Snoozin

Can't wait to bring the ute when I inevitably cock up my repair on the red 4 door car.

Another example of our cert systems shining consistency. Thankfully, I have Clint approval so I will run with it.

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/53734-gx71-bc-golds/ Can you please shed some light on if this mention of change in the permissible way to weld a coilover on is still acceptable?

Oh righto. I am interested to know if that's the case then, Clint please respond if this is the case. We may have to re-engineer the front in my car for the third time now.

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/41847-ae86-struts-welding-coilovers-how-to/ Follow this guide and show the cert guy and you should be fine.

This one. I need to upgrade the alternator, as it's 30A at 13.8V or something, whatever was the style at the time. Then I'll throw some speakers and amps I have had stashed away at it.

Previous owner put it on as a p/plate in honour of his favourite second cousin, Barry Quentin Howatson, born August 1974. Gonna leave it red for the interim and go bang some dudes.

S Pack mate, had one of these back in the day, jeez she went like a cut cat mate, up the Kaimais all day long towing a blardy caravan full of the missus shit and all the kids junk but mate boy oh boy did she stick to the road like shit to a blanket, yeah they cornered like they were on rails the S Pack.

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/53729-snoozins-1979-triumph-2500-s/#entry1744222 Have a yarn and discuss hilarious alternatives for what the 'S' could possibly denote. Or discuss how I should have finished the Starlet instead.

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/53732-snoozins-79-two-point-five-s-its-for-sporty/ I did it again. The pine set in too strong and I ended up with another of the finest 4 door sedans to grace this fine earth. A Triumph 2500, this time in facelift flavour (my first post 74 example) and a sport 'S' spec model to suit. I had arranged to grab it earlier this year, and finally got around to picking it up in May, after the previous owner completed a few classic car runs/shows/etc's in it. It was originally a white car, and has been resprayed some years ago, door jambs, inside of boot, under the bonnet, everything. The paint's ok, it's not super wonderful but it presents well enough for now. It's a manual overdrive model, good tan interior and has done a shitload of KM but underneath is solid and appears to have been looked after, with excellent condition bushes and wearable components. Pics the day we drove it home. 20160515_104545 by Richard Opie, on Flickr 20160515_105939 by Richard Opie, on Flickr 20160515_105955 by Richard Opie, on Flickr I set about collating my Triumph 2500 owners starter kit in the interim. Had these wheels forever and a day, but elected to give them a bit of a polish and tidy up. 20160417_141021 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Then I popped a Nardi I have also had for a number of years on it. 2016-08-16_09-25-39 by Richard Opie, on Flickr I've done some other stuff too. It's now leaking with a volume akin to a burst dam gushing from somewhere at the back of the motor, so that's this weekends task. Thanks ok bye see you at a meet one day.

Mate bloody beautiful!

Triumph's will soon own this forum, solid work. Let's band together with other British car owners to push out the influx of Japanese car enthusiasts to our secluded community.

We've booked houses the last couple of years, and have found Cooks Beach to be a great spot! Nice and close, has a mean fish and chip shop. Whitianga was rad also but the drive's quite long at the end of the day. If you book a house now I'd say you'd be able to fill it with OSers!

Could someone/Jared edit the date into the title and pop the event details in the post? And probably move into the main upcoming events section?

It's Waitangi weekend again, same as every year. Already booked a joint at Cooks Beach, gonna be super rad (again). Can't wait for the announcements.

Yeah hot water blaster, they're the biz. Little steam cleaners are choice, but not up to 30 year old grease and sludge.

Loven tools are great until you have to sort a warranty issue. Parallel imported has it's pitfalls, just remember. If you're using it for trade use, the downtime could be a pain in the arse. http://www.dewalt.co.nz/dealers/ <------------- this will help you find a dealer though.

Panasonic has support and distribution here!

Lets go for a weekend drive sometime in the not too far away time frame.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/wheels-tyres/alloy-wheels/auction-1125718377.htm Mayte pls.

Cut em anyway?

Cut the springs while you're at it tbh.

Time to recap what's been going on. So the next step of the process was to get the fuel system pretty much finished. Step one of this was to modify the factory 4AGE fuel rail, as in OEM configuration the inlet, regulator and outlet were all mounted on the top face of the rail extrusion, with each end capped off where it was cut from factory. As I was intending to run an aftermarket fuel pressure regulator (FPR), the plan called to lop off all of the attachments on the OEM rail, drill out the plugs from each end and weld on -6 AN fittings at either end. IMG_7025 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Which Sheepers completed for me. It's top rail in the photo above. Which was a spare with the box of gear that came with the 4AGE. Unbeknownst to me, this was a bluetop bigport rail, not a smallport rail which has different injector spacing, as the above image illustrates - after the fact of course. So we had to start all over again. Well, Sheepers did. I drank beers and offered unhelpful advice mainly. IMG_7043 by Richard Opie, on Flickr This is where the inlet and damper/regulator thing originally attached. They'll need to be filled. IMG_7078 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Since I super love taking welding pictures, here's Sheepers welding it all up. IMG_7104 by Richard Opie, on Flickr And this is what you're left with following stage one of the process. This rail welded heeeeaps nicer than the previous one, perhaps it had less contamination in the metal, or we got it to a more satisfactory temperature before welding. IMG_7039 by Richard Opie, on Flickr IMG_7128 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Fairly self explanatory here. With the plugs drilled out from either end and both end faces ensured true, Sheepers welded on $14.00 worth of Speedflow -6 AN weld on male fittings. Nice. IMG_7179 by Richard Opie, on Flickr A portion of the finished product. Obviously the weld which filled the holes was ground flat leaving the rail in a state ready to polish in the future. 0P4A7732 by Richard Opie, on Flickr The next step involved finishing off the rest of the fuel system. Brendan Duncker of Convert Ltd (who built my headers for me) was kind enough to agree to make fuel hardlines for under the car - I had a reasonably specific brief following some discussion with Clint about securing fuel lines, in that the lines needed to follow the factory path so I could pick up all of the factory clip points. This was done, there are now quite beautiful 5/16" hardlines under the car, with black -6 Speedflow fittings throughout, including a filter unit near the firewall. Pics later when it's not wet I guess. 0P4A7743 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Pretty self explanatory with the layout - inlet to the modified fuel rail, 180 degree fitting out, back along the top (may need to clip yet) in braided line to the Aeromotive FPR then back under the car. The remaining port of the FPR will be used for a fuel pressure sensor. 0P4A7734 by Richard Opie, on Flickr 0P4A7752 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Brendan was also able to mount my radiator for me. The Fenix AE86 units seemed to get a solid enough review from most 4AG people I know so I plonked down a moderate amount of folding for one of those. Yeah I know it's a China radiator, but the finish is good enough for the car. With some bolt in bottom brackets and OEM AE86 top brackets it's a perfect fit in the nose of the KP, with enough room for a slim 12" fan and using shortened AE86 radiator hoses. 0P4A7742 by Richard Opie, on Flickr 0P4A7736 by Richard Opie, on Flickr This sort of leads on to how the engine bay looks right now - this is really close to the final product as far as the aesthetic side goes, with really only the wiring plus some hoses for overflow and breather to go in and complete the picture. So yeah. We draw a little bit closer, money is a little low right now with purchase of a new camera gear so to progress I need to allow the bank account to rally a little and then it's time to hit the wiring with the assistance of Stu. Thanks must go to Sheepers, Brendan, Stu and Reuben from Fenix for helping me out with this stage of the build. Discuss the right way to go about chequebook building a car here - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/18803-snoozins-1981-kpiz-starlet/

That's two more than previously, so yeah times definitely are a'changin.

Jeez times have changed. I got nothing but constant grief when mine was running stock ride height.