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  1. mtbtimr
    I don't suppose you're wanting to get rid of the twin carbs ???
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    Do you still have one?/Willing to sell it?!
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    Awesome car man! Where did you get your Nardi wheel?
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    Went for an evening cruise up One Tree Hill and back last night. Car drove like a champ - she loves hooning around the back streets. A chauffeur driving a pristine white wedding Rolls Royce even stopped to point Maggie out to the bride to be. Here's some eye candy to keep the thread alive. Chur
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    Maggie got a WoF!!! What a way to start a new page! Never been so happy about a stupid little sticker. Picked the door up from the panel beaters and drove straight to the WoF place. Next stop - The Beach Hop.
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    You may remember we were having issues with brake fluid leaking down the brake pedal and this recently got a ton worse.. resulting in damp carpet and a lot of worrying. We quickly got a new brake cylinder from the guys at Minibitz and swapped that in (a very satisfying little job). Luckily when we pulled up the carpet, the underlay had taken all of the brunt so the floorpan was completely fine. The carpet might still have a bit in it but should it be ok to let it dry and leave it (we've heard mixed things about whether brake fluid attacks metal or not)? We dropped the door off at the panel beater to get welded up so will pick that up tomorrow and visit our good friends at the wof shop for our monthly meet up. Had some fun driving from mine to Sammy1222's with no door - pretty breezy inside. Looking good for beach hop this weekend, planning on taking the Waihi road from Auckland to avoid the big hills - what's the traffic normally like that way?
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    Tried for a Wof for the third time this afternoon and came soooooooo close to getting it. Everything we were worried about - the rims/flares, the bearing, cv boots - passed with flying colours. They pulled us up because one of the rear right door hinges has detached from the door, it cracked next to the weld and is floating. We hardly use the back doors so were pretty surprised. Should be a quick trip to the panel beaters. LEFT photo is what it should look like, RIGHT photo is what it does look like.
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    Anyone have any suggestions for fair WoFs in central Auckland?
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    Nah the guy just took one look at the wheels and said they're a bit too wide, so we didn't technically 'fail' i guess, more just 'DNF'. Yea might definitely take you up on one of those offers! Will let you know what we decide
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    Wah wah, we hadn't even finished filling in the wof form and Maggie had already failed. Apparently the tread has to be completely under the bodywork, making our flares completely redundant. If she'd come with bolt on flares from the factory they would have passed no worries, even if we'd swapped them to aftermarket ones ourselves - seems a bit backwards to me. Our options at this point are... - Cross our fingers and take her somewhere else. - Pump the suspension up so much that you can hardly see the poke and take her somewhere else. - Get some fresh tires for the old steelies and put those on every time we go for a wof. $$ - Get the new wheels/flares certed. $$$ Does anyone have any experience with bolt on flares? Lots of minis seem to have them? In other news, GuyWithAviators kindly helped us pump up the left side suspension with his nifty pump so we now can get in and out of the garage! Cheers Andrew. We drove it home like this - at least Sammy1222 had a floaty ride. Temp sat at the high end of normal all the way (as usual). We evened up the suspension when we got her home, sitting perfectly now. So yea next step is to sort this wof situation out, then swap out the clutch and beach hop here we come.
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    Here's a quick mock up of them painted the same colour as the car, they blend in much better. Just have to endure them until they get sprayed (or wrapped).
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    That's a good point actually, any idea if custom colour wraps are ridiculously expensive?
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    Cheers dude that's good to know. The dream would be a little electric pump to a reservoir in the boot so you could slam it when you parked up.
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    Wheels are on and looking awesome! Had to pick up some new wheel nuts because the old ones didn't have the same taper as the rim. 165 60 R14s ended up looking exactly like we wanted them to - a teeny tiny bit of stretch and a reasonably meaty profile. The back end could do with a bit more low, and we could just let a bit of hydro fluid out but i think that would end up slamming the front. Is there a way to do them separately? When we put the front wheels on we realised that one of them poked about a 10mm more than the other... We started measuring control arms and tie rods and even considered that the whole subframe might be off... ...But luckily for us it looks like its just the fender. Will have to pull it out a bit anyway because otherwise the flare doesn't quite contain the tire. It seems like we are sooooo close to a WoF but keep doing the old 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Suuurely this weekend.
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    Bought 2m of carpet from the warehouse for $50. Not sure how durable it will be but it was super easy to cut and shaped to the car pretty well. Pretty stoked with the way it came out, took us a good couple of evenings to get it all chopped up right and it's by no means a concourse job but that isn't really Maggie's vibe anyway. Little teaser of the new wheels, more coming about them in the next few days. Do they look WoFable to anyone???
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    She lives! And so far no sign of over heating! The new thermostat might have done it.
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    Yea thats another option. Did you actually bolt yours to the floor or is it just floating around?
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    Cheers! We are leaving the dash as it is for the time being as it's reasonably tidy... might put a nice analog clock in though. For under the dash we used the old shelf as a template so it should be the same shape, and we are using the old foam front/heater controls to keep the our knee caps from being cut up. Going to spray it black and line the bottom (or maybe all of it) with carpet - either the same as the rest of the car or something a bit more interesting. Will also put the head deck somewhere in the mix, as hidden as possible.
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    She's road worthy! theoretically hopefully Finally, after much frustration and fiddling, we got a brand spanking new wheel bearing in. Which meant that she could be on all 4 wheels for the first time in ages. Sammy1222 has been away for a week so haven't had the chance to take her out, but hopefully will trip over to the tyre place either this weekend or next. In the mean time, if anyone is in need of a weird (and cheap) tool, I highly recommend having a look at the Sunday Avondale market at the racecourse, there are several guys there who just have piles and piles of old tools. I made up a replacement shelf to replace the crappy cardboard one we pulled out a while ago. Looks great out of the car, but squeezing it in is proving to be a bit of a huffing-puffing-swearing affair. Doesn't help that the steel sheet we picked up for free is damn hard to cut - we are blasting through cutting discs like crazy. Might end up just buying some aluminium offcuts from trademe and redoing the whole thing. Have also had a crack at the sound system and carpet, but that's a story for next time. Discuss here yo.
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    Cheers guys, yea everyone seems to have a story about an old 1100 or 1300 they once had. Guy at the bearing shop knew the part number of the bearings off by heart and said he once drowned a 1300 by leaving it a wee bit close to the waves on 90 mile beach when he went to take a piss .
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    Noob-ass question incoming... We took the front brake caliper off and the piston fell right out. It's now been lying around for a bit but we are looking to get Maggie back on her feet. The seals are all still in there and we've wiped out the cylinder and cleaned off the piston. Can we just press the piston back in or do we need to replace all the seals? (Seals are going to be ~$60 off ebay) New post on the build thread soon - have a few cool things to show.
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    Good luck with the roadie dude! Should be an interesting one. Might see you around once you make it up to the big apple, what are you doing up here?
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    Can anyone recommend where to buy small amounts of sheet steel? I'm talking 1m x 1.5m. Cheers
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    We finally got the axle nut off! We managed to track down a socket that fitted and had to use the large pole you see to crack it (aren't they meant to be reasonably loose?). Now we can get at the bearing and get her one step closer to a WoF. In other news, with christmas, Maggie got spoilt with presents and the to do list is slowly piling up... Picked up a head deck/speakers combo for $100, a set of gaskets, a nice toolbox and socket set, and an angle grinder that we accidentally bought from Bunnings when we went for something completely different (oops). Looking to put the speakers under the seats like we have seen most people do... They're a tad blingy to have sitting in the window. We used our newly acquired toy to cut the bumper bolts out and fitted the new shiny one. She's actually starting to look reasonably tidy. Does anyone know if it is easy to get small dings out of chrome? Last little job we've done is to take the radiator out, we are gonna take it to get a new cap fitted. The radiator itself seems pretty clear so we are slowly crossing off potential reasons for overheating. The shelf that goes under the dash is falling apart so we are going to use it as a template to make a new one. Just need to decide whether we go with what the original one is made out of (glorified cardboard) or if we should make one up out of sheet metal with a bit of carpet and a lick of paint...
  25. mtbtimr
    Love the threads man, where did you get the pictures in your signature?!
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