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A lot of hard work went into that one. Shame it didn't pan out, but you never know until you try.

Cheers,
Harv

Hhhhmmmm, rocker cover studs - I need some longer ones to put my fancy hold down bolts back on - have you seen what our old mate Greedybitz is asking for them ? 🙄🙄🙄


$120 for two studs... they would want to make coffee and sweep floors too at that price. If I had some I'd send 'em to you, but ...

The rocker pedestals are held on with studs. I'm going to replace these with ARP fasteners, so just dummying up for now. Will post details on the ARP stuff once it arrives. Four of the exhaust pedestal studs go through not only the pedestals but the rocker cover too (with two nuts - one on the ...

Time to throw the springs in. These are double springs, and have an uninstalled height of 1.643". The HSD guys machined up some valve seat inserts. This gives more flexibility on spring choice as the spring pocket depth can be varied (without shims) and so can the inner and outer seat diameters ...

Head has finally come home, and I've started dummy assembling. Most of it is intuitive, but suspect I will learn more as I go. Photos and learnings to follow :).

The bare head is a chunky bit of kit, and weighs some 24.5kg. Like most, mine has had a working life. I can see where some casting ...

Not much play time over the weekend. Rain, but clearing today so hopefully paint the block tomorrow. Need to get Number One Son's VL off to get the turbo piping done, and I'm on the road for work later in the week.

Got the balancer (ATI 916970) and hub dummy assembled to finger tight. The balancer ...

Got the short motor onto a stand. Next step is a coat of battleship grey, then some assembly. Of course, rain delays play. Apologies for the crappy photos... it is getting congested in that shed, and trying to keep the rain from blowing in the rollerdoor didn't help.


short motor deck.jpg short ...

Got the short motor onto a stand. Next step is a coat of battleship grey, then some assembly. Of course, rain delays play. Apologies for the crappy photos... it is getting congested in that shed, and trying to keep the rain from blowing in the rollerdoor didn't help.


short motor deck.jpg short ...

More photos tomorrow of the short assembly.

Cheers,
Harv

one more post to follow.

Santa came this afternoon.

Managed to get it unboxed, and trundled down the driveway without having to move (or hit) the Camira, Torana, Commodore, Cortina or boat. Box all demolished, and a quick check of what's here. There is a story to each that I'll share as I put it together. No engine photo ...

Not mine, but I suspect very similar.

Sitting by the front door today waiting for the courier. Sometime between 9 and 5.

Cheers,
Harv

Australian drag racing rules are worse than engineering a car :(. Smokey Yunick would have a field day.

In theory, Eastern Creek is an IHRA track. It runs the IHRA rulebook:
https://www.ihraracer.com/competition/rulebook/

... but then adds it's own IHRA Australia rules on top of that:
https://www ...

Thanks Terry.

The FED will probably only see 15psi max of boost pressure, so should be OK without a receiver ring.

It will run in Modified, so will need to be quicker than 10.99. I only know of one grey that has ever run the quarter that quick (Dennis Paul's Resurrection E/dragster FED, 27th of ...

If I’m home from work, I’ll be there. Fingers crossed for the FED. Unsure if I could run the wagon. Be great seeing some HAMBstrs run. Wonder if Spanners is coming?

Cheers,
Harv
I’m sure we can twist his arm. I have mentioned it to him is discussions. He was going to come up for the May ...