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Yeah 13s. Excellent tread.

I think you need some rally tyres.... I happen to have some. But guessing beagle has 14s

Russian steel?...... Joke. Yeah ask Greg and come up. Bring gun. Shoot deer. Fuckers are back for winter. We can chat cars then. There is quite a list of rotten cars building up and I'm trying to get away from them. Rust dust and grinding dust cant be good for me/building woodstoves and metal art more fun...

This little Imp has now got a nice solid floor I really needed to get some solid work done on the Imp so I can get it off the hoist. I also wanted to see the end of a rotten floor so yesterday I decided would be nothing but Imp day (in between important coffee, music listening and posting cat photos on social media of course) Oh and also reading the latest Impressions magazine that arrived ( I joined a club!...) I finished the last bit of rot on the side of the tunnel behind the drivers seat area. Then moved on to the passenger side. Not anywhere near as bad as the drivers side but bad in different places. I pondered for a while at which bits I should keep or chop out. Then I set to work.. Hannah kept busy with an ever so exciting ball joint replacement on a customers van so I could I fritter away on the Imp I remade the wheel well bottom... Then I wheeled over the magic machine and made a snake.. Snake thing goes here... Followed by the beginnings of the firewall heel... The heel bone connects to the floor bone... Before I knew it there was a nice new floor upon which I can mount the MX5 seats I have recently bought Next step while its on the hoist is to deal with the parcel shelf which is rotten. Luckily most of it gets chopped away to allow for the top of the Datsun engine to peek its little head through. I think I'll also be a lovely fella and gift the job of slapping Por15 on the underside to Hannah. Because I'm nice like that.

Hippy trailer now evicted and time to do some on this before a big dirty Toyota Dyna van turns up with a rotten roof The sills on both sides are all solid again! I was halfway into the passenger side on my last update. So continuing from there.. I had to remake the bottom of the outer A pillar/sill end first. I was going to re-use a tricky step down part within the repair but even after cleaning it up it just didnt appear solid enough among all the new steel. In pictures.. I then folded up some more outer sill panels, using the gauge/template I had made for the other side and started welding them in.. When I got down to the other end I had some issues I needed to tend to. Mainly to see what was going on behind the bottom of the where I had cut the rotten arch away to and also what lay beneath a frilly looking area inside the well. I called in my new toy/tool. A teeny tiny holesaw for removing spot welded panels. Cheap on Aliexpress.. I went deeper.. ..and deeper. How many layers?.... Not surprised there was rot lurking. So many moisture traps. So I started fixing it all up.. I could now finish the last section of sill.. Then the final bit- the lower guard. On both sides of the car these had rotted away from crap getting through a gap at the front where they overlay the sill. I painted the back with zinc and welded the front edge on both sides. Its not like original but going by the amount of dirt and water traps Ive found original wasn't best. Just cheap. This along with a future flooding of wax penetrant inside the once the car is all painted and it should last much better Its all done. Yay. Now I have to replace a section of floor where it meets the inner sill- rot had been cut away. Then I think while the car is on the table I'll tend to a horrible mess under the dash that was once a heater plenum area. Then it can go up on the hoist to fix a rotten chassis rail. Greg will be taking it on from not long after that, budget soon to be met. But first I must finish some bits on the Imp project so I can remove that from the hoist.

My parents replaced this car with another Datsun/Nissan sunny that we only just sold on about 5 years ago. Everyone in the family owned it and trashed it. It was called the Nissan 1.3 Racing Sunny by us all. It racked up some good mileage and it never used oil and took major beatings from us all in its stride. My brother crashed it in the early 90's after a driving pissed at xmas time. Fuck did the olds let some fireworks go then! Silly boy. Hannah and I painted it black in 2006 and added a fake front mount for shits and giggles because it was still mum and dads daily. Damn it was a good little car that. I just carjammed it and it look like the young fella who bought it aint done anything with it since This car, that sunny, my sisters Sentra and Dads two bluebirds that never let us down are what cemented Datsun/nissan as good workhorse cars in our family. Hannah and I still own a Sentra but its for sale now as doesn't get used enough. Only photo I have of 1.3 Racing Sunny

Cool. Glad you're excited. Dad wants to take it for a hoon this summer

I'll have what Steve's smoking please.

Just a klze.....

Well that's handy to know! Cheers. Yeah Steve. I've read that these engines will blow up if turned around to face the dark side of rwd. Propaganda by the probe and mx6 fwd society! You must stay fwd. Its for the greater good.. Now more importantly... What are you upto with those flywheels Mr projectb10? I do hope there might be a little mazda v6 datsun or some thing getting built? Or are you a flywheel enthusiast?

I've just come to realise that Postimage has changed its domain name over from .org to .cc which has resulted in all my previous photo links not working anymore. This has affected this thread and all my others (most likely many other threads out there too ) Its like photobucket all over again! I'd use this board to host the photos but I also post my threads up on two other forums so easiest to use a hosting site. Bummer! Off to bed.

Except I dont earn as much. but not dealing with smelly teeth though

Imp time. Yay. We went on a road trip south to go to the OS nats. We were going to take the Viva wagon but instead filled the Hiace with Datsun 120Y parts and took them to the new Owner, Greg. With the van now empty we needed to fill it. What better to fill it with than Imp parts. So the next morning while the other oldschoolers were doing circles in some paddock somewhere we went back to this place... As mentioned way back at the beginning of this thread there were Imps a plenty. Not anymore because with the help of Will several have been pulled out, the rest too far gone to save. But there were still parts I wanted. So Hannah and I found ourselves out in the sunshine with our generator and an angle grinder removing stubborn bits. I managed to locate the item I was really hoping to find , the later stronger transaxle which seem to be a bit rarer here in NZ. Happy with that We also got some other parts including a bonnet which although pretty rusty is savable. Didn't take many pics while there. Having too much fun. Here's an Imp.. and another, but sideways.. We took some pics of the Imps that Will had pulled out a while back. Now at his place. The blue one here will be coming up on a trailer when I finish the Datsun 120Y... Here's the red Imp Will extricated with a crane... After all this fun we took off over to Akaroa to join up with all the party goers for the weekend. Among other things Jesus turned up to drink beer and watch a goat race rocker covers.. Back at home now and I assembled my ever increasing lineup of transaxles.. In between other jobs including the Datsun I managed to get a bit done on the shell. I started on what I reckon is the trickiest reair on this car.. the floor. Not having access to any cheap repair panels (the cars left at that yard are worse) I had to just fabricate the sections bit by bit. I'm never one for obsessing about originality, especially on areas that no one will ever see. But I still want it to remain as strong as possible and this area involves many pressed ribs. First off was this little bit that was already cut from the shell by someone previously. Not sure why though? There was some alloy casting bit above it, maybe for a speedo cable to pass through? I welded the section back in place. Lucky they hadn't lobed that bit away. I then cut out the front of the floor. Its a little bit worse for wear.. I made a new section. It was tricky and I was really happy with it.. Then I rolled the very handy stretchyshrinky thing over. I made a little piece.. Which allowed me to move onto the big tricky bit. Tricky because the ribs have tricky to define corners which are hard to measure. I had to get the measurements correct. If any were wrong I would end up with incremental error and it be horrible to adjust later on. Very carefully I measured, marked , folded. I even turned down the music (The Radcliffe and Maconie show since you ask) and got there in the end.. I welded it in and while Hannah braced the underside with a dolly (a metal block, not a Barbie) I hammered the front edges down to create the ends. Then welded it all all. Very strong indeed. From underneath.. and now a solid drivers side floor ... So just a little section on this side at the rear of the tunnel and then over to the other side! Phew.

Here's another update. Having finished off the drivers side sill I had to fix a few trailers and other jobs that came into our country farmers fixit shop. Then back to this car for a bit. Now onto the passenger side. First off- the inner sill... I really didn't fancy opening up the outer sill until this frilly inner was solid again so I cut out the frilly bit until it was replaced with air. A rotten section of floor turned into air too... Then I made an appropriate sized piece of steel and let it in. The floor bit can wait because I have what I wanted - a solid vertical plane giving back strength.. Now the outer sill. Not as bad as the drivers side I think... - Cue loud game show buzzer sound - Wrong... It all ended up in a not very sill like mess on the floor... Luckily the inner sill was solid except for a few little areas. For example - this one heading inwards into a naughty tricky corner area. Great. Nice. Thanks... This stuff was removed... I tidied up a few other areas, cut out an area carefully designed by Datsun to form a triple skin moisture trap at the base of the A pillar... Painted all the innards with Por15 and went to bed. It looks like this now... I'm really hoping to finish the sill off tomorrow. Then I can finish the floor on the Imp and swap the cars around putting the Datsun on the hoist so I can attack the rotten Chassis rail. Annoyingly we just took in another trailer repair job this morning and I foolishly cut the broken rotten drawbar off before I checked if my local steel store had the correct steel in stock. And they don't. Bugger. So now there's a large hippy caravan trailer thing right in the way, sitting between a Datsun I want to work on and an Imp I want to work on. I shall persevere... lucky Datsuns and Imps are small

Im going to stash my ugly windscreen wash bottle somewhere other than the bay when I do swap. So not to cause clutter..

I'd have thought the K8 one would have been the lightest? However I have a K8 one and from memory it does indeed look a little less cut away then that one of yours. I must check (for future V6 project plans you see...)

Yay for updates!!!! Boo for Photobucket destroying yet a nother really good photo packed thread! Yay for latest Lotus Twink. Please do tell all about the history of this engine- its a good one Looking good Andre. I bet you breathed a small sigh of relief when you found it only to be surface rust under that battery tray.

hey Steve- is that a stock flywheel you have there in that picture?

I got mine from blacks fastners. I don't seem to remember them being very expensive.

I shall hunt one down and buy it with all the money I have. So that's a no then Wish I'd bought that cheap one that was local to me way back then... but we all have stories like that.

Great! Have fun. I am now really pining for a 99 turbo in black....

Found this in an old mag I'd got from swap meet. Thought it best to share...

Spotted this in Motueka a day or so ago. thought of you. I know it aint a 99 darling but it'll do....

Your grinder will be your best friend

You've done well with your persuasion Bart. He seems well excited. I must say I'm pretty fucking stoked that it's staying within oldschool circles too. Plus it's staying in the south island so I'll get to see it about. Hopefully if all goes well I'm sure Greg will bring it up to blenheim when it's finished and let ma and pa take it for a Hoon. They are quite excited. I've insisted that Greg takes over the build thread once he has the car. I'll smack his bottom at hammer meet if he doesn't keep us all informed with updates.