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Oh fuck yeah, this is a bucket list car for me

1 hour ago, Snoozin said:

I would fill it, sand it, and flock it if I was wanting to do something like this on a budget. Bonus is, it would be consistent with the vibe of your car I think.

Re-covering in vinyl always looks cack IMO, the corners are never as sharp, it never fits properly again as the vinyl adds significant thickness to the part.

It's real, it was going to be over 1k just to do the dash pad on the KP. 

Allegedly Amayama have ke70 ones for around $830. Now to work out which part numbers go with which colours

https://motor-fan.jp/stylewagon/article/30532/

5 hours ago, datlow said:

How good, future classic etc

 

Could it be, one of the worlds leading four cylinder engines in a snail car?

4 hours ago, dabuzz said:

3 - send to dashbooard restorations on the shore, it'll be perfect, but you'll be $2000 lighter in the pocket 

Is $2000 an exaggeration or for realsies, I always assumed it would be around $1000 which i was comfortable with, but for $2000 i'd rather get other things for the car

1 hour ago, ~Slideways~ said:

Picked up this 4g93 GDI turbo for a really good price. I guess they are simply not sought after engines. The GDI's were a bit of a disaster really, but the block and crank should be good since it is a clean low km's engine.

Plus handy to have spares and different variations of brackets for alternator/PS pump etc.

The other day when we were cruising around Zebra there were two turbo colts there, I hadn't been so excited about a mitsubishi in a long time. Is this a cedia motor?

On 05/08/2022 at 14:04, xsspeed said:

Ka's are hot AF

That looks like a sad panda bear

On 04/08/2022 at 18:58, kpr said:

Unsure how often it reports  a "rpm limit"   I shall do some testing next time its running and report back.    in the meantime here is a more recent one

 

 

 

 

/spam

 

It’s a pity it doesn’t log how many times you’ve loosened and tightened the cam caps, that number must be up there?

My cousin’s 3uz Hyundai h1 gets similar to that, I didn’t believe it till I saw it, must be modern engine things

2 hours ago, keltik said:

I'm immensely satisfied you got the right number of ruru between the ri 

Makes me wonder what other car noises he can transcribe

3 hours ago, Early jap nuter said:

I got one of these afew years ago, 1.6 with a shitty sensodrive auto manual gearbox. Change up gears is slow but it does the mean chop down gears super fast. I’m not a Citroen Fan but it’s fun to drive. (Shity pic off net not mine)

Is that one of those Toyota-based citroens? 

1 hour ago, jessemk2 said:

Can get a reg/wof Corona that in good nick for 2k

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3681424074

9 hours ago, locost_bryan said:

Jazz Sport manual

Do we even have these here?

On 16/07/2022 at 22:01, myk00l said:

 

@ThePog

 

Have you considered doing something like this?

 

 

@ThePog builds a micrafari?

16 minutes ago, Roman said:

Oddly any variable/adjustable exhaust like the varex ones are illegal in NZ. Unless factory fitted. 

At least thats my interpretation of it.

It would be a nice solution, you can buy cheaper exhaust throttle type things that just close a butterfly.

Don't both routings just need to be of legal volume?

If only we had a certifier in this thread somewhere....

I'm torn between team @yoeddynz and team @Roman for my next purchase

14 hours ago, Roman said:

Just "wikifacts" they are still pencil sized haha.

Yep, a pencil sized forging is still a pencil sized forging

27 minutes ago, xsspeed said:

thats normal for a standard 2nz? its not a atkinson cycle spec hybrid unit

Oh true, David and I had been discussing putting the Prius pistons in the 2nz so my brain was still there.

1 hour ago, Roman said:

10.5:1 static comp, dynamic varies with vvti. 

 

That seems super low? Is that a typo?

On 07/07/2022 at 09:01, zep said:

The other thing I'm interested in is speakers in the door. Ideally I would hide them, but there isn't room. Not really interested in spacers, so thinking about how to integrate some low profile, speakers and grilles into the doors while still looking ok.

I've been thinking about making an MDF door handle/lower pocket/speaker pod that I can upholster with my doors in my KE70 and try and make it look somewhat OEM

On 08/07/2022 at 16:17, Roman said:

Yeah so the cat converter rules are interesting. 
You could have one 2005 car that needs it, and one 2005 car that doesnt. 
Because it depends on the year the car was imported. 
In my case, no cat converter required. 

 

When's your WOF due? You gonna put it back to standard and get a wof while its apart

On 08/07/2022 at 10:31, Roman said:

Haha yeah, I guess that's also assuming you could get that 18psi to ambient air temp. 

My solution to the problem, and possibly all problems, is simply to keep revving it higher. 

Lets just disregard that this is also the cause of all my problems 

Larry from Endyn who builds the crazy Honda motors says that RPM stands for Ruins Peoples Motors

Next we’ll be seeing a 7mgte 90 series supra

At what amount on the give a little will you go for hayabusa??