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The sad part is, I know a guy who's dumped a few Bare LD blocks too. Stripped them to send the crankshaft to the USA. Pretty sure -i1500GT- has a few unknown condition (not running) engines

Cough, chem-i-weld, cough

Aliexpress has a cornucopia of AN goodness on offer. I can't tell the difference between my aerofast parts, and the Aliexpress ones. (Stand by for a me crying post when I install them, and they leak like a bullet riddled seive)

There will be an entourage leaving my house on the day, and heading to Ivan Miller's house. (He gets a healthy muster) from where we'll ride to PMH for the main meet up. You're more than welcome to tag along with us. /or not. Entirely up to you.

The way cars like this were built, they probably blew it on straight over the top of flash rust on the panel steel too.

Most likely, yes.

Yes. It will absorb the abrasion of the blasting media. When I had a new front welded on my ute, the blaster wouldn't touch it until it had had the sealer removed.

Push come shove, Since you don't have any time pressure, Park it in the naughty corner untill you can muster the fucks to tackle it.

Probably because it looks so hangi. If you do get it sandblasted, remove the body sealer first. The nature of old school body sealer, it really absorbs/dampens the abrasividisity of the blasting media. My sandblasting guy tells people to remove it first, or else he'll be there all day. Put the fucker up on body stands. Put on a pair of overalls, a backwards baseball cap, glasses and a p2 mask. Roll under there on a creeper, and nail it with a wire brush twisted knot cut wheel in a 125mm grinder. Shit will go everywhere. (Hence why you want to wear reasonable PPE) once the bituminous sealer gets old (as I presume yours is) it eventually goes hard. So the cup wheel will scrub it off with the utmost malice. Pus some beers in the fridge for when your done. In fact you'll need a shower beer, because the uncovered part of your face will resemble a Victorian era coal miner......

With a 4 speed auto (with overdrive) they love a 4.1:1 rear end. The old boy put a Toyota MS65 crown diff in the back of his XD ute. (We still have one in stock ackshully) I think you under estimate how easily you could supercharge one. Plus because it will run full boost 24/7 (Because no throttle body) there will be no black smoke at any time. (Unlike turbo ones, which chooch all of the soot until the turbo spools up) Like I say, a bit of Indoctrination from me, and I'm sure you'll come around to my way of thinking!

Since you're a boost fiend at heart, I should bring over some drinks some time after the engine is in the car, and brainwash you as to why this vehicle absolutely needs an Eaton M90. Also how eye wateringly easy one would be to fit........ Beddies do nothing for me tbh. (British cars in general) but an LD28s plus boost are a match made in heaven.

The "best name" in electroplating for car stuff in NZ seems to be Shiney bits in Geraldine. When @datto_610 worked at Christchurch metal refinishers, (Oh how i miss him working there! But im quite sure he doesent) he otfen saw parts coming in to be plated which had been polished. He said of all of them Gary from Able metal polishers stuff was the very best. (The man with a black face, because polishing is such dirty work) I'd always planned to use him to have my tridens shined up. But a good few years back, I'd heard he'd left Christchurch, to go work at Shiney Bits. Yes there's quite some skill to high quality electroplating. But like spray painting an ultra high gloss metallic colour onto a car body, the end result is only as good as the prep work. A good few years back Dad sent a huge box of jewelry off his yank mopars down there to get done. Some of it was irreplaceable. And was badly corroded pot metal/die cast. They filled all the pits, and really did make a silk perse from a sows ear. (At a co$t!) I'd give them a call if I were you.

I've seen it done to change the pcd from early to late valiant. Is it legal? The owner doesn't care.

Make trebuchet great again!

Bit late to the party, but get this shared on classic cars and wrecks of new zealand. That page has had great success in the past