reTRD

needs more cow bell

progress finally... i have now finally fully stripped the front end, except the steering stuff . there is nothing in the engine bay at all and have it book into the sand blasters on friday to get the bay blasted as i am far far far to bloody lazy to sand that shit. and we have been dead at work of late.............. so i tool all my panel beating bits and bobs to work with me and have fully bear metaled 1 guard , got all the little dings out of it, etch primed and put a tiny skim of bog over the 2 bits thay needed it. tomorros job if we still quiet is to load it up with some 2pack primer and have it all ready for a block down. should have car back on sat, or monday and i will start on the process of smoothing out the engine bay.

give it a week or two, more two. il bring it to that toyspade meet on the 8th if you wanna come see. im going to feel awsome rocking on up to that in the automatic lazer

when do we get to see this new car hippy boy?

just brought some more quads picked up some blacktop ones on trade me for $50 oh how i love trade me

my 2 new 5k's turn up at my place today, they are very rugged but i sure i can make 1 good 1 out of the 2 to sell to fund the build of the good 1 i got 2 mostly complete 5k's for the princely sum of.............. $52.50 it has been said a few times " man i love trademe"

blown5k came donw last night to pic up my t50 and bell housing to comvert it to cable clutch, i have since been told it already is (yus!!!!) and to get my quads and the mounting flange so he can start to mock up the intake manifold, so cant wait to see some progress on that but hey i am in no way in a hurry need to get more money 1st :bugeye: got an e mail from allen at endever engeering today with a pic of the progress being made on my gilmer crank pully. he has bored out the guts of it and replaced it with a steel center all in all things are happining slowly so i happy bout that i really need to sort my shit out and prep the engine bay but its just to cold out there with snow all around me o nthe hills so for now ill keep sittig my on bum infront of the heat pump

coerys RX2 coupe, jamie's s1 RX7 ( use to be black about a month ago) and i thinks the blue 3 was owned by a guy called sam(cant member) and none of them are members i asked them to come along it was kinda a memoral for my workmate Stu who took his life last sunday as he put many hours in helping them with their cars

yea well that is tru. i have not hurd back from bungeye and all that yet as to if they are going to come.

what the fuck u on about zeb ?

i will be there after all. but not in anything worth talking bout. i have just been at my workmates funeral, and have been talking to bungeye(corey bucannon) and jamie they are wanting to go for a cruise in memory of stu as he put in many many hours into helping with their cars. ill talk to lloyd and get him to come in the ke20 again. and will try talk flanery into bringing his ke10 and kp60 to it.

how that different to any other day dane

cant make it sorry dude's.

some pics of the damage to the crank from the gilmer's good key VS f**ked key what the key is ment to look like in the crank f**ked keyway in old crank

whos keen to push the bugeye?

just got to get some money now so i can build the new motor hahaha. here are a couple pics of the panel work thus far, the dent on the drivers side rear guard was bloody mammoth but have banage to knock it out just got to strip it back and give it a skim of bog. got the motor out in the long weekend while the new 1 is getting build i will be stripping the engine bay and repainting it all and giving it a full over hall. and look what i scored for $40 needless to say i am as happy as a dog with 2 dicks

after a quick last min decission to go up to oamaru to see blown5k and talk turkey bout the new motor all i can say is that "its on like donkey kong". the aim is 100kW. got the motor and box pulled out of my car today, just got to put in the new bearings and crank into the motor and sell it. while there is no motor in the car i am going to give the bay a good ol tidy up and repaint the factory red. iam wanting to de-loom or atleast semi de-loom it, take out all the break lines and repaint them black. the break master and booster need to be rebuilt as the seal between them has perrished and is slowly leaking on the chassis rail causing it to rust. if i remember il do my best to get some pics up during all this

hey man looks nice

figured it was about time i put up an update on whats happining to my car. i have been off work for the last 3 weeks on holiday and finally got sick of how rugged the bug was looking so thought i would start to panelbeat it. i have changed the hatch at the other 1 was completly shagged due to rush so i found a 100% rust free 1 and have pulled all the dents out of it and given it a little skin of bog where it needed it. from there i thouhgt it was about time to get that bloody great dent out of the drivers side rear guard(what a mishion) i have also fully paneled the rear left hand guard and primed it ready for 1 last block down and some decent 2pac primer. i found a couple little bits of rust so send that off to get cut out and plated by a pro as i kept playing chase the hole with the welder i borrowed gggrrrrrrrr . all was going good or so i thought! untill thursday once again it was rego time , so went put that on (payday yus!!!!) and filled the tank with petrol. friday rolled around and the wifey wanted me to call out and pick up our pup from her at work as she didnt finish till 6pm. on the trip out there to see her my car started to make this funny flapping noise i had never herd before. kinda worryed bout it i had a look once i got to where i was going to find my gilmer belt was sitting funny on the crank pully.... didnt think to much of it at the time so wnet in got the dog and headed home. on way home it was starting to get louder. once home i inspected it more to find out the crank pully was flopping around like a cock in a sock. not good i though to myself. a mate came around and gave me a hand to get the pully off to find that the keyway is completly shagged. ( i am so pissed off the motor if only 20,000kms old and the gilmers have only been on for 10,000) to make it worse the crank had just had $550 spent on it getting it reconed before putting it in. so now i am at odds as to what to do. pull this motor apart and get it fixed, or sell it as is, or bite the bullet sell it and start building the new 5k with blown5k with the 20V quads its hard but i am leaning towards building the new motor. ill get some pics up at some stage of the progress on the body work. ,Brodie(reTRD)

sorry forgot to put in my location. i am in dunedin but my motor it getting built at RUSH automovite in oamaru. so scourcing parts out of chch will be easy enough.

hey guys i am building up a new 5k motor for my kp60 and i am wanting to no where can i (if i can) buy some A15 valves brand new. they are 1mm bigger than 5k ones but have the same shaft sizes. and does any1 no of prices if i can get them new. thanks, Brodie(reTRD)

according to the 3 cop cars that turned up at my house tonight i had " done a runner from them after the drags :S and tryed to evade them going up 3 mile hill ) i never saw a fucking cop and i was by no mean trying to evade them !!! Tried to stop you winding him up mate... That guys let me off heaps but he does get cunty when you wind him up couldnt help myself i fucking hate gettin accused of doing shit i have not done. especially when my car is legit and i dont really do shit like that of fear of loosing my licence again ( i loose my licence i loose my job )

according to the 3 cop cars that turned up at my house tonight i had " done a runner from them after the drags :S and tryed to evade them going up 3 mile hill ) i never saw a fucking cop and i was by no mean trying to evade them !!!

fuckin cops!

man tonight with the toyspeed boys was mean as ........ NOT they dint even end up going for a drive anywhere it was 100% shit as. 1st and last time i will be attending that.