinda worked sent millions of volts through the frame like some kinda april fools gag. I also calculated the size of my new fuel tank- exactly two liters. How big is the tank on that bike you had yesterday Tom?

This guy.

The rust was removed from around the wiper panel, and as expected, there was far more than you could see. Then with the rear glass out a small amount of rust was starting in the frame, so that was fixed, a previous impact on the front edge of the bonnet needed looking at and then and then and then, you get it. Beckys planed small tidy up has hit a bump (me) and has snowballed . woops. But in good news, the wellside will have a new floor and the ute will be ten times tidier than before, and that sweet racing stripe will be gone.

@Leebo3 What about these for a stroll down memory lane!!!!

Did 900km going down to Alexandra and back for Xmas, went great. Sucked getting stuck behind campers and boats through the twisty bits though! brother gave it a tune because we were a bit retarded according to the cam specs and It’s going great now. mate brought me a 120Y swaybar as part payment for cutting his rust, this is 4mm bigger and straight swap- so bare metalled and painted it all nice, new bushes etc. then snapped a bolt putting it back together. lucky I did cause I found rust in the rail, so out came two patches and in went rust kill, etch and new steel. Bolt came out while drilling so that was awesome. Took castor rod out to gain space to broken bolt and found those bushes to be pretty shagged too, so I’ll order some more.

Yet another productive week! Spent the weeknights after work cleaning up the engine bay and reassembling the interior, in some spots I'd found almost 1/2 inch thick of oil on the cross-member, so totally worth while! Dropped the motor & trans in Fri evening and spent the weekend putting everything together, gave it a hoon around the block sat evening without the front end fascia on, got many odd looks but one hell of a rewarding experience. Sunday I'd put the last few things together and she ran great! Still need to work out a few minor things (like getting a WOF). Been surprisingly simple working on this ol' Honda, probably the ideal car to learn on, and looking forward to learning more on it in the coming months when I rebuild the original engine and touch up exterior/interior things.

Raided my spares and have got enough to rebuild the engine. Just need to get mains and bigend bearings once crank size is known. Will be running steel caps, lotus 125E rods, 60thou Mahle pistons, all steel rocker gear, cleaned up GT head all held together with ARP fasteners. Cam will be old school A2 Cosworth grind and vernier timing gear. I will run the original Weber rejetted however the engine is all set up to run twin 40 DCOE,s. I’ll pull the engine and box next weekend and also give the gearbox a birthday with new bearings and seals etc. I’ll pull out the front suspension and get that all powedercoated plus put new brake discs on. It already has had the struts done with Bilstein inserts and king springs and the brakes have stainless sleeves so just a rekit required there. Rear end will be the same and I’ll put new bearings in the diff head as it had a bit of a whine from memory.

Time for me to stop being useless and organise a meet! Just to get back into the swing of things, this month's meet will be at Burger Fuel across the road from the plaza. Park up in The Plaza car park at 6.30, spin some yarns, and head over to Burger Fuel when we're feeling peckish. Discuss meets here Chur, see you there

yea ive been making sure the boards continue across the doors where i can. today i did this. if you'd have asked me this morning if i could get all 8 doors done in a day i would have said "fuck yea, too easy". but this takes fucking ages. there is massive amounts of sanding to do all the radius edges and it just takes way longer than you think. ill finish the last two tomorrow. the dark board 3rd down from the top is interesting. without any oil on them they all looked the same but with a bit of oil it went super dark, way darker that the others. no matter. 2018-01-19_05-55-49 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-01-19_05-55-22 by sheepers, on Flickr

Have you got enough counterweight to give a nice ting-ting-ting at idle?

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!

Hey dudes Bought a 1985 AX100 a couple of years ago, had live rego but the previous owner managed to overheat it and melt the piston so when I got it the thing wouldn't even kick over. After buying a new piston and barrel from Aliexpress I managed to get it going again and have been slowly chipping away at doing some mods on it, it's pretty mild at this stage. Mods so far; Pirelli City Demons Cut Down factory front mudguard Fork boots New Headlight mounts Small indicators DT125 (I think) Headlight Drilled the back of the headlight and installed small LED's for my warning lights, modified the factory loom for this and everything works perfectly Also Drilled a big hole in the weird knobby piece the headlight had in the back of it and re-located the ignition here (sort of impractical but it hides it well) New MMC speedo, Used the mount they supplied for it and modified the hole in it the speedo itself bolts into so i could rotate it in the mount and bolted the opposite end to the bottom of the mount for my handlebar clamps, this worked really well. MMC chrome drag bars and gum barrel grips Re-located the horn so it's now under my seat, also Re-routed the factory loom, they usually hang down underneath the bottom triple clamp, I made it so it is above this so its not hanging down looking all ugly, tidied up the front end quite a lot. Painted bar clamps and top triple clamp black and replaced the top pieces of the bar clamps and bolts with items off an LTZ 400 quad, they looked a little better than the stock items Expansion Chamber and muffler Cafe style seat Smaller tail light and number plate mount Rear guard is actually a front mudguard off a gn125, after some mods it fit and does the job There is also probably a heap of stuff I've missed, there's a few little things I've done that has made it look a bit better but not that noticeable at first glance.

a wee small update on th old girl (picture less ) she flew throw her 2nd WOF in my possession... i also swapped th aftermarket hard as fuck engine mounts that shock evry thing to death out for the old factory ones in th mk3. so much better but the engine sat a wee bit lower and that in turn lifted the arse end of the gearbox and then that made the driveshaft rubber doughnut hit the tunnel.. so i spaced the gearbox crossmember down and man its so smooooooth and awesome to drive. i also swapped the heater motor out (chewed to fuck and on full tit vibrated like mad) for the mk3 motor...man the heat and silence is perfect. on a side note with the 5speed i am now getting just over 500ks of daily driving goodness to a tank of gas. so all in all still happy with it..(needs and LSD and 100 more HP)

So you are the man to send beer to when a car needs a new windscreen frame then huh @peteretep, they work by either pulling the jaws apart for stretching, or pushing together for shrinking

https://www.facebook.com/events/192124088008602/ When: Sunday 21st January 2018. 11am - 2pm. (starts thinning out by 1pm usually) Where: University Ave, Massey Uni Campus, Auckland. middle tier carpark outside 'The Ferguson' bar. Cruise meetup points at the usual places... Greenlane McD's and Westgate outside ASB, 10.15am, depart 10.30ish. Someone in attendance gather those there and make call to depart. For previous meet galleries and FB posts.. www.jap-olds.nz

This was funny, a old mate of mine had one of these back in thae day, his name was Josh as well. Truck was running a modern Toyota diesel engine?

After driving my "new" Mini for a bit, i forgot what torque was. And then i drove Tess again.

40mm lower deck than the stock one. Reckon I'd stand half a chance of not getting pulled over if i went up the road on it again hopefully even better chance of staying on. Engine sitting back in place forks back together may get the rest back on it tomorrow. Pics once it's going again looks quite different and finished I reckon just needs rego.......

Roughing it out Still a bit of work to do, but already a huge improvement. When I'm happy with the "flow" it will get polished up. The intake should be rough, the rest should be smooth

In November I took the RX7 to my mechanic to get the hesitation diagnosed. The battery was stuffed. It appeared to be the OEM one from Japan in 1994! The ignition coils were worn out too. This is a common issue, as the coils sit right on top of the motor, under the intake manifold. So they see a huge amount of heat! I borrowed some good coils from the mechanic, then drove to Taupō for Powercruise. The car ran smoother than ever, but still had a shrieking boost leak. Powercruise is a fun event with cruise sessions, drifting, drag racing, and burnouts. Legally hooning with my friends hooning in our cars never gets old! Here is some video: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3d6kKsW9LBKEF2tgHXa_3zyc-VGr39aw After that I thought it was time to slow down a bit and start throwing parts at the car. I’ve accumulated a bunch of bits waiting to go on, but I didn’t feel like I’d be able to get them all bolted in with only a month between track events. Turns out that was a good plan as I’ve only just finished this week! November to January isn’t too bad for a project to be off the road… Here’s my list of maintenance done: Windscreen chip repair 2 x OEM wheel center caps NGK ignition leads & used good coils belts oil & OEM filter Battery Front brake pads New OEM Upper intake manifold gasket New OEM late model radiator New OEM coolant hoses, including the bastard hard-to-reach turbo hoses. New OEM turbo inlet and outlet gaskets and Y pipe O ring. New OEM thermostat, fresh coolant. Tested turbo control solenoids and vacuum lines, only a few lines needed replacement. There were a few upgrades too, I’ve given in to the modification bug, within reason at least! Used OEM 96+ turbo Y pipe and crossover pipe: This upgrade replaces the leak prone turbo outlet to intercooler joiner. The early cars had a rubber hose joiner which constantly leaked. The newer type has a two bolt flange and gasket, plus the crossover pipe is aluminium instead of plastic. Trust Greddy SMIC (stock mount intercooler): which is about the largest volume intercooler that can fit with the stock airbox and battery. It is an old kit which isn’t made anymore, but I picked one up for a bargain price via Facebook. It wasn’t as simple to fit as it first appeared, and took a few attempts to tweak the alignment and hose angles. New silicon hoses and clamps completed the job. I do need to build a better duct though, as the factory ducting doesn’t fit at all well. Blitz blow off valve - I haven’t fitted this yet, but I got it for free with the 96 turbo piping. I’ll give it a go and see if the novelty to cringe ratio is acceptable! The list of things to do is now slightly shorter, and the car runs even after changing all those parts. The intake manifold is super fiddly to fit and remove, with hidden hoses and connectors that need to be fitted by feel. So I was quite worried that I’d forgotten something essential and would have to re-do stuff! Once I fix the dribbly windscreen squirters, I can get the car road legal again, and go to the Leadfoot Festival and Rotary Reunion in February. Summer ain’t over yet!

I have 1cover insurance at the moment, they seem pretty good and answer questions pretty quick. I have a claim with them at the moment and doesnt seem to be too hard Don't forget to go to a gun shop too in vegas, we saw people walking out with machine guns for rent. Free, but amazing Also, if you can find one, try to check out an old car wrecker, we saw a couple in the desert's, so much sweet old stuff to look at, and more or less free And if you are going to drive, try not to spend all the time on the interstate, if you have time, try drive on some more local roads, lower speed limit so you go slower, but gives you an opportunity to see way better stuff/'real america'

Small bit of progress... Adapter plate for the throttle body welded on to the plenum and painted it yesterday. Also cleaned up and painted the water pump housing and fitted that along with a new QH water pump. The previously overhauled power steering pump and a new Alternator got thrown at it also. Getting closer...

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