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Will keep going with iForce for the images for now, seems to work most of the time.
Decided to do a fun-top vinyl roof conversion.
Parcel shelf looking better though!
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For those having issues and are on Facebook Streetwise have more indepth bankrupcy photos you can see here - https://www.facebook.com/pg/streetwiseautomotivenz/photos/?tab=album&album_id=4191146524291161
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14 hours ago, Valiant said:
I can't see them either which is a pity because it sounds interesting.
Apparently not using Google Chrome seems to be the fix
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Yeah seems weird, same image links working on other forums so not sure
6 minutes ago, Bling said:Car is looking good! Seems pretty solid really? Sills go on everything but most of it looks not bad at all. Do you have a rough time frame for how long the rust repairs will take? The repairs look niiiiice.
Hmm probably be a while because we have to do the repair cert stuff and that can't be done until next year. They're doing the repairs but not fully welding it all back in until signed off so the sills are just bolted on now so they can work shapes into other stuff around it where necessary. But yeah, overall not as bad as I was expecting.
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The back fell off, but the side's looking good.
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Looks a bit scary when it's in this state! I am happy they're sending me regular photos with updates though.
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Bonjour. Car has been blasted, not too many surprises which is nice. The floor being bung wasn't known and not sure about the headlight bucket repairs.. could have had the square angle headlight mod done in the past perhaps.
All in all, I'm actually pretty happy with that. Repair parts are available for some of these areas and we already have new sills in NZ. Project will halt again now due to some change in the law for entry cert or whatever is required for that so the workshops/panel shops need to get some additional certification.. anyway, no major.. the longer I can stretch the money the better.
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17 hours ago, CarolsHusband said:
Brave.
Good luck with it & tell those fullahs how to pronounce Hakosuka ffs.
Haha yes after the first video I told Jon a couple things
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If you would like to enjoy my financial ruin
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This went 0-100 real quick, unlike the car itself. Subframe is also going to be blasted and painted too and bushes replaced where necessary (everywhere); just have to find some.
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Remember me? Motor comes out tomorrow, actually not entirely as bad as I thought.. rear is toast I'm told.. we'll find out soon when it's blasted to smithereens
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Oval connect is gone yeah, info@stacked.co.jp can help
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8 hours ago, Not-a-number said:
Cheers for the invite. I would but it would be a long commute from LA
Likewise from Aus haha, Aunty Cindy hasn't quite opened up that corridor yet
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Can email us at sales@mlracing.co.nz if you'd like with a bit more info on what you're after specifically. Being that air freight is capoot at the moment (or expensive with DHL/TNT) container be the way to go
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Car looks minty. What you can do for the badges if they have a little valley with paint in is use a syringe and drip the paint in
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1.3 two door is the one you want, does it exist? If not, make it !
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4 hours ago, rot808 said:
Do these services extend to bringing a car to nz? If so what are some general prices please
Stacked can arrange that. Info@stacked.co.jp
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14 hours ago, kyteler said:
Keep in mind that if you use stacked or moonlight you have to arrange collection and freight domestically after it hits the ground.
Depends, if it's small can be air freighted direct but container stuff yep ship nationwide
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Had a nice warm day today so got into the garage to have a fiddle. My goal today was to see how much of a pain in the ass it would be to fit this front chin spoiler. Turns out probably not terrible. Have had worse fitting parts. The most annoying part was actually pulling off that bottom chin part. I'd also had some parts arrive from Thailand which included new OEM front winker lights so mocked them up as well.
Winkers mocked up but not wired in. Some cars I've seen have clear lights here and some orange.. I just went with orange to match the rest. Not sure which is correct?
Front chin spoiler just roughly cable tied. Will need tweaking and a bit of bending on the fenders. Couple of tabs are no good on this as well so will need to cut them off.
Apparently the car doesn't have lock stops. Seems like it's worse than I thought.Side note, somehow making a bad face bonnet would be awesome. Side note 2, all of my headlamps are different brands.
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Early Xmas! Picked up this rear wing and also a front under spoiler. Rear wing is minty as you can see, front chin spoiler will need a bit of modding to get it to fit nice but should be all good. Won't bother to fit it properly or paint match it or anything for a while though.
Have also toyed with the idea of flares but I don't think I'll need them. You can fit pretty solid width underneath the factory metal.
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I really have to stop starting these posts with "haven't done much lately".. damnit. In Melbourne the weather is currently nicely between ice frost and thermo nuclear and I seem to have had a sudden surge in enthusiasm for the car. I've tested that washer bottle that was installed a few months ago so that works and I think I've got a few leads on the washer nozzle that I need too. Amazing that someone hasn't made a reproduction one considering you can pretty much get reproduction everything else. I also forgot I had a box of Celica spares so fitted up the sun visors, thrilling I know but it is a requirement for roadworthy. This leads into another reason why I'm being more enthusiastic. A friend of my flatmate I met a couple of weeks ago runs a shop with his dad and they do roadworthy testing, score! They'll also be able to fix all my shit stuff and make it good again.
So aside from that I bought some tools and started playing around with wheels. These cars can swallow up quite a wide wheel; even in front! These ones are just 14x6.5 +6 (from memory) for both. They're obviously not final or anything just wanted to have a look see what kind of space we're working with. I definitely like the Mark III's on there. Maybe go for a mark 3 all round or mark 2 mark 3 pairs.. no idea; a wee while before I need to worry about that.
Another thing I've always disliked are these shitty mirrors. They're obviously not the OEM ones and they look terrible as well as being flimsy. Unfortunately they have this bracket which the two bolts appear to be spinning by themselves.. I'll get some other mirrors then try again to remove it. I think due to the age (pre 1975) it's legal to have no side mirrors but it sure makes driving more difficult.Sharn thread
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Me Melbourne also, have TA22 here. There's heaps of car meets coming up now that shithole winter is fucking off
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Hmm.. yeah I tried to upload it to the forum once and for whatever reason didn't work. I'll try again in next update.