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@La Viva 71 I’ve probably got a spare one somewhere but no guarantee on what condition it’s in, the diaphragm is probably perished.

I’ve always swapped out with a low pressure electric pump. They’re cheap enough and reliable so you won’t get stranded.

Good to catch up last night and have yarns. Thanks guys.

Shame about our quiz skills though...

Can do Tuesday night.

@GuyWithAviators pull finger and let me know what the plan is

I found this on my laptop a while back.  Probably appropriate for small bikes and the east cape.

Keen.

Not available Monday night or Thursday night.

I’ll be around the week of the 21st of Nov and keen to meet and have random yarns with strangers off the internet.

10 hours ago, Mop Head said:

You up again any time soon?

Nah next stint up there is Nov. 16th to 27th.

Keen to meet up then, although all my old cars are down south now. Will bring a turbocoon instead.

Oh man, why couldn't this have been next Thursday instead?

Hey @HighLUX @GuyWithAviators maybe do a weekend one when I'm up some time?  Keen to meet TGA locals.

@Roman you’re not allowed to use rally tyres at TECT park for autocross or motorkhana.

Find the cheapest open block tread pattern you can find. I’ve got some cheap GT radials with big open tread pattern.

Terrible as a road/tarmac tyre but ideal for the loose stuff.

On 07/03/2022 at 22:09, xsspeed said:

not sure about there being heaps of EP81/91 GTs anymore. I think @vivaspeed liked them before they were cool though

I had my EP82 GT nearly 20 years ago now. So much fun.

Don't see many now, a lot got thrashed and wrecked like all the fast cheap cars.

@SOHC phase to earth is 230v nominal voltage (may be 220v out your way if the power is a bit crap).

Standard low voltage is 230v +/- 6% by regulation.

Three phase is 400v phase to phase, and still 230v phase to earth.

Plenty of online info about this.

Don’t look at US info because they are different, e.g. 110v, 220v etc. They also run on 60Hz not 50Hz.

Basically don’t buy crap off Aliexpress and buy some proper NZ stuff.

Small turn out but we still went for a drive and ate some lunch. 

Thanks @nzstato and @azzurro and Mrs Azzuro. Good yarns.

Will try again for a longer run into Central in the new year.

So who is actually planning on coming along?

Weather looks cold and grey, so if there aren’t many people able to come then maybe we defer it until the new year when the sun comes out again?

You've still got 24 hours...

7 hours ago, Lord Gruntfuttock said:

Ranfurly pub is a hole apparently...

I can confirm that. Would not trade again.

Right, let's lock this in.

Sunday 12th December meet 10am at Peter Johnstone Park (I have no idea where that is but @nzstato recommended it).

Cruise this route below, bring some lunch or things to buy lunch with in Ranfurly.

Who's coming? @azzurro @danger @a.craw4d @kyteler @Toddy415 @Lord Gruntfuttock @kiwi808 @xsinclairx @smokin'joe @Marsh

8 hours ago, Lord Gruntfuttock said:

 at the races 11th Dec.

We're talking about the 12th.

Right so I’ve now got to be up north on the 5th due to family commitments so you guys can carry on without me, or we push it out to Sunday 12th instead?

Do Chamberlain still have a workshop?

They make springs and used to do suspension work so can probably sort you out.

I’ve had them make me custom springs for Vivas and Toyota stuff over the years.

Okay so let's make a plan here.

First weekend in December (Sunday 5th December) might be the go.  I've got commitments on the weekends either side.

Not sure what kind of distances people want to cover, but I had thought about the route below - meet Dunedin say 10am, head off through Middlemarch towards Ranfurly and/or Naseby (cool little town I visited for the first time today) for a bite to eat - BBQ or pie or pub lunch or whatever then back out to Palmerston.  Central Otago people can head off home from Ranfurly if they wanted.

The other option might be to go in reverse direction and head up through Warrington, Karitane, etc but trying to avoid too much back tracking depending on where people are travelling from.