mk5corty

bwahaha awesome, i drove my car up the road to my bros in similar condition, noo doors gaurds boot lid bonnet or lights or bumpers, got mad looks, beta than any skyiline eh BOE VTAK

shouldnt be any firewall chopping required, heard even clevos have been made to fit by modifying front grill, sides where the turrets are etc and firewall left intact.

theres a supposedly good 302 efi on tardme, for 1600.

Is air flow research still going, they used to make some of the best 302 heads in the world and they were in NZ.

Had a look at the victor junior stuff?

whats a high stall for you 3krpm?not gonna go 347 stroker?

If its flexible then paint will have a hard time sticking to it. Underseal is supposed to not set hard so it doesnt chip off, but mine i can just pick off with my finernail, a very hard push with my finger with leave slight marks in it. i think what your tring to acheive would look quite bad sorry, i reckon you get some spray putty, its thicker than filler primer but thinner than bog and spray that around you bog/welded areas the prime and paint. As for the boot, hippos bedliner would make a durable boot finish or if you dont need so durable, $50 got me primer and some quite hard but not for polishing paint that i sprayed my boot interior with.

lols, would prob feel gutted/shame or not.

/\ word. I have no problem with stock new cars.

classic car had a massive debate about this, while i would prefer a car not to be banger raced many are cars that people try to sell for a long time and noone except banger racers want to buy them. Therefore they give them a more 'dignified' end than simply rusting in a yard. Mk5 cortinas are prime for racing lol. The ones people just banger race because they dont like them/have too much money are the worst.

coupes significantly more expensive? there was a 351 clevo xc falcon sedan for 6g, the gt's and the xa's are alot more expensive. I dont want to put the 351 in the corty it doesnt fit very well, the 302 windsor fits better, but weight balance would be fucked and the mk5 isnt really a beautiful car lol its good but not great IMO, its still a possibilty but then i would need a new daily haha.

Im the opposite of you guys as far as panel work goes, my fav stuff, panelbeating and bogging and painting, sanding in tight spaces sucks cos the DA dont fit. Its the mechanicals im no good with, shoudl do a weekend swap or someshit, ill fix the dents, you fix the engine stz.

Another culture i hate is the people that ruin the oldschoolers, the ones that get an escort or the like and put 17inch vault chromes on it, then the usual ghey shit big bore etc, i HATE vault chromes.

And the 'rota eh' following but it;s been discussed many times.

And people that try complicated paintjobs with no skills, was in mitre 10 in waiuku and theres a cefiro outside with the worst attempt at custom paint i have ever seen, purple basecoat by the looks of things, red candy tints with some pearl in there, was all dry and unglossy, mad tigerstriping, runs, spots where massive amounts of pearl had accumualted, nearly went back into mitre 10 to buy some paint strippers, help this guy out.

I hate them all the more for being fast. Have a bet with my mate that by the end of uni i wont have a car that can beat a wrx sti in a 1/4mile for under $12,000 - the plan is a 351 clevo in an xc falcon coupe, keep the corty as my daily.

back on topic, those hyper tyres must make a killing on their weekly pay combos, seems every wanabe ricer i know is on that shit.

get tints chromes and springs for 40 bunga a week eah for like da rest of my life.

bwahah awesome story, heres one of my own.

I know a guy used to be my best mate, lets call him ricer.

I get my cortina for 100 bucks from relative, aws score. Obviously wasnt in that good a nick, ricer laughs at me, tells me i wasted my money on an old slow POS ( he hasnt got a car yet). Breaks into his 18th bday saving fund to get 3500 for a 1990 subaru legacy. Lets have a virtual look at it shall we, 198000km on a 2 litre engine, rev counter that dont work, speakers and headdeck broken, whole vinyl interior, dash, gearstick, seatbacks, has been sprayed red, WITH ORDINARY ENAMEL SPRAYCANS, 2 weeks later the stuff is still sticky as my undies at a muscle car show, has a trademe red chrome pod and the kit is fucked on the front where the old dude hit a rabbit. Loud as fuck trademe big bore, 6 inch exit pipe. One of those fake metal sticker things for filler cap, and the peice du resitance (sp?) the side skirts were those sqaured gutters, yeas actual gutters. Paintjob, badly prepped, (peeling in places, painted right over plastic trim, flaky pastry look stz, the paint is custom orange with all this pearl in it and fucken enough orange peel to fake the moon landing on.

AND HE CALLED MY CAR SHIT, oh my god what a heap, and im totally serious about it all.

my money is on the apprentice got told he had to loan his car cos they were all out lol.

Olds got a kingswood that was beaten as fuck, but ruthless, a nissan pulsar hatch with a massive cockroach that lurked where the seatbelts slide to..

Mums got a suzuki swift so it gets its services at continental car services so they taxi you round while your waiting. <--- service right there, not like shit ass ford dealers, but tahts another story...

bwahah most people in the shithole town of waiuku-south auckland. Are honda and skyline lovers, they all think their cars are 12 second or less. And they all talk so much goddam shit, ima have to slap them upside the head "bro my mates TEG bro, fuck it beats all the v8s and its go so much respect."

"I know this dude who put a turbo on his crx and did an 11 second pass on street tires, and he boosts 20psi on stock internals no problem"

" my mate just did up his skyline(gtst), pod, exhaust, upped the boost and chnaged the intercooler, now its got more than 300kw cant get traction in any gear even in top when he floors it at 100, and he does these mad drifts on the road all the time, got to 240kmh on the motorway last week"

no shit all these comments i have heard from retards i know. I get so worked up about this shit, they buy shit cars and always dream of a gtr skyline or a type r integra or a supra yet all there cars "go fucken hard eh". They all do the same shit mods, monster tacho, boost gauge, pod and a hoardy gay sounding big bore and some shit mags with a worse bodykit, this fuck was telling me not to spend money on my interior, to spend it on a big bore and mags because other people dont see my interior, fuck other people this is my car, bitch.

RICE i fucking hate rice.

/end rant.

Its on my list of things to do now lol got a fair bit of shit, the bane of old cars.

Was just thinking how much of a noob i am, i have had this car for ages, its my first only car and i have only ever driven it 500km total, spent too long fixing things never even got my restricted lol, now its in peices in my garage halfway through prep and with me going to wellington and it staying here it seems ill never get to drive it lol.

Anyways hit up the net and several radiator/cooling places and no warnings against the radiator rust eater stuff so i may go for that.

meh bit steep for what im looking for, have to pay $1520 for first quarter of halls of residence accomodation at wellington, me = poor.

Well wondering if somethings broken cos my gauge never gets past about 20% of heat even after a 45 minute peninsula targa style thrashing.

Stripping my car for paint at the mo and reckon 50% of the car has bog on it all has fucken rust underneath, nothing to heavy just enough to piss me off.

/\ murphy's law, tahts when ignition jams, key snaps lol, boom.

will have a looksie round the net then, really need a new radiator tho, half the fins are collapsed on mine.

Can i buy this kinda shit at repco, my coolant came out with a lot of rusty crap and was relatively brown looking for some rust eater/killer stuff to run through the system

thats how i do mine lol /\ then bung the hose in it. Then fire up the compressor blow some air through.

aws, ford ftmfw.

are you member of cortinaforums.com, think it used to be kenet. or something? I keep a watch on it, dude called JRW has an essex turbo on triple webbers.

heres the link for you

http://cortinaforums.com/forum/index.php?topic=11344.0

damn those colour chips, hopefully the clearcoat changes it a bit...

EDIT: bwahaha fixed by cleacoat.

49 bucks a corner, enduro on specials ftmfw. Bout the only way the corty is gonna lose traction is with the old 185's.

anyways im in the prep for its new re spray, this time ill do it right and not compound metallics, DUH!. will post pics asap, finally fixed the big ass hole in the side, found some unhardened bog a useless auckland panelbeater layed down, removed that and found the metal underneath covered in surface rust.

Big random crack running along front left quarter panel= rust undeneath bog and lots of bog. so far replaced 1lt of bog on the car lol.

Spent best part of a day removing cheap black autothane that polished up nice but turns to shit over a couple of weeks, DONT BUY AUTOTHANE in lacquer anyways, its shit, real shit, bird crap stains it, and even after a few months i could still leave a fingernail indent in it.

will post up pics asap, got 20L of thinners right here, bound to be illegal/fire danger.

maybe the ones at mitre 10 for like 30 or 40 bucks are cheapies then? i have gone through two of them in the last 6 months, pretty much did my whole rusty floorpan and various exterior bits,them little wires are fucken missiles when they come off tho, go straight through clothes, had a couple stuck in chest, hand etc.