Felix

thats a nice looking score. :P regarding the seatbelts go HERE and have a look: find your part number and contact your nearest Klippan seatbelt stockist. you might get lucky.

$350 just for a sensor Oz DIY Wideband Meter

yes, ideally you want wideband. how much is that going to cost you? :P

get yourself a Digital Fuel Mixture Display Kit and watch what your mixtures do. i have one of these in my car now for carb tuning, although the DSE version. it is very good.

now thats pretty cool: Digital Fuel Adjuster Hand Controller for Digital Adjusters

you would be better going to a bypass flow toilet roll type filter, used in conjunction with your standard filter. they filter out particles down to 1 micron, whereas standard spin-on full flow elements are only good down to 20 microns. this extends oil change periods, and cuts down on engine wear. http://www.filtertechnology.com.au/applica.../AUTOMOTIVE.HTM Becs mum has one on her car, a very well setup immaculate gemini wagon. car also has HEI kit and moreys upper cylinder lube kit and has only had genuine holden parts used where possible. she runs synthetic and changes the oil once a year. it is a pain to change the bypass filter, as it is very tight and hard to force into the housing. the replacement elements look like toilet rolls.

i'd rather a 36 year old car. the ke10s have less rust than ke70s :P

with all the crap everywhere the pic is obviously a ke70. how did the block off plate on the exhaust manifold hold out? i tried that years ago before i went to extractors and found it impossible to keep sealed for any length of time. a set of SU's would be nice.

they'll melt it down and recycle it into a new car which will rust out twice as fast. scary how the newer the car the faster the onset of rust.

we've got 4 of the ke10 series now. 1 ke15 sprinter coupe driver 1 ke16 wagon driver 2 ke10 sedans the ke15 and ke16 are daily drivers. the new ke10 is getting work for club rego, and the other ke10 had to go out to my parents to keep the real estate happy (rental property). i know of 2 other ke10s i would like to acquire. also out at my parents are 3 HQ holdens of ours. 1 one tonner and 2 sedans, 1 crashed and 1 parts car. we are doing up the ute. need to strip and get rid of the 2 sedans one of these days. make room for more ke10s :) we own 7 cars :P for a total age of around 239 years..... they don't make em like they used to.

the wheels and flares don't suit the shape or styling of the car at all. would suit the square styling of a ke70 better. the mirrors :P i don't mind the small scoop or the front lip. is that harlequinn paint or just a green pearl over the top? maybe it's just the lighting.

yea i don't know. would be best to check with mainroads i guess. i saw what Ben stated in the PDF for conditional rego: Conditional Registration Code OL3 - 4.4.3 Registration Limitations - OL "OL3 - The registered operator must be a member of an authorised motoring club and the vehicle must only be used in conjunction with an authorised club event, or for testing purposes within 15km of home address." i might give Peter a call tonight and ask him what he is running. Rob, Datgirl, what type of rego do you guys run on your competition cars?

our other dog lives for playing fetch with the ball or passionfruit. she's funny, she can make a game of fetch with a tiny pathetic bit of chewed up tennis ball about 2 cm square. she gets annoying after a while. Spud is to young to read yet. he is already into cars and has been helping me work on the ke10. sorta. he gets under my feet and chews my ankles which bloody hurts, and tries to drink the water when i was flushing the radiator and has been shitting on the concrete under the carport.....although i seem to be winning a little by encouraging him to do it on the grass or on the dirt. Spud is certainly going to try and get big and strong, i've never seen a pup eat so hard! like watchin a shark feeding frenzy :P his dad was about the size of a rotty, but more muscly, and less fat looking. mega solid. very friendly and placid with the owners around, although i don't think i'd walk into their yard uninvited.

actually they both look relevant. the one Fook mentioned is for vehicles 30 years and older, but the one Ben mentioned has pretty much the same driver limitations but doesn't require a safety certificate. will have to check with Peter to see what he is running for sure. the conditional rego stands out in my mind though....will check.

beautiful looking piece of machinery. i sorta think maybe the small intake ring (thing) is a restrictor. probably a class requirement to help level the playing field. much the same as for certain classes of rally cars.

definately.... my missus just about peed herself laughing.

meet our new puppy, Spud. he is a bullmastiff/great dane/ridgeback cross. he's just over 6 weeks old. check out the head on him. kids come up with good names for animals. he is a very confident little dog, he is already beating up our 5 1/2 month old kitten Busta. it is so funny to watch. Busta whacks him on the head and Spud doesn't even register it. the poor kitten doesn't know what to do, meanwhile Spud's ripping fluff off of him. he's a unit. :P

that's the one :P

what are the bushes and shockies like? i'd say urethane bushes and stiffer valved shocks would probably minimise it a lot. the earlier cars axle tramp mainly due to leaf spring windup.

Ben you should get club rego on your '20 and give it a good thrashing on the weekends at motorsport events :P you can further develop it to suit your needs as you go along and funds permit. at least then you can go hard and not worry about crashing/breaking your everyday road car. Peter said it cost him $90 for 6 months club rego on his '20 race car. that's what i'm going to get on my '10 once i get it up and running properly.

it's spirit still lives on, in the form of parts in your car. :P you'll have room for another car now. what are you getting?

in my catch can i get very little oil. mainly a little grotty water. moreso after a lot of rain. i have drilled out the PCV valve and run the hose to my catch can (an old 1liter thinners tin with a foam filter around the top). the other line from the rocker cover goes into the base of the ramflo air filter. i now am running an O2 sensor and a DSE Fuel Mixture Display unit. made setting up my 32/32 DGV a breeze. you can see what is actually happening with the mixtures, rather than guessing what your jetting should be. now has better response and drivability than quite a few EFI cars i've been in down low. the DGV carb rebuild kit i bought about a month ago cost $40. it was a basic Fuel Miser kit, and had no power valve actuator, which i had to buy afterwards. it had a pinhole in the diaphram. nick, maybe a bit of your fuel smoke under heavy acceleration is a bit of oil. done a compression test recently?

a few years ago, my brother had a burnt exhaust valve in the 4k in his ke30 he had at the time. i just stripped the head off, and got an exhaust valve out of another head i had laying around. using a drill (on the stem) and some coarse grinding paste i ground the valve and seat in. a bit rough, but cheap, simple and effective. cost like $40 for a VRS kit and that was it. ran like a charm until he took it off the road around 2 years later. i wouldn't do it for an engine if you are after performance. for a dunger you don't want to spend money on it is fine. only costs like $100 to get a machine shop to do a valve job and face the head. that is providing you give them the head clean and dismantled. ie. just the bare head with only the valves sitiing in it. if you do most of the work yourself you can save quite a few $$$

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Fook will be the next Flynn :P