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Haha - I wish mate. No time and they are rougher than the photos show.

Got up nice and early this morning with tonnes of enthusiasm and plans to take care of a whole bunch of things for Wagnats, Nats and just general sorting of my lockup. Did a bit of a service on the old girl, adjusted up the handbrake and clutch plus fixed a squeak in the rear brakes. I discovered when swapping the spark plugs that I have had the wrong ones in there since I got it going. The electrode must have been recessed so far inside the head. (see photo below) Seems to run a bit nicer and the exhaust smells a lot more potent so I am assuming it is burning the fuel much better now. Won't know till I drive it a fair whack to see if it has made a substantial difference in performance or driveability. Left - 304 injected motor plug (I pulled it out just to check my finding) Middle - new correct 308 plug Right - plug I've had installed since the I got the motor going (oops) I also had the original 16" steels painted by Matt (Sorensin) and chucked those on with the pursuit hubcaps. I'm not 100% on them yet. But give me a week and I'll know whether I'm keeping them or resorting to the 15's again. 16's vs 15's Fitted

Picked up a parts car today from Whanganui. Bit haggard but its got a lot of great bits in it that I need so I snapped it up. Cheers to Duncan for being my tow bitch and Joe for letting me stash it in the back of his paddock. Getting towed down the field.

Wats Dayf?

Probably not necessary but if you wanted to be ultra cautious, then just whip the sparkplugs out, fire a small dose of CRC into each cylinder then crank it over till the oil pressure light goes out. Shouldn't take very long, then chuck the plugs back in and fire it up - bazinga - Bob's your mothers brother!

Coming up good man. Ditch the red oil cooler though. Looks whack-a-doodle.

You can doooit.

Potentially Dattohoarder / Aaron - he has horses and I think he just bought a lifestyle block. Brocky41 has a lifestyle block in North Chch too.

I've just text Plank to tell him details

Geoff got his rebuilt by Howats I believe and got a good result.

Someone told Jibber?

Sounds perfect.

I rate this a solid 8 out of 10 and would get a 9 out of 10 if you did something about straightening up the camber on the front wheels. It makes it look a lot weird.

I put any car I'm taking off the road, straight on hold after I take them off the road, and select 12 months on hold. Then every birthday I put all my "on hold" cars on hold again for 12 months as long as I am sure I will not be using them anytime soon. That means that I will put then on hold at least twice a year and the overlap will capture any irregularities and doing it every birthday means I should not forget. Only time it gets Tricky is when I have a car I take off the road only for winter. If you are not sure what vehicles are under your name then do the online form for revoking authorisation, use any rego you know is under your name. This works regardless of if you have revoked your authorisation before or not. Once you get to the confirmation stage it will give you a list of all the vehicles under your name. Includes, trailers and bikes too

Nice one Smellan. You'll do your sister proud with all the hard work going into this.

I got a car from Avis at Christmas for a similar time AK airport to AK airport and it was $283. It was a Toyota Corolla and plenty fine - just take a rag and some brake-kleen to clean off the silicone that they spray on the floormats to make them shine. It makes it super sketchy when driving if your heels are all over the show.

Man I reckon this thing is awesome - I have a soft spot for Mk3 Zephyrs. Especially boned out on those Coon wheels. Have you ditched the caps yet? LOL Also I hope you don't sell this but if you do then give me first option. I probably won't have money or room or a million other excuses not to buy it at the time but I do so very much dig it.

I hope you can see this cos I can't link it but imagine the glory of turning up to Wagnats in this... https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=covered+wagon+truck&biw=1920&bih=995&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo5sayvpjKAhVk5aYKHahiChIQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=wId_u62-UltB2M%3A

Well you could always smidge in under the "wagon rules" if you went covered wagon spec... Damn the VolksWAGEN rule rears its ugly head again!

Looks grouse. You're going to need a bigger garage soon.

Is the old build thread here? //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/30390-minimads-mk1-mini/

Lock me in Edward.

Innovate are meant to do very reliable ones also and are around $350 for a full kit. I've been looking at getting one for myself and this is the one I'm going to get. http://www.nzperformance.co.nz/innovate-motorsports-wideband-o2/mtx-l-wideband-air-/-fuel-ratio-gauge-kit.html