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    Nominal's Wooden (Wood knot) Cars

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    Assembled the lower door panels with only one major fuckup (will see how that crack in the outer ply skin goes in the future :doubt:)

    Going to do a bit differently and give it a couple or three coats of varnish assembled like this before they go back on the car.

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    Also welded up the loose hole (insert Al's mum joke here) and ground it round again ready to reassemble the suspension.

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    Discuss here about Yoeddynz's little Imp project...

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    27 minutes ago, yoeddynz said:

    Yeah the first lot of oil that goes through this engine will get dumped pretty quick, pretty much used as clean up purge :-D and then I'll decide on what goes in next. Opinions on oil via forums :lol: I think even oldschool has an old oil thread somewhere. The grandmaster thread is possibly the one on some ferrari forum I once found. 

    Used K11 juice should be perfect.

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    Another what car to buy thread

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    18 minutes ago, Rhyscar said:

    Great engine, pretty good cars. Based on IS 250/350 chassis. Back seat and driving position a little more compact than you'd like, but boot space is good. Can't buy a towbar for them either. Can be hard to find aftermarket wheels that clear brakes/offset if you were thinking of that. 

    Would you consider a V6 instead of a V8? I went for a 2012+ GS350 (especially F-sport) as it has a bigger interior, and does all the same sporty things (0-100 in 5.5sec, adaptive shocks, big brakes etc). 9L/100km on open road for non-hybrids. Hybrids get around 7ish? About 10-15k cheaper than ISF. 

     

    I do 30,000kms/year of work/travel/commuting and love it. Can fit the family on a trip away, tow a trailer and its stupid fast when you find a wiggly backroad. Win win. 

     

     

    Do the hybrids make much difference for open road trips? We are looking at moving so I expect to be up/down the island a bit while that gets worked out, then an eventual 150km round trip rural commute to H-town.

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    Nominal's Wooden (Wood knot) Cars

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    I need to give each coat a couple of days to dry now it is cooler.

    So, attacked the other leaf spring pivot bolt tonight.

    A bit loose in there, nearing Al's mum spec.

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    U-bolt might be hard to get off?

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    Nope.

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    The spring centre bolt had lost its nut somewhere along the way, so the lower leaves came apart.

    This side is only getting a clean and re-paint, no re-arching.

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