kiwi303

Hm, isn't that what I suggested way back in post 7?

I've done pretty much the same on an old (1940) SMLE barrel... came out shiny!

You would know better than those of us not in your state... go ask your local DMV, different states, different rules.

+ a GT-R I am told.

maybe Hertz Rental cars rent out lots of VW? Apple product placement ads?

maybe you need to cable tie some cardboard over the radiator so only 1/2 has air passage through during winter your cooling is TOO good.

Well, in NZ at least, LD28 diesel and Lxx petrol engines have different part codes and details for their pumps www.STAParts.co.nz Product Code : WPN-LD28 Description : Water Pump Nissan LD28 1984/10-86 Laurel 60mm from base to top of flange V3-037 Unit Price NZD : 52.98 Each (Incl Tax) WPN-05A Water Pump Nissan H20 20 L26 LD28 Z16 Z18 Z20 Z24 1969-On 66mm from base to top of flange Atlas Bluebird Civilian Skyline (Note: This Item is POA - You cannot add To shopping cart - please call or email for $$$) I've bolded the differences, so they aren't just the same pump used for both applications, I'm not going to buy any to have a look at the impeller tho, I'm off to China on Thursday and won't be around.

well if you have a 4bbl and want 11's, easy way out would be an off-the-shelf NOS kit, there are LOTs of the kits around that are set up to just bolt between a 4 barrel and it's manifold. All you would have to do is follow a Tab-A into Slot-B type install. Then once the blow through is settled and running well for on the street, you have an extra bit of boost to get you down the strip on time.

Cell phone use while driving is illegal here unless the operation is entirely Hands-Free. I.E. voice activated dialling and hands-free speakerphone kit, and txting while driving is flat out illegal.

Aussie being Aussie sounds right... Some whacko uses a semi-auto rifle to kill someone and instead of beefing up the mental health services to chase down whackos, the AU feds ban semi-auto anythings and beef up the police to chase down innocent gun owners. If the Napier shooting here in NZ when a nutso shot a cop and the army had to send in a LAV to cover the body recovery team had happened in Aussie, they wouldn't be allowed to own peashooters or waterpistols any more... Same attitude to cars and road deaths too, despite Aussie being home to FPV Australia and HSV, they're way tougher than NZ is on car safety and ownership... I pity them poor Aussies....

Or cosmolene and a paintbrush.

Pure Lanolin oil (sheeps wool oil) is another, very popular rust preventative here. Smells better than fish oil for the week or so the smell hangs around before wearing off.

Just today, on the Hilux I put a new water pump in as the old one was leaking around the shaft. Test drive down the 3Km road from the house to the gate to pick up them mail after hooking up the alt belt but before putting on the fan and radiator shroud, just in case I had to take it off again and look for another source of the water leak... Half way back and "Oh ****, did I take the fan bolts and shroud bolts off the top of the air filter housing before I drove off? Gotta raid the bolt bucket for some that fit. Missing a bolt and a nut...

That would have a hell of a cd number! like driving a wall! Should be pretty chilly in the engine bay with all that air movement at speed however

I went against the "JDM!" grain and got a set of used Boyd Coddington billet wheels for my motorless hulk. I liked the look and frankly, thats all that counts. What do YOU like?

What if there's a Z or Z bits in the U-haul?

r200 swap from a 280Z will do the diff. Trans... well, T5 or T56 are well covered on here. Search the Mustang club forums for cheap trans.

The big thing that jumps out at me in the post quoting the experiment with foaming... "Closed cell" Won't soak up and hold water...

You really had to say that didn't you! Now I have a sore side from laughing so hard as you reminded me of an incident in my youth... I was in the Cadets (sort of like your US JROTC, teenagers to young to enlist running around on army reservations with assault rifles and camo while army NCOs bark orders) while at high school, and one week excercise camp was on a farm off in the rural ***-wops. We had a full-day full packs forced march one day. Nearign the end with no more than a half hour back to base to knock off and rest at last, the squads hyperactive little ass (you know the sort, more pep and go than road-runner on meth, less brains than Wyle E Coyote in a drunken coma) came running back to the main squad from where he had been reconnitering out ahead. "Hey Corp, theres a fence up front, how do I tell it's electric, it looks electric" blah blah blah... The sarcastic response from the tired, cranky and footsore cadet corporal in charge of the squad (both corp and hyper were city boys, neither actually Knew what a bull strength fence does!) "Piss on it! you'll soon know!" The poor brainless hyperactive git was still on the ground when we reached him... Escuse me, I have to go lie down... laughing this hard is not good!

Steel bends, aluminium chips and cracks. A cop bodyshop can straighten a bent steel rim with a blowtorch and a hammer, but a cracked Ali rim is so much scrap going out with the beer cans to the smelter. Thats why tractors don't come with alloys!

I have a pair of NA RB20DE blues in the shed.

I wouldn't mind that job if I could get it with just a 3 month tech school course to pick up the cert that says i'm a legit trained welder Being shot at ain't the problem, it's being hit! So long as I can work behind a solid enough piece of landscape, I'm deaf enough not to hear and thus not to mind the Ka-Ziipppp! of bullets slinging past

Look at bus/motohome motors, unbolt the big bus arm and bolt on a smaller car arm, and many of them are 90 degree sweeps from vertical to horizonal.

Johnc.... Is that a maritime foghorn?