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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.

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 have only just now realised what's going to happen the streets of Chch when Bort's old man pops his clogs....

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

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.

That was highly embarrassing.. Halfway through overtaking a commonwhore and the engine splutters and dies.. Road leveling was pretty impressive given the size of the boulder on the road... But I'm a definite.. *edit.. Twas the other marque.

I got a Teflon lined hose and plumbed everything up. It works. The switch turns it off at 110 psi so I'm going to up that a bit because why have something explode at 110psi when your could have it explode at 140psi. The thing I haven't finished yet is the purge valve. I have a bracket for it I just need to wire it in, I'll probably do that now. Anywho, it works.

Some goodies arrived from across the ditch. thought I’d give them a looksy

Or fly to Nelson.. Should be my aim to get the zed sorted for this, then I can prove to @Valiant my slamming skilz.

Imma sit down tomorrow and figure out how I can make this trip work to my advantage somehow will likely be flying into Blenheim and bringing some boring vehicle unfortunately. edit: Or should I fly to chch and get a ride with @RUNAMUCK

Ill endevour to come along, i guess i need to send the car back to the workshop.

I finally managed to find make time to lay down some primer. Now its sanding time I suppose The eagle eyed viewer may notice that painting it with the center stand installed is a bit of an odd thing to do. This is because the mounting shaft is bent, so the installation is permanent. I guess that also means it will be colour matched to the frame, also an odd thing to do...

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!

This was the only full GTIR ive owned, bought for 650, sold for 6800. Had the umbrella too..... Dont think it lasted long after i sold it to some bogan down Whanganui way, according to carjam.

A wild @mk2marty sitting in some half mounted fishnets, thankfully not wearing any fishnets. Take it as you will, but we just have another few holes to drill and then we'll make some holes in the seat rails to mount them up properly.

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.

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

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

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

End goal pretty much this

I'll just put this here

I am in if the 95 surf is allowed

And you will get your money back selling parts easy

Well that’s cheap enough to have a spare engine just in case

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.

Fixed that for you

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.

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

You could drive @MaxPower sigma down!

@RUNAMUCK can finally be the property mogul he dreams of

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)

Few random snaps

So the car has pretty much been all sold. *Motor is going into an escort. *loads of parts are going to others to keep other st170s on the road *and the rest of the car is going to palmside to be a race/rally car ....so thats awesome.....no waste

The donor front/radiator support panel came from a farm ute, which had had an L16 repower. Some butcher had gas cut the radiator supporr panel out so they could fit the larger L16 radiator. I tidied this up as best i could (not very well) and got a mate to make me a custom Aluminum radiator to fit in the space i had.

Nosecone is fully mounted, rough guards are on for mock up. this ute seems to be longer than the other ute. Probably built in a different factory as they are 4 years apart from memory.. im glad I chose to use this ute for RX3UTE, it is the same model and spec now.

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 .

Mean! Always assumed those numbers had some meaning but never looked into the details, cheers!

Pffft. That sound like engineering. do not reccommend. Fasterer to test, break fix test. Apollo 5 anyone?

If you are 100% on attending please vote on the poll We need to know a pretty solid indication on numbers to work out prices. Please and thanks If your gonna flake last minute don't do that

Im a maybe, would have to land in chch late and rental car to hanmer

I'm sure @DoBro Jesus can arrange

Thanks! Yeah takes awhile to cut each piece but it’s not too bad. I looked at a lot of snake/cat eye photos and sometimes it appears like the pupil isn’t centered in the iris, so tried to replicate that

Went for a decent blat into town tonight. A few things to note before I forget. Cruises at 2200rpm at 100kph and has buckets of power upwards from that so the gearing is spot on. Maybe because Im used to a shitty old slow chevy but it feels like a rocket. Makes a weird noise for a second on startup. The sump is too low. Either I have to put in stock springs or modify the sump. @cubastreet got any spare sump pans? The oil filler pipe is now hitting the firewall so I have to modify that again. Second is a bitch to find from 3rd but I'll get used to it. It has enough torque to take off in 4th but I'll leave the clutch alone. I might make the aux water pump booster linked to the ignition as I forgot to turn it on. It's criminal me having this car and living 10kms from a decent corner. It wants to corner.

zetec +t bedford

Sweeeeeeeeet! Congrats. Looking forward to the next driving day with REACT* on some twisty roads. *Rear engined agile cars of Tasman

came here to ask why they had positive camber- reason makes sense! Might look weird if you reduce it (I know you wont anyway because you want this thing to be as close to origional as possible)

More progress

I'd do it in a heartbeat

Chassis update. My Dads been working away on this in his spare time. Many press tools, dies, hammering and probably injuries later a chassis rail is formed! Looks like the real deal! Pretty impressive. The other side should be a lot easier, so he says This is how you make a 40Ton backyard press to do some final tweaking.