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Thats class LE - a trike.

You can also combine the accounts. (or I can)

Looks like the hose needs to be rotated 1/4 of a turn anticlockwise (on the square), are the hoses routed correctly? Are they the correct hoses for the vehicle? You don't want to be taking any meat off the calliper, it could be tricky to prove that it has not affected the stength of the calliper, even though a finger in the air test says it will be fine, I wouldn't.

See Note 4 (or 5, I can't remember which - I looked at it earlier today), I have a stick on plate on the front of my Prius and I will be using that as an out if I get poked by my WoF inspector.

I would love it, but nah, I'm also decluttering at the moment.

They have to have an ADR compliant label on the bullbar.

A dealer would only sell factory bulbars etc which will be airbag compliant.

NZTA and sensible are mutually exclusive.

In my opinion, vehicles once they reach a certain age should be able to have all the driver assist, ABS, airbags etc removed, just because getting parts for them if they go bung will be impossible. But it probably needs to be longer than 14 years, cos my Prius is nearly 14 years old and its just broken in.

I need to do a Facebook post on LVVTA page about he Bullbars thing but I put off doing it on a Friday because I wasn't mentally prepared for the pushback over the weekend.

Yes

Sweet, they definitely did not do them when I was looking a couple years ago. Crane did them but they were well over a thousand bucks just for the cam. I wrote this response before you posted above but it might be worth saying for others knowledge, if its a cam designed for a flat tappet and you use it with roller lifters, it will fuck the roller wheel, a flat tappet cam has a very slight side to side slope on the lobe to rotate a flat tappet lifter and a roller lifter on a flat tappet profile will mean all of the valve spring pressure will be concentrated on one side of the roller wheel. It might be OK, but I would be not wanting to risk it.

@Vk304, I did not know Mace made a roller cam for the Iron Lion? When I was researching for mine, all of their 304 stuff was for flat tappet cams.

Stupid question, does it need an exciter wire?

Yeah of course you can dump at mine. Suffficient room permitting, or chuck it in my spot at @Unclejakes lockup, again, room permitting. I'll move whatever is mine to make room for you.

Technically no but excessive wheel alignment can cause handling issues. This means that if the vehicle veers significantly to one side, or the vehicle requires unreasonable force to steer, or the steering is unreasonably stiff, rough or light, or the vehicle does not handle safely under normal conditions of road use, eg the suspension is excessively hard or soft, or there is excessive body roll, or the vehicle does not self-centre, then it fails.

I put a nail through the carpet to mark the bolt hole in the floor. Then used a 12mm socket on an extension, heated the socket till it had a cherry red ring at the leading edge and the nail was a great target to lower the socket around, it burnt through the carpet and insulation leaving a perfectly round hole, plus it had the benefit of a nice cauterized the edge of the carpet so it wouldn't unravel (good old el-cheapo synthetic carpet material). Definitely far better than the old drill through the carpet jobby I used to do which just ended in multiple holes and with frayed carpet sticking out.

Fuck no.

I see no problem with this. Even less of a problem on the Chathams. PS - I'm sure you already know this but if you galv your wheels, re-torque them daily for a the first week or until you they no longer move when you re-torque them (whichever is longer). The galv under the wheel nut will wear away as the wheels and galv coating bed in to each other.

Nope, adjustable HEIGHT will get you in trouble though.

I'll be there in a shitmobile, providing I don't get screwed by Murphy.

I'm running Penrite 20W-50 and Comp Cam roller lifters. Cheers

Looking fantastic and keep the rake, it looks so cool. Also as a suggestion for a low key weight increase, a 25mm thick chunk of ply laid on the floor would not look offensive and they weigh the best part of 50kg. Also if you shift the battery right to the back and under the floor should give you most of the weight you need.

Should be dark brown like the bottom of the door cards But thanks.

So, since this has been on the road, I've been ironing out a few niggly issues. A couple of vibrations and noises being the main culprits for now. One of the vibrations was the brand new harmonic balancer. Totally my fault. I'm an idiot and don't want to talk about it, but a word of advice, aluminium harmonic dampers are not designed for street cars and I now have a $400 paperweight on my desk... I also found the driveshaft was ever so slightly out of phase from when it was built by local driveshaft "specialist" back when I first did the V8 conversion. luckily I could pull it apart and because it has a centre CV joint with a spline making it easy to reclock it and get the driveshaft close enough to in phase. The main harmonic has gone but there is still a vibration between 90 and 100Km/, so currently have a digital protractor on order and going to check the front and rear UJ angles and bring those back into coo-ee if they are different. If that doesn't fix it then its off to the driveshaft shop (a different one) for a balance, because I cannot see any non-factory balance weights on the driveshaft halves and I don't have the confidence the local driveshaft "specialist" even bothered to balance it. Also as the engine has bedded in it developed a bit of lifter noise, so in the process of adjusting all the lifter clearances again, which if you know anything about Holden engines, know how much of a pain in the dick this is, remove the pedastal, linish a small amount off the bottom of each rocker pedastal, reinstall, check, remove, repeat until the clearance is right. Got the passenger side bank done, but gave up for the night after 3 hours. Drivers side next week. But in good progress, I spent today installing the carpet. Thank god I'm not an upholsterer, this is not a fun job, my body is too old, to unfit and too inflexible to be doing this shit. But I got it done and it looks reasonable. Yes its the wrong colour but a brand new brown carpet set came up for very cheap on Marketplace and I just took a $400 fortnightly increase in my mortgage repayments earlier this month so its close enough until I can afford to buy the right colour carpet. Anyhow, it matches the brown of the dash and centre console kinda OK and I learnt a lot installing it, meaning the right colour one should be easier. Pic for fred.