Hi Cam, yep I did notice it. I believe it was badged Isuzu. Plenty of cars from leftfield there. There was a KE70 that was very entertaining on the Tarmac Super Stage. I think about 40% of his run was on 3 wheels!
 
The pinto will go very well. The head was flow tested and came in at 190hp :D Inlet valves (Pep-Pro stainless) getting 0.51" lift

Gone the whole hog there Haydn
 
Otago is an amazing event isn't it? I went over a few years back when Ari came out for it. Absolutely loved it!!

All ready for the dyno this Friday
 

Hi Drew, cheers mate :)
We're confident for figures above 130rwhp. Hoping for close to 140 :)
The tyres are good for the money about $95 fitted & balanced. Just the fact they're lighter and narrower makes a huge improvement to the handling compared to 205's. The offset of the 13x7's has helped a lot too. Car is way more responsive, easier to throw around and acceleration greatly improved by less rolling diameter. I worked it out on gearcalc, 185/60/13 tyre is the equivilant of dropping from 3.77 diff to 3.89.

Haha, cheers mate :)

Just keeps getting better and better mate. Hope it goes well on the dyno.

Thanks for the kind words guys. There's been a lot of energy spent getting it to this point. I can't wait to see how it performs :)

Hi Glenn, thanks for your comments. The wheels are 0 offset. Here's the link to them, also happens to be the business I bought them off. I recall you saying you didn't want to roll your guards? They will need to be rolled to fit these. I"m not aware if any "off-the-shelf"  13x7's that have a positive offset