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Someone should be able to identify it from the part number on the indicator lense. I'm with something BMC set up for pre '65 racing or rallying hence the roll cage.

My Clubman 1100 used to start valve bouncing past about 6500. Should have fitted double springs or the heavier single springs from an 1800.  

Pretty sure the Lawrence lions are still in the Otago Museum.

Lawrence is okay, it just gets really cold in the winter time there, even by Otago standards. If @crazytim is a real Aucklander he might take a while to acclimatize. When you coming down mate? Always keen to meet other members irl.

Lawrence is a hole.

I've got an EN Civic 5 speed here that I'll never use. The car it came out of was a runner before I started stripping parts off it.

Anyone who thinks salting the roads is a good idea can go eat a bag of diseased dicks.

I'm not sure that any of my BMC cars have even had an engine number. Some may have had evidence of a tag having been removed though.

But how many wof guys nowadays would pick that the engine in your Mini is a 1098 instead of the 848 it came with? My wof guy had a Mini in the shop a while ago and we got sharning and discovered I'd done more engine changes on them than he had. 

This is fucking hilarious,

Would also be a good way to learn some valuable winter driving skills.

What's with five cylinder engines in a narrow vee configuration where both banks share the same head? Daughter's boyfriend was talking about a V5 his father had driven once and I thought he'd got himself confused but a little bit of reading confirms that it is actually a thing. I'd come across IL5s before like the 2.5 diesel Landrover but to me a vee configuration with an odd number of cylinders is just plain weird. Thoughts?

14 hours ago, Carsnz123 said:

Is it a moped or a motorcycle?

A moped has:

two wheels

a maximum speed not exceeding 50km/h, and

either:

an engine capacity not exceeding 50cc, or

a power source other than a piston engine.

For vehicles first registered prior to 1 May 2011

A moped includes a motor vehicle with three wheels, a power output not exceeding 2kW and a maximum speed of 50km/h.

There are definitions for three wheel vehicles registered on or after 1 May 2011. Please contact the NZ Transport Agency for these requirements.

 

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/vehicle-types/motorcycles-and-mopeds/information-for-moped-riders/

I have seen a steam powered motorcycle. Does that count as a piston engine, which it is, or not because not internal combustion?

Like the new canopy but it looks like the tarp has been inadvertently inverted.

Had a bloody good day out today. Looked at tractors, yarned with tractor barries, watched tractor pulling, yarned with military re-enactment barries, photographed tractors and cars, yarned with tractor barries some more, looked at tractors again, drove someone's spare tractor in the grand parade, yarned some more, then wagon timed it home with the radio cranking out '60s and '70s music. Pics shall be posted in the appropriate threads. I shall probably have a medicinal brandy soon.

Plenty of my generation smoked a bit of weed while haymaking.

Must be plenty of young guys nearby keen to earn a few pingas. This used to be the prime source of income for teens / early twenties once upon a time.

Love the Hamilton night pesting video. Any amusing reactions from those in the car beside you at the traffic lights?

Are super dark tints in the back of a wag not legal anymore? Thought only the front door glass and windscreen had to comply with regs for that. Even if you painted the side windows in the back black it'd still have the same amount of visibility as a sedan delivery.

Nice ute. Shame you've lost the cool stripe.

Just spotted this. Sweet car. Like to put in a vote for twin round headlight front in case you haven't already decided which one to use. Reckon the rectangular lights don't look quite right with the sweet curves of everything else but hey your car so whatever eh cos you have to live with it.

100% what sheepers said. The Crown at least looks legal. That Stout is pure cop bait.

@yoeddynz may have some valuable knowledge of this.

The sheila with the wee dog might struggle to keep up with the pack on that thing.

2 hours ago, AllTorque said:

If your plug gap is 1.75mm, it’s time for new plugs, not a gaping. 

Checking resistance of leads won’t  always show an issue if the lead is tracking down. Those falcons run the leads from one side of the engine to the other, through the intake manifold, so lots of places for the leads to earth down and spark to escape. 

Got six new plugs the second time along with the one new lead. I'm too tight / broke most of the time to replace stuff that I can rangi up and get a few more months out of. Old plugs still looked okay / good colour etc apart from the gap being huge.

Yep, my EA was running like a bag of shit a long time back. Thought it was fuel problems so gave it a dose of the injector cleaner recommended by 8ball to no avail then found the spark plug gaps were enormous, something like 1.75mm. Re-gapped all the plugs to 1mm and it ran sweet. Some months later it started running on five cylinders and the problem turned out to be a dodgy lead. As ky says the dizzy on these is in the most retarded place. What dumb-arse designs an engine with the dizzy so far up under the inlet manifold as to be unreachable by a normal human? My mechanic tells me that it is possible to change the dizzy without removing the manifold but you need to have smallish hands that bend the wrong way.

Short answer check the leads next cos mine looked okay but one of them wasn't.

Does that mean if I give something from my huge collection of crap to a GC who can use it then I'm not really a hoarder?