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Hey @Dudley, how good are cheap AFR gauges?

18 minutes ago, cletus said:

whatever you do, make sure the bags can be inflated, with the wheels at full droop, without the sensor going to max travel

 

i think ive had 3 different cars break the arms off the first time they go on the hoist...

Whaaaaat? They set the sensors up so they won't make it to full droop??

4 hours ago, Willdat? said:

A mate sold a Leaf this week for $2.5k, admittedly ~40% SOH but still did 50km at open road speed daily. The new buyer? A campground who was looking at a golf cart to do odd jobs but did the sums and couldn't beat this.

It's kind of like the 2 door rav4 vs. side-by-side argument for farmers. I've seen at least one on Trademe with the rear door taken off and the back seat area full of hay

Get @Roman to Arduino you up a controller and run it with actuators and a china touch screen

On 16/01/2024 at 17:15, crustywhip said:

Yep, pretty much a mx5 with the wagon body on top. The perfect rotary

AE86 front MX5 rear. Jay from Low Standards sent the front cross-member out of his RX3 to Japan for him

https://libertywalk.co.jp/bodykit/lb-works/lb-works-lb40-az-1/

22 hours ago, yoeddynz said:

Don't forget to make a wooden tray for the dash and fill it with things including seashells, crystals, tiny Buddha figures, half smoked joints, entry tickets from luminate festival 2019 etc etc. 

Add some prayer flags around the ceiling and you're pretty much sorted for entry into tasman/golden bay. 

Bahaha, Mum and Dad have a 100 series hiace camper, and it's got a collection of driftwood and rocks and shells sitting on the passenger side of the dash in that hollow they all have. Mum jokingly calls it her beach

On 08/01/2024 at 11:18, Rhyscar said:

This has IRS correct?

 

Flappy trailing arm IRS even

On 28/12/2023 at 07:54, Doug Hill said:

https://nz.rs-online.com/web/p/film-capacitors/1833310

Should suit your needs. 

Datasheets for CBB21 say it's 400Vdc rated, 4.7uf. 

Would there be an option where I only have to pay for one? Another supplier maybe?

Just pulled this little sweatheart out of dads inverter in his camper.

I assume it’s a CBB21 475K400V

Can someone please spoon feed me a link for a source of one that I don’t have to wait until the end of Jan to receive

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0fKnRQsoUA/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

To be honest, when you start spending money on things like pistons and rods it takes away the charm of the 1NZ being a cheap cheerful motor built with ridiculously high compression (for an OEM) wrecker pistons and probably isn't always going to be the best option. I think your motor hit the sweet spot really. Other than if you had a bunch of motors and were able to put the parts that are most similar in weight together, you end up altering the smiles per dollar ratio too much and there are probably better solutions to be piling money into.  (mostly thinking about the hillclimb car here)

2 hours ago, myk00l said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/715040046818624/

@yoeddynz how easy is a big block swap?

On 05/11/2023 at 09:31, rotormotor said:

rx7onramps.jpg

My little brain spent way too long staring at that being annoyed that it wasn't possible to drive up onto those ramps

Where's the transit build-thread though?

I dream of a 60 series cruiser with high roof and barn doors on its belly

5 minutes ago, KKtrips said:

Technically no but excessive wheel alignment can cause handling issues. This means that if the vehicle veers significantly to one side, or the vehicle requires unreasonable force to steer, or the steering is unreasonably stiff, rough or light, or the vehicle does not handle safely under normal conditions of road use, eg the suspension is excessively hard or soft, or there is excessive body roll, or the vehicle does not self-centre, then it fails.

Yeah, my last car was certed about 6 months before the camber restrictions came in and had about 4-5 degrees in the back and about 3-4 in the front. Was certed by Neil Fraser and we did roll center and bump steer correction. It drove well enough for a low car with a terrible scrub radius and wide wheels. This will be much more subtle

This feels like a dumb question and I'm almost embarrassed to ask. 

If a car is certified it has to be within a certain camber range. If I'm just on lowering springs and the camber is achieved through factory adjustment can I run say 3-4 degrees camber for a WOF? Is there anything in the VIRM about alignment?

24 minutes ago, Roman said:

Although its funny that some car reviews etc love to mentally associate capacity with weight. "Oh this car is a nose heavy pig with the big engine"

When the more modern bigger capacity engine weighs less than an old small one they loved. Ha.

 

People keep asking me what my corolla is going to be like with the "big heavy v8" up front. I have to keep explaining that it's actually lighter than the diesel it came with

26 minutes ago, Roman said:

Hybrid battery? I dont have any of those

Surely there is room for my scope creep

Can you use 12v from the hybrid battery to start it?

20 hours ago, flyingbrick said:

they lack poipose.

I heard the previous BYD described as handling like a whale, so seems fitting to have moved through the ocean mammal list

On 22/09/2023 at 16:48, kpr said:

Good thing ive been practicing.   

dialed in  

 

gummon, @Dudley doesn't deserve that level of quality