Jonny

Rotorua-Kaikohe SH1/SH27

Northland folk seem to drive at the speed of weed. =1/2 speed limit, careful of this go to pick up your phone and you would have almost crashed into them. Jafas can't merge and this creates half of aucklands traffic woes, the other half are cause by rubbernecks. Drive was just a hell of a long drive 16 hours return, car trailer up and extra car back down. Nice roads north of Auckland once you have worked off your 'Road rage' at about Warkworth, stupid town with one set of lights on the main road.

Haha how far north you go? When your in the wops its a minimum of 100km everywhere.

Genuine Lotus Mk1 Cortina up here, tis so sexy...

I'm keen as, mine got stolen

Running mine in on the road would be illegal cause its deregistered, would having it up on stands n revving it as if you were driving be sweet or do you need the weight of the car to load up the engine?

Think i'm gonna do it the way that link on the NZPC forums says to do it, makes sense to me, might wait a few weeks 'till i get my full, then tow it out to a back road and have a midnight fang to run it in. Just gotta try not get snapped, the small as town i live in is the cop HQ for the whole region.

Cheers dude, its a pinto btw sorry about not mentioning that, im running the same cam just with new bearings and cleaned up, what do you mean by prime, pour a bit of petrol in or what?

I dont have an engine reconditioner, so kinda out of the question, don't theres too many around here, cars not road legal so cant take it out for a cruise, driveways a couple of hundred metres long so can run it up and down that, ottherwise i can't really do much else.

At around 2000rpm?

Looking for do's and don'ts basically, should I hold it at revs or let it idle, got it in my mind that I'm meant to hold it around 2000rpm. So just let me know what works and what not to do.

Cheers Guys!!!!

THNX XOXOXO CYA!

So my 1600 mk3 Rad should cool the 2L that just went in?

Bangin' should have one sussed already

Fuck um, i cant remember think its a bluetop, not sure though.

Nar he doesn't have a sample, its for a 4age into a ke35, no slave cylinder came with the engine/box

Sweet trying to suss one now, they much heavier than the manual ones? to work out shipping etc

How did he mount them to the car i thought he just used them as spacers sort of?

That was for a Mk2 sport esky though.

Imageshacks working now...

Got carbs?

I take back what i said when you first asked about doing this, not too keen on the paint, not what i'd have done etc but you did it properly and did a fucking good job.

Got some pics, not great but best i could get atm

Bolt holes compared to gearbox mount

Mount on normal way, bolts are about 50mm off

Crossmember turned backwards makes bolt holes go too far the other way

Esky crossmember i was going to widen to use

Imageshack wont work so yer

Dropped the engine and box in today and found out that the g/box crossmember wont bolt up, if i can't suss it i'm going to have to mod an escort one to suit, anyone help me out here and what are the legalities of this? And do i have to change where my fuel line runs if its on the same side as the exhaust exit?

Got msn and ill send you pics of carbs?

Yeh my mate has titanium headers on his CRX, were bangin'

So mk2 brakes don't fit mk1 shocks? even van shocks as they're heavier duty? So i wouldn't be able to run mk1 van shocks with mk2 tophats/springs/brakes in a mk2?

Hoodride is a Euro Rat Rod pretty much