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Ive been continuing to pick away at the 7M motor. @Roman dave made me some prototype pistons to try out some things. with my big cams and increased lift there is still a million rooms between the valves and the pistons. im never going to keep this a non interference engine if im aiming for 11 to 1 so i might as well re-think the whole piston dome situation. all those years building stupid two stroke engines might just pay off after all........ upshot is that i can run bigger valves without any clearance issues - only thing limiting this really is the 5M head's fondness for cracking between the valves and the spark plug hole. the other thing ive done is to sort out the cambelt/front pulley drive on the front of the crank. 5Ms have a stepped crank at the front and the cam pulley has a larger internal diameter than the crank pulley, 7Ms do not, the 7M crank pulley is larger internal bore than the 5M. so i machined the front of the crank and cut a new keyway in the crank so i can run the 5M pulleys on the 7M crank. i did spend 2 hours machining the crank only to find that it was bent and the middle journal was running out by half a millimeter. i had a spare crank so i just used that in the end. 2022-04-10_04-22-50 by sheepers, on Flickr 2022-04-10_04-23-10 by sheepers, on Flickr 2022-04-10_04-22-58 by sheepers, on Flickr 2022-04-10_04-22-44 by sheepers, on Flickr 2022-04-10_04-22-30 by sheepers, on Flickr 2022-04-10_04-22-37 by sheepers, on Flickr 2022-04-10_04-22-22 by sheepers, on Flickr 2022-04-10_04-22-14 by sheepers, on Flickr

fuck i LOLed

well then, now we're home again. total of 3750 Ks at 7.5 liters per hundy. never missed a beat. i fucking thrashed the shit out of the poor old thing too, like i revved the fucking balls off this thing and its fucking loving it. no rocker tick, no chain rattle, nothing, hasn't use a single drop of oil either. the only thing that happened is that the exhaust got smashed against the ground and its now touching part of the chassis so it makes a little rumble noise every now and again but it only does it when its cold. also im fucking glad i welded that piece of angle iron to the front of the trans sump because that fucker took some big hits. bit of exhaust muntage like i say but the big smashing was all gearbox. its hard to tell from the photo but this thing is bent up good.

Bonus footage

Waiting in line to get on the ferry back to the good island then keep heading north.

Bloody 4 Square has taken over the whole south island mayte, you can't drive 50 meters without going past one. They sell piss though

Another ace day on the road. Had lunch with @vivaspeed and Maria in Oamaru. We're currently in Twizel which for some reason has two 4 squares about 50M apart. No issues to report, did hit a massive lump in the road just out of Ranfurly but I can't see any major damage.

What a day! Went to Highlands Park this morning for the smallest Toyota fest I've ever seen. Then went to look at old gold mining shit. Then meet up with @kiwi808 for a guided tour. Which ended at a wine tasting. Thanks heaps Jonny and Jo for spending your afternoon looking after us. Tomorrow we're going to hang out in graveyards.

You are not going to believe this! It was raining on the west coast. So we cannonballed from franz down through haasssttt then across to wanaka. It wasn't raining in wanaka. Now we're in cromwell. Going to fuck around here for a couple days, see jonny @kiwi808 tomorrow and drink some more booze.

7 hours in the saddle today and now we've in Franz Josef. Fucking great day. Empty roads and beautiful warm weather all day. Big red is just fucking crushing it, what an awesome car.

Went to a bbq. It was ace with heaps of good cunts.

Frikin mid day piss up mayte

Yea just hanging out being cool.

I haven't

Another sweet day. Made it across the ditch then into Nelson for a look around. Then we crossed over to marahau. We're walking the Able Tasman track tomorrow for 4 days and while we're doing the red car is staying with Alex. Also the car is filthy. And also also jokers are mad keen for yarns.

Yea choice.

Fuck. What an awesome day. This old girl has still got a few tricks up it's sleeve i tell you what. Curzed all day at 70 mile an hour, over taking trucks at 85. And did it all at 7.2 litres per hundy. I just rolled into Wellington and I feel great, no sore back, no numb arse, fucking ace. This thing is fucking rad.

fuck a bbq would be ace but whatever works guys. the saturday evening will be tight but the wednesday arvo would be super awesomeo

yes. tomorrow I'm driving this car to Cromwell and back. probably. was going to go to toyota fest but thats cancelled so whatever, we're just gonna cuze around. spending the first part of the trip walking the Able Tasman track, then down to Cromwell via the west coast. back up through Twizel and Ranfurly to Hanmer. then its onto the boat and back home. ill be in Cromwell for two days (12th and 13th) but all over the show otherwise. not sure if we're going to make it to chch, we'll see what happens. i will be in Frans Joseph for a night too at some point. anywho, id be keen for a beer and a yarn if i happen to see anyone but we'll see how we go.

I spent today cutting and polishing the paint There were a couple of areas that weren't finished very well by the guy who painted it so i fixed it. Then I waxed it. Now I can't move my arms. Picture shows car that may be shiny, hard to tell how good it looks from a pic really ..

This is what 1400$ worth of cams for a 5M looks like. They have been welded, hard faced, then ground to a specification that should work. Time will tell.