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A light body embiggens the smallest HP number. I took a guy for a ride in my 1200 once. Drove it like I was trying to break it. (As was the fashion at the time) he was quite surprised how well it went. I asked him, how many HP do you think this car makes? He replied, ah, gotta be like 300? Nah bro, try 124........... Much like a number of the other followers of this thread, I see vitz/echo/yaris/clavia every day in traffic, and day dream about wasting time, money, and motivation that I'm never going to have to follow in your footsteps.........

I upgraded to 3/8, (including tank pick up) with a holley blue pump and the problems I was experiencing went away.

We're meeting at mine a bit after 8am. Heading to Ivan Miller's around 25 past. Then leaving Ivan's with a Big pack (talking to him today he thinks 80 bikes) at 9am to The Princess Margret Hospital. Anybody is welcome to join us. Message me for the address if you need.

One of those fuel flow pumps (in 1/4 6mm) couldn't flow enough fuel to feed my "mostly stock" (wink face) A15.

That usually blows out the top of the piston.

How does the extra rake effect handling?

As I'm sure both @Vintage Grumble and @DRAD1Stylez will attest, the NBC110 is the greatest motorcycle ever built. Not crazy fast. But they do what they say on the tin.

Not automotive, But logfire/solid fuel burner question. Do you reckon running my log fire on fast fuel (ultra dry untreated pine) and leaving the door cracked a bee's dick so it burns mega hot and fast will damage my flue? I'm pretty much done with the fire for the season. But I'd like to do a real hot burn to clean any deposits from the flue. It often gets turned way down (somebody might have removed the travel stop to completely shut the air off) before bed. So I wanna burn it clean before I give it its final clean for the summer. I've also got a wee pile of scraggly shit left over which I'd rather burn now than try to store for the summer. Would a sustained really hot fast burn run the risk of damaging the flue, or nah? With the door cracked, it really roars. I'm also going to replace all the fire bricks, and the door seal too. Next year will be a fresh start.

Did the vans offer a tacho? Most British tachos were inductive loop type.

It's done now, but how fast did you run the drill when honing the block? Everyone seems to go too fast, which results in a too horizontal hone pattern. (Verses the 60° hone pattern which is ideal) If you watch a video of a Sunnen honing machine in action, the rotational speed compared to the up and down motion is a lot slower than the your average drill at full jandal. A pneumatic drill with the reg turned right down is a great way to sustain a lower honing speed

The RPM air gap sits the air cleaner very close to the bonnet in an A body too.

Turbo LS swap in 3, 2, 1..........

I would say yes. It fitted in a VF valiant. You've gotta have much more clearance being a C body. They're not a high rise like a tunnel ram.

Google says it's a Weiand 7503. One of them will transform you car.

There was a factory dual quad manifold on the tard for months on end about 20 years ago. (Bit of a ling post, but there is at least one in NZ) Weiand also made a really really nice "high rise" 4bbl manifold too. Dad imported one in the mid 90s when he ran a poly engine in his VF hard top. I believe they're NLA. But if I find my old catalog, I could probably find the part number to aid in your search. I still remember the name of the guy we sold the engine to. (He had a few mopars) this manifold really brought the engine to life. I believe those manifolds are now quite sought after in the US too. Poly engines have a bit of a cult following. (But when engine doesn't have weirdos who love them?)

Lot Of Trouble Usually Serious

^Virgil Exner designed some out there boy shapes. Back when style took precedent over ergonomics and aerodynamics.

Earlier this week, I adjusted the rear brakes up, and adjusted the handbrake. I'm still not 100% happy with the pedal feel. But I'll give the cunt another bleed once the engine runs/there's vacuum on the booster. Moved on the the kick panels. They were more or less intact. The passengers side had a wee bit broken off. I reinforced it with 3m aluminium foil tape, (I have done some unbelievably whorey shit with that stuff in the past) and glued the join with arelditie. The driver's side in particular was pretty worn from year of the driver getting in and out. I cut some whole where the speaker pockets are forward of the A pillar. Then bought some self adhesive vinyl off ali. Unfortunately the "don't care, no responsibility" approach of China post saw is creased. And the lines are still visible. I scuffed up what remained of the original paint. And decreased it with prepsol. Traced a larger outline and cut it out. And it turned out okay. Is it perfect? Hell no. Do I care? Also hell no. I think this stuff is meant for doing furniture repairs. It's quite stretchy. And while I dunno how UV stable it is, I think you could easily use it on a motorbike seat. Pics.

I got the fuel tank back from being cleaned out. Three days sitting filled with some caustic solution. And a day and a half after that filled with citric acid. (Apparently the citric acid neutralizes the caustic) It's a fuckton cleaner inside than it was. Unfortunately looking inside I've spotted two small holes. The galv coating on the outside has been fretted off by the tank strap. This combined with probably some road dust accumulation has resulted in a bit of corrosion. It's likely fume free now, so won't be too hard to fizz up. I'm also going to change the fuel pick up. But I'll do a more in-depth post about that another time. Here's a shitty photo. (Just in case you have a burning desire to know what a valiant fuel tank looks like)

Back in the 80s dad worked at a place that owned a fleet of 6cyl holden utes. (Dad reckons they were unreliable trash,) one of them had a 202 black motor that threw a rod/punched a hole in the block. They found some clever welding outfit who glued the block back together. (I would presume the bore would have needed a sleeve)

Nice one brother! Welcome to the oldschool family! I'm fucking stoked that this car is in Christchurch! My grandad owned a '59 belvedere new. (My dad still speaks about how epic it was) an absolute menace like @Carsnz123 might know a bit about the mopar side valve engines. I'd be pretty keen to come see it some time.

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