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As far as my daily commute/grocery shopping etc I'd be more than happy to drive an electric vehicle. Something comfortable, easy  to park and cheap to run would be ideal for mundane daily duties. It sounds a bit scary when they say "no new petrol and diesel vehicles by xxx" but realistically most of the vehicles we're into went out of production decades ago anyway. Electric vehicles will become increasingly common in cities but that doesn't necessarily mean that we are going to be unable to enjoy our classic/collectable/special interest vehicles. The rate that technology progresses these days it pretty astounding too, just look at the cell phones people had 10 years ago, there's some pretty exciting possibilities for electric sports cars and the like in the future.

How do PWR radiators compare? Both Commodore radiators that I have are a bit unhealthy, tossing up whether I get the twin core OE radiator recored or purchase an alloy radiator? Not sure whether the n/a and factory turbo radiators are any different although the radiator that's fitted is apparently an early single core and the twin cores were introduced later on.

How has nobody mentioned VN Commodores? One day there'll be flat peakers in retirement homes reminicing about the good old days of 3.8 mangs as floating cars whizz by and robots feed them their supper...

Yeah this is relevant to my interests too. Seems to be an alarming number of cars getting pinched atm

Awesome thanks @Beaver! 

Night have to look into getting another set of wheels before cert then 

This has probably been asked before so my apologies for the repeat. I have bought a car which has been retrofitted with a factory turbocharged engine and needs cert. When it goes for cert for the engine conversion will they also certify the wheel size and the ride height? Can I certify the engine and then lower it and fit aftermarket mags later or will this require another cert? Thinking I may be best to spend the coin at the start and do wheels and suspension at the same time?

Also on a side note, if I cert the car on 16x8's for instance and then decide I want to change the look of the car and fit 18's, is this legal or can I get fined/stickered etc as the wheels are a different size to what's printed on the cert plate? 

I'm interested too, very cool looking wagon.

My folks have a 2001 (new shape) 2 litre auto. Done 180ish KMS now, trans has failed, central locking, heater, a/c, stereo systems don't work properly. The headlights randomly fail too. Most of the mechanical stuff that's failed is just old car stuff that will happen to anything but if you want something comfortable I'd be going elsewhere. Despite having Ghia seats their bloody uncomfortable and to top it off it uses more fuel than my Chevy used too.

E9 and jake videos are my go to, shame the middy hates them haha. We are right across the road from the Scania agents so occasionally get the pleasure of some angry Scania V8's too.

On ‎3‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 22:21, Alfashark said:

Where was this taken? Belongs to one of our customers, would love to hear it with a decent load behind it!

I've taken photos of a few cars there, the photos of my old chevy were taken in the same spot.

Nothing too exciting to report. Changed the oil this weekend and then got called out just as I'd removed the oil filter. Gave it a wash and took a few photos.

Discuss here. Or don't. You're all adults, make your own choices.

Replaced the left hand control arm this weekend as the outer ball joint was absolutely rooted.

As it turns out the control arm was a right hand arm fitted to the left hand side. The control arms on these things are handed which probably explains why the joint was so bad. At first glance the arms look the same but the ball joints are a few degrees off being parallel with the face of the inner bushes.

I had trouble photographing it but if you look closely you can see where it looks like the stud has worn into the control arm.

I pressed new bushes into both arms and fitted the new arm to the car. I thought the swaybar bushes were ok but on closer inspection they need to be replaced so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to grab a set from Enford. Still need to change the oil and wire up the horns and then I think I'll move this thing on as things haven't quite worked out the way I'd planned and I'd like to free some money up for other things.

Yarns here:

Yep sure am, too many trucks in the yard so been parked on the street this week

I haven't done too well at photographing progress on this thing as it's my daily and I'm usually just trying to get the job done with as little fuss as possible but I made sure I got photos of the panel repairs.

When I bought the car it had a big square dent with a tear  below it in the sill. I don't know for sure but I suspect that it fell off a jack at some point and punched in the sill. Initially the panel beater thought the dent could be pulled out and a small patch welded in but unfortunately there was some rust on either side of the dent so we bit the bullet and cut the lot out.

I stupidly didn't take a before photo but I'm very pleased with the quality of the repair and it's nice to know there's steel there and not just bog! I still need to fit the chrome trim to the sill and then that's one more thing off the list. 

Discuss here: 

2 hours ago, Mourning Cupcake said:

Yea, very happy with the wheels. Not perfect which is great, I won't be paranoid about them

 

At this stage, the only plan is a 13BPP and camo door cards

Fixed

Looking forward too seeing this slammed, such a cool looking car! Can't get Cheviots or something for it instead?

Bruh. Loving the progress you're making on this. Looks so so good!

Original shocks in the back, it's got override springs but I'm not sure whether the springs have been reset

5 hours ago, mattscort said:

Mate this things wicked, I saw it up for grabs and contemplated buying it. If you ever wanna sell it lt me know

Have fun

 

Honestly mate if you're interested I'd be happy to part with it. It's got captive springs in the front now but I've found it needs a ball joint. I've got no attachment to it unlike my other one so if I'm going to end up having to do more work on it I'd rather put the effort into my other one

54 minutes ago, Cobranz said:

any ideas what its had done to be lowered? old man has a mk3 and im trying to convince him to lower it a little on some nicer wheels

It has blocks in the rear but I suspect reset springs to. According to the declaration it has "V8 Falcon coils" but whatever they are they've been cut and aren't captive. I have some Cobra lowering springs to put in this weekend, their meant to be 40mm lowering springs but I think it'll be a little lower due to the extra weight of the engine. I'll stick some pictures up once their in.

39 minutes ago, kyteler said:

Best Zephyr shape.  Noice.  Zodi's are too busy, this is ideal. 

I love the quad headlight zodiac grill though. Have thought about fitting one to a Zephyr many a time.

Me too, my old man had a Zephyr in his younger days. I'm too poor for a Zodiac haha

Discuss my wee accident here...