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Chur

This is the V8 thats sitting there, anyone know if its a GM or rover one by looking at that?

Landie Wheels

Wheels again, not sure what size they are exactly 14" or 15"

Hardtop roof to the right, there is the seat 'box' there too, pretty sure those seats are from the Holden.

Finally got it into the driveway, flatmates gunna hate me, its the 5th car know, not including my daily!

We broke the windscreen on the way back, didn't realise it wasn't urethaned on, stopped after about 10kms to adjust the tie downs and it had smashed, only then realised it was a brand new windscreen still wrapped in Pilkington plastic. Something had to go wrong!

Just about fully stripped interior. Steering wheel was locked, so I dropped the tie rod ends out and smashed the shitty wheels with a hammer to steer it into the driveway, In the process I split one of the tyres, d'oh!

HX Premier style Badge

Rear end

ROH Wheels, 14x8jj, pro stars (?), wrapped in 235/60(65?)/14 BF Goodrich Radial T/A's

Basically brand new as if they were bought a few months ago and left in the garage.

Had to put one of them on to move the car as the rear right had already gone flat, and pushing it by myself was too fucken hard. Wanted to check them out anyway. Needs some slammage

Gearbox found in the shed, not sure exactly what it is, 3 or 4 spd auto though.

Mint rear louvres found in the shed, have two or three sets of these now

Brand new radiator also found, unsure of brand, but looks mint

Chrome, love it!

I would suspect it would be slightly more in a cars cooling system because there would be some pressure (despite expansion tank)

Well yeah, that's why there's a pressure cap.It raises the boiling point.

Steve

Ok perhaps my subtle sarcasm was missed,

yes there will be a higher boiling temp cos its under pressure, plain and simple, as a result I wouldnt be worried about the OP's water temps, but if he wanted to lower them he could as mentioned swap out the thermostat.

Copied over questions from other thread I made:

Its completely stripped and I was just wanting to hear from people who had dealt with them what things I should look out for while reassembling it.

I have both hardtop and softtop gear for it and can't decide which to roll with. Thoughts?

Apparently it has Range Rover running gear (diff's etc) so not too sure how this works at this stage. Not sure about the suspension. Is it common to replace the diff's with range ones?

It has the 4 pot deisel motor, (2.4l (?)) just wondering if its worth sticking with this to keep it reasonably original or should I wedge something else in to give it some more horses?

Besides the Chassis is everything pretty much aluminium? (Panels etc I mean)

Which bulkhead is Jay Gti talking about?

Also look out for bulkhead rust, hopefully already dealt with, but make sure any rustproofing is done especially well there, it's a pig to do to a complete Landie.

Pics for inspiration would also be wicked!

Chur!

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The mrs has this uncle who gave her a HZ premier 8 years or so ago when he ditched NZ for Oz. When she moved house a few years back we had to get rid of it. Shit circumstances just had nowhere to put it.

Any way we find out that he had another one (an HX) down in Fielding that he was going to be using as parts. We then find he has containers of stuff and car bits at his mates place that needs to be shifted.

The bloke who had the premier in his barn wanted it gone as they were selling up, so we mished it down there in the Patrol with a car trailer to haul it back.

Turns out he was looking after these wheels for him too. ROH prostars I think they are called, 14x8" all round, with Bridgestone Radial T/A's - still got the stickers on the tread and blue wax on the letters!

Had to whack one of them on to get the thing in the driveway at home cos the rear was flat so took some pics (hey why not) while it was on.

Anyway, find out the rego is dead (as of three years ago) on this, so we aretrying to track down the HZ we sold (cos the owners haven't changed the rego into their name, and we still have it on hold) as it has a live rego, and I now have f-loads of spares for it.

Forgot to mention, I have every interior and engine part that belonged to this car and spares for most.

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So road tripped it down to Taupo and Palmy on Labour weekend with the Mrs.

Her Uncle has given us a f-load of stuff, heaps of it car bits.

Basically we were only interested in the Holden premier, but had been told about a SWB Landie down there somewhere, we were kinda disheartened when we couldn't see it in the Barn, till we relised it was completely in pieces in a container.

So the story with the Landie is it is a Series 3, short wheel base (88")

Apparently it has range rover drivetrain, though it may be a shortened range rover chassis and running the coils instead of leaves, guess I will find out soon!

Included in the spares is both a hardtop and softop set up.

Got some 14 or 15x7or8" wheels, the white mag type ones, pic below.

It is completely in parts, like to the last bolt.

The mrs uncle had it, restored it, but then found the rust proof paint he used wasn't rust proof, so stripped it, repainted and then ended up leaving NZ before putting it back together.

I am reasonably confident of the rust proofing, mrs' uncle was pretty OCD about things like this. to the extent he painted it, rebuilt it, then found out the 'rust proof' paint he was supplied wasn't in fact rust proof, pull it apart again then painted it with true rust proof paint, but never got round to reassembling it.

It will be interesting to find if he has done the shortened chassis thing then and run coils, then I def won't be too worried about running it original and will slap in something with some pep. Hopefully this V8 I spotted is for this landie then

I have a spare 4age...jox

Most antifreeze brands also raise the boiling point.

Water will boil at 100* C at sea level atmospheric pressure, regardless of being in a pot or what have you.

I would suspect it would be slightly more in a cars cooling system because there would be some pressure (despite expansion tank)

Awesome ... start a project thread with pics and people can give you advice / feedback from there in a discussion thread

Still in palmy in pieces, will start a project thread with what pics I have

Glad to see so much love for them, chur!

I thought the range rovers used coil, not leaf springs???

Yep pretty sure they do, which is why I am surprised that I was told it has full range rover drivetrain/susp etc.

Is it common to replace the diff's with range ones?

This was a project that my mrs' uncle was doing but he live sin Oz now and not coming back so we have 'inherited' it.

Hmm I had thought the V8 I saw with all the parts were for his Holden, but perhaps it was for the Landie?

Besides the Chassis is everything pretty much aluminium? (Panels etc I mean)

Hey Guys

Did a search and saw there are a few lovers (and haters) of Landies.

So it turns out I have a landrover (probably series 3) swb 88" in my possession, completely stripped, and I mean completely, and painted with some rust proof paint apparently.

Anyway its completely stripped and I was just wanting to hear from people who had dealt with them what things I should look out for while reassembling it.

Pics for inspiration would also be wicked!

I have both hardtop and softtop gear for it and can't decide which to roll with.

Also apparently it has Range Rover running gear (diff's etc) so not too sure how this works at this stage. Not sure about the suspension.

It has teh 4 pot deisel motor, (2.4l (?)) just wondering if its worth sticking with this to keep it reasonably original or should I wedge something else in to give it some more horses?

Cheers

Yeah says its gone. Gutted. Trying to track down where the other Premier is that still has rego on hold. Its up North somewhere. The saga continues

To add to my 'barn find' a complete series 3 swb land rover, completely taken apart, every part rust proofed, waiting to be reassembled - mean.

As for keeping the black plates, if the rego is on hold then yep, you get to just simply put on a rego payment and keep the

plates, if its been 'de-regd' then no, a new vin number is assigned to the vehicle and you get issued with new plates.

You could spend the money and buy the personalised plate of your old plate, and just run the black plates though.

Ok so found the old plates, and checked them out on carjam, apparently it was on an exemption licence but this lapsed in 2005. Is that too long ago to be brought back up to date with reg? Would love to not have to bother with re-vin, and just back pay the rego.

As for getting a personalised plate of the old one, I thought you couldnt do that cos the old plates are deemed to be used?

Nah no idea about plates yet, I will put it through there as soon as I find out. If it comes up on there, safe enough to say its still in the system and then what? Just need proof of ownership and to go through the checking process?

I am hoping like fark that he didnt dereg it, cos I'll have no show of finding the papers.

If its still in the system, do I get to keep the black plates?

I'm probably gunna have the same issue with the landrover thats there too! But thats a headache for another weekend!

I'm grabbing my 78 Premier from Palmy this week. Hasnt been touched in 8 years. Rego is expired/dead. Is 8 years too long for it to not still be in the system? Really don't wanna go through the hassle of digging up proof, as the previous owner is in OZ.

If I need proof of change of ownership is a printed email good enough? Will probably have an issue getting acopy of his licence.

Probably more questions to come on Monday when I am back home with it.

Cheers dude big help. Might pm ya bout that lip when i get my hands on this.

I thought it was the 5.7 predecessor to the ls1, its a cast iron block with can come with and alloy head iirc

Not sure what the deal was in Oz but basically the whole oil crisis thing happened and premiers came out with 202's in them.

Definately came out in 6 cyl for hx and hz.

I might have to try find out a bit more on the RTS from HZ's then.

Aftermarket/fabricated might be the way to go.

Octuple throttle bodies eh...hmm

Depends on what Forced Induction I choose, if any I spose.

Still haven't decided on what donk I want yet.

A quick look on tardme before revealed a VN V8 conversion for 3.5k but it was auto

LS2 supercharged would be the dream but probably (more than likely) out of the price range

Stoked, mrs rang her uncle in Aussie today, asked what he's doing with his Prem that he hasn't touched in 10 years, he said I could have it.

I was hoping this one was a HZ, (his other one that we sold last year was - was gutted didn't have the space for it then), but its a HX.

Does anyone have any experience with HX's and their suspension, my research (wikipedia) leads me to believe I should look at getting some HZ gear with the radial tuned suspension into it?

Currently its in Palmy so hopefully his mate hasn't sold it without him knowing, and I can go pick it up sometime soon.

The motor is out already (its a 202) so need to either get that running or go straight away and save some pennies for a 308.

Did anyone see the Red HQ in NZV8 last month?

Looked like it had a efi VN 5.0 in it, would love to do that, but might stick with the carby.

Cheers in advance for comments and advice

I lol'd at the one on the roof

Random about the HZ prems with rotangs, I had never heard about that! Thank god it was a flop!

Got a singer gazelle up the road now, the guy must have just bought it. It gets left on the road though!

I haven't even seen a Hillman Hunter in ages!

All i can remember was Auckland grammer cunts had plenty of DCs (daddys cars) early evos and the odd skyline. But at the poor/our end of the bridge (SPC) the nissan pulsar was popular also a couple of early Corollas Ke30 etc

LOL I went to grammar, 99-03

Can't remember any evo's, or that many Dads cars, there were a few though.

Decent cars were a EA Fairmont, skyline gtr, pulsar gtir, all owned by my mates, and some kid had a 300zx.

someone had a 323 wagon that had a rotor that was about to die, my mate brought his WW2 jeep he rebuilt to school one day, was freakin awesome.

Heaps of crap like my corolla, lasers, telstars familias etc etc. Couple of escorts. Heaps of vans

grab me about 3 bucks worth of pepperoni

YES! TPB = Awesome!

Name: Steve

Location: Auckland

Cars you own: 1986 ee80 corolla, 1986 ae82 corolla, 1986 ae82 fxgt

Cars Coming: 1973(?) Triumph Stag, 1978 HX or HZ Holden Premier

Mods to them: FXGT has a smallport redtop in it (not done by me, crash damage, stripping it ad selling parts) ae82 is f***ed using for parts, ee80 is getting 4age'd (silvertop) (custom mounts) is a liftback, will be keeping interior and exterior as original as possible, bar some paint detailing.

Link to pics: link to toyspeed project thread:http://forums.toyspeed.org.nz/viewtopic.php?t=63811&highlight= will update when i get posting on here.

How you found out about oldschool: seen the classic car meets in cornwall park, plus asked on toyspeed if my 86 corolla is old school yet, got told to ask here, luckily I saw the topic before i asked!!!!!!!

Anything else you want to add: look out for my future projects, genuine oldschool triumph stag and a holden premier.

cheers,

Steve