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Just a small update - not long after getting it I put it through the Ontario equivalent of a WOF, the "Safety Check" which it passed not needing much. With new plates (old owner takes their plates off) and ridiculously expensive mandatory insurance it was back on the road. It's first legal trip was to the supermarket, where someone in their oversized Datsun prompted used my bumper (and 2 day old fresh plate) as a parking spot. I now have a dashcam & tyre valve stem remover kept in my glovebox for these times. Bought many a box of service items from RockAuto And some Solex locks from 'straya maaaate because the original lock barrels can be opened with almost any key and it has keyless entry anyway. Also had my first break down, can you spot the problem? ** Discussion https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/74793-helium-elbows-magical-rx-7-fb/ **

** Discussion https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/74793-helium-elbows-magical-rx-7-fb/ ** As 3-4 months of winter snow is coming up in just a few weeks I'm going to take it off the road and do a bit of a refresh. It needs a bit of a tidy up body wise as there is some faded/crazed paint on the passenger guard and door, and some little bits of surface rust here and there to tend to. I've salvaged the Racing Beat Road Race header and Power Pulse pre-silencer and main muffler from the parts car And picked up some Enkei EK98 15x7 -3 wheels which could do with a bit of a tidy up. The lips have been painted silver and I want to take them back to polished metal. Not keen on the black centres either, looking to go a metallic silver or bronzey/gunmetal. Also found the original owner's manual

Hoping to also have a decent crew from QCR as well. A few CTs and Monke Bikes

Hi. this is me showing my interest in the event. will check back in once i have a small human and see what my life says about going away for a few days with the BOYZ

from all that gripping onto the seat probably bart

Still to do a third layer to hide a few mistakes, a good resin coat to sand / clear plus some tidying up but it coming together.

Yeah buddy, I'm in and I believe a few other PPSCers are planning to attend too.

It will be minutes and alot less money if you put a Lifan in it

im in, peter t is in. any other north islanders? can someone please hold us to task on this.

How good is a box of rockauto parts that takes like 8 months to get around to installing.

Its the alternate route but with added length so bout 130kms of gravel all up

Rode my pushbike to work for the first time this week, appointment to see the surgeon tomorrow to get the all clear to start physio. WR250R is now paid off so I can start eyeing up other options. If anyone is keen on my FT500 project (rego on hold) I'd love to exchange it for a lifan'd (or similar) beauty.

My jerry can arrived from China today haha

Fuck me dead. That YSR was so close to not finishing it isn’t funny. the sprocket is so coozed that he chain has ridden up it onto the link plates and is guitar string tight to the point where the bike is hard to push!

Yeah that works good. Apart from one bolt that didnt want to go in its home it was a piece of cake.

** Discussion https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/74793-helium-elbows-magical-rx-7-fb/ ** So I never thought I would end up owning a rotary any time soon but wasn't having too much luck finding a sweet Starion/Conquest near me over the last year or so. This came up locally for a good price and thought why the fuck not. It's a 1985 Canadian spec FB RX-7 GSL-SE with the IMSA Targa option. It's basically the same as US spec top of the line GSL-SE with 13B RE-EGI engine just with km/h dials instead of mph. IMSA Targa package adds faux brushed metal targa band (I'm not the biggest fan), front splitter (currently off the car broken) and rear wrap around wing. Factory options include maroon leather interior, electric windows/mirrors, push button climate control A/C, LSD with larger vented disc brakes F&R, cruise control, and glass moon roof with carry bag. It's a two owner car with 167k kms on the clock. Needs a little tidy up with a few small rust patches but otherwise it's a solid body and completely factory original inside and out. It comes with an almost complete '84 GSL-SE parts car that has a 10k old rebuilt engine (though hasn't run for years) and a Racing Beat full exhaust which will probably find its way onto the good car. Plans are to tidy it up over time and bring it back to as factory fresh condition as possible. Probably hang onto it here in Canada for a while and perhaps even bring back to NZ with me. Discussion https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/74793-helium-elbows-magical-rx-7-fb/

Keen to try this road if we do the OG route round east cape instead of using the sealed coast road https://www.google.com/maps?geocode=FVJYwv0dd5ygCg%3D%3D;Faozu_0dNXueCg%3D%3D;FXlpuv0dTjKeCg%3D%3D;FfNMuv0dm0aeCg%3D%3D;FZu1t_0dEZGdCg%3D%3D;Fabptf0djuecCg%3D%3D;FUkDs_0d0HSbCg%3D%3D;FbXxsf0ddUycCik9kNnmKHhmbTGjXdM5uJzp-A%3D%3D&daddr=-38.0631911,178.1583886+to:-38.1149520,178.1397258+to:-38.1222540,178.1449226+to:-38.2920705,178.0984489+to:-38.4098195,178.0550541+to:-38.5998636,177.9601438+to:Waikanae+Beach+Motel+Salisbury+Road,+Awapuni,+Gisborne&saddr=-37.5950553,178.2979754&dirflg=dh&ftid=0x6d667828e6d9903d:0xf8e99cb839d35da3&shorturl=1

Work It's a chiller converted. Full on Barry. There's copious amounts of bed liner and silicone on the cab roof to stop leaks, solar led lights glued to the outside, even Barry sharn starter notes stuck to the dash board. He's got what looks like acrylic for side windows, I though that it not being a passenger compartment it was ok, but apparently not.

@Threeonthetree’s sprocket bolt.

Ripper weekend! cheers lads had a blast. Would post some photos but I'm to retarded to figure out how

Bolting clean painted parts on with new bolts is satisfying

While I was fabricating the roller, I visited a bunch of engineers in the region and found that no one had a lathe big enough to machine it. Bugger. After getting some quotes from further abroad that would have blown my entire budget by themselves (15-20k). I decided that I'd just build my own lathe.. I jumped onto Ebay and ordered the cheapest set of linear rails I could find, including the ball screw and bearing blocks. 3-4 weeks later I got set to mocking up the "lathe" using the compound slide from my Stanko mounted to some adapters. Spinning the roll by hand with the compound slide clamped to the linear rail, I took the first test cut. "Fuuck yeah, this'll work" I said.. It would have taken forever to machine the 3mm x 25mm weld bead off, but I remember once when @kpr mounted his angle grinder in the lathe to cut through some hardening on a set of axles from memory? (that image is burnt into my mind, probably thinking it might be a useful trick one day. cheers dude!) The grinder worked really well and made short work of it. Spinning the ball screw with a battery drill.

I've already ordered new brake shoes

Usual story broken down Fords and Chevs helping hahah. Nah some guy in his falcon got a flat battery watching the cruise on the Onemana hill so gave him a jump.

mine is for business advertising reasons really. main street for talking and max profile of people viewing the shit i have. (eg rotary beetle) you can cruise the main street at night when ever but say you head to a viewing spot you might find it hard getting a car park to view but if you are an entered person they always have car parks there for you.

Mostly you need it to enter the official cruises to get into the special parking at the end of the runs - Waihi, Whitianga, Onemana, Whangamata For the Onemana one, you need to second sticker they put on when you line up at the start so people can't join 1/2 way through. There is also a special entrants-only draw for $10k on the Sunday.

not hugely, I would say FCs and FDs are more popular here.

from memory will need to load up a suitable XDF file in tuner pro 1st so it knows how to use the bin file data

while im here. Ive built this amazing turd to do some testing on. Its a super janky mixup of parts. but kinda resembles a stock smallport engine. although the head has had port and chamber work done to it, was only spare i have. why? mostly because i need to test some questionable mods, i dont want to try on my good engine. but also good opportunity to kinda start from the bottom an dyno test stuff that works, that doesn't involve building an expensive engine. I have some hand me down parts that can go on it. itb's and cams and the likes

I didn't know it was coming, jumped enough for some bourbon and cola to splash out of the can.

^ Thats awesome!

Postie with his small bike brothers

Another Shot of the rear spare wheel well. came together quite nicely. Cut the bottom and inner supports off a spare RH guard I had. And welded them onto my slightly better, but rusty on lower parts, RH guard. To go with the new Dakota Digital Bearclaws. I spun these new pins up on the lathe. (no hex bolt head on them compared to the Dakota Digital ones) And my brother, Matt welded them to some countersunk plates. Which fit like this to the factory adjustable mounting plates/ And work great with the bear claws installed in the doors. Today I managed to partially fill two more holes that still exist between the chevy and lexus. Front of the sills, and a new Guard mounting point on the RH side, as it had also rusted away. From beneath you can still see the hole left to be filled between this new patch and the sills plate.

that looks like a thing that might work. but you're right, burnouts might be compromised and we cant have that.

forgot to mention, a supercharged 1UZ pulling hard at 7200RPM sounds pretty ace.

tidying a few things up with the tune. i had no speed signal so the ECU didn't know if we were moving or not. with an E throttle that makes quite the difference. so i put a wheel speed sensor in the back so now it knows we are moving. the other major thing that needed sorting was the rev limit, it was set too low (6500) and it was pretty harsh. so now th rev limit is a more excellent 7500 with a really nice cut that just works. lots of little things were made better in regards to coasting to a stop, the fan coming on, part throttle curse, just more drivability. the other thing that we did was add a bit of timing up top which coupled with the higher rev limit it made 275 killer wasps at the tyres. keen for drag day TBH.

Heads all back on, timing done, exhaust back on, wiring underway. Been tweaking some bits in the bay, re routing wiring to hide it below the manifold etc. Starting to tidy up really nice, waiting for distributor to come back then I'll mount the carbs permanently. Hopefully at the tuner early December.

Had a go last night at doing the upper half. Decided to just do two layers to feel things out incase I screwed up prep work and it wouldn't release... But it's off safely. Few errors and some flaws but learning as I go

prius motor swap its been a long strange trip on oldschool.co.nz these last 15 years. But here we are

Best combo Fa50 to doing the necessary beer runs

Yeah sharp corners are the bane of my existence Looks good, look forward to seeing result! I've still got a love for carbon sleeve its just so good and easy to use. Every time I make something I think it gets a little bit better and easier. But I'm honing in on a super easy way to make decent-ish trumpets for ITB setup. I've been running a few 3d printed variants but think I've found best length that I can fit so make some better ones. I tried to incorporate the base part into a single piece as well but it's just easier as 2 piece. This is the dissolvable 3d print material but in this instance it's actually easier to just print it really thin and hollow and just break it all out. Trimming stuff with a razor blade while it's still tacky is a life saver

Just made a purchase of some CF cloth, resin and assorted supplies. Going to try an airbox for starters, stand by for fail pics. Edit: Planning on making it in two pieces. Not setup for vacuum bagging, am planning on laying the CF much like what the guys did with the carbon 240z mentioned earlier. Plug(?) below of what I'll be making it over. Photo pre final sand/clear coat. Spent waaay too long making that out of MDF, expanding foam, fiberglass and bog so hopefully doesn't get destroyed lol.

Last weekend it went back together and it’s good to be back dailying. The roof lining took so long + all my patience, doing a part then glueing clamping and leaving it.. Sealing the screens in was pretty frustrating, rubbers went a bit wonky in places/inconsistent shape/mess etc. headlining in, different drivers seat with way less tears (matching passengers is coming)