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I'll slice the 2 sets of guards in half, at around the middle of the wheel arch, weld the back half of the chevette one to the front of the gemini one. They're the same shape right up until the front. Here are a couple of pics from a while ago, they show the brackets i've made, which are now welded to the nosecone. They bolt through to the inner guards in 8 places each side, and the nuts are welded to the under side of the inner arches. Big panel washers on the upper side aswell. The other benefit of doing this is that the nose is marginally adjustable aswell, for setting panel gaps etc....

http://yellow.co.nz/search.ds?newSearch ... rch=Search hmmmmmmm.... any further details on where this beasty could be located? I'm thinking a long easter weekend mission could be on the cards.

How man wreckers can there be in Oamaru, right? Heh. I shall try and give them a call tomorrow and get someone to tell me if the front of the guards are okay... If they are, they're mine. Im sick and fucking tired of searching! Cheers boe

Believe it or not, i have actually been working on this thing... The front is all modded now with brackets so it bolts on and off, will make fitting a nice engine very easy. Im getting into the rest of the body work now, and it turns out my front guards are just way to rotten . I've put up threads on here and GMT looking for some new ones, but there dosen't seem to be much out there... Please, oh gods of the internet, find me some guards!

Vision plus do put out more light than their bluevision bulbs however, and that white look just aint right on old school cars i rekon. .

Put Phillips Visionplus, or Narva Plus50 bulbs in it. 50% more light, same heat, completly legal.

I used repco 15w40, drove it normally but not overly hard for 500k's or so. Gave it death after that .

Iver talked to a couple of mechanics at work, and they just say that 4g mitsies just have super hard bores and are a bitch no matter what you do. I havent had any problems with the 2 i've slapped together, and they were just a re-hone and re-ring job.

The kits off trademe usually have an alloy threaded tube do they not? I've always wondered how people get on with attaching these to steel struts. Some of them come with a sponge or rubber sleave that fits between the strut and threaded tube, and grub screws in the threaded tube you tighten up onto the strut, exactly like fitting a shitty aftermarket gear-knob to the shift-lever. That just seems dodgy as fuck to me... Better way of doing it with alloy threaded tubes?

Damn fricken straight! Needs some slightly flared guards and hellishly wide wheels also .

Show some love fellas, we're all t-car fans here! You wanna know what it really is? fucking purdy, thats what it is, chur.

After heaps and heaps (actually none whatsoever) of measuring and calculating, I hacked into the front of the chevette with the grinder. The Gemini inner guards are quite a bit shorter, so I cut the chevette ones to match. I wasen't exactly sure where to slice them, as I had nothing to measure off with the gemini being all cut up, so I took an educated guess and hoped for the best. It seems to have worked out reasonably nicely, as the first trial fitment went really well I bolted the guards on with the one hole along the top that lined up, right at the back, and set the panel gap to the windscreen panel, then took all the measurements off that. The front panel bolts to front of the guards, so that was easy to locate. After having a squiz, my educated guess wasent too far off, deinfalty workable Then I had to throw in the headlights and grille for a bit of inspiration, should look horny .

Bugger, that was quick! Nah, alas, would have paid that for it tho, the front guards would have been handy to chop up. Right, works done for the day, out to the garage i go!

The last bottle of tequila from our last transaction was the cause of quite a few dramas, was brilliant . I rekon I'll hang on to that front for a while tho man, i intend to have a chevette hatch all pimped out one day in the distant future, i rekon it could actually look pretty mean with the right wheels and some guard mods. The front inner gaurds on chevettes and gemini's are a bit different it turns out, but nothing majour. I'll most the side indicators from where they are tho, probably go to some round ones further back the guard.

Things have gotten way out of hand... Turns out my chevette nosecone was pretty banged up, and kinda rusty to boot, so it got the flick, im sure from the pictures you can guess my intentions however, should be cool. Gemini front guards are pretty rotten along the bottoms, but i can stitch the front of some chevette ones on to solve that. Gem front i just whacked off with the engle grinder, hot knife through butter. Chevette front i was a little more surgical with. Pretty much everything i should need i rekon. All the suspension arms waiting for me to sandblast, so they can be painted and have their sexy new nolathane installed. As an aside, CRC's Zinc-It range of paints are fucking amazing on bare metal, their Black Zinc somes out nice and semi-gloss, easy as hell to get smooth, and does not come off, at all, period. Minter!

Holy crap, thats just freaking awesome, sex on wheels right there. Hats off to you good sir!

Will Definatly look fantastic lowered. Im interested as to why it rides so high in the front at the moment tho? Its all stock right? You havent had the bottom control arms off perchance have you?

R100, you, me, manbabies, now. Mmmmmkay?

Cimmeron, or something like that. That was what the factoy orange on the EX's, and i would assume thats what the CM in your paint code stands for, as my old lancer had a PM paint code, for Phamtom Mist.

Well, i've been a bit busy of late, new-girlfriend syndrome means less progess on the car than i'd like, and near-constant tiredness... Ahhh, well. Anyway, In the interim i've started fixing up the few patches on the body than needed attention. There was a bit of filler falling out of the roof, so i ground that out and fixed it up properly. I also had a guards rolled, as a mate does it as a business and owed me a favour . The guard rollers arent really meant to pump out the arches at all, but i had him try just a little. It came out really really well actually, nice and subtle, but will look horny on some wide rims. This ofcourse involves stripping the paint off the arches and filling them smooth again... Its a bit of work, but will be well worth it i think. I started fitting the nolathane bushes in also. I've got a spare front sub-frame all disassembled ready for sandbalsting, but i though i'd chuck some bushes in the rear trailing arms, just to see what they fit like. The kit i bought is actually for a gemini, but everything seems to be the same. Just imagine the rear arms a perfect smooth satin black, should look the goods!

Current aim is the g161 from the gemini 'round the back... Eventual goal is an N/A quad cam VG30. Ive got a spare chevette diff, they're definatly heavier than 30kg i rekon, needs 2 people to move around easily, but then again i am a weak nerdy cunt . I'm thinking commonwhore stuff mught be the go, to be honest im not to worried about having drums on the back still, just as long as the diff isnt going to snap on me . But untill i break what is in there, not going to do a damn thing! Cheers all for you input.

Piazza? Where? When? Hookups!

Right, i've been thinking about diff options for my wagon. I've only ever dickied around with IRS setups before, so solid axels are new territory to me. My specific question goes to the function of a torque tube on the chevette. As far as I can figure out in my head, its there to stop the whole diff twisting as a reaction force to the wheels gripping the road. This is why when Zep put a hilux diff in his Gemini he had a ladder bar made, as it replaces the torque tube the hilux diff is lacking? Im confused and bamboozed.

Your car gives my pretty serious wood man. LUB IT! Your a fucking legend for doing such a huge mish and getting it going on time, its the damn fairy-tale story of car modi-fly-cation .

The name Andrew Watson really does ring a bell, but i cant place it... Quite possibly im thinking of a different Watson however... Elementary. Ahhh, i finally understand how a Mk5 Cotry can be of use to me.... Go check where your fuel return line runs back into the tank! .