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racerphill
Post #106
QUOTE (b.t.h @ Aug 3 2010, 11:12 PM)  So whats everyone doing with their rides? Time frames to get so and so done? Well, I should be finished my HJ Prem in the next few weeks, but then again, I said that at Christmas time! lol ...cant wait, I can FINALLY get rid of the evil little Charade I've been driving lately. I can then also, hopefully get started on my pickup - YAY! Phill |
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wbtonner
Post #107
I've got power steering, thank god, but it throws the belt drifting in the rain :headwall: ........usually when your halfway through a corner and palm steering with one hand.... |
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lil_bobby_260
Post #108
72 Galaxie - waiting for engine to come back from machine shop so i can start slotting it all back together and refit it - gotta source V8 bellhousing for my C4, and thermo fans. then creat some sort of airbox for my heater etc. hook up my B&M shifter, have the front and rear glass fitted, and im away! |
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HSV
Post #110
QUOTE (wbtonner @ Aug 3 2010, 05:38 PM) This guy knows his stuff! I used to do an apprenticeship painting boats :headwall: And yeah I own a jet ski, so close enough to a boat and it costs me an arm and a leg  I leaving owning a boat to my dad.Glad to hear Craig did a great (and reasonably priced by the sounds of it) job on your carby... Ben? I'm waiting to hear back from a family friend who's getting his 4 door munro tuned this week at a place on the service road near moss st (fair bit closer than nerang). So pending his feedback I will decide where to go when I get enough K's on it. Cheers, Nathan. And to the guys winging about turning circles, you've obviosuly never been in a Kingswood... I'd almost put money that my WB's is alot worse! Sounds good mate. Craig did a great job on the carby I am really impressed with his work and tuning skills. That place at Slacks Creek isn't a big yellow building is it? |
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magna_TE
Post #111
QUOTE (b.t.h @ Aug 3 2010, 10:12 PM) Exactly bobby, i've changed my mind many times. So im sure i'll end up getting something far different then anything i'll mention on this site :S lol.. like a 1920's milk truck.. dam they're cool! Haha wb, yeah your wb probably would be alot worse, but for a newish car with power steering and such, it is a shitter of a thing in the car park. So whats everyone doing with their rides? Time frames to get so and so done? I fucked my power sterring as well in my magna.. so pretty much parking or turning while driving slow was a bitch! once i got going it was fine ahha.. As for the Xc still in the process of painting the panels.. making sure it all perfect before i even consider laying the colour (wont lay any colour until everything is ready tho).. so im still pretty much doing the 1st door :| but if i see something even the tiniest thing that i think may show up in the end, i take the door down and fill/sand it until its perfect and go again. Plus with work and everything else havnt had a lot of time to get out there and paint, and now its great weather :| but when i have the time its bloody raining!!! just my luck eyy.. Sister is finally coughing up some $$ so the datto should be back on the road soon, might get the helicoil put in 2moro, then will quickly fix the door, then she just needs to cough up a bit more $$ and i can get the exhaust. Then its ready for rwc/rego and itll be out of the garage and make more room to work in the XC  EDIT- So i finally found a adapter for the impco cost more then the carby itself :|.. but now the linkage for the accelerator cable cant go back the whole way coz it hits it :| so i need to somehow fix that problem. Thinking of somehow bending it so it misses the adapter, hopefully it'll all work out alright.. |
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WattsyLX
Post #112
QUOTE (i only got a hk @ Aug 3 2010, 10:52 AM) contact details for your carby guy? mine is fuckered (i got screwed by the mob that sold me mine) Who did you buy it off? I got a rebuilt mail order Holley from one of the more 'reputable' places in Sydney that advertise in Street Machine. From the day i bolted it on it gave me nothing but trouble, tried everything to get it right for 6 months, from playing with the jets, timing, every bloody thing - but as soon as it got above 3000rpm it just died in the arse. Finally cracked it and sent it to the dyno place, fucked around with it for a few hours and still couldnt figure it out - until removed the carb, pulled off the base plate and found that the gasket was leaking! Screwed it all back together and it went like a dream! |
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i only got a hk
Post #113
QUOTE (WattsyLX @ Aug 4 2010, 11:13 AM) Who did you buy it off? I got a rebuilt mail order Holley from one of the more 'reputable' places in Sydney that advertise in Street Machine. From the day i bolted it on it gave me nothing but trouble, tried everything to get it right for 6 months, from playing with the jets, timing, every bloody thing - but as soon as it got above 3000rpm it just died in the arse. Finally cracked it and sent it to the dyno place, fucked around with it for a few hours and still couldnt figure it out - until removed the carb, pulled off the base plate and found that the gasket was leaking! Screwed it all back together and it went like a dream! i'm not going to name them, but the name rhymes with smaformance pearled mine was a reconditioned one... missing 1 of the helicoils used to refurbish it, so it pissed fuel everywhere... |
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wbtonner
Post #114
QUOTE (HSV @ Aug 4 2010, 07:13 AM) Sounds good mate. Craig did a great job on the carby I am really impressed with his work and tuning skills. That place at Slacks Creek isn't a big yellow building is it? Not to sure where or what the place is called, I'll be talking to the guy on the weekend and see how he went, if not, definetly Motacarb. This might be a stupid question, but should I get my distributor regraphed and my new exhaust done and a catch tank between the rocker cover and the carby before getting it tuned. I'm saying yes. And can anyone else think of anything to do to a 202 before a tune, things like above, things that I might change? I cracked it with my old Carby, bought a brand new one, was only $17 more than a remanufactured one??? |
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racerphill
Post #116
QUOTE (76LX_FTW @ Aug 4 2010, 06:19 PM) Sold the Torana today, dads getting an opp and i needed the money  . Oh well, there goes that dream.Sorry to hear that - it's always rough when you gotta get rid of a car you dont want to, but it's not the end of the dream! There's always other Toranas. Take a bit of time, regroup, save your bucks and start again. Phill |
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WattsyLX
Post #117
QUOTE (76LX_FTW @ Aug 4 2010, 06:19 PM) Sold the Torana today, dads getting an opp and i needed the money . Oh well, there goes that dream.No good, but surely there'd be plenty of old school Aussie iron laying around the back paddocks of Inverell you could snaffle up at a later date. What kind of op is the old fella having if you dont mind me asking? My old man goes to Sydney for a weeks worth of pre-op tests in 2 weeks before having brain surgery later in the year, getting the same epilepsy surgery Wally Lewis had. Nervous times ahead, because we always thought he never had any brains to begin with!! 
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76LX_FTW
Post #118
Yeah its not such a tragedy, infact ive actually got another Torana shell out at a mates farm that ive never had time too pick up. We shall see i guess, wouldnt mind getting myself another Hq or maybe i hate too say it but a Uc. |
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i only got a hk
Post #120
QUOTE (76LX_FTW @ Aug 5 2010, 07:42 PM) Hey guy's im wondering what ever happened too the Trauma Uc, Anyone got any idea ?? God it was an awesome looking car back in the day.  ???  lol this isnt it, older cars like that end up in sheds and forgotten about or its been reborn into something else.. most likely written off |
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i only got a hk
Post #124
QUOTE (76LX_FTW @ Aug 5 2010, 09:10 PM) Hk is that a Monaro lol ?? Its well and truly fucked whatever it is... And i dont know Eh buddy thats why i was asking ? yeh
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lil_bobby_260
Post #125
The anaconda (ugly effing thing) car is a four door UC, so id expect that might be where it got to. Looks better black. |
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lil_bobby_260
Post #127
ahh true... i couldve sworn it was a 4 door... has Jlo and such airbrushed on it, right? |
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i only got a hk
Post #128
deadsled i found something for you https://www.boostcruising.com/forums/index....howtopic=593718 |
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HSV
Post #130
Well after much mucking around I have the fabbed covers on now, looks 100% better than before, although new leads are definitely on the cards so they don't protrude over the top of the covers. |
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DeadSled
Post #131
QUOTE (i only got a hk @ Aug 5 2010, 11:05 PM) deadsled i found something for you https://www.boostcruising.com/forums/index....howtopic=593718 Lol, thanks but no thanks. |
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i only got a hk
Post #132
QUOTE (DeadSled @ Aug 6 2010, 08:15 AM) Lol, thanks but no thanks. oh i thought you could have built a car out of those little bits
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DeadSled
Post #133
I probably could, have no interest in doing so though |
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b.t.h
Post #134
Deadsled are you ever going to move out of your house? lol Is the ek back on the ground yet? whens the roof chop taking place? glad your gonna do that! |
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The Senator
Post #135
ah i can finally get back to old school topics again, 
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The Senator
Post #139
yeah nice like the second one better |
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