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This is what I am doing, keep original radio in place and use an amp with an aux input hidden under the seat. just throw the aux cable under the seat when not in use and pull out and connect to phone/mp3 player when you want some sweet tunes. You could probably keep the original radio wired up to the speakers also if you still wanted to use it for some reason. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-stereos/amplifiers/other/auction-1078183102.htm

So it's been a long time since the last update but things have been happening. We pulled the engine and gearbox again to fix that noises bearing. While it is out I painted the engine bay and the engine. All the pointless wiring has been removed and the rest is being tidied up. Have removed the guard and under sealed them all. Fixed rust also. This guard is off because still need to weld a patch in inner wheel arch. New shocks all round and tires. Repositioned my aerial so it's on an angle. Think it looks better than straight up. Can extend it out to about 5 feet also. Engine all painted. Redoing the extractors as previous job was rather shitty. Easier fixing when engine of car Rebuilt clutch master, brake was rebuilt a little while back as well. A guard, fixed any issues with it and under sealed. Overall seems to be coming along ok. That's about it for now. Will hopefully have exhaust fixed all soon and engine back in. Discuss here if you want //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/36619-daves-prince-b200/?fromsearch=1

cracked a semi looking at that engine. amazing work mate.

ill buy you a doz waters if we can have it for a bit longer as I haven't even used it yet lol

Think he means let me drive your car Or come work on my car for new two weeks while your off work

We will probably be departing from manurewa but could have a meet up at the servo on the side of the motorway as you head south. as long as we all have an assortment of tools we should all make it

Me and matteybean are heading down in his car from Auckland. leaving Thursday. don't think we doing track day so will be a mid morning departure or so. Who else is driving down Thursday?

Get a glass polishing kit and don't do it by hand or it takes years. get one that fits on a drill. usually comes in a powder with a pad and you just buff it back to mintness. could maybe have a hoon with some autosol which would work but prob best to use proper glass stuff edit: should probably find some links to kits so will do googling now.

Siren676 is hooking me up with some from bnt. Good stuff. Should probably not be lazy and clean and bleed the lifters but if I was going that route they sell updated lifters for the evo 5 so would just buy new and get some cams

thread bump, can anyone get mbl8 for a reasonable price? its like $50 plus retail. need less mitsi tick in my life

Hey guys I got a mint workshop manual here for a prince gloria/b200. In English too. Is there somewhere I can take it so they can turn it into a file so I can throw it on the Internet for other people to use? I don't know how to do it and don't have a scanner. Would be useful for other owners etc I'm in auckland

ouch a $50 dollar wof.. you get a gold sticker or something when it passes? otherwise that's one fast turn around time for a project.

its just doors at the moment and an inner wheel arch. nothing that's holding the car together. I think they look pretty legit in my opinion for welds done by my brother 12 bourbons deep. my theory is that you can see that there is steel there so cant be all that bad. much excite for potential wof!

probably a silly question but here goes. do I need to hide my welded in patches prior to wof? I have about a dozen patches they have just been ground back and primered. I want to get a wof very shortly and am not keen on trying to bog anything yet. pretty sure ill let the pros do the bog job as it will just look like im hiding rust if I do it.

Would a small shop hammer or a builders hammer and a block of steel work fine? Otherwise ill have to get some new tools.Yea welds have all good penetration, I just haven't ground them flush cause don't need to. All other doors are mint just this one just went crappy. I just don't know where I'm smacking, do I just go around each patch until the panel pops back into shape? I'm in the garage now but am struggling to work out where to start

Pictures for reference. Can see the high spot in the middle above that extra bit we welded and the low on either side. Closest low to camera I can push out quite easily but it wants to revert back in Photos don't really show it also lighting on that side of the garage sucks (it's closest to the wall) I'm not worried about the bottom of the door as that was really bad, basicly all hammered in quite severely then bogged over its just that larger flat area above my primered stuff that makes me sad

Yea it hasn't had any hammering yet. Just welded, welds ground back to bogable level and primered. So do I shrink on hammer? I have never done this before and not too keen to fuck the door up. If I could get it 50% better I would be haply

hey guys me and my bro mattybean been balls deep in rust repairs on the prince. everything went perfect except the last door. the panel has warped, you can push it in and out and it pops like a shitty old oil can. one side ican push out and it looks sweet but if I shut the door it will pop back in. how do I fix this? do I have to cut it out and start again? its just a couple patches at bottom of the door and a bigger patch still at the bottom but it extends over the lower door "ridge" and onto the main bit flat bit. ill post photos if needed otherwise anyone know how to fix this out east Auckland? cheers.

Wait till you see how I set that bad boy, I have a perfectly calibrated bit of no8 wire which is attached to the end of the speaker wire. I pull the choke out till the wire can just catch on the top heater slider line for full choke, other lower slider options on the dash for less choke. Shes not on the road yet so its just temp... honest! back on topic, I get fuzzy feeling in my pants over this car. top notch man. your living my dream

I fucken hate cold starts after sitting for days... My choke is also connected via a speaker wire which isn't helping. different choke setting everyday!

So shit has been slow as usual, the odd job being knocked out here or there. Last month or so have been hitting it hard though. Don't have many pictures so you will all have to take my word for it. As per previous posts the boot was fucked so got a much better boot and slapped that on, no rust holes just some surface poos so I'm happy with that. My triple carbs idea turned to shit after I broke one carb and then the dog somehow pulled another off the bench and broke that. I brought a pretty good condition standard carb for this engine and threw it on. All new points, condenser, dizzy cap and plugs and all that along with the carb she purrs like a kitten. I have an issue with my clutch bearing, I think that's the world. It's brand new but was sitting for a few years and when I put my clutch pedal to the floor it squeals. Not happy about that. I have a feeling the forks on the piss but haven't investigated further. Also managed to find the elusive corner chrome bits, not photos with it on as yet as I need to make some more clips but I'm stoked with that. The bro mattybean came over today and helped with door rust, we got one door sorted now really only 2 to go, drivers is pretty mint already. Was a bit of a fuck up as I didnt have the right tools so we ripped a couple doors off and went back to his. He managed to multi task cooking a barbie to keep the girlfriends happy and also cut out rust and make patches without burning the food. Win win all round. My mrs wanted to sunbathe today but instead she went around and polished all the chrome on the car. Came out mint!! Overall, today was a good day. The mad rake going on. Mattybeans corona and my prince chilling in the sun. Matt bonnet up as we swapping some ignition shit over try to solve a miss. I'm sitting on the step having a refreshment break. Can kinda see the mrs through the car polishing the rear chrome. Discussions //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/36619-daves-prince-b200/page-2

I had a look and there's a couple of twist tape connections and a random wire floating around with a circle connector thing on the end. Will look into that this weekend.Inside of lenses was sweet but my reverse lamps have heaps of real tiny cracks all over as they are pretty old. Can't tell if brake ones have them too. The reflector is a bit of polished metal that could definitely go for a good polish, will get some autosol and give that a go. My bulbs are all 5w. Is that fine? Cars a 66. Will get googling about relays. Ill take a photo with it before and after this weekend and see what makes a difference.

hey guys how to I go about getting brighter tail lights and brake lights? I had a little test during the day and they are barely visable in the daylight. my indicators are red too and can barely see them also. want to get this sorted before I get it on the road to avoid people bum rushing me when they for some reason cant understand why they are rapidly getting closer to my car. its running 12v system. could I just smash higher w bulbs in there and be happy or do I need some rewiring? some other sort of wizardry? im pretty clueless when it comes to electrics but if I could be pointed in the right direction me and my multi could prob just wing it. cheers.

Your stereo earth? I wired up a half assed attempt with the mrs car stereo and first time we had to touch the brake pedal is tripped the stereo and dash lights went crazy. Was just bad wiring on my behalf and a better earth solved it all. Pretty sure that was the solution...

What happened to the photos from the last meet?