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Saturday 14th March?

Another stunner day for a cruise. tally is up to 440km for the weekend, even took the Mrs along today. 80km left to go on this 1000km break in. then it gets tuned ready for REunion

Any of you find folk keen to do a puhoi tavern mission for lunch one day before winter?

Beautiful day for a drive. punched out 285km of hassle free cruising. Pokeno to the karapiro roundabout, past Te Poi to Matamata and back to Pokeno. filled up at Maramaraua, to 25L and did 200km to that point, not bad. but I noticed the fuel tank was pretty warm, so I’ll need to sort some form of heat shielding where the exhaust passes.

It has been surreal driving it tbh. im glad i took it to 4&rotary Nats last year, got that off the list, no I can feel happy to just drive it and not worry about stone chips etc. even drove it in the rain.. lsd works well haha

Fresh cert, wof and reg gives me happy feels. ran half a tank of go juice through it today and only around 100km , uh oh. ticked over 500km on the fresh motor. So only another 500km more break in kms to go. going to try and get it knocked out before reunion so Jase can give it a service and tune. then happy full rips.

Super hyped.

Damn that thing sounds great man.

I believe much of it is due to mig welds being more prone to cracking. So critical components to be tig welded. you can do mig spot welds and tig spot welds, the tig spot welds can be hammered and are somewhat softer, the mig spot welds tend to crack. im sure there’s a more technical explanation

Not attached to any topic in particular, but this is the result of my latest lvvta journey. lower control arm coil to Coilover conversion. this was the only major item that needed addressing during cert. apparently due to a Camaro lower arm failure after fitting QA1s like I had done. Lvvta sent out a memo stating this can no longer be accepted. Not sure all the facts and details, just what I was told. so, after a couple of emails to lvvta and the certifier I managed to get the lower arm design approved that I had crudely mocked up for Nats to get the ute low with the coilovers. it just meant that I needed to dig out all mig weld material and have them Tig’d up and NDT. and these photos are the result. also added in a photo someone sent me of their own “strengthening “ work for cert. Not sure if that one has passed yet. Top 2 photos are the standard arm. next 2 are the freshly tig’d arm ready for NDT. fairly easy process really. Just time consuming with the ping pong design options. Happy with the result though. it means I now have a completed project that is fully legal.

I used the Ados high tack spray adhesive, just need to be patient with the wait time between spraying and laying out. I always rushed it and had mixed results. this time I left it to the recommended time and it was mint. Go figure

Upper console completed and wrapped. just need to wire ip the head unit once my speaker mounts are done. ill get a hideaway am/fm antenna so i can crank the Breeze on long drives.

Decided to chuck the MS-01s back on. boy I really do love these wheels. i just purchased a set of barrels off Tim Woods son, Cooper. 7s for the front and 8s for the rear. these from memory were 8.5 and 9, or 9 and 9.5. I forgot. but it will allow for a narrower front tyre if I change to the 7s. and almost finished the upper console build. I bought a fancy head unit for it and made all of the mountings etc. the balsa ends up just being a skin and will be wrapped in black vinyl along with the rest of the console parts. I just need to play with mounting the e-fan display and cutting the hole for that, then it will be wrapped and finished off. i fitted both under seat subs/amp combo things, and have a cabinet maker making up some speaker mounts for the 4” mids and the tweeters will sit next to them.

Job done. Came out exceptionally good

That is all, thank you for your time