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car was going great until the afternoon when It started to get a bit of a bottom end knock.

so I cleaned the interior and put a red brix I picked up and Kurt made me a sweet knob

that's about up to date, picked up a new motor and a j160 off Phil to slam in, new motor is a fresh redtop bottom end with big port head and 286 cams or something, I will be putting my stock head on for now until I can be bothered going link, ordered all the parts for my j160 conversion too.

also managed to get some stock metal rear guards without big in them which ill get thrown on when it goes into the panel beaters for a little bit of rust/im too lazy to do it myself. 

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bogged it up and went drifting at manfeild 

got sick of having a mismatched car so got a rusty bonnet painted to match and got some new front wheels too 14x8 -12 R101 

then towed it up to meremere for the annual 86/70 day they have up there, took home a prize for best driving style which I was happy about 

had this thing a bout 8 month or so now I guess, thought I better make a thread to keep track of what goes on with it. 

bought it off callum from down in Christchurch. 

Looked like this when I got it, some people will know this car, basic run down of when I got it. 

Lisse spec ae85 trueno

-Bluetop 4age, t50, t series rear end with dropped lower arm mounts

-bc coilovers

-bunch of poly bushes, front rca's, power steering knuckles, manual rack.

that's about it really, simple fun car. 

drove back home with some alright guys little Hondas and some fancy gt2 porchse

once I got it home I put smaller tires on it and lowered it a bit 

then after about 3 weeks of ownership I got reversed into and that smashed the front end up a bit, new rad support, new bumper (still haven't put it on yet) and still trying to find a good bonnet and corner lights. 

went and bought some new wheels, 14x8.5 -15 mk3, rolled the guard and found some bog.

finished all the fab work side of things so stripped this thing down to a bare frame. 

gave the motor a quick scrub up, waiting on a new top end and carb rebuild kit to turn up as the pushrod seals are a little leaky so I might as well do it all while its apart and get the carbs sent away for vapour blasting to clean them up then ill spray the whole thing black. 

tried my hand at fibreglassing and it didn't turn out tooo bad, not super happy with how it turned out but I know what to do next time for better results, sent that away to get covered  by one of the chch boys. 

now is just a waiting game for shops to open back up to sandblast/powedercoat all my stuff so I can re assemble it all and do some skids. 

fizzed it all up today, been stripping out all wires/ all non essential wires/cables off of the bike and routing through tubes where possible to clean up the look

gonna have a go at fibreglassing the seat base tomorrow which should be interesting

did a bit of long overdue maintenance on this thing, I vibrated the speedo to bits with too much gravel riding on the motu, ordered a mmc speedo and slapped that on, waiting for my new headlight to arrive too. 

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replaced the clutch which was long overdue, started slipping before distinguished gentleman last year and I packed some washers behind the springs to give it some more clamping pressure and just left it but as it worked I just never put my new clutch in, decided to smash that in and man it feels so much better, leaver is so much lighter 

new spring on the right vs old ones 

so I've always liked the look of these things and always wanted to own one and have been keeping my eye out for one to chop up for a year or so and this finally popped I up at a reasonable price. 

its rough cosmetically and has done 130k's but it seems alright mechanically (apart from standard bmw oil leak things) and was the right price most importantly.

I've been hoarding parts slowly for this thing since I got it waiting for winter to roll around to start ripping into it, but this forced holiday thing kinda made me just rip into it now since I'm bored, 

I started off today by tearing the bike apart and pretty happy I found no horrible surprises, plans are to make a new subframe for it, some different tires, simplify everything as much as possible and make it loud and uncomfortable to ride. 

I didn't actually have any before photos, but picture a r80rt with a naked front end and massive 150mm banana handle bar risers that bring the bars to the middle of the tank and bars with a 5" rise on them too, and cracked plastics all round with a spray can paint job.

what it looks like as of today, will pull the motor tomorrow and give it a coat of black, I slapped on the airbox delete on it to see what its like, last part I need at the moment is a 22mm 180degree bend but cannot seem to get one in this lockdown we have going on!

need some peanut rocker covers, repaint the tank and detab and powder coat the frame, depending on how rich I'm feeling I kind of want a motogadget electrics setup, they are super nice units but are rather spendy.

Managed to get acouple of 35mm film photos at DGR too which didn't turn out too bad 

decided i should check out what was wrong before Te Urewera, pulled the rocker cover off and one of the adjuster grub screws for the rocker arm had worked its way out and had a bit of a party in the top end i dug it out and it looks to have been smashed about by the valve spring, i put a new one in and got it going mint. top end is a little rattly now but it works so im not touching it. 

Rode the Te Urewera ride weekend just been and had a hell of a time so much fun smashing the bike about, getting confident on the gravel hooning around a corner got thrown off and high sided the bike bending the foot peg and breaking the front leaver off and grassman came to the rescue and had a spare fa50 leaver that worked, front brakes proceeded to lock on randomly after that, thanks to the boys for helping me rebleed the cable discs, managed to rip the rubber intake manifold resulting in 5000rpm idle for the last half of sunday and assisting in trying to throw me off the outside of corners which was fun. 

Just to finish it off the bike fell over on the trailer on the way home in the dark and we didn't notice, ripped my seat and broke the clutch leaver. 

the bike is in a sad tate now but will motivate me to finish making my new seat pan and get the seat finished and powedercoat the frame while im at it,

Thanks to J5 and the other boys for organising the ride and everyone else for a good time!

I've been hooning this thing a bit. 

ran into my first issue which was the lights stopped working and we couldn't find where in the original loom the break was so ended up just wiring the headlight and tail lights straight to the stator through the trail tech which worked a treat and that also ment i could ditch all the original handlebar controls and ignition switch and rip out the entire old loom which tidied the bike up a whole heap. 

bike ended up dieing on me on my way home from work and had to push it home, it had lost spark so i pulled the side cover off and turns out one of the screws out of the stator had made its wat out and had a bit of fun behind the flywheel and knocked the points and one of the windings. so i chucked my spare stator in and after mucking around with the weird timing advance setup these use managed to get it going just in time for the penny pincher's first big ride.

We managed to travel around 550km's over two days all on back road and gravel which was  super fun my bike ended up making it to the lodge where we stayed the night then when i when i was full cut and tried to start it to do a drunken skid as ya do there was no one home and we couldn't get it to fire up at all the next day which was lame, have a feeling something to do with the points is fucked again so it may be time for a xr100 motor with a cdi setup for reliability. 

i ended up riding one of the other boys a50's on the way home and that was a great time, really have to work hard to keep those things humming up hills and just in general.

Note: the Irvine's mince and cheese pipe sitting on the engine casing, i recommend 50km  @9000rpm to warm i through throughly 

Next plans for the bike are to get it going reliably, ride it more, i am wanting to play with a fibreglass mould for a new seat pan and recover it in some brown leather, also i managed to destroy the speedo drive in the original speedo on this ride so may end up getting some nice small desecrate  rev and speedo gauge, also get a good quality tail light as the aliexpress ones seem to rattle apart easily this being the second one i have killed. 

so yet again i failed at finishing a project and sold my honda chaly 90% complete, but for good reason, Blake had chucked his cb50 up forsale and i nabbed it and needed to pay for it somehow. 

quick rundown for those of you who don't know the bike, its a 85 cb50, with an xl100 motor installed, some bigger tires, coole lights, cool seat, genreal tidy up etc

plans are to ride it and enjoy it go on some wild adventures on it, probably source another fuel tank to repaint in some wild colours, strip the wiring loom down to bare essentials and slowly rebuild the spare xl100 motor i have to eventually drop in there. 

only photo i have of it currently, enjoy 

 so i picked this thing up today for a good price, mostly for something to hoon around in over summer and have a little bit of fun. we will see where this goes. 

has a rebuilt engine, new crank, rod and piston. all pretty tidy but deff needs some cosmetic stuff sorting out and a good clean as its been sitting for awhile

tonight i got it fired up and ran like a dream after i cleaned the fuel tank out. 

This is the only photo i have of it currently as i picked it up today. 

Main things it needs for summer hoons is:

- new choke cable

-dead mans leash

-new hydro turf

-main body seal

and the gayest part of all, fired it up afew times tonight. went to start it just to make sure it was starting easy and running fine and the starter was just spinning... 

turns out these things have a super wack setup where the starter motor doesn't actually throw out, a gear on the crank does and i am thinking that that is sticky.. i pulled the starter off tonight and all the gears look a' okay so thats a plus. to get to this starter clutch gear i have to pull the engine which is a 10min task but mostly just annoying. 

Any help with parts etc would be awesome if people have them laying around. some pj's or westcoast ride plates and an exhaust would be cool 

so as i was browsing trademe for the 964 dream, i saw this little thing for rather cheap, and close by! so naturally i flicked the owner a text, tee'd up a viewing and ended up taking it home, P Plate and all. 

its just had a full top end rebuild on it, i got the vibes that the guys wife was sick of sending it to mechanics to get fixed and the dude admitted he knew nothing at all about cars. It deff needs some love, some rust repairs but it runs great. my first german car/non jap thing so this is all new to me and i have no clue what i am dealing with, current plans are slam, wheels and get it legal.

Currently i am on the hunt for

-4x108 steels in 15-16" to widen or cool alloys in 15-16x8

-drivers side (left hand side) door

-and some spare front springs/some low ones if anyone has, or coilovers.

but hey! i own a porsche, wh would have thought

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heres a photo just after i got it all driving and running properly. hasn't changed much from this photo apart from being about 10mm lower all round