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How about a meet central (square?) at 2:30 and drive out. That way you can all marvel at the inordinate amount of anti-social smoke the 360 makes, or twist my arm and I'll bring the '87 GSXR1100H (18" hoops FTW). yar

Maybe not this month, but would love a BBQ day as the weather warms up. I can bring a cute little charcoal barbie... unfortunately our place is way too small, has 4m^2 lawn and no parking much.

Combine harvester Demolition Derby. Because rednecks.

Pic or you don't own it (used to own a v tidy soarer, pine some days)

Fans: I seem to recall the Subaru fans are pretty flat, from mounting an a14 into my SJ-410...

All this crap?: "...avoid using dishwashers..." http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/138283/sewage-systems-in-canterbury-towns-flooded

Not too welcome, I hope

LOlz, was also thinking electric, but the body needs quite a bit of tidy up.

Thoughts on what to do with the donor? Mechanic is recommending keeping it for spares, but I don't have the space, and do have a spare motor already... Any one keen to do a resto?

Alright, up to what's happening at the moment. Feb 1: I wash the wee toy, and start out for the Skope Classic, on Friday. Now, it's been running a little... hard sounding, since I got it back from the partners sister, a few days earlier. All running ok, just sounds... sharp? Nasal? Anyway, as I'm onto Yaldhurst, and heading west, up to 60km/h and brrrrr---...... Uh, oh. I know this noise, I took 6 pistons out of my RG250, one at a time. Toward the end, I could tell which side had gone, by sound. I pull a plug, and there's aluminium on it. Piss. I bus home, grab the GSXR and head to the Skope Classic anyway. PM: borrowed the Mother In Laws' CRV, and tow the toy home. Another try round the wreckers, none in Chch, Hororata, Greymouth, Hokitika. Piss. Now a while ago, when the Max was parked, a guy bangs on the door and says, I have one, want parts? I chase him down, work out who owns the car (it's been given away, reclaimed, stored on a farm, etc). I call the guy who owned / owns it, and he decides later he'll give it to me for just a lamb roast. GC! I go and meet Aaron, deliver the not-so-smallgoods, co-ordinate with the farmer, and tow it to a (new) mechanic this week. http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7653/360donor.jpg Today I score some Danish pastries as a bribe, head out to disembowel the donor. Trial run: fit battery, connect starter. Weak spark; clean the points, a couple of litres fuel, a few big squirts of ether, and fire it up. Win! No silencer, sounds like some bratty rotary. Smoke. Lots of smoke. I spend the rest of the day pulling the motor and gearbox. Right, next: -Clean up the motor, pull the gearbox, grab the clutch-plate. -Tow in mine, yank the dead donk (hah!), install the transplant, add 300ml two-stroke to the tank (juuuust incase the donors oil circuit isn't working).

Took these precious parts and the toy down to the local mechanic. Blah blah useless imbeciles trying to destroy cute little cars. Yep, this is another placekeeper. More later. Dwell Meter! Sheesh!

Long saga about getting parts from Japan. (Placekeeper, more later). Executive summary, Japanese banks are lying, cheating bastards. Use Hayatonka instead http://blog.retro-classics.co.nz/?p=1114

It ran fine for a year. A bit smokey after a week around town, so weekends I'd go just out of the city; about 4 minutes open road at full throttle cleaned the oil residue from the expansion chamber. After about then, it slowly started getting hard to start. Took it to a local mechanic for a tune up, he says, "nah, points" and I have a look around, but none available locally. After a month, I tow it home, and hide it in the shed for a while (that's the trouble with having another car. If I'd only had the Max, I'd have got more serious about fixing the toy up!

Build thread: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/36833-h4nds-1974-daihatsu-fellow-max-360/

Saw this in 2009 in Trademe, bought it. Discussion Thread: http://oldschool.co....fellow-max-360/

Saw one of these at a repainters, Wrights Rd, August, 2012:

Sorry for the slow reply, I had something set wrong on my email. Looking for a new rubber for it.

More air in the airbag suspension?

Any chance you can do the front window rubber on my L38 Daihatsu max 360? http://img844.images...x360noplate.jpg Cheers, W