scooters

yea it's a good one. My grandad had 44 gallon drums on the orchard. Old used oil went in and if it was left long enough the heavy stuff falls out of suspension 

In a old tractor just after WW2 scooping the good oil in the top of the drum and putting it back in the tractor was the only thing to do. Driven by money of lack there of. 

yeah but them new oils are so flash you don't need to change it..... or something..

On 21/05/2019 at 10:21, Casper said:

In Nissan diesel circles the zd30 is known as a grenade 

I like this topic.. I replaced a shit load in ozz when I worked their at a 4x4 shop

We tried all sorts of stuff to make them hold together.

dawes valve to take the boost control away from the ECU 

add more oil shorten the dip stick to increase sump capacity

Block the god awful EGR off

Replace MAF to stop the over fuel issue. 

nice big turbo back exhaust 

If you drove one with a boost gauge and pyro you might go ok and have no issues.

but they still went bang. Small motor big truck... boy sent to do a mans job kinda deal. 

how many thou cam lift? 

are they all troll running gear and chassis ? ^^

what is the difference between black top and silver top? 

I'v never actually actually bothered to think about it.. 

Nice progress btw 

1 hour ago, 63Ragtop said:

Crazy dutchies.Ah, air ride. That's a whole nother cert issue, has anyone ever built a air ride bug in NZ and got it legal? The shock mounts on vw's aren't really designed to carry the whole weight of the car? Which is what happens if you remove the torsion bars like people seem to do overseas.

Actually..

That's exactly right. And something I never thought of. Shit

20 hours ago, 63Ragtop said:

He is right though. First dude I took my car to for a wof went fine tooth comb on it, apart from the many many other issues, one was it needs a cert for the 1600cc as it deffiantly wasn't a 1200 and more.

Also @scooters heaps of people run 2-3inch beams without a cert, unless you know, most get away with it. The only really narrow car I've see in nz was a white bug on BRMs, pretty sure it was certed, anyway doesn't really answer your question but good to sharn.

I find with the 63, ground clearance is more of a issue, I've got a stock width beam and no drop spindles, and the beam is about 90mm off the deck. If i go over the speed bumps at work any faster than a crawl, the back of my front fenders get smashed, I would like to drop it one more inch.

haha I'm sure you know about the Jeen's bug that was built and sold by Marco a while back ? 

http://fueltank.cc/blog/1974-jeans-beetle

Thing is dope. Love the cosmic rims. Thats what id build if I find another late model standard

This is just a chat question not i'm doing it tomorrow kinda deal. 

We have seen VW bug's with narrowed front ends. You can take a abritory inch or 2 or you can go full bat shit crazy 10-14" Narrow. As far as you can before the Shock mounts rub the body. 

Where do we with our rules draw the line? IS there a % of track front to back that you must stay within ? Or is it just a matter of judgement on the certifier ?

cheers Scott.

back when I was a lad a apprenticeship at a Mazda dealer was highly prized because "you might get to work on rotors" 

I think there was 1 old bloke who know a bit about them everyone else just did boring Mazda stuff. Workshop was quiet then.

I drive past and look in the workshop and it looks full sweat shop spec. With all the common dealer traits. How many can you get threw the doors today kind of deal. 

But..... I would like to go to the tool room and uplift a few Mazda spec tools.. 

But it's probs nothing you can't buy of the shelf from other tool makers. meh 

#shityarn

A lot of the falcons utes have a skeletal tub bottom with a nice plastic liner. 

can't find picture to support statement.....

2200 KG Ute....!!!

mate... time for new weigh scales surely ? 

if not nozzles and wipers..... rain-x  my good man.

if it's good enough for aircraft then it's overkill for me.

Sure beats the fire extinguisher c02 like mine. 

I don't think they can charge them as hard as a real bottle either..? More in the real deal ones. ? Me thinks 

Just had a flash back

It was sounding exactly like the seconds before when your car blows up from damage in GTA2 game (birds eye one) 

Winner winner chicken dinner. 

. I forgot all about that... He must have made all his fittings... because it would be dead set imposible to hook that up. 

9 minutes ago, Thousand Dollar Supercar said:

A kerb weight of close to 1700

19 minutes ago, Thousand Dollar Supercar said:

Ah, but do you have a four speed auto (with '4 SPEED' proudly written by the selector) and a lockup torque converter that comes in clumsily at about 80kph? 

Around town the Jag's economy is not so flash - when coasting at 60kph (foot off the throttle) it uses 3~4 l/100km just to idle the engine.

Economy-related Barry fact - due to being an automotive grandfather clock, the XJ-S was aerodynamically average for 1988 with a drag coefficient of  0.40. That's worse than most new designs of the era and only better than boxy Volvos, the Countach and a 2.6 datto. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient#Typical_drag_coefficients 

actually you nailed it. no 4th speed no lock up here. I poor old jatco 3 speed has the toque converter power of a hairy goat. 

I guess the only thing left is to know the weight of your fine vehicle? 

fark this is dedication. 

I should do this with all Datto 260 c's I might count to 15 still alive and another 1000 at various stages of terminal cancer. 

Using the A/C and the loud pedal I averaged 12l/100km

thats not bad.... my 2.6 datto is about the same economy.

On 05/05/2019 at 10:21, kiwi808 said:

One of my favourite photos.

french pass? 

err... maybe not.

^

10/10