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2JZ time?

Hey who has a recommendation for a fibreglass repair place Auckland Hamilton Tauranga area?

Got a smashed light pod with my Evo rally car which looks repairable but my fibreglass skills are pretty basic and I'm a bit time poor.

There are many reasons it looks stupid, but you can blame the wheels.

Height looks good.

Wheel to sidewall ratio is all wrong.

Buying and working on more crowns isn't going to get a supercharger on your mustang.

It only shows the grid connected stations, not the ones embedded in distribution networks. I.e. the little old cool ones.

33 minutes ago, V8Pete said:

 

Should do a power stations of NZ road trip.

Oh really? I thought there was marque specific parking but didn't know it was clubs only.

I've got a place with a club so sorted.

50 years of Viva GT so will be a fine collection.

http://www.briteurocarshow.nz/

Anyone going to this?

That's a Gemini.

That last photo makes your wife look really short.

Cupboards look awesome.

After they lay down the final coat you'll notice that there is a curly pubic hair or something equally dodgy permanently embedded in the urethane.

Giz more photos plz

Is that your shed up the back of your old house?  Get a chain trencher and drop some neutral screen cable in the ground.  Best in the long run.

Can do hookups for good pricing.

You are mistaken about the ports.

It runs vertical Siamese intake ports and the exhaust has a shared port for no. 2 and 3.

All of the yuck.

Shape isn't great and usually full of casting slag.

The heads are interchangeable I think but not sure about combustion chamber shape and overlap - e.g. smaller bore may have a problem on the 1256cc head.

There used to be a thing where you could do something like mismatch 1256cc and 1159cc parts and make high compression or low compression depending on turbo or non turbo.  I figured it all out a decade or more ago and have now forgotten all of it, including what benefits it offers.

Pleasingly, I have lost some knowledge of Vauxhall OHV engines.

Shit yarn!

Wiper blades are fine, its just they don't have enough spring tension to keep them on the screen and the linkages are all sloppy.

Engine might be 140ish. Smallport with a bit of extra compression and a cam. Stock ecu too.

Thinking about chucking a Link Atom in it and getting tuned. Might realise a few more ponies.

Time for the annual thread update.

Haven't done anything to this.  Pumped up the tyres and went for a skid out at Pukekohe.  You will note I've done nothing about fixing the windscreen wipers.  At one point the drivers side one overshot and went past the A-pillar but came back again.  Maybe I'll fix that next year.

For some reason they ran the old track at Puke with the long back straight.  Top end of 5th gear got a bit interesting, and not particularly reassuring that the only thing preventing overshoot and possible death was brake calipers off a 1970s Austin Princess.

Listen the the symphony of thrashing a 4AGE and a diff with slightly the wrong clearances (sorry, it's not straight cut gears).

On FB chuck it up on VOHC and DTV sites or post on yours and share the link.

Same deal with my 4age one. Too modified for classics, not modified enough for mainstream classes of racing.

Not wanting to be a dick here Alex, but why not go and find a bit more work (like regular 40 hour a week spec) for a few months or a year and then buy all the things.  Dont need to win lotto.

Then resume normal laid back lifestyle just with more cars.

So few of them change hands on the open market (Trademe) that it's hard to know the price people are willing to pay (especially modified ones).

I got an insurance valuation on my white SL90 recently which made me fall off my chair, but who knows what the market would pay - say compared to a Mk 1 Escort.

Easy answer, don't sell it, you'll regret it, and the next owner won't appreciate it like you do.

Looks good with the glazing in.  That big lounge window is awesome.

We can have roof shout Mk. 2 without the wind freezing us to death.

Glass shout?

Even the higher spec 90 engine is pretty low compression. Chuck a low pressure turbo on it with suck through carb.

Something like a CT9 or CT12 off a small Toyota would do it.

Unbolt for wof.

MX-5 B6 RWD or 4AGE.  

4AGEs are the best engine.

Good score on the 90 engine.  Just need to go big block 1256 spec.