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Rear rims look sweet, a set of -35's would go down a treat!

Edit: Rhyme was accidental.

Alcohol linked to fatal crash

Speed and alcohol were possible factors in a fatal car crash in Palmerston North that claimed the life of a teenager, police say.

Nathan Phillip Conlon, 17, from Feilding, died in Palmerston North hospital on Sunday night after the car he was travelling in crossed the centre line on John F Kennedy Dr and collided with an oncoming vehicle just before midnight on Saturday. The driver, an 18-year-old from Bunnythorpe, is recovering in Palmerston North Hospital.

Detective Senior Sergeant Craig Sheridan said Mr Conlon and the injured driver were travelling in a 1996 Nissan Silvia on a 50kmh stretch of road. "I understand that that vehicle has crossed the medium strip and collided with a Nissan Hilux which was travelling in the opposite direction.

"Speed is considered a factor in the crash and alcohol is also suspected."

The Hilux had five occupants. The 17-year-old driver suffered a broken wrist.

Police were investigating the accident, but a decision about possible charges could be weeks away.

Nissan Hilux?

Wow!

Thats a score no matter what. This shape?

Or is it more like this?

Previous owner had no idea what was in the car really, some of those specs are from previous owners and some are invented I think.

It's a T series rear end with floating axle setup, parallel 4 link mounts etc... I should probably edit that first post.

Hilux diff would be far too heavy .

What shocks did your old struts have in them? Looks like the big shaft bilsteins?

lol mean! This falls on the same weekend as a winter series round again... You guys should walk through the gates to say hi at testing.

Simon runs one in his ST140... it runs too cold.

hmm... my pad not available either.

I'll get my pad sussing book out.

Fuck.

Probably had my worst weekend at the track ever... Spent most of it doing something like this:

For starters the throttle link bar (with spring clips + ball joints) kept falling off on decel at a certain RPM... Tried to qualify, but it fell off and I watched from the lime road.

Race 1, thought I had fixed it... and it fell off just out of pit exit...

Race 2, was going to start off the back of the grid. Had lock wired the link on and all looked mint... car felt good on the slicks during warm up.... then got to the hairpin and *POOOOO* lost power and ran on 3 cylinders... New issue? WTF! Vaccum pipe had fallen off the back of the quads.... again, watched from the middle.

Started it up after being towed in and drove to my garage, seemed fine. then went to start it up again (after cable tying the vacuumm pipes on) and it idled ok... but give it some gas and *POO POO POO PUH POP Die* ... Kick wall...

Checkover wiring etc, alternator wire has fallen out of the plug.... Looks to be the charge light wire. twist together with the other wire and start.... Alternator light comes on. Not charging.

I know Link ECU's don't like having low voltage, so maybe it's been a problem for a while. The alternator light hadn't been coming on before start up (like it should, but I didn't notice) and the battery has been losing charge. I normally charge it before a race meet but didn't this time so the voltage may have finally got low enough to make it not run propperly.

Heres hoping that fixing the alternator and repairing the wiring will set it right! Might unlock more power with the added spark....

It WILL be ready for round 2 on the 28th

Went out for testing today... and did 2 runs.

After the first run I decided that it was unacceptably slow... so we set to find the problem. Suspected issues with the balance of the quads - checked it out and an adjustor bolt had fallen out. Put another one in and tried to balance them up. Cranked the idle down to nothing and closed all the valves.... Why is it still idling? On 1/2 cylinders... Spray brake cleaner at exhaust manifold *dies* . Theres the issue!

The intake manifold was cracked nearly all the way around runner number one! ohh noe! Pulled off and went back to Palmy (again) to get it welded up by a friendly engineer (Tony McConarchy aka - Mr Hayabusa starlet)... He did it for free and said he was glad to help. Stoked.

Picked up my slicks from mag and turb and went back to manfeild... by this time it's about 3pm. Damn - missed the last test session for Saloons. Poos.

Fitted the manifold and quads, re-balanced and put the slicks on the car. Managed to get out for 3 laps while the "sponsor rides" were going on. Couldn't see shit cause of sun strike and didn't manage to get the tyres up to temp but the engine felt better. Still slower than it used to be but better.

Upside is that it turns in now, so yay for that. Will fine tune the setup tomorrow.

Only pic from the day:

Edit: found another:

...the bain of any engine

Whats the oil like? And do you do much out of town driving? The oil could just be really thin, then get past your rings and poo up the plugs.

My bet would be to check for air leaks though. Does it only run shit when cold?

Same here. I'm impressed by pretty much everything you do. Move to palmy and be my engineer please?

Yeah might re-paint them one day... they're almost brand new so no sense in ruining the gold. They'll probably go gunmetal one day.

Everyone should get car trailers, tow their cars into the middle of town and do a skid on it. Doesn't damage property or put any (many?) people in danger....

Just had a fiddle in the dark... involving a torch, an open garage and 60 seconds. Then I was done.

Good to see it rolling again!!!!

L31 please, with 3 carbs and heaps of revs....

Yeah should be at taupo on the 21st (provided the tow car is going )... Looking forward to it! I've done track 2 in dads 86 road car but suspect this might be a bit different.

It's such a race car. "Took it out, something broke, fixed it. Took it out, something broke, fixed it" Good stuff man. Must be a blast to race.

^ Thats been my life for the last few months....

Phil - the wheels weren't 8's and 9's (they were 7.5's and 8.5's) and the offset wasn't as aggressive as claimed, plus they didn't clear the wilwoods. Didn't end too well...

Wondered if there was a discussion thread for this...

Very nice car man! Pretty much a perfect AE86 road car.

Not too sure about that either.

I'll get in touch with the person I know that re-studded a hilux diff and see what they did.

Will only ever get checked at the track, and they normally don't care too much unless it's not bolted in properly.

Just get a dry cell off spence and solve all your issues.

Oh, and the centres will still come out of those ones. They weld the 2 bands together on SSR's... but just get whole new bands made up, or machine the weld off and use the factory inner band + new outer bands.

^^^ Yeah get those.

What PCD are 6 stud ones? I think someone told me 6 are easier to re-stud but never done it.

Yeah man just get any 15" 2 or 3 piece wheels and get bands made to suit. Will work out about the same price as new sportmax's for a set if you find the right engineer, and the right donor centers.