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You sick man, I also have a 99 sedan and a 900 Aero coupe. These kick arse, I also have a load of NOS SAAB 99 bits and some secondhand bits- I know all the SAAB Barries/Bjorns
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On 4/15/2018 at 16:52, scooters said:
I worked for Holden in ozz we had the Saab franchise as well. I did a clutch on on. Would be a ok job with all the service tools but had nothing. But the whole North South backwards engine thing is a real ball ache. Actually I think I just slipped a new friction plate in and called it quits. Because the gearbox would not move enough and the customer didn't want to pay to have the engine out. Still not real sure how it all works.
As always there's a trick to it same with the later 900, if you have the correct tool to hold the clutch together when compressed it slides out after unbolting from flywheel. You need an assistant to push down clutch. Book time was 45 minutes for the whole job
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I have a transporter here, if it's not too much of a drain in time I can sort. Got four big builds on that are overdue for completion.
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Oh wait, your grandfather IS one of the Skoda Barrys.
I got the indicator lenses from him via you.
Good to see you got hold of this wicked whip, now please change the wheels to Fuchs thanks
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Here's the best pic I can find of mine, when it was in daily use. I still have it- great cars. I have plenty of parts at my disposal and know all the Skoda Barrys if you need things.
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http://www.saab-v4.co.uk/speedball/topic.asp?topic_id=2711
You want fast V4, do what the swedes did.
28/36 seems to be the go to first port of call
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Judge Dwyer ruled that inoperative vehicles without current registration cannot be stored on the property. He said the Ashtons were able to keep their sheds, but couldn't use them for vehicle storage unless a resource consent was obtained.
Now that is a scary ruling, it will start to happen more regularly- so we should take this kind of fucktardery seriously
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1 hour ago, locost_bryan said:
Most English stuff had just the chassis number stamped on the ID plate (often labelled as the Car or Commission No.), and the engine number stamped on the engine (perhaps they expected the engine to break and be replaced?
The engine numbers were logged on the build sheet and in the warranty book, the motors and bodies were often made in different plants and to speed up production the engine numbers were recorded at despatch, loads of the stuff we got here was CKD so there'd be a container of motors and then car panels and they would be fitted in the order they were unpacked from the crate. Replacement motors or factory recond were never stamped, just like Mexican or Brazilian VW engines. Loads fitted as cheap replacements into Kombi.
I think the same would have gone for most of the early Japanese CKD cars. Especially as most of the same workers just moved off Triumph and on to Honda etc
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You do realize this is Oldschool right? Not Consumer.org
Obviously the answer is going to be twin turbo pinto swap into a Mondeo body turned rwd with fresh apex seals and three new vtec controllers on modgies and louvres
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Growing up the son of a Ford dealer, all Ford are terrible save a few fifties models and of course pre war.
I mean every car made after 94 is a committee built accountant wrangled jelly bean blob of plastic and misery surrounded by control modules with an engineered in use by date.
Mundaneos especially are a miserable bread and butter wagon, life is too short to drive crap cars-
best to put the money into fixing up a Lancia Beta Volumex or Alfa-Romeo 105 series.
Everything else is just destroying the worlds precious resources and making the landscape uglier in the process.
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Anything built on a global platform is shit, I'm talking about a real Volvo. 240 or 740 turbo
Ford is an abomination, anything Merica touches turns to shit
Last decent car was built sometime in 1994
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Also known as a Mundaneo
- No worse than anything with an ECU
Everything is shit these days, get a Volvo
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I've been here before, the HIF44 SU ain't a barry spec carb, but a top notch swap on basically anything that's plagued by complex emission crap. A single one of those would be more than adequate. But bike carbs will sound and look cooler. Go for Mikuni's, basically miniature Japanese made SU's anyway
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Datsun c20 cut down to a ute, fibreglass hand thing made for a signwriting company in Wellington in the 80's.
That Jim who runs that place is a GC/future borg.
Get the Renault 5 instead, Chevettes are rubbish, took me several to come to that conclusion.
Just don't buy that Dauphine, I want that.
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I can't believe what I'm reading, even from me. A Honda? That's like deciding which cancer you want to get.
The obvious answer for kiwi roads and bogan points, towing and general skids and not dying when hitting a sparrow at 120kph.
Falcon six with LPG
Legendary economy, torque, high geared for highway idling and not even your drunk uncle Rob could kill one of these inside of a decade.
You'll thank me later
(ps the Getz was/is a terrible car, old man ran Hyundai in Aucks for a while and the fleet hire guys had several with death rattle at any one time. The bootlids used to get dents from people slamming them... )
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I once drove to Auckland in a Honda City belonging to a friend, five speed and running well. Cost me $120 in gas, I did the return trip in my Mk10 Jag hitting 125mph out the back of Tokoroa and used only $140 in gas. Big motor doing small work > Small motor doing big work.
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Also, I hate myself for saying this. But those little Honda Jazz are actually a hecking sweet ride and frugal as in manual spec and handle great if not a bit tinny.
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My money would always go on french diesel for cheap runner. I put 60k on mine in a year once, didn't even do oil change as zero fucks given. Still see it hooning around six years later (405).
Also champion car trailer hauler, just don't park on new driveways.
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Going to clean up and sell RO80, tbh I think it will go overseas. They're not really appreciated here and it's a low mileage early car with the electric gearshift and metallic paint. I will get 1200CS going and may restore for myself, it has got a bit of interest amongst euro foamers here being basically a luxury uglier version of the TT model.
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I wondered who these hipsters blocking up my hood with cameras were. Can lend the 91 Volvo 240 for the cause.
Edit- working on photos, computer is doing a dumb - Blue Renault here currently, Morris is street furniture even now in NZ, Volvo very 90's
(having grown up in that area in 92, all the cars in the background should be from the seventies. The newest car in the neighbourhood was an 89 Falcon. Just my 2c)
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On 4/17/2017 at 15:45, kyteler said:
Looks like a Gloria/Cedric Y30 Hardtop as well. Fairly rare bird also.
Cedric diesel, I've tried buying twice. Apparently nothing is for sale- ever. According to grumpy owners wife.
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I still here, just rarely xox