"Shootin' The Breeze" - Old Skool Chat Thread  

clutch-monkey

enjoy..

GTS454

Found some gnarly home cooked panel work on my wagon today...

btw, can recomment those plastic discs for taking paint off (and about 15mm of bog)

an I am in need of a donor wagon if anybody knows where I can get one cheap. need a rear quarter pass side to cut and repair mine

please let me know if you can help in any way, thanks

Ash.

HSV

Motors sold.

Had about 10 different people interested in it.

Plus side I found a guy who helped do the original build on the Monaro, was his grandfathers, he bought it when he was 14, his brother died 3 years later so he did it up as a memorial to him, sold it in 99 for $21k to a guy in Townsville, went through two different owners then me, ran a best of 12.4 @ 110 when first built, which backs up old mates claim of 12.7 from TSV with wheelspin. Old mate was happy to see it in one piece in good nick, hes going to buy the engine if old mate pulls out.

wbtonner

Is on boats but I have seen bog over 7" deep.
like 44m superyachts though


308 wasn't meant to be for me, might go big block from the beginning after all

HSV

I was actually quite surprised at the amount of interest, there is literally 5 or 6 guys begging me to sell it to them, first dibs is a guy who lives less than 1km away from me lol.

There are a lot of good bits and pieces on the engine though, I mean the carby, fabricated covers and CVR starter is already over $1k's worth, not to mention $350 worth of brand new mufflers, new rebuilt alternator etc etc.

Hope to hear back about a short block today with a stack of work done to it, fresh build 0km's so hoping everything goes to plane. I'm keen top have it done by start of December (BB conversion, single headlight front and change seats) but as always something will pop up no doubt.

GTS454

dunno why you are selling the zorst?? a 3 inch twin with hooker muffs is a good setup for a BB. the collectors can be modded to suit your motor too.

HSV

Exhaust was 2.5" to two 3" Hookers.

I'll just have Les redo the exhaust from headers back.

i only got a hk

3 inch hookers. lol

GTS454

HSV, buy this, throw your 308 in it and flog it off again.

that way you get everything you need!!

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Holden-1974-hq-1-to...=item4aa4f6758c

HSV

If I wasn't about to buy a house I would, the thought had already crossed my mind to do something like that.

Les rang me today, we spoke about the exhaust, it's all sorted, will be going to him as soon as engine is in for him to plumb up.

GTS454

was I right on the prices I guessed?

HSV

Close yeah, I'm supplying mufflers as its easier for me to get them and I prefer these ones, running off the shelf headers, just Hurricanes, apparently Mark is running them with no issues, and still dumping before the diff. All up around the $1350 mark.

I've been put onto a pretty serious bottom end as well, but its a bit more than I want to pay for one so I'm umming and ahhing about that one atm.

GTS454

Mark who? know a few Marks!!

HSV

Hanful.

GTS454

really? I thought they were custom jobbies? well if they are on a car of that calibre then they should be good to go!!

HSV

This is according to Les they are. He thinks they are a bit of alright, especially if not chasing huge hp at rear tyres.

Bit the bullet and bought this bottom end tonight will post all the specs later

DeadSled

Had a very productive afternoon today and yesterday.

Yesterday, Jay (74QEE) came around and gave me a hand moving my 1928 Fords 4cyl, 201ci engine from my garage to the shed.

Today he came around again out of boredom and i was already halfway through cleaning all the 82 years of slime and shit off it, and as of around 7pm its just about done.

Tomorrow, i will finish and then degrease the shit out of it, then gurny it with our super high pressure gurny and then go over it again, then prime and paint it over the weekend, and maybe if i get a chance will hook up the crashbox to it and put it all into my chassis.

Fuck yes, Hot Rodding rules.

wbtonner

And my car sits in the driveway not going anywhere till I get a new power steering belt as I threw mine (AGAIN) showing off the other day.
I've really got to line it up properly.

NOS440

meh. never have much to say....but i have finally got around to finishing the new motor for my mazda, heh, and have started to remove the old broken 1500 from it. will need to fab some mounts so the new motor will go in and a few other little bits and then i will be able to cruise the little machine again. the charger is still the same

GTS454

Hey Jason. how much is aluminium extrusion worth atm? I have a heap of it sitting here waiting for the prices to do something. btw, what motor you putting into the madaz? (yes, I meant to put that!!)



also, am looking for a cheap runabout so I can pull the wagon apart. let me know what you guys have eh?

lol, just noticed my post number... you should have waited till someone else posted Jason!!

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i gots it!