Vintage Grumble

^ Thats interesting as shit.

This thread needs more 4age, ^ Available room is also a contributing factor in most intake/plenum designs, its not worth convirting your car to LHD just to gain 3hp.

Put new coupling on, was slightly longer than the old one, so had to slot a few holes, and "break the welds on my manifold" to make it longer, then covered the gap with sticky tape, and fired it up, ^ Was shot with a cell ph so sound is geh/has no exhaust pipes any ways, but yeh, starts first pop, and runs pretty well, with a bit of a tune should be able to get super low idle and some revs out of it. I'm just happy it runs!

Are there any dead hookers in your boot? Their trinkets can rattle, best to clean them out and see if that fixes the problem.

Yeh, is pretty much tar, can imagine heating it up/making it gooey could get messy. I'll have a go at it once carpet is out, and if its a total cunt, i'll get the dry ice. Also I dunno if std ice would have the same effect, as that would be say -10? dry ice turns to gas at about -55, so its a piss load colder.

Chur, i'll go visit them, see if they can hook a brother up/see how much it costs. When I worked there, they were using liquid nitrogen for something, wonder how well that would work on sound deadening?

I may have to, closest BOC is in TGA/ROT, two hour drive just to get the ice. Woman love picking things, the wife can do it.

Cheers guys, I just want to remove sound deadening from a car, guess I would need a couple of boxes full? Better find me a chilly bin. Will refrain from blowing things up also (as hard as that will be)

Where would I get my hands on some dry ice? Cheers.

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=24193 Shit me.

I wee'd a little im so excited, cant wait to see what it looks/skids like.

Might be, wouldnt hurt to have spares, depends on price I guess, as im pretty broke due to this car

Had a go at this the other day, got my 2.8L turbo diesel panel straightener, and chained it to the front, gave it a yank here and there and got most of it pretty straight, only thing that went wrong (apart from snapping a G-clamp and several chains) was at one point the chain sort of ripped through the steel I was pulling on, but should be able to weld it together/patch it up. And the chain flung back and put a tiny hole in the radiator, which is being fixed at the mo, only $40 to fix, so not to bad. Also picked up a gaurd & bonnet from local wrecker for $80, they are a bit ratty, but will most likely get rattier any ways. And my $35 light showed up also. So far this has cost me $605, and once put back together should get a WOF (Dude put in a new drivers side seatbelt/front engine mount/front brake pads/two tires/new sway bar link, just before he crashed it to get a WOF) Should be a bit of fun relatively cheaply.

Cheers, yeh tires have made it look a lot better, only down side is they have a gay logo on the other side, may have to sand and paint that patch? And I was thinking about brazing the frame together, to give it that OS look? As it will only have a light/semi rust paint job any way, golden joins may look chur? Hopefully when I get back to work the coupling will have been done, and I can get stuck into it, if works not to busy.

I guess on my 4age the gain in throttle response is more a result of going from 10:1 to 12.5:1 comp ratio, rather than the quads. (cant be weight of internals in my case, as mine got a fair bit heavier) Like you say, I guess power gain depends on how crap your original intake is to start with.

My silver top quads are perfectly round both ends? Would quads be a waste of time on a slow reving motor? I was under the impression you dont gain piss all power, just makes the motor more responsive?

^ Yeh, that dude knows how to spend money, I hear the car will be racing again very soon. A local chap is making a space framed 350Z twin turbo to try beat it, will be around 7/800hp, got a lot of fancy shit in it. Also, Mr BigDave, are these cars loose as shit in the rear/always trying to wrap you round trees? Beautiful car by the way, love the unigue designs of these beasts.

Yeh, if they are 3 inch/ones with expiry dates, you have to have cage/log book and so on, but you are able to have club sport spec ones (no exp date/2" wide/std buckle) in there along with the std belts. I have 2 inch club sport ones with no expiry dates on them, and have them mounted at the factory seat belt anchor points (under rear seat and so on) but it is illegal to use them while on the road (so I was told by WOF man)

Was hoping to have this going by now, but waiting on a mate to bore the new larger coupling out, going to try an interference fit. Hopefully this coupling can handle the immense power! The only other things ive got done is fit the new tires, pretty happy with them, they look a lot more motorbikish due to their size, and slapped some handle bars on, will most likely make some new ones, that are more "U" shaped/uprite later on. Also slapped a mud gaurd on the back, it will end up a bit shorter then in the pic,

I just went to have a yarn with my lax WOF guy, turns out hes no longer in business So I went to see back up WOF guy, whos normally a bit strict, and he said its sweet as to have no back seats/belts? Said he'll give me a WOF as long as its all gone, said if you have seats, you have to have belts and vise-versa, and that theres nothing in the rule book about having to have them in there, he'll just make a note in the system that they are gone.

The car im wanting to remove the seats/belts in is a 92

So you didnt need a cert, just changed the info on the reg?

Ok, so it sounds like there are rules, but some WOF guys dont follow them? My WOF dude is pretty lax, i'll go ask him about it, Cheers.

Sounds fucking tops, likey.

I suck at internets, cant find anything regarding rear seat and belt removals. What I want to know is do you have to get a cert to obtain a WOF with rear seats and belts removed? I had a crazy feeling back in the day you could do this and still get WOF's if you permanently coverd/block up the seat belt mounting points? Can anyone show me/tell me the rules regarding this kinda shit? Would prefer to ditch rear gear so I dont have to stick it back in to get WOF's. Any help/info would be tumeke.