Mr.Mk1

Just ask a good panel or resto shop for some and give them $20/beer. I have had it in a 1.5L before from a supplier though. It's a wipe on clear substance that seals the bare steel from air,oils,light moisture and other bad stuff. Used to be Called Kephos 253

I found a wee tin scoop thing in the roof of the garage that might be an option for an aftermarket catcher?

What sicko bare-metals his skid car! Looks decent. No bags. Xo

Had to have been dropped. I've broken cams before (while wrecking engines for scrap) and it isn't that hard to do, just the right angle and they go ping. Dropped or shut in a door type action. Super lame. Otherwise great thread

Chased a diesel leak for a while. Thought it was the hose clamp, tweaked it, got worse, new clamp and worse again, replaced rubbers off tank, leaked, turns out a steel line had chaffed through on the chassis. Also slogged out the bonnet hinge holes to try get one side sitting down better, gave all the rivets a beating and tightened it up great. Not nice but it's better! Front gaps are fairly large. Gave it a big degrease and clean under the hood. Had to whip out a front shock as the bottom bush had walked out and the shock was rubbing on arm. Easy fix. Then got a new decent Fram air-hog air cleaner and moved it out into the open with two 90 degree joiners and 10in of down pipe. I liked how tucked away and tidy it used to be but ultimately not ideal. Has made a noticeable difference in pickup and pull around town.

Margarine works mint

Nice work! Does it have any form of tensioner on the drive belt? Ours seems quite loose so not sure if missing something/stretched/wrong belt

It's always shuddered on takeoff and since turbo went on it slips a bit when hard up it, so gave it a clutch kit this week.. Pulled it apart on Thursday so I could get the flywheel machined on Friday. Turns out its got a bloody Toyota box in it! A Steel case W5-something. It says Nissan 5-speed on the very plate but I suppose it dosent worry the cert guy a shit what it is. So I had to buy another clutch kit because the Toyota plate is obsolete. Goes again now

My wife got given one of these, real original but has a bung stator or something. Can provide help with anything other than that, haha. Internet has zilch info aye, it's shit.

Got her done over the labour weekend. When I was washing it before starting a big piece of roof lifted off, so that took a solid days worth to fix. Also popped the dents from the rear passenger door that have always been there. Picked a few scabs I shouldn't have but I'm happy with how it looks now. It was a bit of a squeeze in the garage but it was good to have cover.

There's a dedicated race car up north and another one in Chch that's been in the build for aaaaages. Has coupe tail lights and flares and a few other body mods, CA18 etc so far from standard.

If any space, wagon and Datsun are available? I vote Datsun as its tidy and shiny

Suckle upon a picture of the car since I added the filler panel between the bumper and grille and splash guards under the headlights. Dane the good cunt hooked me up these, but only one splash guard and it was rusty. I made another one from scratch and got it fairly close. Dick job but got it together just before the rain fell and daylight ran out. Shows how bent the bumper is and still won't bring the grille into spec because it's pot metal, cracked both sides and never going to be right but fuck it.. Front much more stable and a lot less gappy now. Been too rainy since to paint in anything but black zinc. Mint16 scored me a steering bearing from eBay cause I'm too scared to online purchase. It will eradicate the 360 deg Inch of slop I have with the wheel inside the column. Will be ultra lush. Bridflu has all shifter bushes on order so to make it magical feeling. I've made my own bushes but they fuck out fairly regularly because home made. Hoping to give it a QUICK flick of black before my wedding in a month but require my flatmate (not a mate, he's a scourge) to move out this week to free up space.

Since I'm still missing some front panels it tends to shake around a bit. Aced a few sealed beams in the time it's been alive. I was out a low and a hi when I got the Wof so he gave me the benefit of the doubt knowing I had a pile at work. So I converted to semi sealed dealies. I decided to cut costs, I'd do hibeams in semi and re-use the sealed. Then discovered the semis are a flat glass, mine were curved. So I used semis. Then a hi and an opposing low wouldn't locate into the buckets. So I delved into the parts box and found another 5 to choose from, wit associate chrome rings to suit as it all are the same... managed to sort it but running out of daylight. And one light had to sit 90 degree clocked to actually locate because the bucket was for the other side and I don't have time to mod it with hanmer cruise tomorrow. Adjusted them quickly against door and reassembled. Much more light so far. Also took my OLD pcv valve from catch can pipe and replaced with one from brake booster, and put a new one into fresh booster. Noticed the car was smoking a bit and hadn't before I did the initial swap around. Backed the brake pedal off too, as it seemed slower than usual (haha!) but more so between gears and I noticed the rotors were hotter than should be. Here's a dumb picture from stock so I don't get flack for picture less updates!

Brake booster failed a while back, still Driveable but was hunting for something else to rebuild while driving, then discovered the warrant was out so parked it, sent booster to safe-r-brakes and she came back mint! 2 day turnaround, not badly priced. Then clean sheeted a warrant today, so much wrapt. BRING ON HANMER!

Sweet, bring it to hanmer

Picture of fresh wheel setup. I knew new tyres leeched into white walls, but wow, quick! Looks nice and aged, not phased! Took the same pic on Tuesday and thought.. Shit that looks gay! Turns out the coil had popped out of perch and it was about 3in higher than usual! Rectified.

Still rollin coal like a Swiss watch. Since I lent it to the mrs for a month or two while I fixed and finished her car, she wiped all the while walls off on kerbs and stuff. Easy done. The tyres were blizzak snow tyres that came with the rims and I couldn't afford to change them. So when I needed to put new walls on I decided it was pointless putting them on those shitters so bit the bullet and got new 195/60s. The paint on the rims was pretty wasted too so I sandblasted them to get rid of any chance of solvent top (got lots previously) I sprayed two black to see how it looked but made it look rough as. Stole some Datsun red, tinted it dark with black. Sprayed rims black to help darken the end result, taped up and sprayed them this morning. Will whitewall on Tuesday. Looks soooo shit without them. Also painted the back blue again

Is that marcells old car? If so he's had it a looooong time and I know the owner prior to that too. Good car

Clear powdercoat on top of polish? I don't know the tech behind it but might be an option

Had car back for a week now, lobbed the restrictor fully and haven't had any issues, going strong. Today I did this It's oddly smooth, must need some duct tape added for grip!

I think the science lies in LD having higher oil pressure than the petrol the turbo was designed for, hence had more volume through snail. So by restricting it I've raised engine oil pressure for operation but limited the oil through turbo. Oil dumps above pan level cause it's all whipped up and shit. We shall see

I got paranoid with the mrs driving it so opened up the restrictor a bit more. Since I added a new, twice as thick walled turbo drain pipe at least if there's too much it will drain well. The old one may have kinked with heat.. Will return to this trial phase once I can swap cars back with her!

Autodec is sweet, got a set for my ponty earlier this year.

Went to the dump, recorded Daily weight, lol. Also put the new turbo on this afternoon. SUCCESS! I'm getting 6lb boost under acceleration and 2 cruising. I discovered the feed pipe wasn't sealed in properly too so will get a proper reading tomorrow if any different. Turbo is nice and spooly, oil restrictor is working well and very little excess smoke. I think the turbo I was borrowing was just flooded with oil and may have also had a dicky actuator. It never registered any boost. I tested the flow of the unrestricted feed and filled a spray can lid in 10seconds. The dump pipe and tailpipe are laden with nasty oily deposits.