In response to Michael’s last post here is proof that, yes, it is summer, actually. 
Summer roadtripping!
Authors Cars
Random retro snap: Yes, summer!
January 8, 2011
OLD CAR HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE
December 30, 2010
Dead fuel pump, how I loathe thee.
having things break on my (old) cars is becoming an almost monthly occurrence. Time to trade it all in for a 2009 Camry perhaps?
Thanks to Michael for the replacement pump, at least the coupe is now drivable again (just!)
Have cool (car), will travel.
December 23, 2010
As this year draws to a close I realize that I haven’t actually made any plans for the new year’s break, apart from catching up with some friends in the Waikato.
So with this is mind, and also the fact that the RX-7 is deserving of some good honest summer cruising; the gods know the amount of shit I went through just to get it road legal, and it’d be a huge waste just to leave it sitting, here’s my question – what’s the haps in your neck of the woods, and is there any room for a lone wanderer like me to swing past for a visit and a yarn? Name thy poison and I’ll do my best to provide it upon arrival.
I feel a roadtrip around the North Island beckoning. Have cool, will travel!
Just my luck that petrol's now $2.14 a litre for the good stuff...
2010: year of the banana, as it turned out. Also, Happy Humbug.
December 19, 2010
With Xmas less than a week away (and the new year following not long afterwards) I turn my attention back to this post made shortly after the turn of 2010 involving a certain silver Skyline. It was a rather whimsical entry detailing a list of things which needed to be done in order to gain “400PS+” in said vehicle, and the first steps taken down this path… of glory? destruction? Something like that.
Fast forward nearly twelve months, and the list now looks like this:
That! was! MADNESS!
So contrary to all expectations at the time, 2010 ended up being the Year of the Banana instead.
One bitter irony: I fixed the Skyline’s alternator with parts from Japan, only to have it shit itself again in exactly the same manner as before. As a result I now plan to fit an alternator from a Subaru in protest. Screw you, Nissan.
But don’t worry, 2011 will more than likely become the Year of the Squid, if the (more…)
…and every day, the paperboy brings more
November 9, 2010
More spare parts for the BFMR, that is. The convenient thing about amassing a giant pile of spares is that you’re guaranteed to find something missing, broken, or jabroni’d on the project car which requires replacing, post-haste. Usually something trivial, too!
See, I knew this stuff would come in handy one day!
Been ferrying things daily from the lockup down to the garage as I need them, today’s pile of swag includes the radiator overflow bottle, a factory blow off valve return line, the rear washer bottle, a piece of intake J-pipe, and some assorted sensors and electrical parts for when I start testing that side of things.
Anyway, in my first project BFMR update I mentioned briefly that I had a theory the supposed engine failure wasn’t catastrophic. After the jump is a related photo, and some rumination on why I think so:
