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not in a Z, but the local garage where I used to live have taken a Holden 308 V8 (chev smallblock) powered Kingswood ute and changed the drivetrain to a Toyota Hilux (4runner) 4wd. There are adapters out there already to do the SBC into the Hilux engine bay, so doing a Hilux driveline on a SBC is simple reverse engineering (or not so simple )

I've heard roumers he's a scandinavian rally driver, but there's a lot of them! Makkinen maybe?

I wonder if you could flex them into shape then weld the spiral between the edges of the strips to make them solid?

you'll have to change your 8.36 sig line

BFG Wrangler A/T All Terrain - pricey but last well. Firestone RMT (NZ Made you may not get stateside but there will be other firestones available) Mud and hardcore offroad - cheap & nasty but work well. Coopers (Aussie brand you may not get) street and AT, cheap and last for ages with good grip.

My Serena has a fibreglass strip that looks like it doubles as a spring and control arm.

1982 Misubishi Galant Sigma, 2L I4 engine. pic courtesy of the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Galant#Fourth_generation Was alright, I'm not a fan of Mitsubishi motors, but it did fine for a student in 2000 until I made a 150Km trip, got lost and drove around, stayed over up there and came south again a couple of days later, as it turns out with a dry auto box... it wouldn't move the next time I wanted to go somewhere. Cost $900 After that I got a Nissan Laurel Medallist. L20E engine, electric everything, top of the line flash car with all the bells and whistles a 1983 car could be expected to have.

Try walking into a bank that does Visa and asking about Visa's pre-pay credit cards. you buy a card that acts like a debit card in that you have to have it paid up with cash, but can be used over the phone or internet like a credit card. Here in NZ they're called Prezzy cards. short for Present cards. with the rise of the internet and online shoipping VISA is tapping the online buying by offering a credit card you can buy with cash over the counter and use without having to be older then the local legal contract limit to sign up a credit account.

As I understand them (Still waiting for the article to load so I may be repeating their conclusions) they are powered by the electrics, which comes from the alternater, which puts a drag on the motor and robs power that could be being sent to the rear wheels... and the power added by the electric fan raising boost is less than the loss of power by the larger alt needed dragging on the engine! Very Rice IMHO.

that looks like something that's to go through the Taupo 1000 rally

Buy some el cheapo 10c bolivian cigars and pull the paper rings off them, pull the rings off the cubans and post the cuban packaging and rings to your home address in the states, put the el cheapo rings on the cubans and stick them in the el cheapo packaging. give the cheap cigars away to the street beggers and take the cubans home declared as el cheapos, open your mail and swap the packaging when you are at home and give the cubans to your boss. problem solved, now if you will excuse me, I think some US Customs and excise chaps are members on here so I'll just go and make sure I can't be extradited for fomenting revlution with a Cuban Cigar Party, the Boston Tea Party was enough for you chaps.

It's been a long time since I read the article and I only skimmed, but I believe the Arisaka survived a compressed load of PISTOL powder. heres another look at them http://www.carbinesforcollectors.com/arisaka.htm the 6.5 and the 7.7 were BOTH extremely strong, the reputation of the 6.5 breaking would likely have been from the italian designed Type I in 6.5x50r which was bought during the Japanese chinese invasion before Europe started WWII. Those were a Caracano split breech design and were made to order in Italy for the Japanese army much like England in WWI had american factories make the P14 for the home guard and rear echelon forces since the British factories were full out making SMLE's for the regular forces. http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.php?action=printpage;topic=42665.0 Title: Re: Rookie Ballistics question 7.62mm VS 7.7mm Post by: hoplophile on September 06, 2008, 09:10:06 AM One more little gem of info about the Arisaka action's strength. There's a documented story about a former GI who had his Type 38 (6.5 X 50) re-chambered to .30-06. Somehow the bore diameter difference was overlooked in the makeover, and when he fired it up he said it kicked like a mule. No other ill effects were noted except a sore shoulder. He later noted discrepancy and stopped using it. Imagine the pressures generated in squeezing a .308 bullet down a .264 bore, and not just once but many times!!!!! As I understand, the NRA procured the rifle from him and did their own round of testing with it, and the same results were noted....also with no damage to the rifle. I don't recommend trying this one out yourself, but just wanted to put a little extra weight on the scales in favor of a very strong and remarkable design.

the worst injury I have had playing with cars was bad concussion, nicks, cuts and minor scrapes is just part of playing with tools. Anyhow I was under the car removing a starter motor when I had this overwhelming urge to sneeze, now I'm sure you fellas know that when you sneeze there are a lot of involuntary muscle movements involved that you can't really consciously control. I was under a chocked and jacked up FWD car from the front, changing a starter motor mounted on the side to the rear of the engine bay, I wiggled out when the urge started but didn't make it all the way out. the sneeze was one hell of a big one and I doubled up, my forehead actually left a dent in the sump and I had a goose egg and a split in the skin up just behind the hairline

The arisaka rifles are actually the STRONGEST bolt action military weapon of WWII, even better then the P14/M17 actions which were a magnum mauser action modded for military use. There was a wildcat cartridge maker named Ackley who tested actions to the destruction point to work out how hot he could load custom cartidges in those actions, the Arisaka took one hell of a beating to break.

He already has a camera just not close at hand I know the feeling, I have a reloading set out with a friend myself and have gotten a new load recipie I'm looking at buying a new powder and trying

if you ask around and can find someone with a wallhanger who doesn't shoot their '03, maybe you can swap your wallhanger for his shootable one? try asking on forums like the Jouster Springfield forum.

Shitloads of the smelly buggers! come on over and help thin the numbers theres lots around the King Country, same for pigs, and south through the Wanganui /inland Taranaki region even more pigs and plenty of deer. DOC (Dept of Conservation, like your forest rangers) reguarly pays proffessional cullers to head through and try to lower the numbers, and they're happy to give out hints and tips as to where to find then, since the more shooters, the less they have to pay cullers So come on over and bring some cash to our economy, and have some fun with the wild animals No closed seasons, easy temporary firearms import permits + visitors licences, free Public land hunting permits... it's a grand place to live If you are here in the Roar, the most popular areas are balloted to avoid excessive mumbers of buck fevered itchy trigger fingers in the area, but the vast majority of the county is open to all.

Theres not a lot that can go wrong with a Noisy Maggot, like the British Smelly they're simple, basic, robust weapons designed to work and keep on working no matter what happens. I've a 1940 SMLE which is my main hunting weapon, the 10 round mag is good on feral goats, allowing one to bomb up the mob rather than having to pick out a few desirable targets, just slaughter the vermin before they get close to the dairy herd and start messing up the breeding plans they're also so damn simple that if the scope is a reputable brand that won't shift POI, you can chuck them across a stream or down a bank so you can manuver without something in your hands or hanging off your back to get entangled. the 7.62x54R is a pretty good cartridge, for most hunting it doesn't give much away to a .308 unless the range is getting long, much like the .303 too (Which the russians knew as the 7.7x56R)

How common are they in the pick n pulls and junkyards over stateside? I'm looking for one to fit a Hilux with a toyota 3y-j engine but got to thinking about a quad set on the rover V8 I have. like the pics below: The last couple wouldn't be too difficult for a decent engineering shop to copy, with a inlet manifold to copy a flange off and the bases of the carbs to make a flange off, then just bend and weld some tubing for the runners. But downdraft twin throat carbs aren't that common here, the ford pinto wasn't sold in NZ and the other good source for them, the 60-80 Fiats ditto. so, how hard would it be to get someone in the states to trip around the junkyards and collect a matching set of 70's pinto carbs? Am I dreaming, and pintos are all rusted and gone already, or are there oodles around?

it's pretty obvious what that is, a hot rodded snowmobile

damn right it will, look at the blade, they are rotating anticlockwise, while a record rotates clockwise. add the two together and you have the turntable providing a bit more apparent velocity to the equation enabling the chopper to take off sooner, assuming the pilot isn't dizzy and try and take off in a loop-the-loop maneuver ending up splashed across the scenery

you mean the one on the left of this image that was in the google ads at the bottom of the page here?

needs a computer with speakers, microphone and a reasonable up/down bandwith, or a voip phone hooked up to a computer. a little hard to use sitting at a cafe and wanting to send a txt to someone

*bows* that was me glad someone liked it

go to the Argentinian ebay equivalent (google will help) and buy a used cheap prepay phone, and use that