Sambo

I felt like I was reading a vehicular Hunter S. Thompson story. A+.

This is better science than I did on my final year engineering project for uni. I award you first class honours.

Another one bites the dust. I always enjoy reading your projects, and I'm looking forward to the next installment in the series! 

How do you approach these projects? Are you always keeping in mind the point at which they're going to be sold, or are you just waiting until they stop scratching the itch?

Is a ram air intake really that effective that the engine would need retuning, as per the ad?

Love a car that's designed to carry it's own parts around. I take back the things I've said about English engineering.

Spotted in the wild. Copped a lot of flack from the mrs and still didn't even get it in focus.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks mate. 

Hi all,

I've got a my car stored at a family friend's place in Whangarei while I'm overseas. Unfortunately (for me) her situation has changed and she's had to sell the house. I need to move my car out by the 12/5 at the latest.

Has anyone got a lead or suggestion on affordable, covered storage options between Auckland and Whangarei? It doesn't need to be workshop space or anything, but it would be great if a mate could check on it every few months. It wouldn't need to be moved (doesn't really run, anyway). It's insured, incase that matters.

Cheers,

Sam

Okay, sorry.

Sorry if I'm telling you how to suck eggs, but definitely don't try and drain the oil out of the sump. Cleaning oil out of the bilge isn't fun. You want an oil extractor pump.

6 hours ago, Bling said:

 

Yeah, I didn't even know mine had an ecu haha. I can't imagine the ECU is really doing anything for the solenoid, on the Nissan it'll just be a way of switching the 12V signal. 

Looking good! My favourite E7 shape.

I just fixed a similar carb issue on my D21, the idle shut off/anti-dieseling solenoid wasn't working. It wasn't working because the ECU fuse had blown, but apparently it's not uncommon for them to fail. Assuming yours has one and it runs off the key like a Nissan, you can test it by having someone turn the key from ACC to ON and see if you can hear the carb clicking. You can remove the plunger that turns off the idle fuel circuit as a temp fix, but it'll run on even worse.

Mine was running on a bit, stalling at idle, backfired heaps on deceleration, but ran fine once it had some throttle.

On 15/05/2022 at 17:24, Beaver said:

Oh and @Sambo are you the z24 man? I recall you've got a couple. What timing should I be running? It's been pinging/predetonating a bit lately under heavy load.

I'm running mine at around 10-12* and it runs pretty happily on 91. It'll ping a little bit if I give it full jandal at low RPM, but otherwise fine.

Car-exhaust drug craze alarms Congo's capital (nypost.com)

For anyone curious Charlie came back with:

$200+gst for pinstripe only

$350+gst for pinstripe and clear coat before and after

I was warned! 

Cheers guys, if Charlie doesn't pan out it'll probably just get varnished without the black stripe.

I've been sanding down an old wooden wheel from a swish MX5 much like this

The finish was so damaged that I decided to take the whole wheel back to bare timber. Now I've decided that I want to replace the black stripe, which is actually a layer of plastic between coats of varnish. I'm thinking that someone who can paint a pinstripe on would be the best bet, but old shaky hands Sam is not the man for the job.

Any ideas?

Thanks team, that's the info I needed.

The clutch that's in it is a new standard item, so I might just run that with the lighter flywheel for now.

I don't mind buying a new friction plate, if required.

What are some things I should be looking at before throwing this in my car? I've got no basis for comparison to look at the condition/wear on the friction plate or pressure plate. Would it also be an idea to get a workshop to check for runout or something on the flywheel, or is that a small risk?

Can anyone ID the engine in this go-kart? A lady on a local FB group was asking for some help sorting out why it wasn't running very well, so I thought I'd go and have a poke around. I'm not really a bike guy, but I imagine it's just some shit in the carb or something..

Maybe it's just me being 105kg, but I would never, ever sit on a car. Never mind putting shoes on a car after standing in a gravel carpark. 

I mean, it does have seats in it.

Cool, that's good to know. I wasn't sure if there was actually a difference between fwd/rwd, bigport/smallport etc.

I've also read a few snippets from 10 year old forum posts etc that 7m alternators will fit with a few more amps, but I really want something concrete that I can buy and sort the problem this week.