Testament

Ken to meet up in taupo for burger fuel or something

that is going to be quite close if you redrill between the existing holes with the 5 stud and the pcd's being quite close. making oval holes isn't that great an idea in my mind either. But I have to say, going FROM 5x120 TO 5x114.3? 5x114.3 is pretty common, surely you can sell these on and get some wheels in the correct stud pattern? also wtf uses 5x120?

Very dedicated and hardout man! will there be any "improvements" while its in bits? new suspension bits etc? or it's pretty much already had it all done from day 1 anyway and changing anything will just make things worse? but anyway, crazy looking mad fast things are cool

copper as a material conducts heat better than aluminium, but a alloy radiator can be lighter for the same cooling capacity. Also the effectiveness of the heat exchanger depends on the tube design and construction, modern designs all use aluminium for the weight saving and therefore newer designs probably have better efficiency than old copper and brass radiators. Your proposed design could work, but I dunno to me I would really rather have a single radiator if at all possible. So the oil cooler in the pic is forward of the chassis rails? i.e. the radiator cant take the space where it is and be behind the chassis rails? how much room did the original radiator take up? Also I dont think you will have to worry too much about the weight causing sledging, the rover v8 isnt significantly heavier than most iron block 4cyl engines, it's probably lighter than quite a few even.

could you remount the oil cooler to one side and fit in a taller conventional radiator? or out front ala. boso/jap 70's racer

everyone should hope so

4x100 has thousands of options try 4x98

does it actually work, or is it made of yoghurt and you need tortrons spoon?

ok next question then, where can I buy them? do any of the regular shit places (repco etc.) sell them or only specialist panel/paint shops?

niiiiiiice

I've got to replace some bits of the sills on the 131, and need to drill out a few spot welds to replace part of the lower section, has anyone used those spot weld drills or not? any general tips? I figing a good centrepunch on the middle of the spot weld and have a go with a regular drill first unless those spot weld drills with the point in the middle and flat in the rest are that much better?

Do you actually have to take it off? probably not worth it if you dont have to for reassembly.

sometimes you can use two screwdrivers, had to do the ones on my mates landcruiser like that,the first one was quite frustrating.

sweet then

whaanga coast road would be heaps beached styles.

Fiat club taupo meeting 2009? keen for a race?

Now I know if I was to be painting a whole car I need a huge mung of a compressor etc. But what If I just want to spray primer here and there on small to medium sized sections and at most I would be spraying the engine bay in one go? i.e. so I can get it primed where its needed and do the prep etc. and than take the car somewhere else when I want to do colour and do the colour all in one go?

if your getting a beams wouldnt you just run the factory ecu? Also I thought you could run cam timing with MS or MSII? or maybe thats only on/off like early vtec, I guess the beams is a variable system not just 2 profiles.

stole his motec, damn

You still have this car? I was just flicking through some old photos from a fiat club meet at taupo in 2006 and spotted it

it depends on the width of the tyre. just search for tyre calculator on google and you will find a page with all the tyre diameters for any size you just input the wheel diameter, profile and section width

Nah it needs chev turbos

do some boat d1's

it really depends on the head you are starting with for anything more than basic tidying up. but if you think about it this way, its going to be easiest for the air to flow through a straight pipe, so your trying to make the short side radius as large as possible and have the port more downdrafted to the angle of the valve. but it really depends what your working with as to whether you can try to acheiive that, if there are even any gains to be made in that respect (alot of modern 4v/cyl heads are very good), which means you might be looking at stuff to do with the splitter or just very small gains that you really need a flowbench and many many hours to find.

I'll give someone a call when i get there or something since its going to be way after 7am