Evan

woops thought the air forcer in-er was on. In which case you are doing well. nevermind, back to my corner.

ummmmmmmm isnt that power figure like a lil bit more than a lil bit low?

yea was planning this bit, however this bit.... is it legal is my question? Im a worry-er

I have a question. probably a crazy one. i want to change the stud pattern on the back of the 7. (read as rear wheel drive) whats the legal/safe way to do so.... if such a way even exists... cant find a definative answer online ( dont say use a s3 rear end or hub adaptors, need to keep offset the same)

that is soooo sweet.

dude i totally fucken agree.! Dont worry, i have a back up plate thank god for that. keep getting this mental image of a 46 year old american woman with a blonde wig driving it around and pulling up outside preschools. shits scary

nevermind the engine. you should remove that personalised plate. its annoying me thanks

ill rip off a wheel when I have a chance and have a fiddle. Im pretty sure they are separate but ill check. you wouldnt have any spare series 3 front calipers would you? Edit: its all one piece. same as s1/2 only bigger.

i would say any decent panel beater could whip up a set of those sills for the tray... although i was at pickapart in takanini a couple of weeks ago and there was a yellowish b1600 sitting there, had the flatter grill/bumper/ nose thing going on (later model) dont know. anyway i duno what the sills were like or if they are the same as yours but might be worth trying to get someone to mish it to pickapart with a hacksaw and try and get them for you, and the you just modify em to fit????... /probably no help to you

hello everyone, I have the most wonderful news, well its only semi wonderful but it isnt what I was expecting to find. I got slightly curious as to why the front wheels are bickies and not the original rims like on the back. so i whipped out a ruler and measured the stud pattern on the front. Turns out it isnt 4x110 but 4x114.3... sooooo i was semi confused for a while until I took off the wheel, the disc hasnt been redrilled to this new stud pattern. so i grabbed one of the series 1 calipers i have (theres none on the car at the moment) and slipped it over the disc, with only one brake pad in it it only just makes it over the disc and the mounting holes dont line up at all on the backing plates. sooooooooo this leads me to believe it is currently rocking a series 3 hub/disc and possibly struts too . shame i dont have any series 3 calipers. but ill find some and do away with the plans of doing a FC front brake upgrade for now. saves me doing the 4x114.3 conversion on the front as i was planning too. life is good. chow! Evan

Around the door hinges is sweet... i take it the part on the inside of boot above the bumper is where the tail lights pop through??? thats all clean. it still has those 3 rubber drain hoses that go from the bottom of the hatch frame area down to behind the rear bumper. normally these are broken so thats a score. ive already sprayed fish oil in the doors/sills/ coupla other areas but il chuck some more around

So Im slightly bored this evening and decided to chuck up an update of what little progress has been made in the last few weeks. Ive had a rummage around over the body and the patches of rust that have decided to show themselves are in slightly inconvenient places... the roof. When i pulled the headlining out there were a few drops of water just casually chilling at the top of the drivers side A pillar... well as it would appear there is surface rust on the roof skin but only where the frame around the sides exists Pictures to explain what Im on about Drivers side A pillar, this bit is the worst above the drivers door frame passenger side top of A pillar Ive been chewing over how to get to this, Im really NOT keen on cutting the roof off coz i would image it to be the mission of all missions to get back on all lined up straight . Ive thought about trying to slide a sanding disc in the gap between the frame and roof skin and then chucking huge amounts of rust convertor/killer onto it afterwards but i dont know if it would be possible to get enough pressure applied to the roof to remove the rust as the sanding disc has to follow the curvature of the roof. Ideas on this would be choice as. this is whats under the dash (passenger side) If you get really close to your screen you shall see a small patch of rust in the top left corner, just above the huge square hole that the wiring harness travels through. anyway this small patch is directly behind the inside of the box section thats under the fender, ( the outer fender bolts to the top of the box section) anyway that section is looking a wee bit iffy/soft/thin as shit and so has made it was onto the list to be cut out. When i was gentally removing the dash theres the heater units... well theres 3 of them... the blower on the left and the heater unit on the right... however theres another one in the middle, it has two copper hoses coming out of the back of it but some muppet in the past ( not me) cut them off at the firewall which is just dandy. anyway can anyone tell me if its some kind of old fashioned air con? i know NOTHING about air con but if this car originally had it id be uber keen to put it back in.. heres some pics of what the middle unit looks like, theres a little control unit thingy ma jiggy on the bottom of it as shown in pics next on the list is get the brake/ fuel lines out and remove the gas tank... then hit the rust repairs. I really needa get along to a meet and introduce myself. Evan

Are those hayashi street wheels???? ..... they do a 15inch rim..... just saying.

saw these at kumeu. thought they were the awesomest things there. good job man, good job

I'll flick ya an email

I dont know about Gisborne carjam doesnt give out the whereabouts info any more, I got it from Tauranga, the guy i got it from said he got it from Rotorua and the green panels apparently came off a crashed car in wellington. think you know it? EDIT: it also has some sorta old fashioned green/pink sticker on the windscreen from 2003 (when it last had a WOF) anyway found the piece of paper from the police in the car and it says the car was living in Wellington then.

update time. The interior is nearly all removed. just have the heater and that from under the dash and the wiring harness to remove. been bagging and labelling all the bolts, screws etc in an attempt to make reassembly easier. good times some pictures for your viewing midway through the marathon attempt at getting the dash out. with the dash removed and of course this decided to show itelf thats the passengers floor pan. worst rust in the whole shell so im in need of a new floor pan if anyone knows of one??? joy

Also Whiteline and Nolathane have very similar websites... just saying

possible repost rambler + ferrari http://speedhunters.com/archive/2010/01 ... rambo.aspx

I like it.

little bit off topic, dont know if anyone has seen this http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh ... ?t=1575817 whats the engine in question anyway????

Used to be one around yeeeeears ago, was in NZPC issue 6 or 7 or something ridiculous. Turbo bridgeport way back before 13BT's were a dime a dozen. cant have had much chopped out of it???

not keen then?

yea it was originally an auto but it came with a manual pedal box and half a dozen gearbox crossmembers. haha sitting inside it theres not much roof to chop... personally I think it would look henious. more keen to do something along the lines of yutas 240z but slightly different. wont be doing it to this shell though.

yea it is real solid. one small pin hole behind the right rear quarter window, lil patches of surface rust here and there but theres bugger all of it. worst surface rust is passenger side floor.