Toy-Yoda

I like this little rolla :) anything that can get me in trouble inside of 5 minutes is something special...... This thing is proper fun too, and an epic base for a project, in fact, I'll prove how much fun it is....... See? I approve :y: The officer was very lenient, asked me what excuse I had, I tell him that I could say it was an accident, but he wouldn't believe me anyway, that and it'd be a lie....... He seemed to like that response...... I'm gonna guess it's all on pretty soon then Banshee?

Erm, no.

Ok, so the throttle cable was popping off the linkage if I stomped the loud pedal a bit too quick, now remedied thanks to a pair of washers and a stripped nut..... The exhaust outlet points down now, instead of pointing at the passenger side shock absorber, can only be a good thing....... Dumps to the road, just before the diff, still quieter than the van was, but I can live with it thanks to the sweet sound of the webers induction noise..... I think that makes me ready for this weekends cruise...... :D

Hehe....... Good thing you hate those hubbies......

Man up........ :D /Jk

Fun

I think he meant jump Mud....... Keen on another trip to beaky, I'll sort out something soon, yeah? We have found a new spot for time trials too...... :D

Oh yeah, *update* The brakes work now....... And it rips a fair skid too......

Saw this just outside of Devonport early this morning (technically yesterday), very very clean little rolla, anyone on here? I think the poor bugger must have been wondering what the hell was going on with some random muppet in a coon crawling all over the car at highway speeds trying to get a clear shot........ :) Licence plate edited just in case the owner doesn't want his plates splashed all over the interwebz

Today I found the Top Gear Australia Production Office........ OMG, I just worked out how to re-size these massive bastard photo's!!

Hunny

Stevie Wonder

horse?

Trojan

About bloody time you registered here....... <insert warm greetings and general happiness here> And that coon in your avatar ain't yours...... it's too nice :P

You suck at explaining stuff :lol:

Huh? Who? Wasn't me, mine came with the van........

Wouldn't be anyone I know......... :) May be taking you up on this Si, need to do a diff swap or brake swap on the rear end soonish........

:) Yeah, string (rope really, just thin, old, crap rope), it worked though...... Engine is now in and running, all bolted together and probably drivable, YAY! No reverse lights as the connectors are different and I'm crap at wiring, will get a mate to do it later....... The last part of the bloody exhaust from the van didn't fit, and it's quieter than it was on the van without it's hotdog....... Will rectify once some bills are out of the way...... Bring the noise! Need to fix the brake seal thing soon so I can drive it, but not planning on taking it far anyway as the exhaust is currently pointing directly at the passenger side rear shock absorber, that could end well......

Well, engine and box are in, slowed down all day due to the crane getting bogged every time we put weight on it :lol: Thanks for all the help Dan, appreciate it. :wink: Doing exhaust tomorrow, and hooking the engine up, and fixing the brake seal thingy that's stuffed...... Then I skid it till the diff pops..... :hmm: *Edit* Pics of damage to the van as promised...... This is where you can see into the car from the wheel well, it seems I hit hard enough to split that seam with the tire....... This one is the passenger side tie rod tube, proper bent. And this is an example of how NOT to jack up a car....... *don't lift cars up using string, kids, it's bad, mmmkay?*

Would have been funnier if you saw me doing it with a 3T hanging off the crane....... That was hell....... Cheers for the help sturge, don't think my back would have liked me if I tried to lift the bastard by myself....... Sleep now, spanners in the morning......

Engine crane is home, in one piece and ready to go, it's all on! :wink:

Very cool :lol: Well I went to bolt my shiny new engine crane together today, only to discover that there were no bolts supplied in the box(es) :wink: , a mildly miffed phone call later, and the shop I bought it from told me to bring it in and they would buy the bolts and assemble it for me too, so I'm ok with that...... They were very good about it, and very apologetic, couldn't ask for a nicer sales team, I'm impressed. Anyway, if all goes well, I'll have a new engine in tomorrow, pics to come!

Well I figure I better start a thread on this thing for two reasons, 1: I'm about to do some work to it 2: It's trying to kill me, so I may as well post it up before it gets the chance Ok, a few of you would have seen this thing at the recent cruise, it is the replacement for the Panel Van that found a ditch (found more stuff to take pictures of BTW, will get some tomorrow), and best of all, it was cheap. So I buy it unregistered, do some of the dodgiest ghetto repairs known to man, and get it registered, engine sounds like death but is surprisingly strong, radiator leaks, gearbox sounds like it wants to drop a cog or three, diff clunks n rattles and has some epic backlash, and the headlights point in two separate directions, so it's perfect for me....... However, just the other night it decided to run out of brakes as I was going into a busy intersection, pulled up in time thanks to my good friends "compression lock" and "hand brake", it seems that one of the seal things in the passenger side drum isn't much good and has allowed all my brake fluid to become someone elses skid assistant...... That plus all the noise it's emitting makes me think a new diff is in order...... The engine, rad, and gearbox from the van will be going in this weekend, maybe the diff as well, see how I go for time. Is it safe to run a diff in a car if it doesn't have traction brackets when the old diff did have them? The aim is to get it lower, sitting on some decent fat rubber, boosted and capable of taking some punishment..... I'll be updating as things move on, I plan to take my time and do a decent job of this (within reason, I'm going to build it to be driven hard, not look good) rest assured, this one won't see a ditch at least until the turbo goes on :wink: It's red, it's dirty, it's old and abused, but it's a Rolla and it's mine. :lol: Cheers, Yoda.

Nice work! You're not mucking about with this, good to see, keep it up...... :wink: