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http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/bmw/exterior/auction-562324658.htm

Fuck i might buy them all cheap as chips

any 85- 90's beemer should be ago i raid em for my triumphs all the time some later models have both in a single mount which would make your life easier mounting em into somthing else. you can get those nice as Jewel cut ones on ebay with hid units new for aound 180 something else to consider.

How much stuff are you after? the cost of freight would be pretty small 20-40 bucks would most likely get all the bends to build set of headers and pipe and mufflers on your doorstep.

Woolf mufflers in Auckland would be your best bet for availability and price as they supply almost everyone in nz (worked there for a bit) or Autobend http://www.autobend..../exhausts.html� in Auckland or christchurch they supply Woolf just not sure if you need an account to buy off them.

go a triple flow sometimes called a turbo muffler not ugly flow pretty well and not tinny when fitted with resonators. it'll keep the mrs happy and still sound good .

i do know of a mk1 escort in whangerei built for hillclimbs rocking a boosted fiat v6 car is mental. anyway he runs a toyota 5 speed and uses lada niva transfer case to send drive back to the front wheels unsure what diffs he was running but front was independent. what are you planning for an engine?

mucked around the with the triumph injection years back and had some real success with it had it running with a lancia volumex supercharger on a 2.5 when that vomitted up its bearings i dropped in a worked 2 litre ditched the blower and injected that. was always blowing up fuel bosch pumps though and every trip you never new if you'd make it home, So am trying to make something work that is set and forget as this car is just going to be a fast cruiser in saying that the induction roar of the big six without airfilters is something thats hard to forget.

Yeah leaky throttle shafts are always a bastard hence why i'm looking at other options to the triumph injection can get costly real fast fixing shit like that. also downdrafts will give me room to make a decent set of extractors. Dont want to end up with 3 carbs that are constantly going out of tune that would drive me batshit crazy too.

http://www.trademe.c...n-554577870.htm

sure its little over what you wanted to pay but shit you could tow a cruise ship on a trailer.

forget about rover v8's utterly dissapointing engine they dont take any punishment at all without shitting cam lobes.

wanting to do somthing a bit different on the trumpy was looking on trademe for bike carbs and idf webbers keep popping for around $250 a pair or a $175 single within price range of what i want to spend. question is what are they like to tune do they need constant fiddling to keep them running sweet, never mucked around with webbers just SU's holleys and the odd mikuni.

carjam comes up with a photo of my actual car too when i type in my reg. not sure if thats awesome or sketchy.

had some experience welding up broken machine parts welded up completely borked guides on bandsaw at my old work under guidence of clued up "olde" school engineer, process was V out the crack then get it nice and hot with gas torch pre heat a stainless welding rod (just getting it hot on scrap works) then squeeze crack closed and weld it up and let it cool off in air. done plenty cast stuff this way now seems to work well and last.

I owned a TT 1990 300zx i picked it up for a straight swap for my extremely dodgy vn commodore. had a dead trans join up to the http://www.300zx.co.nz the guys on there looked after me with parts and advice within 2 weeks i got mine on road chipped and making 380hp it gave me no probs service for 2 years before my wife caught babies from me and i had to sell it and buy a wagon......

4k for two broken fingers, I think you got a good deal lol

$5200 written off all up, a valuable lesson the other fines were 100% kosher and justified it only takes 1 bad apple to undo the work of other good cops that genuinely snapped me. when your right you got to stand up and make some noise and try go to the top to sort it, worked for me. Got to rattle that cage.

Here is my scenario when it happened when i was 19

Driving my pissed mates car home EX Lancer at 2 am that lets just say was very tidy wof and reg but very tired 1300cc engine it called it quits and died on harris road in east tamaki a Known illegal drag racing area we pushed it to a gas station and proceded to lock it up and walk away when this 25+ year old male and women cop rock up and ask to see my llicence she was professional as headed back to car to check my details 10- 15 minutes go by. then the male cop comes back and this guy was angry shaking a $1200 fine in my face and goes this car was doing burnouts near the air port earlier (cop now red in face) so i replied wrong car man this thing is dead and has been on its way for months, next thing i know i am slammed face first into bonnet of car arm twisted up behind back with this prick shouting shit at me in front of concerned people on forecourt of a gas station. i got 2 broken fingers from it the female cop then came to my rescue pulling him off they then went back to car then just drove away. monday morning i went directly to the police Commissioner George hawkins and sat outside his office till i got in to see him he told me i was a hoon sent me on my way.

Now the good part my mother fired his office a letter saying the petrol station had whole thing on video (they did and gave us a copy)

we had copies and would be forwarding to the herald unless he sorted the situation. wednesday morning i got a phone call from his office asking if the waiving of the fine from the night my other 4k i had at time would be sufficient to make me not go to media?

It was and i've stayed out of shit since.

oven cleaner is the shit on really thick nasty subframe type grease followed by waterblasting after a good hour or so to eat in. i've found cheap and nasty degreasers from the warehouse to be nothing but excellent. dont splash out for top dollar stuff. i'm converting a dishwasher to run degreaser and caustic soda for engine bits to clean out water gallery's in heads in stuff.

Engines can run on water that was one myth i had to try for myself. you need a small motor a homebuilt fuel cell and a massive power supply but yes it works inefficient energy wise but does work,

If i drop a v8 into my Triumph 2500 What are the definate other upgrades needed to pass cert? i've done 2 rover v8 conversions on them and got them certed but that was 8-10 years ago so suspect things are bit harder now. main thing is will i need to do the brakes? as they are all basicly new and pull up real good.

Could always swap out your brake bulbs for some Led's those suckers are bright as ...... and wont melt your lenses like halogen headlight bulbs (yeah have done it lenses dribbled all over bumper)

got a pic ? i remember i paragraph in the earlier paper version that stated what was required (Cert) http://www.lvvta.org.nz/documents/suplementary_information/LVVTA_LVV_Cert_Threshold.pdf

General rule of thumb if you cant find it in here you are probably stuffed should you come across a grumpy cop.

aye?

the rear hubs are fixed to the rear trailing arms so raising the diff will only alter the angle of the rear 1/2 shafts......the wheel camber will not be altered what-so-ever.

Diff is mounted to same subframe the swingarms are mounted too raising the diff pushes the inner swingarm mount up. its not gong to give you zero camber when right down but for the minimal effort to swap the rubbers around its worth it to slow down tyre wear. if your swing arm rubbers are sad though nothing will help but nolathane replacements.

hey havnt bought these myself yet but a quick mod you can do is swapping the rear rubbers on the diff mounts to raise it altering trailing arm angle

for now this has got my cars camber under control though i havnt gone mad on the lowering yet.... will be dropping another 50mm lower in year.

Bought a dropped one off trademe and raided bits out of it for mine though. autometer do repairs if you dont mind waiting think segedins out at auckland airport are agents.

What type of tach? i have had an autometer do similar thing was poked needed a new stepper motor.

You won't break an R200 with a Triumph.

100% correct

Triumph motor not staying in forever though havnt decided what to replace it with yet so so trying to set up to not break whatever goes up front.

Car should never end up with more than 300hp though unless i win lotto of course.