smokin' joe

lol. dead under a tree is vague as fuck. It was probably poorly looked after, hence it was probably bought from a cheap-trade in shifting car shark on trademe.

bro's father in law tows heavy trailers everywhere and gives his one the beans. it's auto. he services it to the proper schedules and it's never given him any problems.

summary: they're good whips. all japanese diesels are these days. different models suit different uses/owners.

reasoning behind the 'bigarse trailer' is this vehicle ( and Prados/Surfs) got a bad rep down these parts, for heads mainly due to pulling big boats and caravans over the passes without a decent trans cooler.

seemed funny that the same engine in a manual NZ new ute, had none of the issues.

My cousin just bought a 1996 Isuzu bighorn from a LMVD on trade me, he is now $6000 out of pocket and its dead under a tree

did he tow a bigarse trailer uphills with the auto ?

^ Is that the guy who didnt pay his rent and the landlord locked the doors one morning?

is dodgy Darryl down there now ??

is there an 'off the shelf' pulley the correct diameter, then it would be a case of spinning up an adapter

ARO or NITTO? Why?

nitto is a higher flow rate

so what part of it is over water?

must live on the Chathams or Waiheke island

would have thought 180lb would be too light up front ?, rally rears are often 150-200lb with front being 3-400lb

Yea I'm heading up sat morning just in the daily, check out the show then head back

pics or ban !!

had a shitty month of August with all the rain we had down here, so cash ain't to flash ATM.

would have been up there otherwise, less Imp, as it ain't done !!

first place it died randomly when driving followed by not even turning over, once i charged the battery the starter motor was turning over however even wouldn't fire. was told coils stuffed, replaced that same issue.

extra earth on the head.

extra earth on the head.

had same issue when fitting rebuilt motor in club/rally car.

TWL do a heavy duty 'cotton reel' mount like the one pictured above. various sizing available.

i seen a few of those photographed coming through Timaru on Saturday morning, but was unsure what the occaision was, till i saw the news article.

coming to a town near you............. if you is a mainlander

http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-expr ... p-for-tour

get hold of BZBling on here. has a box of pullers and stuff that i bought from trade me, but havn't picked up yet. there should be one or 2 in the package

reliable daily = win ????

hey man good times to be had there.

is that the Ex-Gerrard rally car??

have you sold the rally suspension?

never used him, but Ewan seems to be the go, if in the north island.

bought plenty of replacement engines of Daito Auto Parts in Temuka, and never had an issue that they weren't prepared to resolve (dicky injectors on a diesil). there prices are pretty sharp too.

Haven't made up my mind yet.. I asked the guy a few questions & didn't get back to me.

Thinking of just upgrading shocks to a set of Bilstein tarmac (300/70) unsure whether to get Long or Short though. Also springs to suit.

get hold of chris alexander at suspensiontech. done plenty of mods for race and rally Escorts. Stech.co.nz ??

Get the hugest ones ya can also, as they are restrictive little buggers.

seconded, a great way to rob HP. i decided it was better to run without them, than to de-tune to run them.

keep your eyes on trade me, i scored a set of Pipercross sidedraft filters for fuck all

you need the crank from a 3T/gte and the pistons and turbo from a 3TGTE. the motor will then be an 1800 Twin Cam Turbo but without the stupid twinspark

more deets bro?

http://www.autosport.org.nz/1-september ... y-rally/#1 Sept - Canterbury Rally 2012

http://www.autosport.org.nz/assets/Uplo ... 12-Map.pdf

don't know full details, poverty has confined me to timing cars, instead of being timed.

canterbury Rally on this weekend, if you guys felt the urge to burn some fuel and head out to Goon.

rebuild the 186 into mental Bathurst spec

By the sound of it, he's the only reason it is actually getting built anyway

bollocks.

You trying to say Messers Begg, Dippie, Aitken didn't do anything towards it ?? dunno much about O'donnell, but the other 3 are no mugs. they got the land, the consent, and designed it all, Tony has come along, bought into it and fast-tracked it by 18 months.

whilst it is good to see the rapid progress since Tony's involvement, there will be bugger advantage for any of us unless we can wrangle our way into their "Club". One thing of mention though, there is now quite a strong Central Otago Car Club, that run many gravel sprints and auto-cross "type" events that may manage a track hire or 2

companies and car manufacturers alike, and there were only 10-15 days allocated in the resource consent for proper racing activities

Seriously, you think one race meeting every month is too limited? That's actually quite busy compared to most tracks in NZ. For one, there aren't enough race drivers in the area to field decent grids every month and they'll also have to ship in a lot of manpower to do marshaling and crash rescue.

Markku, take into account, a lot of race events are 2-3 days, then you have not a lot of race meetings.