igor

How about a jetboat?

So it goes a lot like it would have with the 4M that they got factory in some other parts of the world then? Or perhaps a little better even?

Good to see the 186 fits in sweet. Still got the original gearbox or something stronger? I had dreams of doing this to the RX30 I had back in the '90s cos seriously underpowered with 18R but had no money and then lost the car in a marriage breakup. Pissed me off. Liked them when they first came out and always wanted one.

Have you opened it up to see if the problem is something obvious? When I took the non working starter motor off my tractor and turned it upside down rusty water came out and I thought it was buggered. When I took it apart I found that one of the springs that hold the wee carbon brushes had been immersed in said water for long enough to rust it out. A good clean and drying followed by careful reassembly and it was functional enough to crank a 3.6 litre diesel even with one dodgy brush holding spring. Even if you don't have any real auto electrical training, which I don't, you may at least discover enough to know what the problem is when you take it to a proper sparky.

I too would be surprised if they notice. 

https://www.hlj.com/product/ARI20224/Aut

 

Someone needs to create an AgreeableExchangeRate app, that reminds you about shit you don't need, but you'd buy if the exchange rate was good. May take a while. 

 A guy I used to work for had one of those weird arse Mira vans. I used it once and it felt like something Mickey Mouse would drive.

I could waste days in a shop like that and probably still buy nothing. Did you notice if anyone produces an RX30 Cressida in 1:32?

Looks sweet to me.

I think somebody's head is a bit fucked but not necessarily the one off the engine. What kind of nut job would do this?

Cool collection. Is it still possible to buy the white tyres that the Raleigh 20 came out with new? Mine has them but they are a bit perished and have some bad cracking.

When I worked as a milkman in the '90s the boss registered the quad we were using as a tractor so we didn't need helmets to drive it on the road. Not sure if that was legal even then but I never got pulled up for it and it'd do 40 mph with twelve crates of full glass bottles on board. It was even set up to ride side saddle so we could get on and off faster when delivering round the houses. Probably just as well it never got wof checked. 

The alarm in my EA Falcon pisses me off cos the fool that put it in (before I got the car) disabled the central locking. My auto sparky reckons it'd take ages to find which wire got cut to fix it. Also I can't leave it unlocked without the keys in cos it knows it's got no keys and the alarm goes off when I open the door.

Thanks guys. Ended up loosening the screws with a cold chisel and a big centrepunch. Only munted them a little bit but I didn't bother putting them back in. Gave the brakes a clean and the noise went away so we're all good. Still plenty of lining left for a little while at least. Stopped from 40 by firm application of the handbrake only and it pulled up straight and smooth with no noise at all.

What's not family spec about a Cortina? Most family friendly small Ford there is.

Get neither. They are both disgusting.

EA Falcon wags.

Fixed it for you.

No experience of the Mazda whatsoever but we've had RAVs at work for the fifteen years I've worked there starting with both short and long wheelbase first generation ones. Never drove the lwb but the shortie was okay once I got past the fact that it looked and felt like something Mickey Mouse would drive. The boss found it good for backing up trailers in tight confines in the yard. I'd consider one if the price was right for this reason if nothing else as I sometimes need to swap the trailer from my Faclon to my Civic when I get home so I can back it into the shed to unload cos the coon is too long to get around the corner. Each succeeding RAV model got bigger, fatter, and less cool after that. We currently have a new diesel automatic that I really do not like. It has huge lag off the line to the point that it feels dangerous. It's like put your foot down, count to ten, then go. We have had Daihatsu Terios first and second genertion also. The first one was too tight across the shoulders but the second one felt a lot like the shortie old RAV. The first Terios has gone to a local owner who is very pleased with it. One of the other parents at my children's school has had a lwb first gen RAV for some years now and has reported no trouble with it. All the petrol RAVs we had were quite thirsty but some of that can be put down to our usage patterns with a lot of stop/start and idling while parked so the flashing light does not kill the battery.

Maybe I'm getting too old to appreciate changing fashions but I totally don't get the current mania for stretching skinny tyres onto wide rims. Sure it creates a look that is a bit different to the norm but it can't increase safety or performance in any way can it? 

As for compulsory insurance I can't see it working. All the same people who drive around dodgy now in unmodified shitheaps they don't care about and are accidents looking for a place to happen will continue to do so. 

Thanks guys. I thought about drilling out the screw heads as a last reosrt and wondered if I'd get away with it. Obviously the wheels will hold the drums on but is that legit at wof time or would it fail if they take the wheels off for something else and notice? I've got an impact driver somewhere but I haven't seen it for a long time. If I knew where it was I'd give it a try. Should take a weekend or two and tidy up / sort out my tools so I can find stuff.

My wife's BG Laser is making a bad noise in the rear drum brakes like the shoes are worn out and it's going steel to steel. Not doing it all the time. She mentioned it some time ago so I jacked it up and took the wheels off in case a stone was stuck somewhere and found nothing. Tried to get the drums off for a look but the screws wouldn't come out. Didn't try very hard though cos I didn't want to chew out the screw heads. I took it for a hurtle and couldn't get it to make any brake noise at all so decided a stone must have been stuck in something and then fallen out so thought nothing more of it. Drove it yesterday and got the noise just sometimes. Anyone got any good ideas for getting the stuck screws out without fucking anything? I did give them a good soaking with CRC while I had the wheels off but that was months ago and I haven't had the wheels off again to check whether it did any good. Thanking you in advance, Igor.

There is certainly some merit in driving a big, heavy, $500 shitbox.

Why? I've seen dumb fucks all colours of the rainbow. Well most of them anyway.

Do you just duplicate your progress posts on that other forum we both frequent Alex?

Years ago come dickhead in a subaru passed us on a blind crest between Roxburgh and Alexandra. Never saw him again until the last big downhill before Alex bridge where we found a tow truck and a guy with a broom sweeping up bits of subaru.

Another time I was at work and two guys in a crappy honda went through our job site at some ridiculous rate of knots. Heard them take the next two corners hard out then a huge bang followed by silence. Went for a look and they'd lost it on the straight, gone up the bank, and rolled. The only straight panel on the car was the boot lid.

A thing I've encountered more in Chch and Dunners than anywhere else is drivers not knowing which lane to turn into at multilane intersections, especially Chch bus drivers who will swing across three lanes without a single fuck given for anyone else. It's like they don't even look.

Many times in Dunners I've shot an orange light thinking I'd only just got away with it and two more vehicles have gone through after me when I'm certain at least one of them shot the red.

I've come to the conclusion that many South Island drivers don't know how to drive in traffic because they've never had to learn whereas in Aucks I can signal a lane change and go knowing that someone will let me in. My wife (a Southern lass) was astounded by this the first time I took her up to Northland to meet my folks. Perhaps it was because we were in a rough looking XC wags that looked like we didn't care if we hit them but on the motorway a lane opened in front of us like Moses parting the Red Sea.  

If you must go mad with the paint matt black with flames is always a good look.

I daily my EA wags. After two automatics I've finally found a manual one. Both are good but the four speed autos are expensive to rebuild.