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So i picked this up a while back, fella was getting rid of it because it was it was his daughters car but one day the rear sway bar mount snapped clean off on the left side, so was practically giving it away at 50 bucks! Shot down to oamaru and grabbed it, rego on hold. Becoming quite rare now with the 123hp 4g61, Mitsubishi's competitor to the 16 valve 4age, and 5 speed Manwell. Basically I'm going to try and make a fun track car with minimal money, even in stock form it shoots round corners pretty well and the motor is nice and revvy. No speed demon by any means but still pulls along nicely. Picked up a cheap seat, unfortunately it's not fixed back but if a cheap fixed back one pops up I'll swap em over. Mounted up to the factory rails with a few mods but not happy with how high it sits though so will have to come up with something there. Ordered a set of "low" springs today as superlows aren't a thing for these. Also have been talking with one of the guys here who does the 2kcup and he's hooking me up with a near new dunlop direzza z11 as that's the control tyre for that class, so ordered another one today so I'll run them up the front as I can't afford a full set at the moment, got a pair of yokohama S drives for the rear, they seem to have pretty good reviews online so that should do for the rear. Thankfully it actually runs mint and drives well, clutch will probably need doing in the future but still bites well for now. 4 wheel disc brakes as well so brakes pretty well, dunno how I'll go getting high performance pads for it though being a bit of an obscure model. My boss also had heaps of old stickers so we stickered it up for a laugh haha. Also has a pretty sweet set of 14s that I'll try tidy up and get rid of the shitty black spray paint job too.

Oh shit, this is tonight, almost forgot! See you chaps and chapettes at 7.

Ooooh spitfire square, mean I might pump up the tyres on the battle bus and bring that along. Probably will bitch out and just bring sigma though.

Hey man Nah I haven't yet, been too busy with work to even make a phone call yet haha will get round to it though.

Who's reasonably priced? Or even better is there someone on here in the industry? Chur chur.

Yeah probably could have kicked up more of a shit but being in my work truck and uniform I don't want anything coming back on the company. I just paid it and questioned them as to why they didn't ring me first and the lady at the counter said oh sorry I must not have caught that. Fucking weak excuse if you ask me but anyway it's done now. Just more of a heads up I guess as my experience with them has been shit. Certainly won't be dealing with them or recommending them to anyone that's for sure.

First and last time I'll be using them, asked them to give me a call with prices before they went ahead with repairing. Get a call this morning saying they're done. $188 later just to replace the Two coils of wire. Bloody unimpressed to be honest. Didn't help that they were all a miserable bunch who could barely put a smile on.

Yeah was what I was thinking, just thought I'd double check. Bloody hard to get a photo of!

And for the non believers, dual senders.

Dunno if anyone knows much about them but whipped a sender out and took it apart tonight and looks to have a break in the fins or ribs whatever they’re called and look worn off towards one end. Looks fucked? I know nothing about this shit haha.

Sorry, 87 Telstar haha and yeah there’s two pumps with sender units attached on left and right side under the rear seat. Ok will give that a try if I get time.

Hey guys, so I've sold the Deathstar but have had a quick geez and can't suss out why the fuel gauge won't go, I simply have no fucking time to try sort it. Fairly sure it's the sender unit but it's so intermittent. Was working sweet as a nut a few days ago now won't do anything. Dumb thing is it has duel fuel pumps and senders so leaves me doubley fucked. Plus electronics are my nemesis. Happy to throw cash, beers, reach arounds your way etc. Chur.

Good meat, decent turnout! Spot the baz.

See you cool cats @ peg @ 12.00, gonna have to be a quick suck back some lunch and shoot, have many tasks to be completed today haha.

You aint You ain't, just come along, pub grub is great there too!

I also have a sufficient supply of broken down shitheaps, gotta have all bases covered.

Weird, I have the choice of 3 legal and running cars to bring to this, what the hell is happening!

Anyone keen to park up at that printable weekend of motorsport next weekend?

Ha! Was watching this too, fine piece of kit you got there, there was one like it on Facebook the other day, 4wd too. Would make for a nice cruiser

Sooooo not much has been happening on the lada front as of late. BUT, saw a guy on nz classic cars Facebook page post up some photos of wrecks down in nightcaps way down south and what looked to be another one of these wagons, managed to track down the old guys number and fast forward a month or so and here we are. Headed down Easter Friday a good 650kms drive to pull another lada out of a paddock! I think I’ll actually use this one as the base and use good bits off the yellow one. The red one has far less rust, interior is ruined but considering it’s been parked up since 1998 it’s surprising how good it really is! Motor still turns over too!

Hoping we'll make this, but just got asked to work sat, so depending on how fast we smash out this service depends on if I'll be there or not haha.

Always got time for barrying. Good afternoon doing fuck all with you lot!

What time you broses heading to marshlands? Haven't been in ages be keen to come along for a walkaround

Umm so, we are thinking of heading up to Hanmer about 8:30-9 because baby life if anyone wants to convoy?

I'm meant to be going to oamaru to get another mitsi on Sunday but if that falls through I'll be keen to come sharn and strip some threads.