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  1. What year is it? And are the guard mounted side mirrors original? Reason I ask is my parents had an 84 wagon they bought new with the side mirrors in the corner of the glass on the front doors. They only recently sold it and the first thing the young guy did was ditch the original mirrors and fit some guard mounted ones. This annoyed the crap out of me lol. I’m not a fan of the guard mirrors, especially when not original. Otherwise sweet car and motor choice. Looking forward to some updates. ^^All the old pics I could find of my parents one.
  2. From the tein website in regards to their springs in a z11 cube. FT: OE BUMP RUBBER NEEDS TO BE MODIFIED. WARRANTY VOID BECAUSE: RIDE COMFORT DOES NOT MEET THE COMPANY STANDARD.
  3. Im guessing a manual conversion is well beyond the abilities or thoughts of the average cube owner. A recent post on a FB cube page was asking what the lock button was beside the auto gear lever. (Not really mechanically minded people). Although cube owners love their cars, most of their modification abilities only stretch as far as rocking into mag and turbo and buying “from the book” wheels, and getting a vinyl place to do some graphics. The cool thing with cube’s though is that generally they’re a lot tidier than other cars of the same age. This again comes down to the type of owners. People don’t buy a cube to just get from A to B, they buy it to be quirky or different. They genuinely love their car and look after it to the best of their abilities. A Tida on the other hand, although the same chassis, is the epitome of a zero fucks given shitbox. Forgot where I was going with this. Z11’s are awesome! I drive past this one almost everyday, it’s on my Wishlist.
  4. One of the bookface groups you lead me to just had a post about a k24 swapped z12 that going to be made 4wd. I’m watching with interest. Love your cube btw.
  5. Sheep grease would be lanolin. I’ve read about using polish to remove surface rust to prevent damaging the surrounding painted areas.
  6. Anyone here used one of these airbrush’s? Designed for makeup, nail polish, cake decorating etc. Wondering how well they do hobby stuff.
  7. Am in 2 minds of doing this. Many conflicting opinions about the motor’s longevity after governor delete. As it is with the governor, anyone can jump in and give it heaps with no fear on my part of it going pop. I can tighten the spring to increase revs / speed and still keep it within its limits while at the same time I still get wide open throttle up to that limit. Also bear in mind this has been an almost free build so far. Purchases to date include the chain, sprocket, brake and throttle cables.
  8. Terrible video as promised. Filmed with my left hand, left hand also on brake duty’s so terrible braking as well. I also drove this to a local supplier to pick up stuff. There’s a video floating around somewhere of me high siding it, almost getting thrown out then crashing into their shop wall. Was fcuking hilarious. We then loaded it up with bearings and housings and hooned back to work. Got many thumbs up and a couple photos snapped while waiting in traffic at the train crossing. It’s such a hoot to drive.
  9. Did a run around the block with a speedo app. Time to tighten up the governor a bit. Can’t be holding up traffic. edit. I tried to take a terrible one handed video of a ride in this. But it’s, well, terrible. As I need 2 hands to drive. Might upload it anyway.
  10. Tried this. Hate to admit it but it was terrible. Surprising amount of grip until there’s none at all. And being rear heavy I could hold very little drift angle before it spun very quickly. Did eventually add a chain tensioner as the chain was super slack. Drove this a few blocks away to show a mate, got chased by a dog on the way. Dog was bigger and faster and wanted a piece of me. Luckily (for me) it got a little too close to the rear wheel and got clipped, tumbled and gave up the chase. Scariest moment so far on this thing.
  11. So now I really needed a proper throttle setup. Machined up a little cable clamp thingy that also connects to the throttle linkage (still running the governor). Added some extra springs so the throttle reliably returns to idle. And for the final (for now) touch I tightened up the brake cable. A quick test up and down the street at home and everything’s working well. It’s a luxury being able to sit in a seat and drive with 2 hands. Is a bit slower on the governor than previous tests but ok for now and I know it’s happy to rev a little more. To do’s include: -Fit a chain tensioner. Some dick didn’t machine slotted holes in the engine plate. -Get a speedo app to clock this thing. -And tighten up the governor spring. Concerns are: -The axil isn’t going to last long. -And neither are the brakes. But those are future me problems. Will chuck some average videos up soon.
  12. Wow that was a while ago. I went to hook up the brakes and found the little adjuster thingy had gone south on the last joyride. I didn’t have any adjusters in my stash that fitted so chopped up an old mountain bike brake/gear shifter combo. Now I had brakes it was time for more hooning. At this point I’m still sporting a decent exhaust burn on my right hand from the last test runs. So I wedge my hand in hard against the choke/ throttle/ spark plug area and go for gold again, still kneeling in a similar pose to driving a dingy with an outboard. So fun. So fast. So dodgy still. Work mate watching from the roadside reckoned 60 clicks easy. I was catching up on cars real quick and the brakes were only slightly better than the foot dragging on the road option. By the time I pulled back into the workshop I’d cut my hand up fairly bad, blood down the side of the motor. And one knee was sore as fcuk and starting to swell up. All in all a great time was had and received many roadside thumbs up. Glad @xsinclairx wasn’t patrolling the area that day
  13. This has been sitting at work awaiting some love. The boy had water polo practice early this morning so I had some spare time at work. Chucked the chain on and started it up. A little squirt of gas and it shot across the workshop. Sweet as I’ll jump in and try it up and down the side street. Holey shit it hooks up fast and does an easy 50 clicks. At this point I see the errors in my actions. I’m kneeling and steering with one hand. The other hand is on carb throttle duties. I have no brakes hooked up and it free wheels with the clutch. No engine braking what so ever. So I’m now doing 50 plus kph, kneeling on one knee while the other leg gets thrown out onto the road for desperate braking. It works, just. So I rinse and repeat a few more times because it’s great fun and why not. Anyway, I didn’t die. Did just go and buy some long cables though to get some brakes and proper throttle set up. Pics as hooned.
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