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Jun 15, 2018 19:25:19 GMT
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Hey cool. Welcome to nz (well.. when you get here..) If you've not already joined I must then insist that you check out oldschool.Co.Nz it's just like here but without the swear filters. All great folk with a fair few expats in the mix.
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Last Edit: Jun 15, 2018 19:26:56 GMT by yoeddynz
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Does no rego mean it has to be certified? What does that entail normally, it is a pain in the ass or something worse? Rego is like road tax in Britain. If you have your car untaxed and off the road then, just like in Blighty, you have to have it sorn'd (which here in NZ is called putting the 'Rego on hold') If you don't put the rego on hold you'll get a letter or email after one year warning you to do so or pay the rego back up to date. After two years without it being on hold the rego lapses and the car can not be re-reg'd without being 're-vinned' and first going through a more stringent WOF (mot) test..much like any new import has to go through when it first gets rego'd in NZ. The re-vin aspect is the car getting a new VIN number. This test is a tougher thing to pass, depending on how officious your tester is. They can and will be far more picky about any form of rust, brakes, suspension components etc. Seatbelts may often have to be re-new'd or changed to suit newer standards plus depending on the year of your car you may be required to fit a highstop stop light in the rear window. You'll lose the nice old black and silver plates and get ugly modern white plates (like my Viva wagon has because its been re-vinned at some point after its rego must have been allowed to lapse) So in a nut shell... its better to keep the rego on hold, or if buying a car to restore make sure its rego is on hold. It can make or break a car sale, especially if the car has quite a bit of rust. 'Plates and tags' is a term used when locating a Vin number and matching set of license plates that are on hold- then using them on your project to make life easier. Illegal...but hey..its just an old car eh. So I am after a live set of plates and tags for the green Imp now :-)
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Jun 13, 2018 23:22:55 GMT
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Sadly not. Yeah it is solid. Just oiled all the seams etc. It's out in the sun warming up. Cut a hole in each sill at the back and released all the dirt build up so itll dry up. Inner sills look great.
Ill keep a look out for some plates and tags that are on hold.
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Jun 12, 2018 19:38:22 GMT
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Plenty of tricky welding for the new owner, Greg, to carry on with too :-) he's new to it all so will be a steep learning curve but what a cool car to rescue.
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Jun 12, 2018 19:35:49 GMT
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Yeah it's quite cool eh. Will work well with a light blue exterior and the black front seats I think.
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I'm sorry Ken... Moss is now removed. So where was I ? Well some might remember ages ago, a long, long time ago when I still had a V6 Viva,that mentioned I was going to sell it and if so I wouldn't mind an Imp project. Well last August hannah and I had gone to the Oldschool Hanmer get together and after the meet we went along to a large collection of classic cars an old boy had been collecting until he died. It was there that I had spotted this wee fella... After lots of in-decisions, plus getting another two Imps since then, this one ended up on the back of a trailer on Saturday morning and did a little trip north... Thanks very much to those involved in making this happen. Thanks to Will for collecting it from the yard, along with many other Imp bits (hopefully he might well yet get into an Imp project one day and when this one is finished he'll get a drive so hopefully he'll see what the fuss is about) Also big thanks to Greg for bringing the Imp up for me. Props to Bart, I think, who spotted one of the strops had broken and saved a potentially nasty incident. So it arrived and I sat inside it, beer warming my belly and pondered what new mess I had acquired... Before the guys went on their way back south, Datsun in tow, they helped me push the Imp up to the Imp 'Lichen removal' area... So it sat as I mixed up some warm water and car shampoo... As I cleaned it up an old rego label appeared dated 1985-1986... It looked a fair bit better with all the Lichen removed. Although no all the rust was better evident .... The inside (great head lining which was one of the reasons I wanted it) was filled with extra interior bits and even included a rats nest too. How lucky. I quite like the dated 'Jazzergetics-fitness the fun way' sticker.... I moved the car inside and started the empty out. Good score on a red and black set of seats and door cards. Great condition. It looks like someone had previously removed the door cards, made new hardboard backs and were obviously intending to fit them into either this Imp or another. I'm happy that they'll get used :-) I think they'll look really good against the black mx5 front seats I have bought for the car. Another good score was this fine example of a '90s kettle... So that evening the Imp sat, all clean and dry, probably wondering what was to become of itself.. I was wondering too. I thought it would be a wise idea to pop it up on the hoist and see what it was like underneath. Turns out its really solid from the front to the back until you get to the rear arches. The outer sills are shot but the inner sills, floor area are great. In fact the outer sills are still intact along the very bottom but would still need replacing. The floors are solid! No rust. The front end is really good too. The worst rust is the entire rear end, from the bottom up to the swage line. The rear seat area is solid but the parcel shelf is even worse than the other one. I have learned from that and if I was to do anything with this shell that will be cut right out first. So there we have it. Another potential shell to be rescued but for now it will be plundered for anything that I might need to complete the other one. Apart from the pedal box having been nicked by someone its complete. I have already removed the following for IMP ONE.. The gearstick and choke lever/cable. The throttle pedal and cable. The hand brake and cables. I'll be taking the headlining at some point, the dash, heater, gauges, wiring, lights. So it'll end up as a stripped out rolling shell. I think between the solid rear end and sills of the race car and the really good front end of this a good shell could be made. But I'll wait until I see what Imp one is like to drive before I make any more decisions on what might happen with this one. i might just stash it away in a friends shed for the future. Or maybe flick everything remaining off for someone else to take on as a project. I shall ponder this in the future. Nothing wrong with having a spare Imp up your sleeve
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Last Edit: Jun 12, 2018 10:24:57 GMT by yoeddynz
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Its been a cold winter for some. We had one day last week where it only got to about 14 degrees in the middle of the day- which might seem not that cold but when we are used to quite regular sunny winter days where it can reach 18-20 degrees its quite a shock. Glad we have a wood burner in the shed now. It actually works quite well!
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Jun 11, 2018 23:42:53 GMT
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I think its more up to Greg, the new owner to keep it up :-) I must get him to join up to RR!
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Jun 11, 2018 22:41:18 GMT
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Yes to banded steels and shiny hubcaps. Then some decent tyres.
But I would say that.
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Jun 11, 2018 22:23:39 GMT
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Well the weekend just gone saw the end of my part in this Datsun restoration. It has now been passed over to its new owner Greg. More of that soon. First though, let me show you some photos of my final bit of work before the budget pulled its purse strings. I filled in a section of floor alongside the inner sill so making the area strong again. I left the inner edge unwelded because Greg will bechopping out the section of rotten floor that meets it later on and adding more steel. In order to make the chassis rail decent enough to lift the car without a jack going through the floor I had to sort out this mess... Interesting note.. the rails are different shapes side to side. The passenger side rail has more of a taper. Not that it really matters that much but I tried to copy the original shape as close as I could make out from what was left. Luckily the passenger rail was solid as so it just received a vaccuum out. Greg can fill it with penetrating wax once he's finished the car. Repairs in pictures.. Por 15'd the inside of the rail before continuing. Bought some thicker steel sheet from engineering company in town. Done. Greg can continue on with the floor repairs around it. My final task was to finish off the end of the sill near the a pillar. But once I started welding stuff in there it didnt seem rigt. I ended up chopping out a whole load more up the pillar back to decent steel. Again- in pictures... And that was that. I left the suspension off for Greg to fit so he would have decent chance to scrape underseal off around the chassis when he arrived. The next day a group of Oldschoolers turned up, Greg with a very fine wee car in tow. A rusty Imp swap for a not so rusty Datto? Yeah OK.. We unloaded the Imp, got the fire going in the shed, cranked the music up and drank beer. Greg scrapped underseal off the Datsun and then later on he got some slightly drunken welding advice from me, photo taken by Nick J who sat and watched laughing.... Fun was had. Sharns were thrown about in numerous amounts by Bart and Will, the BBQ was wheeled in and much meat was cooked, Sam drew some dick pics on my white board, Kevin the cat got lots of cuddles and the fire did roar. The following morning people woke hazily and started to move. Greg moved in the direction of his new toy, it still not having any suspension, steering or wheels. In a blur of groggy movement the wee Datto got its legs back and was loaded on Gregs trailer... Final photo before it left for its new home in Christchurch (the Datsun capital of NZ)... Greg sent me a photo later that evening after a long drive home.. So I now hereby hand the mighty Datsun 120Y resto over to Greg.....
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Jun 10, 2018 20:11:18 GMT
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Yeah mine is a nice little welder for the money and I'm very happy with it. I think it was only about £350.
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Three of the little buggers. I was offered a forth complete but rusty car to come up with this one for £25 but I have enough now. Another fella on oldschool forum is gonna take it.
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This turned up last night Watched over by Kevin the cat... I'll post up more once its cleaned.
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Last Edit: Jun 9, 2018 20:56:19 GMT by yoeddynz
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I love fulvias and I love seeing rotten cars getting rescued so this ticks my boxes Good workmanship going on here! Please keep the updates coming. It is a shame that photo bucket has ruined many a good resto thread because Steve's fulvia thread was full of great info.
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Without having to trawl back through 14 pages.. what does the brass door chime button do? I like the quote.
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Could it be the ring gaps are too little?
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May 29, 2018 20:58:13 GMT
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Cool. So you say the driveshafts have a built in damper? How so? I can see the spring to help keep them extended, I guess to stop the inner axle from falling out of the diff head. But is there some sort of torsional damper built into the splined section?
Those top hats are so simple and clean. I presume the damper shaft length is the same so do you use check straps to stop the springs from dislodging at the top when the wheel drops over a light 'jump' sort of thing or when the car is jacked up?
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May 29, 2018 11:27:32 GMT
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Ooooohhhhh- tell us more about those driveshafts? re they datsun based? If you don't have the rubber doughnut couplings how are you taking up the shock loads - have you changed over to a sprung centre clutch disc? I like them top hats too!!! Great car- I have seeing classic cars evolve constantly on this forum
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May 28, 2018 20:51:24 GMT
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ooooh yes. I have used those in the past. But not very flexible for tight areas and quite aggressive.
What I'd like to see is a wire cup wheel where the strands are held together by weld within the cup, rather than just relying on a crimp. So they wear down rather than fly out.
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May 26, 2018 19:17:21 GMT
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I use aluminium for that. But it's only if you can get behind the panel.
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