The Doctor
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Jan 17, 2018 16:35:03 GMT
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If you want light, you can't beat a Suzuki Swift GTi (engine code G13B) engine on a Samurai box.
i did some research years ago and if i'm not mixing things up from my memory they are below 100kg with gearbox and make 101 hp.
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qwerty
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Jan 17, 2018 17:08:56 GMT
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If you want light, you can't beat a Suzuki Swift GTi (engine code G13B) engine on a Samurai box. i did some research years ago and if i'm not mixing things up from my memory they are below 100kg with gearbox and make 101 hp. A lovely revvy engine as well! |
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Jan 17, 2018 20:18:17 GMT
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Now you have me wanting to weigh all my stuff out of curiousity... 2y crank quite a bit heavier & sierra 5 speed is like lifting a bag of cement compared to avenger box
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Jan 17, 2018 20:21:45 GMT
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Jan 17, 2018 21:20:58 GMT
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Can you get an alternate dizzy and water pipe fittings for that engine with it originally a transverse engine?
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Jan 19, 2018 12:18:45 GMT
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What about a Rover k series? Very light, fat torque, revvy, tuneable and cheap as chips.
I picked up a couple of brand new Metro GTA engines, for peanuts, and they make about 100hp.
Theres adaptors to bolt up to a ford box, and plenty of tuning parts from people like QED.
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Koos
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Jan 19, 2018 18:17:42 GMT
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What about a Rover k series? Very light, fat torque, revvy, tuneable and cheap as chips. I picked up a couple of brand new Metro GTA engines, for peanuts, and they make about 100hp. Theres adaptors to bolt up to a ford box, and plenty of tuning parts from people like QED. More of a case of what's readily available in New Zealand 😊 |
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Jan 19, 2018 20:11:15 GMT
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What about a Rover k series? Very light, fat torque, revvy, tuneable and cheap as chips. I picked up a couple of brand new Metro GTA engines, for peanuts, and they make about 100hp. Theres adaptors to bolt up to a ford box, and plenty of tuning parts from people like QED. More of a case of what's readily available in New Zealand 😊 & how deep are your pockets & which and or how many limbs will you sacrifice.  |
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Jan 25, 2018 20:31:59 GMT
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^ yeah what he said. Rover K series aint that common here and pricey if broke. Plus buying someone elses adaptor = mucho pingas (lots of money old chap) Enjoying the lovely simplicity of the little 1159 for now. Perfect car for the beaches we cant be bothered to ride to or shopping etc. Still gets nice comments every time out. Hannah jokes that we have to add 10 minutes onto every journey to allow for the conversations with folk about the car. In other news a few weeks ago my brother and I met up in Tapawara with our friend Andre who has a lovely Firenza Droopsnoot and a HB GT. We jumped in his car and travelled out to a place near Murchison where a fella has a few old Vauxhalls and Bedfords sitting in the bush.     There's a Viva HB sitting there and luckily Andre had covered it with a tarp a couple of years back to keep it better protected. We both needed parts off it. There were also a huge amount of Sandflies and they wanted us. So we covered ourselves in Deet and cracked on with parts removal..   I scored this lot. Very happy with it. All very much needed!  First bits to be fitted were the vents. Hannah cleaned them up and swapped them over. Now we have working vents that can be closed. All last winter we'd have to stuff rags in the holes to stop the cold air. They are grey, not green as the originals but they'll go quite well with what will most likely end up as a red based interior colour scheme. Next job was the bumper. The one my brother managed to get off the parts car is in good condition but for a slightly dull finish. It also has two holes where spot light brackets had been mounted. Not really noticeable and anyway- I now have a front bumper. Hannah took charge of this job too. She cleaned it up, wire brushed the surface rust away from the back and treated it, followed with a coat of paint. Then she fitted it and the only photo I have is of her cleaning it after fitting...  Next job to happen will be sort the door locks..which don't lock.. then swap the quarter windows over. The new ones have proper good seals in them. My current ones don't have seals at all.. Then the door cards. One of the ones we grabbed was really warped. I had an idea. Hannah soaked it with a hose until it was sopping wet and then we squashed it flat between two sturdy bits of plywood.  I have been moving it about and its slowly dried out nice and flat. Happy with that outcome. We have also taken on some pretty extensive scientific road testing. When one goes out in experimental sports cars like this with a 30kg bag of potting mix parcel taped onto the bonnet you are bound to get a few odd looks. Which we did.    I have also confirmed three things... One : The extra weight does indeed affect the steering somewhat, but not in a huge way. Enough though to lose the easy turning of the steering wheel with one hand and make the twistys more of an effort. Two : It was really noticeable how the extra weight mounted up high promoted extra roll at the front in corners. From this I have deduced through some clipboard scribblings and man maths that I will mount the next new engine below the bonnet line, as per original... Three : Brown parcel tape makes a sticky mess that nothing seems to touch easily. I now have vertical stripes on my front wings. (really, they should be called guards. But Blighty terminology eh) Now I have to spend some time cleaning the marks off to return the car back to its former glory! |
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Last Edit: Jan 25, 2018 20:54:03 GMT by yoeddynz
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Jan 25, 2018 21:10:01 GMT
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Well it looks like we all know where all of the CF's went NZ  |
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vulgalour
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Jan 25, 2018 23:26:08 GMT
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No Expense Engineering really is the best sort sometimes.
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kilroy
Part of things
Suit you sir...
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Loving the testing mode. I did something similar when looking for the ideal ride height on the 575 van. Nothing like empirical data..!  |
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Jan 29, 2018 17:55:02 GMT
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Should see how low my coon wags sits with 600kg of bagged grain in the back.
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vulgalour
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Jan 29, 2018 18:07:07 GMT
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coon wags? What's a coon wags?
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Coon is shorthand in NZ for a Ford Falcon. Fal'coon' Not Raccoons and nothing racist! :-) Ken! I'm loving the Marina testing. Here, have a photo of a local Marina van owned by a friend, happily side by side with my wagon surrounded by local Marahau hippys....  |
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Last Edit: Jan 31, 2018 19:07:25 GMT by yoeddynz
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Jan 31, 2018 17:47:39 GMT
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Three : Brown parcel tape makes a sticky mess that nothing seems to touch easily. I now have vertical stripes on my front wings. (really, they should be called guards. But Blighty terminology eh) Now I have to spend some time cleaning the marks off to return the car back to its former glory! you need (REEEALY NEED) to get some of this.. www.amazon.co.uk/Solv-Sticky-Stuff-Remover-100/dp/B00M36W1XS/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1517420446&sr=8-2&keywords=sticky+stuff+remover+spray .. if its available over there. its a very long time since I have been impressed by a product but this is brilliant. it is a spray gel and a little goes a very long way and works on vertical surfaces. it only needs a few seconds to loosen most stickyness! |
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Jan 31, 2018 19:08:47 GMT
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Cool- yeah the fellas on Oldschool.co.nz have also recommended a few things including de-solv it citrus based stuff which should do the job. Cheers.
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I will soon be entering the OCD zone. I am preparing for an afternoon of much deliberation and careful planning. It wont be perfect and will end up getting changed over time but I have to start somewhere. 'Start what though' you say?... Organising my boot is what, for I have 'compartmentalised' my boot floor area. I have been planning this job for ages and looking forward to it. Since getting the car back on the road the various tools, jack, spares have been rattling about in the back, wedged with towels so they don't slide across side to side when taking corners at great speed (20mph..). Without a false floor in place it meant that the level of the folded down rear seat was higher than the current floor. This is just unsatisfactory and will not do! Hannah had already made a lid for the battery box so that was sorted now. No batteries will be falling out when we do barrel rolls for laughs. So to the floor. Take one sheet of hardwood ply. Mark out. Cut. Trial fit. Mark again. Cut again. Trial fit. Mark some more...cut again...... I ended up with this nice level floor...  With little compartments which I can now carefully compile tools, jack and spares and then stow them neatly away into...  Hannah has been painting the old floor and we'll put some sound deadening down before the plywood goes back in for good. Then last week NZ got hit by a cyclone. Lots of damage on the west coast where the storm came across from the Tasman sea. The low pressure system combined with a very high king tides caused by a close moon. Add some very very high winds into the mix and you get stuff like this along the West coast, near Punakaiki and further south near Fox Glacier    We came off fairly lightly at our local beach 3 km down the road. There is normally a nice wee beach over to the left of this photo...  Not far from crossing the main road in...  With the horrid weather that morning Hannah decided to drive rather than ride her treadly. I got a phone call 5 minutes later... "the car has stopped... its just cut out. Now the battery is dead" I drove down in the van with another battery and found her in the Viva with waves lapping at the wheels. It wasn't full tide yet and the waves were coming in quick. Most of the places along the front there got waves into their yards later on.  We pushed it up the road, swapped the battery and it started straight away. I suspect one of the big salty puddles Hannah drove through splashed over the dizzy and shorted it out. Then with a couple of minutes to dry off from engine heat it was fine again. Further up the road she had to drive it through a 30 meter section a foot deep of seawater. Poor little car! So when it returned home, storm now past, I spent a good deal of time giving the whole car a good rinsing off...  Then wd40 into any areas I deemed they needed it. This all reminded me so much of the days spent in the UK with my Rx3 where I would carefully hose it all down after a winter drive if they had salted the roads. The car would never seem to dry out at all in winter though. I don't miss road salt. Not one bit! |
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vulgalour
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Liked for the rescue, not for the saltwater!
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Gee, you guys had all the fun & games, down here pretty much a non event.
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