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  1. Anyhoo I'd already pulled it apart and ol xin p. ling at the blow off valve factory has been putting the wrong size o rings in, got a couple of new ones and tried it, now it seals pretty well
    14 points
  2. Picked up these two ST140 Corona Coupes off @Simon a few weeks back. For those that don’t know about them, the “complete” one was running a 1UZ and W series box and t-series solid diff. The other has an IRS rear end mocked up. Both currently have no running gear though. Old and mostly dead build thread click here. Not 100% sure on what I’m doing with them yet, but the Starlet needs finishing first anyway. Will slowly collect parts that pop up in the meantime. Need another uncracked windscreen, apparently A6* Celica’s are the same, if anyone knows of any. Looking forward to starting them one day in the future!
    12 points
  3. Threw a few new gaskets and seals at the AU, also welded up the exhaust and fitted an A50 airbox from @Shakotom etc. Gave the carb a good clean out and fixed the leak it had, the fuel tap had reserve, reserve and reserve, so we stripped it and used a couple bits out of it in my old A50 one which worked but leaked like a sieve. Mrs fitted her new chain and a fresh plug then had a blast riding around the yard, so I guess we better hurry up and get the paint, tyres, brakes and lights sorted before summer ends! Lol I thought it was 1 down, 2 up shift, so had her start off clicking down from a false neutral into 3rd, went a lot faster after we figured out it's actually all down shift!! Just trying to track down a few parts like an ignition switch for it, pretty much everything else we can make or customize to suit I think.
    7 points
  4. I have had a VIN assigned for the woodie so it's properly recorded in LANDATA for the future. I also had the local Repair Certifier come down and take a look before I did anything. He confirmed that it's OK to go ahead and start work replacing the rot myself. He's since passed this project on to the new owner of the shop. so I'll have to get him down for a look sometime soon too. After that I felt it was OK to do a little dismantling. Removed the hood (floppy) and some of the grille bits and the drivers side guard for access to the A-pillar. Also had a go at replicating the front under-floor support. It was hard going in 16g, I made the sides separately using the nibble to fold the bend over as a flange then welding sections into the base. Turned out 'OK' but might end up making it again now I've had a practice run.
    7 points
  5. Also finally got around to starting on my new engine for the Green bike. The factory case screws were tight enough I had to give in and buy an impact screwdriver and they still fought that! Little tip, always remember to drain the oil first! At least it seems @Sparkle had recently changed it, so the couple hundred ml that soaked my jeans wasn't filthy. Bit grimy, but gears look fine to me, left crank bearing is a little noisy and one of the gear bearings is rough as, no biggie as I've got new ones here anyway. Probably should have pulled all the clutch side off before splitting it, but a bit late now. Will get all the rest out then start porting!
    6 points
  6. Crikey! Its been over 3 months since I last updated this thread. The reason being I have been busy just enjoying summer and driving the Imp whenever I can. Its such a hoot . I'll use any excuse I can to take it for a hoon. We have now covered over 3500kms since getting it on the road at the end of May last year. Considering we work from home so no commute I was quite surprised at how much its had! Its been incredibly cheap to run (very easy to get over 40mpg while still having a laugh) and is sooooo much fun to trash along on windy roads. The reception we both get whenever either of us uses it for a shopping run etc is fantastic. It really does make people smile- which is nice A few various friends, some from Oldschool, have also taken it out for a good thrash. Its really interesting seeing how different people drive it, their style, ease with the handling and gear change, confidence. Generally they have all found it super easy to drive and all seemed to love the handling. If only it had another 50 bhp... I have done a few little jobs here and there to improve it. Back in the last exciting episode I left off with some sexy photos of a new Hitachi carb. I swapped the relevant linkages/cable stops I had made for the previous carb across onto the new one , bolted it in place and hoped for the best. Started the car up but flooded it because the new carb seems to have a more effective choke. Cleared it and started it proper. Straight away I noticed how better the engine sat at idle. I few twiddles of both the throttle stop screw and the idle mixture and I had it running sweet at idle. I then took it for a hoon up the road. WOW- what a difference. No more flat spots, the transition off idle was smooth as, the transition onto the secondaries was smooth. No stumbling when coming to a stop and a super smooth idle. The jerkiness at slow speed in high gear was gone. Overall a huge improvement. Best $120 I'd spent in ages!! Here's a pic of said wonder carb.. Next job on the list was to improve the brake pedal feel. They work really well but I would still prefer a firmer pedal. I knew that the original Honda Civic brake hoses on the front were far too long, needlessly long. So that was a good place to start. I ordered a pair of new stainless braided hoses from Nelson brake services, impressed I was with the previous set I had them make for my Viva. $55 each which is a bargain. I fitted them and noticed a big improvement in feel. much nicer firmer feel with a better defined bite point on the front. But it can still be better and I think that its possible the brand new Lada master cylinder fitted has a slightly weak seal. If I press hard on the pedal and hold the pressure the pedal will slowly sink. I can also pump the pedal up a bit harder and I have done so many attempts at bleeding it I am pretty sure there is no air in the system. @NickJ ever so kindly sent me a spare set of seals he had. However Nick has warned me that they are from the same vendor he got the master cylinder from, which did come wrapped up in newspaper with these two fellas on the front... Interestingly the seals are a odd shape I have not seen before in a brake cylinder. They have a curved edge, like a worn o-ring outer rather than a lip that is forced against the bore like most brake seals I know.... I thought this was possibly the problem but after some googling it turns out that this master cylinder design and bore diameter is a very commonly used item across many Fiats, ladas and some other brands. So the seal design must work fine in use. Hannah's mum has come over from Blighty for a holiday and essential sun. So over a few weeks previous to her boarding her plane I kept an eye out on Ebay UK for anything interesting. She ended up bringing this stash of goodies... Apart from the very obvious Marmite with proper actual taste I bought a Haynes cutaway book filled with lots of Terry Davey's best pics, plus two old magazines with road tests on Imps- one of which was printed at the release of the Imp and is filled with heaps of articles, photos and fold out pages with extra large exploded diagrams. A total treat for any Imp nerd and one which kept me thoroughly delighted while reading it in the sunshine on coffee breaks... Lastly and more recently I have decided to sell on my Viva wagon. I'm not using it and have utterly fallen for the charm of the Imp. I would rather someone else make something of the wagon and what money I get for it can go towards this car (as well as another few projects in mind, and probably pushbike stuff...) So with that in mind I decided the VIva did not need fancy Recaro seats but the Imp does. The Mx5 seats are ok but not quite as figure hugging as I like, nor do they seem to offer the same lumber support that the Recaros do. Plus the Recaros just look so damn nice and fit in well with the little nippy go kart like car ethos I like in Imps. I was worried about them being a lot heavier but they only weigh 3kg more each. I can live with that for the comfort they offer! So I had to add some slightly wider spaced mounting points. Because the mx5 seat mounting points were welded on the back/inside of the box sections before they were welded on the floor I had to instead make up some flanged threaded bosses... which I then tigged in place (rather then risk mig splatter everywhere)... It was when tigging I remembered the steel was zincalume and made my welding a bit messier then I had hoped as the fumes came through... But all good and strong. I shortened the reach adjust levers while I was at it.. I also had to fix the mountings for one of the plastic covers which no matter what I did with the old push in plastic rivets would always come loose and rattle about . I machined some wee stubs and epoxied them in place... This (blurry..) pic dates the seats somewhat... (kids- ask your parents) I finally mounted them in proper and they look great. Much better to sit in and they also swing forwards further than the Mx5 seats - which to be fair really were never designed for a car with rear seats were they. The Recaros have a more suiting mixture of grey and black which suits the interior better I think. However I'll still keep looking for some suitable red leather sports seats much like the ones in my previous Viva for they were the best looking seats I've yet seen, although being slightly wider for 'larger" Alfa Romeo drivers and covered in slippery leather they were in use a little less hugging than these cloth Recaros. So that lot takes us up to date. Next on the list is to fit some carpet, now that I seem to have finally sealed the windscreen properly although the car has not seen much rain recently- its been so dry here since the start of December. I'm still tempted to play with injection. I bought a spare engine for $100 from the local wreckers. Its a 1500 and has the later oval port head. Larger ports and larger valves. We stripped it down together and its pretty good as far as wear goes on the guides etc. Certainly a good head I can clean up and fit without any machining. I have a inlet manifold to suit. However.... I may still yet re-power it with another engine, yet decided on. I do really like the idea of regaining my rear parcel shelf, currently cut to allow the valve cover to go through, because its missed and would be very handy for the weekly shop! Datto engine in the van after pickup... A tiny little tool box a found at the warehouse which was just soooo cute I had to get it... Goes here.. A tiny little trailer we built for some locals kayaks. Had to size it up... I sold the race car shell and it headed south to Queenstown on what was a comically huge transporter. Fuck I laughed... My Imp making other normal cars look huge... Finally my parting shot- because well... I just like this photo
    5 points
  7. Started testing some more intake stuff yeh nar didnt run them that long ^ but made this abortion Red line is one of the best runs i could find from the itb setup Blue line is the run from the setup in picture above Green line is the same as blue, but runners cut down 25mm As can see cutting runners down the 25mm moved the peak higher in the rpm range. and starting to push the big loss off the end of chart Cant cut the current runners shorter due to tower clearance. so awaiting some tighter bends to carry on testing. Goal is to try get it to do the same thing as my na setup. get that peak to sit between 7000 -8000 rpm and gain about 15kw up top. depends if the sharp radius bends are an issue or not
    4 points
  8. Blow off valve Having steel i/c pipes makes selection a little bit tricky as not many come with a steel weld on fitting and I wanted a decent size one. The only ones I found were quite expensive, like $500 or more so I took a punt on a copy aliexpress tial one. It seems ok apart from it doesnt seal. I sent aliexpress man a message
    3 points
  9. ended up getting 45,000L roughly a day out of it, haven't got it tested yet but haven't got sick or the shits. the water goes through a decent filter setup down to 1 micron, put a 750w sump pump with float switch down the well to pump to a 35,000L storage tank. so happy been able to sleep better not having to worry about running out of water, kinda wished i had documented it better as more people could build these as its not difficult. if i build a pool i will probably dig it by hand too.
    3 points
  10. few pics of my new build, this old wagon has been siting here behind my shed for 10 years , so time to do something with it , too rusty to fix for the road so drag only
    2 points
  11. I would be keen to learn how to find water with divining rods Seems like handy but logical witchcraft to have in the skillset
    2 points
  12. just doing the doors and rear guards at the moment new skins on doors and rear guards and new sills had them made deeper so car looks lower to the ground ,also cut the rear bumper and added two inchs into it
    2 points
  13. diff and rear wheels,and rool bar and rear legs in
    2 points
  14. Well, I've had this thing for a bit over a year now. It's a 1951 Ford Country Squire. It came on TM, being sold by the importer. Apparently it had been parked in a field in Pennsylvania for some time. It got no bids on TM but was offered for a fairly cheap fixed price. After chatting to the seller and getting some bad advice on here I bought it. AT that point it was in Blenheim. The seller shifted to a some sort of skid at Strait Shipping, then I had it collected from there and delivered. It's in pretty sad shape. The old wood is missing, it is rusty, and god knows when the flathead last ran. Rust flagged at the border unsurprisingly.
    1 point
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  16. So the old vw has been off the road for about ten months. Luckily, as fate would have it my young brother-in-law was heading overseas to travel. So I've had his old car to drive over winter. Anyone what to buy a 96 Caldina turbo desiel? No Right, moving on. When I finally finished the resto on this thing, the interior was just thrown in, zero fucks, basic. Ten months ago it Also failed it's wof on the setlbelts. So the desiel arrived just on time. I'd noticed that the rear floor was getting wet while driving in the rain. Turned out to be a leak between the floorpan and body right in the corner under the back right. The sunroof had also seen better days, I'd only duct taped in on 2 years ago and the cover was starting to crack and leak. It also has no noise insulation and I'd never gotten around to spraying the rust proofing about inside, again because it was such a mad rush at the end.
    1 point
  17. guards not on yet had to make new c pillars i fuck the old ones when i did the roof chop
    1 point
  18. Started working on the brace for the floor crossmember that was there originally
    1 point
  19. Thanks Amy! Will definitely keep it in mind. Your rx3 is super tidy and would look mint!
    1 point
  20. Looking forward to some great pics and videos and they are celebrating 50 years of OSCA I will be going to all 3 days http://www.canterburycarclub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-SKOPE-Saloon-Class-List.pdf http://www.canterburycarclub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Schedule-Skope-2020.pdf
    1 point
  21. After a lot of mucking about it was still gutless, figured out shit port timing from the crappy Taiwanese kit is most likely the issue. There may be enough meat in the casting to attempt to improve things, but have decided to go another way... Enter another engine ex Sparkle, it's got a possibly noisy clutch and a slight chance of gear issues, haven't stripped it as yet so fingers crossed it's not that bad. Got a few more genuine parts hoarded in preparation of the build And even more exciting for me is this haul of proven high nang goodness from Jonny's speedshop! Customised cylinder set up with a proper squishband combustion chamber button, modded clutch cover with 19mm Dellorto and a 12v CDI set up Need to port the cases pretty heavily, figure out a much more aggressive pipe, set up a flywheel to suit and a few other things to get max nang!!
    1 point
  22. hi guys been a while just getting back on to the ve ,did some work on the new gasser and john a panel guy s doing the new rear guards on the top chop
    1 point
  23. got back to work on the ve this week , just doing the rear guard
    1 point
  24. NZ Classic Car have done an article on the GT in this months edition
    1 point
  25. Firewalls all welded in..time to move onto the last pieces of the trans tunnel.
    1 point
  26. Not much happening with this, got it legal and drove it around a bit over christmas break. Had a few new wheel days Put the streets on for a change Finally fixed a front guard, to replace the one that had an incident with the wall at hampton downs about 5 years ago. pretty good for a spray can job Got another pair of 14x7 03's from old mate @Dudley . Finished polishing them, and some antique gold. after digging out the other pair i'd been hording, they needed same treatment. guard slightly different colour, but will do for now /forever. maybe in another 5 years will fix the bonnet Back to the OG look from 10 years ago except for 7's instead of 6.5's
    1 point
  27. Intercooler pipes mostly done. Need to sort a bov and tidy/paint them Also sorted a water pump pulley and crank pulley combo- these I had bought ages ago as a box of parts off a marine engine which never fitted anything so had to modify a few things, now I can mount the alternator on the front of the lh head which is opposite to how they usually are
    1 point
  28. Goes again, everything seems to work a lot better so far. Main power feed from battery and fuse box now in passenger foot well. pretty much the only place it would fit Made catch can that fits where fuse box used to be. some fresh spraycan paint even
    1 point
  29. A few months more, we all decided "f it, we keep talking about it" so booked ourselves in for a session of drifting at Auto atsumaru in Taupo. my clutch has been munted right back from when it came over from japan so that was the first thing to be done...in obvious 2 weeks out from the track day lol turns out one of the release bearing clips decided it had enough and flew around the bellhousing at some point. had to fashion up a new one from a fwd clutch kit i had i got distracted along the way and found this for cheap and to complete the setup fitted a buddy club fixed back seatrail (which is for sale now) and my old bride zeta 2 disassembled my omori oil pressure gauge as it needed re-calibrating and wanted to replace the lights to LED's that was basically all i needed to do get ready for the track besides minor bolt checks and a wheel alignment spent about 8hrs polishing my wheels from this to this travels up went well. got quite nervous on the line ups but by the end of the day could somewhat hold a slide whilst ringing out 2nd gear ive had this crack free dash for about a year now so should fit it soon lol. also have a stack of other bits and pieces i need to do on the thing but hopefully amongst me getting a new job and x-mas ill be able to make time for her
    1 point
  30. Better make sure you're there with him when he lights it up!
    1 point
  31. better shot of the dash. rear parcel self remade to fit around cage .383 painted
    1 point
  32. thanks i like to find a rusty wreck it make something cool out of it more fun that way . heres a pic of the gasser before and after
    1 point
  33. been doing the new inner guards the last few weeks,boots all lined with new tank as ell
    1 point
  34. under side is all done full chassis connectors .
    1 point
  35. yes still have gasser and coupe
    1 point
  36. its had the b pillars moved back and made into a two door .dash has been changed too
    1 point
  37. Love the e-kettle above...wicked! Finished the barn door today. Been a public holiday I totally forgot that shops aren't open. However this just made me have to come up with creative solutions, rather than buying ready made. So: Standoffs made. Then using the above standoffs I attached the rail to the wall. It's just 50x6mm flat bar. The same stuff I made the hangers out of. Then I used some left over parts from Pete's velobike. And machined in some recessed pockets to hold some leftover harley bearings. Then I had to make mini stub axles for the bearing to attach to the door hangers. And tadah!!!! It works!!! Added a big handle made of rebar. As they say "big door - big handle"... I've also added some stops, "so it doesn't go off the rails" and a floor guide for it to track on. Pretty happy with it.
    1 point
  38. Digging this up from the dead. After doing the above stuff almost 2 years ago. It sprung a leak in the sump, I got angry, done a skid up the road and parked it up. Still ain't fixed. Until today, pulled most of it apart , engine ready to come out. Plan is to fix gearbox and sump. then change a whole lot of other stuff that annoys me. Coupe Lyfe
    1 point
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