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and your back up, back up car is the 55 Runchwagon?

fuck yeah- hannah and i are still keen as. Lownslow- is it still fine for us to pitch tent/park up at your place thursday night? I'm figuring zac and laura too. Chris- i'll pm you tonight with return date for hannah and i on ferry. One big f'ing thank you from me for sorting out awesome deals on ferry! Good work. I'm so excited and wont try to hide it. Btw - i think zac and laura are planning on making trip up to blenheim on wednesday and staying night in blenheim at my olds for maximum cat time etc. If anyone else wants to do that then you are more than welcome- plenty of room there and all off street parking. Means super chilled thursday morning trip to picton for ferry. Hannah can make cake and i'll make coffee.

Pretend skids are the way to go. Cheaper and easier on the car if not quite so cool...

OK- wasn't all the tyres fault. See here on new thread I started... viewtopic.php?f=2&t=32156

A thread here so we can talk and learn from others experiences with various alignment issues. Me first After a few weeks of complaining about my new rear tyres making my Viva feel wobbly I finally pulled my finger out and had a go at properly measuring my cars toe in. The difference since changing it has been amazing! I had always looked at the car and thought it was either set straight or possibly toed out. It was an illusion setup by the front guards. On Saturday I drove to Blenheim and the car was a pain as its handling was dire. the steering felt too sensitive. Horrible going much faster than 100kph. Time to check it properly. Yesterday morning I parked the car on a nice flat surface. I had rolled the car forwards into the spot, I made sure steering wheel was centered and also had Hannah help me pull the leading edges out on each side to remove any play from the ball joints/rack etc - this naturally happens when the car is being pushed forwards whilst driven. I set up some wire pulled tight between plastic boxes filled with bricks on each side of the car... I set the wires up parallel to the rear wheel faces. Straight away I could see excessive toe in... It measured up at 17mm difference on ones side and 11 on the other!!! Then I set it up with the required (according to Mr Haynes) 1/10" toe in. About 2-3mm. Then I took the car for a drive and as soon as I was heading up the road I could feel the difference. Stable straight ahead and easy to direct around curves whereas it used to dart horribly. Where it used to be scary at 100 I can now sit on 160. Side winds will still push it so possibly some more castor in the future but not until I change the bushes in the back arms. Plus I think the back tyres will be getting better and better as they wear down. Turn in is not as direct. It now feels like I have to turn the wheel that bit more to initiate the turn. I still have a fair bit of negative camber on the front so on hard corners it bites nice but slow corners about town there is a bit of push. I had added more negative camber a while back due to the outside edges on tyres wearing. But I think it was the excessive toe in had caused that. I might set less camber because the inside edges of the tyres are wearing due to the camber and me usually driving like a nanny about town.

I'll have to check it out!

oh i do want to! But finding the stuff. Jump suits- where the fuck do i start? Any help muchly appreciated!

and for hannah... Almost matches paint job too

ok- i have my attire sorted...

Dont throw em. I sold my old ones on trademe and helped some poor bugger out who needed some. plus got money for beer. tea, coffee...

sweet!

My dad has some we could borrow- not amazing but could be OK.

Its still LEAKING! I checked it tonight after a good solid days rain and the drivers side floor mat was soaked. Fuck it. I will run the hose over it on sat morning with heater vent covered and sealed to take it out of the equation and see if its getting through the windscreen seal but I fear its still sneaking in around the heater box somewhere and somehow.

just like mine only lighter...

Good idea keeping the old engine for sure. Do you know the rough size of a VQ if it were a box?..... (just thinking about V6 Vivas....)

I can grow a wicked beard but it now comes out tortishell colours. Too much grey and ginger. I might stick with a Geoffman from Byker Grove..... I had one once. For like 1 hour. Hannah would not talk to me and all I remember was a group of youngs girls at the pub giggling and saying Geoffman...

Remember people from south Island- we should all drive in convoy and attend nats dressed in period clothes to suit the year of our car. Oh dear- that'll be Laura and Zac wearing shoulder pads and big hair then...

Oh and if my car were a morris minor then I found its doppleganger.

sweet. I can picture what you mean but yeah a photo would be cool. Chuck it here. If I cruise along and let go of the steering wheel it the car will stay straight but when there are ridgelines and undulations it'll pull. But no bumpsteer feeling at the wheel. Too much toe out? I still think it self steers at the rear axle due to soft bushes and am currently doing my best to source cheap bushes- cause I'm cheap.

Going to install a new, hopefully far better dfi ignition setup soon. Started on it yesterday but lots of little sandflies were hanging about for a meal and it was about to start raining. Looked at all my careful wiring, going over it in my head, thinking 'fuck it, I'm gonna have to undo the lot and re-tape it'. But actually I think I might get away leaving the loom in the bay apart from the coil end. Thats where I'll have to try doing a neater job for the new ignitors and coils. I'm thinking about a little open ended alloy box to hide them from view and promote airflow. For now while it rains this morning I shall sit with coffee and check out other build threads

That 240 with the Vq sounds wicked. surely to get similar power from a L series you would end up with something a bit stressed and not so refined?

Yeah I used to do that but tricky when chassis is in the way on this car so string cant go right across.

They are feeling better but I think I need to seriously re-check my alignment too. I had toed out the front and I reckon may have gone to far. Gonna make a big measuring tool as seen in latest practical classics magazine.

Yep that sounds good (but how short and fat that car looks- not a touch on the looks of an early Z car) I like the sound of a nice straight 6 but most RB's about sound like tractors unless revved hard. I love the sound of V6's. My brothers old 2.8 colonge V6 sounded awesome and even Dads old V6 Vitara induction sound is wicked when driven hard.

The V6 will sound much nicer than a rb26