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On 01/02/2024 at 13:30, yoeddynz said:
no rust (yet)...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
sorry, couldn’t help myself.
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Got told about the plain water thing by my mate who’s much more experienced than me. I would have done the same thing as you did otherwise. Shit that engine sounds good!
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I’ve got 7 inches.
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2 hours ago, NickJ said:
I put Nankang NA1 on the Datsun in 205/60/13. Was the only mid range non performance tyre I could find
Seems good for cruising and squeals real loud on track.
Yeah but do they grip?
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8 minutes ago, Dudley said:
https://www.hyperdrive.co.nz/product/4407/yokohama-advan-a539?associated=9352
wait around and they normally o on sale for $125 ish
best 13” tyre size , look and performance
Not in my size it seems. Any smaller and I’ll be a billion rpm on the highway
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Been trawling the search function and nothing recent comes up. For us cool kids running 13 inches of roundness, quality choices are hard to come by. Most of my local retailers offer a very limited range of either utter Chinesium garbage or yokohama semi slicks and nothing in between. Share the intels please. Personally interested in 205/60 and 185/70 ish since that suits my fleet.
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Knowledge is power, my son.
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300 miles on engine rebuild now, I’ve been driving it a fair bit. First tank of gas 9l/100km which seems a bit too good to be true given the type of driving I’ve done and the fact that it’s turning 3700rpm at 100km/h.
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Another job ticked off.
Was miles out. Doesn’t necessarily feel heaps better but good to know it’s correct now.
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There is still an issue of tyre rub when loaded so I put some ballast in the back (wife and kids) and tried to find the pain points. It looks like it’s rubbing on part of the arch lip, so more trimming required. Previously I had thought it was only in the inner guard where it was touching as I had put a guide coat in there and found a high spot that the tyre polished off. I made the high spot lower with a hammer and it doesn’t appear to touch there anymore. I marked out the lip with tape and then used a flap disc which made very short work of trimming.
Anyone with half a brain would say “why not just use the correct wheels and tyres” well, I have a WHOLE brain buddy, and the correct course of action is obviously to cut up your car until the phat wheel/tyre combo fits!
*UPDATE on alternator light shenanigans. Since the Fiat uses a relay to power the bulb, and it’s a normally open jobby, wouldn’t a normally closed relay correct my back to front light situation? I dropped by the local auto sparky with my hypothesis and he agreed. So 5 minutes later the relay was swapped out and voila, it works proper.
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Maiden voyage beyond the end of the road today, I decided to take it to work, a distance approximately 5 times further than I have ever driven it. Some observations:
It needs a 5th gear
The tyre roar is harsh, possibly a consequence of polyurethane bushes?
A rear wheel bearing is noisy
The wheel alignment is terrible (expected)
I drove home at night, the low beam is pants, high beam is good (need to relay the low beams)
It looks comically tiny parked next to the corollas and swifts in the carpark.
I like quarterlights as they are excellent wind deflectors with the window open.
90 km round trip acheived with no broken things!
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Did a couple more things this afternoon after work. I borrowed the fixed fan off the 1500 while I decide how to proceed with an electric fan. She’s tight down there…
Then I flung the boot linings back in.
And then I went for a drive to a place…
And got a special sticker for my troubles…
CLEAN SHEET!! First WOF in 15 years. I’m feeling pleased with myself and am looking forward to a celebratory beer with dinner.
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Spotto at the wof man’s garage, nice mk3 1.6
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Merry new year.
So…. No, I can’t rescue it.I started with this bit
which became this
which fit here
which meant I had to lengthen the inner pipe
so far so good. Side profile, the end needs more up:
So I gave it a tweak which then meant the inside pipe did’nt fit and no amount of faffing about could get the angles right and I ran out of both bends and patience. I then cut it up and threw it in the scrap bin and ordered a new one from Britannia. About the same price as bending the new one and laser cut flange. Shipping hurt a bit though and I’m sure being a mass produced aftermarket part it won’t be quite as nice but I’ll find out soon.
Meanwhile I managed to cobble the old exhaust back together without leaks and went for a hoon.
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Was browsing 40kw Leafs on Tardme. Prices appear to have self-corrected already. Never saw that coming.
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Rage quit. I could NOT make them fit properly, plus I wound up with a pinhole inaccessible by welder. Also my ocd can’t cope with the franken-look bits and pieces all welded together so I’m going to start again. Will have to be after new year at this rate. How annoying is it to spend hours on something which then becomes scrap metal? Maybe I can chop it up and use a couple of bends to fix up the old one…. Oh well, off to the beach.
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15 minutes ago, Bling said:
That SoH is doing well for 100k, how old?
2014, SOH is 77%, never more than 13mv spread. I’ve owned for 5 years and since 7800km on the clock. I’m going to run it til it won’t make it to town anymore.
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Don’t know how it chugged 2% in 1km.
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I’m welding a mild steel exhaust together, brand new fresh tube. Is it worthwhile or necessary to coat/paint the outside?
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I’m getting there. I’ll post an update in due course. The benders have given me a couple of off the shelf 90 degree bends which will get me over the line I hope. The outer pipe ended up being ok. I have to make the inner one fit it now. I didn’t want to get too upset with them as a club member works there and hooked me up with a solid deal $ wise.
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36 minutes ago, Willdat? said:
I guess because for you it's a work vehicle that's probably quite different to a typical owners experience? In theory the new govt are chucking a bunch of chargers in too instead of subsidising the clean car rebate.
I hadn't thought about that company car issue, probably something that people would want to negotiate with their employers if possible? A huge part of the EV benefit is refuelling at home.
As a private ev owner I mostly charge at home but if I ever need a quick topup when out and about I fully identify with @flyingbrick . It’s a shit show out there.
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I was told some fettling would be required. This is more than fettling!! I’m at the point where if I had a 60 and a 75 degree bend to weld in I can make it work. I’ve enquired about obtaining said bends from the company.
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The pipes are bent up so I have been mucking around with fitting them up. I’m hitting a wall with the secondaries, I can’t make them fit.
Look how far apart the ends are. They are supposed to come together to weld into a collector. Also they should be on the same plane in the vertical sense but…
There are other problems too. I can’t lay them as per the factory ones due to slightly different bend angles so I’m simultaneously hitting the bell housing and the chassis rail. Tell me, am I unreasonable in expecting to be able to fit up the pipes with minor trimming? This part of the job (bending 2x pipes and laser cut flange ran to $215+GST. They had my original as a pattern and supposedly use 3D scanning. At this rate I will need to cut them at nearly every bend and add or subtract sections. What would you recommend?
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It boils after 3 minutes of running. Let’s check the thermostat.
Yeah, that’ll do it I guess.
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Excuse potato spec driving hands free pics…
Dorito racer
Shit pic doesn’t do this one justice. Geezer looked to be enjoying himself. Manual and lush exhaust note.