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I dig the salad shooter spinning rims.

BTM?

Hmm. Creepy. Strangely enough looking at the mad squat on that notch in your Avatar kind of reminds me of that midget now.....

Well said Red.

Only way to roll man. Only way to roll. Nothing like walking out of the crazy horse at 6 am.....

You could put a seal kit through it and get it honed for a cheaper alternative to sleeving.

There's always loads and loads of people wanting to buy, but actually fronting up with cash is a whole different story....

There was a porsche gt1 for sale years ago, unpainted, just that dirty yellowing translucent colour of kevlar. As for Volvo wagons, this thing is maniacal. 600 HP. Amazons are cool cars.

Steel ones wont dissolve, Brass ones may also be fine BUT - for arguments sake, we are talking about 2 dollar parts; theres about 7 of them in a K series block, of varying sizes, by my conservative overestimate, it will cost you 15 dollars to do them. And to be honest, you would be CRAZY to rebuild a whole engine from scratch and not replace the welsh plugs. Not really a problem for you as it's an OHC motor, but K engines and other pushrod motors need to have the camshaft bearings replaced as the hot dipping eats that out.

Imps are wicked, there's a great one that used to get to all the track days in victoria, like PI and Sandown. Maroon. Very cool. Renault Alpines:

Or you could burn your AE71 to keep warm in these cold, cold evenings! :y:

Yeh, the roller rocker thing is really aiming at the high end market where you need to try get that .5% power increase to get that competitive edge. I wouldn't worry about it with the milleaux of other useful, significant and cheaper mods available out there. A Cam grind will give you the things you desire, like faster valve acceleration and greater lift anyway, and that will cost you 100 bucks!

The point about the MSD is a good idea though - I'd run the Crane Cams Hi-6 over the MSD 6AL, its a digital unit (vs Analog in the MSD's), cheaper, and has a much nicer in built rev limiter setup too.

Too true too true.

Where is it leaking from? From the threaded fitting? The price is steep, shopping around will always save you money. Last one I had, from my tee piece on the diff to my right drum cost me 7 bucks with new ends.

Well, you'd try that at least before you go all out on a half baked coilover setup. ;)

+1 for Mk1 Cortinas, especially the 2 door. +1 for the 356, but I'm a Coupe man through and through. And as for the Escort, Mk1 though, RS1600: And this Hino Contessa I found on the web the other day is off its chops:

All boxes are the same length, so your tailshaft should fit fine. The Gearshifter on the KE70 version of the gearbox is further back than the standard KE55 gearbox, so it will not be stock and I'd suggest you need to cut the hole in the right spot. You may also need some mods to your crossmember, I'm not sure if its the KE55 or the KE30 that needs the mod. You will find it quite hard to find the KE55 5 speed, they are much less common.

I would say 1500-2500. The car looks to be reasonably straight but the paint isn't great. I would have thought a good cut and polish should bring it up nicely and if you get it roadworthied and clean it all up you should be able to get 2500 I would have thought. I'm not a passionate investor in KE25's though.

Raven's right, if you're going to do it, do it properly. The leaf/coil idea is pretty sketchy.

65 buick riviera's, bagged. 65 was the only year with the hidden headlights as well so they're even cooler. And of course, a tough looking 911 is always high on my list:

A Model Coupes

Yeh mate, Keep hammering and get her finished!

WHat years were they built? 70-73? It would be in that range, the Toyoglide would have been present all through the range.

It's been in the making for a long time. GM sold off their biggest profit maker years ago, which was the GM Finance portion of the business. The best performing brand they had underneath them was Corvette, but hey, it fills a niche market. Another fundamental problem, who was one of their biggest competitors???..... ...? Themselves. Just think about it for a moment. At present, their active brands include Cadillac, Buick, Pontiac and up until 2004, Oldsmobile. All brand names are synonymous with medium to large sedans, spanning the standurd to luxury range with a few variations within each brand. Not only that but they were all building cars whilst paying no attention to changes in market trends. Why has Toyota gradually managed to eat up a large portion of GM's market share? Because people have been feeling the pinch of rising petrol costs and the cost of owning and running larger cars. Yeh, I know, americans don't care, they love their massive cars BUT.... The figures prove otherwise. It's a dog eat dog, capitalist world. If you can't sell what the customers want to buy then it's over. And the writing has been on the wall for them for years.....