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Dads finished up a radiator shell. Looking great. The original cores are made from hex flared tube to make a honey comb bundle which is all soldered together. There are about 5000 tubes! The plan is to make a false tube core /front but use a custom aluminium multi pass radiator to work as the real radiator. It will be nickel plated once the core brackets are figured out and any other tweaks.

About 2 weeks after I brought the car to Queenstown, I broke my shoulder riding the XR250... So for the last 8 weeks I've been staring at this in my garage without being able to touch it. The sling came off last week. I'm still a one armed bandit for anything heavier than washing dishes, but I still wanted to feel like I was making progress. A couple of mates helped me get the car to work over Easter weekend so I could wash it and start on a few small jobs. Much better. One job I really want to do is update the exhaust. The old side pipe has cracked and it had a bad habit of hitting the ground over ripple strips etc. This time I'd like to go full stainless and exit out the back of the car, with two mufflers. Going under the diff will be tricky because of my droop travel and lowered panhard rod mount, so I'm thinking of heading over the diff instead. It looks like it'll work - this is with the LR shock at close to full compression: Rear muffler location will look something like this: I'll run the smaller reso/muffler just before the diff and might run a V band up the front because the old flanges I've been using are pretty tired now! Taking the exhaust out the back makes me feel old. My ear drums will love me for it though

Whatever you do, do not accept an airport pickup from this man ^^ Bort kindly offered me a ride one time, which I was happy to take, but then at several points on the trip I seriously feared for my safety and death flashed before my eyes. Sliding around the back seat of the angry V8 Valiant coupe (2 door sedan?) with no rear seatbelts as he did the imperial ton passing slower traffic on twisty roads. I was not entirely comfortable with that situation. Drive it like you stole it comes to mind. Then we were regaled with stories of how he rolled a car while younger, and other interesting motoring calamities he had encountered - whilst entertaining, did not add to the feeling of safety. Then we were relieved of the near-death experience when he decided to do some road levelling with the sump of the aforementioned car, and it decided to drain the lubricating fluids, rendering it inoperable for the remainder of the event. Hence the nickname "Sumpson" was acquired. Then IIRC @yetchh gave me a ride back to Christchurch in his 121 which seemed to have an intermittent fueling problem and so it wasn't being super reliable either, but we made it. Such memories. TL;DR - if you don't want to die, don't travel to Hanmer with @RUNAMUCK

Entry form now available. Sign up and get amongst it. We really need 35 people to make it work ENTRY FORM HERE https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/8dKo06O3pfc Please remember to pay asap. We can't afford outstanding entry's when the date rolls round ENTRY FORM ABOVE Venue Alpine holiday apartments and campground 200 jollies pass rd The plan. Friday 23rd Show up to hanmer Friday arvo. We will probably organize a lead convoy from the peg hotel in belfast like we have in previous Years. Leaving early arvo. Will confirm later. We will assign rooms and beds . If there is a Group of 3 or 4 that you all want to be together get in contact with either myself or @RUNAMUCK @- i5oogt - Sort your own food. There is bbqs and cooking facilities at the camp if you so desire. Or there js pubs in hanmer. Suport the local community . Get otp Friday night. Sharns. And frost pot action . Saturday 24th Saturday morning. Cleanup from the night before please. We will have labeled bins around the frost pot/garage area like normal. Pleasure use these as we are responsible for our own rubbish . Saturday day. Is really upto you . There will likely be a cruise up to lake Tennyson for some cheese crackers and serenity. This is a rough road but has been done by many far to low cars already. Saturday evening. Same. Sort yourself or go to the pub. Then frost pot sharns. Sunday 25th Sunday morning. Clean up after yourselves and drive back to chch. There are plenty of beds and heaps of space for camping if you feel the need. We will be assigning beds on Friday so there is no confusion and so we don't have to use every room if we don't have to . HAVING THE WHOLE CAMP IS A PRIVILEGE WE WANT TO KEEP. PLEASE TREAT THE CAMP AND SURROUNDING AREA WITH RESPECT Just go do skids on the road like a normal person .

More photos before it's stripped - just for reference. I find trawling through historic build logs really fun over the years to see how far you come I sent mum out to take photos. combined with someone who can't DSLR, and one who can press a few buttons on Lightroom. we come back with this. _MG_1118 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1086 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1092 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1094 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1099 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1100 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1102 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1104 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1106 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1111 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1113 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1122 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1127 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1129 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1131 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1133 by phillipbaines, on Flickr _MG_1171 by phillipbaines, on Flickr Getting picked up this weekend to be stripped. Car will be entirely media blasted to bare metal Car will be off for full panel work resto in July. Will see what the blasting yields!

New beam’s laminated and machined from @Ned’s 3d scans, amazing outcome for such a big surface and “low cost” scanner Realising I don’t have enough talent for structural fiberglass work, talented uncle Neemia from work took over and is doing an excellent job, a layer of glass is over the inside of the hull and the beams bonded in place to be laminated over the top of.

End goal pretty much this

Few random snaps

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I could cum if the wounders find a shit local car they want in the south island. Load it up with PGs then I'm good to go

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So collected the black car. Much better base. Driven to Dry storage 8 years earlier. Fuel pump seized from sitting. Has all the factory bits. Pretty unmolested as far as these things go. I assumed it was fairly straight forward from here. I replaced the fuel pump and fired the old girl up. It promptly pissed fuel from every rubber hose it had. Fuck on the hoist fuel tank out replace all the fuel lines. Get it up and running and blast it round the block. Boost leaks everywhere. while idling the thing in the driveway investigating the boost leaks it spontaneously dropped all its coolant from one of the water lines in the depths of hell under the intake manifold fuck sake repaired this and promptly sent it to the paint shop to sit in the naughty corner for 6 months back track a bit and sometime around 2021 I enquired with Modena in Oz about diffs for these things as they were the only company who didn’t list them as NLAbut really for no other reason than I was interested to see what they costed - quite a lot was the answer. He said he was thinking of making a batch soon and he would email when he was doing them. fast forward 18 months later and I get an email. He has a front and a rear sitting there with my name on it. So I fomo panic brought them. Did I have the money for them. No. Did my road car need LSDs. Also no this started the next unnecessary phase of the build. Full underside rebuild rebuilt subframes diff and transfer box. Brakes. Basically everything mechanically except the engine and gearbox

After a couple of failed race car projects over the last decade decided it was time for a more simple road car project. Being of that age where you start to reminisce your youth I decided a 90s turbo car would be the ticket. And had always wanted a gtir as a young fella I just so happened to know of an abandoned Gtir project in a paddock and after a quick phone call a deal was done It had been sitting in the paddock approx 7 years. It ran but had a blown gearbox (of course) some rust and dents and every rubber part was perished and dash cracked etc. I immediately brought up on parts blew it to bits fixed the dents and rust and was ready to send it off to the paint shop, then……. I bought another one its about that point things escalated

Escort back on the hoist again for its first WOF in approximately 18yrs. Have gone over everything and hope it will pass first time. Well, that went really well. Paperwork completed and sticker on windscreen. Quick trip home and now cars registartion done. Will feel more at ease driving around now. Tune is the next next thing to get sorted Project Discussion https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/84912-petes-mk2-escort-1600-sports/page/3/#comment-2628128

The wof this week is off the cards. I thought I had better check why the handbrake was so pathetic and discovered that both rear calipers were basically seized. I thought the brakes were not as good, now I know why. I may as well rebuild all the calipers and if my visa can take the punishment I might get new discs and pads as well, I might have to sell some shit So I to feel like I had achieved something I messed with wiring of the fuel sensing relay to try to make it work. @h4nd had given me a dose of RTFM so I reworked the wiring to suit, but now it doesn't work at all. I checked many things but no go. There is a good chance I toasted it when I wired it up wrong. I might just wire a normal relay up to and use the alternator as the signal wire. I also poo'd up the washer tank some more as it was still leaking, tomorrow morning may tell me some things; Then I decided to move the afr meter to somewhere where I could actually see it when driving. Basically lots of tinkering with shit and avoiding jobs around the house that I should be doing. Oh and yesterday I tuned/balanced the carbs a bit, hopefully it will run a little better. And also I noticed the gearbox drain plug was leaking.... Cool cool

Jane says we can do it. @igorI expect to see you there, you are also welcome to crash at our place on either side of the event, we have both a room and a shack on offer

Wiper switch turned up today. All 5 points select solidly, they are pretty bulletproof so no further testing will be done until i fit it and it doesn't work. And that could be years away.

While this meet is an OS.co.ng meet (because new cars are shit) its 100% about the OSGCs too. So if its beyond your means to travel a day and a half each way in your old school whip, (which has been on blocks so long itll probably never see the road again, stop kidding yourself) theres a perfectly good plane station down the road in quakechurch, so dont be shy about piping up, and im sure the local crowd can arrange pick up/ a ride to Hanmer. The people running the camp atm have it on the market too. So this could be the very last one. (Karl and i spent ages sharning up a storm getting to know the present people over a few visits)

My lord this is a large rabbit hole to go down. So, the head says PR3-1. Date stamping says '95. Looks like the -1 denotes where the head was cast as there are PR3-1, -2, -3 and -4. I've spent 15 minutes reading the internet and I either definitely have a B16 head or it's an ITR head which supposedly was a factory ported head. Depending on where I read I definitely have the first one or definitely have the second. I'm a bit too smooth brain with Honda's to really know otherwise yet and searching through 14 year old forum posts gets tedious. I did find a picture of the cams that went into it. This post has been open for another 25 minutes since I wrote the last bit and from what I can tell one of the main differences between B16 and ITR is dual valve springs on the exhaust side, which from another potato 00's photo (bare in mind I haven't ever been inside one of these engines) it seems to have. At the end of the day it runs and is staying in there so I'm not sure it matters entirely but either way it's always nice to be sure of things when it's not a build you watched happen. Official summary is it's definitely not the head it came with from the factory and it makes the car nang hard. Anyway - time to finish sorting the wheels out so it can get back on it's own feet again and some basic maintenance can begin.

Yep count me and hannah in. I'm sure we can coax @Willdat? @ThePog @ynot @Out of time 88 @Sanfiddy @yetchh @moparmuppet @maxted @Slacker_Sam. From tasman to make a convoy down

Thought I’d have a go at showing off the shiny cam gears. Added clear plastic cambelt cover. nice, then cover it up with the silly intake pipe. Hmm, must rethink the filter set up

I’ve summarised a hell of a lot. It was way more of a shit fight than I originally anticipated. Some of it self inflicted. Just one of those cars that while you were fixing one part you’d look across at the part beside it and realise that was fucked too and have rebuild that haha Have also realised I have F all pictures of it or working on it. There’s about an A4 page of mechanical work left to get a warrant. Once that’s sorted ill just use it for a bit before doing coil overs and 300zx 4 pot brake conversion spot light grill and as well as a few other things. but getting pretty fizzed about getting this in the road. Missed this summer which was the original goal. So will aim to get it legal over winter

After guessing the shape, dad provided me with dimensions and photos of original boot panels, gave the CAD model an update, grabbed a sheet of 4.75mm hardboard and set about probably the most to factory spec part of the rebuild! Also carved up a gear knob from scrap rimu with the correct shift pattern, scrubbed up real nice with linseed oil too.

I hate to break it to you, but i was taking it easy? Now that white datsun i used to own, that car i really used to pedal like i meant it.

I wouldnt drive that thing 1 KM let along across both islands. Got a free ferry trip to use up too

@RUNAMUCK can finally be the property mogul he dreams of

@JustHarry Yeah Fuck. Put my name down. @cletus?

Thanks. Yeah was definitely worth the extra effort. 90s cars have all taken a hiding under there. So tidied up the rails and sills and under sealed it all. While ot was ant the paint shop And got all the bolts rezinc while it was all apart. Haven’t had motor and box out of this one so that sort of lets the whole lot down at the moment. but I’ll tidy the engine bay the best I can and maybe have a crack at the remainder of it one day

Yeah, keen for some form of winter meet. Let's get it going

I'm keen for whatever happens whether it be hanmer or something else. Just as long as we do something haha.

Engine mounts redone in thicker material as advised by the man. 8mm should do it. I machined up a spacer and did half at a time so I could use the original half to keep the alignment. But I also added a 4mm spacer when welding on the first new half to shift the engine back a tiny bit and give me just a little more clearance between the cross member and the sump. I hope that doesn't come back to bit me in the arse later. When welding in the second half of each mount I replaced the 4mm spacer with a fibre washer as a shim so it's not such an uber tight fit to get the bush/sleeve in there.

Car has been delivered! Currently organising it to be stripped and off to panel/paint/repair cert so hopefully have some updates in the coming few months.

The vault has been opened More photos from Bay Park 1995:

Dad dug this photo out of his archives this week. Finally, a photo of the car racing at the final Bay Park race meeting - Easter 1995

When I had finished school, was studying Radio broadcasting and volunteering at a local radio station - this car was the coolest thing around and was owned by a local DJ. Fast Forward to 2023 and I'm still in touch with that person, he's lived overseas for a decade and it turns out the car needs to be rescued from its existing resting spot. I got the opportunity to do such a thing and it's now in my posession. Also what a pest image hosting is these days. Imgur wouldn't let me login no matter what and everything else sucks so I shall try uploading here (for the second time after initially creating this whole thing in the project discussion thread before realising last minute and throwing it here) So why am I excited about a sex toaster? Because it used to look like this: bebo.com represent! Before it was parked up owner did some schmancy engine work. Standard, these come with a B20B. Non vtec, non exciting. But that can be rectified, and rectified it was: Supposedly a B18C top end. I say supposedly because I'll elaborate further soon. That ended up in the car, and this was how it looked when it was done: So it's now a 2.0 Vtec. Still a column change automatic but that suits me fine as it's got my favourite seating arrangement - front bench seating. Anyway - After talking for about 6 months I finally got the opportunity to pick it up and see it in person for the first time in 10 years. Turns out it had been sitting almost entirely outside for the last decade. RIP. But I was still excited. Upon arrival with @Threeonthetree closely in tow we discovered the fuel pump was dead, tank smelt horrible and the alarm wanted to go off almost non stop. We winched it onto a trailer and I made the long trek home. Nice wet Neal. So it's been in my posession for over half a year. Fuel tank came out and the pump was replaced. Spark plugs swapped out - and it ran mint. All the drive belts are old and need replacing. The tyres are cooked and thanks to it's nearly full decade outside, of which 3-4 years were in wave hearing distance of a west Auckland beach we have the dreaded R word come into play. I knew it might have a bit of rust when I got it. When we picked it up I ignored nearly everything in that respect because I didn't want dreams dashed right there and then. I did get under it and find a few spots while it was in the shed. Mainly under the front end where the rad sits and the rear end in behind the bumper - plus anywhere the bodykit was tek screwed in place has caused rust to appear and spread. Here's a few snaps: So there is an idea of it's exciting rust problem. There is more than I've shown above but it's all similar spec patches so to save time and photo bombardment I've just shared the above. I'm currently blasting and refinishing the wheels for some new rubber. Then I'll do basic fluids so I can get it off this hoist I have temporary access too. Then it's time to make a decision about what next. Thankfully I have next to nothing invested into this. The unique shape plus the unique engine makes me want to continue the battle and see it through to a happy driving state. It's certed for all current mods which are wheels, adjustables, bodykit, engine and the rego is on hold - so the fire is still burning in me bright enough to give it a good hot go. My skills only go so far and the main issue is the one that will eat $$$. Basic mechanical stuff just takes time and knuckle skin so with that I'm happy to persevere. Oh - about the supposedly B18C top end thing. I've yarned with 4 or 5 proper Honda nuts and each one has said different things. Some agree that the owners recollection is right. One swore up and down it's a B16. Either way it reminded me of lifan top speed arguments from the small bike world so I've bowed out of that yarn and now have a stamping on the head to locate which will determine what it really is. It was built by Lin Chen supposedly who used to be one of the dudes at Speed Factor down here. I should really track him down and have a yarn to find out more. Oh, before I forget: here's that fancy engine bay after sitting for so many years Feel free to add opinions and comments below. I've got a lot of bits for it that came with the car such as a mint rear subframe, new radiator, even got full monsoon kit for the windows. It'll need new rotors and a brake refurb - which is okay but all the parts for these seem to have been hoarded or produced by one guy in the UK so I'll need to figure out everything required and order bulk in one go. Anyway thats my first 4 wheel post on OS after many years of membership. Stay tuned, I may eventually update this but progress will be slow.

I don't think Ken will do this work for anything other than his own parts. I do have a bath that I can dichromate mag parts in. If you can get the parts bead blasted, and to me within a day of blasting (as magnesium oxidises quickly and the dichromate won't work then) then I can do them for you. I normally charge $100 for whatever you can get in the bath in one go, its about 600mm round and 500 deep from memory. So a couple of motorcycle case should be no problem. The parts will come out anywhere from dark brown or dark grey to black, all depending on the magnesium alloy.

I'll be there.

That actually sounds fun

Yea keen to put together a rag tag crew of poorly organised individuals to drive one of the wounders blue smoke machines across the Amuri Plains in search of PGs and Irvine’s pies

Pretty keen, might need to borrow some terrible trash car from the wounders though.

Redone the high pressure hardline to the receiver drier. Few more joins that I'd initially hoped for but they brazed up much nicer than the block did Cut some bends out of the selection of hardline I had. Needed to drill one out to suit the hose Lined everything up Brazed each section individually so only one thing would move I decided it'd be better to have a flexible hose both in and out of the condenser, less risk of my brazing fatiguing and cracking. Drilled out the compressor adaptor fitting to suit the hardline and brazed it on I'll make a little plate and bolt the fitting so it's secured

Was trying to add this but it didn't like the link and told me I have emojis so I reuploaded it. Complete with flat bottom cannon and edaboc sticker.

Systems check.....Dad you forgot to tighten up all the fuel fittings so now the garage smells of fuel. Managed to get the front straightened out a little bit, requires some metal hot glue gun action

Took the Hunter away for the garlic farm budget Nats .. had brake issues the morning I left, and throughout the weekend, but managed through it cos Slow car.. I knew what it was, the little valley type thing inside the remote booster/slave vh44 deal threw a shit fit and decided to stay put and no longer do brake things. i already had a new unit on the bench, but procrastination took hold and I never did swap it until today. im taking her to Waiau Pa hop next weekend, so keen to have brakes. fairly easy deal to swap it. and it brakes now, and releases.. winning while I had the brake mojo and the flaring tool, I decided to run the brake lines on the trailer. What a Kent, but it’s done and it has brakes and no leaks. ive left the brakes locked on overnight to check for any leakage. Should be good. also clamped the conduit up. so only have the 4 mudguard stays to weld on, then screw the boards on before getting it registered.

Type59 Engine. Its a little different to the T57. Not as tall. The crankcase and sump seem a bit easier to make.

The body work was difficult. Far from complete but the overall dimensions are now 'close to' correct.

Got a lot of CAD done this winter. Radiator: Diff/Axle Rear end assembly. Just external. Fuel Tank: Bulkhead/Steering: Gearbox: External

I've had this out for another couple of hoons since the last post, but it's mostly been sitting while I renovated my house and raced the MX5. Here's a couple of shots from December 2022: And @Iggy made this awesome thing for me on the laser at his work. That's going straight to the pool room! Then I moved to Queenstown in June and left the car locked away in my garage in Palmy for another 6 months. My new job has a full workshop and some other cool things (like a dyno), so I've been itching to get it down here! That mission came together over the Christmas break. I bought a 1KZ Granvia in the North Island, flew up and towed the 86 down at the end of my holiday. I loaded it with as much stuff as possible and filled the van with even more. There's an engine, gearbox and a few other fun parts in the stash, so I'll be building an engine in the next wee while. Very keen to see what a Beams engine can do with bigger cams and more compression. The poor old Granvia was loaded! I stopped at lake Pukaki for a photo op with Aoraki: Made it to Queenstown safe and sound. I only have half a garage here, so have to be pretty careful with my hoarding (it's probably for the best). Feat a wild @TimShadboltfan27 Looking forward to getting out onto all the South Island tracks this year!

Bit of an update as requested. See Discussion thread for a 'Life' update. My dad finished a second set of chassis rails (gotta both have a car right!) They were actually done close to a year ago now! Time flies! I came across some original Bugatti drum brake backings and pads. Not sure if theyll be useful but atleast theyre a cool to have. Finished a lot of proper detailed CAD on the front end. Wheels, hubs, axles, springs, hangers. The wheels are 8 main pieces, big radial spline onto the rim. They dont look easy to make!