Borgweiser

Ur all wrong, so was I

Rover V8 FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So simple yet rad..

bring me back Granada Coupe please or a GXL saloon

Or put Reliant Robin in hand luggage for me please

would be ace

End of this year me and Hannah are coming back to NZ for good.

Hannah and I.

Word

Yeah so instead of doing anything productive on my day off I ended up staring at the VW

and wishing it lower.. Thank god for torsion bars, especially splined ones

So an hour or so later it looked like this-

Should have got before shots in the same spot for comparison as it was jacked up american spec

sitting on bumpstops in these shots, sitting another half inch lower once I attacked bumpstops with angle grinder

Did do some actual work whilst down there, serviced and adjusted steering box, replaced bearings, was going to replace hoses but looks like someone beat me to it recently. Has new calipers, hoses, pads and discs

Fuckin stoked, just need a steering damper that isn't so damp, problem with left hook cars- everything is ex states or germany as they are different.

Ps what is up with BNT wheel bearing kits having one NSK and one AICHI bearing plus a german seal??

If they wern't ridiculously cheap I wouldn't have had a bar of them.. Give me matching FAG bearings or similar OEM spec

Coz I am an anal c*nt

Till next time, will sort rear out tomorrow night and fit up repaired exhaust.

Ordered typ 3 headers and dual quet (??) pack mufflers from empi, said the'd be four weeks so expect to see in four months

hence dodgy bodge of original muffler

Also did Wellington and back without a hitch, apart from muffler dissolving on last hundred k's and inbred mofukers jumping on my bonnet on Courtenay pl.. Cheap to run too- bonus

+1 for pinto

Just finished the VW Caddy thread, epic

O and fitted one of those 80 kits, what a waste of time ended up goin slower thanks to flat top piston and hemi head

you need a special head to run those kits- which no one imports, had to go buy 70 kit with proper piston

stupid nips..

Keen to give CDI mish the go ahead, no one has a answer as your CDI is Amstrad spec

Pretty sure it would and be huge improvement

Then its framechoppin time

Fiat Punto turbo is the fastest 1300 that springs to mind, was banned in its home country due to epic amount of

wog fatalities.. Epic easy to tune up aswell

Toyota Starlet turbo is prob as fast, but who cares they look like a teste

Thats a four stroke cylinder you Kn00b

Nifty 50 has flathead screws for headstuds, is lolspec

ancient machines now, best thing to do is flick and start with newer unit

the stifty50's were instant seize machines and were expensive as to rebuild for a twostroke thanks to Honda making parts from unobtanium..

Get a Vespa or Lambretta and harden up ( or come see me for lush 150 4 stroke, weld in and attach turb or nitrous

etc= win

1256 iz fail

4age? Or 12a?

2.3 Bedford

or chuck a pinto in it..

Mitsubishi GTO 70's STZ

mean go offer him fuck all for me please

Will have to get my Gigilo on ya reckon??

Keen

Also keen for abandoned factory to claim, any still about?

So have decided to move back to Welly but need to find;

Place- close to town, not P town

Storage for two cars minimum

(And job etc...)

Any suggestions? Any lush flats with garage space close to town?

Even if you got a flatmate, just turf them out, will be sweet!

Otherwise im on tardme finding a flat, yay for flat politics and living with killjoy's etc

Standard 4 spd with auto diff ratio is all good, used to roll that in Mk1 for ages when diff blew

makes motorway cruising a breeze. Overdrive is still awesome

If ya gunna roll J-type overdrive, find the internals out of the P-type found in Volvos and fit them for epic strong trans

will do skids with overdrive engaged swt as..

O and went for pre warrant warrant check today...

Epic fail.

need a new mig roll and shocks with shock left in them, will be rollin D plate this weekend

mean, il get the polish out

Can't wait till summer, convince bikini babes to pose for photos on bonnet

as long as they not fat etc

Roll to palmy

L-Jetronic

Nah will be rollin as is, will have less steering play by then, or it will be on roof on desert road...

Will get stereo working + OS accesories and polish rust out.

May even attempt a warrant

Already ordered beam adjusters and shocks, just need money. Will be low with the benefit of making it standard

when the need arises, Have ordered new dashtop for it and screen rubbers, all profit from recent sales gone in one hit.

West Coast Metric are my new best friends and Visa debit..

Shame im losing my licence for 9 months next week..

thanks will keep paint on this one, its cool when there weather worn but to actually fake the weather beaten look is ultimate try hard/ leave it to the Honda boies and Watercooled VW pansies

Its so tight mechanically Im gunna leave alone, gave it a service and she runs mint after two bottles of injection cleaner

be nice not to worry bout twin carbs and jetting nightmares for once, plus auto is awesome as typ3 gearchanges and clutch jerkiness is arse.

Prob do 1835 kit when im bored/blow trans

Also IRS rear end, yay no more swing axle stz

1970 VW type3 Fastback, Cali import, fuel injected, auto

Opening rear windows, out of it thing is theres no hinges. The glass bends...

Yep LHD FTW

Crossply whitewalls..

First thing I did was fit compulsary headlamp eyebrows/pedestrian wasters.

Will post more photos when I strip her down, theres some nasty rust action hiding in places

At moment rollin as is.. May make an appearance down palmy this weekend.

Car has 2 owners prior, orig books, dealer keyring( Fred Lucksinger Motors Ltd 955 Morro st S L O, Calif 543-2800 )

seatbelts and tyres 70000 miles

Dirty rot has come to spoil the party in places tho, mainly behind rear guards and a pillars.

Fuck backlash, just crank it up for whiplash and weld inernals and do a skud

( not helpfull I know )

Whenever I used to change the flange on Escorts ( used to use Zephyr driveshafts and flanges for pinto conversions, now too rare/ easier options ) I used to just tighten them up and never had a problem, you have to really crank them to adjust/ crush tube and you only need it as tight as the nut yyou are undoing in the first place.

Which from memory I used to undo with a 3/8 bar and replace with same bar...

Could be wrong but I always thought Escort diff's had shims to adjust backlash and footprint

like quality cars..

insipirationalz