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Sweet!

cool . Yeah text me. I'll certainly be taking the viva down but alas truck wont be road legal. It costs to much to keep on the road if its not getting used. If we do another run to kaikoura next winter (best time to park up on the coast in a a copy house i reckon) then a meet must be organised!

Sweet- will do.

Always love these cars in white. Glad its still getting love and attention. I have grown to like the original series 2 rx7 alloys (13"?) withthe rims super polished and then clean black paint on the centre. edit; I forgot this is a series 3 with 114pcd. Hows about modgies..... (runs and hides.... )

Sweet! More the merrier! I reckon its gonna have to be after new years as all my weekends seem to be busy till then. Looking forwards to it though!

Sweet- well there's one I'm sure triumph man in Mot will be keen?

Hi all in Nelson area and Blenheim too. Who's about in Nelson etc and who's keen on a run to Kaikoura sometime soon? I was thinking a drive to Kaikoura for a saturday night BBQ at a beach. Take tents. Get the Christchurch boys to come up and meet for beers. Return Sunday. Would go via Blenheim so anyone there can join the convoy. No date set but was thinking either early December mid January? Any other ideas on local runs for Nelson peeps put here too. A good run would be over the hill to Takaka. alex

sweet! i'll keep you in mind. I'm still busy building a little workshop in between now working part time at stewart cycles (now avanti plus...yuck...)

cheers dude. We must get a nelson oldschool meet together eh! And i'm thinking a run from here to kaikoura to meet up with the chch boys.

Been driving the Viva about today and then this afternoon Hannah and I had a play with the carb to see if we could get it to stop bogging down at low revs. I thought it might be a touch lean and with the SU carb lifting pin pushed up it would die. Ended up turning the mixture screw 3/4 in. At this point when the pin was lifted up the revs would rise and then settle. Sweet I thought. But boy it was rcih and smokey out the exhaust and the wideband gauge was showing 11.1! With the timing light in place I checked it and it was bang on... but thats with it idling at 1000 rpm not the 800 it should be checked at.... Hmmmm:doubt: That 200 rpm was enough to fool me to thinking the timing was right but in fact it was actually set fairly retarded. I advanced it to where it should be at 1000 and then backed out the mixture to where it was orginally. Now with the lifting pin lifted it rises in revs then steadys out but with out the headache inducing cloud of unburnt fuel out back! Even better is I can stab the throttle hard down to the floor and it picks up sweet with just a teeny tiny hint of hesitation SU carbs usually give. I think the damper oil is about right. It certainly doesn't splutter and die now. I put the tools away and shot off down the road for a test drive. Wow- loads better. More responsive and no bogging! In third at fairly low revs I can floor it and it has that slight turbo lag delay then the turbo starts spooling up and the bonnet rises as it picks up sooo much harder then it used too in third. I can now pull away through intersections in 3rd rather than dropping it to 2nd every time. The stock standard old Mazda engine mounts are too soft and the engine rocks when coming down to idle which cant be helping the poor old carb float in its chamber. I've found some new Rover V8 ones that'll do the job and hold it steady. Will buy em next week. Much happier with it all now!

Yeah do that man. Get photos up- your little Anglia is a perfect example of a classic oldschool boyracer car, like what our dads would have built when they were young. And what's your name btw?

Took the Viva along on a Vauxhall run with some other Vaux fans here in Nelson. Went out to a beach and had a BBQ in the sunshine. Was very nice indeed. I swapped drives with Andre so I could try out his GT too. That was nice. It makes proper 'big engine with sidedraft carb' sounds! Photos missing...again.. damnyou imageshack. My Viva went really well and performed well for much fast ragging about while taking out others for drives. Doesn't seem to be using any oil but I'll keep a watch on it. I also went to the Nelson hotrod club annual swapmeet. Scored some really nice jump leads for a fiver! Oh and an old Australian 'Fast fours and rotaries' magazine from 1992 with some cool old conversions including a VW combi van with a 13B Mazda rotary slung out back. I love old magazines like that!

ahhhhh Benny Hill. Such simple fun

Ha ha. I'll get Hannah to wear a really short nurses uniform and I'll chase her around in the Viva to Benny hill tune....

Yeah I double checked and then triple checked the clearance of my phone to car interface. I also did a run over my phone with it facing the other way but it kept falling over. I wanted to link the two vids so it would be car going over from front then the shot of it disappearing into the distance. I'll get more vids sometime. So crap though that the car looks really slow. Its not a rocket ship but is faster than it looks. Maybe I'll speed the vids up....

I've used stainless steel dishwashing pads when making my own mufflers to good effect. The courser stuff. Never burnt out and wont rust away. But more expensive.

I thought it looked like screen glass but then I thought.. 'shit the poor fucker has had his garage broken into and I thought maybe it was glass from where they broke in!' Loving your build btw. There's some pretty bloody tidy work going on there!

Cool progress. What were you doing in China?

Yesterday morning Hannah took it for her first drive. We went out to the Dashwood pass about 10km from Blenheim. It was at about 9.30 the weather was already hot. The tarseal was just starting to get sticky. Sunday so little traffic. Good fun. It pops on the overrun (too rich at idle?...) and handles way way better than I thought! ;D I have fitted Spax adjustable shocks all round with stiffer springs. The shocks are only clicked in 5 clicks out of 15 each so still quite soft but its pretty good. Very little roll. I wont fit the front sway bar for now till I know it better. The big ol' 3.3 Ventura front discs and 1800 rear drums haul it up quickly too. Happy with them. The discs are a tiny bit warped with a run out of about 004" I will get them skimmed at some point as they cause the pedal to pulse ever so slightly. We swapped seats and I left Hannah on the side of the road to take some videos. Typically though that upon watching the videos back the car doesn't seem to look that quick. : Then in the afternoon I drove it back to Nelson and Hannah followed in the van. I just cruised at about 60 mph and it flew up and over both passes on the way no worries.... Filled the tank before leaving and filled it up again when we arrived- it returned 25 MPG which isn't to bad really for what it is... Mum gave me an old blanket and old ladies floral hat for the parcel shelf. Now cruising about Nelson and waiting for that perfect moment when I can surprise some twat in a posh car as they try to take out the old grandads car ;D

I think they are still using an older J type Bedford as well?

Cool eh! I sooooo want an old truck with the patina like the ones you and Cam have. Then I'd build a shack on the back but keep it easily removable. We found these ones up Waihopai valley. I want them both....

Troll lol la la la laaaaa. (me singing) Photos please. Good luck for monday!

Yesterday we got back to Blenheim and took the Viva down for a WOF re-test with Cert plate in place. All good. Then bought some rego- I love old cars. $60 for 6 months. sweet. Then took it for a spin here ther and every where- smiling at some police man in his cop car going the other way. Ha- I'm all legal and happy Today I did some little jobs and the sun was shining. I was happy as. Love the fact the car is legal and all good. Just that I can hop in any time and go for a blast. Which is w wihat I did when I took various people who have helped me out with the build for a spin. Took Dad out for a spin tonight. Ha- he loves the seats. Thinks it'll be too easy to get caught for speeding. It will still bog down if I try to accelerate out from an intersection with out enough revs. Hard to explain really but needs to be just a little bit richer right down low. I'll have a tinker with it. Otherwise it just flys along- too fast for me right now especially with the soft bushes. Gonna get a wheel alignment asap although its pretty good as it is. Does the front end lift thing at speed and the steering gets light. Really needs a little bib spoiler. So today I lengthened the gearstick with a slight bend back and fitted a wicked old gear knob I got from a old UK truck wreckers years ago. Its off a really old ERF, is made from Bakelite and just looks the part. Forgot to get a photo of it. I also wanted more air flow over the oil cooler. Its holding the temp spot on with my driving so far but I want it to get as much air as possible for when ragging it up hill on a hot day. So I cut more from the valence and added a bigger mesh. I hoping to go for a spin up the dashwood hills near home in the morning so Hannah can take some drive by vids. I have a feeling the turbo oil seals are a bit tired so will be watching for smoke and oil usage.

Like this?.....

Rafters all good now. Its up Brook valley. Yeah plenty of room for more trucks I think. $50 each per week including all the power you need and the best showers ever for as long as ya like! Bloody cheap washing machines too. All in all a cheap as place to live and only 10-15 minutes bike ride down into centre of Nelson.