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Fuck she's beautiful! You lucky man. Putting this on my watch list so I can keep perving at her.

Sweet build so far. Will you be replicating the paint scheme of your inspiration? Will the interior remain stripped out or will it be 70s spec pimp? I'm after a crack free hb dash top pad if you know of any. Please keep the build photos coming. Alex

This bit.. "Cant fucking believe it... I just made a computer and so far all the smoke is still inside it somewhere!" Yeah it's a cool feeling. Such a neat thing to start with a bag of bits and send up with a working ecu. Building your car, not buying it. Great way to learn how the thing works too. Did you end up going to see Stuart? Top fella him. Helpful as.

Me too!!!! Waiting for its maiden voyage to nelson and I can give it a fang!!! In return you can try out my 50bhp wagon and compare it against the V6.

Plus not forgetting the real reason outboard injectors suck... You can't fit your ramflo air filter in place.

@fletch You could point the injectors up from underneath after TB so then hidden? (but if this is going into a trumpet? then its a no go unless one wanted a melted mess of injector all over exhaust manifold..)

This is a cool thing! I was always chasing a smoother idle on the V6. I will try this next time although not sure if tuner studio allows it? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Yeah that above pic was what I was thinking but with oval section tubes under the lowest suspension point. Straight through pipes as kk suggested would sound sweet. Then convert to manual box.

Is there any way that you could swap out the pipes for oval section and run them straight along under the arms? Not knowing what the setup looks like so this is just an idea.

First time round I cut and shut a brake arm, adding bracing to the back. It would never fail. You'd break a leg before it would break. But yeah...not legal. Next time round I made a whole new arm. This I believe you are allowed to do. One piece, 8mm thick steel with the only welding being to the pad and around the bush. Again- stronger than the original item and it would never fail. It looked completely stock so it was not even looked at. Some pedal boxes imported from the UK wont pass here due to the arms being made from 6mm steel. Even though they are stronger than the orignal items they replace they still dont meet NZ cert requirements. I have seen them and they do flex. So yeah- pays to check this out.

I welded my brake pedal pad. You'd never know. I'm happy with it... better then the stock weld poo. I live life on the edge man.... just me and my 50bhp.

Oh and congrats for what appears to be landing on your feet with a new job. Sounds good and I'm imagining you're having fun!

Videos please.

Without actually looking at the manuals or what is written down in my book of scribbles that pretty much sounded like what I did. Except I mounted drivers on a little heatsink a few inches from the MS case. Pics that might be useful...

But actually you'll get all the help you need here. Ask away

Yeah I think I can help. Also.. I have an Air craft mechanic friend you'll know who could help. I'll do a facetwitspaceagram message for ya.

The standard viva setup is just four link with the top links angled. Works well but for full on racing etc you can add a panhard (I think @vivaspeed has done a such.. Or even converted to 5 link in order to have an English axle?) @CUL8R does your system involve a torque tube then? The Chevette (t car) system works really well and leaves the area under the seat untouched. But finding strong axles.....

Dirty hands will make marks on your design paper. Otherwise continue on.

Please please updates on these

Do as Steve's done.. Mx5 box with rx7 bellhousing so no need to space the flywheel back. Will need to modify the starter motor mounting face on bellhousing forwards though. None of it is that hard though. Just time.

No but there's enough of us who've done it to get the required measurements /info off. But as you know it's still not a straight forward swap. But it is a choice one!

More Ropey wagons on turbos. This is the forum that just keeps on giving Plus 1 for mazda v6 repower. There could be a collective.

Ha.. Its funny you mention that. I'd been watching this one in the uk out of interest and it ended up selling for way more than I expected. Wow @what folk will pay for old dinky toys. https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/DINKY-138-HILLMAN-IMP-SALOON-/123159391457?oid=302816683204

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