Southerner

12 hours ago, nzstato said:

As a young buck I always pined for a GTiR, never were that common, tough to find I good one now I bet. 

What are CRXs and EG hondas doing at the moment?  They always have a scene.

 

I have been hunting for a tidy EG honda for a few months and flew to the north island with my partner to collect this in the weekend, NZ new EG5, even has the honda manual with Honda pen in it!

Also picked this up on the way home, didnt really need it but needed saving, an E36 318IS MS in manual, will look at selling once tidied up as need to free up funds to finish my E30.

As others have said all the hero cars are skyrocketing, especially post covid for some odd reason, Evos wrxs etc easily fetching over 20k for good example 

18 hours ago, Tumeke said:

That leaky hose you got is not a factory fitment, rather an after-market oil feed to the head.

Some barry's reckon triumphs need them. Others say it's a waste of time #sharn etc.

I wouldn't feel bad about blocking it off with the right thread bolt and some thread tape and loosing it if it's being a pain.

Funny you say that, i was thinking it didn't look factory. Managed to get 1/2 turn out of the bolt last night and seems to have fixed the oil leak, will be checking again tonight, amazing how far oil can travel to make a mess. Short of that, ill be removing it if it still plays up

Been chipping away on this, biggest delay has been part leadtimes

Made a bush press and swapped out the bushes, also done main subframe bushes while i was there.

Fully spray undercoated the underside while it was up on jack stands

Grandad is also tidying up another MK1, he's got a planned head etc to go on it. Started the original motor for the first time in 20 years yesterday

He is driving this PI he has had since new, we are having trouble with it at idle and around town at low speeds, on the open road runs perfectly. If anyone wants a copy of the books, PM me and I'll scan them in a PDF 

Theres a TR6, another Mk1 and some old Triumph bikes I'll get some photos over summer of aswell

If anyone has any extractors/ headers for a 2.5 let me know, also on the hunt for a wagon to add to the collection. 

Start of winter was driving along the one way in town and looked out the rear view mirror to a trail of oil followed by an oil light

The rubber o ring on the filter gave way, blew most of its oil out. Luckily I was quick on it and flicked it off.

Changed the bumpers over to the early shape ones with no rubber strip

Finally got it all painted back up again. 

Had a 21st at our flat in the weekend so cleared out the garage with my hunting quad on trailer. Towed it real good over to the yard at work

Also acquired a boss kit and put in a Nardi i brought about 4 years ago

Making abit of progress on this, got a spare door but turned out the original wasnt to bad with abit of lovin from a hammer

Also picked up a set of globe wheels in 14x6

Have these aswell in 14x6

Unsure which ones to go for, going to throw 195/50s or similar onto a set to lower it abit more. Leaning more towards the globes to keep it looking more original

Yesterday was not a good day at all......

Got abit to close to something and came a cropper

Could be keen depending on price/ whats in the kit. What exactly required to be done to the rear subframe?

This being the Green one in Wanka? Came up on a facebook group

Id be keen to get together somewhere for a meet or something

First of all, your wagon looks ace, you've done a top job on it!

Iv got a sedan tc and hopefully a PI soon all going well, im looking at getting some 15x8 -9 offset performance challanger wheels for my car. From what i can see the front should be bang on even though these will be a wee bit negative, whats it like in the rear? Is it rubbing or close to it?

Got a fa50 in the weekend. Put a new plug and cap on it and was running much better so filled it up and went for a decent ride and it ran mint there and started fine on the return trip.

Next day there was fuel all over the ground and had a look and it was coming out of the botton nipple. So pulled carb off clean etc and was put back on and it stopped.

Started it just before tea and it was running fine but started leaking out the top nipple of the carb.

Rode it down to petrol station and on the way there it died twice, i thought it could be because it was getting low, then filled it up and went to start it and it wouldnt go and all the fuel was draining out so i gave up and pushed it home.

Any ideas? Iv tried to do my best to describe whats happening, cheers

Can i plus 3? All good mates etc, easy to get along with, just keen as to come with me, cheers

Entered a Grasskana with the Otago Sports Car Club as i wanted to give it a go and finished 12th out of 20 which i thought was good for a lowered rwd car in a paddock against a number of proper race car

Also i acquired this

Cost me not alot with a good LSD which ill be converting to 4.11 ratio. Its a manual 323i, dead rego but its a better base than my previous cars

No sorry, id be after reclinables, cheers for the offer though

What kind of seats are they? Pics?

Got it all back together, here's the new ride hieght

Saw this today as i was filling up in north d mobil, looks good just cruising along, sits at a good hieght

So since i've lowered this, a loud clonking noise started to appear from the rear end, only when i had someone sitting in the back though. So i crawled around and felt the CV had alot of slop in it, like a lot.

Was rusted out, about a half a cup of water fell out when i pulled the boot back.

A new shaft from my BMW parts dealer MillAnd, is about $1000 and the CV cant really be replaced. So my old man went and asked his mate who races this

And got me a second hand one.

Boring update, but might be handy for those to keep in mind when thrashing a e30

Yea i txt you late last night with no reply?