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Hey Mike Goodride for the looser surfaces, and Kumho V70a for the seal

I would really like 8/6kg adjusties. That would be the bees knees The cost of adjusties but mostly the cert is putting me off getting them Have just ordered 2x sets of tyres. That\'s the cost of adjusties and cert right there. Sigh

Getting my rear bilstein struts rebuilt because one is entirely rooted. Struts are about 50,000kms since previous rebuild. I bought them 2nd hand. The top hats could be 195,000kms old, or could be 50,000kms as Maclennans installed the bilsteins. There\'s no appearance of damage on the top hats. Should I replace them for preventative maintenance? PS, they can get hammered sometimes.

Took out rear shocks because there is thumps from rear when you go over speed humps or any bumps actually. Right rear doesn\'t rebound at all. Think I\'ve found the problem. To be sent off for rebuild

Nah, that\'s 8½ years, keep it imperial, dog!

Did you drive during the earthquake?

I broke my engine on the 1st outing on the track with semi-slicks. Al Maclennan rebuilt engine and installed a Macbilt baffled sump. It has not broken since. Since the rebuild, the car has done 8½ years and 90,000kms and every one of the kms has either been on a track or pretty much driving to a track [it\'s also still my daily driver too but am careful about carparks.] It\'s done a shitload of trackdays, sealed autocrosses, sealed hillclimbs, sealed bent sprints where there is a lot of sideways acceleration which is the bit where the oil fails to find the oil pickup because it\'s busy climbing the sump walls. Car hasn\'t broke (touch wood), because Al Maclennan installed a magic baffled sump, and I keep changing the oil and keep the oil level topped up. Not much of a story there really. I did what many people do, which is to take advice from someone I trust. The key is to find the right person to take the advice from.

+1 on t1r and zu37. Both priced well and are uhp tyres for road

Will be interested to see how well it goes - better not be too fast

+1 I had a car re-certified prior to re-registration after I got it fixed from being a crash write-off. He was helpful and picked car up on suspension item that was sensible.

That sounds like a lot of work... but did you do it yourself, or just supervise said mate? For cambelt and waterpump, supervised said mate and handed him tools and gave him wife\'s chocolate fudge and brownies and as much monetary compensation as he\'d allow

That was my 1st solution. I just taped a wheel nut over the handbrake button and that worked more than fine. Mate was not impressed with this mod and he made this solution So much simpler too than this final method. Mate thought the wire would get in the way.[quote name='loner said: cool... have you got your mapDCCD setup and ready for Sunday? Um no. It\'s still in the box. But I have changed a rear caliper on the starlet, cut out 4 new brake pads for starlet from a Ford Taurus hawk pad (using awesome grinder cut-off wheel techniques), put bark chips on 3 gardens, installed garden edging, prepped one side of the house for painting, and replaced tomato\'s cambelt, waterpump and aircon belt

Well this is a mod I\'ve needed for a while... Background is that some events have 180deg turns within the roadside curbs and you have 2 options - go wide and slow - or go in fast and tight and handbrake around the turn. Recently I\'ve been handbraking the 180\'s but due to advancing age and far too many inputs from the car and the track and too many things to do driving out of corner ie gas on , handbrake off, turn wheel more, turn wheel less, aim car to next corner - I find that more often than not when I get to the next corner the handbrake is still locked on. Only about a quarter but that\'s too much This means the acceleration has been less, time has been lost, and most difficult is that I need to reset the brain that\'s looking to handbrake the next corner but now I must unlock and take handbrake off first before I can turn next corner. You see the problem... So I got a handbrake from PAP for $8 and took it and some ideas to a mate who\'s really good with mechanical engineering. He came up with a completely different idea to the 3 that I had, and in 30 minutes he\'d done it. After that I took the mad mod home and using a jig transferred the idea and internals to my handbrake because I\'d cut up the PAP handbrake cover to get it off and I couldn\'t drill out the extra hole in the hb because it was made of steel harder than my drill and it was from a BG and mine was a GC and there was an extra mounting hole that wasn\'t there. Preamble aside, here\'s an $8 mechanical version of a hydraulic handbrake: Ratchet action locked out: Modded handbrake installed: Just need to pull the pin to return handbrake back to normal.

About to replace the rare axels with newer ones. The old sirclips have done 190,000kms. Should I replace the sirclips? Also, I switched over L->R and R->L old axels to get a little moar life out of them. The RH axel never went in all the way. It\'s still stuck out by 5mm. Been like this for 2 months so far and a couple of events. Hasn\'t fallen out. What may have gone wrong?

Not tasty good - tasty bad

Got a warrant yay! Never certain what\'s going to pass/fail sigh Changed thermostat and coolant. Coolant drip into eyes is stingy

Yes

Fixed rear windscreen washer the longest way possible... Tried rear windscreen washer, no washey. Got replacement pump from pickapart, plus assorted other stuff for the other cars. Good mission. Unplugged power lead to pump, connected to multimeter, turned on, got 12v - eliminated power issue. Lifted out washer bottle, plugged in existing washer motor, unplugged hose, turned on washer, sprayed filing cabinet in garage with stupendous amount of water - eliminated washer motor. Unplugged rear end of hose in boot, put bucket under hose, turned on washer, sprayed boot with water - eliminated car body hose. Fired up compressor, put compressed air into windscreen washer nozzle and other end of last piece of hose - heard air coming out. Plugged back together, turned on washer - now working and washing rear window... How can such a simple thing take so much fricking effort???

Awesome 3.75hp Briggs and Stratton lawnmower. The wheel fell off, so installed a proven fix to hold it back in place...

The mighty 1-wheel drive Charade had a great day...

I will be in a Charade and quite possibly swapping ends in the wiggly bits

Will put the wheels back on the car specially for the Nandos.

It makes power gains by having extra oxygen in the E85 chemical soup (compared to petrol), so the engine doesn\'t get constrained by how much air it can suck in through the air intake system and inlet valves. The downside is that more fuel volume is required to be pushed into the cylinder to achieve the correct mixture ratio.

front spoiler is worth $300 alone

I used kapiti radiators and tyres in Te Roto Dve, they were priced good. Haven\'t used them for a while now though