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Still fits a factory 14" rim over them too
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Re brake upgrade. 504? Peugeot discs and hulux 4pots bolt on. 20mm vented disc. Downside was because the peugeot is so obscure the discs were hard to get. @sheepers gave me the name of some parts store in aussie that had DBA cast a whole lot mainly for crown conversions, cant recall the name sorry
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Yea, chrome place organised it
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On 22/04/2025 at 21:25, Flauski said:
Bumper replacements sounds next level, with their prices to match.
Per @fletch suggestion, I got in touch with Whanganui Electroplating, they do it for 950+ gst each. Anyone used them?
Yea, i got a heap of chrome done there. Happy as. Bumpers went to some old barry , ex panel beater that fixed up rust holes and dents. They were rubbish to start with and came back looking shmick. Cant recall price but thought it was reasonable at the time. Wasnt a quick turn around, took as long as it took. Also old boy that runs it was hard work, too many chromium fumes. Would trade again tho
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On 22/04/2025 at 21:25, Flauski said:
Bumper replacements sounds next level, with their prices to match.
Per @fletch suggestion, I got in touch with Whanganui Electroplating, they do it for 950+ gst each. Anyone used them?
Yea, i got a heap of chrome done there. Happy as. Bumpers went to some old barry , ex panel beater that fixed up rust holes and dents. They were rubbish to start with and came back looking shmick. Cant recall price but thought it was reasonable at the time. Wasnt a quick turn around, took as long as it took. Also old boy that runs it was hard work, too many chromium fumes. Would trade again tho
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Not guna lie. Im intrigued and confused all at the same time Harry. Whats the go with the cut up head and valve opener bracket thing yourve made?
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On 28/01/2025 at 19:02, Vintage Grumble said:
Trying to talk the wife into this:
I saw this listing you may be interested in: 2013 Lexus LS 600 LS600H F-Sport https://www.trademe.co.nz/5102308221
Have to start calling you the mayor of whakatane driving that weapon around. On a side note since when did a hybrid only get a 1.5 star fuel economy rating
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After a quick look through I didn't see any mention of mazda cx9. Wife's got a 2017 model. Got it at 95ks and done just on 200ks now. Comfy, plenty of power. 7 seats, awd, 2.5l turbo. A but on the wide side for parking. Towed a large tandem horse float cross country fill to the brim on Christmas holiday and it did it with ease. Fuel economy fell off a cliff tho. Has proven reasonably reliable
Gets my vote
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Old 2m's aren't really worth much. I've paid $100 for several of them , maybe if it's complete and running, gear box changes gear nice I'd stretch to $500 for the lot. Brought several old crowns and they've all come "spare" m, 2m ,4m engines thrown in just so people can get rid of them I'd say
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On 05/11/2024 at 18:42, RXFORD said:
Dreaming at that price. Its been for sale for agggggess. Even with the couple of shitty pics he put up you can see how fisted the panels are.
I don't know the chap personally but our wives are friends. I did recall her saying one day that he had some old car in the shed that'd been dragged from place to place and never got worked on. I asked what type of car it was but she wasn't sure. Guess I know now🤦
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Covers look spectacular! I'm sure you've considered it bit have you got some sort of baffle on the bottom of the cover under the breather hole like the factory one had? I only ask because I never put mine back in after cleaning them up and sucked the better part of a litre of oil out the little breather hole into the inlet before I realized what I'd done, don't spose it'd matter if it went into a catch can tho
Cant wait to see this thing running
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Looked into buying a BA falcon a minute back and on the dash it had some sharn that said "police mode enabled" come up on the digital dash. Great I thought. This things gunna have all kinds of trickery going on. A quick Google tells me all it does is takes the discrepancy out of the speedo so it reads accurately for police related tasks
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17 hours ago, Spencer said:
I have sat in-front of a crown chassis in yee old days with Sheepers and Camel, the verdict is to make a crown V8 conversion (and most likely V6) that does not suck you need to hack up the chassis. Something like get a Mustang 2 rack and pinion front end kit and then make some front chassis rails from the firewall forward, or you might get away with just removing the giant cross member and making something less obtrusive.
Pretty much the same conclusion I came to. Here's a pic showing how close the exhaust ports are to the steering box with a V engine fitted. Think it's only a 60degree V so pretty narrow too
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Have put a 1gzfe in ms55 and doesn't fit very well. Not saying it can't be done but hits steering box and drag link arm.
Also about your chassis numbers for some unknown reason on all my old crowns the number on the chassis rail and body doesn't match.not much help bit seems to be the way they are
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Was just looking through your build thread and happened across a post where yourd installed a kenwood bluetooth amp . Looks exactly like what I'm after. I know the model number bit doesn't appear to be readily available in nz. Mind sharing where you got it from. It is listed on Amazon australia for about $700 kiwi delivered
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2 hours ago, Alfashark said:
Paul Barnett?
He's got a black one that seems to spend 99% of it's life waiting for parts for whatever's broken this time.
Hah. Yea that's the guy
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Side sharn. Used to car pool with a chap with a gtir in the early/mid 2000s from whakatane out to kawerau every day. About 60km round trip and old mate thought he was a race car driver. Pretty sure he pissed off everyone else on the road. Did go well to be fair. Think it ended up getting Tboned at the Tauranga turn off. @vintage grumble may remember him. Replaced it with a s14 silvia
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Hadn't really done much with this. Mostly because it was just rubbish to drive. Bit the bullet and got stuck into doing an engine transplant. Brought a well used ms123 crown for the running gear. Gave the engine a paint job rebuild and proceeded to fit it into the coupe. For the most part it bolted in. Had to modify the crossmember and make a new driveshaft as the transmissions are a different length. Lots of small things need modifying as the coupes engine bay is about 100mm narrower and a 100mm shorter then the doner crown. Biggest battle was getting the wiring loom intergrated into the existing car loom, definitely not one of my strong points but muddled my way through. Replaced the steering box with a new one I got off yahoo,so stoked, made all the difference to the feel of how it drives.
Happy days
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Also tf came in a 185cc as well? Goes hard for what it is. Pretty hard to find these days. Think they had orange tank them.
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Just discovered this gem of a thread. Being a farmer I have a selection of old shit bikes and recently got roped into a farm bike race . 2 hour enduro style . Pretty slow going bit way more fun then I expected. Dunno where I'm going with this sharn but if you get the chance to enter one of these I highly recommend it
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2 hours ago, MS51HT said:
Thankyou muchly!
It would be interesting to know how many MS51’s are in Aus - there couldn’t be more than 25 I reckon.
I know of 6 in nz with a couple others that have been cut up for parts
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Can't wait to see some more progress on this. Love this model crown! Any photos of your other coupes and sedan?
Keep up the good work
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