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FUCK OK LETS JUST CLARIFY!!!!! this car now has a 4M in it. i know Ms are bad but there is no fucking way i would condone a downgrade to a massive pile of shit like a 202. not on my watch.

all buttoned up. the little piece at the top of the arch repair is low and im a bit fucked off about it but its low so a bit of bog and it'll be right. i suppose its better being low because its way harder to deal with when its high. 2018-03-14_10-52-39 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-03-14_10-52-49 by sheepers, on Flickr now ive got to fix up the sedan and get rid of it so i wont be doing much on this for a couple of months. ill be acquiring parts (like lower springs) but not much else. stupid sedan.......

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current state. 2018-03-15_05-51-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-03-15_05-51-37 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-03-15_05-51-49 by sheepers, on Flickr so the car came with a USB stick full of photos some of which show the engine being reconditioned. all signs point to this being the case. the shell is in amazingly good condition. the doors are rust free and the rest of its only got a couple of small holes on the rear arches. shes pretty good all round really. makes my life easier.

The mirrors arrived before Wagnats started, but I got the notification while I was driving to Wagnats... So today I spent about 2 hours installing it in the hot hot sun. Ford sure made that shit overly and unnecessarily complicated to install. The elusive fucking mirror that has taken me close on 9 months and a bunch of fucking money to get into my hands, is finally attached Now for a couple of pictures I've had in stock for a few weeks Arriving at Wagnats, here you can see I now have the Triden 8's up front and 9's in the rear. Also wagnats is serious enough to need to take a shit tonne of wagcessories... A wee photo from a camp at Otaki Forks before Wagnats - you can compare the before and after of the tinted windows for yourself. Finally a pic I took going out to get fish and chips one night for dinner which I thought was cool.

Right. Beach hop is close so I thought I better make a start. Remember that little go-kart Beth wasnt overly happy about me acquiring. Well it fits unbelievably well. Wheel base is 1meter long. Bang smack in the middle of the wheel arches. It's like it was made to fit. The only problem was with the front the steering hit the front part of the glass and the total width is a bit to wide. So I've trimmed the wheel arches as much as possible with retaining the max arch there for looks. And I also cut the front section out for wheels turning and the steering components. @Archetype has made up a sticker kit for the windows and lights ect ect so I'll mount this body and get it sorted and then kit it out for upholstery. I'm going to add some wings to the main chassis for strength when you step in and also add some stability to the structure itself. This is going to be cool.

Yes VG it has an open diff, as Raizer says with one axle effectively broken the wheels wont drive. As the gearbox is bolted directly to the engine the main shaft is always spinning. This means that there is no need to double clutch but the clutch is used for all gear changes. Dennis made a new gearset for the gearbox which is dog drive and added an extra gear to turn it into a 4 speed instead of 3. The last wof it had was 1994..... Dennis cant remember the weight but he thinks its about 400kgs, i will have to get it on the scales sometime. He also thinks that the engine is putting out about 150hp and there are still some things to be done to it, raising the compression being the main one. Yep spot on, he still has this in his garage! Posts without pictures etc etc... The rest of the structure glued into the front box And gluing the base piece on, various weights from around the shed helped with this task! Next job will be fitting this to the body

i found some photos of my old crowns. this car i bought out of the T&E in about 93ish. it was one of the few manual ones the were about. this isn't my first one, just out of shot to the right is my first one. 2018-03-13_05-25-28 by sheepers, on Flickr this was a really good car this one, this i had for a while and i sold it to a "mate" in 1999. he destroyed it in about 3 months and as far as im aware it got crushed. i fully rebuilt a 5MGE for it that ran an early link. for some reason i left it auto? 2018-03-13_05-25-55 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-03-13_05-25-37 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-03-13_05-24-59 by sheepers, on Flickr heres some various randoms featuring a parts car and doing an engine swap. lol, turd for turd. 2018-03-13_05-25-09 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-03-13_05-25-19 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-03-13_05-25-46 by sheepers, on Flickr looking back now its amazing to think how plentiful they were and what great condition most of the ones i came across were. only two of the many i had ended up getting crushed by me. one was that green one pictured above which was pretty fucked and my first one which i crashed into a ditch when i got lost coming back from Carterton in about 97. if i can find anymore pix of any of them ill post them up.

Managed a little more on the Triumph over the last few days. Been tinkering on the exhaust getting it all to fit properly, the system runs pretty close to shit and been doing my best to get it fitted up with no tension. What should be easy seems to be not so... Also been plotting out the fuel plumbing and have settled on where everything needs to go and how to mount it all up. Spent an hour in Fluid Power today trolling catalogues for all the little fittings and pipes I'll need, they had some and have ordered the rest. I've chosen to not make it too flashy in that department, just the minimum to get the job done. I reckon it'll look clean enough without any blingy shit. some pics for proof Surge pot/filter and high pressure pump tacked into the boot O2 sensor boss got mounted into the little piece of pipe directly aft of the extractors Fuel pressure regulator and return line on the back of the rail Bodged packer I need to make and add under the right hand engine mount to gain a little clearance.... Slowly slowly heaps to go

well would you look at that. this car is now in my shed...........................

Discussion thread Also, just in case you didn't think I was depraved enough. My BA has been painted now too. Plus I've bought a set of lowering thingamees and also scored some 'teens yo. 19x 9.5's to be 'pacific. Painted etc Tried the wheels on, but still need to do a lowering jobee.

@sheepers so you didnt wana downgrade to a 202 so you should of upgraded to a 308! Its pretty simple really

I'm planning on taking the Falcon, but I should probably upgrade my AA to AA plus before I do.

Louis, if you need a 2stroke dyno, I use Lincoln at R&R Powersports. I'm sure he would like to strap this to the dyno and get it running just right for you. Not cheap, but he knows his stuff.

this is so great. if buying parts from scootercare funds this sort of carry-on then sign me up haha

Went for a tour around coromandel with a couple of mates for the weekend. Seat situation is so much better on the posterior

So after a solid week working on this thing ive just about finished it. Waiting on one brake Line then ill bleed them up and ride it. Starts up all good and lights work all good too Stoked

Thanks for that, might have to get in touch with him In the future. Dennis's mechanial fuel injection and ignition set up both use specially shaped cams for fuel metering and ignition timing. This stuff is all well sorted so hopefully I should not have to do much in the tuning department.

I got one. So thats good enough for me.

Block is more or less complete. Managed to find a wider tensioner and belt which will work with the later model crank pulley, got oil pump pulley to suit finally. Ground and polished the sharp edges off the pistons and combustion chamber where the blank off plugs went in. Have tested the valve to piston clearance and it sits around 1.5.. Which is good. On tonight's agent a is to time it all up and fit the belt for real.

Yeah tonight.

I should be able to be at caltex at 2pm or pretty close to. Will get booze etc Friday night ready to roll also

Leaving times are definitely @Seedy Al's domain. All i've gotta do on Saturday is hopefully make my hair less ginger. And make demands about stops for delicious treats on the way

yep

HNNNNNNNNG. This god damn thing eh. 11/10.

MACKAZ tip of the day, for a cheap lower job find some XF spindles, 1" drop factory, found this out when finding spares for my old stock car that had XD spindles

Installed my latest decorative item.

We can discuss in detail over a cold rum or 7 in approx 1 weeks time. (presume you are heading over Wednesday or Thursday?)

I can grab anything you want to pass on when I pick up the Landau manual..

In typical MACKAZ fashion, another pictureless update. But I was listening to as spot of Motorhead on my way home, and a song Jailbait come on. Freaking awesome song and I think quite a fitting name for my rod.

No i'm not, but can probably easily pass it on to someone who is

After a week of being mucked around by a locksmith that ended up not being able to cut a key for my ignition I got it sorted the other day, took a different locksmith 15 minutes to sort it out. I rebuilt the electrical end of it myself, added new springs and balls etc to the switch plate thing since the old balls were rusted and pretty much flat, now has a satisfying *click* when you turn the key. Also swapped the wires around and freshened up the solder to get it working how I want it. Soo much crap in the headlight bucket! Managed to age the new chrome ring a bit. Needed to test the headlight...

did a bit more. i decided the bottom of the B pillar needed more investigation so i cut the bottom out and cleaned it all up. then it all got a coat of two pac primer and i stitched it all back together. 2018-03-13_04-13-42 by sheepers, on Flickr 2018-03-13_04-13-55 by sheepers, on Flickr made a new lower quarter and stitched that in. its all epoxy primed inside. 2018-03-13_04-14-22 by sheepers, on Flickr while i was waiting for the paint to dry i started removing the rust from the rear quarter. need to make a few bits and that will be fixed. 2018-03-13_04-14-32 by sheepers, on Flickr

I really really like the sympathetic rebuild to preserve it's originality, I think it's a method more racecar restorers should consider instead of a concours level rebuild. I realise in a lot of cases this is difficult however, but there's something special about the battle worn aesthetic of an old racer. Look forward to following progress, it's a brilliant looking little car.

On Thursday last week it dawned hot and sunny. This was good. The thought of trying to load an old car shell onto a trailer using a tractor and some pallets in the rain would be yuck. Instead.. we got blasted by sun. We got the shell onto the borrowed trailer, loaded the van up with more parts from another Imp (there's more to collect!) and made our way back home slowly along a now revised (thanks Cyclone Gita) very windy route. Once home this was our view as we sipped our lunchtime coffee... I moved it up to the workshop entrance. Viva wagon was banished downstairs.. Cleaned out a load of old interior carpet and insulation.. Sat inside it and made (little) engine noises.. It came with some patina attached.. Then the clean began.. It cleaned up nicely... Then we moved it inside. Lifting it off the trailer was a lot easier than putting it on.. I am now building a decent sized rolling table to lower it onto. More on that soon. Glad to have the shell here so I can crack on and cut out the rot. First job though is to clean all the mess out inside. Quite a fun job that. I might find some coins and so it can end up even cheaper

Ii haven't done anything to this. Today I did some things with it today. Things like pushing piles of AP65 about and making a nice parking space behind the garage. Mint!

Cool, cheers for the tips @Muncie I got this tensioner mechanism sorted! It's all working as it should, but for now I just have a bit of rubber in place of the chain roller. I'll buy a chain roller for a pit bike, I've used these before and it worked great on the other applications. I'll tidy it up a bit and then call a day.

Yeh so I lost alot of interest in this for a while with house project in full swing and buying a datsun wags money was a touch low. So I stripped the motor completely down because the cylinder was quite rusty in number 8 and scored up in number 1. Pistons were already .030 thou over and next size up i could find were .060 so said fuck it and went full bore out size. I bored it out at work honed it up and now ready for assembly next few weeks in spare time. Plan is to work on boat hull over easter so I'll try keep up with updates.

Tv's so boring these days, there's never anything on worth looking at...so I dragged the goped inside to stare at on the off chance I glean some inspiration. My wife is currently googling "psychologists in the Waikato region". I don't know why, there's nothing wrong with her?

This time with feeling

Found some before pics of the wheels: And wheel completed: The bearings in the other wheel are fucked, so I'll swap those out for fresh ones...then we're ready to roll!

Also a lol. We needed a hing for beths scooter late Friday night and well nothing was open so we have this scenario. Fuck yeah. Works. BRILLIANT.

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