Popular Post KKtrips Posted January 30, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2016 Picked up a parts car today from Whanganui. Bit haggard but its got a lot of great bits in it that I need so I snapped it up. Cheers to Duncan for being my tow bitch and Joe for letting me stash it in the back of his paddock. Getting towed down the field. 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted January 31, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2016 Got up nice and early this morning with tonnes of enthusiasm and plans to take care of a whole bunch of things for Wagnats, Nats and just general sorting of my lockup. Did a bit of a service on the old girl, adjusted up the handbrake and clutch plus fixed a squeak in the rear brakes. I discovered when swapping the spark plugs that I have had the wrong ones in there since I got it going. The electrode must have been recessed so far inside the head. (see photo below) Seems to run a bit nicer and the exhaust smells a lot more potent so I am assuming it is burning the fuel much better now. Won't know till I drive it a fair whack to see if it has made a substantial difference in performance or driveability. Left - 304 injected motor plug (I pulled it out just to check my finding) Middle - new correct 308 plug Right - plug I've had installed since the I got the motor going (oops) I also had the original 16" steels painted by Matt (Sorensin) and chucked those on with the pursuit hubcaps. I'm not 100% on them yet. But give me a week and I'll know whether I'm keeping them or resorting to the 15's again. 16's vs 15's Fitted 15 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted February 3, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 3, 2016 Before 15's Now 16's 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted May 7, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2016 Well the big job of fixing the rust has begun. Pulled the front sheet metal off. Deja vu from a few years back. I can't figure out for the life of me why my feet got wet every time it rained... Next job is to pull the dash out and then when I have the other half of my lockup back I'll pull the motor and box then completely gut the engine bay. Was a pretty good day today. 16 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted June 23, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2018 Hey Terry @Nominal I done some work to the Commy today. Off for rust repair next week if all goes to plan on Wednesday. 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted July 29, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 29, 2018 Continued stripping bits out of the car prior to rust removal. I'm taking it to the blasters in the next couple of weeks to get all the rust taken off in a hail of sand. To make it easier and safeguard important components I tidied them all up out of harms way and then marked all the areas I wanted sandblasted with a squirt of paint. Some pics for me to compare the finished result once its done. 16 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted August 1, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2018 Did some sound deadening removal today. Shit is so easy with 10 pounds of pure white Columbian ice. All the shit I got out - some pretty sizeable chunks there 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted August 1, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2018 compared to ...was slightly concerned that someone was going to call the bomb squad when I dumped the remainder down the drain... no one did, I think 15 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted August 11, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 11, 2018 After being peer pressured by you bloody cunts, I decided to pull the engine out. (I hate you all now but believe me that once that engine is back in I'll be thanking you for doing it once doing it right) So first thing on the menu was to sweep up all that sound deadening which was surprisingly heavy 2.5 decent sized rubbish bags full. Then I made the executive decision to make getting the engine in and out easy. Before it goes on the transported I'll be fabbing up some nice brackets to hold this back in place and give it back the strength it needs. Leaving me with this nice big gap. Then after undoing this, twisting that, pushing this and pulling that... out she came. Leaving me with a gaping hole. So now that's done, I'll have a few wee things to do then it's off to the blasters. Couldn't have done it without the almighty help of Jibba Jabba/Midnight/Mo Bigga/Plank/@lowlife. Thanks bud - you rule!! Also cheers to @vivaspeed for the lunchtime beers. 30 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted September 28, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 28, 2019 A Big Rig turned up today... To do this Which ended up looking like this A bit better after clean-up Next step, to the panelbeaters - hopefully soon. 28 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted October 5, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 5, 2019 After giving it another vacuum today to get rid of even more of the leftover blasting media (that shit gets everywhere) I washed it all down again and coated it in deoxidine which gave it a curious gold colour. Getting primed tomorrow. 17 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted February 5, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2020 My wagnats is being celebrated by taking my wagon to the body shop. 20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted February 7, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2020 Just did a clean up of all my posts and copied all the images from photobucket and re-added them as attachments on OS. FUCK YOU PHOTOBUCKET!!!! In the process of stockpiling parts for the 304. - video for parts reference for me later on. Reminder for later - thanks @64valiant Turned out the brand was kilmat and it was a crap load cheaper than dynamat. For example there is a dynamat kit on trade me for 369 for 3.3 square meters so around 110 a square meter or you can get kilmat for 43 a square. Or I paid to have it fast freighted and it still only cost me 58 a square. 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted March 2, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 2, 2020 Cruised to the panelbeaters today and pulled the crossmember and front suspension out for giving a tidy up while the rust is taken care of. Yes, still more sandblasting material came out. 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted March 19, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 19, 2020 Last couple of weekends I stripped every last part of the front suspension down and prepped it for paint. Sent the steering rack for a rebuild and crossmember for blasting and powdercoating and got the crossmember back today. This Saturdays job is to paint all the bits and reassemble with new buses, joints, links etc. Should be tight as a goldfishes anoose once its all back together. Pic 4 Fred 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted May 9, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2020 We'll talk about a spanner in the works. Some guy named Covid (sounds Dutch) threw a bit of a curve ball. Seeing as my lockup was the other side of town and further away than I was allowed to travel. This thing has been on ice for 7 weeks. Anyhow first day back on the spanners netted some progress. Super stoked with how the crossmember and rack turned out. 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted May 9, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2020 I think this might be a better pic of the crossmember. Discuss here - https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/26290-k-trips-1982-holden-commodore-vh/ 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted June 6, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2020 Spent the morning cleaning up the last couple bits to put the subframe together, had the sexy @Steelies and his good lady Ms Steelies call in and say hi, then @LoveChild made a surprise visit soon after. Bloody nice of y'all. Decided I need a bunch of gold passivated bolts to make it all look pretty so compiled the bolts I need to buy and hopefully I can find them all this week. Anyhow after doing all those bits and pieces I got onto the bit I was not looking forward to which was to clean up the shitty looking brake calipers and mounts. Broke them down to the individual components and proceeded to wire brush the living shit out of them. I was going to vapour blast them but I'm happy with the outcome especially at the low low cost of 90 minutes of elbow grease and this before and after doesn't really do the justice of how much nicer they look now. So anyhow after a morning of filth and grime, I went to Ms Steelies coffee shop and rewarded myself with the finest coffee in Wellington (Coolsville in Hataitai for those who care) and currently kicking back in my tracksuit pants and hoodie in front of the heat-pump pretending its an open fire. Enjoying a windless but brisk Wellington winter afternoon listening to podcasts with my pussy giving me the stink eye. Your pal, Dave 21 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted June 20, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 20, 2020 Progress is happening on the rust!! WooT!! Also went to do finally assembly on subframe today and had a bit of a hiccup with some nuts and washers, even though I gave the nut and washers to the guy to match, he still got them wrong, cue RAGE QUIT. (probably exacerbated by cunt of a job it is to get the lower suspension arms in, 4 things have to line up and they don't) But at least I got the brakes back together. 18 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted November 17, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2020 Got a small update from the panelbeater today. Fucking STOKED with the outcome Discuss here From To Looks amazing - in my untrained eyes anyway 38 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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