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Sent ya a link for his website

Yep still needs cert install for insurance and safety purposes

Bottle cupboard needs to vent to outside as low as possible

It may just take an inspection on what you have already done

I know a good mobile plumber/gas fitter in your area if want want a number to call?

Watched Battletruck again the other night

Still awesome movie

Was thinking what have I seen that guy in before ( hero dude with the chickenshit methane powered motorbike )

He was in the "Warriors" warriors come out to playayay movie greaf old but no trucks

Maximum Overdrive is worth a watch too and has AccaDacca soundtrack

Are those Telstars the same shape/ model as Mazda GE series?

I have a GE Cronos in my backyard if you need any odd bits ?

Head and tail lights look the same but front bumper may be a bit dear for shipping from way down here

Most of the interior is good and the exterior dark blue looks same shade

All I'm keeping is the engine so the rest is surplus / going to scrap at some point

2 stroke 3 cylinder 6 piston opposed with rocker shafts to the crank

With a huges rootes supercharger

Commer triple knockers are awesome

Front exhaust was big on fuel tankers for a while and tar tanker/sprayer trucks

It's really easy- just use pin and eye bush mounts like on the end of a panhard bar.

Can just cruise to a wrecker, grab one rear link off something like a safari and cut the ends off.

Yus been looking at that setup too but probably with new bits

All the wrecks where I am are still on the road or being hoarded= no real wreckers within 200km of me

Rockauto and trademe are my fastest parts suppliers

Let's try that again

Plenty of room to steering wheel shaft

Not much room between engine sump and steering rack / crossmember

What's the minimum clearance re commended / allowed

Engine is cradled in a V by the mounts so theoretically can't drop if they break

Oop fucked up quote and reply gotta run

Soz

a trap with that style of mount is there is no locking function like a lot of oe mounts, you have to have something to prevent the steering getting jammed up by the engine if the rubber mount breaks. Usually not a problem on a smaller engine that has a lot of clearance from the steering shaft, but is often an issue on something like a 1UZ

Plenty of clearance from steering wheel shaft and unis

Not much room above the steering rack and crossmember

What's minimum clearance all round for engine to body shell or crossmember?

Can be fairly easily solved though

While we are on the engine mount subject

I have not got a lot of room to use my stock mx5 rubber mounts

Or the big steel cup around them

Is it ok to use generic round rubber mounts like in those photos

Looking at some landrover ones that are low profile

Stock mount location on crossmember - rubber mounts with 10mm studs- 6mm steel plates onto engine

Ticketed welds on the plates

Sound ok ?

Wow the fleet has grown

The two old scammells at far end of row have been there a while

J d moreton truck wreckers

He keeps the really cool older rusty stuff hidden out the back

Getting there...

Just sorting linkages and the alloy braces between bodies today

I have jigsawed a curve in my wooden bonnet guide now so a little more room

Thinkin just an alloy box for air intake with two hoses running to pods behind each headlight for cold air feed

Can get lower without those rubber BMW joiners on top too

Very tight clearance between the back itbs and the throttle arms

And the whole v6 everything is staggered is interesting to work around

Nope but that makes a link atom and a wideband look cheap

And megasquirt and wideband look very very cheap

^^^ fuck yes that looks very stealth

And yes would need 2 sets for six throats total price starts adding up

Other option is to use 2 or 3 easy to find cheap car throttle bodies of size to your carbs that would adapt to your existing manifold

Or one huge body on a plenum

Six cylinder RFB setup must be close?

Or if Holden does a bolt on efi manifold just use part of that for the flange and injectors/ injector seats and bastardize some bits you like onto it

What size "throat" are they?

Quick google and they look fairly smallish?

From what ive seen id probably need 2 sets and get a webber style manifold.

ie: 6 itb's.

46mm?

6 will run a 2.5 v6 to 8000rpm that runs a single 60mm throttle body standard

Holden is what 3.3litre?

Have a look at motorbike bodies with injectors built in sets of 3 like triumph

Rare as here dirt cheap on eBay uk

Easier to home fab manifold then

You may find it's cheaper for an aftermarket ecu with ignition control as well than fuel only

You can always run the distributor and ignore the ignition side until you feel the urge but it will give better control with full ecu control

If you know the ignition side is sweet with the dizzy it takes a lot of the guesswork out of troubleshooting the efi install

Got inlet manifolds back from local alloy wizards

Machined the manifolds short as possible and flat

Sized alloy tubing to squash to oval to match the inlet ports

Squashed cut welded

Needs just a bit of trim to level up the top ends and  dremel porting to smooth it in for flow

And this shows how much room i dont have to make an airbox ...

I saw a T bucket that had pipes running from both rocker covers into the exhaust collectors for the crank case ventilation

Venturi effect to pull vacuum from the rocker cover pcv ?

Seems like a harder solution but certainly an out of the box idea

Engine swap cert question

Pcv valve and plumbing is needed from what I have read

Can I run rocker cover Pcv valve hose into a non vented catch can and then into aircleaner?

Or does it have to be plumbed into the inlet manifold?

Thanks

More slow slow progress

Trimmed the adaptor plate down to final size (2.5kg) and painted it to stop rust and pretend its alloy

Started making the starter motor plate

Chopped up a sump to start on making one of those to fit

Manual steering rack arrived and gasket set and 36-1 crank pulley on their way cheap via Amazon and Youshop

Yup from reading his story it seems like the Camira dash was the beginning of the end from kitcar to corporate fuckup

Also seems like our OPs car is one of the finest made and the creator even bought it for his daughter at some point

More photos of your awesome and rare piece of nz oldschool motoring history please

Very cool

Now about 1/2 way thru reading this very cool old Sharn by the heron creator

http://heroncars.co.nz/template.php?p=content_articles_rossbaker1

Fuck yes

Show us more please

Especially the skoda parts