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also possibly not just easier to get whatever your fitting this to tapped out to m16 by a engineering outfit or similar?

wr twigg in wellington stock a bunch of brass fittings probably best to ring them and ask vs go off whats on the website 

Now that my little fountain 10-10 has made it to you i hope the repair features in this thread

Are you sure it doesnt need some sort of ali etch primer? Ive used some of the white knight stuff and its been ok

Datsun 720 is the vehicle. Probably won't crack much over say 1200-1300kg? But I get what you are saying about not always just winching yourself.

I will keep an eye out at Supercheap.

Cheers for the replies.

its not only what your car weighs or someone else when they are really bogged and suctioned into the mud/sand you will want the big winch 

Can get sweet dana axle upgrades for jeeps

Clint oh oracle of knowledge im looking at putting some side flaps on my rally car can i drill and put riv nuts in the underside of my sills like 4 or is this a no no my other option is to make them longer and bolt through the floor

like what you see on the side of this car 

so the brakes had never been fantastic and by that i mean shit so first port of call was to bleed the brakes as the car had been standing for 5 years got a bit of air out and rid of this skanky fluid it actually stops now 

this morning i did a job id been putting off for a while the main part of the floor and boot floor had a bit of surface rust and it was down to the primer so i took off all the loose stuff and rust killed it then gave it a coat or 2 of truck bed liner came out really well considering 

the rest of the floor pan is ok and i rust killed any spots i think needed it should hopefully last a while 

checked the kickdown cable is all adjusted correctly it sounds like its not adjusting the idle up when selecting drive 

I have 2 doors and a tail gate you can have for this if you can find a way of getting them. A bit rusty but probably usable for a rally car

sweet ill hit my mate up and see if he can get them 

Hey mate don't mean to burst your bubble but you will fail scruitineering with that battery box, I went through the same debarcle when I moved my batter to the boot of the starlet. Unless the batter is a fully sealed race battery (even by sealed red top ultima is not) then it has to be in a sealed container vented to outside the car (and secured with at least 4x M6 Iso 8.8 high tensile bolts) those black battery boxes are not sealed and vent within the cars cabin. I used a small clear sealed briscoes storage container with a piece of rubber fuel hose running from the box and out a hole in the floor. I tried arguing with the MSNZ technical officers over the fact an optima is sealed but they wouldn't wear it, has to be completely dry cell to avoid it.

yea i am aware of the rule it was just the battery that came with the car and i was sick of it rolling round "road testing" probably going to go with a 22Ah or similar battery that's sealed strange they wouldn't allow an optima they are 10mm bolts in the bottom of the box so its compliant other than the battery thats in it 

so ive been cracking on with a few jobs over the long weekend all the really big jobs are done pretty much just lots of little ones 

i got a new battery box to replace the smashed one and re jigged the bracket that the old owner had cut in half and made it fit the new battery he put in 

not pretty but functional and strong and meets manz specs 

looks much better with the lid on

i also installed the new seats the blue one was easy the seat holes were correctly spaced for me to just bolt the factory rails on by just drilling 2 new holes the red one is narrower and i had to cut the rear adapter plate and it bolted on and i used new high tensile bolts they look much better and semi match the steering wheel now

I had some autometer gauges sitting round so i got a water temp one in a smaller size so they could all fit in the panel that had a old oil pressure gauge in it and yes i know they aren't straight they are like that so in their normal range they are pretty much all straight up 

just waiting on a 1/4 npt to 1/8 npt adapter for the water temp gauge and they will all be functioning this is all for now  

little bit used to my daily & other rides stopping good & vented dicks yada yada plus I noted they were getting low, will avoid Napier-Taupo Road for now on same reasoning

 

AA plus was 1st thing I upgraded hah (forgot to mention IN op & Phone charger for sure, checking spare is a bad Habit many miss til the time you need it too lol

if you know they are low why wouldn't you just change them before you go then not have to give a fuck what way you go 

formula e sell them on trademe for like 250 bucks they are a couple of years old but test them all before they leave the place at least you know they have been looked after pretty well 

mine had them bolted with massive plates to the rear parcel tray and went under the seats with big plates 

heh skills aside youtube might suggest you "your video is shaky : would you like us to fix this?"

 

I've had mixed results from that sort of video editing

 

these arent terribly expensive : http://www.trademe.co.nz/electronics-photography/camera-accessories/other/auction-1024879951.htm

a bunch of us used those in our race cars and they were awesome pre gopro days now with cheap knock off go pros that are really good why would you bother using a normal camera

ITS ALIVE !!!!!

was the txt i got yesterday and today it showed up on the tow truck again at my house 

heres a small video for proof

https://www.youtube.com/embed/AKZFtz2UEsY

so i took it for a burn round the block and it runs like a champ only issue now is its distinct lack of brakes so will have to investigate that one they are a bit spongy so will get some new fluid and bleed them up and see what happens and whip the drums off the rear to check for any leaks 

oh and i got the terratrip to work there's a hidden switch in the glovebox so will tidy that up and put it in the dash 

i also got a graytronics intercom pretty cheap and have the parts to make some leads up for it an it uses all the terraphone accessories 

oh and i spotted on trademe 2x momo seats for 40$ each they will work with my current rails i just need too make up some 15mm spacer for the rear bolt holes im not sure what im going to do there yet 

and giving them the sit test in the driveway the old autosports were comfy as but lack the hole in the base for the crotch straps 

20th march alexander road hillclimb by wellington car club keep an eye on seabright motorsport for when the regs come out to enter pls dolan tell me your taking the id racing 

Don't use Mossrax unless you can be certain it is Chris (the owner) doing the job, he does a good job but his guys work leave a lot to be desired.

 

Send it to PG Hydraulics in Auckland - they will turn it around for you pretty quick incl freighting both ways as fast as Mossrax will get it done and do a much more consistent in their work.

Pretty much this mike was really good but hes no longer there

mossrax probably one of the few that does racks in welly 

ive done Otaria rd without a cage its not too bad apart from the top i had 2 close moments on one run including tapping the bank on the way back and at that i called it a day there's a few events around russell that require no cage mt vic hill climb is one thats coming up 

there was a whole thread on a frame towing that i started a couple of years ago 

so keen to come up again to race hopefully will have my car ready for march its only been like 5 years 

I've been looking at similar things.

And I've found for every opinion there is a counter opinion. Dang it.

It's hard to even get a grip on which way opposing opinions are swaying!

 

Read the guff on POR 15 and then priming that and spraying over bed liner etc.

And then I've decided that I'm pretty much going to leave it all the fuck alone for now because underbody prep sucks

 

Do you have kevlar wear plates in the areas of high abrasion?

your right so much info and no i dont ive only had the car a couple of months it has little underbody stuff on it was just going to redo the underside and redo the flaps slightly larger and put strips of it down the side on the sills to stop it kicking up the sides and chipping more of the paint 

Well today it went on the tow truck to a guy who is a member of and does a bit of work for the people in harbour capital car club of which i am a member of also. Hopefully I will get it back later this week as long as there is no other damage when its all taken apart stand by for pictures hopefully he will take some for me