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Yeah- I'd love to check it out. where about's are you?

asyncronus? Does that mean offset? They are offset because one will be a dining room table and seating for 4. That will be opposite the wood stove and next to kitchen. The other one will have a sofa and is directly opposite the workbench. Then after a hard stint of filing or hacksawing i can stumble backwards and fall into my sofa with my cup of tea perched next to it on a little shelf with car and cycling magazines opposite. Heaven.

You know your pussy's! They are indeed birmans. They are a breed in which we humans have bred out all the wild hunting instincts, skills etc so making them more soft, innocent, fluffy and cute. Very cool cats though. .

main thing was having the viva and not needing a chevette. Just wanting one.

I love road trips too. I'd like to buy a ferrari dino 246 in italy and drive it a long way back to britain. But need to sort out some things, like money, before i do that....

some photos today- I always forget and then its dark.

Nice waterproof roof of slid in popout and wavey rafters in background....

popout, workshop bench window and skylight...

window above sofa area....

I was watching that chevette too. but all the way up there and I have my Viva that needs love.

I love the vid- Brazil? I know they have a massive following over there for chevettes.

It did indeed rain today. But stopped by about 9 am. Coolio! How nice.

So we bought some flashing to cover the join along top of the roof. Now roof is finished.

While we were at the plumbers where we had also got a bargain deal on the Butynol roof membrane we had spotted a Rennai gas califont- exactly the same model I have fitted our 3 previous vehicles/homes.

And it was for sale. We ended up getting a near new califont made in Japan not China for a bargain $200. Sweet- thats a saving of $380. WE HAPPY!

its also got a slight volvo amazon look to the grill.

A bit of an update.

Its set to rain for the next week or so off and on so hence we have been trying to get the outside cladding up.

But first we had to finish the pop outs- these have been tricky. I would build these a different way next time. I designed them with only 5mm clearance between the sides of pop outs and the frame opening. Not enough to allow for odd bits of wood or any warping. All sorted now after more planing.

Given how much they could be out with only a few mm wrong here or there they ended up fitting like a glove which makes me very happy! We have also fitted some of the windows in the popouts and they look great.

When they are both pushed inside there is just enough room to squeeze through between them. Lucky I'm skinny. Not that it matters as once parked up they will be pushed out anyway.

I have decided to make an opening window over the workbench- there is already a skylight above it but really good natural light over it is important so an extra window will work wonders. Opening because I'm bound to make a few smelly fumes - glue, welding, paint etc.

Every so often we have to stop and give these little buggers a cuddle and that eats into our valuable building time...but its worth it!

We have just enough of the wavey cladding to reach the base of where the batoned ply will start over the bedroom and 'entertainment room'. This too makes me very happy. I thought we might run out. We are looking forwards to getting to the ply stage as it will mean very quick coverage!!! Today we started putting up the first bits of wood on the front of the truck which is cool- covering up the green painted steel.

We cant wait till its all covered and cosy inside. First thing we will install will be a woodburner! ;D

Tonight Hannah finished the last bit of staining as its set to rain soon. Jobs we can do while it is raining will be building some more window frames and building the locking systems for the popouts. Plus there is my Viva to continue rotorising...

On my mk1 escort there was enough room up under dash on pass side to hide a 300 watt amp. Then i built a 18mm thick board that sat on top of rear parcel shelf to hold two 6x9 speakers. these I hide with an old ma's blanket. You would never know!

In the RX3 I hide the amp in between the boot bracing and rear wing so not to use any boot space. Ran a cable up to front seat for ipod. speakers were home made box's with 6 x 9's. Again these sat on rear shelf and could be taken out side with long cables- ideal for BBQs etc and when car was parked up in dodgy areas they would go in the boot.

do you know if the lc shares the same share instrument pod as the hb torana? I have seen a few 6 dial dash's from lc's on aus ebay and they look the same as the 6 dial hb viva gt ones.

ohhhh they aint that posh! Maybe in the future when get my own lathe (one day, one day...) I could turn them out and push some bearings in but I dont think they will need it- I have drilled a small grease port in each one though. They roll sweet as under load.

A late update. It been quite hectic and not much appears to have been done but it has. We had to go to Christchurch to pick up more stuff. in fact half the project time is going about picking up bargains, hunting for lowest prices, research etc. Thats building on a budget for you. Its a shame- I'd love to buy everything in one go and have it all here ready. But it is fun getting bargains.

We put the cladding up as far as the base windows but had to stop to finish building the frames. And back to Plankville in Richmond, Nelson where we cleaned out Brent of the rest of his slices of this wood. I think we will have just enough to do the popouts and up to the bedroom where it will be plywood from there. The ply will be be broken up with batons 'a la oldschool medieval style houses (but they didn't have ply.... )

The cladding thus far...

Then of course we had some busy body neighbour decide they dont like the noise- which we have kept down and been within normal acceptable times. So twice we have had embarrassed looking noise control blokes come out- but its not excessive so they leave. Anyway- to keep everyone happy we popped out to a friends farm and used a shed to plane loads of wood down in one go- whilst it was drizzling outside

The slide outs are being built up one at a time- I have made some rollers up and they roll out lovely. Luckily the Engineers I went to get the alloy from let me use the lathe when he found out he used to work at the same place I did my time at- so that saved some hassle and money!

I need to get some nyloc nuts, put bike inner tube over the last two and paint them then they are all done- they are over built but wont give us any grief!

We are trying to keep things as square as possible so everything fits neatly. When they are out they should seal perfectly.

Lots of time has been spent building window frames- takes ages but they will look great- deeply varnished Rimu wood. Some of the stained glass solder joints were broken but I have fixed them up and now I want to build some myself- later on when we are living in it!

I will have to get a photo of all the windows made so far lined up.

We are going to stain the cladding and then seal it with some wormal wood seal from the states- its wicked when on- water just beads instantly and runs off

The stain we have decided on as after so much effort going into putting up nice bits of cladding we don't want it to go all silver and lose the colours of the different woods.

And lastly I found our old pad in England on google earth - when zoomed in we can see our bedford TK, our totally hippy mates Bedford bus with his completely unhippy mint white FD RX7 next to it , our old bmw 525TDS estate, our old blue chevette 4 door and possibly my Rx3 next to shed. I love Google earth. And we do miss our old pad out in the country side 1 minutes walk form a quiet pub with free wireless!

ok. Its always worth asking. I might put up a wanted ad later.

Ahhh now you tell me. I could just give you some beer and you can fit out our truck...

My joinery skills are a bit naff. I'm always learning but I have little patience when it comes to working with wood. I like it but I think its best when you have a decent workshop with some good machines. We could do with a bandsaw and a router but moneys tight.

Do you happen to have any Rimu etc kicking about that's of no use to ya...? I'm after any thing that can be used to clad out the inside in the future.

yep- I'm not trying to be an arsehole at all. I dont want and never have wanted to annoy the other neighbours and so far they have been great with a lot of tolerance- probably because they can see what I'm creating plus they no I stop any noise after 6pm. I Dont start early either- thats sleep time...

Anyway- I rang the council this morning, spoke to the noise control office lady. She said that it is up to the person who is sent out to make the call whether its excessive or not. IF they think so they will tell me on the spot and give me a warning.

So far both blokes who came out didn't warn me. They just asked what I was doing and for how long. Both seemed embarassed actually.

If the council keep getting complaints from the same person then that person will basically be told that the noise I'm creating is not excessive and basically GET A LIFE...

So I'll just keep being polite, courteous etc with the control officers if they come again and hopefully that will be that.

Still.. we went out today again to the farm and spent 3 hours or so planing and cutting. Its the best thing to do- keeps everyone happy, we can chill and we got loads of future wood done in one go. Plus if I'm lucky I get cake and we all love a bit of cake....

I'm following this thread....

http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/viewt ... 22&t=11482

Its an HC but I reckon they are similar under the dash.

I"m only considering this if I end up fitting the quick rack i have- even then the steering wont be that heavy.

Well i'll put some things straight here. We do have a lot of wood which has been through the thicknesser. But we have been building this truck for 2 months now. Every day we have stopped the main noisy sort of stuff at 6 pm on weekdays and earlier in weekends. And apart from one day a few weeks ago when we did a load of wood in one go - this was while the college next door were away for Easter break so we thought we wont be upsetting them on a weekday. I would figure that all other neighbours are at work then. We have basically been aware of the noise we make and kept it sporadic - not a continuous sound.

So with all this building work over 2 months no one has complained- in fact our other neighbours have been pretty cool about it- we get a lot of people stopping by to check on our progress etc.

Now after one small bit of grinding on Wed and then 10 minutes of planing on Sat and we get complaints! I'm sure it new neighbours.

As I see it we are building a HOUSE. It just so happens to be perched on a truck... which at some point will be gone and all will be OK.

But some people don't like this sort of thing.

There are 2 other houses being built -one is one the other side of the neighbours who we think are the 'busy bodys'. But I bet they wont complain about them eh!!!

Anyway-to keep the peace today we loaded up the van with remaining wood to be planed or cut and shifted out to a friends farm - there we made shit loads of noise for a few hours and not even the chickens complained.

It was relaxing to know that we were not upsetting anyone.

BUt It still fucks me off that they can't just pop their heads over the fence and have a yarn!

I will ring noise control and make a complaint that we are being picked on by someone random. and i'll check out my rights.

sweet. Do they have a stand alone computer for the speed sensitive bit?

Last week on wednesday I was removing some superficial rust from our van and using a grinder after welding. maybe 5 minutes- middle of the day. small grinder.

An armorguard bloke turns up and just says that they have had a complaint about the noise. He looked embarrassed but was just doing his job. couldn't/wouldn't tell me who made complaint though.

Then today at about 4 pm we have another one turn up - we had been planing/thicknessing Rimu down for truck so it was noisy but only for maybe 10mins. Again he just said anonymous call to council. I remarked that all the neighbour has to do is pop his/her head over the fence and have a chat.

So now we are having to rethink where we will be planing our timber- we have a farm friend who said we can use their shed for planing etc which we will.

The saw bench I'll use at other end of our yard.

But it annoys me that this one person has complained after 2 months of building work. We have always stopped before 6 pm and not on sundays etc but we have still made a lot of noise through out the project. So my guess is that it is someone new moved in and they don't like others having fun making things....

I guess we are lucky we have got this far eh?...

So has any one else had problems in residential areas and what is the usual process? I had a quick read and its up to the noise control officer to establish if the noise is excessive.

Fuck I cant wait to have some land sometime in the future to call my own and not ever have neighbours!!!

i shall go hunting at local wreckers then....

anyone on here fitted one ?

make sure you do a good build thread on this cortina!

I'm gonna at some point fit my 12a elford turbo into my viva so always keen to watch other people doing similar my engine is a simple old suck through carb job though,

good luck with the build!

Like this one here....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-CORSA-C- ... _720wt_736

do any cars in NZ come out with these- i dont know whether corsas are sold here actually...maybe rebadged like the old barinas?

Anyway- i want one for my Viva at some point (along with a bloody good alternator to run it...) they have been fitted into all sorts over in Blighty. I should have brought one over with me!!!

more plates = mroe backpressure = quieter.

I want a haggard as one for my citroen for lolz

I will re-engrave it to say supertramp

haggarder the better. someone giz

breakfest in america....

Isn't Guy croft one of the alfa/fiat twink gods? I've heard that name when in blighty. sounds nice...

but that red RX7 - fuck me! itt sounds like a F1 car.

I wonder how many MPG it would do on a long run ....

and the drifting one- is that mad mike?

just stay with old and simple technology and then not much can go wrong but if so its cheap and easy to fix.

I loved mine and would have another one.