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Perfer not to say yet incase it doesn't happen maybe leave it as a suprise until an its happenning for sure. And i looked into this engine did come leaned in some vechicles standard. so it should be sweet.

yeh i read into it this engine and its a second plate so will likely just remove said plate

that is definately my favour way to use up the space hahaha

The question is to solve that issue but not those 5 degrees is negliable maybe 5m gap at top if only beating the steering shaft would work.

In an engine conversion with an engine that is a very tight fit what are some ways to make a little space. Is there any significant problem with mounting a engine on a slight angle or offset ie 5-10 degrees or 5 mm sort of thing? Also with transmissions with traction control could you put an inline swith for the controlling wire to diasable it?

So rechecked the spark plugs after adding the msd AND they all came out good. Also brought a compression tester myself and redid the test to get consistent 150 except 3 was 160 so very happy . Also smokes stopped completely and starts mint. Plane was cancelled so missed Hamner which sucked. Car is also up for sale now. Check for sale thread if your interested.

Ok so iv done what i wasn't supposed to do and cant stop spending money on this thing so with the wagon almost legal and it not really suiting its latest hunting trips... lol its up for sale. looking for 4.5 for it as thats a little less than iv spent wof till jan and reg till next june so sorted in that department have manual conversion which will go in next brake

Thanks heaps man got the first spring done had to get the brother to sit on the car to get the spring in have made a set of spring compressors for the second one and further use in the triumph

cheers guys will try some more whacking in the morning scared of breaking things

i would take up your option but my hammering so far has had no luck but car is up north hahaha and no racing still a sequence of how to go through taking the suspension apart would be nice

I'm swapping front springs over in the crown or trying to. Was wondering how to go about removing the springs have tried removing the lower ball joint but having no luck so far any help would be appreciated. Spencer, seedy, josh, etc one of the many ex owners tips and tricks would be sweet. cheers

wont be here long got last minute uni stuff before i head up north

Ok so have decided to save some money and deal with oil usage and eventually ie Xmas holidays do an engine swap I'm thinking ld28 and eventually turbo. But time will tell. Any ideas on any rear dumps around at a decent price would be mint as iv found a front sump for a fair deal and thatl be the go if I can't find a rear sump or preferably just the rear sump and oil pick up. I wired up an msd multispark box the other day and it's made the car start so much faster and on my second trip to omaru used about 1/4 half a tank less so pretty stocked. I need to wire up a lot nicer however that can wait til after exams this week. For engine swap I think I'm end up removing all the wiring except the lights and starter motor and possibly relocate battery just for clean look. Then paint the bay black deciding whether to spray with a less textured Berliner for durability and I'm probably paint the engine and most components black for a really plain look. I know it's pretty contrevesial but I don't mind and if I do ever repaint this I think I'm do lots of body work and paint it black and pick up all the associated trim from the flashier models of Yahoo.

agree I'm have to do a trip there and back hahaha

sounds good il come check things out

So awhile ago now when needing to remove wheels for first time one lock nut was being a frigging pain othing worked heating tapping with hammer, huge powerbar all due to the key just being too soft. Eventually it came to this... Damn forgot classic finger pic... Which led to the nuts not being done up tight and me losing 2 of the remaining lock nuts so i decided to buy these So she has some nice new laces.. I know I know the wheels need a clean but they get dirty so fast is this weather. So shes been burning oil. around a third of a litre every 500miles. but just smokes a bit on cold startup then goes away within a minute. Which leads me to believe that its the valve seals or guides. So i went today to burrow h4nds compression tester. I did a quick indicator while the engine was warm. where i removed all spark plug leadsremoved one plug screwed in tester turned engine over 5 cracks about 5 seconds and recorded compression i didnt have away of getting oil into cylinder so only did a dry test. These were my results: Cylinder Test 1 Test 2 1 150 140 2 160 150 3 130 120 4 120 120 5 160 150 6 140 140 And these were the plugs 1 2 3 4 5 6 So what i see is its running a little rich but msd cdi should help that a tad so will fix after that and that 3 and 4 seem th be the main culprits for leaking oil. I tried the trick we did on our old lux of running with the oil cap of to see if the pulses of air where even and no pulses so that didn't help. Any one have opinions on what the oil burning is coming from? what you think i should do? Any advice etc. I'm already thinking of removing the head at some point and replacing valve seals and guides/valves if need be and if it hasn't been done getting hardened valve seats if they didnt have them? Any other jobs people think i should do while going in there to do this stuff? If the seats aren't that important im keen to lap them myself using valve grinding compound and a electric drill. Minimal cost is a huge bonus being at uni. Cheers any help/ideas/criticism wanted. Cheers

Hey wondering if anyone has a compression tester around christchurch i could burrow

its low enough i guess more looking for stiffer less travel for when i change from the huge 205/70s Also any thoughts on the tramp bar idea

what car is the bedford springs in? do you have any pics fletch or could get some im pretty keen to see it. they kind of have been since the top 2 leaves are flipped atm cheers or would putting them back to standard and reversing the eye have more effect?

yeh im thinking that the shocks in there now may be hq as with 3 coils lopped off they are still captive. I was hoping to use an significantly uprated spring but would this not mean that the freelength is alot shorter and even hq shocks may not be short enough? or are they good down to a very short spring?

i posted what i plan to do in the future check it out all comments, thoughts, welcome Discussion Thread //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/26656-now-crownin-rounds-73-datsun-240c/page-4?hl=240c

Ok so i have a few ideas to put forward as im considering once i find some wheels i like more to put some low profiles on this and get it certed maybe. So as it is now leaf springs are pretty much flat a little curve so was thinking off ways the keep this height in the rear maybe lower a tad more and a bit stiffer. they are currently one leaf removed (second to bottom i thnk) and top to flipped. Could lonslo confirm? So ideas so far are: add in the missing leaf and get reset to this height. But still think that might not be as stiff as id like. Get a set from a donor vechicle like hilux with more leaves and have that reset to the current height. Also shackles could probably lose an inch. so custom shackles. If using springs that may invert make a tramp bar sort of thing to minimise tramp due to blocks. or just an idea make a double sided version of this that would effectively limit the droop? possibily? And as for front springs cuts maybe a bit soft so cut down my v8 hq springs and repaint but this would require shorter shocks. any ideas on how to find any? Also wheel ideas etc thanks ps sorry in advance for any stuff that is wrong or wont work as i enjoy this stuff i just dont know much. Also all comments appreciated need ideas thanks.

yeh i was inside stunned by how big the store was compared to my home one...

So today i went about Solving the height of the front... sky high stance Not alot of space at the hall to do much work. Although the did end up having a grinder and cutting discs to use. I brought a pair of standard front springs from a 330 of brocky and loped off 2 coils only to find it wasn't quite my cup of tea. So the coils went back to the shed to lop off one more. I ended up swapping the springs in a big empty car park got a couple looks but now where to do it at the hall... Springs all in looking pretty good maybe the rear needs a little more low but im really happy. Springs are just captiveprobably could lop of another half coil and still be captive so im happy with the height now. Big thanks to felix your stuff you lent me was much appreciated couldn't have done it without it. Cheers So thats how she sits now. Iv just ordered a multispark setup from the us so that'l be next probably.

I'v had this a couple months mainly just done things to help with reliability. As i just drove it from Rotorua to Chch and it went well although carb blocked up a little bit halfway between kaikoura and chch. List of things of done so far. New fluids for everything New filters New alternator fitted (100amp unit from a terrano perfect fit) New plugs Brakes balanced Central and remote locking installed New points and condenser Towbar fitted