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punkoutnz

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  1. Maybe we can build our engines together! I suggest pull it apart and see what's in there, then decide what you wanna put back in. Bearings and rings are of course a go, but you can suss options of pistons and cams and stuff after you know if there's anything major that needs repair work.
  2. Maybe I should come down and help out at Easter weekend if you're keen?
  3. I completely forgot about this, is it something we can/should still donate to for other fundraising ideas or just go back to club donations?
  4. Let us update thee! Ran flawlessly at the OS drags and managed to knock over a second off last years time, down to a 21.46 at 61mph. I've since installed the new 'ported' head which I also discovered is a 1600 head as the valves are both 2mm bigger than the valves from the removed head. There's a slight inprovement in mid range power but it still tops out at around 5000rpm which surprised me, I'm thinking upgrading the exhaust or at least the suzuki swift rear muffler will improve that situation. Installed some new headlights which have vastly improved the night time driving situation. Had a visit to zebra to help EURON8 a few weeks ago and we stumbled onto a cortina with the deep bosskit that my car has been lacking, a quick trip to mitre 10 and back and we had the tools needed to remove it. The steering wheel sits in a much better position and the car is so much nicer to drive! Today's job was to install the MX5 seats kindly donated by mrjstar and I'm stoked with how they fit. Only a couple of new holes to drill on the factory rails and they snuck in nicely. Seating position is PERFECT and it's dropped about an inch and a half off the seating height. Of course updates are useless without pics.. Sadly there's still no update on the engine. Just hanging out for a new block that hasn't been bored right out but that hasn't been a high priority cos I wanna make sure I have enough set aside to enjoy nats. The head is extremely tappity though, and I don't seem to be able to adjust the noise out. The old head was pretty bad as well so I'm thinking the rockers themselves may be pitted or unevenly worn so if anyone has a set lying around please let me know. Bring on nats!
  5. I have a cam at work (can't remember the specs of it bu tit's got more lift than my A3 cam) if you wanna chuck that in? I can get the markings off it tomorrow if you like and see if it's going to be of any use to you.
  6. Seen one crossflow seen em all! But sure why not.
  7. Oh didn't realise that. All good though guys I was just putting forward a suggestion in case you were wondering about possibilities.
  8. Holy shizzle I haven't even done my lazy transfer yet. Maybe use any excess to make business cards or something to advertise to suitable potential OSers?
  9. I know how we can make easy money. A PYRAMID SCHEME!
  10. I saw these on Trademe recently, see if I can dig up a link. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/ford/engines/auction-829583440.htm
  11. Could well be down for this, don't think I have things on that evening!
  12. Good cruise that was. Was pretty toasty though!
  13. Yeah if today was anything to go by, we turned around and went another way with the traffic backed up all the way to the shops. I find a sweet meeting spot is at the North Harbour Stadium carpark right next to the model track. Muriwai might be a sweet drive on Sunday.
  14. This coming Sunday? Yeah sounds good to me. Traffic north might be a bit crap cos I'd say a lot of people will be coming back for work on Monday, so maybe we should head somewhere west?
  15. Yeah you can. It'll perform sweet as, the valves are a little bigger (from my reading it seems they're the same size as the 1300GT?). I just put a ported head I bought from trademe ages ago onto my 1300, had 2mm bigger valves than the stock 1300 head I took off had, car is much smoother and happier in the mid range with no loss of power down low. It's also a piece of cake to swap heads over.
  16. Nothing beats a custom made cover, except for an off the shelf one that'll only cost you a couple of hundred... We sell a lot of them and they seem to hold up pretty well.
  17. Can get boat covers also if you require one. Your motor is sitting here ready to go, only pinched a few parts off it to give to Sentradave so it should still go. I can possibly put it back on over xmas break at some point if you're dying to get it back in the water.
  18. I'll probably just bring the daily because I can't be stuffed getting the escort out and getting all wet swapping cars around. Depends on weather later this afternoon though.
  19. What carb does it have at the moment? The single barrel ford carb or a weber? The cheapest option (also the one I took for my 1300) was to bolt on a 32dgv weber which was factory fitted to the 1300GT engines (because the manifolds are easy to get for the weber carbs) and tune that. You can also go for the 32/36 which is the more commonly available carb but I'm not sure what jets you need for that one, while as the 32dgv for mine didn't need any jet adjustments.
  20. I was so envious of you in this car. Looks like a hell of a lot of fun!
  21. Do those A frames have any chords on them? The shed we got at work didn't originally have them but when we were assembling it the gussets at the top wouldn't hold so ended up having to make some. Would probably be okay once the whole shed is together but we had two frames come down before we put lower chords in there.
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