smokin'joe

^^this. looks like a T50 fork, as i have only seen cast forks for the W50, there may be a pressed steel option ?

cos i'm a cheap cunt, i use heavy duty deisil inserts for the rally car, but am not running super stiff front springs like you want to. may be an option for you

fuck, dosn't get much more basic than that............. i likey. guessing the boat is the brace or is it for ultra short distance tows ? looking to build similar for my Cod-Botherer to free up the super heavy duty trailer it currently on.

haha, is that ^ a photo for rust repair cert!!!

he's done a few, and is MSNZ tech. we got a MK2 Esky kit off him with the notation: ' if it dosn't fit correctly, the shell is bent', it didn't and it was !!

main rollbar: original size (X) 38.1 Reduction (A) 37.9 Exspansion ( 38.4 front rollbar: X 38.1 A 37.9 B 38.5 one of Dave McCahon's pre-bent kits as fitted to my TE71 Levin

geometry aside, using KE/AE style struts/LCAs unlocks far better shock absorber options, swaybar options,steering arms etc

i recall using KE70 LCA and sway bar set-up on a starlet track-car during it's build. unsure of the outcome as the main builder fucked off to Aucks to hide from his debts. KE70 uses bigger balljoint allowing KE/AE steering arms and struts/brakes. i have plenty of these parts of you want to borrow and have a mock-up.

any idea of the PCD ? is the 5 stud Coon ryums fit, then they would be 5 x114 making them very common, the early coons were 4x114, still very common. if 5 x108 then early Holden would be a source.

te71 still got the ol' shitter, but it ain't as shiney noes more

only thing i had to do with it , was getting served a hiding from it !! Andy Ried and Dave Fletcher took turns running it and rallied quite extensively in the Mainland series. yes, white with green and blue. linky to their website: http://teamrfr.tripod.com/TeamRFR/teamhome.html

so the ol' jigger has re-surfaced, on Oldschool. am currently trying to dig out some old photos and footage from early 2000's when Team Reid/Fletcher used it extensively around the south Island. did you get it from the Camerons ?? or did Sheldon Rush have it for a bit ?

have you nipped 1/4" off each of the vacuum lines and re-fitted ?

could be worse....... living in Timaru and owning house and 6 acres in the Catlins taht i can't spend enough time at, as there is fuck all work down there to pay bills. regarding your issue, i would ring Carter Strang (strang auto), in wallacetown. he's built plenty of them for race/rally use and should able to point you in the right direction.

hoping for my place to be permanent before long. the valley i am in has shittly copper and the rural postie would be quicker than email !!

what bunch of theives. fucken near cheaper to get it trucked up from Timaru. I was quoted $300/m3 for 25Mpa, but it was a 2 1/2 -3hour return trip from Balclutha to site in Catlins........ and appearantly i can get it cheaper from another company i didn't know existed paradise found !! have no intention of phone or webz at my Catlins retreat for many years. neighbours have phone for emergencys and i can shoot down the end of the valley for cell coverage.

interested in the out come of this. if the FE/C can't be re-vinned as what it is, i am thinking of fitting it to my RN57 Hilux which is still reg /wof

if the Jag run 2 of these units on each corner, then you will need to be double the spring rate. take a spring off, and take it to a decent suspension shop as they should have a jig for measuring the rate of the spring then almost double it. i would be heading to an olschool suspension/alignment place preferably that has either hotrods/race or speedway cars lurking, then they may actually know what they are talking about......... instead of some zitty faced fucker who uses NZPC mag as a reference manual.

quiz someone who has similar set-up to get spring rate. i know there's plenty of variables, but anyone using that rear end will utilise very similar mounting points and will have a similar loading on it. once you have an idea on the spring, either hunt for used ones or go to a speedway supply, as they are usually a lot cheaper than performance/ricer suply.

this ^^^ any diff will need some fabrication, and or shortening, although, with the widebody kit, you could tuck FWD rims under it. if you handy enough, turret the rear so you can fit coil overs on top of the diff, and tie turrets into the rear transverse bar.

coil over spring usually 63-65mm ID

they had an offshoot from evoparts called go fast parts ? but can't get the site to load. i believe Durallloy Gears built the kits, but i don't believe it could be ordered direct from them.......... the C/r kit anyway, similar to some of the kits Palmside sell for the escort box

unsure if Matt does them himself, but Alan (his father) and Rex(uncle) are very clever with mechanicals. Matt is a wizard with auto electrical. i believe he uses the kit that Merv Hatcher developed. he runs Evoparts (or similar) in CHCH . would depend on whether you want a C/R kit or just a rebuild kit as to where to get it done.

good to see a 30 being returned. most of the ones i know of that walked, were stripped and burnt.