Popular Post haurangi Posted January 22, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2014 Right. So. In 2012 I bought myself a birthday present. It wasn't a very good one. Trawling through trademe I found an rx2, a series 3, which seems to be the most common rx2 in whakatane. I'd loved the shape for years (though I'm admittedly more partial to a series 2 but yeah). It was reasonably cheap at the time, though hindsight is a bitch. Bought it sight unseen (fail) under the illusion it was 95% panel beaten. I won't out the guy who owns an online inject/carburetor distribution company out of his house in West Auckland, but yeah, 95% panel beaten in dorkland obvs means 95% bog and 5% rust. Sadface. I'm persistent though (still ask for Le Snacks when mum goes shopping) and I commited to at least getting a motor in it, doing a burnout and then probably retiring it to be a dog kennel (or sell it to sr1600 who, with no space available at his house, wants to turn it into a track car). To date I've stripped it back to nothing, know all/most of it's imperfections (shitty patch panels, holes, panels that were tacked on to hide the original panel which could've easily been repaired, though I fear what is under the faux sill panels), have picked up a bunch of spares from a gc in papamoa, have picked up a 13b chur bo block from sr1600 (which came out of my brothers car a couple years ago to make space for the 20b that lives under the stairs) and I trawl the internet daily for cool shit that I'll probably never get around to. Plan is to finish replacing the shitty repair work and get a straight (enough) body, then probably do some dumb shit and cut it up to make something cool that will make me smirk like a special person (mum says I'm special). EDIT: /discussion thread 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Pic for fred, I cleaned the container that day, don't judge me. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 Since that last photo proves nothing of my progress I thought I'd post this. Just scuffed back to bare-ish metal and wiped down with wd40 (which has lasted to date, so thats at least a year in bare metal with no rust coming through). Proof is that this was about a year ago and is pretty much the last time I really did anything physical on the fucker. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 Floating hubs 13b out of my brothers s6, sold to sr1600 who stored it carefully for a few years, then sold it to me Bigger is better right? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 $100 NOS panel, plus $20 for it to be delivered to my door. Bargain. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 So pictureless update (because it'll fuck sr1600 off/cbf getting photos off my phone), I've pulled the gearbox out of the fd3s to put behind the 13b that was once in the fd3s and will go into the s122a in the future. Sr1600 still hasn't returned our panel hammers from 15 years ago (/I was supposed to buy some last week but had a beer instead) so still haven't been in the container to do anything/the key is stuck in the padlock lowls. One drop of gearbox oil. One. That's unheard of. Almost dropped the driveshaft on my face though but nah bo didn't even. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted August 19, 2014 Author Share Posted August 19, 2014 Oh hey. Hey. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted August 19, 2014 Author Share Posted August 19, 2014 I'm aware there is a guard missing, that's because it was run over by a VN commodore when being loaded in a container in Brisbane. Needs a good whack-whack with a precision adjustment device to straighten it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted August 19, 2014 Author Share Posted August 19, 2014 Didn't have a jack (/couldn't be fucked carrying one) so here's how we roll. Midlands S&R 4 lyf! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 Yeah picked up some more bits to make life easier. Been sitting in storage for 14 years, still got the mazda stickers on them. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 Came with some other shit too but yeah. Anyone wanna buy a series 4 grill? I've got 3 of the fuckers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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haurangi Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 SR1600 built some front struts a while back. Some bizzare frankenstein R31 HKS adjusties with RX3 stub axles welded to the bottom and 5 stud datsun hubs. WTF aye. Anyway I dodgied one on (by mixing and matching rx3 and rx2 bits to cobble up steering and a lower control arm that would fit) to see how she'd go, 3 inches lower at full extension is how it went. Verbal handshake and I'm the owner of a pair and even better no money has changed hands. Photo to come. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 So I got the adjustable in both sides. Wound up for offroading. Pretty happy with the effort. Big hand from stillway and sr1600 who cheered me on from the sideline. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Nailed it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 I got a counterweight and a flywheel. Don't need a picture for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post haurangi Posted September 11, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 11, 2015 So yeah nah I bought some Panasports. Obviously the first thing you do is put them on the car and use your imagination. Then you think hmmm maybe 16x8 +1 on the front and 16x8 +16 on the back is a bit odd so you make like a banana... ...and split. Then you have yourself a pair of 16x7.5 and 16x8.5 Panasports. Test fit to come. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haurangi Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share Posted September 12, 2015 The only thing "R Fucken B" skylines are good for. Brakes. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post haurangi Posted January 27, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2019 You can't avoid working on it if it's at your front door staring you in the face. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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