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Got new brake hoses, tube nuts, brake pipe clips, some copper nickel pipe, made some hose brackets and joined toyota parts to plymouth ones

Great work. The intercooler hanging out the front has always been my least favorite thing about this car, and now you have fixed that with something that matches the look of the flares and rear spoiler. I shall give you a crisp high five as a reward

Should be fine

@RX FORD sprayed some hippo liner on a tray recently with good results

Sorry I missed your first post S/b vehicle requires one interior rear view mirror, and a drivers side outer mirror minimum If an interior mirror is not effective due to body shape etc, then outer mirrors on both sides. They must be capable of doing the job of a mirror, so they have to be able to see what's behind you, not wobble around with vibrations or wind etc

There are hundreds of things in info sheets, newsletters, standards, certifier updates, training records... as well as the CCM. It's impossible to remember them all. I failed a car for undersize suspension arms a while back and it was the customer that found a paragraph in a newsletter that said they were actually OK in that specific front end The information evolves and changes faster than the paper versions of manuals are practical for, LVVTA has been doing updates on the CCM and standards to make it more of a 'single source' document but it takes a long time , the CCM was released in 08 and had an update in 2010 and only recently has had a few chapters updated

Your car probably has single sensitive belts in the front if that's the case, in most cases that's an easy bolt in swap to dual sensitive type You could potentially get away without a cert if it has factory optional upper anchorages under the trim , and you don't put a middle belt in /register as a 4 seater @piazzanoob car was a bit different as due to the year it could get away with no rear belts and lap belts only in the front, with an upper anchorage exemption

Have a look at the seatbelts section of the wof virm, there's a section on what year vehicle must have what belt based on first registration date https://vehicleinspection.nzta.govt.nz/virms/in-service-wof-and-cof/general/vehicle-interior/seatbelts-and-seatbelt-anchorages

Have you considered some tyres more suitable for drag racing so you can maximize your times?

That's a pretty impressive gain !

That seems reasonably priced? Last time I looked at decent output electric motors they were really expensive for anything that made decent power

Is dropping the carb side of the engine down a bit and raising the other side an option?

Rear swaybar? Must be the bathurst edition? I'd recommend having a yarn to the repair certifier before doing anything to the undersides Covering anything with paint or underseal can lead to headaches , have had many customers do things like that then have to strip it all off again for repair cert inspection They may also have recommendations for someone to blast it if that's what it needs If you do need to get it blasted I'd strip it as much as you can so there's as little things to get sand in and overspray on as possible. The people who do it for a job are not the sharpest tools in the shed so it's not uncommon to see the chrome on shock shafts get a blast or other dumb things They are also only good at painting in their line of sight so be prepared to have to touch it up yourself Here's one I have on the hoist right now actually

Those spacers must have the same spigot system as the arms do There isn't a maximum height but that's because they usually are not that big, around 40mm is the most common size from memory

Buy 2 and put another motor in the back

Neat car but I think for conversions like that to become popular, the price of ev parts will have to come down a lot. 100kw, granted it would have heaps more torque, but a stock 4age has the same power? And it cost 30k The fact it costs less to run isn't really that much of a plus unless you do heaps of kms, as the higher initial build cost would take forever to gain back in fuel savings on a weekend only sort of car

I got some different mirrors. These are "sport" mirrors. They were standard on 454SS trucks , with the powerful bathurst winning two hundred and thirty horsepower 7.4 litre engine coupled to a 3 speed automatic transmission. These were well known as being extremely fuel efficient, Toyota copied the fuel injection system for the first gen prius and were not able to get the same economy on petrol as the SS I have a theory that the SS's incredibly low fuel consumption is because of the small mirrors so I'm expecting to get a result where my 350 actually makes petrol go back into the tank. Also now I can't see behind me as good but I don't care because I'm not living in the past maaaaan

@bigfoot is the resident Mitsubishi fiddler he may be able to help on interchangeability

When it came out the side behind the wheel= louder than standard, it has a 3" pipe and a stainless straight thru muffler. My boss took it to a muffler shop to get the cat removed and headers fitted. The muffler guy cbf fitting the headers so cut the cat out and changed the muffler instead. Boss was a bit ?? Anyway When I lowered it I chopped it off at the muffler= very loud, made all the plastic on the rear cab wall rattle Side exit in front of the wheel= somewhere in between Eventually I'll re do the exhaust , fit the headers and probably make it a little bit quieter I disassembled the grille and painted the inserts black and fitted new headlights the other day, front looks a bit tidier I looked at new grilles on rockauto and they are pretty cheap ($180 ish) but freight was over a grand so nope nope nope this grille will be fine

I didnt actually know about pushlock needing clamps until this lockdown actually, was trying to find suitable hose for my own car that doesnt crack and perish, many of the hose manufacturers recommended clamps if over x temp or pressure What you mention makes sense though , you wouldn't want to use clamps that put too much pressure on the hose and cut it

Nice car! Is this the radio you are talking about? Says Plymouth on it though

Yep, will need clamps if pressure is over 60psi on a pushlock fitting

Notes 3 and 4 in the box say they have to be assessed to CCM spec if they are custom made or not identifiable Here is the CCM requirements

It gets very very difficult when you cant prove who made them, to the point where I bought a new set of spindles that had a brand name (belltech) cast into them to replace some other ones I already had (probably chassistech but I couldnt prove it 100%) They are a good way of lowering a vehicle if they have been designed correctly and you dont mind doing the supporting modifications that often go with them This is what the standard says

Yep as long as its purpose designed automotive fuel hose Only applies/applied to vehicles with a significant power increase over oe or a modified drive shaft