cubastreet

I just remembered I was ok with duty coming back from uk - if you've been abroad more than 2 years or something personal stuff is not charged.

I had a mk2 astra in england that went up to an indicated 100mph.

I bought it for 200 quid so i was pretty impressed with how well it did. never managed to kill that thing and sold it for 330.

Bear in mind that customs will charge you 12.5% import duty on everything except clothes. This includes personal goods, I got stung coming back from USA.

Gutted ... no subaru shizzle.

rarespares will charge about 250 for windscreen seal, was hoping to get it cheaper + door seals

I just bought my second '81 Subaru Brumby.

The very last of the old round headlight subies, the first with the 1800 EA81 engine and dual range 4WD.

The new one's on the left, I've had the right one for 3 or 4 years.

I've done some upgrades to the old one over the years. I'll transfer these over to the new one after a bit of resto work.

The new one's in better nick all round.

current/soon to be done mods:

weber carb

massive 14" rally rims

halogen headlights

viscous slippery in the rear

I have a pair of big valve heads I've done minor work on which I'll throw on. Major limit is that ports are siamese int+exhaust.

other planned mods:

upgrade solid disk/drum to vented disk/solid disk front/rear off turbo leone

upgrade gearbox to AWD/4WD instead of current FWD/4WD

still seriously considering:

Eaton M45 supercharger from a mini.

love to but probably won't:

adjustable ride height. It rides and handles pretty well, but would obviously handle better on the road if it was lower. I love driving it offroad/gravel road though so don't want to sack it.

84 mazda capella

73 austin 1300

73 ford transit ambulance 2L V4

79 ford transit crossflow

1981 nissan micra

1993 vauxhal astra

1996 LDV DAF

1988 nissan sentra

1979 lancer

1981 subaru brumby

70%

I'm looking for a workshop somewhere in Welly city.

It's gotta be reasonably secure and have power. Double garage would be ideal.

Anyone know anything?

Beautiful shot of the cement.

The scrap place on college st is worth a try too

I had the same thing on my bumby a couple of months ago on cylinder 4.

Turned out it was the almost new spark plug, so don't assume yours is OK cos it's new.

If it happened suddenly without lots of smoke or something, I'd look at spark first.

Yeah the craptachi is shit.

Mine hesitates on my ea81 it needs a rebuild but it's gonna get a weber when I get my workshop set up.

I just replaced my coil with a mallory promaster off tardme which made it smoother throughout the rev range, especially off idle. It still has a hole when I stamp the throttle.

The EA82 turbo is reliable if you don't let it overheat.

Make sure the radiator, hoses and water pump are good and you'll be fine.

They don't have a hell of a lot of grunt but they're fun to drive.

The real bulletproof engine is the EA81, 81-85ish.

GC at SAS sorted me out. Think they were for a similar vintage corolla.

good thinking batman

Only 60mm of shock travel, but it attaches halfway between the hub and the torsion bar so 120mm of wheel travel.

I found 5 shocks from there that would fit durty, but they're american numbers and don't match the aussie built shocks available here.

I got some from SAS in the hutt but the bottom mount is too small (12mm, needs to be 15) else they'd be perfect. Hopefully they'll have some others that will fit.

Nobody seems to be able to help me with rear shocks for my subaru brumby.

the oe shocks are kyb, #443354 now unavailable

at the bottom they have a 25mm eye

at the top they have a stud

compressed they are 345mm from the centre of the eye to the bottom of the stud

extended they are 405mm

any help would be good chur

apparently ben collins:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 ... 470055.htm

There were loads in Nelson when I was there a few weeks ago, rotas everywhere.

My 81 Brumby

Well I took it into VTNZ on Vanguard St, just because it was convenient.

Right from the start the guys looked twice as hard at it as they did the other cars I saw them do.

However, they weren't assholes and didn't fail it because the horn wasn't working very well or the RR wheel bearings could do with adjustment.

The only thing was the brake lights weren't working because the switch was stuck after sitting for a year.

I now have WOF!

Out with the manufacturers, in with the privateers?

Let's hope so. Motorsport is not going to die, the optimist in me says this could be the start of a new era of competition.

a nurburgring astra, is that a chav's wet dream or what?

Fram FTW

haha just google 'fram filter crap'

have heard lots bad things about fram

yeah if you want more power and still good idle and low end, go for more lift rather than more duration. Will make the valvetrain wear faster though.

I have an old subaru brumby with the ea81 1800 pushrod engine.

I'm going to replace the carb soonish as the old one was bad to start with, and now there's a big flat spot.

I have two carbs at my disposal - a weber 34/34 ADF from a fiat twincam

and the old trusty 32/36 DGAV.

fook me if I'm wrong but the combined area of the chokes is pretty much the same, so I'm guessing each will flow about the same air wide open.

Does anybody know how the difference in primary size will affect things?

Less low end torque for the 34?

Better mid range without having to open the secondary?

Fuel consumption?

The ADF is mo sexy but I use the car off road a bit so don't want to lose anything in the low end.