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Getting there , got the motor back in and all the ancillaries hooked up , car has been rewired and all the interior is back in , still got the LHD front carpet in as the new stuff hasn't turned up yet - we are making a new exhaust system tomorrow , need to bleed the brakes , fit the windscreen , wire up the fuel guage , change out the steering arms plus afe wother little bits and then its off for 3rd inspection on saturday

Your getting there. Its good to have a deadline. Even if it means working 24 hours a day to get it done.

Well after a couple of very full on days we made it to first inspection today with HEAPS of time to spare - we fired up the motor , bedded in the cam , took it up the street and back then drove it straight onto the trailer and over for the inspection and got there with nearly 10 minutes to spare !!! It was just like an episode of Overhaulin or something but it was actually real

Didn't pass though the rack is too long and they knocked it back for that and one tailpipe needs to be moved so its pretty close

on the trailer


at the inspection at West Coast Hot Rod clubs clubroom


All together


Me mate Ben "Flathead" Forster - a chronic Frodophile sitting in a Chev never thought I would see the day



I have just reread this post and looked at where the car was at 3 weeks ago - I am so lucky to have some good mates to help me out - me best mate Damo has been over at our place nearly every night helping me get this car ready , Redbeard rebuilt the motor for me and got it running sweet this morning and
flathead has given me a hand in between running his business for the last 2 days - without these guys and the other Cranksters who came over to help here and there it would still be miles away from ready.

Looking sweet Blacky

Love the body shape of those, Just like our Aussie slopers

yep i love the body shape of those, there's caddies with a simular shape you can keep ya '59 '60s
what's the go with the rack being to long? effects the turning circle or something?

Mick wrote:what's the go with the rack being to long? effects the turning circle or something?

No Mick , the left hand side of the rack is sitting too far to the left of the car and being a power rack they cant be shortened - manual racks are easy to do so I will toss out the jag rack and fit a VB Conformadore shortened rack. Theres a bit of fiddling to get afront end right , steering arms need to be parallel to the lower wishbones , the steering arm pivot point needs to be in line with a line drawn between the top and bottom wishbone inner pivot points AND another line drawn through the front and rear inner pivot points . The tie rod ends need to be on another imaginary line between the stub axle centre point and the middle of the diff for your ackerman angle. I bought this front end already done so I didn't check it properly before fitting it

Got it licenced yesterday

Have had some dramas with the brakes and a couple of other issues but got them sorted , took it up for inspection on wednesday and the fuel pump shat itself and was leaking fuel so that was the end of that , fixed it wednesday night and it was passed yesterday

Marathon job Blacky, you must be over the moon!

How about tackling the other projects lurking at the back of your shed whilst you're on a roll?

MeFB wrote:Marathon job Blacky, you must be over the moon!

How about tackling the other projects lurking at the back of your shed whilst you're on a roll?

I was planning to finish the Monaro and take it to the Monaro nats in Busso this year but then I got crook which has slowed me down a fair bit

Looking sweet mate... hopefully i get a chance to get it out before you move this one on

Cheers
Nathan

Top job mate