yoeddynz Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Yeah a slant four would be about that. Heavy old things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivaspeed Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I vote 1UZ, they fit well apart from sump location, example below... Had a reasonable tunnel chop though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 Oooooohhhhh. Nice. I like the little cage over air inlet to stop small animals, birds, kids hands ec getting sucked in. Yep- I vote yes to Andre fitting a 1uz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzvohc Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 I vote 1UZ, they fit well apart from sump location, example below... Had a reasonable tunnel chop though. Who owns this car? I see it was at the Kaikoura Hop. Looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUL8R Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 All you need now is a proper twin cam Love the progress on this Andre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 never been interested in these but that silver one is nice. how did they cut/ do the front of the guards? is it new steel/ welded stuff under the black? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzvohc Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 All you need now is a proper twin cam Love the progress on this Andre! Cheers, yeah TC would be nice, sad part is that this car once had a genuine Vauxhall TC motor in it, John Kershaw nabbed it for his HSR Chevette some years back. Should be able to get decent horsepower with what I have though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivaspeed Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I vote 1UZ, they fit well apart from sump location, example below... Had a reasonable tunnel chop though. Who owns this car? I see it was at the Kaikoura Hop. Looks great! Not sure exactly who owns it now, think it's the brother of a guy in ChCh I know. Was originally built with a supercharged 4AGE in it, then the owner changed to 1UZ but never quite finished it and sold it on. In 4AGZE spec it was what inspired me to buy and start building my blue one in 2002 and ended up donating sump/extractors/mounts etc for mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzvohc Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 never been interested in these but that silver one is nice. how did they cut/ do the front of the guards? is it new steel/ welded stuff under the black? Yeah they grow on you. Joint lines were plasma cut to factory measurements and then had flange welded on to bolt on nosecone, also has mounting points to chassis underneath. The black is epoxy primer to protect steel after grinding back paint and filler. I will blend the guard into the nosecone but the joint stays visible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 What colour are you going to paint it? Looking cracker sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durty Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Haha. Thought the light buckets were weird bonnet scoops at first Looking sweet. Love it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Are you running lenses/plastic over the headlamps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivaspeed Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Great progress. Bodywork is the worst bit! I like how the nose cone has become one with the car, earlier photos it looked a bit out of place but now it's fantastic. Paint it silver, with green and red Castrol-like colours... then fit Lotus 907 engine twin cam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 It's gonna be sweet this! A little birdy tells me you have been looking at lotus engines..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzvohc Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 What colour are you going to paint it? Looking cracker sweet! Cheers. The droopsnoots only came out in "Silver Starfire" so that's what I am going with, much to my amazement my local paint supplier had the swatch and code to match this colour, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzvohc Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Are you running lenses/plastic over the headlamps? I have the original toughened glass covers for it. They are slightly curved to match the nose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzvohc Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Great progress. Bodywork is the worst bit! I like how the nose cone has become one with the car, earlier photos it looked a bit out of place but now it's fantastic. Paint it silver, with green and red Castrol-like colours... then fit Lotus 907 engine twin cam Definately going with silver and have toyed with adding the Castrol colours somehow. Going 907 is tempting but apparently freakin expensive to re-build. Spotted a Jensen Healey (runs 907) for sale locally today so might take a look at that tomorrow and see if that sways me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzvohc Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 It's gonna be sweet this! A little birdy tells me you have been looking at lotus engines..... Want to go look at that Jensen tomorrow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 nice work! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triumphrod Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 is it just me or does this look like a baby trans-am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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