Evan

Update.

so I priced up getting a floor cut out of crashed/striped 7 from some wreakers... decided the prices weren't ideal however a friend of mine said he would have a jam at making one and welding it in while I stand around and get in the way.

This is the outcome

So just getting it confirmed with cert people that its going to be all legit before it gets completely welded in.

also cut some holes behind the quarter windows

and in other news there was a bulge in the floor in front of the section thats just been put in the floor, had a look under the car to find someones jacked it up in the past and dented the floor, and also dented/ twisted this bit of the chassis

its also messed with the mounting holes for the bottom of the front left fender so it shall be visiting somewhere to get that all straightened out.

Need to do some shopping for the following.

- series 3 front calipers

- straight complete rear bumper

- series 2 rear end redrilled to 4x114.3

- front valance

- possibly a new front bumper if i feel like it (probably going to happen)

until next time

hey man whats a good site to buy cars from japan

cheers

Yahoo auctions japan.

or

Trade car view....... dont know of anyone whos used this though

a ferg will be sweet. ive seen them pull 2.5ton out with a lil bit of wheel spin. no big drama really. 4WD isnt entirely necessary. you may find with it being a 26footer its got an extendable draw bar???? if so you wont have to go anywhere near wet stuff

use the car you drive to the beach in. fuck ive used a ford mondeo to pull out a 1200kg boat. or rock a red/grey massey fergerson 28 tractor... you know the ones Im talking about

EDIT: like this

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farmi ... 952028.htm

stock UZ.

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?

Redrill the brake drum/disc and axles..

yea was planning this bit, however this bit....

Redrill axles..

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.

nevermind the engine. you should remove that personalised plate.

its annoying me

thanks

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

I suppose the advantage of buying a RX over there is that I can bring the whole car home in a container surrounded by other first gen parts

Dude very cool rx7, s3 is the biggest front brake up grade that will let you keep 13" wheels. Im doing one on my 323.

Can you tell me if the disc and hub are as one unit?

Im having the worst time trying to find parts. Very long story.

keep it up

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

I think those howa aircon things must have been an option. Mine had one too but I removed it.

Check for rust above your door hinges on the body and in the footwell when it starts to slope upwards where the chassis rail is underneath.

Oh and in that curve just above the bumper on the inside of your boot. If no rust there, fishoil those spots anyway

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

please

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

the early version of the 1KD in the hiace made 80kw... theyve since tuned it up (or changed their advertising) as they now stat it makes 100kw and x amount more torque (probably happened about 6 months ago?... its still below the hiluxs 127kw and 343Nm of torque or whatever it is for the same engine.

Has anyone got any experience with the 4wd version of the new model hiace. with the 1KD not the smaller 2.5 litre turbo... just curious

DOnt the lithium batteries ahve to be replaced every few years? (like you change a cambelt type thing) maybe Im wrong on that one. THeres that Tesla company in the USA who build that roadster based on the Lotus Elise on battery powered. anyway if i remember correctly theyre working on a 4 door sedan with a range of 500kms.. so if this is possible/becoming possible it would be possible to replace your family, long journey car. but it would cost shitloads i presume

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

hi this is the first time i have done this so i hope iv got it sorted

i can supply you all the parts you need mate to get that s1 skidin

floor pan no prob

let me know, cheers fatty

http://www.rotorek.co.nz

I'll flick ya an email

Would you know if this ever spent any time in Gisborne in its past?

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

I imagine these brands are all of similar quality and as you said, most likely made in the same factory. I think Noltec and Whiteline are owned by the same company.

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