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I understand some of the cheep alloy radiators have the tanks epoxied onto the core tubes

I just emailed the LVVC people and they say my car is a scratch build but there web site says otherwise

Thank you for that info, according to this I don't have to register at as a scratch built but I am sure they will say I have to.

I have a question about getting a rego for the car I have just built, its a 1927 Ford model T touring car witch has been cut down into a pick up using a 1927 pick up tray, its sitting on a 1928 model A chassis witch has had a custom kick up added for a jag IRS diff, it has a superbell front end. apart from the axles its all vintage parts. Would this have to be registered as a 1014 scratch built replica? or could it be registered as an old car with an LVV cert? There would be problems with a windscreen wiper on its horizontal split windscreen and no way to fit 3 point seat belts because there are no pillars, and burst prof door catches on the little doors would be pointless, there like petrol flaps. headlights and tail lamps have no numbers on them.

You might find you don't have to bleed the brakes at all

This place did one of the nicest powder coating jobs I have ever seen on a motorcycle frame I had done when I lived down there

Have your mufflers been debaffled?

I have a home made clutch compressor tool if your in auckland?

There was an old NZ trick with the 350cc BSA B31 witch was to use a 750cc Triumph Bonneville piston witch increased the compression and took the engine out to a 409cc Maby you could shove some domed top piston in this bike?

Very nice, 350 or 500cc?

Hard tails are a bit hard on the spine,

I look fward to seeing some photos, you will find it to be a tough reliable bike, The generator is fine and will give no trouble, its the regulators witch are annoying. The only trouble I have had is parts vibrating off, my rear exhaust pipe has come off twice and the headlight gets shaken to bits, This is my 1973 XLCH

The whole thing is eroded away and the rest kinda falls out I think,

The guys at BNT told me some guy had just bought an old Porsche and he was upset to find out how much a cam belt cost

its about $2.00 to get a broken bolt spark eroded

you lost me there

Doesn't that car hold 14 liters of oil?

Was that you on the Piha road today?

If you need graphite or sodium silicate, I have heeps of it, you could use the sodium silicate to bind some kind of refractory together

You can buy clay graphite crucibles for around $30 for an A8 size witch holds 8 kgs of bronze

I need to get some things from there but I don't think it would cost over $100

They are good frinds of mine, they can forge anything you want, don't mention that crow bars and springs are the same to them tho

http://www.forger.co.nz/ Kim and Ian neilson can probley make a sprind but they won't harden it

I do alot of artist blacksmith work, I have made springs but allways had them hardened professionally,I reversed the eyes on a set of leafs recently, you can cut hard spring steel with a grinder, drilling it is quite hard but you can use a masonry drill bit if you sharpen it. If you get the spring steel too hot it cracks when you bend it and it burns realy easly, using a forge to heat. not a gas torch

I got a 27 piece 3/4 drive socket set for $100 from miter10 its not the best quality but I use it all the time and the big sockets are huge, they make good seal and bearing drivers.