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You would need two relays to do it but the way I imagine it it would only work if your starter had enough balls to build the oil pressure to the point of the switch opening up. otherwise have a button that you have to hold to power the fuel pump while starting it

geeze.. tarran has all them cars and still pesters me to buy my mark 2 off me

Choice! Things are on track to get the gx61 road going and legal by then so ill be taking that with a bit of luck

Mesh wheels look super sweet with the white centers man!

I would also be keen for that too! I'm still not sure if ill stay in hamner or just go for a day trip sorta styles. Convoy will make the drive so much sweeter and badass

Hmmmm what wheels should i widen........ i have just got some new bands for the longchamps to make the 6.5s into 8s which will give me 14x8 and 14x7.5 with the possibility of later widening the 7.5s to 9? or 10?.....12... Equips (currently 14x7) un-skinnyed up to 8s & 9s or 8.5s & 9.5s would be cool since i haven't seen a mark II with them on before,... so if someone has a pic of that please share.

buy this off me! mint engine and narrow block so you can use your gearbox you already have. You'll just need to make/find an exhaust manifold to suit http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=608683189

Ok I tried them on today and you were all right, white will look dumb, I'm gunna leave them the dark grey that they are. They don't really look as good as I was hoping for.... They are too fat i think. But still 100x better than the other ones, ill rock them for now. Might look better once I put the bonnet back on too. Will have to come up with something better than cable ties to hold them on with though.

The bottom part is white and the top is chrome. The ones I got have more chrome than those though, might make it look less obvious if the stem part is white like the car

Like this

Yeah I still really want the proper gx61 ones still but finding them will be pretty difficult im sure. I didn't want to get the wrong ones and have it look funny but these are pretty similar and the same shape so yeah they'll do for now. I was thinking I might paint the dark parts white so they look a bit more factory

Fuck yeah, managed to track down some proper fender mirrors. Paid way too much for them but i really wanted a pair and they were fucking hard to find. just need a bit of repairing is all this one has the mounting bracket etc but obviously its a bit fucked and the other one is gone so i'll have to make up something to mount them up all nice also no one would happen to have a spare one of these ?? //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/38319-be4vers-gx61-mark-ii/

hmmmm.... this better that this.....?

who does repair certs? lvv certifiers or someone else?

So I'd need to change the shifter? The w58 has a remote shifter I take it? I guess finding one of those would be just as difficult as finding a whole gearbox. Probably be better off buying LS 2 THE DEEEs w55. Just got to deal with the freighting then

haha yeah fucken oil leaks everywhere! starting to dislike these engines a little... but have most of them sorted. just the small one behind the crank pulley to do now. oh and the oil filter has decided it wants to leak too now this is what the tappet cover gasket looked like haha who can tell me weather a w58 box would be suitable for this? all i can sus out is that they have different ratios.

ok so i'm about to re-register a car and it has this here rusty bit; its the boot seal holder thing. Once i fix it will it need a repair cert or nah? i thought that being near the latch it might do.. I was planning to run the car through the inspection first and then go through and fix whatever else it needs. Or would i be best to fix the rust first before taking it in, and hope they don't notice its been repaired, to aviod the need for a repair cert?

ITS ALIVE!!! Heres the smoke to prove it! have never seen so much moisture come out of an exhaust at one time! Had to swap the spark plugs out for the ones in the other engine though as it would barely fire, let alone run, on the plugs that were in there haha after a couple mins the smoke stopped and it ran sweet as, only a couple minor things to take care of; lots of water leaking here shit thing is i saw how average it was and decided not to touch it incase i made it leak, should have just replaced it cos its in a slightly cunty place. also lots of oil pissing out here...there was literally a small stream pumping out here from the tappet cover also leaking an alarming amount of oil from the front crank seal, so i will have to use a couple bits i got in the gasket/seal kit on this engine it seems. But all in all pretty dam happy with progress in little under 2 weeks since picking it up now fix rust and book in for revin!

engine is now in, and for the most part all bolted and plugged in etc. Now hopefully tomorrow i'll get the radiator get back from being repaired and i'll be able to fire this shit up. broke the end off this heater pipe trying to get the hose off it. anyone got any great ideas as to how i can repair such a thing that doesn't involve having to remove the entire heater box n all that jazz??

Got a new old engine lastnight. But not before having to battle with a flat tyre on my ute halfway to timaru. And me being as prepared as ever i had a screwdriver and a shitty pair of plyers on board with me....no wheel brace, no jack handle, no thingy to let the spare down from under the deck! thank fuck for the good buggar at the Winchester garage who was there late and let me borrow various shit to change my wheel. So anyway cheers Rick! aka TMC-KE70 for the engine, also got some celica struts off him to play with and a whole gasket kit that i'll eventually be putting into my original engine since its done butt load less kms than this one. then proceeded to pull fucked one out tonight What an absolute cunt face the loom was to get out from under the intake manifold!... and those injector plugs...i just hate them so much! Ah well 3 hours to get an engine out isn't too bad for doing it on my own i guess. I'm predicting at least twice that to put the other in though Oh and i think i found the reason for all the bottled water in the boot. Pretty lucky my boss doesn't mind me keeping so much shit at work

i dont think he wants to sell the engine and box, i asked any way though

Oh really? Well I'll hopefully rip into my one this week and see what the deal is with it. I have found a 1ggze they would be pretty similar I assume? Just swap over the long block and boom! I'm guessing the manifolds mount the same n shit

The only reason I've been considering the jz swap is because over the last few days of searching trademe etc I can't find a 1ggeu engine yet there are plenty of 1&2jzs around. Why someone would want two 1ggeus sitting around taking up space I'll never know....hint hint Although I'm hoping the engine in the car is still fine and if it has only done 117kms it should be pretty sweet. Are these engines known to fuck head gaskets?

Hey man I'm wrecking two of these at the moment if you want a windscreen sooner than in 3 months time?

had a good hard look around for anymore rust and this is all ive come across Two spots like this either side of the top of the windscreen It must have been using a bit of water during its final days The spare wheel well actually had water sitting in it. No holes luckily, just surface rust and paint coming off. and thats it! hot dog! must be the least rusted pre 90s car i've had so far. unless i'm missing something of course. Where are the common places for rust on these? Gave it a quick polish in a couple of spots and the paint looks to be in dam good condition under all the grime and tar and bird shit And heres some pics of the inside for anyone who cares never seen one of these pump things on a seat before, pumps up the back of the seat for max comfort