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  1. 7 minutes ago, Bling said:

    To be fair, many people on here have many projects that will never see the road. So it does have merit. It's cheaper to buy one already done usually too, so i'm with kws. One should not bite off more than one can chew.

    yeah I'm to-ing and fro-ing about whether to spend the extra on a running legal one but I keep coming back to "but then what would I do with it?" 

    buying a project means shopping for car parts on the internet which is 200% hands down my favorite pastime (miles ahead of "working on cars")

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  2. 1 minute ago, kws said:

    IMO having dealt with trying to import a car that was flagged at the Japanese border as rusty, unless you need to have that one or its some amazing deal where you can afford to jump through many expensive hoops for the repair cert, i'd probably look for another.

    Does it have any of the import paperwork? If you don't have the compliance paperwork from the first owner, and none of the import paperwork, i feel like that might become a world of pain come your turn to comply it.

    yup I've asked for the paperwork, no reply yet though

    Deep down I think it's a case of "if you can't afford a decent one, you can't afford to make a crap one decent" 

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  3. thanks guys, we are already into second hand news regarding what was actually said and done and by who, so yes I will be proceeding with caution

    OK so my recent revelation is that there is a border check, and a compliance certification process, and they aren't one and the same. the current owner says that the car "went through compliance" which I guess is the certification check. presumably it didn't pass otherwise It'd have plates on it and be worth twice as much. anyway I did the sensible thing and asked for a copy of the border check, compliance paperwork and the rust repair cert, which despite this being a deal worth thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, I am sure will be seen as a totally unreasonable demand and I'll never get a reply

    meanwhile he is being offered swapz for everything under the sun 

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  4. can someone please spoonfeed me like little baby

    Looking at a car. was bought into the country, issued VIN, flagged for rust, first owner then pinched the engine out of it then sold the body. second owner sat on it and now wants to sell it. along comes a sucker:

    1. does the original compliance inspection have a deadline? or can I just get them to ring up the VIN and they'll know exactly what to re-check.

    2. is there any significance in it having had a VIN issued? does that mean it's at least passed some level of scrutiny?

    3. does the original compliance crowd need to do the recheck? guessing it'll be someone in auckland

    4. does the car have to be presented complete in order to finish compliance? (ie do I need to find a replacement engine) if so, would the replacement engine having a different serial number cause problems? do they even check?

  5. if it's a big enough slug of air you might be able to pick it up by tap-testing it? you'll feel like an idiot tap-tap-taparooing down a zillion meters of pipe though

    I would probably do a proof of concept first, half fill a couple of meters of spare pipe, cap it, bend into an arch and test to see if there's a difference in sound 

  6. 7 hours ago, 440bbm said:

    Slab 40k?  my 108m2 shed floor i getting quotes for is between 8 and 12k. so much be a big concrete pad!

    The slab would be about 20x5m so probably about the same area as yours although I was allowing 10mm plus depth, at least in one patch where I'd want to put up my hoist. I pulled 40k out of my ass, good to hear it can be done much cheaper, we already have compacted gravel on the site so that probably helps too. 

    But given that I already have the containers, that 8-12k money for the slab would probably cover the costs for getting them gutted and joined, and of course they already come with a floor!

    Thought about the canvas archgola thing but I've only got a 6x20 site to play with. It's basically going to be a lean-to on the side of the workshop, I already pay lease on the gravel patch so kinda dumb to do nothing with it 

     

  7. looking at buying a new water trap / regulator for our paint gun at work, anything I should look out for? some of the fancier looking rigs have auto-oilers for air tools, I suppose you can just leave that off?

     

  8. when I pulled the head on the starion I found that the head gasket has a couple of holes in it that don't line up with anything. thanks to these holes, coolant (or rather, straight water by the looks of it) has been allowed to sit against the head and has started eating into it. in fact the whole area around it looks a bit corroded and I think I'll condemn this head

    I pulled the head off a spare engine and found the same gasket, same corrosion, same problem (but significantly less bad). the corrosion pit is pretty gnarly but isn't anywhere near anything, probably a good 10mm from the gasket fire ring so I think it's OK to run again? just wondering if there's anything I should/could do to prevent it getting any worse. A blob of silicone to close up the hole in the gasket?

     

    this is the old head:

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