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Authors’ cars: blowing the cobwebs out

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August 23, 2010
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This little kamera thing on my iph-phod is starting to come in useful!

First run of squid in 3 months; had to put in 95 out of an old jerry can I had lying around and didn’t want to rev it due to the oil pump making a horrendous whining noise. I’m pretty sure the pickup is blocked thanks to the dent in the sump, which is a common problem on FJ20s.

Especially ones that were super-lowdown configured in Japan, as squid was.

Nevertheless, the sump shall come off and then we will see exactly what’s going on. Onward and upward as they say!

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Authors Cars; 80% of the Fleet

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August 13, 2010
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H230, MC21, C110, L38

I took this photo the other night as a snapshot of the current state of my projects. It’s shows all but the S21 Prince which is stored elsewhere.   Now if only I had the cash to finish these damn things off!

-Michael

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Event: RR invitational trackday

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August 10, 2010
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This guy clearly needs a haircut.

Once again Taupo put on some magnificent weather for the RR invitational trackday this past Saturday… (cue Tui ad). OS regulars Philip Weston LMVD, Tomstament and myself were fortunate enough to attend, with Phil the only one willing to brave the elements and partake in a full day of unintentional D1s around the extremely wet track (resulting in Lard developing a BHG later that afternoon… bugger!). One of my mate’s mates even showed up in an Alfa 75 TS which he proceeded to give absolute death, resulting in the diff eventually welding itself together.

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Random retro snap: Smooth Rotary Power

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July 20, 2010
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The savanna banana is finally road legal after nearly two years of delays and frustration. I guess being patient really did pay off, as experiencing the refined performance of the 12A “Impact Turbo” never fails to put a massive grin on my face.

now I know why people constantly rave on about the incredible sorcery that is the Wankel engine!

Savanna RX-7 Onehunga '10 (by decypher the code)

Rotary Turbo

Complete writeup forthcoming, or if you don’t want to wait check out the project thread here:

1985 Savanna RX-7 turbo project thread on oldschool.co.nz »

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Authors Cars; New Shoes for the 260C

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July 4, 2010
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I picked these wheels up off trademe.co.nz a few weeks back and initially tried them on the back, but neglected to take any photos, so with a clear day today I figured I would try them on the front and make the effort to document it.

They’re 14×7 ROH Steels with alloy centres.  The centres are not particularly nice to look at but I got them due to them being 14″ in diameter and so the factory hubcaps slip into them quite nicely.

Fitment Check. Pass

Pass x2

So, they sit nice and seriously close to the guard edge (on the front at least) but how will they look with the factory hubcaps on… (more…)

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