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If it was me I would machine up some removable bungs for the exhaust ports and use thick gasket paper for the whole lot. Super cool setup btw, good score.

This looks Fucken ace and the workmanship looks top notch good jerb!

The gear box is heaps better on the beams, it is also much bigger than a type 9 (which is what ill assume you would want to run behind a zetec?), the head is also better on the beams. Zetec Is much cheaper though. I'd have to say the sr route as well, for simple cost effectiveness, and a clear path for improvement.

Beams are dumb, and weak spec. Not to mention stock computer is also dumb as you need afm, the manifolds are ugly, and they dont make much power. I can see why they look like an attractive package but they aren't.

They are kind of shitty if you dont use the car all the time, and good electric fuel pumps are cheap enough to be a no brainer.

I'm surprised you put up with it this long, but good work making the car better.

That was a pretty womble spec post steeb, but never mind. Yes, tranny coolers are pretty much essential on slush boxes, hence why just about every one has one of some form or another. Air to fluid are the easiest to plumb in and cars have an almost unlimited amount of air too use as a cooling medium, if you are seriously worried about temps, ie in a drag car, you have a temperature gauge, but when towing is the only extra load then plumbing in an extra cooler or changing to a larger air cooler works well and is cheap. As for a manual box, if you are serious about keeping it alive you will set up sprayers and an electric pump and have its own system. Hth.

Pintos are only good as boat anchors,, we all know this...

Basically for cheap hooning build the same spec motor as I had in my Lotus except with a ported head with bigger valves, then your life will be great/ still really slow hahaha

EFI/ itbs/ Slides/dcoes, cam, port and polish, bigger valves, extractors, high comp pistons. this is what you will need to make a crossflow move, it is all costly though. Yes it is expensive to do it properly, the good news is crossflow heads are so crap that almost anything makes them better haha. 224 is too small, 234/bcf2 as a minimum imo. 1300 pistons go well but it seems like a waste to pull apart a going motor as pistons aren't too expensive. Go EFI if you can, side draughts at a pinch but they are pretty crap in comparison. it will depend on the extractors tbh, but they probably will.

Did your engine builder Fuck with the oil relief valve? I wouldn't have any qualms putting 10/30 full synthetic with zddp additive personally. Get it off mineral oil asap.

LOL, nope, every engine benefits from e85, Sure you get MORE gains with higher compression ratio, but even with 11:1 you would see 3-5% gain in motor hp.

I bet, such shitty supply in nz.

Lol, so uninformed Roman, e85 is great for everything, the only downside is availability in nz. On your beams you would probably pick up 10-15 HP without changing anything.

Nope, you can only re register on black plates if they are the last plates on the car.

Definitely download a cone program and make them out of sheet metal, I would use 1.6mm stainless, I had great success making spannys and my dry sump tank that way.

7.50 cage Tom, they make getting in and out easier because there is more bars to hold onto, it's logical you see.

Dragons breath is the shit.

Yea as an aside, when driving in snow they can literally be a life saver.

Never under estimate the shitness of British steel...

What yowser said.

To me it sounds like worn brushes in the starter giving intermittent starting. Seeings you have had the battery checked my next option would be to take the starter to an auto sparky and get them to have a look at it.

Lol,I was reading through thing and was a bit "meh" at the simmons and the green, then "mmm" and my interest piqued with the nice rust repairs, to "nice" with the coil overs, through to "wwwhhhhhhooooorrrr" with the big block and tunnel ram. Golf clap, my friend, golf clap.

Good work man, keep it up, I love seeing your updates!

I'd be pretty happy if a car I was going to rape had 60 psi at idle. So like the tight clearances and run in oil might be to blame, but never forget about a faulty gauge.