yoeddynz

It's with photos like this one that really show just how small these cars are... But like you say, still ample space for most duties.

Fantastic road test review. I think I'm going to have to buy one. BTW-you look good in a skirt..

Since the last update we made some signs for the garage. Took a while to decide what to write and longer to actually take some time off other jobs and paint the things. Sketched out the main centre board first which hannah then painted - like a big colouring in book I downloaded various images of car badges and the sketched them out for hannah to paint over. They look good but a bit 'new' so hopefully they'll fade soon enough and start looking old. We'd sort of finished the signs a couple of weeks ago but finally got around to putting them up on Friday. They still need the capping fitting. I snapped some pics that evening. I'll get some pics soon of the kitchen which, but for fitting a built in oven and a couple of bits of trim, is pretty much finished.

Update time before the weekend when our stable of k11s is reduced to 2. Mandy first. We stripped her down, removing both guards. Only needed to remove the drivers side to fix damage but as we've learned they all collect a load of dust/dirt at the back bottom of the guard so its worthwhile removing to clean it out. Took off the bumper and the headlights. It looked like this behind the bent wing.. (I took no photos. These 2 following pics are screen captures from a video I had sent my brother. Yes. He's that lucky) I then used many various tools including hammers, slide hammer, dollies, vice grips, pliers, blocks of wood, long lengths of steel etc to carefully reshape the inner guard front until it sat where it should. Lobbed some black zinc on and fitted the white guard we had scored from the parts car at the wreckers. Then I had to fix the bonnet corner. Same again.. lots of tools and some patience rewarded me with a bonnet that you'd hardly tell was damaged but for black paint and some dents. Classy. The headlight next. Turns out the back of it was smashed more than I thought and its not one that's so easily found locally , the car having facelift 2 lights, among other 'updates' (even though on the tintop cars facelift 2 updates didn't happen for 2 more years. Maybe the cabs were used as a test bed. Or maybe they were seen as extra special, got these new upgraded bits and then the thought to fitting on the tintops 2 years later? Very interesting I know! I can tell you're impressed ) So the headlight. It got some Barry levels of diy plastic welding using a big soldering iron, plus some riveted on alloy brackets. Shame I did not get a photo. Its beautiful. I earned extra milk arrowroot biscuits for that effort and was talk of the blokes shed that evening. So now the front end looked straight and the headlight pointed in roughly the right direction we swapped the alloys over onto Minky and Minkys steels went onto Mandy. Then we went for a drive to town. I spotted another local k11 and nabbed this shot to the amusement of the other carpark dwelling folk.. Cute k11 - nice colour and PFL2D ! I shall add it to the list of k11s I could have in the future when its elderly owners die. But for now I was happy with the look of our yard... Now I turned my focus to the mirror. Luckily the mirror housing is actually the same as a tintop item. They just fitted a different stalk. So I striped down the wreckers one and swapped bits, after having cleaned out a family of spiders. I had to fabricate a special tool to hold down the large spring and remove a clip. Prick of a thing but got there in the end. While I did that Hannah cleaned out the interior. She found the coin one should usually find in such jobs, so knocking the purchase price down. By how much I don't know as it depends on inflation... There was also this unit under the passenger seat. Some sort of television control? Figuring this car must have had the very latest in car entertainment back in the day... Next major job was to make a side window. I had rang about various wreckers all over NZ looking for one but no luck I even emailed the main garage in the cook islands where there's apparently loads of these cars but no luck there. So a plastic window it is. Anyway- its a convertible. The windows shouldnt be up when you're driving. I got a bit of plastic big enough from a Nelson outfit (bendy stuff that doesn't crack - not sure what) and we removed the passenger window. Actually a really easy and quick job which was a relief. Used it as a template and traced around it, cut it to shape plus measured the curve depth. Dropped the plastic back in to the specialist and they heated it up and formed the curve. It turned out good. Fitted and now a window we have. Next job to do before we can go for a wof is replace the cracked windscreen. But it had to wait until we had some decent weather because for seemingly 2 weeks it rained. Finally it was back to the wreckers to (carefully) remove the screen (inc as part of the sale) from the ever diminishing parts car... This we'll gloop into Mandys aperture, probably with the help of our friendly tame window fitter person. For now we are driving about ignoring the crack, which has not grown but it just too long to get pass a wof test with. Meanwhile the other two k11s were probably sulking because until we sort out the tears in the roof Mandy gets to stay inside. Minky got Mandys alloys as a treat although we are not 100% sold on them. They just seem a little bit too big. Really nice from some angles but from others just wrong.. So we'll keep looking for 'the wheels' and probably just sell these on. We actually really quite like her with the steels so possibly some 14" steels with 60 series tyres could be spot on. Martha has found a new forever home and we are super stoked about who's getting her. She will be picked up this weekend. A few weeks ago we decided that the ripped passenger side CV boot needed replacing. I bought one of those really stretchy universal items but jeeez it was tight and I ended up having to remove the axle to fit it. Sorted now and also good to know that the drain/fill plugs on the gearbox aint seized in place , given the fiasco we had removing Minkys filler plug. So that's that for now. Get Mandys windscreen swapped asap and then go for a wof...

And he 'knows what they are worth'

In the listing description.. "these trucks with V8 power, solid axles and link suspension would kill all those wee Suzuki off roaders. Skirts around the fact its British and has lucas electricals

I friend in blighty does it and among the jobs he's done was one where he welded the fins back on to a 911 barrel (iirc.. I think it was a barrel, or something too costly to just replace) Does a neat job where there's very little room, no mess, no clean up needed.

That "FUCK!" he seez at the end - hahaha... I so know that feeling. When something mechanical goes wrong, I'm not sure what but I know its bad.

A 2.2 petrol landie engine you say?

In sure that the oldschool freight service might be able to help. It seems to be a totally fair price for a sub 200k engine eh? (with apparently no issues..... Hmmmm)

Or just put your head on a big hinge...

Nah not really that bothered about it being super fast right now and the idea of running extra ponies through a box that's running in reverse, which is an unknown success/failure in waiting, seems to me like poking a hornets nest right now. Maybe later if it's not exploded and I get bored. But for now I am really wanting to chase a clean simple look with the whole swap. Which leads me to a question.. I'm trying to work out a way to build a pair of injector rails that are compact and neat. I'll pop up some pics later but for now if like to know if there's some really compact side feed injectors - because if rather make rails that house side feeds rather then having extra fuel rail running above the injectors. The stick inlet runners are quite small and I'd like to have the injection setup not stick out like an ugly after thought if possible.

I reckon a man of dylans talents could make it happen. Set it to start on a timer. 7am and the ld28 starts up, waking up the valley. The shed warms up as he eats his porridge. A dog barks in the distance. Valley life.

Fuck. Great minds and all that. I was just gonna suggest rigging up a spare diesel engine.

@cletus well I looked but only found a k11 item which wouldn't be up to much. I must have lobbed the mondeo one. But I do remember it being a slimline decent looking setup.

There have been a few supercharged gold wings which I can only presume use toothed belts (if they are doing it right...)

My Imp with its goldwing gilliez

In pretty sure I've got a mundano fan setup sitting around here. I can measure it for you. I kept it because it looks well built, good fan size and quite compact.

Great update. Cheers. Your dad looks to have alot of time on his hands...

Cheers Ben. Glad to see you're still popping onto oldschool for a browse.

Entertaining read. Crikey - who would ever bother to spend so much effort swapping all those bits between several similar models, rewiring things and what not just to create a slightly better non-discript Japanese shopping car?!!...

Cheers! Check it out with the stock Honda intake runners. It looks even more porsche like!...

.... And a cg13 echo.