Evan

6 hours ago, kiwi808 said:

Being sold as a pair.

link?

I mean the people behind the counters don’t even know what it is that they’re selling you let alone how transport it

9 minutes ago, ~Slideways~ said:

There is another Bunnings, I haven’t checked if they do it too. This one is a 5min drive away, would be interesting to know if they exchange from another branch. 

 

Edit: and because they are super strict on transporting I don’t want to have to take a courtesy trailer all the way back to the other branch. To make it more or a bastard they won’t hold a courtesy trailer or even call when one is back.

I have a big car transporter trailer but I’ll need to make a bracket so I can stand the bottle up right, another requirement of Bunnings/Core gas. Tempted to make a bolt on bottle holder to attach to the back of my Safari and call it a Ute tray.

I’m going to ring the Supagas suppliers on Monday and see if they’ll still fill my owner bottle (a week turn around) and use Bunnings as a backup.

They don’t care what branch the bottle originally came from. Also I’ve never had anyone at Bunnings say ‘you can’t do that’ when I’ve put a bottle in the back of a car in the times I’ve swapped/been with someone who’s swapped a bottle

1 hour ago, ~Slideways~ said:

Yes about 20min away but I have to take time off work to get there when they are open. Bunnings makes sense since it’s just down the road from me, if they actually did it properly.

I have a big owner bottle but it needs to be sent to Hamilton and it’s looking like the only dealer (an engineering place that does/did it on the side) is less likely to be doing it for much longer if at all. 

Is there only one Bunnings in Wellington that does welding gas bottles?

I have a Bunnings bottle at the moment, my reg doesn't have a little stem on it and it works fine.

Was the valve on the bottle shrink wrapped in plastic when you got it? if it wasn't its a used bottle.

I should add that the rear bag mounts aren't my original idea, they're based off this photo:

Which belongs to this car, which lives in Wanaka

Context:

Factory rear upper spring perch looks like this:

Mount slots over the top like so:

just need to bolt it to the floor to stop it falling out/moving at full droop (which it shouldn't anyway as it's tight on the cone of the perch). the weight of the hanging arm, axle, wheel etc will be supported by either the shock at full extension or a limiting strap if the shock isn't fully extended - I don't want it hanging off the bag, in which case the rivnuts only have to hold the weight of the top mount.

Obviously a captive nut on top side would be ideal but the bit of floor directly above that is buried under the box section between the back of the seats and shock mount, which I want to avoid cutting into if I can

The cert man might not like my ideas so it might still come to that...hopefully it seems like a good idea?

there must be another 400hp in that thing right?

Any idea if that white Series one is the one that used to wear the WEKSOS plate yeeeeeaaaaars ago? used to be owned by a guy who worked at the mechanics next to the Gull in Melville

You selling up @oldrx7?

Probably worth trying to get as many glow plugs out as possible (even if only one bank) and then spin it to verify that it will spin over freely (preferably by hand to avoid junking that starter more then it already is if there isn't another one on the Island)

Are the glow plugs still doing their thing?

EDIT: Beaten

I was following one of these the other day and noticed the rear windscreen piece below the boot spoiler thing, that pretty much makes it a Lamborghini Espada

On 28/01/2019 at 21:30, kyteler said:

I saw one of the local XA coupes this weekend too.  Yellow over black. Staggered width white writing tyres.  Period correct as fuck. 

Looked real good. 

this one?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/ford/auction-1931682332.htm?rsqid=79a9d3688c1a4d729124dff084a24921

PTS aka Auto Logistics are generally cheapest.

Where's that?

The one on trademe is Shea's, He's on here but I can't recall what his username is. It's not the one that's for sale on the NZ Facebook Rotary buy/sell page (which is the now crashed one)

^ I did wonder about that...

Jesus, he's only just finished it.

Is that in NZ? that isn't the one of the FB rotary buy sell page for 100k is it? looks lie same K&N filter...

So it's 9pm on a Saturday night (last night) and we're sitting at the BP in Tokoroa. A dark green VY/VZ HSV Clubsport pulls in, what noise is it making?

Brap brap brap brap.

Getoutofit....

Nah it's not, think mine ended up being fed to the crusher.

47 minutes ago, Yowzer said:

 

It annoys me that reverse is forward and drive is backwards though

Like a tiptronic gearstick where you'd expect that pulling it back (like in a sequential box) would go up a gear but instead it changes down

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n319807742?fbclid=IwAR03PSamqQC_xM4en1aEe76O3s1zv_NhoyYNA-P5gXsgF94GOD8Vz89oRS4

currently at a grand, 5 days to go 

IMO He needs to change the 0 to a 1 and put it infront of the 8 rather than behind it.