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soooo much room se enjine baes

like i said on facebook, suits your faggy khaki teacher pants

original IMHO, widened steelies, tickle the 1500 with a nice grumpy cam and like you say sidedrafts with a sweet exhaust system and headers. Will sound cool but period cool with sweet induction noise

still think F4PER would be more appropriate for a married man

Build thread here = //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/40379-1971-triumph-herald-1360/ Good to see another triumph being saved, but geeze it looks like dirty mike and they boys had a soup kitchen in there. Where did you rescue that from/ have you already pulled the engine or did it not come with one?. Will be interesting to see the condition of the body work once you strip it that one on the widened steels looks pretty sweet, reminds me of the old anglia race cars etc on wide rims, cant say ive seen a herald look so good

you pulled the tap things apart yet? ill boost around for a study break on weekend and have a look

Well might as well show my wee offroad project. 1994 suzuki samurai, has a few mods, and a few still to come. so far - -1600 injected motor from escudo -Old man emu lifted springs and shocks - 1.5" guard chop or "virtual lift" (keeps COG low, which these need) - Endless air using front bar as tank and sanden AC compressor - 33x10.5r14 silverstone extreme tyres on custom flipped 15x8 roh steels with balancing beads - custon front and rear bar (not quite finished) - custon draw set up - recaro fishnet seats - guages for rice factor - power steering still to come -front diff moved forward - flat pan spring hangers -rock lobster transfer case (almost finished) - rear discs with fiddle brakes and prob a few other goodies. photo porn

Well im a pretty happy lad, THE BLUE PI RUNS!. The guy i brought it off was being a giant douche and totally reckon the metering unit was stuffed cos he has spent a week trying to get it to go and had put half a tank of fresh gas in it all new plugs and filter etc so stuff him haha. The body itself is really straight with no rust but the boot and bonnet are a bit rusty. Cheers to Goat on the advice to get it running, i took all the plugs out, pulled a couple of injectors out and just winded it for about ten minutes until the injectors started squirting nicely and then some. Banged plugs back in a broom away she went. Still only running on 5 but it was running. So drove it off trailer and straight into storage. Got told no conversions till after the weeding but i reckon i might be able to squeeze this one in before

regards to that hitachi one my mate has one and ive borrowed it on several occasions. Its pretty angry and all or nothing but does the job alright. But ya watch out or it will catch ya out, need a very firm grip with two hands as it has heaps of tourqe and will just about break ya wrist if not careful. It is quite big and bulky when wanting to do finiky stuff, personally i prefer a good pneumatic one

haha mint glen, we should go on a cruiser/20 mission, i feel a causal pub crawl coming on

oh and feel free to comment, there aint really anything more to come so not worried about thread gettin full of shit

So i wanted to give it a full resto but a bit of a rushed one as im flat out at uni, just have to have a project. So i stripped her down one night, got some meguairs metal polish which with a scourer pad managed to save all the chrome except the rear rim. Got my flatmate to beadblast all the painted bits for me. Found a NOS rim which is rare as they are a pretty obsolete size. Only gay thing is its brushed allow so no chrome look, o well ill keep the orignial for a one day when i get around to it thing. Took all the to be painted bits to action powder coaters in hornby, they owner there is a legend, looked after me so well, we went with a silver base with a lucent gold to start with which was close to the original colour. Unfortunatley the lucent gold is a tinted clear and its hard for them to know how thick it is when its in powder form and this resulted in some really brown spots and really silver spots, it looked terrible but in the bits it looked good it looked awesome. Well we was more than happy to repaint it for me so i chose the only other gold they had which was "antique gold". it turned out alright, not quite what i was after but it has grown on me and def has a retro look about it. Got the bike all back together, had the rear rim laced up at the bike shop. Front one is on the piss, not buckled, just slanting on the piss, its still rideable so will get done at some stage.got a sticker kit off ebay. Im happy with the result, now i can cruise around uni in style. excuse this next photo as its shitty and inside but its the only one ive got with the chain guard on

So ive always liked raleigh 20's as my gran had a gold one and we always used to ride it as kids. It dissapeared somewhere after the moved into a unit and now as they are both dead i have no hope in finding it so i went a brought one of some weird old fellow. It was named siliva, Something to do with the weird gollywog ontop of the light. Needless to say that is def going back on as its pretty rad. So here she is, photo makes it look better, its actually quite rusty.

ill have an overdrive box going spare when i manage to strip the pi. I was gunna run carbs on mine but have heard of the running on problems so gunna do up the injection and use bosch pump etc. Let me know if you need anything that isnt already in your stash of goodies

Points dont wear out and dont have to set them. In theory shud get a better and more reliable spark. Worth doing if cheap enought. Pre crosflow shud if its same dizzy. Would need to check if coil is compatible I think. Ezcue chingrish on my phone

demonstration as to how they work - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eq263AYgyYg

Fitting with British Leyland goodness I thought up chuck up a photo of my fiance's mini. She always wanted one as a kid after seeing two cooper S's racing with her old man at the port at nelson. Always wanted a red one in cooper S colours. Her old man brought her this for her what i think was her 15 birthday, it was her first car. Was in pus orange originally. Cute father daughter project over the proceeding years doing it up. Got minilites for her 16th birthday, 1275gt donk when she passed 7th form NCEA etc. Pretty neat little car and she drives it like a mad women. Drove it between havelock and blenhiem everyday for school. Now currently undercover in her old mans treasure chest with lots of other goodies, photo is from when he suprised her last christmas and put a new 1275 in it as the other one did a head gasket. First time she had driven it in years. It will come up to pamly with us when we get out own place / my shed

cheers for the help mate, and no there was no discussion thread so now there is Sweet when i pick the car up ill give it a try, im guessing the guy just said metering unit fault as its easy to blame. I have heard the pumps are dodgy on these anyway, would it be worth using a bosch 044 or the likes, i guess it just has to match the pressure of the original one. wont be a few weeks till im back up there but ill let you know how i get on. Im looking forward to getting it running then stripping it down and pimping out my 2000 slash soon to be 2.5 PI. Cheers Blake

right so i have given up on the idea of a RV8, i want to keep it very much triumph. I have just aquired a 1974 2500PI for parts thats been parked up in a shed for 15 years. Was working mint when parked up apparently but now wont start. I havent seen it yet but he reckons its the metering unit. Father inlaw is trying to convince me to slap the PI donk in and bolt some 2" SUs onto it but i think i like the idea of the oldschool injection so might try fix it and use a better pump to solve those unreliability issues. The parts car also has a manual overdrive box which is a score. I already have one in the 2000 so if anyone wants it make me an offer. The car will just be getting stored for at least 6 months till i have time and or money to do anything with it so its just all planning at this stage. The other cool thing is that the plates are still live so i might use them rather than mine and fully convert mine to PI spec, get a signwriter to do the vinyl panel and put the badge on and use the PI dash etc. Any comments of recommendations fire away

scored a set of 5 S mags with mint tyres and trumpy centre caps for 500, what a gentleman Now british racing green, sitting at the painters with no springs, looks sick haha Home now and engine in Back from the upholsters, new door cards, hoodlining and carpet. Had to go black in the boot as the didnt have enough of the old brown looppile These are all as she sits now - This ones from at my sisters wedding. Pretty proud of how it now sits and looks. Few annoying things like door lines not lining up and wavy bits in the paint but hey its probably still tidier than when it was new. Would just like more power to make it more fun to drive. Its never going to be original as i have already butchered the TC2000 originality and painted it BRG but would like to keep it british donk. Pondered with putting an injected 3.9 out of a rangie classic or just working a 2.5 to get some decent power. Probably a year away from doing anything more too it, gotta finish uni first. But always happy to hear ideas and what not from you knowledgeable fellows. Cheers Blake

Hey guys Blake here, new to this forum, spend most of my online time on ORE the offroad forum. Well im at uni now but when i first finished school i obtained a triumph 2000 and fell in love with it. Over the next 18 months she got a pretty much full restore. current set up is -Triumph 2000 - S wheels - power steering - manual overdrive box - 1.5" compressed springs - new looppile carpets, hoodlining etc it never officially got back on the road, its still on hold and in my parents garage in Wanganui. Still need to do a few things for a wof, wiring gremlins, rear wheel bearings (might try to find whole axles as i hear the bearings are a mish to replace) and a few other niggly things. Pretty annoyed with the gutlessness of the 2lt too and i have spent a bit of money getting the head reconed so might look at dropping a 2.5 block onto and with a bit of work on it. Anyway here a some photos, wont put descriptions on all of them as i cbf so here it was when i got it. looked kinda straight but there was a lot of rust hiding in there. It had one owner from new, who was the manager of the triumph dealership in wanganui it had taken a good nudge in the rear end so that took a bit of work silly double skinned guards, both sides were rooted. Panel beater did most of the work as this was before i had any panel skills. he rolled new ones and made a bloody good job of it. so she slowly got stripped down Engine got a birthday. Head was reconditiond. Rest of it was ok. is attached to 5sp manual overdrive box now. Love my handy engine trolley. its now my aunites washing trolley found an UNCRACKED dash, so all the wood got a birthday