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You naughty boy- how dare you.

Whoops- centre plate wont work. see discussion...

Yeah cheers H8V8S for the heads up. All the tips/seals are fine. Must be the photo? Anyway I was told by richard at greenbrothers that it was a 12 6 port and to check the runner heights - well mini disaster as far as buying the wrong parts avoided. As soon as I got up this morning I lined up all the housings/plates and discovered this... So 12a 6 port plates are a no no. The runners are 15mm lower then my normal 12a runners. I rang the fella I bought the plate from and luckily he was in town on his way back through from his 20b collecting mission in Greymouth. So he has taken the plate back no worries. Now back on the hunt. I'm gonna try the fella I've been suggested in Nelson as we are heading that way next week.

Well I now have a centre plate. The fella from Hamilton who sold it me delivered on his way through south. It has mint surfaces but is a 6 port 12A plate and has tiny ports/runners. I may well take them out a bit more. Not sure yet Anyway-once housing arrives it'll be rebuild time.

I just love the look of this car all tatty like. Love those old seats. Ya don't get much more sleeper than this! Watching this car!!!!

Looks good! I personally like it at about that height- only cause I end up always loading my cars up with bikes and camping gear and they scrape on forestry roads... I love the colour with those hubcaps- looks spot on. One of the first purchases i will get when my Viva hits the road will be a old mans hat for parcel shelf!

Here's the link to those voltmeters Von Mako... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blue-LCD-Digital- ... 2278wt_936

oh blush Tonight we are sleeping in the house. Bloody cockroaches have found our new pad quite a comfy place to live. We are spotting more and more of them. So earlier we taped up any gaps and cleared out all our foodstuffs then set up a fumigator thing 'no cockroachs'. We will leave it over night and hopefully find lots of little bodies in the morning. Cockroaches have become quite common here in Blenheim over the last maybe 3/4 years? Apparently they came down from Gisborne? Well that's what I was told today. Just picturing an old wagon filled up with roaches..." Yeah man- we heading south to.. warm down there eh..lots of food" Anyone else noticed an increase in roaches about?

Not going back to UK for good. Maybe trips back. Nah. I love NZ. We actually have sunshine here! Anyway- I'm a kiwi!!! Rangiora massive!! But your more than welcome to pop over for a weekend- I'll make you cups of tea and you can help me build belly boxes (or fix vivas)

Yeah its fucking cool when peeps on oldschool help each other out!!! I cant wait to begin the build.

I'll find them and put up a link. The only reason we bought two extra was to sell em on turd me and make some money back. They are a bloody bargain!!!

Stereo is all sorted now. And fuses, switches etc all done. I have made allowances for the solar setup we are planning in the future. The little volt meter is a score from ebay - China for $5 USD. They are about $40 here. So I bought 3. Does that mean I saved more?.... The stereo is cool- we got an Ipod one and with the supplied remote I can sit on the couch and change music on ipod. So handy. I will install a decent amp in the future once funds allow (that'll be ages then) so I have made all the wiring very beefy indeed. Even with out an extra amp its great sound with the Mordaunt Short speakers we scored off trade me a while back. They are a touch small but at least they wont chew through the power like my big old Wharfdales do. A decent sound system is very important to me. Once settled in somewhere on our own land I would re install my old Rotel amp and floor standing speakers. So now I'm onto stripping/modifying old house lights we have scored over the past few months here and there.

Cheers Dave. Did ya parents enjoy the travels? Well Uterus is gonna donate me a rx4 housing for the cause!!! Fucking top marks to him! Cheers man!!!! I have a centre plate on the way down too so I think apart from new water seals I'll be all good to go. I've a contact here in Blenheim who builds a lot of rotaries so I might get him to help out with reassembly as ya just cant beat a bit of experience.

my viva has a 12a rotary turbo with a suck through carb- when i get it cert'd will the cert plate say exactly that.? Or will it just say 12a rotary - turbo charged. In the future i may like to change from carb to injection but dont want to re-cert it. Also- if in the future i was to go back to n/a, put a nikki carb back in place and loose 40bhp then surely that wouldn't require a re- cert?

belly boxes for generators, 185 watt solar panel, mppt controller and decent agm battery. More drawers. Cof and then to the beach. after that queenstown and work=money=viva on road=fun.

Looks good- black will be spot on! Love those wheels. Are they painted grey? I must pop in on way down next time for a cuppa and have a looksie since we missed you last time.

cheers man. Its always good to meet another fellow vauxhall nutter. Now get cracking with those cars !

my 4agze mr2 used to do 35 mpg on a run to chch driving like a nanny. But my brother has a mk1 mr2 in england and best he gets is 35 motorway driving at 70mph

Ok- well overdue update but well we haven't done much really recently on truck. Blame Viva. This week in between more Viva sagas I have put in long over due wall sockets, run big fat wires through to leisure battery where I plan to put invertor and more recently started on the little corner box to house the headunit, fuses and switches for invertor, shower pump, fan for toilet etc Its kind of taking a while to get back into it and also dealing with wood. Metals easy cause ya just weld it and its its simple to build a lightweight but strong item. With wood I'm trying make it strong and look nice too. And I don't really have the cabinet makers way about it, or tools. So I'm going to stick to my simple hobit house like wood work. Its really nice to start using the work bench..itself not finished.. And the birds nest home for headunit plus fuses and switches. A fine mixture of Walnut, Apricot Rimu and....ply Finished off stereo and switch/ fuse centre..

I had a look on Ausrotary- and as always I found tooooooooooo much info I love having abrowse on there just to see all the bitch slapping.... http://ausrotary.com/viewtopic.php?f=4& ... s#p2448457 I think I shall skip the search function on there and just ask a question about the bolt hole number.

Yep- ok I'll update the housetruck thread but I have to make somethings today first so I can make an update.... I did fix a knackered Makita battery last night by swapping cells from another bad battery to make one good one... i'm proud of that plus its saved me $100 plus!!! (plate/housing money...)

wow that was like a bad tongue twister. Cool if i can miss out one bolt! But it looked like some holes were in a different position when i compared my plates to the photos in rx7 haynes manual. Maybe its just an optical illusion.

Yeah I know this place is good. I like it. But whenpeople ask me what I do and i reply with ' been busy the last year building a house truck and putting a rotary into a viva they roll I just know what some people must think eh.I would use the dole if I had too but it suits me better to be completely free from any work, have my own time to work and just spend my savings. But I'm certainly looking forwards to be back working and earning rather than whittling my savings away! Then I can also afford to spend money on the Viva (and petrol to feed its hunger) Anyway- back to rotaries... are there any rotary wreckers I can try- like mazda wreckers?

Cheers for the link. Yeah I counted the bottom bolts. Definitely two- in fact three different bolt patterns. I just dont know why the housing have been wire brushed. I'm guessing an attempt to help new tips bed in? The guy who rebuilt it has the oldest mazda dealership in the UK and has rebuilt many many motors- but that doesnt mean he does a good job. He maybe has some 'old' ideas about rebuilds and was thinking 'well if you hone a cylinder bore to help new rings bed in then why not the same for a rotary. I'm not that fussed as I only paid $100 for a complete engine, turbo, carb, starter, box, propshaft etc- the whole lot. I just want to see the car go but as I'm spending all my savings (not a dole bludger!) I have a budget to stick to. I think Id like to rebuild it around RX7 12a housings/plates as it may be easier to find parts for in the future if I fuck something? At least the rotors/tips/side seals/corner seals all look good. E shaft is good too. bearings were good as well. The engine in link above- I'm guessing its an older 12A with twin side seals and the funny 3 hole exhaust ports?

I've put an advert up in wanted section. Fingers crossed...