M Night Shamalayan

Hah my dash lights died too.

Good meat BTW. My skinny long doggo enjoyed your pats and sniffing Ruby's butt

Had a good drive to monthly meet last night.

New cap n rotor seems to have improved performance. Idles nicer and I can drive it with the choke right off now. Might be placebo effect but meh, love driving this car again, bring on summer. Its prob worthy of an OS sticker now I've owned it for a year haha

There's a few pitter patters of rain in the ghetto ATM. Hopefully not too grotty at the beach!

Its an 'investment'

Holy shit! My bad fam!

I won't give you my bits, but I can give you a hug.

Pikchurless update:

I sold a large dog crate to an old feller in titahi bay this week. When I opened the garage he exclaimed "is that a HUNTER?!?"

"Indeed it is" I proudly responded.

"Mate, I used to assemble these for Todd motors back when I was a student. I was on the tyre machine, fitting tyres to all the wheels".

So more than likely, he fitted the very first set of tyres my car had on it back in nineteen seventy two.

Spooky.

Dizzy cap stz arrived. I installed it.

The car runs again!

Bring on monffly meat

(I can't grow a beard )

Lord I know this feel

Ahh no. There is no camber rule for an uncerted cars. So you couldnt be pink stickered for having excess camber on a factory car with a heavy load.

Height as well is measured unloaded.

That depends on your police officer.

Its at police officers discretion to hand out stickers for stuff they deem to be unsafe

Yes please

I may need whitewalls, if they're the 13" ones you had a while ago Bizzo.

I have the electronic distributor from accuspark, who makes those or something identical

Im happy with it. You are better off getting the whole thing I think, so there is no wear.

so more like this then?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/vintage-parts/electrics/auction-1173709172.htm

If this cheapo set of stuff gives up the ghost too quick, i'll look at the full kit. the benefits do sound nice even if just for peace of mind

Theres a few kits online to upgrade from points to electronic distributor. (like this: http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/austin-rover/auction-1176137129.htm)

Anyone know the guff on them?

yeah i do wonder about the quality of a set of parts that cost me a third of what the repco equivalent wouldve c. Don't know til ya try though.

I've considered white walls, but tbh, im just a lazy piece of shit, so i doubt i'd keep them clean enough to make them not stain or whatever. and the car isnt cool enough to pull it off maybe? haha

i bought some parts to service a Lucas 25D distributor.

Full kit including Cap, Rotor, condenser, points and HT lead off the classic parts guy on trademe for $35....

I tried a local auto parts chain store and they wanted $55 for the cap, and $47 for the rotor.... 

sadly not rolling for this weekend, but will be rolling soon anyway.

Next on the list is tyres....

current size is old school 165R13 which is apparently converted to 165/75R13. or miiight try get some 175/70R13 on.

prob gonna take the weird chrome trim insert off the wheel and leave the chrome centre cap and paint the factory steel wheel a colour that isn't rust.

ill go have a scratch round in the weekend and see whats worth nabbing. ive got a cracked park light lens, so i'll grab one of those at a minimum if it's got a good one

Pap stock list says its a wag too. I wonder if its an iron head motor. Could be worth tucking away a spare.

WAT. fuck. Guess I'm taking a trip to find things I don't need....

Bring the hunter you dick.

If it will make it that far,

Don't jinx it! Haha

Nah no parts sorted just yet. Waiting for pay day

Chahooooooooo.

Gearing wise, mine struggled to pass 120kph so its doing a fair bit of rpm at 100, but you could gear it a bit taller with a different rear sprocket so it's not screaming too much for long periods of highway.

Gas tank is preeeeety small tbh. I was getting about 150k to a tank before hitting reserve. That's the limiting factor of touring with them.

Seat is pretty hard. I'd be pretty trashed after 4 hours riding. I'm pretty soft though haha

and would you declare that said SM model went "hard" for what it "was"?

Lord yes.

I went from a Honda hornet 250 4 cyl to the 400SM and I shat myself a number of times launching from traffic lights on the back wheel.

I'd buy another in a flash and I still regret selling up. They've come down in price a lot too

I loved my SM. The SM model is easily worth the extra coin. Better suspension, proper digital speedo and cluster. Good wheels, and the suspension is actually valves for road. I priced up converting a drz400 to SM, and wheel set alone was looking like 2k to start. Plus a vapour trail tech computer to make the speedo right. Ends up $$$$.