Sungai Sungai

And so now with the only reason to keep the "ride-height" dad-spec out of the way.

oh and we tried on some sluttier shoes.

Then last friday i shot down to Paeroa for her to be used in DARTZ new music video. All shot on a film camera of a similar vintage to the car.

Was a good day. Great dudes and a fantastic part of the country to enjoy one of the few sunny days weve had lately.

cant wait to see some of these shots on filmmmmmmm

Evening boes.

time for a thread on my latest sack of oxidation. Ive said it before but these damn kids gotta stop letting me lowball them.

in all her glory

spent the first few weeks fixing weird issues like the temperature needle being clocked wrong so it looked like it was always overheating even though it wasnt. and the overdrive switch having been bypassed due to switch failure, didnt take much, a little contact cleaner and udoing some dodgy wiring to get it all operating as normal again.

but! she has some rust! one of the boys here used to own this car actually and made a fair attempt at sorting a bunch of the rust when he painted it black a few years ago, but its back with a vengeance of course.

if anyone has a PFL mark2 gx61 bonnet spare holler at ya boi.

also usual spots in the boot are pretty crusty. No frets tho its booked in with my guy Graeme Pope from Straight Line Restorations to work some all metal no bog magic on.

also fitted a wee period correct ish stereo to it that i found in my old mans shed.

had to pull the cd player apart and recover half a dozen nails out of it that had worked their way in their during its shed life. Unfortunately it doesnt work but i plan to pull it open and have a looksie sometime when i can be bothered

sheeeeeeesh. 

Got some cool wheels off a mate for cheap as on sunday and put some swift appropriate tyres on them monday . Very happy with my wee shitbox 

Same mate @deez surprised me this week with this absolutely out of this world Tom's Racing Sport Competition steering wheel for my birthday. Heck buy your friends cool presents and you never know whats gonna happen! It came from the store that is @Jeffs_Emporium and many thanks to him too for letting it out of his hands in the first place 

And my birthday present to myself was a pair of 3.5" front barrels for my advan A3A's, which when bolted onto my other centers and rears should make a pretty wee pair of 14x7.75" to match my pair of (what i believe now to be) 14x8.75" 

Im way too excited to get these on the car but will be taking a little bit of time to do a few other things before i put them together. Also very very hopeful that these widths and offsets will allow me to run the car relatively low without having to do much guard work, in my ideal world i want to keep the wheel arch trim for now and not dump it quite yet.

well that was until a few days ago when i caught a break in the rain and fitted the mx73 BC rear springs and platforms

the rake settled a bit once i drove it and i do have fronts waiting to go in. There's probably an inch of downward adjustment on the platforms and the option to remove the adjustable platforms altogether. The rear shocks i removed were far less new than i had been lead to believe by the previous owner (they were pretty much flogged completely) so the ride improved dramatically in pretty much every way (as long as firm as fuck is your preference). 

So after the successful shakedown to Whangarei and back in one evening it was time to set off!

the only challenge i faced along the way

I forgot to take all that many photos of the lineup for the toyota show n shine (rain) but snapped a couple of photos nearer the end of the day. 

Then stopped by at a mates place for a few more photos of the two together.

featuring a blurry glen, unsure if he's on here or id tag him. Make yaself known glen! 

PFL vs FL 

15" vs 14" 

etc etc

So that was all a few weeks ago now, since then ive mostly been enjoying driving the car and working on unfattening the wildly fat tune it had in it. Will have some more updates about that soon, its been a great journey of learning how a fuel table works and how to setup logging for street tuning among other things.

bonus photo:

ef civic on 15" wire wheels

This car belongs to @deez; i actually brought him the wires for his birthday earlier in the year. Im personally a big fan of the Californian and Japanese "Euro Lowrider" style cars especially this generation of hondas so im quietly hoping this becomes quite a serious project at some point in the future. The first thing this car will get before anything else is bodywork. Its a cool 25XT S Limited model so it has a dual sidedraft carb setup on the d15b and quite a lovely interior with similar fabrics to an Si. Its just been treated very poorly by a series of teenagers before he got his hands on it.

Long time no update!

so got frustrated by my own indecision about where to take my head to be looked at, and how extensively i want it gone over, so i popped it off a month or so ago and swapped a factory silvertop head onto it that i got for cheap off a mate

a small amount of swirly scoring from where the valve impacted the piston but not enough to be much of a worry

cleaned up this unknown condition factory head with a razor blade, from memory i went a but longer after this photo and checked it with a straight edge i use for my job to find it seemed to be entirely unwarped as far as myself and my feeler gauges could tell

stock head on, ririririrVROOOM into life without a single worry in the world. 

did a quick oil change then drove it all the way to whangarei to collect some wheels and to shake it down for a big trip i had planned down to Manfield for the anniversary weekend.

then on the way back after bolting the wheels on the car, gotta say the continental tyres that they came on are really nice in terms of road noise and economy vs my DZ101's on the advans.

Wheel reveal! Crimson Zed Comp 4, 14x7 front and rear with a slightly staggered offset. Im really in love with these wheels but after running them for a month ish im not sold that they suit this car as well as they would suit something else... we will see. soooon.

oh and forgot to mention i installed a cool old double din ADZEST minidisc player i scored off marketplace before the trip too. The car hadnt come with any bracketry at all and i figured id try bend some thin steel up myself before i started scouring the few parts MA61's and SA60's around for something im probably not going to find. I think it sits fairly straight, its not like the rest of the interior is mint at this stage so it gets the ol  good enough for now from me. Mind the bluetooth receiver but the stock speakers are so tinny without the factory fitted "Zender" box (sub woofer) that it doesnt sound audibly different over rca anyway.

chucked a set of Axio half lace covers i got for cheep on for giggles 

and the set of BR Watanabes mainly for the extra 30mm of tyre width  hopefully it wont feel like i'm about to get blown under the wheels of every ford ranger i (try to) pass on the motorway now