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Hey, a friends doing a similar swap at the moment and has a couple questions. - What driveshafts you using/plan to use? - What are you doing for the drivers side mount? Do you have an adaptor design in CAD he can obtain or buy?

Thanks for introducing yourself AllTorque

Possibly coming for srs business items to discuss, such as:

Tried to start the gay little thing lol. Friend Nathan came around, we started the day off with some creamy blue cheese on crackers and cup of tea, really to set the mood good. Made some pork rib dry rub in preparation for a bbq after the lundy 500 in a couple weeks then got down to business. Replaced oil, plugs, fuel (Jesus the fuel, it resembled coke when we drained the old stuff out!). Found this car has an electric petrol pump, sounds like a very small bilge pump lol. Enough about that, inspected the points, connected a battery up, tried to turn it over. *Clunk*. Unsure what I was thinking to be honest. Hmmm. Lets try 14 times more to see if it was just an off chance. *clunk*, nope. Still poked. Rocked the car back and forth, tried again, nothing. Another friend josh came over as he's an electrical genius, cleaned a few earth, ran some tests over the car for voltage etc. Tested relays, seem fine. Manually spin the motor over a few rototions with a spanner, still nothing. That sad moment you have to figure out how a Motor-Generator works. The silly thing doesn't have a starter motor, it has a motor and generator in 1. When you apply juice to the motor it spins and start the motor, but as it's spinning it generates power, so when the car continues to run, the motor's spinning and generating power. Oh Honda, you produce some innovative hunks of crap, but it's still very cool. Well next time I'll be taking electrical stuff apart and looking a bit like this while doing it as I really have no idea.

Hi Alex.

I like it, makes it seem like actual tail lights. Just my opinion but I hate it when guys put like LED strip stuff on, as sacrilege as putting chrome Altezza style anything. Makes baby jesus cry.

How creepy we talkin

Is it under the white roofed covered car park thing?

Sugars no good, doesnt really mix well unless there's a bit of water content in the fuel. The sugar just tends to block the fuel rather than destroying motors (This is for EFI). For carbies etc yes sugar works as there tends to be little filtering in older sysytems but if you've installed a modern day fuel filter sugar probably wont really affect you much/all. For any motor though, if you wan to ruin it, you add some bleach. Starts oxidising everything through the motor, fuel pump, lines, injectors, pistons, cylinders, head, exhaust. Essentially the motor rusts itself from the inside out or seizes. If the fuel smells funny and you're killing pumps, just look at the health of the intake manifold etc as well. You might have been bleached.

They still require you to get it signed off, but I doubt the resin will be a suitable replacement for welding. The main problem they have is that with P/S rack converted to manual without locking it, you're putting all the turning stresses on like 6mm of metal that is designed to twist... and by locking it you then have that 6mm metal plus the sleeve around it taking the turning stresses. I'm not saying its completely unsafe to just remove the P/S unit, race drivers have been doing it for years, but it only takes 1 to break and suddenly the issue is on the certifier for saying it was satisfactory, then their heads on the chopping board.

For my car, you couldn't keep standard power steering with the engine swap, but mr2s have electric pump so I see no reason to remove tbh.

Yea I've gone though it for my civic. Like $500 odd to get it done through a steering specialist (There's only 1 in the country who will touch it so you're kinda shit out of luck). You can technically get it done yourself but you have to prove to lvvta that it is done correctly. P/S racks tend to be quite different than non P/S so you're probably out of luck in terms of swapping parts around. Why do you want to remove P/S?

I saw this Aero screen on the basis site and though it could look quite cool in this, what were you doing for a windscreen (If anything) http://www.basisnz.co.nz/Products/Accessories/AEROSCREEN-(190-100).aspx

He's also quite keen on bourbon. He's done my stainless exhaust fab, swaybar bushes, custom bash guard for headers and few other various parts on my civic. The prices he charged for me at least were very reasonable. Oh he's the one that built that race car NSX too that was in NZPC a while back.

Good stuff mate, glad to see you're still going with it. Sold mine off and upgraded to crv because tow bar, then felt deprived of old crap so got an n360. What's next on this thing?

Just found this part from the WOF standards, but I'm not sure if they're going to ping me for a compliance check. http://www.lvvta.org.nz/documents/standards/LVVTA_STD_Lighting_Equipment.pdf The 'if fitted' part interests me.

Hi all, For a car that didn't come with side facing indicators (Only has forward and back ones), is it going to be a requirements to retrofit ones on there to get it through compliance? I know I only need 1 rear facing mirror (Which I may end up getting side ones as well), but I can't remember the requirements for side facing indicators. Cheers Geoff Offending vehicle:

Fairly minimal needs, just a headliner (Which i have the template for) and cover some plastic sunvisors. I just fear not having someone in the know and getting charged moonbeams for simple job. Kinda like a few years ago I went to an engineer as an off-the-streeter and getting charged $100 for 3 pieces of rod... never again

Why can't you be in Wellington :'( I need some nice upholstery work like you've done. I cry errytime.

Another reasonably uneventful update, but with a lolable picture. Nathan and I took out all the rest of the salvageable gear in the wreck (We litterally picked it up and tipped it on it's side...) Sprayed all of the things with ROST OFF, had a can of coke and banter then removed all of the bolt with no snappage. Then we flipped it back on the ground and proceeded to put a flipped space saver in the wheel arch to show of how amazing it could look on 15s. Sadly at this height the body is on the wheel so this height is unobtainable without some major surgery but would look pretty dman cool! Oh and before I forget, moved the n360 over to in front of the mini (Not seen in this photo) so I can get my other car back in the garage. Fitting 3 cars in a double garage like a boss.

Late to the party but so cool to see someone flare guards correctly. Grinds my gears to no end to see people get a stupid farking generic flaring tool and ruin the shape of a well designed car.

Sorry, nothing really to see here, just posting another cool photo of a modified one

That noise :'( Those camber plates :'(

Also, some running vids (God might have to get me twin carbs..... with those trumpets)