Red Motor. EH sump. New Dipstick location?

[searsy]

funny thing I have beer come and get it mates

[searsy]

did ya go to bed poof

[Mick]

all good alan i understand why people have grey motors same as i understand why people use things like 2J's they all have there place

funny thing about beer usually if you have it friends soon apere problem being they're generally not the best friends, i've been at a mates workshop the last few days he usually has plenty of beer and surprisingly come 5ish has plenty of mates, but in general i'de be getting rid of the beer if that's the mates it attracts

[MeFB]

Yeah, no stress Mick. All

You're dead right about the cost and time involved in getting a grey to go as well as a stock red / black / blue. I'm getting all the bits together for my hottie grey just now (trying).

Hey, is that twice you've been right in one week

[Mick]

what's this twice in one week i'm ALLWAYS right, just ask me i'll tell you

when it comes to the red motor grey motor thing nobody is right or wrong we all have our reasons hotty greys are cool even stock ones to an extent they just don't suit my driving style

now we need something for you to put this engine into, i'm thinking van or wagon as you have sedans and a ute that i guess you don't want to stick it into or you could put it in the FB that's been tampered with to an extent and accessorised and what an accessory a blown grey

[MeFB]

what's this twice in one week i'm ALLWAYS right, just ask me i'll tell you

when it comes to the red motor grey motor thing nobody is right or wrong we all have our reasons hotty greys are cool even stock ones to an extent they just don't suit my driving style

now we need something for you to put this engine into, i'm thinking van or wagon as you have sedans and a ute that i guess you don't want to stick it into or you could put it in the FB that's been tampered with to an extent and accessorised and what an accessory a blown grey

Hey, that's three times now

It probably will be a van Mick (there's one trying to find a home with me at the moment) but I'm not sure the owner is going to be keen on my plans to pack a blown grey under the hood.

I'd like to track down my old ute that I sold a few years back (WA number plate 62 EK UTE) that I put a red 202 in but that's not likely to happen, so probably the van.

I'll start a build thread when I get back to Perth, but it will just be about the engine at first. I hope there's a few forum members out there who can help me get the supercharger up and crack-a-lackin

[Mick]

don't worry about the old owner, lie there's nothing better than doing stuff to a car you bought that upsets the old owner it's yor car now if they were so concerned they wouldn't have sold it
plus the good thing with what you want to do it's easily reversable, that is unless you had plans of changing the gearbox aswell

[MeFB]

don't worry about the old owner, lie there's nothing better than doing stuff to a car you bought that upsets the old owner it's yor car now if they were so concerned they wouldn't have sold it
plus the good thing with what you want to do it's easily reversable, that is unless you had plans of changing the gearbox aswell

The gearbox will stay the same (just overhauled if it needs it and with a beefy clutch). Silly thing is that I don't plan on driving it too fast, I just want to do it for kicks-n-giggles. If I get a car for the right price, I might just go ahead and use the engine that's already in it. Cosmetically it will be reversible back to stock, but there will be a little work on the insides of the engine that can't. I don't think I'll lose too much sleep over that though.

[MeFB]

I reckon if you put a grey and a red side by side, drained the oil and water and just like the FO RD vs Holden competition at shows, ran them both on medium revs I reckon the red would break first, even with its extra main bearing .

If you also tried to run one with only 3 cyclinders connected, the grey would be the only one that wouldl start cold, and then drive the car I bet you the red motor wouldn't even fire. Particularly a Red 202 (which in its early HQ days was a pretty $*#@ ordinary motor)

I sat on 70 MPH in my pink car from Brisbane to Bendigo (standard diff everything). Kept passing most cars on the highway, however Reds are newer technology, so you would hope that they were better engineered and had better performance.

Its a bit like the poor old 48-215. For its entire life some half-witted journalist has jumped behind the wheel of No.1, driven it around the block and given it crap for comparing so poorly to the next 'new' model just coming out. The difference is that it's still surviving and operating just as well as the day it was made, unlike no doubt all of the cars that it has been compared too

Alright, vent done. But I drive grey motors by choice, and I wouldn't have it any other way. There were over a million of them out there reliably getting the masses of Australia around the place faithfully for some 30-40 years

Why do I suddenly feel like standing up and singing Advance Australia Fair

I do love my grey motors Hewn from chunks of Aussie iron by square jawed, hairy chested, menly men, using only the best quality glass magnets and six inch populating tools to do their work; then painted grey because, well because that's the colour that they bloody well should be painted!

[Mick]

I reckon if you put a grey and a red side by side, drained the oil and water and just like the FO RD vs Holden competition at shows, ran them both on medium revs I reckon the red would break first, even with its extra main bearing .

If you also tried to run one with only 3 cyclinders connected, the grey would be the only one that wouldl start cold, and then drive the car I bet you the red motor wouldn't even fire. Particularly a Red 202 (which in its early HQ days was a pretty $*#@ ordinary motor)

I sat on 70 MPH in my pink car from Brisbane to Bendigo (standard diff everything). Kept passing most cars on the highway, however Reds are newer technology, so you would hope that they were better engineered and had better performance.

Its a bit like the poor old 48-215. For its entire life some half-witted journalist has jumped behind the wheel of No.1, driven it around the block and given it crap for comparing so poorly to the next 'new' model just coming out. The difference is that it's still surviving and operating just as well as the day it was made, unlike no doubt all of the cars that it has been compared too

Alright, vent done. But I drive grey motors by choice, and I wouldn't have it any other way. There were over a million of them out there reliably getting the masses of Australia around the place faithfully for some 30-40 years

geez i need one of those greys of the few i've driven one or two could get to seventy but i was sh!tting myself waiting for engine parts to exit through the sump and passing another car unless it was down a hill and they were doing quite a bit less mph than me, i even had a hotty grey once fresh rebuild cam head twins extractors backed with an aussie 4 speed and 3.36 diff car was even lighter than standard (it was the chop top) after the first highway drive the motor would have been out of there except the car was allready sold, i've done all the cylinder down starts etc with a red that you have with a grey even started one on 2 cylinders wouldn't fire on 1 though, the couple of things i've managed with greys though are bogged a padock basher so just stuck rock on accelerator got sick of waiting for it to blow so drained the water and punched a hole in the sump but still ran for about 10 minutes, and drove a grey motor EK van from prospect to bankstown with a rod out the block was noisey as hell and not real fast but made it and was still running when i got there and you could turn it off and restart it
as has been said each to there own from my experiance and the way i drive i prefer reds (actually would prefer a V8 but lets not start that )