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http://www.sunbeamcarclubofnewzealand.org.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76:v8-sunbeam-rapier-fastback&catid=38:articles&Itemid=56

Same engine bay/floorpan as hunter, the ultimate conversion with instructions plus its so simple the factory nearly offered it as an option.

Go

^^ Word, looks like Vespa top end bearing, if so I haz millions and its christmas for you.

Im keen to get a Triumph Tigress and boxes of bits brought down for a fee

Also possibly the Lambretta? Depends when this is all goin down

Lame, ken for impromptu fireworks display in carpark..

O well, will have to save em till next time

+1 for dat

Student bitches = win

I <3 Dunidin slappers

Ken, metres from my house/botl store

Put a 4L OHC Ford in it and be my hero

Wow thats a good score and will make an easy restoration, the plastic looks sweet as on it..

Haven't seen one like this before- a real kiwi classic

Keep updating progress please

Does the new handsfree rule apply to CB radios??

Have one at mine, will fit to VW if it works

But do they make the right noise/smell?

Lovin the tank mounted ammeter, had same one on my Cezeta

Don't know if you saw but there is a Jawa day coming up down south, saw an advert in the latest beaded wheels

reads; JAWA jamboree, 80 years of JAWA NZ, Sat Nov 21, Mcleans Isl Chch

There is a swapmeat too which may be worth the journey alone

+1 for C30SE, getrag and Opel grille

Also LHD FTW

Name price/ I want

Optional extra..

I <3 Brown/beige cars and interiors, paint it at your own peril

Also + 1 for widened steels with those OG hubcaps

Then you just need a Toyota Cares plastic brimmed hat and 1jz then its done..

ATF is my preffered oil, and I have topped up thousands

Singer oil is also used by some but ATF is total win, makes em purr

Win

+1 for bike engine

Can't be that hard surely, bet you a dollar its a weekends work..

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Sounds good to me, I'll talk to the GF and see what she wants to do. I suggested that we get one to store up in the shed uncase the minx engine ever lets go after it's 40 years of hardship. Can you explain what the internal differences/advantages are with the Hunter engines?

I guess being the alloy head motor they have more power and are a bit quieter other than that I dont know the differences/advantages sorry

Fuck forgot about this Hillman discussion, the main difference between the Hunter motor and earlier Arrow units which has been overlooked..

5 main bearings versus 3!!!!!!!

Stronger bottom end and much more balanced, the earlier motors were known for throwing conrods through the block and infact happened to me twice whilst engine braking/breaking in Minxes..

Awesome, wack plates on and roll as is once driveshaft straightened..

How bad is it? As they can be straightened and balanced

Jealous, so keen to get there next year...

Napier-Railton FTW

I can't believe diesel got thrown into the discussion as superheating diesel is the most retarded thing I've ever heard.. Anyone remember what happens to diesel inside a cylinder? Or the temperatures required to ignite under pressure?

Superheating fuel on the other hand, especially in cars does work and works so well you wonder why it wasn't more widely used- especially in colder climes.

The whole point of heating fuel is to help the atomisation process and prevent droplets forming as those droplets often miss the combustion process entirely hence increase in HC's

I used to run a length of steel pipe inside my top radiator hose on My Superminx, after the pump of course. Insulated and kept from vibration and with superheated water, drawn into the engine via the manifold below the carb, heated by a coil of pipe around the downpipe. So it entered as steam.

Used to manage 40mpg in a combination of town and open road and could easily pull the tonne

also my exhaust never left black spots on startup after that or smoke even on choke..

Which got pushed in after only a few minutes.

Will try and find photos of the setup if anyone is interested. keen to do it again and experiment more with it as I think I could get it perfect with more development

Exhaust recirculation sounds like a waste of time to me, if you were searching for economy and performance the goal is to minimalise unburnt fuel in the exhaust.. If theres enough there to recycle- your doing it wrong...

Supercharger is always win, even exhaust driven ones

more pics of white one?

please send 1256 viva motor to a scrapyard- to be melted down and hopefully be made into a half decent engine in the future please..

Mazda conversion should make a sweet car of it.

dude new one looks heaps minter, transfer all the good bits from the gold one into that then torch the remains/weigh in for scrap

you'll kick yourself otherwise as removing sills and welded guards is fail