yoeddynz

id get this one....

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motor ... 161052.htm

well looked after clean and tidy

i'd avoid that newer one- its too plastic! the older ones are mechanical injection! simple and reliable

ooooohhhhh. Fuck that 20b sounds great! no turbos- just like others have said its all about induction!

My 12A RX3 exhaust note never really did it for me and I ended up making it quieter for long trips as the drone would do my head in - especially if on motorways heading up to Wales. But once I'd get to Wales on the twisty roads I would begin to cane it and the secondries on the nikki carb opening up I would get the sound I love from it!

anyway....heres a BDA for yas...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAwBpZUx ... =1&index=9

I owned one for years and it was great! Mine was an older '85 2.3 turbo and not a problem. It was only a four speed but still cheap to run and was not a bad proper 4wd either! Did some pretty good 4wd days with it. It wasn't powerful enough for really really steep firebreaks though so couldn't hold a high enough gear for the really steep runs where traction is crap and momentum is king....

I wouldn't touch a newer one- Id stay in the 80s or early 90s - keep it simple and basic. Its what you should expect from a truck maker!

Just randomly found this old thread. I just have to comment and post up a link.

Even though my Viva will end up with a 12A at some point and I like rotaries a fair bit I would still rather it ends up sounding like this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGcYyjUpsiA

I too also love the sound of a BDA on full chat! So raw!

nah... Get a 40 series land cruiser. Then every trip will be an occasion.

You can then play the 'i'm steering in this direction but lets guess where we will end up' game.

hmmmmmm...

A cf with a modern transit or VW tdi engine. sweet. problem is bloody RUCs. But if we fitted an older box(type 9) and old school cable speedo....

So what TDi engines out there will take older boxes?

2.3's that weirdos drool over Big heavy boat anchors you mean?

i've had a few.. not weirdos... the 2.3's... and they never seemed to do it for me.

But cf's. Boy do they do it for me!

I'm eyeing one up in Blenheim- a cheap as jumbo on twins with a certed 186/5 speed and mint body work. rego on hold. But its a 3.5 tonne and hence has a bloody tachograph and RUCs to pay

Does anyone know if and how easy it is to de-rate a van?

How thirsty are 186's on long runs?

Early on with my welderi lost a lot of gas overnight before `i realised it was leaking out really slowly. Now I religiously turn it off !

ooohhhh.. I just did a sex wee....

There was a craze in the states back in the 70's for Foam houses. They would build a basic wire frame and build walls with chicken wire. Then they would spray expanding foam onto the walls inside and outside. Once set it could be carved into shape and smoothed.

But they soon became obsolete due to health problems from vapours leaching from the foam

Looked cool though! I'm sure there are better foams now but I still dont like the idea of being surrounded by manmade stuff. Wood is Good!

On another topic, I have posted this build up on Retro-Rides and someone on there doesn't believe the photos from the inside of that modern 6 wheeled truck I put up are real. And after a google search it appears a lot of people didn't believe the photos. So I replied with this...

"yeah they are photos from inside that truck - I you look carefully it has a raising roof - quite common , there are even some in NZ using the same system. This gives loads more room. One truck I know raising the roof about 1.5 meters. You can see the scew list in the corners of the living room.

So those side windows are exposed when the roof lifts. and the bedroom is above the kitchen area- but can only be accessed when the roof is up.

Imagine how tall our truck could be....

But if you still don't believe..."

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/garbage-truck-home.shtml

unicat offroad motorhomes

And while on the subject of total madness here is truck build I followed a few years back. This truck is amazing! I love the build thread- very well written and funny.

So make a big pot of tea, stoke up the bong or what ever floats your boat and check out this one...

Rob Grays 'Wotthahellizat'

First bits of cladding are up!

We will have to get some more though as after a sort through there wont be enough. Off to plankville again on friday then..

Cladding away in the evening sun....

here's some goodies we got while down in Christchurch...

lots of polystyrene for the walls etc. 20m thick - we will double it up. Ok Sesame steet people, what does that make? That makes 40mm. Good job big bird- now go 'play' with Snufalufagas and his big 'trunk'.

here's some Rimu floorboards- less the 150 odd carpet tacks we removed...

I'm going to fill the base of each upright with posh cavity wax- I dont want them ever rusting through and the house falling off when caning it through the S bends on a track day.

We started putting up batons today. This is a big moment as it means we shall start cladding it very soon!!! I cant wait. Really windy and its meant to rain later. If it does we will retire to the shed and build window frames to the sound of good tunes whilst inhaling nature. Cosy.

And here are some photos a friend sent me of a bloody cool truck. Not my style- but it would be totally my style if I had lots of money! I think its 6 wheel drive too! heaven. I love the way everything has its place for proper offroading!

Mark Brownie at Just GM here in Blenheim has got a mint dohc gem 4 door. quite rare aren't they?

i was thinking along those lines too. The photos show it in a location that i would not want to hang around at for too long. Dodgy as. Cheap truck though- would require full stripping out to remove bodies

here's a cheap project if any of ya's are interested....

cheap dodge housetruck

This weekend in chch we have bought ...

200 meters of rimu floorboards at a bargain price,

one lovely western red cedar and rimu door,

enough sheets of 20mm polystyrene that we ended up having to leave some - another trade me bargain saving us $400,

4 more leadlight windows,

10 litres of tredgrip paint for the roof,

and one oldschool rev counter (for my viva)

Van is now packed! Back home tomorrow. Beer and pork roast time now...

They are trying to change the law in UK regarding modified cars but changing laws there is like paddling up shit stream in a barb wire canoe with a tennis racket for a paddle- a long process.

The way it stands in the UK is that if a car goes for an MOT and the tester feels that lets say the morris minor is not safe with a 457 chev and drum brakes all round then it wont pass. The truth is a lot of places just don't want to bother with extra digging or hassle - so long as it passes the criteria for a standard MOT its all good.

This is great if the cars are built with some thought about safety, which most are but Ive seen some really dodgy builds over there. Things that would have a cert engineer here wearing out pencils.

I still love the lack of certs in the UK though!

I'm happy to have to cert my car here if the other option was no mods at all like some states in aussie or half the European countries- but I think its bloody expensive! And I still cannot get over the fact a car will fail a wof if the parcel shelf has some holes in it for speakers!!!!!

Interesting that in Oz over the Easter weekend they had only a few more on their death toll but have 5 times our population.

Its been put it down to much harsher penalties- such as if you are banned from driving they will impound your car and over the Easter weekend the fines/ penalties are doubled!

And it obviously works.

This was in the press this morning about the proposed drop in legal drink limit- shit I did not know that the limit was so high!

There is no way that I could drink 5 glasses of wine and safely drive! I weigh (currently with my winter insulation on) 82kg so 5 glasses would be my limit. I don't drink a lot at all but my tolerance is not that bad.

But I still wouldn't drink that much and drive- and that's the legal amount!!!

Fucking crazy. I do hope they lower it!

some questions,

When was it that cert's came about?

And a friend told me that some cars have older cert's which don't have a plate- they have a piece of paper with the changes noted and its sighted and signed by the engineer- are these still OK and accepted by WOF testers/ police if nothing has been changed since it was sighted and signed.

When did they stop doing it like that and go over to a plate?

lots of trees getting used in this one for sure.

Carve a massive totom pole!

what is it with these front mounted oil coolers?....

Finished welding up popout frames and Hannah painted them. Meanwhile I fitted another skylight

- this one is above where my workbench will be.

The weather got a bit shitty today- didn't rain though...Blenheim so we retired to the shed after having started the woodwork for window frames/sashes. I'm not a carpenter and they are very basic simple frames but have come up lovely! Nice Rimu and what I think might be totara or black beech. We have quite a few window frames to make- a long process! Its getting easier each one and we'll keep building them over the next few days. Lots of varnish will be needed once they are built.

We have been collecting various stained glass windows off trade me. We still need a few more.

Then we can start cladding the framework knowing where and what size the window frames will be.

We had to piss about with the bedroom floor this morning. Its the one area getting insulated that is just a steel frame with out batons being added- and the steel being 38mm with the insulation being 40mm means the polystyrene sits proud. We thought it might squash down but it didn't- power of surface area eh!

So we decided to cut a sliver off the polystyrene. Which was gonna take ages till I made this...

'alex acme' polystyrene planing jig...

Now the floor was all done and the ply wasn't getting forced out by over thick poly we carefully (and awkwardly) lifted it up into place. Wow - with a floor down up there its amazing- so huge a bedroom. I tried taking photos to show the size but it was tricky with a small camera.

We laid down up there and checked out the view- cool having skylights.

Next problem was the bloody aerial- it hits the bedroom floor. So I drilled a hole and it can now extend up into the bedroom.....