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Sounds like made up shit to me Let me guess He also had a land rover with a 186 from a gtr torana that would get rubber in all gears and keep up with a GTHO
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A roll of itchy header wrap is pretty cheap so I got a roll of that before I read this thread again, probably should have bought some actual muffler packing Also should have tested things more scientifically , I dunno if it's quieter or not Meh. Also took the battery out and cleaned earths and power cables where they attach to improve starting, as sometimes it goes kerrrrclikclikclikclikKER KER KER POTATOPOTATOPOTATO and now that seems to have improved
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OK so the packing did settle, but where it settled to is likely the road between my house and the Waikato area Turns out steel wool is not suitable as a packing for mufflers Also once the packing disappeared it discolored the coating on the muffler slightly I'll investigate a more suitable packing material
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The threads protruding thing comes from the CCM chapter 18 That says that a bolt must protrude past a lock nut by 2 threads The reason for this is the first thread on a bolt is a bit smaller, so a nyloc or similar lock nut will not grip the threads correctly if it's flush. Unfortunately some of the requirements in the book don't fit every situation, and sometimes are misinterpreted or applied where they don't need to be Personally I would not require 2 threads past the face of a threaded part, as long as there's enough thread engagement in the part itself
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Needs a hilux or similar ratty old truck cab adapted on to it haha
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How much have you lost in total? I really like the level of commitment to making it lighter, and doing it the way you have, making trick parts like the carbon Fibre brackets etc I was watching something the other day about dudes in America who remove things like brakes and just have a single front disc for max top speed runs, and another one who had drilled holes in his brake lever so the wind pressure at super high speed doesn't apply the brake slightly
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Yeah I would assume the ute itself would be good quality paint and clear, and the canopy will be made in nz and painted locally by the lowest bidder
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Possibly. Depends what they are. For example, 14x8 tridens have some words on the back of them, off toad use only or something like that, because at the time 8inch wheels were not legal in Australia. Then there's some skinny drag wheels that say they are for race use only because they fall to bits if you go around a corner
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Put a small fairing on it Went for a decent ride Still kind of rowdy Forgot earplugs Irritated my cochlea nerve Went to rangiriri to see where some war stuff happened back in the day Saw a lake I'd never seen before Found a burnt out ranger and a stolen van and a piano and a guy living in an integra by the lake Good day
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How good would it be to adapt a barra/turbo ls to the factory driveline and make a billion hp reliably , you could use the tears of upset gtr purists as coolant
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i went through a patch of doing heaps of certs on r32 gtrs, was about 1 a week on average, until they hit the 25year old mark, and americans could buy them, the prices went nuts and they dried up funny to think that at one stage, not that long ago, they were a 15-20k car
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Factory anchorage- you don't have to do anything, just bolt your seat to it. If you drill a new hole- it's a new anchorage- then you follow the seat mounting recipes in either the seat standard on lvvta.org.nz or in the seats chapter of the CCM
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As mentioned above 5 or 6mm will be fine The only thing to consider with using flat plate, is if it's going to flex, ie if the seat mount holes are close to the floor mount holes it's probably going to be fine, if they are not close then the flat plate can flex a bit, this can be fixed by using a gusset or another bit of flat welded on its edge In fact 3mm would probably be fine if it had a gusset Leave your seatbelt attached to the floor, not the seat, this makes life much easier
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The worst part about all this is when you posted things about datsuns etc , I thought this tricky fellow has got a gtr! But then I didn't write it in the internet before you told us! Now I just look like an idiot don't I! Well I would if I mentioned it, if I don't say anything then nobody will know. Good Anyway, you should put a 2jz in it