RUNAMUCK

when did you invert your car????

I have to post this here!

Wicked pics and vid mate!

I heard that laurel was doing 9's. no idea what it's running under the bonnet, but I did see a 9" diff under the back of it.

CUL8er (our tame tyre fitter) works at firestone on blenheim rd. He mite be able to fit them. he did fit a stupidly narrow tyre for another member here.

Fuck that's a nice looking car.

And one day it will be mine! But for the mean time, I get the thrash it, while someone else pays for the upkeep/repairs.

EDIT,

I havn't looked at much of videos yet but added one online of many of the cars that showed.

Online where mate?

I've never actually seen a 60 series four speed in the flesh. (Apart from the column change vannette ones)

Cheers for the pic mate!

I went and spoke to the old boy between runs, and he was amping up with ways to make it run faster. Looks like a slipery diff, lower gearing and maybe some better rubber is on the cards.

In the NZ hobb by car technical manual, it has a table with cars weight, horsepower, and reccommended (or required?) brake sizes. If I wasn't so useless, Id go look it up, but I'm too tired tonight. If clint doesn't reply by tommorrow, I might go look it up for you.

man what a long day!

I went to the tui rock box last night, and got pretty hammered. So I wasn't in great shape today.

Managed to get six runs in, in my dads car, but I fucked three of them up pretty bad. one staging foul, (maybe a tree problem?) and two huge traction fails. (peeled out to almost 1/2 track)

The other three runs were 15.055, 15.057, and 15.078. Mean consistancey right there. Shame it wasn't DYO format!

on that subject, I was thinking today,

If you aren't allowed to have removeable baffles so you can be a noisy cunt after getting a wof, how do people get on who have removable blank off plates for open dump pipes on cars used fo drag racing?

are wheel spacers max width 27mm?

yes,sort of. wheel adaptors (bolt on to hub type with another set of studs in adaptor to secure wheel) are 27 max, wheel spacers (slip on type, original studs secure wheel) max is 20mm.

Oh crap. I know of a family member who rolls on wider (Bolt on) spacers than that with no cert............

Is 27mm still the max even if the spacers are fully hub centric? (Rim and hub)

Haha, nah he just pretends to advise now/buggers back off to the warmth of the couch... Whilst I get covered in the self lubricated goodness..

You forget to mention the real reason I try stay indoors. (Speights)

sold! to cUl8er.

I'm having a dung out, and have a swag of old tyre tubes to get rid of. Id say they'll be mostly 12's 13's and 14's.

First in 1st served or I dump them. Must take the lot.

does it run yet?

good things take time aye, man this car is gonna be sick as!

simon?

The bits of paper cert are actually declaration certificates.

They declare that the car was modified before the law requiring cert for modd'd cars came into force. I had a dirty old RX3 coupe which had a declaration certificate. (That car was dodgey as hell too) Cops used to hate it when they'd pull me over and ask for my cert, and I'd hand them that form. They'd be like oh, whats this? Then okay, on your way then.

That's some blood curdling rust you got there mate. No reason to relent though. You don't see many E's, F's, or G's nowdays, much less VIP's. This is one build thread I'll be watching.

looks like you had stunning weather for it!

I really feel sorry for the poor cunt with the anglia. It's one thing to ruin your ride through your own shortcomings, but when it happens through causes beyond your control, well that really is a shit sandwhich.

I raced at the motueka air strip there once, do you still have to drive through the water trough before each run? I didn't like not beoing able to drive around it when I ran there, but that was 10-11 years ago. (I think)

Shit, you'd be beaming with that trap speed mate!

TBH, I'm a litle suprised at you 60ft time. I had thought you might have been a whisker quicker out of the hole. Out of curiousity, what is you PB 60ft time?

Your now comfortably able to run a full second quicker than my comfortable best time. (Excluding those freak days when everyone runs stupidly fast) Looks like I got some work to do to catch up to ya!

heaven forbid you should ever switch to a spool, and some DOT slicks. You'd be way way way out of reach then. As things are I still hold a glimmer of hope of catching up to you. (One day )

parts like that are ussually, availble new from the dealer.

They were all the rage back in the 90's, I don't think I've even seen one since the 90's actually.

Basically it needs more Mopar in the engine bay.

'Nuff said!

I've convinced a few others to show again, I'll be there in the wag, sedan not complete yet

bet Barts happy about that mate. The sedan not being complete that is..