Eastwood Hot Coat Powder Coating
Kit as it arrived plus the Transformer I've been eyeing up powder coating guns for a while and was keen to lay my hands on one. It looked useful for…
Its back together again
Its been a little while since I've posted a picture of the 131. Its now running OK but the carb isn't the greatest, but it works for the meantime. This…
Stripped
Well .. we finally got the Charger stripped. Removed engine, gearbox, dash and all the wiring from the dash forward. Discovered more rust under the dash. Its off shortly to…
The Biggest Grin
The day we took the Rover along to the Autocross, I had three of my kids with me, Miria who is 16, Turoa, 14 and Henare who turned 12 last…
Autocross … go rover go !
We brought a Rover Sterling off Trade Me for $110 and stripped it down, taking out all of the interior and leaving just the driver seat. This sure was a…
Interclub Champs
My mate Pedro had hurt his shoulder in a roll-over earlier last year and had to have an operation, which meant that he couldn't drive in the Interclub Champs ..…
Our First Autocross
Here is Turoa driving in our first autocross. While th VK was tail happy and really hard to control on the tight dirt track , it was lots of fun…
What have we brought ?
The first thing we did was check the oils and fluids. As suspected there was no oil in various components, or the oil had been replaced with water (a less…
Clean Engine Bay
We got the Fiat home and it was pretty well stripped. So .. out came the motor, I welded on some brackets onto the bumper supports, attached the landrover A-frame…
EFI Install
The picture is of the EFI installation in the landrover (wiring is still yet to be tidied up and we're looking for a cheap source of 90mm plastic pipe to…
Fiat Pickup
After a few weeks of negotiation, my daughter Miria and I hired a trailer, borrowed my dad's car and headed to Taupo to pick up the fiat. I decided to…