Mr.Mk1

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I WORKED ON IT! Couple of days saw some progress. It’s more just re-doing and finishing what had been started ages ago but I’ll call it progress for mental health reasons! Circa 2008 I wanted to strengthen it up as much as I easily could (Rollcage will mess with the ascetic I’m aiming for but might be a thing depending how deep I get into Motorsport events?) so I seam welded everything I could reach and drilled plug holes between the spot welds in all the window/door/screen pinch welds. Perhaps me, perhaps the welder didn’t like Schmutz between the layers; it welded fucking horribly. I postponed that shit and this weekend was when it was revisited. Now all the holes had surface rust in them and around them, joy. I whizzed a drill bit in each one to clean up the edge then pushed the car out and spot sandblasted each hole and orange bit as well. Fizzed them all up without much fuss this time and ground them all back, wire wheeled and got some aerosol etch on the bare steel + the back side. Also hammered any heavier pitting with the wheel and got some brunox on there..fantastic stuff. I also zipped up the holes and slots in the rear parcel tray I don’t need and wheeled/ground/sanding-belted MANY other areas I’d uncovered ages ago and let get crusty, especially in engine bay. *PSA go flick some spare paint on any bare bits of your project or parts cars. It will save you or the next guy so much fuckery in the future. Shit eats even in dry storage Few more seams got stitched up..dash to A-pillar top and bottom, rear parcel to C-pillar top and bottom for instance I’m having a CUNT of a time with Imgur lately, so sorry if the pics won’t show in the post

2 sets have some up in the whole time I’ve looked. One set I missed out on and the others had like 6 previous plates against them and smelled fishy. This way it’s stays a 1969, and all the money saved on reg wof cert insurance repair cert etc etc can be spent on shiny and fast bits instead!

I dare say I’ll be hassling you for help in the future!

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Fooo Palmside is a danger zone! Came away with: Bonnet rest rubbers Headlight Bowl gaskets Fibreglass front lip spoiler Boot rubber Door rubbers Outer Window seals 1/4 Window seals Rear side glass rubbers Door hinge pins and an ‘ah fuck it’ luxury purchase of full Mexico front guards. Ive had since ages ago, some well made weld-in steel flares to attach to Standard guards (mine are pretty rough to be fair) ..and I also got expensive Fibreglass ones years ago too. Instant regret when they arrived with no mounting flanges (or filler panel down the A pillar) other than the one you see when you pop the bonnet. WTF Ive since learned fibreglass tends to keep moving then degrades and I can’t have that under lovely paint on something as obvious as the front guards so I flogged them on trademe last week and recovered about half the Owage which was cool. I was looking at my standard guards and they need all the flanges remade to attach to car as they were spot welds drilled. There’s old repairs to re-do along the pillar and bottom, the front edges are so thin they have split and the general shape is hours away from coming back so I picked up my balls and biffed them in the naughty corner. https://imgur.com/a/1iAMu1m Everyone watching probably already knows, but the RS/Mexico/Sport arch is maybe an inch wider and 2.5ish higher towards the midline than standard. Watch this momentous purchase backfire as future me cuts the guards to get wide wheels under with max slam.. Present me Wishes to utilise tyre stretch and camber to achieve this

Have spent some time on research and made some lists.. ticked some things off a list! Have a cart full on the palmside website. Spotted a mate selling the near new Bosch ‘1000’ injectors from his CA setup so grabbed those for a good deal. Complete with the CA adaptor cups. Best deal on a Link monsoon was Simon at Surfab so swung in tonight and copped one. Honestly probably have him wire it all up to be fair. Great work, a link agent and has done mad numbers of engine swaps..Said he has some adjustable cam gears spare as well. Had a dig in the spare room last night and organised all the bits I’d bagged and tagged 20 years back, bit of a stocktake if you like. Plenty to clean up and re-furb..can be fun wee jobs when I remember. Motor is at the shop too.

Heeeey, Used up a bunch of my lunch scrolling to find this thread again but now she’s be back on the first page and I hope to keep it there as I get back into this unit. It’s been in my old flats garage the whole time nice and dry. I brought a house and sold the house and the escort never made it there! I did say a few times we should dig It out of the back corner of the very hectic shed but nothing happened. Well I moved house and have sold the Coronet so have adopted my mates C10 skyline to finish restoring and try get on the road. There were heaps of parts in that garage behind the escort so with a cleanish schedule I dragged it all home. Have been moving every weekend for ages but hankering to have everything in one spot! Thought wheelbarrowing it would be easier but brakes seized so engine crane it was. The skyline needed an engine. Its factory L20 but has a mostly built L31 stroker with all the fruit. We decided to keep it original to get it over the line then add the cool stuff. So 20 was dragged out of garden shed and onto a stand, sump and mounts swapped, clutch added and then into the engine bay so I had space to get the escort inside as with my daily. Shit yarn but explains why everything is a mess and I’m trying to slot stuff into skyline asap to make some space. Have engaged Glen Durie to build the CA18DET as he’s done a few fast ones and knows tricks to help them oil and stay together. He was chokka but will drop it all off next week. Have been looking into cam and crank trigger kits on Ross balancer, ECU etc.

I’ve been paid in full, and it’s heading to Southland to hang out with a bunch of other cool Mopars! Thanks for all the support and motivation; for serious, this is an awesome club to be a part of. Tune in for more as I dust off my Escort and get it out of storage shortly. It’s been pushed to the back of the line SO many times in the 21 years I’ve had it, enough is enough!

Amayama would be my pick for bushes. I modified some to fit my coupe but that was only possible because I worked in a shop that sold suspension parts at the time.

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You sir, are a gentleman of the highest order! Thanks heaps for that, I’ll attack it tomorrow with new energy. It’s a pretty funny wee van that I brought cheap pulled down for rust and paint.. did those in short order and whacked on some aliexpress motorhome graphics and some hoarded banners from work then did some camping and sightseeing missions..just sucks pouring fuel through it.

Hey homies, I’ve got an old Townace that’s got a haunted carb. it came with a 28/36 DCD2 Weber in decent order so ive rammed that on this afternoon. It fired right up but it’s revving its tits off and all adjustments are set generically. The idle screw isn’t yet touching. I don’t need a choke, and I’ve found that putting my finger over these holes, it brings revs right down to an acceptable idle speed. Has anyone assholed the choke setup? Can I just seal these holes with a wee block off plate? About to do 600k open road mission so any advice on what the specific holes are for or how I can lock/block the choke would be much appreciated! Despite being a super common carb I can’t find the info I want..

Cats out of the bag now!

Not that I should have to make this post, but accordingly I need to clarify. Im not being made to sell, I dont need to sell. But I am, on my own accord, selling and moving on to the next thing. I tend to change cars every 3-4 years anyway. I lost my secure parking at work and that soured me the most as I’d always planned to drive the shit out of it.. I dont go anywhere in the weekend so it couldn’t be a weekend cruiser. Things have changed and it’s no longer a practical vehicle to own. Money in the bank is something I’ve never had, and if met with an opportunity, I’ll be in a position to pounce. I achieved my goal.

Just listed it on trademe yesterday, free selling!

Bloke up north had a fair few of the bits I needed so slid him some cash.

Only thing I have worth plenty. Don’t know how much will come out of the house sale these days and cost of small-time setting up again.

I finally got around to replacing the rear wheel bearings and seals as there was a bit of a noise from the rear. Still a noise so probably just the big ass tyres whirring away. The axles are mint as (bearing rides on the shaft. Prone to wear) and honestly so were the OE bearings and seals lol. I added a few brake hardware bits/springs. Kit I got wasn’t completely identical but the vital ones were. I also flipped the front spring hanger which drops it 40mm +. They have uneven studs so slot the holes each way and bolt back in! The oil pressure sender has failed and sends oil out through the terminal and down the bellhousing.. I have another due any moment. It’s going really well and kick-down not too bad! Last outing it got plenty of hammer down and it was great. Thank you for following along folks, it will soon be on Trademe

So when the mk3 Zephyr v8 project fizzled, the hunt was on for a rat rod body. She works at a V8 shop so we tend to hang out with older gents and the lively ones have rats & traditional hot rods that mostly cruise around the shows or let rip at private paddock racing and dirt track events which is our speed too! Half of the affordable bodies and projects on the market were rubbish on ute chassis, 4drs or British. My one stipulation was that it had to be of American lineage.. a real hot rod! Then this came up on TM, dollar reserve or something silly. The owner used to have Moorehouse Muscle Cars so he knew what’s up, but had decided to liquidate and concentrate on a couple of cars. The fact is was complete, going and local was huge for us, and for me.. Flathead Ford! I went and had a look one lunchtime and it had a good vibe. It was built by all the well known rodders in the area in 2006 for the upcoming Muscle Car Madness show but sat for the last 10+ years. The bidding got a bit furious and double what it had been sitting at for a week, but she got it for 12.5! The bloke said when building it, they stopped counting at $25k! Plates are dead but we got the ownership papers from the 70s! - cab stretched 6in so fatties can fit in - engine from 37 Tudor, 24 stud - rad and grille from 37 pickup - V8 3 speed and diff - leather re-used from 39 ford seat - trued ‘35 wire wheels (went through 30 odd rims to make a perfect set!) - 39 Ford front end, 30 Model A chassis - hydraulic brakes - 12ft aerial with flags - exhausts & RR shocks off a Harley - lots of funky old accessories, gauges work and good oil pressure. It fires right up with a tiny amount of choke (a push- pull from an aeroplane) and rumbles away like a fucking champ. It’s like driving a farm implement, way back to basics! The steering box had so much slop it was using both lanes so that got replaced! Means we had to run a different steering wheel, it’s off an old speedboat. It had no brakes when we got it. I tried to save it ( new master cyl) but it wouldn’t pump up. Its mounted below the cylinders so I had to make a sealed raised bleeder thing. Didn’t work, pulled it apart and found it hadn’t aged well just sitting. Got another and started getting somewhere but still fuck all pedal. They don’t have an oil filter so I got some flash Penrith shelley mineral oil made just for these old donkeys. once I finally got the huge 2in hex sump bung off, felt about an inch of sludge in the sump! Couldn’t put my flash oil on top of that so off came the sump. These things are simple as, but there bloody awkward and tight to work on. Foul words were said. Sump gaskets were almost fossilised but there was a swapmeet that weekend and managed to find a gasket and seal set! All back together and it was time for its first outing, Rust n Dust! We’ve been for a few years but never drove the track. A-framed out behind the XD, we had a fucking ball! Did everything it should, no damage and drove up the driveway afterwards. The brake pedal came right after some use too! Has been in Petrolhead and NZ Hotrod mags June/july! The community are great and always willing to help. The grille proportions are off and we picked up a factory grille shell but it’s tiny so we’d have to do a new radiator. I’ll trim are re-position the grill shell with the smaller radiator so we can chop and change styles. She wants it lower, which isn’t as easy as cutting springs.. but its really handy not having to be careful, plus Irishman’s rally requires some clearance.. pipe dream but would be a fun trip. The exhausts are a bit wack so some headers will make their way on when we find some Its Running 12v coil and bulbs but 6v generator so doesn’t charge..might pick up a later 12v setup one day but probably not.. dont drive at night!

Well, this didn’t pan out. We picked up the motor and trans and discovered it wasnt a 289 & C4, but a big standard single barrel 302 and FMX which sucked. sucked harder when we pulled the heads off and found 3 different pistons, signs of heavy detonation the melted edges off pistons, and a fucking great hole into the water jacket on one cylinder.. yikes. Pulled the pants off and saw bore skirts broken off 2 cylinders, some rod ends were double-nutted. Holy Dooley. It was running its standard bearings though! We believe it blew up, they tried their best to get it going again on the cheap and it did for a moment, then the hole punch occurred. The seller gave most of the money back but she was a bit over the project by then and wanted a rat rod instead. The car sold for what it owed us and became the new owners 29th zephyr he’s had..She’s in Southland now! Sorry to disappoint, will make up for it xo

Didn't need it, but too cheap & enough of it left, to leave it where it was. Dead reg NZ new 1955 Chevrolet, 6 cylinder manual. Probably equates to a 210 model offshore. The last rego label reads 1979, was a donor for a 57 being put back on the road since the 90s. The door cards, rear plate, air cleaner and gearbox are in the boot. The floors are poked, as are some corners, sills and roof. Nothing horrendous. Under all the shite there are GM rubber floor mats which will have accelerated the rot. My brother reckons he has a freshly rebuilt Blueflame 6 he inherited from a job years ago so thats what shall power it. Plan is to just source all the missing parts and make the exterior look complete, make it start and stop. In the meantime it’s garden art! Have scored tail light surrounds, front and rear badges and surrounds, some interior trim and a front flasher we weren’t missing but the guy didn’t want. Ive got a few things on, so while it’s hard.. I’m trying to keep it at arms length. Some cool rubbish found so far: