Brock-Lee

Dont lie. Letting it down off the jack and having the jack get stuck/car bottom out on things is awesome. It means that you might need another set of springs but it still makes you smile etc.

Pics of how low it ended up?

I hope it wasn't one of you goobers that got airlifted to hospital from makara after snorkelling badly.

You better keep us updated you dick.

Fuck yeah. You rad.

Haha could this be the cause of your terrible times with getting this running?

/lingpost

I can attest to super well planted handling of this thing. Just rails around corners flat but is still a lush enough ride for long drives etc.

This makes me moyst

Rules. Slam it on a3as and it will make my year.

Keep vents please.

Pauanui:

Kilbirnie:

Somewhere close to Te aroha maybe? It ruled soooo much but the jokers wanted like 18k for it or something just as silly. It looked to have a LOT of spiders inside haha.

Yeah I figure its pretty much par for a 40 year old car. I wouldnt be worried at all if I didnt have to fix it all by march haha.

Ben, I still stoke out every time I walk into the garage. gotta pay costs to be bossssss etc.

Im pretty sure I still win
 

Fuel tank, fuel lines, front subframe broken, susp. bushes all around, LCA in the front is pwnt, rust, top shock mount in rear, brakes need rebuilding all round, rust, paint, diff mounts are fucked, CV boots and the internal drum handbrake thingy is fuuuuucked on one side.

Not all on that list is needed to be fixed for Nats but most of them will stop me getting a wof haha. Also I need to make me some struts that arent uncaptve by ~100mm(zip ties and hose clamps sorted me to this point but if I get time it would be nice haha)

As I say, its all doable, its just going to cost me cubic dollars to get it sorted in time.

/I have no job after Jan so looks like Im on to a winner

Soon after that^ I drove it up north so it could live in a nice warm garage while I ignored it for a while. Over the last few days I have been returning the height to standard and sorting out what I thought was going to be a few small items for its upcoming WOF. 

Holy lol. 

The more I started working on it the more scary I found. None of it is unfixable but it means a few things will require temporary fixes just to get by until after I try to take it to Nats. 

This is a super pointless update but I am waiting for some paint to dry and I cbf starting another job so I am just wasting time yup yup.

Here is a pic because threads suck without them

EDIT: Also, fuck the fuel system in these things. My evening tonight is going to be spent trying to trouble shoot a 40 year old EFI system. Fun fun fun

Discuss

Haha I was getting excited about having another BMW e3 on OS.

This is also rad as balls though. Will make for a wild car at the end of it! Keen to see some skid vids asap haha.

LHD is so much win!

Super keen to see this project progress.

Oh man. I don't envy you at all, I was actually in tears with laughter at some points because the wiring I was bodging was so bad.

PS that reverse switch is one of my finer moments in life.

Yah I'm in a similar boat to GZA up thur. Xmas part-a's for dayze.

I wont be at watermark but I can put money on the fact I wont be in driving condition.

Have fun you gayboes

Are you putting regular window flashings inside those frames? Are the windows going to end up small as bro?

EDIT: You must be starting to fizz now!

The only issue I can see safety wise is that it will look terrible.

Stop mucking around with stuff that isnt final. Cut the struts down and get them welded up and then throw your legit short shocks in and have another play.

Do you reckon a couple of hose clamps around the strut tube would take the weight of the car to test it? I like testing things before gluing them on with metal.

my lower spring perch had a big ass grub screw that I could mock things up but I ended up just doing the just captive and then move it down a bit for mo slam.

I would run some calcs just in case so you have a rough idea of where things sit but I am weird and take way too long to do anything.

I looked for the part number but couldnt find it. I just rung them up and asked for whatever the chassis code pulsar they came from front shocks.

That was about 2 months ago.

I went to buy some for Laurens ke26 after we cut the struts too much.

ps. fuck you 

A pipe cutter also works mean to mark a straight line for you to slice with a grinder. Also a piece of paper wrapped around the shaft gives you a mean line to mark - the wider the bit of paper the straighter the line

Last time I rung up george stocks in auckland they had the correct shocks on the shelf etc. (koni rather than kyb) and they were around $110 each trade haha.

Have a look in Simon's corona coupe thread. Add baffles to factory tank as well as a bug ass in tank pump. If you got skills/hookups it'll be cheap and quiet. External pumps be noisy as fuck.

I think surge tanks look dumb and if I couldn't hide it under the car I'd be doing the add baffles thing.

Lol I owe rogy a dollar.

PS. Beave, it's lendich construction.