sgtjackass

Its the gen1 crx with beam axle, i dont think it does have adjustment, but i may be wrong. Thanks anyway

Its a crx Gunna be track spec. Could be done on saturdays, but not this saturday, and need it done asap. Thanks

Hi there

Could someone recomend me somewhere in central-ish auckland to get a wheel alignment done. Im looking for a good price and good quality. It will only be front only because my new car has beam axle.

Thanks in advance

Hey Just thought Id let you guys no... the car has done 300 kms since new turbo and its going extremely well. Had to rotate the housings, fabricate a few things, but all good in the end.

Turbo is 'dsr330'. very similar in size to a t28. $350 new.

Its a little more laggy than a t25, but boosts much harder

Just for yous that are considering buying a DSR turbo

Righto, after a bit of research ive brought one. Crazy cheap.

Yea after reading some opinions it seems that some of the punters are stoked with the gear, others catastrophicaly fail.

For that price i guess its a risk il happily take.

Cheers for your opinions

Il post once its all in and running with my observations

Have any of you guys used their gear?

Would you buy a turbo off them? they are hell cheap. My options are to get my turbo rebuilt or buy an uprated turbo from these guys, the new turbo will likely be less expense. It will bolt on im told

Cheers

Cheers Guys

Yea I hope this one doesnt blow up. Wouldn't suprise me tho

Off for a hunt for a turbo...

Or... is it possible to replace the oil seals at home? or beta a job left to the pros? any idea of cost on something like this?

Cheers Fuel

yep ive just taken off the intercooler piping and its pretty dry and clean. Plugs are pretty clean leading me to beleive that the engine is not burning the oil internally.

Another question then... what turbo would you recomend replacing it with? its a t25 atm. would a t28 bold strait up?

Keep the suggestions coming, im hoping its the turbo

Hi guys

Ive just brought a rover tomcat for next to nothing. Its tidyish but ive noticed a big problem

Ive noticed that upon decelleration (sp?) and engine braking conditions smoke pours out of the exhaust. It doesnt smoke upon start up, boost, idle or any other time. The guy I brought it off mentioned that he thought it was the turbo, but that would be too easy. Smoke looks blueish

Have you guys ever had this occur, what could it be and how could i check for it? I guess its either turbo, valve stem seals, or pcv valve (hopefully)

Cheers for your time

Cheers Guys, I think i will look at a different car.

sorry concerto.

my old 1.3 chevette gave me lots of excitement. I dont want something neccessarily as fast as my bike, just something with character and potential, and a bit of grunt.

tortron wrote:

swap for chevette?

Hahahaha. NO!, i had to laugh at that, poor cars been on the market for so long.

Thanks for your opinions. anyone got anything elce. cordia gsr, sigma ect would be great.

I dont even know what a domini is or a volvo 360, but both sound dum so no.

Hey guys

Haven't owned an oldschool car for yonks. but you guys seem brutally honest when it comes to newer cars so I'd thought id ask.

Have had a bike for 7 months after I sold my chevette (1988 cbr600), due to my no license situation im dreading the day i get pulled up.... soo im looking at swapping it for a 1990 celica gtr (3sge 4ws ect ect) worth about 2.2k

Now... are they good cars? my bike does the 1/4 mile in 12s, is this car going to bore the shit out of me? how are they on gas? ect ect

Also my bike is pretty rough, matty b fairings, ect, but ultra reliable and fast. Still pumps out 85 odd hp due to rejetting and mainanence. Anyone want to swap their car for my bike? Costs me 10bux to get to tauranga from auckland. And thats not being gentle on the old girl.

Thanks

see here http://www.stuff.co.nz/4712240a11.html

yup will do wen i have a spare sec. i need new wheels and tyres 4 it caus i want to increase the rolling diameter as i do alot of highway miles from tauranga to palmy for study. the paint is pretty much f**kd and interior is pretty sad, ive spent lots fixing shitty repairs and dodgy mods so its been abit of a money pit. but almost got all the niggly issues sorted. 100bhp out of a 1256 is possible, but does not make for a nice to drive car, plus you wouldnt want to be be seeing that figure often as by that stage its revving so hard and feels like its going to blow.

no sheets unfort, dyno was an old style tuning dyno, with just a big dial next to it, dont know how accurate it was . Gotta recomend those guys cause they were awesome and charged reasonably - Engines and tuning ltd, st john street, Tauranga. It goes alryt, im used to modernish fuel injection so its rough as guts to drive, hardly idles and is loud as, vibrates heaps, is a pig to start and has lots of (cam?) lag. real thirsty if i give it shit. it will probly be making less now caus ive backed off the timing so i can run 96 instead of 98 plus octane booster. Im gunna go to pik a part 2day and scope out a electric pump off a carby car. hopefully thatl fix the prob.

cheers 4 ur help

cheers for the replies, yea fuel pumps are pretty poor design and ive got about 10 orso as spares. what would ya recomend?

Hey fullaz, got my chevette all sorted, so i thought. Weber was rebuilt and rejetted, most of the ignition system (minus coil and leads) replaced and extractors fitted with 2" exhaust and tuned- 70hp at wheels . Now however, after a few umm high speed runs, i have discovered that if ive been hard on the gas for a while it will suddenly loose all power and will cough and fart for a bit. Im a bit lost, all i can think of is that the float bowl is bein sucked dry. Otherwise it runs mint, and embarresses a few hoodie boys in their civics. Any of u chaps had something similar happen? any help would be appreciated as i cant afford any more dyno time.

Cheers

im in tauranga. car is going into the shop tomorrow and theyl tune it on the dyno. cheers

after days worth of fixing dodgy repairs and misc problems i have concluded that i need a new carb, cause the weber on it is too buggered to be usefull. i found a huge vacuum leak, last owner used tape instead of hoseclamps on brake booster connections. yup got the head and exhaust manifold on, went good as like that for a while now it runs like a bag of shit. it so dam hard to find parts for old shit.

I just brought a chevette, ran fine for a day then started running rough as. have checked points, got new dist cap and rotor and cleaned and rebuilt carb- very quickly. engine bogs down hard at load, idles a little rough, and is basically undrivable- unless the choke is on a tiny bit, then it runs generally a hell of a lot better. im doing condenser tomorrow and the spark plugs are carboned up hard, but that could be cause of the carb cleaner that ive used heaps of. im still guessing carb issues, the car had no fuel filter so was full of crap. cars specs are as follows: 1256

ported and shaved head, runs on 98 otherwise pings, weber 28/36dcd carb. lite fliwheel hd clutch and otherwise standard.

jope u guys can help me, im a small motor mech but im out of ideas, dont really want to be paying 60 bux an hour to get it fixed.

cheers

todd

cheers fullas, 2.5k was only speculation, hell if someone came up with between 1800-2300 its theirs.

I was only talkin bout chevettes cause im trying to swap the skyline for one. if i had any cash itd be mine already.

saw a chevette with lake pipes today, was pretty fly. buy my car i want one haha

cheers man, yup priced it all up and was guna be near 1.5k to do it homestyle ie $300 rb30, vl manifold $150 dirty great trademe turbo $450 s13 exhaust (bolts up) couple hundy, intercooler $400, chipped ecu and injectors to suit $250 other shit $100-200- 300hp potential

But then i could afford to run it less than i can now so its gotta go, glad my pricings alryt.

Myt have to get me a chevette instead, piazza motor bolt in?

hey guys. iv been lurkin this site 4 a while now, so first time poster

couple of questions

1- im looking at gettin a chevette hatchback. R they good cars? are they grunty enough to go on long trips, good on gas? ect?

2- im selling my skyline ( viewtopic.php?f=14&t=14564 ). what do you think its worth in the scheme of things? i mean i see these cars sell for between $100 and $6000 . is my expectation of 2.5k reasonable?

cheers

Todd

ps some of ya have the mintest cars, its great to be able to sift through the project section without signing up