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+ rear windscreen now with new seal.

Been staring at this in the shed for way too long so thinking about thinking about working on it. Question is, can I be bothered with the old 18rgeu? I have another 4age blacktop under the bench I am sure would suit really well, easy to wire and good EFI. Thoughts 18rgeu vs blacktop? All I would need for the blacktop would be a w55 to 4age bell-housing i think, plus would have to make a sump and mounts etc etc.

Sold and on-wards and upwards.

More assembly stuff done. Front screen back in, PITA of a job, especially putting the chrome strips back in. Saw some re manufactured seals from Thailand on ebay, so have to wait for the rear window to seal to arrive. Interior is mostly there now. The headlining I made turned out really well, just need to tweek the tension a bit more to get ride of some wrinkles. Made all the pillar pieces. Not sure what I am going to do about recovering the sun visors tho, as they factory method is some sort of heat sealed edge. That and I forgot to mark the holes for the screws for them so will need to do some braille to get them in the correct spot.

Bit more assembly and underlay making. PITA cutting the underlay bit for the tunnel. Will cut transmission hole after welding up the old side exit shifter position and getting some sort of boot. Put all the chrome work on the back end.

Bit of interior reassembly. Putting new carpet in makes such a huge difference.

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Standard Interior, not to shabby for 33 years old

Engine Rebuilt original 4k Engine by Car Aid Christchurch · F29 Cam 236/248 @ 0.050” · Heavy Duty Valve Springs and seats Kelfords · Ported Head, oversized valves, de-shrouded, port matched etc. Flow Charts Available. Impressive figures. · Knife Edged Crank · Lightened flywheel · Fully balanced bottom end · All new dual row timing chain guides etc · Deck block · New pistons · ACL bearings Engine Accessories · Link Storm ECU, wiring and tuning by NZEFi · Quad throttle bodies running stepper model idle control with airbox and trumpets · 4-2-1 Race extractors with heat wrap lagging · Custom Fuel System with Walbro in-tank pump inside surge tank, feed by original pump · Custom 4 channel ignitor with dwell indication · Individual coil per cylinder with crank wheel trigger wheel

Thought here would be a good place to start about my KP61 which I have had for about 15 years. I am not sure how much longer my road with this project will be but for now here is the summary of where its at. Lots of cool stuff done to it over the years and lots of lessons. I starlet writing this as a for sale add (which ultimately it will be) but then realized it would be cool to capture somewhere the work that has gone into this little beastie. Hope this is appropriate. Discuss

It had a severe case of cancer and was beyond hope, it really surprised me how a car with around 130 thou had rotted so badly.

I did a manual conversion in one years ago and found one that suits at a van wreckers from some random hiace or liteace van. required the back flange swapped so could change centre bearings and was good to go.

haha. yes it has been some time. I think it may be a few more years, but at least giving it a good push at the moment. Last drive was a blat around the block with the 18rg back in 2002 I think.

So starting doing some piecing back together. Got all the side glass and trim on. Put new glass channel seals in and replaced the front door seals with rare spares items. This has lead to a drama of realigning the doors to no avail. I think the factory seals change profile a few times along them, Cleaned up the door cards. Cleaning vinyl is a bitch. Found from some other american forum that simple green concentrate is the biz and it certainly seams to be. Also found good old carb cleaner is a miracle cleaning also for some of the gooey stains. Taped up all the holes. Undecided about what to do about the seats as the top of the back seat is split, but the rest is good.

in 2002 when i did the 18rg conversion, the 18rg was still kinda cool, but it sure is a big donk. A blacktop would probably make more power too.