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So after priming inside a engine bay it was time to start the massive job of bogging the welds. Looking back now I shouldn't have gone overboard with the bogging like I did but ohwell I've done it now. It's only annoying at the moment because it shows up very little spot that hasn't been filled. This is the engine bay while bogging. This is after bogging and a few coats of primer still not right. ( I'm to fussy apparently ) I've also been working on the body. It looked like it was real tidy already but as I started looking I found more and more dents. So full prime for the body let it sit for a week or so. That gave it time to shrink back if it was going to. After that I sanded it down found where it needed more bog and then spot primed it. This is the body after the spot prime, I'm going to leave it for a while before I sand it a give it another prime.

It's been a while since my last post I've mostly been doing body work. I didn't really see the point in posting as I knew it was going to be a very slow process. But now I feel as I am coming closer to finishing off the body work it's about time I made a post. I will take you back a few months when I stripped the car back to just a body, I made set of caster wheels to roll it around on while running gear was out. I paint stripped engine bay it came out real nice and hand sanded inside the car in hindsight I wish I had also paint strip the floor because after about two weeks later all the primer started to flake and cracked up. I found out that the paint I was priming over wasn't prepped properly. I've just left it for now it's most probably to much work to strip it off as I'm just going to put carpets over it. More to come got to find some more photos.

Three and a half years ago I got this ute from a farm down in nelson thinking that I am going to keep this forever. But times have changed and I am now selling her to fund my other projects. So the past few weeks I have been pulling her a part, cleaning , painting and polishing everything that was starting to look old and shabby. Just a few more little things to do then it will be on trademe. I will be putting it on for 7500ono if you are interested let me know.

Hey man tidy starlet. i found when using picture hosting sites like photobucket etc. on an ipad it can flip them in all funny ways so i downlaoded this app called Imgupr pretty sure it was free and it's real easy to use. Just upload photo once uploaded press get embed codes. Then copy the code with at both ends of it. Then paste it in the reply bit down the bottom of the page.

What sort of changes? I'm heading down to Hampton that weekend with a mate of mine, it would be good to meet a chat about starlets, haha.

Hey man hope your algood. So sad about the mean green. Do you have a car to get around in at the mo?

Man your keen having so many projects at once. But you are doing great stuff. I don't know how your doing it. Keep it up.

Thanks for all your input I have got alot to think about before I start cutting the old girl up.

Thanks man. The lower link move is mostly just for ground clearance. But I guess it will correct geometry a bit. I will try and make top link and bottom links same length. If that is good? Most of my reason for doing this is for low. 2nd reason is for that cross under chassis. 3rd reason just want to see if I can do it. I like making shit not really to fussed on the whole driving side. I'm not sure how long s13 coilovers are but rough measurements from lower link to cage are 520 mm. Don't know if that helps.

Hopefully this helps explain.

Well it probably won't achieve anything great. But I don't like it how the top arms cross under the chassis rail and could potentially hit the rail. Sooooo plan is to make the top arm straight go through the floor and mount to the bottom bar of the cage. Then move the lower arm mount on the body to behind the little box that it sits on at the moment. And because top arm is moved there will be a whole heap of space above lower arm to travel up. And change how lower arm mounts to diff to make it parallel with road. Then because all arms will be parallel so I intend to run a panhard rod. I will be running coilovers, unsure if I will run a sprint car coilover that cardwels sells or something from s13 etc... It will mount on bottom with two lugs that come off diff / lower arm bracket with a bolt though it. Up top it will be coming though floor at the same point as the shock did. And make another bar from the cage that goes back around behind the shock mount and across to do the same on the other side. Put a plate up under that bar and coilover mounts to that. Will see if I can draw something on paint to explain that a bit more.

It's been a while since I've updated this but today I pulled tray off to start work on painting rear chassis. Hopefully next weekend I can get some paint on it.

I have realised that I have now owned this starlet for over a year now and I have finally got the chance to fix something that I've been wanting to do since day one. The person that originally built this car had flared the guards in some funny way that made it look like it was from the 70s. The reason I have only done this now is because I was waiting for the wheels and tyres and ride height to be sorted. Wheels and tyres were sorted last weekend. So this weekend was ride height. I started by taking springs rite out with no bump stops. Way too low. So I found some wood scraps we had lying around cut them up, put them between bump stop mount and spring mount. All that burnt shit in this photo ^ is from this weird bracket the old owner had on it for some reason. Didn't know what it was so gas cut it off still have to grind it all up. Pretty happy with this as my final ride height. Also have been doing a whole bunch of planing in my head of my rear 5 link setup. Will talk about that some more in another post.

Someone has already said it but???

Thanks guys. It's coming along slowly.

Sooooo this weekend got some tyres for my fins and the 01s. 175/50r13. Also fitted up wing only with masking tape. Very happy with both. Don't worry it will be lower.

Could be condensation in the dizzy cap and once heated up moisture evaporates.

Today I have been busy making a gearbox xmember. You are probably thinking why do I need to make one because I'm only using standard running gear. Well it's because I have 3 starlet xmember and none of them fit. And instead on looking on the web for hours I decided just to make one. Didn't really know what I was doing but I talked to my dad and he said over design it so that's what I did.

I have been a bit lazy with my post so Here's a update. A couple of weeks ago I set out to make a plate out of 3mm steel to fit on the top of the strut towers so that the struts have 3 bolt holes. Here's the finished product.

Hey man it's only about ten mins from my place and I'm heading that way tomorrow. Txt me 021 02669818.

Maybe an arm and a leg. If you do buy them, I will be taking your left nut.

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Oh man I wanted the right one.

Hey man fins look sweet as what's the specs. 100 POSTS. MEAN!

Thanks for the photos man I'm to lazy take any. Haha