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cool car and story, bro! however, how did you get the 120y into and out of the cortina, and is this a genuine FoMoCo spare part?

Im considering buying a deregistered rare italian vehicle from the 1960s. It has rust, but not so bad in the scheme of things. Im not scared of the rust but i am scared of getting it reregistered/certified. Other than the ownership malarkey (which may also be a bit of a thing - has plates and old stickers but no papers and carjam doesnt know about it), whats the story with the repair certification that it will surely require? Im not interested if i have to pay a guy to do the rust work, but happy to have someone review my work. Who is a good repair certifier to chat with in Auckland, west preferably. Basically this this a good idea or have i gone quite mad?

So coooool. +1 on column change bushes. All the angle changes and levers multiply any slop. I used tap washers in my fiat wagon linkages so theres always a way, but you should have more luck finding nos or repro mazda bits

Oh. That will be it. I knew they were different just not which way round, lewl. Im off up north this weekend instead, so no rush now but can get from chrisr at some point.

So yeah a good 5 pin dc cdi for giorno/early dio? Sold!

Ive aliexpressed some cheapies cause im unsure if the af34 is ac or dc. Giorno and diozx are dc but i blew the good one from the giorno too :/ Only electrics i havnt replaced is voltage reg and loom so webike for vreg and a aliex gy6 loom incoming. So much for an easy fix lol

New dio keeps blowing cdis (faaark!) and im going up to shippies this weekend. Have a massive pest!

Top stuff Wish i had the space and patience to do 10% as good Will be 100% awesome when you're 'done'.

Might have new dio running by then. Keen

Leaky sump will be loose pan bolts. Maybee!

Had a bit of wind on Tuesday night, max gust of 218kph recorded at Manukau Heads (30km to the sw) which is one of the highest wind speeds ever recorded in NZ, and a local home weather station station recorded 188kph and 185kph gusts, with 100kph average for a period of 3 hrs. Scary stuff! Anyway, the 'temporary' shelter station id rigged up couldn't quite jangle that much energy, and collapsed onto the wagon! There is no damage i can see, its all strapped down onto the roofrack. You can see how the arches have snapped/bent on the leeward side, it was literally blown flat. All four of the upright 'feet' have been torn out of the baseplate which is dynaboilted to the driveway. 3 large Karo trees fell onto the garden shed Ute is fine but stuck in this position til i dismantle the carport. No other damage thankfully but cleaning up all the trees and stuff will eat into my car time,..

yeah nah, not a fan of personalized plates, cant justify in my head the expense. I think ive seen that xone9 pesting around, lives out west i think anyways, original black plates FTW! Or this one

keen, cause no power and probably not on till tomorrow, but ute (transporter) is on the lawn and is trapped there till i move the wagon, which is still under the collapsed carport, that has also trapped the scooter in the garage. I should probably be home so i can clear the fallen trees and stuff but, i really want to ride my scoot in a suit. Scuit!

This is being a boring and reliable work horse On the way home from BF meet above, the LF brake got a bit draggy and hot and it is due for a WoF, so time for a bit of a service. Turned out one of the 3 NEW! brake cylinders in a caliper was a bit rusty and got jammed so it got a clean out (rust came off with a copper brush) and rebuild with lots of rubber grease (which i didn't know of when i built them!). The other three probably need the same treatment. No photos becasue my hands were covered in brake fluid. I also installed the Fiat 1500 water pump pulley a dude from Aussie sent me randomly (thanks bro!) so i could replace the sketchy one i made from cutting and welding two std 124 ones together, and a new belt. I pcked up a timing tab thing from a bargain bin at a swap meet and chucked it on - the engine only has a TDC mark - no advance markings so this will be nice to have a better idea on ignition timing (factory says 6 deg BTDC at idle, i run it around 10 (i think!) ) Gave it an oil change and cleaned out the centrifugal filter. This is a 'later' engine and also has a modern style oil filter under the inlet manifold that as far as i can tell does almost nothing at all as its one the low pressure return side from the head. I swapped that anyway with one from the pile i got from RoackAuto for like $1.20 each + shipping Also swapped out my very nice (and very expensive @ 65 Euro!) NOS Magnetti Marelli dizzy cap because its got a bloody crack in it leaking all the sparks electricity out, so its back on the crusty one from the car at Smash Palace that works better than the off-brand cheap but new one i had spare, so will do untill i splash out on another NOS one from ebay Still has holes in the secondary pipes (so no Wof untill sorted) so im gonna take the opportunity to get them extended down the car a bit more - any suggestions for a good exhaust shop out west?

Been spending a bit of money on suspension and driveline bits and pieces, in prep for a make over, find and eliminate the gorram grindy knocking noise, and sort out a wee bit of drop (i love the lowest one but thats dreaming). Im going to try dropping the whole front subframe and maybe engine complete out the bottom/lift the body off if i can like they did in the factory and do heaps of 'while im in there' stuff too, like clutch, gearbox seals, driveshaft universals and hangar bearing, tidy engine bay etc in one go, instead of poking around at a bit at a time upside down on the driveway. Ive had a bit of trouble with poor idle and missing at higher RPM since I got this, Ive so far put new (NOS) purple solid copper wires and a Pertronix setup MM S155 dizzy (with good cap and rotor), and it has a 'sport' Lucas coil. I suspect that one or all of these things are a bit pants. At least the plugs are looking much better, so hopefully the carb is sorted for now. Been tidying up my box of Bosch Z44 electronic dizzys (ex Beta 1800?) and matching coil, to make one good one out of the three i had. Made a new loom, and got a new Bosch cap, rotor and a generic GM HEI ignitor to run it (+spare) from Rock Auto for not much at all. This is pretty much the same set up as my sedan but that has the equivalent Magnetti Marelli version. Big box from rock auto shows up finally, so out with the lightest smallest parts and in it all goes. That black (bosch) coil to dizzy plug with the 90degree ends ended up giving me a jolt so i cut it in half and threw it in the bin, and had to use the old blue one that matches the spark plug leads but with straight ends, proplem is that it likes to sit right along the fuel line to the carb :/ Idle is much better now to the extent i had to adjust the throttle stop to drop the idle 200rpm and engine feels stronger all round. Yay! Also lubed the throttle control cable (like a second choke so you can drive by hand), adjusted the clutch a bit, and noticed more coolant dripping from the heater. FFS, lucky i have a lada heater core and ceramic tap on the way too...

@AALAWS

yah, WLY WLY slammed

Been prodding away at this, a few little jobs - new LED interior light bulbs - refixed some wiring i had previously 'fixed' - reset ignition timing and done some more carb fiddling - compression tested - (150psi all round ) - flushed radiator (ran a few changes of just water and dishwasher powder for awhile, seems to have taken the grease out - i suspect from a previous HGF) - tightened the sump bolts - made and installed a flywheel cover for the lower half of the bell housing (pretty sure the main rear seal is gone) - cleaned and degreased/waterblasted all the tie rods and steeing rods chasing the front end noise (think i found it) Took it to C&C with the Scoot on the back and it went fine, the seats are 1000% better than the old ones. This is after scooter gang run, only car in the carpark AAAAND, I think i finally found the noise, the passenger side engine mount mount seems to have more movement than a solidly welded structural member should - i think the old set up with the diff spacer had popped the welds and it moves around quite a bit Resolving it means taking the front suspension out, so while im in there...

very enjoyable ganging, hopefully someone with a better camera will chuck some better shots up pretty much a harley mmm beerspot

Compound superturbo diesel stationary engine turning a giant ship turbo ramming m3/s ofair into a tyre powered steam sterling engine? Or the Simpson Perpetual Motion Machine(TM)* *i couldnt think of a SHARN acronym. Answers ITT

Bike-urious

Im gonna live a double life and take the ute and scoot to c&c early, sneak out the back and roll back in witchoose. Ice cream run to lower the tone in devonport or similar after?

Shall i bring my big box of small hoes? *hose

yum burgers. hopefully the weather is blown over by then

Yep the ol fiat up-downs.