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theres a differnence between old skool and old heap of shit. its still a honda

mean car bro, looks like my old one but a whole lot tougher. you need some round lights and she'll be mint.

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i think its one of those "if you have to ask, you'll never know" type questions.

but i'd probably say. pre 80's bar a few rear wheel drive toyotas and that. no hondas coz there just gay. old skool cars should look tough not like their made outa tinfoil.

im still from gisborne?! why do ya ask

hey man,

im from gisborne aye. whats up?

the mk1 and mk2 engines are generally the same apart from the mk2 ones are stronger due to various reinforcements. the alternator from a mk2 should fit straight in

haha that wasn't even meant to sound dirty. pretty funny now that i think about it tho.

yea it could just mean condensation ran down the dipstick, but if your head gasket blows internally then that's what will happen. if its blown id drain the oil out of that bad boy right now and buy some engine flush oil. then replace the head gasket, flush the engine with the oil then might as well do a radiator flush at the same time. then chuck some new oil in and youll be away.

if your head gaskets blown you'll loose compression so your car will generally run like shit. and eventually die

its most likely your alternator brushes are worn out. they cost about $10 to replace. just got to pull your alternator out, unscrew the plastic cover, inscrew the top bit inside and they just fall out. you can buy new ones from repco. i replaced some on an escort just recently and they are super easy to do.

white creamy stuff on ya dipstick usually means blown head gasket..

how big are the windscreen banners? where you guys all gona be at new years?

good to see some fellow punkers on here. makes me proud to see not all you car enthusists are into their boom boom yea dwag "insert looped beat stolen from rebirth here" bullshit. haha go the punks

definatly use the 1600 rods man, youd be alot better off getting new oversized 1300 pistons and reboring the block. you can run double head gaskets to bring the compression slightly back down so you dont blow it to bits. the only differnce between the 1600 and 1300 pistons is the bowl size im told, so by having a smaller bowl it cranks the compression

im not sure why its limited, guess they have to control it somehow haha. thats why the new focus puts out more KW than the new WRX's and that coz theres no limit that im aware of for uk cars. crazy law really haha.

the stroke on the 1300 escort motor is more square which makes it better than the 1600 but not more powerfull. its like its better for a 1300 than the 1600 is for a 1600 but the 1600 is still a lot more powerfull and unless your building a competion car that has a cc limit of 1300 then you are completly wasting your time with it.

the 1300 pistons can be put into the 1600 block and this raises the compression to 10.5 from memory, and you may have to run it with double head gaskets to aviod blowing your motor, unless your running it on race fuel, coz we all know NZ gets shitty B grade fuel.

if your gona port it yourself you have to make sure the exaust ports are bigger than the inlet ports, honestly your much better to take it to a machine shop and they will port it to match your manifolds.

those bullshit add's in performace car magazine can boast 20kw increase on wrx's by just adding an exaust because the factory manifolds have restrictor plates in them to stay under the kw limit they have on jap cars. so by puttin on a new exaust will increse them by that much, but obviously the old esky dosnt have restrictor plates so i wouldnt expect 20kw extra, but extractors are cheap and do make a differnce.

so i had a muck around with it, i ended up pulling the vacuum hose that goes from the carb to the dizzy off at the dizzy end and starting it... it went like normal. so i tied the hose in a knot and went for a drive,it went fine. so its obviously something to do with the vacuum pressure at the dizzy. does anyone have any idea what might be wrong here? or should i start looking for another dizzy? ... or just leave it tied in a knot. any advice would be a real help. cheers

Matt

so i went out this morning and tried to start it, it would hardly run at all. let out a massive backfire and big cloud of smoke... so i waited a minute and tried again, it farted and hissed and banged and backfired again.... i think i have one sick laser on my hands

cheers guys, i thought it might be a vacuum hose but they generally looked ok. hmm might have to swap them over and just hope it helps

hey guys

well as the title says my 81 laser is running like absolute shit. it kidna started happening gradually over a day. now it wont really idle and is running erally eradicly, i think it might be a problem somewhere with the fuel line or carbie? and advice would be great. cheers

i had the same problem on my esky. theres a little screw on the side of the dizzy, loosen this and turn the cap slightly then tighten it and take the car for a run, see if it still happens, keep turning the cap just slightly and see if it gets better or worse untill its sweet

yea you can. id goto http://www.burtonpower.com and get them to send you a free catalogue, there really good. but yea if your gona get side draughts, you really need extractors and ported head and that. ive spent over 3 grand on my motor now and its still not done... should have just got a SR20 or a rota. but yea just my 2 cents

i paid $400 for a set of twin 40 DCOE's off trade me and $300 for a brand new intake manifold from kelford, i havnt fitted them yet but i am told you might have to watch out for clearance of the dizzy if you use a small manifold, but if you get a new high rise one u should be sweet

an accord dizzy aye..... dunno if id feel right having honda parts under my bonnet heh heh. but cheers guys ill have a sus out

cheers guys, ill try have a look

hey im looking for a kit to replace the points system in my mk2 escort. 1600 crossflow. does anybody know where i might be able to get one? cheers

hey bro im in gizzy but i got mates in hamilton and would gladly come up and pay $100 for it. that would be awsome, let us know details man. cheers

ill take a sticker mate. how big are they by the way? if you wana make me a big front windscreen one id be happy to put it on