Shakotom

Bought some cheap coil overs and put them in Then removed them again as K11 went to Nats and needed the suspension travel to load it up invisible caravan Had a great trip down with @GuyWithAviators riding shotgun - Front seats nice for a nap even with all the rattles and wind noise this car has. 11/10 weekend camping and touring

Two and a half years later…

Grandad passed away start of last year, one of the things I’ve inherited is the garden trailer he built in 1966. It’s just a trailer but cool points are OG black plate and sentimental reasons. I had tried to get a WOF on it a couple of times since it expired at the start of the year but it’s really a little too bubbly in some spots, the paints pretty thick from all the years of touch ups and it’s probably 10 months is getting a bit past it for running tip runs with no WOF, so biting the bullet and pulling it apart for a tidy up. Drilled rivets holding the metal floor in - which was covering a sheet of fairly rotten plywood. Plywood sat under the folded metal sides. Has rusted out the lower edge of the sides and the frames pretty flaky. Front edge of the floor was welded to the frame and the sides were welded to the uprights front and rear. Got to this point Sunday afternoon. Hoping to get the other side off this week and then drop it to the blasters and see how much of it comes back… I would really like to find another pair of latches the same as this to fit to the front gate and some similar looking LED taillights to these Lucas ones for ease of not having to deal with cleaning corroded bulb mounts every WOF. Any clues please let me know.

Long time no chat, Am starting this to document some of the things I’m tinkering with that aren’t worth a solo thread but I’d like to throw photos somewhere for records / motivation/ self accountability.

Very cool

Good bus

No welding of steering or suspension components but can I weld new mounts for brake hoses/abs lines to the bottom of a adjustable coilover body? - mounts for these differs from what car needs

Got a couple of genuine key blades ordered and cut to replace to one I had which was sticking in the locks due to wear more roof rack use -best mod so far

Roof rack testing Very practical.

Aerodynamic. - wheels are AME Windmuhles in 14x6 and are directional lefts and rights. Tread pattern combined with the roofracks from @hampie (and the ride height ) give it more of a rally car vibe than intended…. Would really like to get to a track day or something in this sometime soon. -Oh and have a AutoSport bucket seat sitting in the garage I need to figure out how to attach to some seat rails but thats a story for next time…. -And looking for another cheap set of cool wheels to put aside for getting some track tyres eventually ( 14s or 13s)

Tyre guy fitted them all up, and aligned it (we decided we would try an ‘fast street’ setup to give it good turn in when your rushing to get the groceries and need to dive into a carpark at pace) -He’s also suggested I need to get a adjustable panhard rod and some rear spacers to even out the track width so they’re next on the list Then road test - Definitely has more grip than the old hard supercats it came with and turns in pretty well now. + 10 go kart improvements

I got the tyres stripped, asked tyre guy at work to keep them aside so I could put them back on he and said nope, they’re old and shit then promptly disposed of the tyres. I ended up doing a pick-a-part mission, and grabbing a rear hub then dropping the wheels and to an engineering shop and said make these fit that. Picked them up a few days later and with my wallet lighter tried them on the car and was happy that they fitted. -I’ve got intentions of getting them dipped, the kerbing welded up and machined back to OEM edging, and then repainted/powder coated with new decals, but my budget does not allow for that at this present moment in time. I requested the tyre guy at work to find me some tyres to exemplify the go kart handling characteristics of the might K11 -we had settled on a set of Advan ad08rs but came to find his supplier had no stock. So ended up with a set of Yokohama Advan A539s in 175/60r14 79H -which were budget friendly and not a super low quality tyre like most else in the segment. proceeded to fit them to the alloys

ALRIGHT AS I PROMISED. I found this set of wheels about 3 days after I’d told Alex I’d take the car -considering I’d been on and off hunting for cool 4x100 low budget wheels the whole time I had my AE92 as a daily and not had any luck makes me think the universe works in mysterious ways… I had a mate in Christchurch pick them up for me and store them until I got down there to grab them, Nearly bought tyres to fit them for the drive home off his mate in chch - but had none on the shelf, so just lugged them home in the boot much to my wife’s delight… I got home and excitedly went to fit them only to find the centerbore was too small to fit a Nissan resulting in me sitting in the driveway pondering my decisions.

Life’s getting in the way of small bike stuff at the moment. CG125 is there and works / just need a backpack , just dunno if I can commit eh