Taistorm
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There's a place in wairau that does dash repairs. Forgot the name but im pretty sure they're pricey as.
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Long time, no update.. 2 years later...
Had a quick steering box heat deflector hammered up then got the car back home in the garage. Sold the recaro seats as they were still a little too wide and had fouling issues when trying to slide and had next to no clearance with the recliner adjuster. Picked up a pair of Daihatsu Mira TRXX seats which were a bit narrower and pretty supportive and some awesome chaps off OS helped me out getting them up from down south.
This brings us to early 2021, had to move out of our flat and relocated to a small unit around the corner that had no garage so this went into storage at a family friend's shed up north to hibernate. Next we decided to have a kid so the car had been put on hold a bit longer as priorities changed up. We also were in the process of building a house so funneled our money into the drafting then after wasting thousands of dollars and a decent year the banks no longer wanted to lend us money to build which was lame, so also no spare coin for the car.
Now on with early 2022. Due to the above we decided to plan to move back to Aus so we can buy a house and get on the big money to try get ahead. I decided to try sell this even though I knew I'd regret it, had a few people dead keen but no one ended up following through due to various reasons. In hindsight I'm glad it didn't sell even though I won't be around it for a long time. The family friend who had been storing could no longer keep it at theirs so I managed to convince the olds to let me convert part of their firewood shed to secure dry storage for this thing to slumber in. I'm no chippy, nor am I a concreter but gave it a crack. I used only reclaimed timber from around the property, a few lengths of timber that the old boy had milled years ago, old tin roofing iron that was left on the property and left over bits and pieces from odd jobs. Really only needed to buy some nails, screws, and materials for the concreting (which was all mixed in a mixer). None of the shed posts were square and I was truly limited with what I had haha so don't be too harsh on my shed bodge.
We had a digger scrape out the bark and dirt and built up shit to reveal the compacted metal that was laid about 10years ago (awesome that it saved me a tonne of work).
Filled in the holes with sand and metal to get it semi level.
Boxed it up, and prepped it for pouring. Used a bowed piece of timber to try and screed it hahaha rough as guts.
Next I build an inner wall to section it off from the wood storage. Rebuilt and added to the rear and side, framed up the front then screwed some iron to it.
Made a door frame on some cheap hinges and hung a door that barely had enough clearance for the tiny mazda.
Then earlier today we picked up the 50 year old mazda and threw it into its new home.
This was all done across the last 1-2 months. It's locked away for the foreseeable future. I'm off to Perth on Tuesday and it looks like I'll probably accept a job in the mines and be starting in a few weeks. Fingers crossed when I'm back in NZ next April I'll be able to drop it off at a shop to continue with the build. We'll see how things go anyway.
Thanks for looking.
Tai
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Usually just swap them out bro. I've never replaced the bearings besides on a cat skidsteer that had this oddball setup that was grease one side and oil on the other.
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Go see Advance Seals in Silverdale. The West family that run it are absolute gcs and if they don't have it in stock they'll make it. I wouldn't go anywhere else, have been using them for 5 years with minimal hiccups and if there are any issues they'll go above and beyond to sort it.
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Not NZ but Pon Retro in Thailand do a wide range of steel flares, lips, wings in steel. Might have something you're after. I haven't purchased from them personally but have read that their products are decent.
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Another short lived project.
Was planning to keep this one as it didn't owe me much as I'm planning to move over to Aus shortly, however my Mazda hadn't sold (which is a good thing) so this was next on the firing line.
Sold in a day so maybe I should have listed it for more ! Went off to a super chuffed buyer so that's a good thing.
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Contact chamberlain auto springs im Christchurch. They make cobra springs and can set them up however you like.
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Yeah that looks like Dan's old 323. Remember when he was rolling that at highschool about 13 odd years ago
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Awesome progress bro! Looks so good.
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Not chch but I would try AES in Henderson, Auckland. They're pretty good to deal with and have a good range.
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Fake update.
Bought a 2nd hand factory bov, gutted it out and dropped it off to my machinist mate to do his magic to blank it off. A block of speights and a block of alloy later, he spun up a alloy plug and pressed it in with loctite.
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Now I just need to find a cheap bov so it can make dumb noises. I'll probably get sick of it after a blat but I'll keep the original diverter valve to swap back if I need.
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This was it. More or less standard but it was mint with leather interior, sunroof, heated seats etc.
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Our mk5 gti used to use about 1-1.5L of oil between services. Had been told this is very common from a Volkswagen specialist who did some other work on the car. That was using penrite oil as well.
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Have you tried any engineering shops as opposed to fabricators?
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Another piece turned up today.
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Not a real update but I've got a second hand Kurt's custom dump pipe coming over from Aus. I've also put in an order on amayama for all the gaskets/seals/other bits (hopefully everything I need) to swap over the dump pipe. Really not looking forward to this as it looks like a prick of a thing to do so may just work a few more hours and pay someone else to do it hahaha as I'm a lazy cunt sometimes.
From what I've read apparently just by upgrading the dump and a 3" exhaust the boost increases by about 3psi and can see gains of about 50hp as the factory dump pipe is super restrictive. See how it goes anyway...
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You can buy thin striping rolls from repco in various colours for cheap (intended for stripes across vehicles).
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These turned up today!
Hopefully get these in sometime soon.
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Charlie's pinstriping in Kumeu. The dude is quality but he's probably pretty eggs Benny.
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1 hour ago, BlownCorona said:
theres a sticker guy down here with a brand you might enjoy
https://lmtbrk.com/Haha might have to grab a few!
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Plates on this morning and shot up to washworld for a quick once over.
Lowering springs should be here early next week but they probably won't go on for a little while yet. Also looking at getting a Kurtz custom downpipe from Aus now as ones popped up second hand for cheap.
Also filled this thing up from empty fuel light. Damn fuel is expensive, 70L of 98 about $185! Good thing I have a work car and will only drive this maybe once a week...
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Yeah he definitely owns it.
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Haha, wouldn't be surprised. He doesn't even have a license....
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2 hours ago, datlow said:
Like not even oil changes??
Yeah bro, not once. I think he's barely even needed to topup the oil! Haha he's a bit of a munter. The tray and back seats are full of empty beer bottles and diesel cans.. like literally full.
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Our old mk5 used to use 1-2L in 10,000km.