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Yeh, im looking foward to having a blast with a working power valve, should be chur. Dont have much money to spend on it tho, so will remain pretty std for the time being. Old dude that was gonna buy my YB has pulled out, is going to borrow a bike to get legal, cunt, so if anyone is interested: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =265749373 $900.00 and shes all yours.

Got me a KDX220, is still road legal, has a WOF, reg on hold. Nothing better then a two stroke enduro on the road! Rebuilding motor at the moment, as it had a gumed up power valve. Doing a few other minor things to it, will slap up some pic's soon, this is what it looked like when I got's it's: Much to some ppls horror I am de-purpleing it, as I hate purple, so will soon be all green white and black! I would also like to take this opportunity to say good bye to this little fella, the gosh darn best motorbike i've ever owned, sad to see it go, but I got piss all money, and piss all shed space, so It had to go to make way for the KDX. Sold it to an old dude with a Harley, and no licence, so is gonna use it to get legal. This is my first MX/Enduro bike, so have a bit to learn about maintaining it and riding it properly, but should be fun!

I had a car that clipped gears pretty bad, an old dude told me to mix 50/50 normal gear oil and ATF, and shit me, it worked, stopped clipping straight away, lasted for about a year (20000ish km) before it started clipping again, but if your rings are completly pee-row it prolly wont do jack.

Cars looking chur. Video is also chur. Did you use those suction cups you can get off trademe? If so, they any good? I just remembered I failed you super hard, sorry I forgot to price up bearing

Looks so sweet already, amazing what good wheel fitment will do for a car. I want new wheels.

My silver top did this for about 3 months, never found out what it was, and then one day it started running sweet, never happened again. Two guys I know have had a similar problem (both with silver tops tho) both turned out to be ECU, they have shit diodes or something in them, common for them to leak their slime out, and cause weird faults.

Depends what you intend to do with it, IMO: Big port blue top = super easy to slap in a RWD, has good low down grunt, but lowest power out put of the 4ages. not good to turbo because of light internals. Small port red top = best NA motor to do up if you get the one with the smaller con rods, and if you get the one with the big con rods (same as a ZE) its great to turbo because its strong as shit and has MAP sensor. Silver top = they are cheap, strong, good NA, and also make a good turbo motor, but have AFM rather than MAP, but you would need an after market ecu any how, so not a prob. Black top = best standard motor, but pricey, and the con rods are tiny, so not good to turbo, or for high power NA. Super charged = Best motor to turbo. Thats a general sort of over view, but I kinda think silver top is the best all rounder and bang for buck.

As requested by Jeff, ^Someone painted old wheels while on the car?

If ya get stuck, let me know, I work for a bearing distributor, IKO/INA/Torrington/McGill all have huge ranges of imp spherical bushes.

Posting pics for Jeff: 10 inch rim on back, looks about rite, Local powder coaters only had two shades of gold? Crunchy gold works tho, Gotta have the dish depth shot, We shouldnt have to use flares either, if needs be, can just add a thin ribbon of steel to the guards to cover the wheels.

I'm not a huge fan of flares, but it seems a pity to not use the 10 inch wide rims on the back, and to cut down a set of the 9 inch rims, its like getting a wang reduction? I reckon this thing looks ok with flares: Also, this car was fucking horrid to ride in before he sorted the suspension out, and it is his daily driver, so to go much lower would make it cuntish again, it still scraps on everything, and the sump is pretty much the lowest point, would be a lot of cost and work involved in slamming it, only to make it near on undriveable (fuck i sould like a sensible old man)

The camber plates on the front are already maxed out, due to size of top plate hole. The 9 inch rims on the back fit perfect, its the front track thats a little wider, and theres not enuf meat in the gaurd to pump it out to cover. 8 inch rim would be the go on the front. Its hard to tell a man he needs less dish tho ....

Here's some pic's I took of the wheel's on the front, I think it's going to need flare's, Our plan was to flip the guard lip out, so we could bolt the flare's on lower, to help fill up the gap between the guard and tire, because lowering it much more would make the car a total cunt.

Well, got car back from the panel beater, they did a decentish job, and only took them 6 days. Right door was to f'ed to fix, so took down back up door, they took the rust out of that, but now have to take car back for them to blend it in. Have started the sand down. Also found a dude to come paint it in my shed, so once sandings done, will convert shed into shit house spray booth. Doing the paint at home should save me $1500, which is good, as i just purchased this off trademe, Good ol TRD 2 way LSD!!! Will rebuild it with my 4.6 CW&P, new bearings and seals, slap it in, and yay! After the OS track day I realised how crazily huge the difference in handling is without a LSD, not only was powering out of corners wobbly/slippery and gay, but also when braking hard it was shit loads more unstable. Also did a Gymkhana in it and it sucked, couldnt get the rear sliding, and booting it just made it understeer like a slut. So LSD = Good.

Something that came to mind, if you pull an axel out, will it go back in?

That's cheating, that's what that is.

Sounds pretty chur, doing a mean job on the clean up also. I wish I had more hands, so I could give it 4 thumbs up.

Ive been for a ride in one of them, ended in going sideways down the road at aboout 120kmh (slowing down from an off the clock mish) and getting hit in the LH side by a camry, I was in the passenger seat, luckly for me it hit the front guard, sent us spining down the road, camry went up a bank and rolled, slid down the road on its roof. Ahh I have fond memories of CRX's. But yeh, fast little suckers, but they can get a bit of a wiggle on in the rear under heavy braking. Good luck.

Got a crown wheel and pinion from a 4wd master ace, car has a 4.3 in it at the moment, new C&P should be 4.55, so should help it wind up a bit better. Also off to the panel beater (again) on monday to get this fixed: Fuck rust is gay.

Took the car to the panel beater 3 weeks ago, droped in for a nose on my way home from work to see how it was going, and turns out he hasent even started. He then tells me he cant do the work on my car as his house has sold and hes moving up north..... stink ow. So now have to go tow it home and organize another panel beater. So its going to be off the road even longer

Yeh, those diff codes would come in handy, and good to meet ya to, dont often get to talk to fellow ae owners. Yeh was a bit gay our cars wernt race worthy, was keen to have a geeze at yours.

Got me a LF guard off trademe, $40 bucks! Am well pleased. Van is sold so car is off to panel beater on Friday, dude works by himself and is ment to be the man, so hopefully will do a good job. Now to save for paint! (and a LSD!)

I say we put on our white pointy hats, light up our torches and huge lower case T, hunt down the chap that made it, and show him what we think of his auto mechanical abilities with a tree and some rope. Will be mean when its going rite tho, how much them suckers weigh? about 900 or so?

Haha, chur, well I think you can do it with heaps of walkie talkies, just tape two together with the talk button held in on one of them, I think that works? The Rotomas is the perfect place for late night racing, nice windy hill road with no houses/drive ways/other roads coming onto it, would be kool to go for a hoon knowing nothings coming the other way.

Yep, still has stock shim set up, so know the cams must be under the shim under bucket threshold. From memory the cams are close to a rally grind? guy wanted mid range grunt. Speaking of windy roads, I had a plan to make lots of repeaters for hand held radios, and position them along a strech of the Rotomas, have a person at each end of the length of road to let you know whats coming toward you, and then take turns racing up and down the road late at night, even found safe spots to turn round and everything, just cost of making repeaters was a bit high, as you needed so many to cover all the black spots, was even going to have a light to let you know if you had gone out of range for safety! Yes, I have way to much time on my hands at work.