BLIZZO
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right have had some good progress latley, which was needed as its racing tomorrow. Got stuck in with the vinyl, and good old simon at quickstickers.co.nz made some lush custom decals. had the car on the dyno last night just quickly to make sure its safe. We have run 28mm chokes which is robbing a fair bit of top end but making it really driveable, i will run with these till i get the handling of the car then will go to 30s and hopefully a bigger cam is this one is mild as. it was wayyyy to super rich to start and now a bit rich but at a safe level. Token issues with trumpet clearances, cannot fit the socks at all, when they are on it runs super rich on the middle two cylinders so trying to solve that issue. Yeti at keith stewart dyno ( a couple of quick runs with the carbs still terribly unbalanced and it made 65hp at the wheels, which im happy with for now. He had a newly rebuilt ministock (so standard) 3k in the same day and that made 33hp at the wheels. With the 4.4:1 diff in it now it is peppy as fuck and should go pretty good this weekend hopefully. Only the driver will let it down. Pics cos of coolness dyno- and some glamour shots by sparkle, excuse the primer overspray on the tyres haha
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Hey mate don't mean to burst your bubble but you will fail scruitineering with that battery box, I went through the same debarcle when I moved my batter to the boot of the starlet. Unless the batter is a fully sealed race battery (even by sealed red top ultima is not) then it has to be in a sealed container vented to outside the car (and secured with at least 4x M6 Iso 8.8 high tensile bolts) those black battery boxes are not sealed and vent within the cars cabin. I used a small clear sealed briscoes storage container with a piece of rubber fuel hose running from the box and out a hole in the floor. I tried arguing with the MSNZ technical officers over the fact an optima is sealed but they wouldn't wear it, has to be completely dry cell to avoid it.
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Aren't the still like 225s or something rather wide though?
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Manawatu Weekend cruise. Mk2 14 Feb
BLIZZO replied to CaMpylobacter's topic in Lower North Island Region
terrified that her mates wont think shes cool anymore? -
I'll need some non rally 13" tyres to do Tarmac haha
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looking by the vids i would not do pahaheke without a cage, lots on 3rd to 4th, narrow. In fact i dont think i would do any of them without a cage, but if your willing to take that risk and its allowed then get into it.
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Pine, starlet is going to make its debut at pahaheke road, will bang entry though now
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They are 4x108 originally but chris re-drilled mine to 4x114.3, even did a spare if i brake one, which i cant see happening, they look way stronger than the starlet axles.
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So I has been very busy putting this thing back together over the last couple of weeks. She's getting very close now After a trip down south over this Wellington anniversary weended to see the parentals in law I picked up the English that the father in law had converted to KP spec for me, can probably say that this is the only piece of Quaife goodies I am going to own in a long time All fitted in like a dream and the wheels clear perfectly, it's only 15mm wider than the starlet diff. Driveshaft needs to have 47mm trimmed off it though so that's getting done at garmac engineering in Wanganui this week. I also ordered some cheap China spec vinyl wrap to have a crack at making the decals esqe of an inverse on Paul Adams old Toyota NZ car back in the 80s. Man this stuff is a bitch to put on, watch this space
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Copy that and make your own Mitch you budding young engineer you, or just improve the setup it's got slightly
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He's not k-t ned, he's 4a-t
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Brian howatt is a magician with diffs. The guy takes LSD's and makes hydraulically actuated diff locks, and builds shit to get thrashed by trails trucks with over 1000nm of torque. If i lived in welly he would be doing my engineering for sure
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Supplier in nz for Bostik 5615, have used, is good, would trade again http://shop.ehayes.co.nz/bostik-5615-easy-clean-mastic-sealant-2486305615
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Hey guys, windscreens! Who has installed seal type Windscreens using the old piece of string method? Is this as easy as it looks? Should I use some kind of non setting windscreen sealer in there as well? Any help appreciated. Hope to put them in one night this week.
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Hoye guys I need some help, the rally car had some weird wicking marks from where there was overspray on the primer that got sprayed over, painter said to wet sand with 2000 grit sand paper and then cut and polish. I tired using sparkles da polisher and a upol cut, was doing nothing, painter mate said da polishers are rubbish and so is that upol cut so I got a hard cut and bodgied up a rotary polisher. Desired effect achieved, sanding marks all gone and left with a flat dull smooth panel. My problem starts here, how do o get this shiny again? Have tried using a cut/polish cutting compound that supposedly doesn't need polishing etc. but yea no luck, how do I get this shit shiny? Can be seen here, too part of panel is cut, bottom part isn't.
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Hoye guys I need some help, the rally car had some weird wicking marks from where there was overspray on the primer that got sprayed over, painter said to wet sand with 2000 grit sand paper and then cut and polish. I tired using sparkles da polisher and a upol cut, was doing nothing, painter mate said da polishers are rubbish and so is that upol cut so I got a hard cut and bodgied up a rotary polisher. Desired effect achieved, sanding marks all gone and left with a flat dull smooth panel. My problem starts here, how do o get this shiny again? Have tried using a cut/polish cutting compound that supposedly doesn't need polishing etc. but yea no luck, how do I get this shit shiny? Can be seen here, too part of panel is cut, bottom part isn't.
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Manawatu Weekend cruise. Mk2 14 Feb
BLIZZO replied to CaMpylobacter's topic in Lower North Island Region
I think the British car day is what this cruise in being tailored around, but I'm sure can will update with more Deets -
righto so good things happened tonight. this - unfortunately i didn't block out one of the old paint seams on the roof enough, and it is highly visible which even tho its a rally car it does piss me off. but i will have to get used to it. seen here- hopefully most of it goes back together this weekend
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new page yet please....
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k so i managed to get the hatch to clear, by using the bigger hammer method. used the rubber end of my bacho rachet as a dolly and smacked the panel till it cleared. it put a few bows / bends in the roof line as seen here below, but i didnt give a fuck at this stage / its only a rally car. so hatch is hung now, and its all ready to go to my mates booth for top coat. Now that the body is out of the way i got to a few other little jobs, made an alloy mount for the batter isolator switch now that my battery is going in the back. this will go just behind the handbrake. also made new seat mounts. the old ones were mish mash fucking ugly / unsafe things that came with the car that have the worst birdshit welding i have ever seen, are made of so many different pieces and some of them are panel steel!! the rules are the must be made of 3mm steel at least, i made them at my cousins workshop and the smallest flatbar he had was 5mm, so they are overkill but meh they will be safe and are a bit more simple than the last ones. now for the exciting bit. Father in law just sent me this photo of the diff assembly he has built for the car, so stoked. Its an escort diff with a 4.4:1 CWP and Quaife ATB LSD, he made a jig for the starlet mounts and swapped everything over. He has re drilled the stud to 4x114.3 and lowered the bottom arm brackets by an inch to help with squat / traction / i dont know but he does. cant wait to get the locked 3.7 out of the car and get this bad boy in!!
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righto updates have been a bit thin on the ground as i have been rather busy trying to get this thing ready for the event on the 16th, unsure if i will make it especially as i hit big hurdle today thats my own fuckup that i will ask for some advice on. i forgot to take to many photos of the panel beating but there was a shit tonne that went into it, as you can tell my all the shit that was cut out of it. turned my garage into a spray booth and jammed some primer on, had to trim my beard because my respirator wouldnt seal agaisnt my face and i didnt want to breath any baddy icocyanates or what every they are from the 2k paint. Cheers snoozin for the good deal on the safety stuff too so i started jamming some colour on it, im doing the inside myself and then a mates going to do the exterior in his booth right and this is where i hit my hurdle / fuckup. I went to hang the rear hatch and it seems the vertical panel that drips down from the roof is too far back / not recessed enough and the middle (apex of the curve) on the rear hatch hits in when opening and closing, the drivers side hinge also seems to have moved when i re made the middle panel (i didnt remove the hinges and the shouldnt have moved as still had plently of steel around them) who can come up with the easiest way for me to fix this? anyway while i figure out how im going to fix that im taking it to my cousins workshop to make some new seat mounts and radiator support etc. Loaded ready to go
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Oh i was meaning for PI tanks GreenTC, the Pi sedans have a different tank to carbed sedans, and wagons are obviously different again. My fuel gauge is surprisingly accurate, but when its out, its out. shitty fuel light flickers from quater of a tank down though
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just buy holden 6 efi gear you moose. even i could figure out where those 3 wires it requires to run go
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Awesome cheers for the advice man. It is getting a bit thin, there is a few spots where you can see the fibres, and it will get a good sand back before I do anything with it. I'll look into that stuff cheers. Also another real cool thing with it is when we popped off one of the hub caps we found this! Some old Barry's name and address that used to own it. A quick search in the archives of that address brings him up as William Edwin Adams, a carpenter, and it looks like he passed away in 1996 at the ripe old age of 80, imagine how cool it would be to track down some old photos of it in its hey day!
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Nah I havnt gel coated anything before Brock, havnt even looked into it, was just recommended that this may need it