SHIZZLs Super Hunter

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Road trip time for cert inspection.

yup should be trailered. Nope, not going to sorry.

 

this thing drives soooo good.

not a rocket ship, but a nice reliable cruiser

 

 

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She’s Finished!!!!

I’ve finally finished a project.

 

certified, wof’d and registered. 
last legal for the last Hanmeet, so it’s been a while.

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Sunday drives have been so much fun

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Hunter is Blaze approved.

 

alternate news, I had some oddball shifter sitting in the shop with a leather boot on it.

it’s the traverse lick out type.

so I pulled it apart, honed out the guts of it to slip over the T50 gearstick, wound the know onto it.

 

looks perfect.

will need to trim the console plate to accept the boot base, then I can apply trim to the console plate to finish it off.

 

im also wanting to find a nice tach that doesn’t look complete cactus and actually reads correctly.

 

this one bounces all over the show.

hits limmy just off idle 

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Saturday flex session

 

very tempted to turbo this 4age

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Finally got around to fitting the Subaru? Shifter boot.

even biffed the naff looking tek screws that I used to temporarily hold the centre down.

little bit of trimming and it clipped in nicely. Then I used some left over sticky felt stuff from the WRX to cover it.

refitted it with wafer head screws.

even got the gear knob to screw down a bit further to sit flush with the boot collar.

looks too damn tidy 

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Ready for wof??? Hmm will see tomorrow.

booked in at the local workshop.

all lights are working 

no rust

brakes bled and it stops, eventually lol

 

top of the roof sits lower than the top of the well side of the ute. She’s a mission to climb out of now that I’m getting older haha

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Little shit actually did a thing today.

only had to tighten up a brake hose on the front caliper.

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Took the old girl along to the Pukekohe car clubs Xmas grasskana .

it was a sack, single wheel peel , so zero traction.

but I did have shitloads of fun.

 

one really good course in the afternoon, basically doing the old scandy flick (handbrake did f all), power over, sideways for 90% of that course was good fun.

 

needs an LSD asap.

 

might have to find an LSD or get one through palmside for the escort English diff I have.

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Got back from Japan with my little UP Garage purchase.

fitted it as soon as I got to the shop this morning.

Dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyymmmmmmmm

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Took the Hunter away for the garlic farm budget Nats ..

 

had brake issues the morning I left, and throughout the weekend, but managed through it cos Slow car..

 

I knew what it was, the little valley type thing inside the remote booster/slave vh44 deal threw a shit fit and decided to stay put and no longer do brake things.

 

i already had a new unit on the bench, but procrastination took hold and I never did swap it until today.

im taking her to Waiau Pa hop next weekend, so keen to have brakes.

 

fairly easy deal to swap it.

and it brakes now, and releases..

winning 

 

 

while I had the brake mojo and the flaring tool, I decided to run the brake lines on the trailer. What a Kent, but it’s done and it has brakes and no leaks.

ive left the brakes locked on overnight to check for any leakage. Should be good.

also clamped the conduit up.

so only have the 4 mudguard stays to weld on, then screw the boards on before getting it registered. 

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Thought I’d have a go at showing off the shiny cam gears. Added clear plastic cambelt cover.

 

nice, then cover it up with the silly intake pipe. Hmm, must rethink the filter set up

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So went to go to Waiau pa hop this morning, got 3km down the road and it started missing and spluttering.

then got progressively worse on the way back.

my guess is blocked injectors. 

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Found the misfire.

 

This was after I took the injectors out and had them clean and flow tested, new filters and seals.

 

$175 later in platinum plugs

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No actual updates other than today’s flex session. 
 

although I did notice that I had the “diagnostic” switch turned on, so it’s basically had its timing set to 10 degrees for his knows how long rather than 17degrees. Dick.

it has now got an expired wof so need to sort that. 
 

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Got this retro looking head unit of china nz (Temu).

thought I’d give it a nudge seeing as the old unit would rarely get radio stations and only has provisions for a cd. Only cd I have in there is Scribe.

 

this has Bluetooth so a little more user friendly. Not that sound is great from 52 year old paper speakers. 
it works so that is a win

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Picked up a shiny pair of 4 pot wilwoods locally.

these will fit the hunter or the cortina.

direct bolt on is great. 
 

also picked up a pair of racepro seats with side mount brackets, came on sw20 MR2 seat bases.

ive ditched the bases and made these adaptor plates to bolt onto the cortina rails. The seat brackets bolt onto these. Each plate is identical and a perfect fit.

i haven’t done a thread for the cortina, not sure if I’ll even bother, might just slap it up on this one. 

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Trialling a front air dam on the hunter.

tell me what you think.

 

its for a mk2 escort .

it will require cutting the jacking point sleeves back to get it in another 25mm or so.

the sides won’t reach right to the edge of the guard though but can get Jeff to extend the wings out to do that.

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Got a motorkhana on next weekend, had to sort the expired wof and reg status. 
 

clean sheeted like a champ