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On 20/03/2022 at 13:36, Bling said:

Good luck is all I can say. I had enough trouble finding options for my 14x7.5" wheels. No worries if not going for cert, but when going for cert, the options were slim to none. I don't have the chart handy to know what fits. But when I was looking for my 7.5's, 195/45 was the best option I could find locally. Which at the time was one brand and they have limited supply and didn't bring them into the country often. I ended up changing to 7" wheels sadly, which is a lame solution but the easiest option for me. And 15" which is another sin, but tyre options were plentiful. As I say though good luck, if you can make it work, it will be worth it. May just have to look overseas at their options, Japan perhaps.

 

So I have managed to find some nankings ns20  in the 225 40 14 size. which I was very surprised at finding them, I had assumed that they were going to be the hard size to get. they are on order now. recons about 4 weeks. 600 bucks (ouch) for 2 off, but its what you got to do to keep cert man happy. 

so next is the 205 40 14  .  and then a cert modification just for the wheels and tires. hopefully that wont be a drama 

So I got some 14x8 and 14x9 wheels for my car supper happy with the wheels, cant wait to get them on the car. going to look awesome !
I have had a look at this chart and spent a bit of time google searching sizes.  I have come to the conclusion that I should ask the community.
as you lot have probably already sused the info I need to know.

225/40 14 on the 9 inch wide rims. 
205/40 14 on the 8 inch wide rim.

these are probably the best solution?. but proving a little hard to find . 

and recommendations/advice welcome. or if you think I should be looking at a different size please let me know. 

thanks lads.

So I did this in a rush a few months ago, I used BMW e36, or E46 rear camber bolts. I cant remember what ones specifically, but I do have spares so I can measure them for you.
that way you'll get the right ones first time round.

I got some box section to make my insert plates. I think it was 40mm from memory. and it was a prefect fit for the eccentric washers.
Using the perpendicular walls of the box as the guides for the eccentric to run on.  I cut the factory bracket locally; just where it needed to allow my plate to sit flat on the bolting face.
I welded it all around. And I filled in the old factory holes too. I also fitted some triangle inserts at the bottom to fill it all in. add some strenght . 
The way I did it works , its fast. but its not that pretty.  I did it with scrap I had in my shop and some second hand bolts.
Just another way to go about the job. saves from having to make a jig, or buy premade brackets.

was the other guy old mate "NaN"

What I actually came here for was to say, you should talk to kelvin from car tune company.
he has allot of videos on you tube, has a wealth of 1u information. Seams happy to help anyone.

20 hours ago, cletus said:

Iain at autolign mt Wellington is busy but also a GC of the highest order. Also does quite a few drift cars so can probably set it up how you want  

cheers, sounds like the man I need to see. will pop down and find out when can do it . 

Hey guys, so I have a "MoDiFied" carina . and the 4 local places I have taken it to all have told me they cant do it, or don't want to do it ., or some kind of shit as response to me asking for an alignment. Like they are scared of a old Toyota that's got some lows!? 
 
So am looking for recommendations where I can take my car. I am in East Auckland, but will take it anywhere that isn't going to turn me away. 

I would also like some input as to what people recommend for alignment setting., id like to go do some beginner drift days next year.
So whilst getting an alignment I may as well add some setting to help me on my entry level drift days.

I have BC gold suspension, IRS rear. no power steering .  I have added some camber adjustment to the rear subframe. 
I have been told something along the lines of

Front Caster = fucking heaps.
Front Camber = 2 Degrees' negative.
Front Toe = out 0.2 total   
Rear Camber =  1 Degrees' negative
Rear Toe = neutral 

any direction/opinion/help all appreciated. after the fun had at drag day, i want to get more seat time, have some more fun with this car. 

so found the guy, hes still got it, its tucked away in a barn.he sounds just like all of us. carina crazy . with no intention of selling . fair enough right, maybe well see it in a few more years. 

ah well so there goes that idea. 

 

oh wow , had no idea there was such a list. only hard bit is finding the people who own them 

will carry on with my search , hopefully something comes up and i can get a car going soon 

On 30/09/2019 at 23:57, Roman said:

I've not seen this car since Davie sold it either. 

It's like it just went into the bermuda triangle. 

Hope its still around, it's friggen sweet! 

 

i was going to buy it a month or so before davie got it. this guy named fred in manukau had 3 of them  . but i couldn't store it, so i took what i could at the time, the dude had heaps of bits. most went into the brown one i'm trying to fix up. 

now all i want is something that i can drive to the track in, have some fun in it and throw it back in the garage when im done. 

we should make a registrar, so we can see how many carinas are left . i bet there's very few now. 

Yeah i want something that is registered too . less hard work . i'm in need of some inspiration for finishing the other project  , need to remember why i started it in the first place ha 

don't see allot or them around . but if you dig on the internet for them, and using the power of old school .  . .  and maybe if i get lucky ,i can find a guy who knows a guy whos got one in a shed,  that would sell it for the right price . that would make my day  . 

hay guys, so am trying to track down this car, it was davies from garage slipway . beast of a car. have talked to davie he reckons he sold it to a guy in taranaki area.  haven't seen it around for years !  

if anyone knows the owner , would love to get in touch regarding  this car. thanks 

nice there is more of us now!  looks good to see a complete carina !

aa60, so is it a solid rear , t series?    

oh man i can totally relate to the back issues i have a herniated L5-S1 disk , causes me nothing but pain. some times it livable but if i pinch the nerve cluster i'm fucked for months!  

i need to find the motivation to get work on mine too, its been moved a few times, set up in a new shed. but i just haven't touched it in years . i cant even remember what i was doing on it last time. my build thread is lost in oldschool somewhere. probably gone its been so long 

so like ah , do you have any spare ?, like motivation  , where do you find it ? is it expensive ? how much for a gram ?? 


looking like a cool rebuild, are you going to do any other head work ?   how many limbs were the cams ? if you don't mind me asking 

 

7 minutes ago, sheepers said:

Just make up a receipt from the previous owner. 

You've got the old plate number and the chassis still logged on car jam yea? 

You should be able to get the ball rolling with that then fill in the gaps when they ask for something. 

It won't be as hard as you think. 

i don't have any of his details , i just knew him through a mate of a mate type deal, and it was just a first name thing. i looked over the car, it was good, i gave him money , that was it done. i haven't been successful in finding out anything else or where he has moved to .

 yes its still on car jam, but that doesn't give me any of the last owners details . i haven't paid for the report, if i buy that will that give me the last registered owners details ?? ?

5 minutes ago, 00quattro00 said:

You just need a statuary declaration signed by a jp

so what do i have to write on this? just that i am the legal owner now? 

hay guys, so i have read through  some of this , and it does make me a little worried . . . 

so story is i bought a car about 15 months ago. was only going to be a track hack, but have found its in better condition that i originally thought. so i have decided to go down the track of looking to getting it re registered.  Now i have no idea who the guy was i got it off, i didn't get any form of paper work from him, i don't know if he was the last registered owner, and hes moved and i cant find him , i have tried every avenue i can think off with no luck . 

i have the chassis code and the original license plate details. on the police web page search under stolen vehicles it comes up as not stolen. and on car jam it has the details of the car, vague details but they are in there. so this is good as i can prove it was registered in nz (yay) . but i am no where closer to proving ownership?? 

i just called the police station and asked about getting a "of no interest statement"  , they told me that they don't do that and i have to "go look at car jam , or something " . ?!! 

i'm not sure what i have to do next. can someone please give me some advice on what my best plan of attack is , thanks 

oh that was fast response, i have a clubman gt 3 gauge dash cluster . is there an easy way to tell what it is ?  im not familiar with rvi or rvc at all. 

hay all, so having a bit of a brain fart with this. looking for some electronics people to shove me in the right direction please 

i have upgraded to an electronic dissy in my mini, its bloody awesome, no more points yay. but the down side is my tachometer now doesn't work. well it moves ever so slightly but no where near reading rev's 

so in my mind i am thinking i have removed the ballast resistor thus changing the was 9 volts to the coil to the now full supply voltage of 14.2v . so i was thinking if i put a resistor going to ground in between the gauge and the negative terminal of the coil where the tachometer gets its signal from .  that i could successfully burn up a few volts making the signal to the tachometer back into the correct scale of 9 volts ?  now in my mind if i put it is series it would draw more current through the gauge and that would cook it, so if i just splice it in before the gauge and i used the correct resistor i could burn up some of them extra pixies making my signal back down to 9volts ??

so all this is just an idea, i dont know if i am on the right track with this. if i am wrong and there is no easy fix i will change my plan of attack , ill go and destroy and new aftermarket rev counter and make a mini/aftermarket mash up of sorts. i would in however like to try and get my head around this electric pixie stuff cause i do find it rather fascinating . and i do quite like these little battles

thanks in advance . chur 

hay all, so having a bit of a brain fart with this. looking for some electronics people to shove me in the right direction please 

i have upgraded to an electronic dissy in my mini, its bloody awesome, no more points yay. but the down side is my tachometer now doesn't work. well it moves ever so slightly but no where near reading rev's 

so in my mind i am thinking i have removed the ballast resistor thus changing the was 9 volts to the coil to the now full supply voltage of 14.2v . so i was thinking if i put a resistor going to ground in between the gauge and the negative terminal of the coil where the tachometer gets its signal from .  that i could successfully burn up a few volts making the signal to the tachometer back into the correct scale of 9 volts ?  now in my mind if i put it is series it would draw more current through the gauge and that would cook it, so if i just splice it in before the gauge and i used the correct resistor i could burn up some of them extra pixies making my signal back down to 9volts ??

so all this is just an idea, i dont know if i am on the right track with this. if i am wrong and there is no easy fix i will change my plan of attack , ill go and destroy and new aftermarket rev counter and make a mini/aftermarket mash up of sorts. i would in however like to try and get my head around this electric pixie stuff cause i do find it rather fascinating . and i do quite like these little battles

thanks in advance . chur 

it works out to be 20.63 mm . 21 would be to sloppy unfortunately ,  if you were in a bit of a jam then yes it would work. also honing it would work to but that would not be ideal also.  the reason they are a dick is because they have to be parallel to the roller bearing bush at the other end of the arm . if you just size the bush it wont be on the same axis, and it will fail prematurely like the ones I just replaced.  the entire design is hilarious, but everything on the mini is like that. hahaha

I ended up buying a ream, then  mounting it in the old hardened shaft and reaming it through using the roller bearing end as a guide bush. its not as precision as I am use to working with , but it worked .

so if anyone ever needs to do this job I can lend out the ream and give you a run down on how to do it right so you doing have to do it ever again.  : )

calling fellow mini nuts, i am overhauling my rear radius arms . just wondering if anyone have a tool made up for reaming out the bush; that i could borrow ?

i have my arms  stripped, cleaned, ready to press and ream.  i scrounged through the draws at work but alas the one size we don't have (13/16)  !!!! bugger

i see most people get a ream and weld it to an arbor and/or make a guide bush, both i can do with enough time, but i thought i would ask you lot first , might save me allot of time making a tool if someone has one i can borrow it would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

on a roll this weekend, moved the mini to my new house,  welded up the an fittings on my power steering hard lines  , welded up the sump. made some trap doors . I made some out of hinges and welded them off , but I couldn't stop the heat from twisting them up. I tried 2 different sets, all moved so much the hinge would bind up. so I resorted to using nuts and bolts, I don't think they will cause any issue like this, I may drill and lock wire them, but for now this will do. . . .  now just to wait for the sealant to dry so I can water test it. make sure it has no leaks !!!!!

and now I'm caught up with what I was doing like a year ago its time to write a new list of things to get done.

15 minutes ago, kyteler said:

Riverside Riverge is the wheel you appear to have duplicated.

 

Looks good man.

Ah yes that is them the little buggers !!! , shit I love the look of them in gold, fantastic looking wheel . a shame I couldn't find any 3 piece ones for sale, would have made life much easier for myself hahaha

16 minutes ago, flyingbrick said:

I get a 404 error when using the discussion thread link :-[

re linked  : )

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