fletch
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I like the look of your dirt! Dark brown and not cluggy sticky clay.
it was, now its been raining for 3 months its all fucking mud
Got some wood to line the wall from the plyguy. was pretty cheap. mostly cosmetic seconds.
done about 75% of this end. Just need another stud to attach it to, and wire up the switchboard. and find my motorvation. i left it out in the rain somewhere?
also partially built some shelves. it was easy cos the wall was half my shelves already built. couple lengths of 4x2 and some other random offcuts, plus some more seconds ply to line them.
They are 700mm apart so im thinking of making some levels in between the current ones
starting to fill up...
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How much you need? I have about 270 aud left in an account there that I haven't spent. Swap you for some nz pesos?
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was thinking about this the other day, as i will be in need of freight options.
i there no-one that does a regular group container from Aussie ? along the same lines as the guys that bring stuff in from the States.
the queer thing is that when i have couried small parts to Aus, it was cheaper and quicker than to Auckland
container freight from oz to nz is some of the most expensive in the world. its cheaper to get a container from LA to auckland, than brisbane to akl.
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DId you plug it up backwards?
Haha seen this done more than once
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Looks awesome man!
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What 8 track tapes did you score?
8 tracks are bawse as fuck!
some creepy old ones. ill dig them out later this week
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so vh45 then?
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heres one with one leaf flipped and a couple coils off the front
rb30det bolts in...
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Talk about i should keep this stock as a rock
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Finally got this sorted so i thought i better put some photos up.
Some history first,
I saw some photos on face book somebody took of random cars at kumeu hotrod show. One of them was of this car. I got hold of my bro Ray (ja1lb8) as his family is always at the show. His old man was there and had already spotted the car and put an offer on it on our behalf knowing one of us would have it.
It belonged to an old lady who was going into a home and her family was selling off all her old shit to pay for it.
The car was bought new by her husband in 1970 in OZ, and they bought it here in 74 when they moved to nz. The husband died a few years later and she kept driving it to the shops in west auckland once a week ever since.
It also came with a folder of invoices for the last 40 years of ownership. Lets just say she was taken for a bit of a ride by a certain west auckland nissan dearler with servicing costs and repairs for wof's. Could have bought a few of them for what she has spent over the years.
A month ago i finally picked it up from Ray as it took me a while to obtain permission from the boss, (insiders would argue that i never actually got permission, but it was too late...). When i went to change the ownership, it came up as stolen. The brother of the old lady wanted it and had reported it stolen to try and get it back. The next week as i tried to get to the bottom of the story i stripped it in case i had to give it back. The cops cancelled the stolen car notice as it was just sour grapes.
Then on the weekend i went to get a wof and it had no vin number in the system. Here we go again, turns out it has never been in the system, and only now its fully computerised, they could not issue me a wof.
Thanks to the GC's at VTNZ new plymouth it was sorted monday and now its legit!
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L24, 3 speed column change. Drums all round.
Has had a respray at some stage.
Will put some photos up of the interior in a few days.
Also came with an 8 track and some sweet old tapes
Discussion
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Beat me to it. There's a few different sellers with different models
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look on ebay Oz and UK. They sell them for jags And holdens and mustangs etc. Search for 7 inch curved headlights. I'm going to buy some 5 3/4 ones for my cedric soon.
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Seen failed coils on this age merc. Also blocked solid cat.
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10 years ago a few mates put a 2tg head on a 3tgte. They didn't even take the motor out. Just sanded the top of the block clean, chucked a new head gasket on and bolted the 2tg head on.
t3 from a single turbo 300zx and it was a weapon.
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Found my one. Probably only goes down to 12.4mm So no good? I'll post it up if it will do?
I bought it from speedway engineering in the us.
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Nz new doesn't have ltnz vin tag iirc
Yea I had a 89 bluebird nz new no Vin tag. Also the nissan tag with the engine and gearbox codes etc was held on with these plastic clip rivet things which were pretty brittle and one broke over the years so could easily have fallen off
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You will need a decent tow wagon. They weigh 2 ton!
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ill have a look tomorrow night. I did have one but its possible i lent it to somebody. or not and its still in or near my toolbox.
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Oh hey Andre - that would be awesome! If I replace the screen in Viva one then its old screen can go into Viva wag. The screen in this Viva wag is pretty damn scratched.
Does anyone know of any thing out there that actually polishes scratches out of glass?
there is a couple of places in oz that can buff out glass scratches.
Im sure somebody in NZ would do it. Or you can watch the youtube vids of it and buy the stuff to do it yourself
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Dads got a vx land cruiser I can grab any time.
Cheers man, ill let you know when im planning to move the car.
I had talked myself out of painting the floor due to cost but i just saw bart's floor and i want
Anyway, where was i...
I made these perfect rebates in the floor for the doors so the rain would not get blown in
However, i did not take into account the thickness of the lip on the bottom of the door. fuck.
A bit of head scratching and discussion over many beers and the answer was obvious.
Flip the tracks around
Just needed a few blocks of wood to pack out the mounting brackets.
Next mission was a trench for the power cable and while i was at it, water pipes too.
Power cable was 75m long, 600mm deep, and about another 130m of 300mm deep for water pipes.
a chain trencher is an awesome tool, sooo much better than the shovel. Its also great at finding things you never knew were buried. Like my neighbours water pipes, and various electric fence cables
About 3 hours trenching, works out to 9 hours of back filling
The left over concrete was poured into a pad at the end of the shed to make a small shelter for my water pump and also compressor to keep the noise as far away from her indoors as possible
Next up was finishing the trench by hand. I found 3 downpipes, 2 water pipes, 1 power cable, and 2 electric fence cables here. wont be doing that again.
I also ripped out the 20 year old downpipes as they had a good build up of dust, leaves, dead birds etc.
I replaced them with a screen thingy and also a first flush diverter that i have half ifnished
Thats about as far as i have got. Its been raining here after work for a while. Next job is
-install the power cable at both ends
-build a pump shed
-do some more plumbing
-wire up the shed
-build some shelving
-level the ground out front and pour about 80m2 more concrete
-work on some cars. maybe. next year?
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nice work, looks like it will be awesome.
Im keen to see all the bits you use as i have a similar thing at home
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Haha yea you got to watch braking on grass. Once it locks up on a downhill you speed up! Hahaha
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i cant work a computer well enough to model all the suspension.
I made some steering arms out of a bit of thin box steel that were a bit of a guess, but had the correct ackerman.
then bought a cheap laser pointer from somewhere, attached it to the hub face, took out the spring, and lifted the suspension up and down.
Get someone to mark the line on the wall as it goes up and down, bit of trigonometry and you have the angle. you want it to be vertical meaning no toe change.
if your cunning, you will put a mirror on the wall, and a plate on the hub, then your twice as accurate and can do it with no helper
Then you change the steering arm length, height, rack height, pivot point etc. one day it will work out and then measure up and machine out of steel
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Cut the oil level sensor off. Last thing you want is the fuckin engine cutting out when your getting your motoGP on getting away from some old boy that's chasing you with a stick for doing wheelies on the golf course.
Have you bypassed the governor? If so, put the front wheel against a wall an give it full throttle while you pull it. The governor gives it full tap for startup even with the hand throttle off.
Also, what they said about the main jet. It can get blocked up easily, or sometimes they are all china'd out from the factory and need a birthday.
fletch's 1970 datsun cedric super six
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couple of interior pics.
original as. aftermarket 70's tacho kind of ruins the mint dash, but sweet 8 track player makes and selection of terrible 80's tapes makes up for it!
engine bay looks like every other cedric
it was sunny last weekend so went for a cruise
needs the front right brakes adjusted and thats about it