hawkes bay event

[hunted]

ah good luck with that, hopefully its running in time haha

[avenga]

It should be fine. If it is looking doubtful I will just run it with the old points. I just figured it would be a good chance to see how it effects my economy on a long trip because last time I took the Avenger down to Hastings it was using about 13L/100KM. It is about 430KM from my place to Hastings so with the cruise and return trip it would be close to 1000KM and at 13L/100KM that would be approx 130 litres of petrol. I run 98 so that is like at least $2.10 a litre so that is $270 odd for gas.

I used to be able to get 7L/100KM on my old crap 1500 so the same trip would have only cost about $150 in gas. So anything I can do to save gas is best done before I do a long trip.

It will be interesting to see if I get any better economy than last trip.

[hunted]

sounds good mate.

so thats three of us, anyone else?

[avenga]

Azza1600 should be coming. And I talked to one of my mates with an Avenger 2 door and he might be coming for just the show on Sunday.

[kierbear]

azza is coming for the cruise but not the dinner and i rung the place today and they said that we dont need to make a booking which is good since we cant garauntee the time we are getting there lol fingers crossed we have no mechanical problems but they are, afterall, avengers. fingers crossed!

[avenga]

I'm just hoping I get mine back from the mechanics in time    

[hunted]

fingers crossed richard! am very excited about this now, am going to get the polish out tonight haha. car isnt as low as I was hoping but itl do for now haha. will be leaving wellington about 10 so should get to napier about 230

[avenga]

Cool. Just talked to the mechanic. It is all serviced and ready to go and running on the MSD. They had to use my old points distributor because my electronic one was stuffed so I am still looking for a new distributor.

He only just got the jets etc for the carbs now so instead of rushing to get those in for the weekend I will leave them till when I get back after the weekend.

I will be picking the car up in the afternoon and giving it a wash etc already for tomorrow. YAY!!

[azza1600]

Hey guys, I took today off work an dropped off car for a wof, so last minute haha hope it passed, only done 300ks since last wof in july, how sad lol

look forward to catching up tomorrow

[hunted]

good luck mate! hopefully see you tomorrow

[avenga]

Got my car back. MSD is in. Had to change the rev limiter to 7,000RPM because the mechanic set it 6,000RPM.

Just going to clean the car etc then I'm all ready.

[hunted]

swish. the missus has work drinks tonight so thats me in the garage tidying up the car haha. might even shoot down to the gas station and give it a vacuum (dont have one at home yet)

then i had better assemble my boot toolbox, spare water, spare oil haha

[avenga]

I just finished giving mine a Vacuum. Now on to the cleaning followed by loading tools, fuel, spare oil and exhaust manifolds for my mate in the boot.

I will pack that steering wheel boss for you Andrew.

[hunted]

ah yes, and ill haul that gbox into the boot as well haha.

also, could you chuck that steering wheel in as well? that one I got of oldschool turned up and its a bit tatty, would be keen to see how fuggly yours actually is etc haha

[avenga]

Cool man, It's pretty fugly but you are welcome to it if you like it. It was cool in the 80's