crazy_rich

yo dude, whats the 1600 like?

yeah, ya need to head south, as soon as you hit balclutha, it becomes black plate county. fuck i miss it.

^ right you are, it does have an L cast into it.

as thats the case I guess its useless to anyone, off to the scrappies with it.

Thanks for your help.

you should always blank out old fuel prices.

haha yes, back at school... gtx familias 1600 escorts ,2.0 litre cortinas and believe it or not sierras were the cool cars in our circle, guess thats where my one eyed ford thing came from, one guy had a v8 valiant, that was the shit. always had the daily line up of 3 escorts, a sierra, valiant, mini, austin 1300 and a bugeye 323 sitting out the front. yes it was a working class school and our parents were tight.

man, with those coupes and Johns ceddy, seems as though christchurch is home to some very rare dattos. sweet.

man thats an awesome car. good shit. cant help but think ive seen another one prowling round chch, white, driven by an old guy and often parked on bealy ave near the fitzgerald corner. could be slightly different though. stoked u saved it from being turned into a race hack.

having a go at collecting the complete escort range mate? good shit. looks like a sweet project, guess we'll see it goin in a few months? i've always liked escort wagons.

Sup guys, anyone able to tell me what this bolts up behind? came with my W57 G/box

Toyota "L" Series Diesel

can anyone else confirm its an L series one? wanna get rid of it.

capri's engine bay's are not as big as everyone thinks, especially mk1's with the boat hull valance cutting into valuable radiator space (not too sure about mk2's) you'd be cutting back the firewall or moving the front crossmember forward to fit any straight 6 in, and you'll have to watch plenum chambers hitting the brake booster with most modern turbo engines, because they are mounted far more inboard than most jappas. any engine you put in would need to have a rear sump as well, due to the steering rack being in front of the crossmember. all of those problems are easily rectified, but not if you're after a simple cheap conversion. vg30det gets my vote.

blasphemy! dont let Gaz hear of this plan .

yeah, ya wont have to spend 10 grand and 3 years fucking around getting it to that stage, and now its just the fun stuff to do. so long as your happy with the previous owners workmanship, or else you'll end out starting again anyway.

is it just me or is the steering column not straight/ been pushed to one side to fit the booster in? could just be the angle of the photo. looks like one of those cars you could be disappointed in how thing have been done once it arrives, I'd definitely get it checked out before saying yay.

if you do buy it i'd give you good money for the headlights (provided they are actually mk1 capri.

yeah im fairly sure its a standard toyota one, thought it might be of a g or s, m series, but as i know fuck all about these thought id get some advice, seems to be not as common as i thought?

Sup guys, anyone able to tell me what this bolts up behind? came with my W57 G/box

^^ lies.. all of it. fuck i've got one disjointed project thread haha. anyway, i decided to have a crack at a brake booster after all and by merging a liteace and capri pedalbox i reckon it'll work, this is as far as i got before the wire feed on my mig fucked out (thought buying a decent one would avoid that kind of thing.. looks like i was wrong )

its tighter than a nuns cunt up there, but she'll be right, just gotta pinch a oxy plant from somewhere so i can bend the pedals to the right place, no point having the stop pedal where the go pedal's meant to be, then i can try get a go pedal to work, looking at my corty i reckon one of those will do the job. I'll know in time. other than that i painted the inside, and the boot and pulled a nismo and baremetalled the underside. fuck knows why. never gonna do that again. so yeh, gona get my welder fixed, por15 the underside, paint the engine bay and start throwing the bitch together, getting fuckin sick of building this car.

yeh, this sucks. if they want me to make same noise as standard im fucked, if they want the same noise as a celsior im fucked too. (they so quiet) and i dont have squat all room under it for more mufflers, being such a small car and having a chassis kit taking up all the room. ah well. just wing it. could be worse, we could be doing up cars in austrailia.

looks like a strange cow

that is one slick stripe. just sending an email thru bout those lovures now.

wanna sell the lovures off it? guess it depends where u are, no point shipping them cos theyd get crushed. i paid 500 for a parts car in what sounds like similar condition to yours a few years ago. you are a bargain magnet.

shit mate i bet thats super sweet on gas. flintstones styles.

someone had to say it.

capri wars was Ky's idea(i think), theres quite a few capris in chch being built atm, we've gotta get together for a battle (if it ever happens)

ya reckon you'll have it up and running for south island capri wars?. if that ever actually happens... what are your plans for it? at that price its a steal no matter what the condition. good stuff.

lemme know if he wants to sell the louvers

get some hotwires = problem solved.