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This thing is so, so good man, great work. Love it!

@Corbie Belt Tech re-webbing was $180 per belt. Adding drop hangers was an additional 30 bucks each. $15 for shipping, handling, admin etc. Plus GST.

Bang on 5 hundo all up.

He replaced the internals of the shagged retractors for free as he had suitable spare bits on hand and is a good bugger.

Just to close this off — I got my seatbelts back from Belt Tech NZ and re-fitted them. They look great and work far better than they ever did before. In the end they were rewebbed, both retractors repaired, and 150mm drop links added. Getting the drop links ordered in added a couple of days but all up it only took a week. Quality seems top notch and they are much more comfortable/less likely to decapitate now, with the drop links. Very helpful, very easy service. Would recommend.

These guys are looking good so far https://www.belttech.co.nz/ they are one of the NZTA approved repairers from the link @Raizer posted. Very quick to respond and helpful on the phone. Sounds like they can turn around quickly too, which is a bonus.

Most places seem to be certified to either re-web or repair components like retractors, but not to create a more or less new set up — ideally what I want is a new retractor and to add a drop link (which the current belt does not have), with the existing buckles. They can do all this, with the existing buckles (as long as there are no problems with them, once they have been inspected) and the price seems very reasonable to me, so winning all around.

I'll send them off and let you know how it goes.

Has anyone had their old seatbelts refurbed? Is that even a thing? The retractor on one side is not great and the webbing, while still pretty good is not perfect. The tricky thing is that I would like to keep the existing buckles as they fit into a buckle holder in the centre console, are appropriately cool and oldschool and are still in top notch condition. Is it possible to get new belts made using the existing buckle hardware? Or is my only option gross new plastic ones? Churs

What a sweet-as car, well built and loads of cool touches.

Even though they are only the cert/WOF wheels I reckon those XR-4s look great, suit it really well. Always nice to have options for changing things about too.

Good work!

I'm looking to buy a pair of tyres to complete a set but am having real trouble finding anything in the same size.

The current tyres are Achilles ATR-K economist 165/50/R14

These seem to be pretty much the only brand of tyres I can find in this size and they seem to be sold out everywhere.

Anybody have a suggestion for an equivalent? Or a friendly tyre supplier that might be able to import some?

I don't really have the budget to bin the perfectly good tyres and buy a full set in a different size.

Cheers

Sweet as, cheers @cletus

d'oh new page.

Took the car for it's cert today. No issues with the suspension, so all good there, pretty stoked. I really recommend Racelign, they have done a great job and everything seems very high quality.

There are a couple of other little things to take care of though: fan needs a shroud or cover of some kind, so now would be a good time to finally ditch it and get an electric replacement. Steering wheel needs different bolts, the supplied ones are no good. Easy peasy. The real bummer is that getting whitewalls painted on counts as a modification to the tyres, which is a no-no, so those fail. I'll have to either buy a full new set of tyres for the 13s or finish refurbing the 14s, get a couple of new tyres for those and get it complied with those wheels instead. I can always get it complied for the other wheels later, if I can find some affordable whitewall tyres. I guess flappers could be an option too? but I think those are mostly only really wide/full wall white. Not really keen on plain balloony black tyres.

Definitely @dabuzz, I'd like to get a set of factory steelies widened out as much as poss, keeping the centre caps and trim rings for a kind of factory+ look.

Saw this parked outside the sparky's on the way home tonight. Looks so fucking good.

Been driving lots. It's such a little car, it really looks tiny when parked next to even 'small' modern cars. Sailed through the warrant the other day, all good.

I also got another set of wheels, Enkei Mosports. Bigger diameter (14x6) with lower profile tyres = huge guard gap. I will give them a good polish up and 2 could do with new tyres, hopefully with some increased lowness they should look pretty good.

I'm on the look out for another, single wheel in the same size (doesn't have to be a Mosport, because what are the chances of that) so I can have a spare wheel with the same rolling diameter, just in case.

I've been driving the GTO a lot lately. Small tweaks to idle speed have made it a bit more manageable and I'm getting used to the hair-trigger throttle. Still stall a bit when low speed manoeuvring, so ideally the tune still needs some attention.

I was in the Ellerslie Car Show a couple weeks back, along with 4 other GTOs

Yeah, that would be awesome @DriveBy Cheers.

On 25/12/2020 at 08:37, dwlee said:

Looking good with the stripe. What do you want to do with the suspension? Just lower it a bit, replace bushings and shocks or are you wanting to go it further?

Yeah, a bit more than that I reckon @dwlee – the ideal plan is: reset the leaves, then fine tune height in the rear with blocks (looks like you can't actually take much out of the leaves as they are a pretty shallow curve as it is). Then get coilover struts made up for the front. And yeah, replace all the bushes and so on at the same time too.

Stripes back on. Should go much faster now.

I'm only about 80% happy with them. They are quite a bit wider than the original, even though I gave them very precise measurements. The shape is mostly good, but not totally right and they have heaps of tiny air bubbles in them. Apparently, those should 'just go away' so we'll see.

I think it does look better than without anything though.

I've also been trying to find someone to sort the suspension but I seem to be having a hard time trying to get someone to take my money. It appears that if it's not an off-the-shelf job or a full air suspension build no one is interested. Two shops have said it's too hard basket, one doesn't reply to enquiries and the other originally said they could do it but then wouldn't give a price or time to do it and haven't replied to any follow up contact in the last few weeks. So if anyone has recommendations for good suspension shops for oldschool cars in Auckland, let me know.