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I believe drop spindles started from the next shape - '85 onwards. There may be a way to convert by swapping balljoints/tierods to suit the later spindle but that would be getting into design approval territory with geometry changes I would think.

Like I said on the Mtnz page, pie-cutting the upper arm has always been a thing, but I havn't had to get any through cert for many years, so unsure what the reinforcement criteria would be nowadays. 

If you want to Pm me I can dig out some pics of how its done. Even if you just do it for now to get you laying so you can build the bag mounts, then figure out the legalities later on down the track. 

18 minutes ago, cletus said:

The one with the red circles is the original one that I failed for poor casting 

 

The original pic is of a replacement upright that "is definitely not welded" 

 

Everyone I have shown the pic to says its welded 

I, 100% think it's welded based on what I can see in the pic  

 

 

The guy maintains its fine and just looks like that because he scotchbrited it 

 

 

Unfortunately because it's a cast suspension part, welding = no Bueno 

 

It looks pretty obviously welded judging by the different shades.

You could polish it which would make it even more obvious. Like 1500/2000g then a foam pad with polishing compound.

Or request a hardness test on that area vs the area surrounding it. Welded area will most likely be way off unless they have matched filler rod to parent metal but even then I'd say hardness would be different. 

Sort of depends what state you plan to try cert it in. Are you sealing all the underside/inside areas that have had body modifications/rust repairs or just leaving that til it goes to paint?

Colour won't matter but any body areas that have had work done will need to be sealed properly to prevent corrosion to be signed off. 

So underbody priming/seam sealing/top coating etc. Same with inside/exterior.

I have done full dry fits/mock ups of cars mostly in bare steel or primed but not seam sealed before and got them running/driving and had cert 'progress inspections' done but havn't been completely signed off until the car is blown apart, sent to paint, sealed up and reassembled properly so a final inspection can be done. 

1 hour ago, Early jap nuter said:

What schools that? That wag lives down the rd from my place in te atatu. It’s bad as

Fwoar, want!

On 01/12/2023 at 17:20, Kerry-TGI said:

In a new development, I went to a brake specialist this afternoon and he had a look under the ute and found that there is a valve there. He saids it's an unusual type for them to have, with a ball inside it or something. He reckons it will be seized up and could be reconditioned.

It happens on the factory wheels too. My old one did the same. Yea it for sure needs fixed I just got used to not slamming them.

A common way to solve the harsh rear braking once a ute with a lspv has been lowered is to bend the rod that goes between the valve and the axle. You just reshape it to be more like stock so the valve isn't as open as it currently is. 

Could try Ken @ KW Historics in East Tamaki.

And another....

Quite possibly the coolest dumb thing I've seen in a while. 1kz swapped batty.

@square would be into this...

In another attempt to get myself banned....

13 hours ago, oldrx7 said:

Modular Monday

 

Got that fixed up and through the cert process many moons ago before it went south.

Was a pretty sweet wagon. 

Love the battery operated boring bar there.

Have just been going through those cam/crank sensor questions myself. 

@vk327 informed me yes to run full sequential ignition and injection you will need a cam angle sensor. 

Another issue I see, is how can it be proven the bullbar is non-oem or a not factory fitted option?

I'd be surprised if cops/wof inspectors had an approved list with pics and info, and then to go a step furthur are police/wof inspectors going to have issues with pre '99 non-frontal impact vehicles because they don't fully know the rules?

Don't get me wrong, I think a bunch of shiny mall crawler 2wd utes with winch bars that are only held on by a few 10mm fasteners is pretty lame, but seems like it may not have been thought out too well and unfortunatly Lvvta will probably bare the brunt of it. 

Nzta's argument of airbag safety kind of goes out the window a bit when theres still a loophole of a ~9+ year period where vehicles newer than March '99 but 14 years or more older can have steering wheel airbag deleted...

With or without a bullbar drivers probably going to have a bad day. 

A post on the Unofficial Cert disaster advice fb page, and some cracker replys.

Some guys just swap the calipers side to side, and run them upside down so the long bolt is away from obstacles.

Bleed nip will be on bottom so will have to roll the ute on its roof to bleed them, or could remove, put a block of wood between and bleed up the correct way. 

I wasn't aware of thickness differences to be honest. Could be a year thing or maybe petrol vs diesel. 

Bit of a shit end to a good weekend, but fuckin hell that could have been gnarly so good thing those ears of yours work well. 

Looking forward to it!

9.5sec 1/4, 30psi, 800hp 1jz

If the injectors are cc'd to e85, do you think there will be an issue running 98 through them, in terms of getting too much fuel?

Bugger, Ok thanks, owner should have done more research before buying the more expensive parts aimed at sequential inj/ig. Will do some investigation into cam trigger without the vct unit attached and see what we can come up with.

A few of us did try talk him out of e85 because of the added problems surrounding it and that fact hes limited to max 10:1 compression but he rekons most of the competitive cars are running it so wants to be a sheep. Will try push for dynoing both e85 ad pump 98 to see what difference there is.

Yes we will be fitting a ethanol content sensor inline and have pushed for him to run a wideband o2 fulltime for safety which he wasnt planning to do as not many other cars do apparantly. 

Thanks for heads up about the polarity.  

Currently involved in a Stockcar re-build and need some wisdom in regards to the importance of a cam angle sensor...

The engine is a 6cyl Falcon AU3 VCT but its had the VCT parts removed and a blanking cover fitted as per class rules. 

We are mocking up a new loom for the current setup which runs a Link G4 Storm ecu, which has 8 injector and 8 coil drives available. It has 6x individual Ls1 style coils setup. We have an aftermarket crank trigger wheel which does all the firing/juicing but are wondering that if we don't run a cam angle sensor, will we only be capable of batch fire injection or semi-sequential instead of full sequential?

Is this true or does it depend on the trigger wheel and ecu map? As far as we know, none of the other efi engines in this class run a cam angle sensor.

We have converted to e85, and think the current fuel tank volume may be on the limit for the added fuel usage so any fuel wastage may be an issue, albiet we don't know how much wastage there might be between the 2 so may be overthinking it.

Efi has only been allowed for 1 season so alot of the speedway engine builders are still pretty secretive about how they set things up. Our sparky is going to power up the ecu which was supplied by an engine builder who said he has put a startup map on it, so we will see if that gives away any secrets on how the injection is setup, but I figured I may as well ask here too. 

Cheers

Should send an Invoice to supplier for the diagnosing labour. 

Sounds like his recent youtube stardom and increased content creation in addition to that 20b is causing some issues in the neighbourhood. 3am towstarts are wearing thin on the locals I guess.

Yeh theres a few Surfs that have been done, but not many other makes.

I put a customers surf through cert with Mark Stokes many years ago. We got it through as a modified production chassis as I found some literature that 2wd surfs were a thing overseas...

I've also seen a Surf that was certed as a 'ute to station wagon conversion' which I thought was a bit odd.

There were a couple of bagged Proceeds getting done but I believe one got binned and the chassis got put under some yank truck. Another old customer has the old 'punish' bagged isuzu frame that got shortened for a Mu conversion but I doubt anything will happen with it.

I don't actually know of any Nissan swaps getting done currently though. Theres a few older builds kicking around. I did have a terrano body 15 years ago that I started prepping to swap onto my old ca18det Nav chassis but I ended up parting it out.

Pretty good that Lvvta have relaxed the rules on those kinda swaps though. 

Is it spinning fast enough to throw little electric people where they need to go?

ie; pulley sizing correct for idle speed of crank pulley diam?