Slacker_Sam.

120Kph was all I was game enough to get my one up to. It sounded like it was doing LOTS of revs.

I recently had a 77 Hunter station wagon. Standard 1750cc With standard single Stromberg carb and it was far from gutless, It went really well. Perhaps your one just needs a good tune? As for easily cruising at 100kph the limiting factor is the gearing not the actual motor. I had to cruise at 85-90kph as it was revving its nuts off at 100. Try fitting a sedan diff. they are much Higher ratio. 3.5 & 3.7:1 I believe. Wagon ones are shit 4.4:1 usually. Or you could try finding a Manual overdrive gearbox from the likes of a singer vogue or sunbeam rapier. Hope this helps.

I'd like to see Oldschool represented in its South Island form. Surely we could throw something together. I can contribute 2x of my Average cars.

I'm currently using the old girl as my daily seeing as both my jap cars & my swedish car are broken! It purred to the Hanmer meet with no issues at all & returned a respectable 30mpg. But I want better. Soo in the quest for better fuel economy I got this: Hopefully overdrive will give me a few extra mpg. In other news I fitted up my 15x9s with some 195-50-15s. Two days later I was pulled over by the local constabulary informing me that they "are not allowed" and telling me about all the inherent dangers of my wheel & tyre combination. Thankfully he was a nice guy about it & told me to go home and take them off.

Yes most definitely. If i could afford it I'd be down there.

Nice, This reminds me I have a 70s XL250 in the shed. I really must dig it out.

Will we be/Is anyone interested in doing a stand at the south Island 4s and rotors this year? I see that entries are now open. Link: http://www.4androtary.co.nz/champs/champs-event-info

$170 gas from Nelson to Hanmer return. I think a tune may be in order.

Big thanks to Karl & Emma for organizing this. It was a great weekend, good times, good yarns & dot4. Sorry I didn't join in on the Saturday night much my city body couldn't handle coldness / I'm Slack

I purchased a lovely gandad spec wooly jumper just for the occasion. Only $12 brand new!

Just loading up the car. Looking forward to this.

Oh hai. Its been a while. With motivation levels abnormally high, I pulled the datsun out of the shed & set at the task of getting it legal. First on the to do list was put it all back together & give it a wash with Jiff... Jiff removes all that pesky over spray & heavy oxidization from paint. Cheers Jiff. Next paint up the shitty old widened steels in red and give the rusty hubcaps a good polish. All of which resulted in this: Looks pretty sharp if I do say so myself. Then today I ran it through for a wof check expecting the worst. This is what happened: Pretty stoked so I have the replacement light & hose clamp but I have to wait until tomorrow for the Tie rod end ex Auckland. No weekend cruising for me. Also I may have found a wellside deck. Checking that out this weekend.

I'm tempted to bring my 68 Raleigh Chopper but I don't want it to get wrecked due to drunkness/moisture.

Done

Haha I'll probably go against all logic and bring the Triumph.

Ouch with a dot4 hangover^^ I'm quite looking forward to this. Weighing up what car to bring.

Legally you'd be looking at like a 235-245. You could stretch whatever you want on but be prepared for a green sticker as the police are pretty sharp on tyre sizing/stretch. I had 165-65-13s on my 13x7.5 wide steels (still illegal but they weren't super stretched.)

I could check it tomorrow depending on where it is.

If I was less poor / lazy I'd do it. Also Have just put funds through for dinner.

I imagine most/all are going into Chch but I was just seeing. Vacant seats.

Are the people that still need rides flying into Chch or Nelson? bigfoot, corbie, beachlander etc...

Will chuck dinner payment through tomorrow.

What he said ^^ I had a Mitsi Legnum and it had the noisiest lifters in the world. I did 2x oil changes using that cheap GV oil from repco. Then I used some half decent mobil 15-40, a filter & some MBL8 and hey presto quiet lifters.

I acquired another door to replace my dented one. Swapped my door card & wood trim over. Another day in paradise I sprayed the inside with some cavity wax & gave the door shuts a good clean. Hanging it was a bit of a pain. Still needs some fine tuning. The white stuff is spider webs. Stinky Diesel C32 Laurel in the background.