Early jap nuter

A vq with a v drive for full 1/4 mile wheelie pulls, wouldn’t be fast but would feel super fast

I’d stay away from ev conversions for racing for abit as they looking into the safety side of things since euro country’s are banning them from track days and day drags as the fire trucks they need are expensive.

Years ago I used a lpg barra on a power glide with 75 shot of nos and China turbo and ran mid to high 10s. Used the sump of a territory as is in 2 bits and shorter,manifolds of a turbo motor, turbo was the biggest $500 option, power glide we did have to get something done as kill standard converter and diff was a hilux welded up in a 720. Was real fun and I think $6000 all up and ran nearly 2 drag seasons with no real drama. The computer and fuel side was most of the cost

You really need to work out what you want to spend and what can you do yourself. There’s lots of little things you don’t think of at the time but end up costing if you carnt do it yourself

Years ago when I was importing cars the warrants were issued at the compliance place and if they weren’t registered within a certain time they de reged and had to go back to compliance,think it was a year not sure but that was back 2008ish

6 minutes ago, RXFORD said:

Fwoar, want!

Me to but he won’t sell

I use to see your bug abit going up Edmonton rd I’m just on jaemont

11 minutes ago, 63Ragtop said:

End of school dance drop off. 55 Buick wag was amazing.

Had five screaming girls jammed in the bug, absolute chaos!

What schools that? That wag lives down the rd from my place in te atatu. It’s bad as

I agree 100% about the cyber truck but I am looking forward to seeing a Dakar/pro runner edition jumping sand dunes and hill climbing in the Middle East. 

They gone ruc everything soon cars, hybrids and evs. Not sure if the papers said classics

7 minutes ago, Kiwibirdman said:

Not sure how well that holds up when you walk back through the door with the original invoice that lists all the added on parts. Under NZ consumer law, they, as the retailer, are on the hook, warranty expired or not. 

Just saying what I was told

Yeah when I was fitting things to new utes afew years ago I brought this up in a meeting with big Auckland dealers and the response was not our problem when warranty runs out. They never sold the parts to you they sold you a truck and u had the parts fitted but as a service to you as a customer we will get them fitted before pick up. Toyota was the only one that wouldn’t let curtain products fitted

Wyatt tools do all the Rupes stuff and somtimes have good deals on sanding discs

My wife’s best mate has somthing to do with this she.Insurance company’s are having a shit how the bullbars and such are taking utes off the road in a small crash.they are questioning how are they not under cert when they change the strength of the Ute.they don’t want to insure any modification.

I know  if you  do the bolts up on some certain brand bars to tight you crush the front crumple zone on a ranger chassis. Some Utes you can see the front of the chassis sag after fitting

1 minute ago, Nominal said:

I hope Ford / Toyota have lots of original bumpers in stock

The bars I use to fit u had to cut 90% off the bumper and use the top part as a filler around headlights and grill

13 minutes ago, cletus said:

This is going to ruffle some feathers

 

Basically, anything with an air bag, if fitted with an aftermarket front bar ie the thousands of 4wds in nz, has to be a frontal impact compliant bar 

 

Good job about time. When I use to fit them 60% of them went on 2wd utes

39 minutes ago, GARDRB said:

My little brain spent way too long staring at that being annoyed that it wasn't possible to drive up onto those ramps

They use to do that so morons wouldn’t trip over.

There’s afew teslas up north people tow boats with and seem to go ok. The boat club about 6 months ago did by a ldv and was raving about it in there monthly newsletter but I’ve seen it’s been replaced by a new bt50

BMWs have been glued together for years, they don’t want crashed ones repaired like teslas. When I was in Germany last year went and seen a mate who runs a wreckers and the oldest car was 9 years old 

In the far north we play a game to see what’s the newest dereged car is when we go shopping, so far a it’s a 2021 ranger 

9 minutes ago, kws said:

It's not old, but I think it's pretty cool.

Just paid for it, now waiting for it to ship. 2016 Alto Works, manual, 660cc 3 pot turbo and 4wd.

I got a white one it’s super fun. 

There’s heaps of these things up north being used on farms and tip runs. There’s a guy that beach launch’s his 5 meter boat with one and seems to ok. Impact off road does lift kits and bull bars