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Once you step foot into Vivadom.....

Yeah- just strip it down, stretch the oil control springs out, give the plates a scuff with a belt sander, drill some ports and rebuild it using appropriate sized electrical cable for your new water seals. Start early in the morning and you'll be ready for a few laps and a feed of KFC by the evening! You can thank me later..my advice is free.

Hey bumped into Tony and he reckons that the moutere inn does a 'quizz/something else pubby social like' night on thursdays and it might be booked out?

Im pretty sure the 1159 and 1256 share the same starter?.....

I might have a spare. I'll check this weekend. But if I do it would be a keeper in case mine fucks out. However you can borrow it until you sort yours Would just have to get it down to ya.

I clicked like because of an update. But sadface at you killing it. You naughty, naughty boy. Oh I can just picture how red your face must have been as Dingo driver continued driving past at 1kph and gave you his best old man 'tut tut..that'll learn ya' face. You should at least keep the engine and box plus any other nice bits in case you find another suitable Alfa size hole in the ground to throw money at?

I see nothing wrong with a fuel tank made by mounting a whole heap of Coca cola bottles, all interconnected by bits of green garden hose and Hanson fittings onto a roof rack made out of rusty old waratahs and Kanuka branches tied together with baling twine. All stuff a farmer type fella like yourself should have already No need for a pump and you can instantly tell how much diesel you have just by looking at the roof before you embark. You'll be the envy of many a farmer barry. Just an idea..

It's a daily trial too for adjusting cold starts too because you'll only ever get one real cold start in the morning to adjust. I tweeked my setup over a week or two of really cold winter starts to get it warm. Downtrail is right about really honing the table while every thing is warm. I find that sitting for ages trying to get idles really mint can become a bore because things change as an engine sits idling. I think it's perfect, go for a drive, stop and then it's a bit fluffy again. Just takes a few attempts. Never helped by the fact I'm running batch injection on a v6 with a very very light flywheel.

I made my Viva carpet set. Bought the carpet off the roll at upholstery place, took it home, cut it to size, took it back and the fella put edges on it and sticthed in a drivers side foot mat. Worked out really cheap and looks mighty fine.

Really good story.. perfect read while having my breakfast coffee I agree with others- its nice to read a full story on a car that someone has owned and evolved over many years of trials and tribulations. I remember driving a freshly imported cyborg back in 1995. It was a fwd model and was pretty fun considering my main drive at the time was my Triumph. Keep the updates coming!

Lovely colour !!!! Here's it brother in motueka...

Oh you guys..... So many lush ideas ! I must update thread but it's boring because it's all back together and has no spark. I've been going through the whole ignition , which I must admit is all new to me as its motorbike black magic stuff. I think /hope it's just the coil. The coil which I thought had a broken main lead and I couldn't find the break so I got in a hissy fit and chopped the lead off an inch back from the coil. Then I found that it was just the screw on cap that was loose... Umpfffffff! So I carefully twisted the copper inner back together and soldered it. Covered it in heat shrink. Stood back and pointed at my awesome bodgery, had a good ol belly laugh and then walked off for a little cry. Fucking electrickery . On a brighter note we sold the trailer for 700 bucks. So our quad only owes us 300. Plus 40 for the head gasket set. And 5 for the coil I just bought on a aliexpress(including shipping). What could go wrong with that.

Yep- very cool idea. I'll do my very best to come along. I like food

I'd say heat soak on the temp sensor too...just like I was having. Why not try altering your iat compensation table like I did a page or two back. It's made a huge difference ! Its sorted it and it's so good now at hot starts.

I'm happy to do Thursday night meet too. Keeps weekends free plus if others want to arrange some weekend cruises then it can be done so on the weeknight meets.

That combination of hot dip galvanising and Hong Shin 175/80 never fails to be the cherry on top for a potential award winning show car.

Moutere Inn certainly suits us Mot folk a bit betterer.... So any date set?

Somewhere warm. Brrrrrrrr. The speights ale house at wow is warm and has ample parking. We did that meet there. But not exactly a characterful place. But warm. Has fires. Is ideal for majority of Nelson folk. Plus if people start seeing regular old car meet there then more might come along.

I can post you my oxy torch tip files....

I fully recommend it as a good day out to those who have not been to watch the hillclimb before. Some pretty choice varied machinery turns up because its a mix of Nelson car club weapons and Vintage car club weapons (with maybe the odd Uno mixed in...) Have fun peoples!

Well... at least having carbs means you get to generate pretty patterns It is a shame that re-cert costs the full whack, so I believe, even if it's just one thing that's been changed. That was my one gripe and issue I raised when the lvvta did their survey a while back.

I thought you could do injection so long as you dont have an increase in power of more than 20% ? If it were mine Id just slap the injection on there and run it. Im sure any half decent friendly garage wouldn't give a shit. Mine wouldn't. All you are after is better running eh.. not mega power.

Man... you have acess to all the toys. Very jealous. Please tell us more about the race car! Oh and your baby ain't as fluffy as our baby so you have it easy.. no fur to clean up etc.