cletus
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Post a pic of old cars left to rot into the ground
Idea inspired by/stolen from http://www.carsinbarns.com
and the thread with cortinas in.
Old mazda truck on a farm in Hunua
Mazda b1500 in bush at Clevedon, its a bit worse now, this was a few years ago
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i had one exactly like this, same colour....probly 10 years ago. i remember trying some 17s on it back then and it didnt look right, it doesnt suit the shape of the body. needs slammage and wide 13s,14s or 15s IMO.
looks like a good start for a project
removing the badge from the middle of the grille makes it look 73% better too
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mini world magazine has a lot of ads for wheels in it
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fuck that i wouldnt put wheels designed to potter around a golf course at 25kph on my car no matter how cheap they are
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i wouldnt do that, theres probably a lot of load on that part of the caliper stopping the two`fingers` from bending up under loading.
Plus im pretty sure they are cast alloy not iron?
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Be interesting to find out where the cars came from. Maybe when you checked in as a nutbag you lost your car to them?
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falcon b/w lsd are cone type rather than clutches if that makes any difference.
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you'd be supprised how many haters there are out there for it.
pale gamer nerds who think they are clever cause they found some spelling mistakes.
good on you for organising something positive.
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http://lvvta.org.nz/stdSeatAnchorage.pdf
go down to 2.9
this has requirements for the mounting plates.
has most of the rules certifiers follow, available at the top of the first page under `documents`
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so according to the rebuilders they can get about 112Kw at the wheels out of it
"about 112Kw" is quite precise
also that much power out of an old nail of an engine for $730 sounds too good to be true.
i smell bullshit. be careful you dont get ripped
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helpful for you? widened elderly datsun wheels.
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i found a hilux diff head in some long grass when i was taking my dog for a piss. it wasnt even broken or damaged either
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So if a positive ground car bumped into a negative ground car, would there be dzzzztttd when the bumpers touched??
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That said to confuse you further, a 4V Cleveland head is considered too big for street use due to insufficient velocity (at least according to all the experts out there). So why is it then that many Mitsi 4V ports are bigger per cylinder capacity and so velocity is less. The only reasonable answer is that all the experts are well and truely wrong
Steve
the mitsi can probably get away with a bigger port because the fuel is squirted directly at the valve from the injector rather than having to get dragged out of a holley and make its way down the manifold and port. the older engine needs velocity to keep the fuel atomised properly
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205/70/14 balloons.
you could work it out by measuring how much gap you have now between the spring plate and the ground, minus how high the traction bar is. also check how the spring sits, if the front spring eye is lower than the spring plate then the front of the traction bar will be even closer to hitting the ground.
you might be better off with a link bar off the top of the diff housing to the inside of the chassis rail, gt falcons had that, possibly some escorts or capris as well.
or a 2 inch block and reset springs.
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i had some of those bars on a car with 2 inch blocks once, they were a pain in the asshole due to being too low/got stuck on speedbumps etc.
so with 75mm blocks would be worse, depending on what size tyre you are using
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pg hydraulics in east tamaki. not cheap but do a proper job.
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the biggest problem is, if the law gets abused/misused by police it becomes an issue....i know a guy who got his valiant impounded for loss of traction. he had been at a legal burnout comp and fried his trans. put a new box in and was road testing it, some spilt trans fluid was burning/smoking on the exhaust. cop pulled him over because of the smoke, saw the rubber up the rear guards and impounded it.
in my opinion, the laws that were already there are enough, its just that cops probably have better things to do than spend all friday and saturday night enforcing the current law, so people get the idea that its not working the way it is. the reaction to that is to make the punishment harsher.
Did anybody else see the thing on close up last night, where some bloke got knocked off his pushbike and killed by a drunk 70 year old woman. so far she has lost her license for 28 days (and has got it back and can drive again). How fucked up is that?!?
but if you do 3 skids in 4 years, thats it....off to the crusher
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4 link or leafs.....ladder bars/2 link is a waste of time in a road car. turns the rear axle into a giant swing arm, the only side to side movement it has is the flex in the bushes.
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i busted 7 in my mark twice cortina and 2 in my esky van
the local wrecker ran out of escort diffs because of me
the spider gears are the weak link they dont like axle tramp
i broke one doing a burnout on a pile of dead geese to see if it would smell like roast chicken
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or a flowmaster they are poos. unless you like the exhaust through a tin shed sound.
i put a 50 series flowmaster on my last project, thats meant to be their quiet one, it was cool at max revs but droney and horrible everywhere else, split into 2 pipes and put 2 lukey syle muffs in and it was lovely. chase auto parts in penrose have a large range of mufflers at good prices.
also it went better, when i pulled the flowaster off the paint was burnt off where the angled baffles are inside it, from all the gases having a fight to get out
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if the engine is larger than was fitted by the factory it needs cert.
doesnt matter if the same model had a bigger engine fitted....quite often the higher powered versions had better brakes to cope with it.... eg a 4 cyl commodore had tiny brakes compared to a v8 one
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have seen a couple of rotary engined veehicles with carb secondarys modified to open mechanically, thus giving the illusion of more power due to the fact there is a big flat spot and then surge. = wanky.
the reason a holley carb with mechanical secondaries is known as a double pumper is because it has two accelerator pumps to stop the lean condition when the second throttles are opened
Copper head gasket sealing agent
in General Car Chat
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i seem to remember reading something about annealing copper gaskets with an acetylene torch to soften it before use.
maybe have a chat to someone who runs a drag type engine i think they re use copper gaskets regularly