Transom

Most places that do powder coating have a dip strip tank?

Surely one of those in the naki?

Run some solid struts for a week instead of the rear shocks

Then see if you still wanna cut it

Hard tail with sprung seat and fat 16" rear tyre with not much pressure and my kidneys still hate me decades later

Sure it can be certed if done well

There may even be off the shelf hard tail frames for that engine somewhere

Good plan

You can see the snow while having a wine and be glad you are not trying to drive in it

Yes west is best driving roads

Avoid Arthur's and Lewis pass for the next few days it's looking shitty and white

Unless your Aston mondeo is good at snowploughing ?

Had one of the early twincab dyna tipper trucks with the dual rear wheels for a work vehicle

4 ton payload ran on 6 ton sticker

Able to u-turn on narrow 2 lane road better than any ute

Awesome little trucks

So yeah the van thing is all about the payload and duals mean cheaper road miles than same weight on singles

Totally fill to overflow as you screw the top on

And cycle the damper rod first to get rid of the air bubbles

Used to add a welded on nut and bleed screw on old triumph rear shocks to make them rebuild able easier

Other way is to assemble them in a tub of fluid

Control arm bushes?

Rockauto.com have them listed under American Motors 1965 classic

And dropped back into engine bay to check measure clearances etc

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next missions are plate adaptor for starter motor engine mounts sump chop new clutch ...

Slow progress

Picked up another v6 cheap for bits looks clean has plenty of parts for spares as i experiment with bodging

Visited Alex and Hannah and looked at their awesome shed and mighty v6 viva for inspiration

Countersunk the holes for adaptor to engine bolts csk allen screws in m12x1.5 are not cheap

Shoulda not drilled the 2 bottom holes so much and tapped them for for stock bolts thru from the front woulda saved $

Cheap tardme countersink bits were great cut mild steel so clean and easy

cut a slice off the starter motor mounting to get it to match up to flywheel - dont grind alloy at home kids its dangerous

ended up being a nogo on using rx7 starter - pinion way too small to match up so its steel plate for here and use the v6 starter

even bought a new rx7 starter too keen ... 1 step forward 2 steps back

started looking at hose routing lost most of the ugly mass of hoses off the v6

lower rad hose routes to rear of block in the valley

flipped the thermostat housing to route heater hoses towards car heater and lower rad hose to drivers side where mx5 rad inlet is

removed a big ugly hose tee and blocked it with a frost plug

Yup knew crazy kanuka Colin too

Mountain biked up to his land once what an epic trail to get in there

The best push bikes to build off are heavy duty chromo steel jump bikes or full suspensions where the rear shock and links are behind the rear triangle

I have seen enough alloy bikes fail to not trust the fatigue life even without adding a motor

Speed controller and batteries is the expensive part but prices are dropping every year

The laws are strange - most of the electric assist bikes in nz are restricted on power to comply and have no reg reqd

I helped a bit with the German guy from takaka hills bike (he is also Alex)

It is a weapon - has many gears and pulls hard up the hill

Most of it was carved out by hand with hacksaw and file by candlelight while very chooched but the engineering is very well thought out

The trade me add a petrol motor kits are crap - anyone here could do better with a motor from the dump shop and $100

Been thinking of putting a huge rc brushless out runner motor on my commuter bike and running it thru gearset

Looking out for one of those odd old healing 10 speed cranksets that have the freewheel in the crank

Electric hub motors are not the way to go

Most electric bikes are like heavy cheap warehouse crap with about 500$ worth of hub motor crap lead acid battery and sold for 2k plus

The new Scott electric bike range is very nice all Bosch gear

Euro spec gets the derestricted version

I need your wisdoms, does anyone think this is good/worth it?

http://www.ecotrons.com/products/400cc_to_800cc_engine_fuel_injection_kit/

Microsquirt looks better and cheaper for a bike application if you can source your own throttle body and injector setup

Been looking at getting rid of the evil BMW motronic ecu on my 650 single and microsquirt looks easy as

I hope that was the " how not to "repair a spark plug thread video

Wonder what the instructions really said ?

^^^ there we go cert ninja answered while I was thumb typing

Last time I got a cert way back it was 3 hard stops from 100km with a portable deaccellerometer thingy sitting on the floor

Same as they used to use for truck cof before the days of brake rollers

Ask your friendly local cert guy

Boosted at least has to be good

What PCD/size are your wheels?

Awesome sounding v6 s

And they sound even better running ITBs

The yanks on probetalk boost the hell out of these

Currently wrecking a cronos same shape if you need any odd bits cheap as

Yup spigot bearing is farked but still turns and

Whole clutch kit is on the way so I can get that buttoned up and start on engine mounts and chopping up the sump

Intake manifold ideas are now making my head hurt

Eyeometry and sheer luck mostly

Motor sitting on it's nose so no load any direction

Rx7 bell is shorter than mx5 so the input shaft pokes out about 12mm

Already knew one bolt hole lined up to the motor from yoeddys viva build

So drop box onto adaptor and into spigot drop bolt in - wiggle the box so there is no side loading - check input shaft turns freely

Clamp down mark and drill other bell housing bolt holes

Adaptor plate sits over motor dowels

Have a couple of blind holes in bell so I will add dowels to adaptor too

Backwoods bastard bodging really but workin with what I have access to here in the Styx

Much cutting grinding hacksawing grinding and drilling and tapping later

12mm holes thru to block need countersunk for flat countersunk allen screws - one main bolt shown goes right thru bellhousing to block - that and the input shaft into spigot what i have lined it all up on

Threads tapped 10mm for bellhousing to adaptor bolts - still needs more trimmed off this side - hole visible was a tester for drill and tap sizing

Now I know for sure the dizzy won't fit it's gonna be full standalone

Later model 626 has 36-1 trigger wheel front pulley

Get to ditch the maf too and just run crank trigger tps and map sensor

Spent half the day marking drilling and cutting excess off the 12mm steel adaptor plate the local engineers roughcut for me cheap

4kg untrimmed prob get it down to 2kg by the time it's finished

Lost so much weight off the car by removing AC and power steer

Steel worked out cheaper easier and stronger for the threads I need to tap into it

Crap photos of progress sometime soon

Ah ok the white plastic ecu plug looks very low tech more radio shack spec than auto wiring

Possible to steal a connector or 2 from another pin you are not using by gently using a pick to gently release the connector from the plastic?

So little info for these - wiring diagram is vague as

New bare loom complete 145 aus$

Got a picture of the stinger plug and loom? What version do you have?

They are setup to run a Bosch 4 wire narrowband direct or an LC-1 thru it's controller

Air temp compensation seems like a good idea

Got one 2nd hand cheap v4 stinger

Cheaper than landing an ms 2 kit

Have done lots of old vehicle wiring and high powered RC car electronics but this efi stuff is new to me

I'm a bit beyond a pnp system now -my old engine loom and ecu and ecu plug went to a better place in maxteds b1600

Have heard odd things about using pnps on things beyond their design

I have whole v6 loom sensors and ecu but the no room for dizzy makes it easier to start from scratch

So anyone run an ems stinger?

Or tried a mitzi v6 3 channel ignitor rather than using 3x single ignitors?

Other option is to use the EDIS System but I don't know if the stinger will play nicely with that