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No date set at the moment.

I guess that's open for discussion for over the winter months too, do we do a weeknight meet? (Thursday, Friday) or a weekend meet? 

If its a weekend meet I say Sunday as it suits more folks. If so what time would be best? 12pm? 3pm? 6pm?

I'm not a huge fan of speights ale house. Shit coffee, expensive for average food and it's generally too busy/noisey.

How about the Moutere inn? 

Thanks for the input though 

No problem at all Matt, what's the best way to get it to you?

Yes there was uncaged vehicles racing there. 

He wasn't serious, just the safety car

I only seen a couple of oldschoolers today, and they were too busy driving fast to talk shit with me. Plus I spent most of my time there hiding in the bushes with my camera.

With such a wide range of vehicles it made for an interesting day and listening to all those unmuffled engines as they flew past was worth braving the cold morning.

I will start off with photos of Matts(MattJ) Anglia and Tonys (Ynot) Punto. Followed by random shots

So i've been thinking about over the winter months to having our meets at a local spot (Pub, Cafe, somewhere) on a set date every month like alot of the other cities do. Whats peoples thoughts on this? location suggestions welcome

Our next meet will be at the Sandy bay hillclimb (road to Marahau).

Between classes there is about a 20 minute break where spectators can walk up the road to different spots/driveways. I will be at the first driveway at around 9am

Bring your own chair, snacks and beverages and let's watch some hooning!

http://www.nelsoncarclub.co.nz/next-event

See you guys and girls there!

11 minutes ago, ynot said:

I'll be there in my racy UNO

Good man! I expect to see a 180° handbrake turn into barbecued sausage grab with a J-turn exit.

No problem at all!

It was a small meet but still a good drive/banter session. Thanks to those that came along.

Our next meet will coincide with the Sandy bay hillclimb  (Marahau)

I'll get details up in a day or 2

Ill be heading through Richmond and can give you a ride Will.

See you people tomorrow! 

I think NZKW do a similar seat also but it looks to me like their website is down.

So guys and girls, our next meet will be a cruise out to Cable bay.

Meet at Wow carpark at 11am, cruise out to Cable bay around 11.30.

I'm not sure if there is a bbq out there but hopefully pog brings the bus out and we should be fine to use the wood fired bbq out there.

I do like Will's suggestion on meeting at a grasskahna event with the Nelson car club and I'll look into that for an up coming meet. 

Anyhoo see you guys at wow!

Chur!

@JoKer I've still got a complete wing mirror with your name on it

I really have no input in this thread but I notice no one mentioned an Amarok. Is that because they havent had issues? I quite like the look and specs although it's a ugly looking engine.

Well so I had almost finished the conversion and ended up losing my licence for demerits literally a hour before spirited test drives, Great!

I've had my licence back for a while now and have given it some very thorough testing and there was (and still is) things to be sorted.

The exhaust system was a bit of a challenge using E36 328 pressed steel manifolds, the rear manifold flange needed to be cut and welded about 12mm closer to the block to clear the steering knuckle, I then just hacked up the e34 exhaust to get the manifolds to mate with the exhaust system that was already in it.

Steering knuckle itself I removed the guibo and made a spacer and bolted the ewe jays together through the spacer. I did keep the e34 steering shaft in case I need to modify it to work but its fine now with plenty of clearance to the exhaust manifold.

One of the more annoying issues it sometimes has, is that it will cough and sometimes die whenever it wants and if it dies it wont restart until the key has been turned off, it will fire up straight away after that. Other times it coughs and carries on as per usual, when this problem occurs I can hear one of the relays clicking under the dash but haven't figured out which relay it is and what its job is. This car has seemed to have an electrical gremlin the whole time i've had it with things like the window squirtys just going on their own, which in turn makes the wipers go.

The next main problem is the fact that the sump sits about 70mm off the ground and i've already had some ass puckering moments when I was half expecting the oil pressure light to come on, luckily I haven't smashed it to bits

So todays job was the removal of the crossmember and oil pan to cut the sump and wing it to retain volume. Cross member came out in no time at all and so did all of the sump bolts... or so I thought. It soon became clear that there was 2 bolts hidden behind the bellhousing, now the e34 gearboxes contain a recess to allow access to these bolts. the 260 gearbox does not so I had to call on the inner bro and holesaw and die grind out holes in the sump so I could get a rachet spanner onto em. I know its rough... but it worked and saved me hours of having to split the gearbox from the engine.

So all going well tomorrow I will mark out where I want the sump to be cut and chop it, compute the required wing size and fold up some 3mm alloy to be welded in. Then move on to the oil pick up and shorten it, modify the factory baffles and we should be all go to weld it all up and chuck it back together.

I also had a huge power steering leak in the last couple of weeks and found some fuckery that needed fixing. Return line had been hacked at some point and had some very rough repair done.

anyway there's my long overdue update

pics

I also think that you should be repping again, you're much better with words than I am and have always been great at getting the troops motivated. 

Maybe a peace offering of some sort will fix this? 

Cable bay it is. How does Sunday 23rd April sound? Lunchtime ish?

I'll get onto the thread title after work, or smoko

Yea I think the location is spot on for bowls, such a great hill.

Does cable bay have a bbq to use? If so I'm keen for that and I think after the easter break for the meet.... gives me time to sort out my sump, once that's done a Motorkahna meet would be awesome! I just want to beat the bmw mad musk boys.

Ahhh yes Kaka point. Let's just say there never used to be any speed bumps up there, also great fishing off the rocks. 

I would prefer a closer meet until I sort a couple of things on the e30, in saying that I can always ride along with somone else.

Well we should probably sort out our next meet. I left a message with the bowls club but haven't heard back, I'm still keen to do this again at some point.

How about the good old bbq at Rabbit island? 

Definitely open to suggestions/locations

Fuck that looks like fun! I really need to get amongst it! 

I have a euro meet that day, but their cruise is ending at Aniseed valley so I may pop on down for a while. 

I'll be entering these kind of events once I raise up the e30s sump.

What's everyone's thoughts on the next meet? Maybe it's time for the Pohara bowls? I'm not sure if they have a "season" but I can call and find out.

Oh I wouldn't do such a thing! 

2 minutes ago, kyteler said:

So the boat is suspended from the trailer?  That's fucking sweet.  Odd, of course but fucking sweet, would make floating it real easy though.

yup thats right on all counts

Thanks to everyone that made it along! Yet another interesting meet

My, (and Pogs) favorite was the "vulcan" we didn't see it run but we were both pleased with the all riveted alloy and interesting trailer and boat hitch design.

Close behind for coolness for me was the Jet powered Jet boat!

Now i'll just pic dump the rest of my photos of boats, turns out I need ALOT more practise with photographing moving objects but there's a few NZ record breaking boats, steam boilers, boat barries and of course... a mighty fine Johnson or two.

I will post more shortly ...

No problem at all!