BLIZZO

wicked stuff, so many feels. The man sure likes bicycles too by the looks of things!

There is a bloke on northland that rallies an EP70 starlet with a Yaris motor and some form of hybrid box fitted. pretty cool, reliability, zippiness with all the vvt and what not and fuel efficiency to boot, even when it sits on 6 grand all day erry day

if you cant turn the flywheel there is probably a reason it was sitting outside, well there certainly is now. The cylinder that has been open will be chooched. Chooo chooo choooooooched

Just build an escort car and pedal that or you will likely never see gravel time. No point in going space frame unless you have a casual 60-100k lying around. There is a mint mk1 rally she'll on TM at the mo for 8k (less than half it would cost to build a very average for one)

yea i love the napier taihape, we harvested a few blocks on some on the big stations up there this year (erewhon / Black hill / kelly land company) and i always love the drive up. Shes all tarmac now but was still fun even in my new hilux. a couple of months ago i took the girly to napier for the day just so i could go for a fang / earn brownie points

any lads or ladess's got any oil coolers laying around ya wanna part with, my mocal spin on oil filter adapter has the outlet and inlet to run a cooler, and came with -10 oil cooler lines and an oil thermostat so i needa get a cooler, cant affrod to drop like $200 on a fancy mocal one right now, anyone got anything lying around?

That's what I first thought Dave but would the exhaust manifold not have more inconsistent Heat?

Lads! My new inlet/exhaust gasket turned up and I went to put it on but unsure which way around to put it, it has a tin side on one and paper on the other, checking both original motors one was around one way and the other was the opposite which was rebuilt by a mechanic. Confused, please help!

my father in law put a rover V8 in a series 1 rx7 several years ago, cos he had a fucked rx7 and a mint 3.5l rover, why not. apparantly sounded horny as with his exhaust. that would make people cry now

Pine!

Didnt simon watson have one of these too??

yea this is it!! well simon never really had it, it was his grandfathers, who was the manager of Newton King in wanganui which was the old triumph dealership. After his grandad died it sat idle for ages then Andrew Cobb brought it and thrashed it for a few months then i brought it in like 05/06 i think. Since i restored it its rolled two of Simons families weddings, his and his cousins, the family cream their jeans over it, every now and then at christmas i have taken it down to his folks place and let various family members hoon in it, they love it, a lot of them learnt to drive in it.

forgot to add a discussion link at the start, cant figure out how to put it up there now, anyways, Discuss..... //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/39266-blakes-77-triumph-2000/?hl=blakes

in somewhat of a vain attempt to keep the oil in the sump and not of the floor I put a new rear main seal in, easy to do while shes in bits

Before we pulled the donk out i tried to do a skid and it would just stall, haha shit not even one damn wheel! sparkle decided to make up for it with betty, SKIDS FOR KIDS!

The reason the old engine had no clutch was that it had super excessive endfloat, like over 20 thou when service level is 4 to 8 thou, so the clutch just moves the whole crank. WHole the new PI motor had the sump off i checked the endflloat in it and it had 12 thou so ill bang some new thrust washers in while its apart.

I scored myself a MOCAL spin on oil filter adapeter with oil hoses and a fancy oil thermostat so that has gone on and you will see another little stainless hose going from the pressure sensor up the the block. This is an aftermarket rocker feed hose to make sure the last two cylinders dont run dry when hauling ass as the usually do (engine is on a but of a tilt).

rightyo, Joe has been hassling me about that of thread updates so i thought id jam something up as i have been getting stuck into the trumpy in the last week. 2000 had officially pissed me off enough so it was time to come out, wanted to give gearbox a birthday at same time so the whole lot was coming out. Had a few of the boys around on saturday (cheers sparkle and prince william duke of cambridge) for some shit yarns, beers, faggot juice and spannering.

As those of you in the know trumpy engines come out the bottom, not the top. So steering rack, cross member and engine member were removed, engine dropped onto a crate and then the car lifted up and engine slid out of the way. Didnt take many photos, too busy with beers. Anyway this was the end result

Looks like a damn BMC assemply plant

As i had converted the 2000 to power steer and i am putting a non power steer engine it requires a bit of shaggin around. BMCs engineers in all there fine wisdom obviously had a few too many pints at the local and built the power steering mount into the front block plate and only put it on power steer cars. Sooooo... i had to rip off the timing cover, all the timing gears etc and swap over the block plate. This also required a lot of shitty gasket scraping.

As rookie said go hit up a local forestry contractor (hauler not groundbased), try nig bryant or the bloke something fraser from fraser logging. When their working ropes get a bit worn they replace them and the old ropes cant even be scrapped usually as the guillotines wont cut them and compactors cant scrunch them into balls. 

I have used elite, yea they take ages but I would just pop in there every week and give them a hurry up. They did an absolutley awesome job tho...

Suzukis are about a tonne and all the peeps reckon 6500 pound is the bizzo, just be careful. I dont know what type of truck you have but suzukis need cross member strengthening otherwise your chassis rails will wind up a fair bit closer together at the front :-S, i had strengthened mine in anticipation for winch but never got around to it, well i was gunna rear mount mine for double purchase spec and cool factor but ended up selling truck for copiously large amounts of money

Genuine Mk2 sport, was a bit battered and rusty and then left outside to become way worse. Its a JE plate, so pine. Really really want to rescue it and take on the monumental panelbeating challenge.

Oh cool that could be real handy, yea I have a bit of plan for heatsink. Don't like the idea of coil as heating the fuel will inherently heat the pump mech and maybe get cavitation. I might get that oil cooler spin on, is that what you run? No trouble using for a 2500 rather than a tr, same engine I know just wondering about chassis clearances etc

No two fuel pump Dave, I'm living life on the edge and using the lucas pump, gunna whip up a cooling coil or heatsink for it and put a viton seal in it. Saves the headaches.........maybe not cos lucas.

Saw that Muncie, just don't wanna pay 150 green backs haha

Much has been happening lately. Got a spare set of struts to cut 2.5 coils off under kk's orders. Got the PI motor home, comp tested it and she's good as so gunna get the injectors cleaned and bang her in, did the tapper clearances today. On a side note, do any of you triumph framers have a spin on oil filter kicking around in a box somewhere? C'mon someone must have!

i also concur, find some old retired cobba with a shitload of dollys who smokes a pipe / name is Jim. Only way to get that shit straight like they did in my day Jim. i have used wanganui electroplaters for my triumph 6 rocker cover and with acid dipping, other whatever dipping and then electro plating she was $90 plus gst.

Cheap as chips jim!

I get carsick sometimes if I'm passenger of a fanged car

Fag, so much for class 2 co driver then

haha normal reg is ghetto as but will do. 

Roger, so on a Jewish note, could I use the gangster triumph pressure relief valve that's rated to 110psi after the second pump and no pressure reg between the first and second?