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huge fan of your work mate, follow your blog alot. keep it up!

at this stage me and a few friends maybe some ladies, will be coming if mates 323 gets all legal.

damn you cunts make this sound good! will have to try get mate with wagon keen, maybe bring ute if legal, fill as much space with double brown maybe the odd chair and pillow. my kind of fun!

hey, oh yeh good shit! thanks for the hand. did the 3 break aswell? keen as for some drift days! i'm not actually sure on how i'm guna fit the sway bar, i have a spare from an FC rx7 but havent even but it in place to see how it might line up. EURON8, yeh man feel free to come for a looksy.

I guess the car is ready to drift but might needa up skill my driving! need to get to one of those drift days at meremere, nothing like seat time. apparently the handbrake master cylinder is from a hillman imp if anyone is looking for one. also I could make a few and sell them if anyone is interested, let me know. thanks for the compliments to guys.

also got these stickers made up that i designed, for the cars I build and cars I work on. didn't do to well at powercruise either, entered the burnouts and blew both axels. ohwell lasted about 3 years which is decent for the abuse its had.

So worked all week night and day to get the corolla done for powercruise and decided this was a good idea Was gutted ran outa paint half way thru painting the roof so this is as far as I got, and so much for white is more of a cream. may prove a cunt when it comes to getting more paint few weld shots of the half cage finished handbrake, works a treat to! racey exhaust haha. for the track only, is rediculous loud! extractors I had to make for the change to 12a couple of shots from powercruise people took

shit son! that is BOSS!

yeah just kep the leaves and going to fit a rear swaybar.

you're dead right on the cost! its unreal the money you can save if you have the gear and skill to make stuff. i'll have to get back to you on what the master is off but anything old that has single circuit brakes and a remote resevoir (so both holes take fittings) should do the trick. trailer master cylinders would work to i guess if you tap out the fitting but I didnt look into it.

discuss as you please.

Finally got some pictures of what i've been up to, pretty guttef as most of the build up pictures where lost when i lost my ipod but heres a few anyway. shortened castor arms Lengthened LCA's 20mm coilovers modified strut tops 12A instead of the 10A hand brake and gearstick setup half cage I built, has been built to motorsport specs so I can later add on to build a full cage hydraulic hand brake I made. After having an attempt at drifting and loving it but the car not handling to well I decided the car was pretty hopeless as a streetcar so why not do some better mods and have a decent crack at getting it sideways. Really what to fit sum wide alloys aswell but finding some is more of the problem

oh and for the people wondering, the 10a was pulled out because the water seals were blown and the gearbox needed a rebuild so i decided if i put a 12a in it i can sell it at some stage and still keep the little 10a for a more appropriate chassis at some stage.

no pics as I lost my ipod which id been taking all my shed photos on. but corolla is now sporting a 12a bridgeport as i scored it cheap from a mate who crashed his immaculate van into a black cow! extended the LCA's by 20mm, have used evo 4 tein coil overs to make some nice struts for it. fitting a rear sway bar. building a half cage and then hopefully paint! the plan is to have it all going for powercruise. would also love to get rid of the modgies for some nice small wide alloys but dont really have the money for a good set, they will do for now with a paint up. will try get some pics ASAP

bit of a no pic update. was getting close to getting this thing done but engine has one hell of a rattle/bearing noise, kinda lost the motivation on it so went back to another one of my projects. will be back at this soon. need to update the front drums to disks and still to finish off the tray and wiring. might just go do a burnout and (try) kill it then buy another engine haha. only problem is as i'm aware being a s1 manual v6 it needs to be replaced with the same or use a flywheel adaptor i think.

thanks boys! always good to here people like ya work!

mean, went for a very short burn today, still straight piped, wheels spins with very little effort. guna be fun! no vid tho sorry guys as I had no one to film.

so chur, ute runs, hopefully test drive tomorrow and will upload some pics and vid. sorry didn't make it to the horopito cruise, ended up getting to pull apart a 20b (stoked!) and scoring a 626 for a drift car I've got planned.

will get a bit of an update on the ute soon as, our internet is over usage and on dial up speed now so utter bullshit for uploading

oh shit yes! I'm in Ohakune so will be hell keen to meet up at horopito, and also do enjoy OTP good fun. with any luck the b1600 will be going to.

Just for AL

cheers for the feedback fellas! silly thing was a never took pics as I was building things as when ever I made something I would never have the camera handy. but, was fairly straight forward, the bottom arms had the whole spring cup cut out and replace with a flat 4mm? plate with the mounting hole drilled. top arm was pie cut as the ball joints were just starting to bind up with big tyres and full drop. the entire spring cup and shock mount on the chassis was removed and replace with a piece of channel on the correct angle to make the bag sit flat when deflated and then an external shock mount had to be made because the shock could no longer go between the spring. EDIT: shit i lied just looked through my photos after writing this and found a pic so i'll put it into the build thread

i really wanted a hand painted workshop style logo but had these stickers already so they will do for now, at least you can read it, no?

So, bit of progress on the old ute. had it already to start then turns out engine was seized in the bore, tried tow starting it but way to light in the rear. anyway thought flag that idea so bought a 3800 series 1 buick engine (sorry for stealing the idea jase) and 5 speed for 800. have it all mounted, almost all the wiring done (not in the piks), drive shaft is done fuels lines almost finished. the nicely painted chassis is now all covered in over spray and matt black from changing the mounts, doh! just need to finish off the extractors and then the exhaust and sort a radiator (hilux diesel looks good). was all coming together untill now as its in storage and i'm in canada for the winter skiing and driving snow groomers. looking forward to getting back to get it on the road.