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Cool- very tempting. That is a very fantastic offer you've put up mr lego man. I will have to see how Viva goes and what happens with us and truck. We are already 4 months late on getting housetruck finished and moving south to Queenstown. Hannah may be taking a local job here which will see us staying top of south till about may anyway so if thats the case then yeah!

I'd love to get up to nats but spending heaps recently and still not working, spending money on the ferry is a bit steep at the MO. Are the nats always in north island or does it swap over ?

A while yet- hannahs mum is over from blighty so doing holiday things. Tramping able tasman next week. Cant wait to fire it up though!!! Will have to sort it soon as its back to housetruck work once hannahs mums gone Bloody wiring taking longer than i thought too- keep having to pop down to Jaycar for one of these or one of them etc. Finished my new improved version of Elfords over boost cutout Also I tested the pressure switch's- they both work fine and turn on at exact pressure they should - indicated pressure on the boost gauge that came in rx7. I want another boost gauge though- one that reads up to 10 or 15 psi. The old gauge is in kg/cm2 which just seems silly. 5psi equals .35 or something dumb.

Got my widened steels dropped off today. Shane a fellow HB nutter in Chch dropped them off on his way through from Vivaspeeds. Cheers Geoff. Quite happy- got them sandblasted and it was the best money spent. I could never have got them this clean and rust free. I have to tidy up some bits on them then paint time! Photos soon.

Looking good!!!! Those altezza springs quite hard? Also...nice Rimu tree in background of carpark shots.

Are they tiny little disc made just for minis or off something else?

If your set on using nyloc nuts as most seem to have what i do is tighten up the ball joint tight as witha normal nut and flat washer. Once its tight I then remove normal nut and refit nyloc. If you cant even get ball joint to stop spinning while you tighten nut then if you can geta bottle jack up in there and really push ball joint in place tight then tighten/remove nut. Heres a mates HB viva with GT Rostyles and chrome rings- looks sweet...

I'm waiting for these to arrive from wellington.... I'm looking forwards to them as my standard victor rims are only 4 or 4.5" wide and the 185 tyres fitted bulge out a bit on each side. The new wheels are 6" which will hopefully mean flat side walls. I too am not a fan of really stretched tyres on old Brits- just not quite right. I want the period look. If I was you I'd wait till tyres are worn down too then maybe get them done.

I started on all the wiring today. I have some great ideas about keeping it safe if the boost gets too high. I want to keep it all as neat as possible and easy to work on. Today was 29 degrees and such lovely sunshine to drink coffee and play with wires in. I had a little helper but he soon grew tired of the haynes manual wiring diagram and gave up... Fortunately Vivas are about as simple as it gets for wiring. I have stripped the loom right back and started again. I want to have a big fat supply to the coils- the standard mazda supply wire is bigger than the Vivas main loom feed!!! So I shall employ a relay activated by the ignition which will then feed the coils straight off the battery lead- I want big fat juicy sparks!

I added a breather to the fuel tank so its not just sucking air through the cap! Brand new Carter fuel pump arrived today- waiting on a regulator to arrive. Hopefully will get through a load of the wiring tomorrow. I so want to start this engine up!!!

Yeah- looks like it would work - but once ya add the sensor and the display its almost the same price as the innovate one.

bloody lovely.

cool. What do I look for if i just want to get a sensor for now- are wideband ones all the same- ie bosch ones all the same or different models.

these look great on widened rostyles..

Gas pump? what- how? Wide band will still fit in my boss right? And the innovate items are wideband?

I have a friend who could lend me one- but its the sort of thing I'd like to have myself (to satisfy the inner geekyness in me) In laymans terms can someone discribe the difference between wide band and narrow band?

That's sort of what I'll do too. I'm just setting up my tank welding robot now which I will control from behind the shed...

How about this?... http://www.voltelectronics.co.nz/kits/a ... -cars.html And I'm guessing a scrappy is the best place to get a cheap lambda sensor eh? Are the all the same- my thread installed is m18 x 1.5mm. How much is a fair price to pay?

very clean- love the grey. I agree that visible intercoolers suck big time. And it would look even more wrong on such a class car as a valiant. There are a couple of cars around town- 4 door nissan things- with no front bumpers fitted and big shiny intercoolers with blue hoses. Just gay!

Seats are all done now. As I had the front holes in the right place i just made a jig out of wood and located the rear positions. I then built up little turrets in 3mm steel welded to the plates on the floor, which bolt in place. We both got under the car with it up on stands and gave it a good chisle and brush. The underseal comes of pretty easy as its gone quite brittle. Luckily the floor is really solid! Still has the red primer in most places. I epoxy mastic 'cated?' the underside of the floor let that set over night as well as painting the brackets with it too. Very snazzy. Seats were bolted in place- so nice. No photos as yet of finished job.. I'm waiting for the right light... The next day I towed Hannah in the viva behind our '84 1.3 racing sunny. We went to local exhaust guy who did a wicked job of piecing together a nice system out of pipe work and spare mufflers I had. I hate climbing in and out from under car on axle stands welding exhausts together with no proper bends. Glad to get someone else to do it. Put exhaust wrap on the down pipe as its close to the servo. Plus a M18 x 1.5 nut on down pipe so I can fit a lambda sensor. While he built the exhaust from the front Hannah and I made the most of it being up on a ramp and with tools we took along scraped away as much underseal as we could- mainly at the back where it was thin. Some light surface rust on one side near spare wheel well but otherwise fine. I will epoxy mastic it all. leaving the rest of the underseal down the tunnel for now as its solid and intact. I think I might get it sand blasted later on. Today whilst also sorting out the dud alternator I had bought I took the tank out, tipped 20 odd litres of petrol into sunny, scraped all the underseal off, discovered some mild pitting that I'm glad I found now. I filled the tank with water to the top and drilled a new hole. With tank then tuned on its end, hole uppermost and hannah holding it and filled it up till water came out of new hole. welding away...how do I describe it...booossshhhhh. Ther was till some vapours in there , like sod all but it shot through the pipe and weld leaving a 4mm hole. THis blew my arm which was across the tank up and over me. crikey! That put the jitter up both of us- turned me into the most paranoid welder. I just could believe the affect of such a small amount of vapour!!! It would have been no more than half a litre? Ive now soldered in a new outlet pipe. 3/8. Now my new pump wont be sucking through a straw. Noticed that it doesn't have a breather on tank- do vivas breath through the cap? What about HC vivas? Also today picked up 6 meters of good quality cable for my boot mounted battery. Scrap man bargain- $20 woohoo!

Your old brain was right. It does. Its now got a second hand regulator with decent enough used brushes in it. Best of all it works - cost $50 for the other alternator which I think was off a laser?. Now hopefully the seller front up and pay me back that much.

Well he's got back to me and is happy to either take it back or pay for a part - whatevers cheapest so that's good on him! I'm gonna rummage through the second hand alts at auto electric place and see if I can find a working regulator to fit. I just wanna get my car going! Do any of you guys know what Rx7 this one is off? series 4/5/6? Because there are two different ways to wire the sense wire.

Just received a second hand alternator I bought on trade me for my viva. The listing said... "12a Alternator twin belt pulley took off my car 12months ago Working well when removed Removed because I sold car for parts was going to re use but dont see that happening for a while!! Open to reasonable offers Payment to be made within 3 days of auction ending. Happy bidding " I paid $100 delivered - which is a good price. As soon as it arrived I took it down to auto electric city to get a plug. While I was there the fella put it in the testing jig and found a problem. Its charging- it puts out 15volts. But the 'dash' light doesn't come on. And it will charge without the feed being plugged in. Now he said that alts can start to charge with out the first initial feed to excite the field if spun fast enough. But no dash light? He reckons it will be a failed regulator. A new regulator is $150 for a proper mitsi one (cheap ones not recommended) Or I fish through the pile of alts there and find another mitsi one that has the same reg and swap over. Anyone else had this problem with alts? And where do I stand with buying such an item on trade me? I have emailed the fella earlier and told him pretty much the above - waiting a response.

Cool- Me likey. Exhaust all done now and yeah- I bought a 18 x 1.5mm nut which is now welded on the top of the down pipe about 150mm from turbo. I will plug it for now and work out what I can afford. Really bloody excited- I want to start this car up next week! many many things to do....

cool. Great info. Doing exhaust today hopefully at mates exhaust shop so hopefully i can find the right boss. He might have one:-)