So... what car do you guys drive when not flying?

[Cossie]

very tempted to buy the new defender 110- The New Land Rover Defender - Land Rover UK

Tempted as well, but they won't be here for a while, what I'd really like is a 3 door smallish proper 4x4 like the old Pajero models. The new Suzuki is just too small.

 

[jb747]

Tempted as well, but they won't be here for a while, what I'd really like is a 3 door smallish proper 4x4 like the old Pajero models. The new Suzuki is just too small.

There’s a new 3 door Defender....arriving about 6 months after the 5 door.

 

[amaroo]

Looks small from that angle.

I was standing a fair distance away when I took that pic.

 

[JessicaTam]

very tempted to buy the new defender 110- The New Land Rover Defender - Land Rover UK

May I borrow it if you do?

What’s normally involved in an engine rebuild?

Pull the engine apart completely. Machine any surface that sees a moving part such as cylinder, bottom end, top end. Machine anything that has a gasket.

If the moving parts can't be replaced with slightly bigger ones - I.e. a slightly wider diameter piston rings, then sleeve or shim what has been machined to the size of the moving part.

Put it all back together with new bearings/pistons/rings/valves as required.

I have only had one engine rebuilt (2.8lt normally aspirated ForeRunner). I was offered a port'n'polish as well. I declined!

 

[Quickstatus]

Engine rebuild 2:
Is an engine rebuild cheaper than a new engine (assuming a new engine is available)

 

[TomVexille]

Thrifty at SYD this morning were struggling to get cars for all the bookings they had. Eventually was handed keys to a very new (about 2500kms on the clock) Toyota Landcruiser after about a 25 minute wait

Slightly different to the Kia Cerato that I got last time

 

[JessicaTam]

Engine rebuild 2:
Is an engine rebuild cheaper than a new engine (assuming a new engine is available)

"It depends"

As I got mates rates the rebuild was about $2,000. The full price would have approached the cost of a replacement. Maybe $3-4,000. I did the R and R myself.

When the rebuild was done I knew exactly what condition the engine was in. It was probably better than a new one.

If I had to do it again, I would do a rebuild again. The only downside is if the engine condition is so poor that machining it weakens it too much to last very long.

 

[Cossie]

Well that didn't last long, looks like I'm going to buy my old Escort Cosworth back. The new owner spent a motza on it, his circumstances have changed, so he wants to sell it.

 

[tgh]

I am sure it goes like the clappers but the bodywork is er ……..ford-ish…...

Flirting with conceptual ownership of a beach buggy atm.
(they are not allowed on many qld beaches because they are not 4 x 4… )

 

[Cossie]

It was a homologation special so they could be used as the basis for the World Rally Championship in the mid nineties. There were only 7,800 made. they are starting to fetch good money. Mine came to Australia as low volume imports via Hong Kong.The car that I had in Tassie was a later rally version of this, but it is a body shell and a couple of crates of parts. I was never going to complete it. It will become a tarmac rally car.

This is a recent review of a 23 year old car. The 1996 Ford Escort RS Cosworth Is As Sharp As Any Modern Sports Car

 

[docjames]

Wow cossie that’s a nice Cossie.

Like doesn’t seem like enough of a response.

 

[Quickstatus]

Well that didn't last long, looks like I'm going to buy my old Escort Cosworth back. The new owner spent a motza on it...

Is he your version of Alan Bond?

 

[Cossie]

Is he your version of Alan Bond?

No, I couldn't do something like that to anyone. I'll pay him what he has spent on it plus what he gave me originally, that's the least I can do,
I'm not interested in trying to screw people over, we are well off, we can go where we want, when we want and do whatever we want. His situation has changed and if I can help in some way, I'm more than happy to.

 

[rogerkambah]

No, I couldn't do something like that to anyone. I'll pay him what he has spent on it plus what he gave me originally, that's the least I can do,
I'm not interested in trying to screw people over, we are well off, we can go where we want, when we want and do whatever we want. His situation has changed and if I can help in some way, I'm more than happy to.

You're a good man Cossie. ACT rego will be pleased for you to pay SD again.

 

[Buzzard]

You're a good man Cossie. ACT rego will be pleased for you to pay SD again.

Can you apply for an exemption as you have previously owned the car?
Although in NSW, I did this when transferring a car from private name to my business name. Saved heaps.

 

[nlagalle]

What’s normally involved in an engine rebuild?

THe basically pulled the enture engine down to replace the rings, seals etc etc. Also replaced the twin carbys for a single one as they were a pain to tune. car is sitting in a garage atm waiting for some cash to do up the interior and re-spray it.. might make it a promo company car...

 

[Ekka]

Was a Monara GTS 327, new, in March 1969, preceded by two Cooper Ss in 1967 and 1968.
Those were when the Bathurst race was the Armstrong 500, and was a genuine touring car race.
Where were you in the sixties?
Anyone?

 

[JohnM]

Where were you in the sixties?

I had an Austin A40 (aka my Alpha 4-zero ).

Don't laugh - who of you has had a car with a valve radio? I kid you not.

 

[Cossie]

I had an Austin A40 (aka my Alpha 4-zero ).

Don't laugh - who of you has had a car with a valve radio? I kid you not.

Had one in my Zephyr hand me down, wish I still had the car, but sadly it was written off and it wasn't my fault.

 

[JohnM]

but sadly it was written off and it wasn't my fault.

Same happened to me. Drunk ran into the back of me.