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I might head along to the start of this, on the Lambretta. Hopefully you'll turn a blind eye to the 'under 250cc' rule. 

You need a long stroke crank, an upgear, short 4th gear, cylinder kit, etc etc. 

The guys at Retro know what cylinder kit will work best for you. They order from SIP every week or so. 

Yeah, drag day was good. my best was a 18.8 at 66mph. not bad considering my clutch was slipping. And the scoot had sat in the shed for a year. I didnt even put fresh gas in. lewl. 

Ken

So, this thing was a hoot to ride, but always lacked power and handled like a wobbly spring. 

Only one thing to do. Add more power.

40.5hp to be exact. 

Ten paving slabs. 

I cant believe no one has suggested a Toyota Funcargo yet. 

Just get the 1.5 

If you can get 6 full sized railway sleepers and 4 people safely in the car, it has to be good. 

I'm going to go to BurgerFuel Ellerslie tonight. Well, actually I'll probably be next door at Mexicali. 

Rats, its the first time in ages that I'll be able to make it. Was going to bring the Lambretta out for a hoon. 

You got rocks in your head if you swap the wagon for and rx7. 

Louis, if you need a 2stroke dyno, I use Lincoln at R&R Powersports. I'm sure he would like to strap this to the dyno and get it running just right for you. 

Not cheap, but he knows his stuff. 

This thing looks so rad. 

Those pipes are going to sound amazing. 

'Twas a good little ride.

I may make it to this. 

Its Monday. Did the concrete get poured? 

HAS ANYONE DRAWN DICKS IN THE CONCRETE YET?

That does look like the unit in my Sigma/Galant/Eterna GSR. 

Ive got a spare that doesnt dribble in my parts stash. I plan on using it to swap with my dribbly one. 

If its any consolation my power steering box dribbles a bit as well.  

Nah, would be more of a pain to put a battery in. The paperwork is also for the lack of indicators and in some cases lack of brake light! 

So this thing was de-reg. 

I was riding this dirty, no reg/wof. and speed through fixed speed camera. At a whopping 54kph or something. 

The old owner got the ticket. Followed by a ticket for no WOF. Lol. 

Me being a good chap, I paid the speeding ticket. And started the process of getting it legal to try and get off the 'no wof' fine (of which was in the previous owners name). The kids at Retroscooter helped out with recompliance, writing to the Vintage Car Club to get Lighting Exemption forms sorted. Brake deceleration, wiring, adding front shocks, etc. 

Anyway. I've being riding it quite a bit. It's slow as a wet week. But it rules. 

More power at some point. 

Pic of it it with the headlight on at idle. (Hence lighting exemption)

I've welded/repaired a couple of Vespa exhausts with a arc welder.  With a good welder and rods, you'll be fine. 

And learnt how to arc weld by welding up a trailer frame. By the end of it, the welds were mint! 

But like others have said, get a mig. I got a BOC 150 mig off trademe for $300. as it turns out the owner worked for BOC and she got the welder to give to her husband. But he didnt want/use it. So it was NEW. She got the guys at her work to weld up a stainless trolley for it.  (cool story). 

Then I got an owner argoshield bottle.  

The other option is to get a secondhand arc welder. Theres one on Trademe for $5 no reserve. It cant be worse than the welder I used years ago. 

If its shit, just throw it away.