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Some pictures to amuse you then....

Hmmm...Shall we reek some Havoc???

Well it looks like the Rolln's are taking over rolla club today - seeing as there is only the two of us here... :( :tank: :D

Yep...and bugs, taz, speedy gonzalis, daffy, phantom, yosemite sam, sylvester, tweety, marvin the martian, road runner - we can also get sports plates, football plates, motor racing all which have several different designs in them...We can also get horoscope ones too... :D

I'm Sorry i mustnt understand it the way you do and i did read the entire write-up...I'll leave you to your thread Demuire...

MMMmmm... i do see your point - but i just feel that everybody has their own key to happiness - some people like cars others like flowers - so to find the key to happiness is really a bit silly because there is no real distinct key for everyone different things help different people - and happinees is not the only key to health - there is so much more - often the happy people are the ones who get cancer, have heart attacks and die suddenly - and i have two of those cases in my family alone... so from my point of view i guess i just wish that there was a better way for the more important things to be looked at rather than going off on tangants that are supposed to cure people...

Well the next thing we had to do was assemble an exhaust from the remnants of the old one (there is no way could have gotten home with being pulled over otherwise) with much sawing clamping and banging we put togehter half an exhaust to tone down the sound just enough to make it bearable and to stop everyone from thinking we were driving a badly tuned rotary...hehehe The best part of course was getting her home... 80ks along the highway fifty million cars banked up behind us and no overtaking lanes for another kilometer...hehehe and when we finally got to the overtaking lane Rolln03 decided to speed up a bit to strecth her legs...hehehe... Well we had to stop about 5 minutes out of Childers otherwise she would have been cooked as she was running hot on two thirds temperature - half an hour later and we were back on the road again... a couple more stops on the side of the highway and then we were on the home stretch...but about 10 minutes from town she got so hot we had to stop for about 45 minutes... then we ran into trouble...Once she'd cooled down a bit we decided to start off again - there wasnt far to go and we thought it would be smooth sailing - unfortunately for us that was a no can do...she would not start - wouldnt fire or click over or nothing...Rolln03 cracked the shits (we had a fight ) then when we were just about ready to start walking low and behold she started to cough over a little - a few more tries and we were up and running once more... So now she is home :D - we still have trouble turning her off but everytime she runs she gets better...This week its a new radiator and exhaust system for her and then on to the interior and the mags, the new paint job, bonnet, sound system, rust killing and the story goes on... :( If you have any comments feel more than free to add your say... :hug:

Well once everything was in..... Rolln03 forgot which way the coil was hooked up :( (luckily i had taken enough pictures to at least have one shot of it and we managed to hook it back up) then we tried to start her.... But she wouldn't click over...just uttered the most hideous sound - "CLICK" and then for some reason she wouldn't even turn over..... so we tried jump starting – numerous times, checked everything millions of times.... and finally got her to kick over, but then of course there was no spark, then there was no fuel, then when we finally got fuel and spark the darn thing didn't want to kick over!!! :D After a day of fiddling around we gave up and rolled the Rolla down to Rolln03's Dads place for storage for the next two weeks and came home...... Last weekend we started again.... first we towed the Rolla back up to Rolln03's brothers shed and - all refreshed with new extractors from wildcat, we got there and pulled off the inlet manifold, and took off the old extractors and replaced them with the brand new ones.... Then we checked every single wire, earth and power wire..... Pulled apart the terminals and filed them all...and finally first go she kicked over! YAY!!! But just because it happened once didn't mean it would happen again - Murphy's Law...grrrr :hmm: So wracking our brains we proceeded to check the timing - which was out...... so we reset it properly and BINGO!!! She finally started! And boy was she loud - the whole shed was vibrating and with no exhaust we all got rather high on the fumes...eeew.....hehehe =) (the reason we had no exhaust was because the other one was so rusted it basically snapped in two when Rolln03's brother was removing it to put on the first pair of extractors...) After all that - when it came to turning her on again she refused to keep running (without the accelerator on), so we ditched the standard carb, because we couldn't figure out where the anti - dieseling solenoid went.....and on went the WEBER..... After a quick tune and a couple of attempts at starting we were finally cooking with gas …time for a spin… :hug:

Sorry i should have edited that post - i don't love spending money on just anything or for just any reason - but if you give me car to spend it on - then i'll give you all my worth...or if you give me a reason to spend it on you - i will quite gladly... Rolln03 and I once had a fight because he wouldnt let me buy some 45mm side draft webers......fully rebuilt, polished, brand new ramflo filters and all linkages for $500 (the guy selling them would have lost out on 500 bucks just with the rekit) - he said that we couldnt afford it...meh... I would have more than happily bought them for him and not eaten for the next week I even threw a tantrum because he wouldnt let me...

Well here in QLD pp's range from about $155 for an upgrade - $425 for Business/Corporate plates- the prices get higher depending on how many letters you want and the most i have ever racked up when designing my pp's was $2450 YIKES!!! I am soo getting these for my baby though...$425 later...

Well, all went well with the pulling out of the old engine - there was the odd bolt or two that had seized up in its hole but aside from that there were no problems... We took the 4k out and stripped her of the necessary pieces - Alternator, alternator bracket Starter motor Weber dgv 32/36 carb + adaptor plate Old 4spd gearbox - for now anyway Old radiator - till end of week We had trouble with the engine mount on the drivers side - as it was too small, so the old one was reused, the standard carb was ditched for the Weber and the old 4spd gearbox was mounted to the 5k. Other than the engine mount, the only other problems that had appeared were that the fan belt was WAY to big, so a smaller new one was fitted. also, when mounting the gearbox, the engine backing plate was getting in the way - so the old - chop, chop, hack, hack system was used to line everything up... :D

Interesting Yes...Beneficial No... Well i think that all those people must be sad, self-obsessed and inactive because they are studying "happiness" Why is it that scientists have to always know why things happen, why are we happy, why are we sad??? Why can't we just be??? these things and not have some lunatic studying the genetics behind it - it seems to me that soon we will know so much about ourselves that we will not have feelings because they will just be simply cast aside as "genetic malfunctions" Why on earth would you want to study why people are happy - where is the point??? Why not put the effort into studying cancer, sids, heart disease and find cures for these things instead of trying to find out the reasons people are happy... Its crazy... Why do we even need to know that sort of thing??? Sorry...it just really annoys me that people can go and spend all this time - years even, on trying to find out what makes the genetics of happiness in a person behave the way they do... WHAT THE???

awwwwww....Thats enough to make any girl clucky....hehehe :D

HOLY SMOKES (pardon the pun) he deserved to get his just deserts for being such a show pony - but that was not nice by one little iota... poor guy... :D

Thankyou Tiger...it is nice to be appreciated but it is even nicer to appreciate... Mind you i wasnt always like this - i used to be a real tantrum thrower - till i got my own rolla - now i know what its like to want to do something with your car and to save every scrap of money for one little thing... But i just love watching a project eventuate - its a whole story in itself - and i guess if i can help out and buy the odd extravagant surprise to help that process along then - I'm right there... MMM...I love spending Money...especially on cars and my man....... :D

:D Geez...why don't I just adopt all of you... :(

Two months later (thereabout) and 3 pushrods are bent as a result of the first firing of the engine :D so Jacobson's called all around Australia to try and find replacements and came up with none, Xany offered Rolln03 some also but in the end… Japan was called and some heavy duty pushrods are imported here to oz for the little k. Four weeks later and we could finally bring home the “beast†– here's what she had done to her; (don't ask for the cost we aren't sure what it was) REBUILT * NEW PISTONS, RODS, CRANK, VALVES, ROCKER ASSEMBLY EVERYTHING BALANCED LIGHTENED FLYWHEEL BORED & HONED 25 / 65 CAM HEAVY DUTY VALVE SPRINGS UNKNOWN IMPORT HEAVY DUTY PUSHRODS PORTED, POLISHED AND SHAVED 5K HEAD NEW HYDROLIC LIFTERS BRAND NEW GENIE EXTRACTORS PORTED & POLISHED INLET MANIFOLD NEW 9MM TOPGUN LEADS NEW BOSCH GT40 COIL RE - BUSHED & RECURVED DISTRIBUTOR LARGER DISTRIBUTOR FITTED NEW WATER PUMP NEW THERMOSTAT & THERMOSTAT HOUSING CUSTOM HIGH QUALITY FAN BELT So on Saturday morning three weeks ago now, Rolln03's Dad picked up the 5k from Jacobson Engineering and we met him at Rolln03's brother's place for the start of a very long weekend… :sad: First of all we had to get to Childers…two jump starts, a set of new jumper leads and a very slow noisy drive to Childers and we were ready to pull out the 4k and prepare for the new engine…

The short version…… Well it all started when the tailgater that had been following us just about all over town pushed Rolln03 just that little bit too hard… One screaming 4k and a lesson to the tailgater taught (smokescreen…well almost) we were left with fried piston rings and a blown head gasket. One week later and after many calls made by Rolln03 a 5k was found at the Maryborough wreckers… the engine cost was $250 and it came with a 5spd gearbox…too good to pass up. As soon as Rolln03 told me about it I started scheming :hmm: with his mates and about three days later a phone call and the co-operation :( of the of the wreckers team – I was now the proud new owner of a 5k engine and a gearbox to suit…One problem – I had no way to get the engine and its gearbox from Maryborough to Hervey Bay before Rolln03 went to get it himself that following day. The next morning I called up his mates once again to see what the go with their input was – and got no reply… two hours and Rolln03 would be on his way to the wreckers…eeek. So in desperation I called my grandfather in Maryborough and asked if he would go to the wreckers – pay them (with his money) and take the engine home to his own house… about twenty minutes after I did this the so called mates turned up with the transport - :hug: boy was I mad… anyway I gave them the money, the directions and goodwill and sent them to my grandfathers place to pay for and get the motor from him… amazingly it all worked out well and the engine arrived at its hideout and was hidden just minutes before Rolln03 and I showed up to visit his mate (the one hiding the engine)…whew!!! :D Well there were two surprises once Rolln03 received the engine - one was that we had only expected a normal gearbox but instead found out that the original was stuffed and the wreckers had proceeded to give us another which was a T50… but the not so good surprise was when Rolln03 took the engine to his fathers place to see if they could get it started. After several attempts the little 5k could only manage a half turnover and wouldn't fire… so after much deliberation off to JACOBSON ENGINEERING she went….. =)

Well - I could always recycle....hehehe :Þ

Ancullen - I don't know if i can afford you... :D

to which he is not lowering any further.... :D Looks great Xany - gives it a stocky look - as in size...hehehe love it...

I don't know about other girls out there but i have to say that when Rolln03 buys me things i always feel really guilty that he is spending his money on me and not on his cars!!! LOL :( ... i don't know what it is but when he has a project on i would rather see him spend his money on something that i know will make him happy than on somehting that i want... But then of course i always get past the guilt the next time i get him something... But to add to this thread the very first gift i got from him was on Valentines day when he gave me one of his toys he had when he was little - it was a little dog with big cartoon eyes... and i must say that that is the most treasured thing i ever got from him... after that of course came bracelets, necklaces, teddies, flowers, clothes, and many movies and take out dinners... Also from a gals point of view the most extravagant thing i ever did for him was sneak behind his back :D to buy him a 5k engine & T50 gearbox from the wreckers before he could go and buy them himself... But like all you guys said - its not the material things that matter - its what you have between you each and everyday that proves your love... :hug:

hehehe... :hug: