rich1179

Good luck

looks like celeste will be there (finaly) been running it every day to work and not a single issue  

ill be there  

1st gen civic???

yep 

I should be there in the celeste first meet with the car

ok sorry but celeste has had a bit of a delay so will be coming in the civic 

ok well due to unforseen sercom stances the celeste build has been delayed so will be brining the civic to the next meet

watch this space have started the engen swap on the celeste will go a proper post tomorrow when im not so tired 

I should be there in the celeste first meet with the car

ok here are my v1 adapters for a l200 rear axel to celeste halfshafts and celeste drum brakes (not final desine havent checked bering sizes yet) just wondering if i finalize the measurements if someone can make them for me? 

the rear drums on the axel are 310mm way to big for 13s and would rub the edge of my 14 steels so already drawn up an adapter collar from van axel to my old rear drum plates 

Mate, I've got a steering wheel off one of these. $40? It's fairly mint

thanks but ive got 2 and they are realy the best thing off them

good work with the gold kitset rich, the red one looked proper fucked. Is it still going to be saved?

yes my mate is going to rebuld it with a 2.6 engen and gearbox , he has more time than me

Use the l200 brakes. Heaps bigger. Stopping power will be needed

i would but then my epic 13inch wheels will no longer fit i would have to go 15 inch aloys or 14inch steelies at a push

Ok so today i grabbed a L200 2.6 sport rear end and now need to find a lathe i can borrow in the Auckland area to turn down the drive flanges so i can use my standid (ish)rear breaks on them with its 10 bolt LSD, photos to come

oh also is anyone whanting to buy a highly modified 1977 civic? it needs to go as no space for all my cars, PM me for info, may do a build form for it at some point

well build updated wow lots happened in 6 months

well now for the great unvail its wofed and regstered

these are all prewof had to get wing mirrors so grabed a pair for 15 bux

this is the current car in its 1.6 4g32 engen atm as havent got round to fitting the 4g63 yet 

please feel free to respond on my discussion //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/42946-rich1179s-1977-mitsubishi-celeste/

btw beter photos to come

well now came the fun part i spent 3 months rebuilding the car and fixing the small amount of rust in the shell just behind the rear wheels

great photo of red and gold next to each other

about half way though i decided i just couldn't live with square lights so i collaborated with my dad and we ended up swapping this that and the other over to get the round lights to work

also found my dad is terrified of spiders i am afraid to say one died in the rebuilding of my car when it run into a cross member and my dad got it with a can of spray zinc paint and a lighter so i now have a silver cross member hole 

carpets went in with just the normal amount of effort

also retro fitted retractible seat belts into the rear 

oh and painted my breack boster had to be made out of both the ones i had

so whet on the hunt for a quarter panel what i got was a bit more. i have to thank "Jif" now for selling me his 1982 celeste with rego on hold and with that i also got a 4g63 engen.

was a fun day leaving Orewa at god o clock in the morning picked Jif up from his place at about 6 and went for the long drive to the Coromandel. here i first saw the car, being sitting under a car cover for almost a year it was looking good with its matt gold paint and 13 inch wheels. however a small shock hit me when i got closer and i found it had been nearly compleatly striped and i thought it was only a shell, however i was shown to a small caravan where all the bits for the car had been stored as well as a few "extras" like a pair of chrome bumpers. we, my dad, jif and myself, spent the next 3 hours emptying the parts out of the van and loading them into our car and the celeste(why is it when you strip a car the bits don't just fit back in it lol) any way a big thank you to jif's parents for the great tea and food to keep us going. we then had one last cup of tea did the paper work and headed off back home with a celeste hooked up to the A frame.

these are some photos of when we got home:

 also one epic but not so helpfull exhaust tip

oh the car was full too just fit us 3 in to it for us to get home

ok so lots has happened in the 5 months since i last posted first of all the red celeste became a parts car when i discovered the mass rust hiding under the chrome work:

this is all in passenger side of car realy needs a new rear quarter

yea when i was looking at it there where heaps of parts on trademe now theres nothing lol so yea part finding is gona be hard

right just cleared the car and desided the drivers seat needs some attention 

so i striped the covers and found the problem

also on a good note ive also fixed the low beam it was a bad contact in the switch nothing a dose of wd40 couldent fix 

right people i need a drivers door card for the celeste

any help will be appreciated

if you havent guesed yet im playing catch up atm lol

anyway first day

1: cleaned car (no photos but just remove the dirt and s*** from the photos)

2: went through the heap of bits in the car. put the first thing on my need list a drivers door card https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5hM7Rwhyx5eVVJwbmlmMjhpRm8/edit?usp=sharing

3: testing and found the horn dosen't work, the dip beam dosen't work and the reverse lights don't work but everything else seems good lol  

heres the car when i got it

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5hM7Rwhyx5eSkJzRkNRMHQtWjQ&usp=sharing

covered it dirt, rust and s***

at the same time i managed to get a set of datsun 240Z stock wheels (last photo in album more soon(ish))

edit just been told there 280zx

feel free to ask me anything also i am still looking for lots of bits so if you have anything

just post it here or mesage me

project here //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/42945-rich1179s-1977-mitsubishi-celeste/

hey all 

im planing a 2 stage project on my new mitsubishi celeste 

stage 1 is getting it back on the road

stage 2 is doing an engen, gerbox and LSD swap into it

discussion here //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/42946-rich1179s-1977-mitsubishi-celeste/