i kick myself every day (not really) for buying a new high end hf/dc inverter machine instead of a machine liek this and now i cant justify to myself to own 2 tigs
but hey, i can go weld stainless handrails toghter onsite in supermarkets in awkward starting positions
and thats really useful
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if u have access to 3 phase get a sub 1000$ 1970s miller dial arc acdc/hf/foot pedal/watercooled torch
i dont know how true this is but aparasntly normally house power stz is every 4th house is on the same phas sro so if u run extension lead from eaither side of your neighrboes and use the phase from each 1 u have 3 phase then u can rock a sweet pov machine???
ask a crooked electricisan
i jusrt had a flashback
when i picked up ur wangon for roadtriop we just said goodbye to you and were dropping manu back to his floatcrib and the brakes locked on at the end of ur bus works road and we were stuck for a while wondering what to do then it started moving
again
mabey disconnect your brakes and check your economy again to rule that out?
just do what ever the australians do, there rotarys are faster then ours, there all simple big turbo setups,
theres a guy on here who im suprised hasnt spoken up? ?
im after some super strong hubs before i go down the awd custom axles path
i dont know if they actually make these but i would love some if i could get them (ill explain at the bottom)
if i could get hubs that had a flange to bolt a cv to on the inboard side, (like how they are at the diff end)
it would mean i could use some oem axles and just make adaptor plates on both sides to suit length and pcd
and that would be just lovely
- dave
just put oil pressure and oil temp and rpm cut outs and override switches in and dont have any dials
fuck it makes life so great
looking at dials ftl
datalog on raceday with laptop taped to seat/surely the link would do onboard logging you can view later like even crappy old microtecs do?
also pretty mich just get the latest motor you can even if it is a low c.r
most of the cheap ones on trademe have gay ropeseal crank seals and rotten cooling passages and stuff
i ptetty much just brought rebuilt unused heads and rocker shafts and shit as they came up on trademe and put one togther
with brand new/as new everything for like 1500 bucks , (all that shit comes up real often) theres not many parts to a rover v8.
cool enough with just a mild cam and near stock shit
sound very cool reliable etc
but $ for $ beyond that unless you go crazy / work in machine shop and have a background in engine building
pretty much all the other v8s would be a better choice if you were doing a conversion
i.e. factory standard nissan or toyota v8
but thats not to say there not cool in their own way
theres often toyota adaptor plate/bellhousing everything u need type sdetups on trademe
i only skim read this but i noticed u thought u had hydraluics problems and used a jack to move the fork
which is fine just know if you push it to far it will re-engage
with some heavy guess deduction
make 2 plates one 3/4" and one 3/8"
put the thick one under the side with the nuts thin one other side
use current blocks
win
notice use of imperial spacers for your imperial england car
same boat, due to fucked/eratic work/job situation i wont be going to the hop untill friday afternoon so i would be keen to come have some beers in h town "on the way"
trevor morris website has the dimensions & pipe sizes & locations of pretty much every radiator ever made so you can go get a 2nd hand one / what i did