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Yeah real shit cars but I was like 9 when back to the future came out so to me they'll always be the coolest cars after the general lee.

A Delorean!!!

Going round Houghton Bay, so no chance to get a good look at it, but was fckn cool.

I saw an old Bentley (1910s) race at outlton park (UK) with a 24l W12 aero engine in it. Was mad.

If you can find someone nice enough to cert your work, it's pretty straightforward.

A lot of fitters won't even look at other people's work tho, so check it out and find someone first.

last I got was a 205gti. was the spraypainters missus' car. was so much fun i almost bought one. before that was a mid 80s auto corolla, the worst car i've ever driven and i've owned some pretty bad cars.

My daily at the mo is a nasty 1.6 sentra with auto. if it was manual it would be bearable to drive but it's doin my head in. The brumby's almost back on the road though so it's not for much longer.

On the other hand, a nice v8 with autobox is a very sweet ride so my vote's with that.

been a noob on mitsu engines.. what litreage is it? 2L ?

yeh 4g63=2litre

The twin carbs from a GT would add a little bit. great thing about hydrolastic is that it's sooooo easy to lower the car.

Place behind celtex in Newtown is good and cheap. Does cashies etc.

Solid steel? Tim's given up the game and is now living in a shed in Tawa.

That's the twin 40 DGAS I believe. Not too common, but not too expensive either. Both chokes open at once on it.

DGAV is a pretty sweet carb, good compromise between economy/drivability and top end if it's a road car.

Class, just needs louvres.

Yeah ttahts the shizz

Lot of people recommend using cheap shit $10 oil for the start to help bed in the rings. Change after a few hundy and then again at maybe 1000ks

Read up on the procedure for breaking in a new cam too. YOu don't want to let it idle for the first 20 minutes or so, else you can destroy the cam.

You'll get a few horses, but it's only about a 4% increase in capacity so it won't pin you to the back of your seat or anything.

If there's a ridge at the top of the bores it would probably be worth doing. Another option is just to hone the bores and put new rings in.

If you grind the cam/followers it will make that side of the valvetrain shorter which will alter the angle of the rockers when you screw them down giving you less lift. You need to compensate for this to get the most power.

Easiest way is to avoid it by either getting a new cam and lifters or making sure they weld new metal to the cam lobes before the regrind. Dodgy machine shops will just regrind your old cam as-is.

there's millions of A Series engines so lifters are probably cheap enough, not worth regrinding.

Yeah I got one like that from supercheap. Only like $20 and has done my ute bed and tailgate and one fender and still looks almost like new. Doesn't damage steel so it's all good.

wire wheel in a grinder works pretty well if you end up going that way. Did the bed of my ute in about 4 hours. fucken noisy tho, needed bits of toilet paper stuffed in my ears cos my old man swiped my muffs.

Your floor doesn't look that bad though don't think I'd bother with bare metal. That brush on bedliner they sell at supercheap is real good for floors. it's basically a plastic coating so it resists scuffing and is nice and waterproof.

1) Prolly not worth it unless the bores are shagged anyway. You need to strip the engine completely for a rebore, so add a full gasket kit and lots of hours to the cost. Would be silly not to check and likely replace big end/main bearings at the same time and recon the head. Probably better off spending the coin on carbs or exhaust if you're on a budget.

2) Sounds about right.

3) New or reground standards should be fine Pay attention to valvetrain geometry if the cam/followers are reground ones.

ea81s are the last subbie ohv engine, narrow enough to fit in the 1600 chassis rails without modification. Pretty sure the 1400 had the same chassis.

5sp would be good. I'd do it to mine but with dual range 4wd the levers are in different positions and I can't be bothered with cutting up the tunnel. Gives you the option to put in front LSD which might be nice.

They can be squeezed in apparently, with the help of a hammer to widen the rails.

EA81s are a direct swap, easy way to go if you just want a little more power. Cheap as too.

I've got a weber and adaptor plate but don't know if I'll even install them might just go EFI and save doing everything twice.

I'm not looking for massive amounts of power, ea81s are awesome motors but there's only so much you can reliably get from a 25 year old engine with pushrods and 3 mains.

If you want high power reliably you're best off swapping in an ej22.

Probably looking to get 120-130hp.

I'm more after the extra torque for drivability and the mad max factor of having a switchable blower.

Mad fun on dirt tracks

Eaton M45

It's happening, but on a tight budget so pretty slowly.

At the moment I'm mostly doing panel work. Hope to get that finished by christmas to take it to Nelson to spray the whole thing as I know someone with a panelshop there.

I've got a rebuilt ea81 with big valve heads which i'll clean up the ports on.

Still deciding between LPG (easy option, cheaper in the long run but will need a tank in the tray of the ute which I don't want.)

And injection with megasquirt. I've been pretty keen on ms since I heard about it so now's a good time to give it a go.

Prolly will make up some carbon fibre inlet manifolds like the aero boys do. Looks simple enough and I have plenty of experience fibreglassing.

Pretty much decided on an eaton SC from a mini cooper s. cheap and readily available in the UK (~100 quid) and more efficient than an sc12.

Haven't thought much about IC yet, but will prolly fit something as well.

Best reason I've seen yet to put a remote release on my ute tailgate

Credit to tony's who got my car sorted and gave me a car to borrow while it was being done. Came back better than before the ding, now I just need them to do the other side and it'll be mint.

I was going to be on the timing team but can't afford to take a whole week out at the moment. I'm gonna go up to palmie on Thurs to check it out, will try to get lots of pics.