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Spotted on the top deck at Bayfair today. Appeared to be in elderly female ownership, judging purely on the contents of the car and the heinous seat covers.

3 pages in 2 hours! what is this??

SPAM!?

Scribble if you are going to be here asking for advice, you should think pretty hard about which advice you need and which advice you heed. As was already mentioned, asking questions about diff ratios and fantastical engine output figures for a car and engine which you do not own yet is just a waste of everyone's time. There are a lot of more pertinent questions you could ask but haven't, such as...

Which model celica will best suit my desired outcome? (buying the top spec model might be a waste of money if you are changing everything anyways)

What should I pay for a decent one? (what do you want out of it, nice paint & straight body/rolling body/someone else's fucked project?)

Where should I look for rust when inspecting a celica before purchase, what are common areas of mechanical failure in celicas, etc.

Try to focus on the things that will actually yield results, it will keep you engaged and on task, which will ultimately yield much greater results than day dreaming about ponies and cogs.

My 2 cents.

I was wondering why jericho had such an amazing setup from purchase! that link is in the bookmarks, so radical.

Had a fairly successful parts run at Zebra.

Got brand new side indicators, new RN40 park light lenses, crack-free black dash pad, single key matching door locks and ignition barrel and loom, good condition black/grey door cards, black/grey RN40 headrest style seat back, and both front guards in decent/repairable condition.

There was so much more I would have loved to take but had neither the time nor the money for. Front disk brakes and suspension, 5 speed column shift box, wiper motor, black dash frame, black vinyl carpet etc.

Pics and installs to follow.

Big big thanks to estate, who in the middle of a shitty situation still made the time to help me connect with Zebra before the truck was shipped to the UAE. Thanks also to Brett from Zebra, who brought the truck out to me on a forklift from the processing yard at zebra, and let me stay on an extra hour on a friday night while I pulled parts.

I'll have some spare RN interior/misc parts coming up for sale soon, PM me if you'd like a heads up.

Not really very OS yet but I think it's worthy of a pic. Spotted at the beach in Omanu this morning. '95 Factory turbo, period 3 piece BBS rims. Massive guards + crazy wing. So cool without being RWB over the top.

Holeeee shit

Thanks kyteler, must have had the full treatment then. Oh well!

Hey boes,

Does anyone here have a full carjam account and would they mind checking the status of my old Corolla Rego MK4237?

I reported it stolen many moons ago, came close to recovering it, and then never saw it again.

Was taken from a central city flat in 2011 IIRC.

Cheers!

EDIT: The guy that I am 99% sure stole it was a bit of an idiot so I wouldn't be suprised if he told/showed a lot of people about this. Heard of anything, or seen this car in the last few years?

Hey Jamie any idea of numbers for wednesday? I'll be there!

Was thinking of bringing a barbie on the back of the ute, what ya reckon? Late notice I know.

As yours was originally the 40 model, do you have disks in the front?

Could not stop watching that acetylene hose brush the flywheel repeatedly

PS I love tridents and turbos but only since being educated by the kind folks at OS. Thank you for changing my life, I see the light now, weeping etc

Fuck yes I've been waiting for that. Thanks bizzo, it's always good to see what someone else is doing with these old crumps.

Do you have plans for a brake upgrade once you are RZ RZZZZing around?

here's another!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/alfa-romeo/sud/auction-679558169.htm

im confused.

Just nailed another vtnz wof, reg'd up and ready for the road!

will commence inspection of build plate asap! i'll get back to ya tomorrow.

if the ratio is unfavourable, reckon there are some options for lowering the rpm at highway speeds?

fuck. i always forget. NEVER FORGET.

We gonna run the January meet a bit later in the month? I don't think any of us will be in any state to drive on the 1st.

I have no idea about the diff, any leads on figuring that out?

Oh and also this happened...

Much better news this time round!

After Jamie (HighLux) put me on to an old fella down the road I got a super reasonable quote for a cash jobbie removing rust from the left hand A pillar and the firewall, as well as treating a few other areas. It's currently happening right now, probably finished tomorrow lunch time.

I also have had the time to do some bits and bobs like new ball joints, new engine gaskets, rust removal from hanger bearing crossmember, and lowering the front a tad using the torsion bars.

New ride height allows for 15mm gap between bumpstops.

 

Got them back from blasters like this

 

Clear coat applied... only 3 coats on, more to come before mounting etc.

 

They have the same round-head 20 bolt pattern so should match the look of the enkeis nicely in a staggered set-up, 14 x 6 (-6) & 15 x 7 (-15). Anyone reading this with an opinion on what tyres to run without losing too much highway ability? I have some MY01 205/50/R15 for the enkeis but I'm now thinking it's too small compared to the standard tyre. Bizzo what are you running?

Cleaned up the motor a bit too.

Kind of the worst sort of update, pictureless and bad news.

I'm cash poor at the moment, and it's looking likely that I'll be heading overseas before I can finish this thing off the way I'd like to. So, selling the ute is becoming a sour tasting necessity.

I am hoping an OSGC will be interested and this will ensure it is saved, or that the parts from it are used to a good end. If you are keen, flick me a PM and we can talk turkey. I've spent around 4k so far on the thing, and I know I will only get close to 25% of that back as it's not reg'd or wof'd.

We're in Mount Maunganui.

Some things have been slowly progressing since the last post, as well as a bit of regression in other areas...

Progess:

Got the wheel bolts on the Enkeis re plated and polished, look smick now, from memory it was about 60 durrah for 40 bolts and 40 nuts from FM Surface Coatings in Hams.

Picked up some 195/50/15 MY01s from OSGC sr1600. What a guy, even delivered to my door for a box!

Bought the Momo Indy circa 1979 wood grain, refurbed completely from bare wood, rebrushed alloy, genuine momo boss kit and horn.

Lucky 7 ball gear knob made from a pub ball, managed to drill it straight while holding it and using a battery drill, suprised it didn't come out cock-eyed. win.

New dash, OG am stereo (not hooked up/no speaks), dash pad less cracked and nicer dark brown colour, control panel nice and uncut (ie no one tried to slam a head unit into it's beautiful surface.

cracked and missing puzzle piece steering column surround (where the column shift has smashed into plastic on a particularly enthusiastic throw) repaired using super glue and solar-rez (surfboard epoxy), painted black and shift pattern redone in white.

Gas pedal rusted off it's floor pivot, made up a new one by making pedal and welding to the lever, painted gold cause i was feeling a little baller.

New plugs and leads seemed to sort the misfiring issues (repco NGK). Anyone know where I can score an NGK sticker?

Regression:

Those rust repairs from above posts have become a nightmare! I did them with a friend from my welding course, and it turns out that the repairs which were done in my absence were actually just bog hide jobs.

FUCKCUNTASSBASTARDIWILLBURNYOURBOGGEDOUTBEDFORDSTOTHEFUCKINGGROUNDYOUSELFISHFUCK!

I discovered this when replacing the dash, found a great dirty hole on the inside of a spot where it was apparently all new steel which took this snake hours to shape and fit. Not so, there was a strip of panel steel tacked on the support the drooping saggy shitness of bog he slapped on it. This is a spot which cost alot to do as I had the windscreen removed and re-rubbered while out to avoid heating the glass.

In all fairness I got had by this guy and it is mostly my own fault for a. not educating myself on what constitutes a decent repair (magnets!) and b. not paying attention to what was done when I was working. So the paint he threw on the repairs was not proper auto paint either... now most of the repair have rust bubbling up through the bog... park truck on beachfront property for months, viola a clusterfuck of a vehicular nature. that link is like trevor (gta V) and bubbles (trailer park boys) in the same body!

And my exhaust is quite tractor spec, putter putter bang type neighbourhood annoyance.

Needless to say I am back to the WoF-less state I was in before. The legnum daily is handling everything quite well but I would love to have this back on the road for summer so I can cruise for babes with my girlfriend.

I'll edtit this in a bit with pictures/ gotta go cut down some trees for the old man before he hurts hisself.

monte carlos are sick, as are personal jobbies like ted's...

here's my finished momo indy project. you can find a write up/how to in the tech articles.