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Gday all Wondering if anyone knows any reliable air con people who can deal with oddball stuff, preferably between akl airport and pukekohe? Cheers

For sure, If I cant get the leaks sorted in situ then itll be coming out over winter anyway, may be traded for a windsor if that's the case. Need to talk to a certifier as I suspect they would want to see a cert on it, despite probably miniscule power gains. How do you driveshaft loop a transaxle...

Sick prompt responses thanks gents!

Yea I was relieved to see the state internally. There will be no good reason for the oil except that's what his mechanic had in stock. Last owner was not a gear head and the mechanic was a modern car person sadly. Have a few bottles of the Penrose vintage zinc stuff in the shed so she'll be getting some of that. At this stage I'm not sure I want to know any more about the state of the bearings.....

Gday team My GT40 replica has a rover v8 3.5 in it, high compression version. Its got quite a few leaks which would be easier solved out of the car. However I have no idea what the engine has in it and it may be better to do another engine and put it in. Does anyone know if there are any dimensional differences between the 4.6 and 3.5 engines? I have heard the 4.6 crank snout is longer, but can't find an accurate figure. There is only a gnats dick hairs gap between the chassis and the crank pulley with the 3.5 and I dont want to go down the route of new engine mounts etc if possible. Any help much appreciated. Cheers

Leaky sump gasket so went to investigate while the pan was off. Largely ok from my not too invasive look around. Sump baffle bolt snapped while undoing which was cool so easy outing blew out the time frame. Hopefully reduce the oil slick. The numpties had been running it on castrol 0-30... cant imagine that's done it much good.

The dirty bitch has bitten already, melted a wire, only off the kill switch, only in the middle of papakura.. mate came and helped push it off the road in to a carpark and wedged a piece of my work lanyard in to hold the wire in to get me home..

Funnily enough I have an edelbrock 450 I am investigating. It had a 390 early on according to the documents that came with it but it wasn't doing justice, perhaps the tuner was the problem though. I'll definitely be looking in to a more suitable carb. They seem to work together well enough for now, I'm going to catch up with the builder soon and hopefully find out what the engine is exactly. Which of course I'll report on here...

Me or a buddy, had a couple of friends have a go since buying it.

Recently I was lucky enough to purchase this fine machine which has a little family history. It was the first car built by GT40 Replication Ltd in Auckland. One of my grandads mates was the man behind GT40 Replication and so my grandad did some of the mold work for these cars. I told my self 16 years ago when I heard about this car (when I first got interested in proper cars) that if it ever came on the market I would buy it. 15 years later luckily enough it came on the market and I was kind of in a position to buy it (you may have seen all my shit for sale here and trademe). Anyway, here we are and its in my shed. Its an interesting concoction which i'll discuss once I actually start working on it, but I plan to just drive it and enjoy it over summer. It needs quite a lot of maintenance, but the bones are good. Has Rover V8, Renault Transaxle, DBA/Holden fronts brakes, seems to go pretty good. Have found lots loose on the induction side and it looks like the cap,rotor leads and plugs are the same from when it was built so I will do them all shortly. Air filter was coozed, has a Holley 600 on it unsure on jets etc yet but it drives nice, slight flat spot if you punch the pedal down but I havent fault found it yet. It needs a gasket kit but that will likely be next winters job...

Cheers. Local BNT sadly have not been overly interested in anything odd that wasn't on the shelf.. Will give Sterling a call.

G'day Need to make new lines for my Eclat and there is a mix of M12x1,M10x1 and 3/8 UNF hardware. No where seems to have it all in stock in one place, does anyone have any recommendations for who might hold a good selection in stock? Cheers

Time for a smol update on the fiat. Have been chipping away with making patches and buying parts/paint stripping etc. Gave the mrs a wind up about getting motivated to finish it and she pushed me in to actually buying parts. Parts are in the country but the a holes at customs forgot to process the gst invoice so I'm back to bodywork.

Cheers- Hope shell come up grouse with a paint job etc.

Another thread for my Tbird if anyone has any questions etc...