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fred bloggs said:
Nice work on the car. would love a passenger ride sometime !
What did you use to clearence the arch ? I picked up an arch roller for £25 on the bay.
I'd be curious to try an arch roller, but have heard mixed results with Monaros or VEs so would be a bit nervous.
Likewise with yours, I'll get mine MOT'd and we should arrange something
It will just make me want to buy yours more though (if it's still for sale) and I really need to concentrate on the projects I've already got
Polly Grigora said:
Hi, noticed your topic on the first page, been a long time since reading here, good to see you've got the motivation, many fade away into obscurity
Have you managed to keep your sanity during sorting out all the nagging problems?
Does your alternator not have a D+/61 output?
Good to have you back, I've made more or an effort to keep the wiring tidy in case you were watching Have you managed to keep your sanity during sorting out all the nagging problems?
Does your alternator not have a D+/61 output?
I don't know if it does, I hate electrickery remember! Appreciate that would be the correct and far simpler way to do it!
To be fair my motivation has been up and down, but most problems have been an opportunity to do it a bit better so not too bad. I'm not convinced by the look of the pistons that I'm not going to end up with so much piston rock that I have no oil control at all and need to rebuild it, but at that point I'll be buying a block with longer sleeves, so an opportunity to go for the magical 427ci
SturdyHSV said:
Likewise with yours, I'll get mine MOT'd and we should arrange something
It will just make me want to buy yours more though (if it's still for sale) and I really need to concentrate on the projects I've already got
Its probably in bed untill spring, but for a few small runs to warm the oils, perhaps Santa pod early next year. The australia day at ACE is always shi77y weather ,and I hate the drive there, so Ill more likely give that a miss again. It will just make me want to buy yours more though (if it's still for sale) and I really need to concentrate on the projects I've already got
I flip flop so bad about selling, There is plenty of other cars that catch my eye, but its just so rare and its now how I wanted it. Im off to the states in feb, so going to try bringing some heads back in luggage ;-)
SturdyHSV said:
Little startup video
Sweet mother of all that is holy. After reading pages and pages of the rebuild, beautifully documented by the way, appreciate your honesty not trying to cover up the little mistakes we all make.I got to this video and my god! It sounded better than I ever imagined it would. That's about as good a noise as I've ever heard a car make at idle! The satisfaction must have been stratospheric to hear that again after the hard work and cold fingers.
fred bloggs said:
Its probably in bed untill spring, but for a few small runs to warm the oils, perhaps Santa pod early next year. The australia day at ACE is always shi77y weather ,and I hate the drive there, so Ill more likely give that a miss again.
I flip flop so bad about selling, There is plenty of other cars that catch my eye, but its just so rare and its now how I wanted it. Im off to the states in feb, so going to try bringing some heads back in luggage ;-)
It's really got everything you'd want to do for sure, it's very cool I flip flop so bad about selling, There is plenty of other cars that catch my eye, but its just so rare and its now how I wanted it. Im off to the states in feb, so going to try bringing some heads back in luggage ;-)
Niffty951 said:
SturdyHSV said:
Little startup video
Sweet mother of all that is holy. After reading pages and pages of the rebuild, beautifully documented by the way, appreciate your honesty not trying to cover up the little mistakes we all make.I got to this video and my god! It sounded better than I ever imagined it would. That's about as good a noise as I've ever heard a car make at idle! The satisfaction must have been stratospheric to hear that again after the hard work and cold fingers.
Here's a warm idle video, simply because I keep finding myself filming it
SturdyHSV said:
Polly Grigora said:
Hi, noticed your topic on the first page, been a long time since reading here, good to see you've got the motivation, many fade away into obscurity
Have you managed to keep your sanity during sorting out all the nagging problems?
Does your alternator not have a D+/61 output?
Good to have you back, I've made more or an effort to keep the wiring tidy in case you were watching Have you managed to keep your sanity during sorting out all the nagging problems?
Does your alternator not have a D+/61 output?
I don't know if it does, I hate electrickery remember! Appreciate that would be the correct and far simpler way to do it!
To be fair my motivation has been up and down, but most problems have been an opportunity to do it a bit better so not too bad. I'm not convinced by the look of the pistons that I'm not going to end up with so much piston rock that I have no oil control at all and need to rebuild it, but at that point I'll be buying a block with longer sleeves, so an opportunity to go for the magical 427ci
Buying a block? How difficult is it to buy one delivered?
Nope, not been watching your wiring escapades that you post here as haven't read through your topic for a long time
Not now but some day soon will catch up with where you're at
What do you reckon to b
ks to motivation? As and when has always worked for meWhatever, keep the faith
Your topic is better than many
Polly Grigora said:
Good to know and good for you which is obviously the main thing - This is your work right
Buying a block? How difficult is it to buy one delivered?
Nope, not been watching your wiring escapades that you post here as haven't read through your topic for a long time
Not now but some day soon will catch up with where you're at
What do you reckon to bks to motivation? As and when has always worked for me
Whatever, keep the faith
Your topic is better than many
As and when is good, although it does lead to me regretting that the car isn't on the road as I want to be using it!Buying a block? How difficult is it to buy one delivered?
Nope, not been watching your wiring escapades that you post here as haven't read through your topic for a long time
Not now but some day soon will catch up with where you're at
What do you reckon to b
ks to motivation? As and when has always worked for meWhatever, keep the faith
Your topic is better than many
Buying a block would be easy enough, plenty of suppliers in the US that manufacture them, don't get me wrong, going to be very expensive, I would be surprised if I have any change from £8k once it's in the country, maybe even 10
But once it's done, I wouldn't have to worry about the reliability with the stroke etc and in time that cost would be forgotten (/ mentally amortised over many years
)Got something in the works for the Monaro that'll possibly be unique over here, so that's exciting too, definitely in the "post engine build" euphoria where all other tasks seem pretty small in comparison!
The idle sounds so deep and naughty.
I can get mine to idle very low and with no stalling , thats the benefit if the ITB's. My idle controll valve is hopeless on this set up though, so I need to pedal it a bit for about a miniute till it gets some temp. Here it is with the side pipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYtdd1A_U4
I can get mine to idle very low and with no stalling , thats the benefit if the ITB's. My idle controll valve is hopeless on this set up though, so I need to pedal it a bit for about a miniute till it gets some temp. Here it is with the side pipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYtdd1A_U4
motomk said:
mmm.......What do we export from Melbourne?
Wheat? a wheat powered V8? maybe not... Wine? a grape powered V8? sounds more like it
I can exclusively confirm it is neither of those things Wheat? a wheat powered V8? maybe not... Wine? a grape powered V8? sounds more like it
Meant to arrive Monday, UPS wouldn't leave it, left a card to fill out and "leave visible" and they'd leave it. Filled it out, taped it to the door, and nope, just left the same card again, telling me to fill it in and leave it visible...
Oh well, at home today so let's see how they try and avoid delivering it this time!
Also, was informed the wagon made an appearance in an AdamC video, remember seeing him at the time and he shared it on his Facebook page, but here we go, very complimentary, 1m16 ish.
I am wondering what the mystery parcel could be too!
That's a great clip in the adamc video, much better than his Car show leaving stuff :P
I managed to get my car in one earlier in the year for the whole 1 show I was able to attend before my engine rattled itself to death
around the 30:50 mark
Although order has been placed on my stroker kit so hopefully come spring..
That's a great clip in the adamc video, much better than his Car show leaving stuff :P
I managed to get my car in one earlier in the year for the whole 1 show I was able to attend before my engine rattled itself to death
around the 30:50 mark
Although order has been placed on my stroker kit so hopefully come spring..
Samjeev said:
I am wondering what the mystery parcel could be too!
That's a great clip in the adamc video, much better than his Car show leaving stuff :P
I managed to get my car in one earlier in the year for the whole 1 show I was able to attend before my engine rattled itself to death
around the 30:50 mark
Although order has been placed on my stroker kit so hopefully come spring..
It's such a cool car, real shame about the death rattle That's a great clip in the adamc video, much better than his Car show leaving stuff :P
I managed to get my car in one earlier in the year for the whole 1 show I was able to attend before my engine rattled itself to death
around the 30:50 mark
Although order has been placed on my stroker kit so hopefully come spring..
What kit did you go with, rolled the dice with a 4.000" or played it safe with 3.900"?
My mystery package has (finally) arrived!!
Dog included for scale...
SturdyHSV said:
It's such a cool car, real shame about the death rattle
What kit did you go with, rolled the dice with a 4.000" or played it safe with 3.900"?
My mystery package has (finally) arrived!!
Dog included for scale...
Rolled the dice with the 4.000" couldn't pass it up, silly perhaps but screw it!What kit did you go with, rolled the dice with a 4.000" or played it safe with 3.900"?
My mystery package has (finally) arrived!!
Dog included for scale...
Purchased this one but it probably won't turn up until the new year:
https://cnc-motorsports.com/compstar-416-ls3-strok...
I'll get around to updating my silly thread at some point
also bought some other goodies to delete my big brake booster so that should give a bunch more room for hoses/wiring/coil pack/spark plug removalSamjeev said:
Rolled the dice with the 4.000" couldn't pass it up, silly perhaps but screw it!
Purchased this one but it probably won't turn up until the new year:
https://cnc-motorsports.com/compstar-416-ls3-strok...
I'll get around to updating my silly thread at some point also bought some other goodies to delete my big brake booster so that should give a bunch more room for hoses/wiring/coil pack/spark plug removal
Fingers crossed for you with the 4.000", I got mine from CNC as well, was painless and arrived as expected etc. Purchased this one but it probably won't turn up until the new year:
https://cnc-motorsports.com/compstar-416-ls3-strok...
I'll get around to updating my silly thread at some point
also bought some other goodies to delete my big brake booster so that should give a bunch more room for hoses/wiring/coil pack/spark plug removalWhat goodies have you gone for brake booster wise? I have a Hydratech hydro-boost setup in the Ro, mostly for aesthetics but worked out fortuitously because it means clearance for those valve covers I've got, else I don't know if they've have fit!!
Pedal feel / braking is remarkable, but I'm not sure how much of that is the jump to the 6 pot APs up front, it has all new brake lines and braided flexi lines so yeah, feels really really good.
SturdyHSV said:
Fingers crossed for you with the 4.000", I got mine from CNC as well, was painless and arrived as expected etc.
What goodies have you gone for brake booster wise? I have a Hydratech hydro-boost setup in the Ro, mostly for aesthetics but worked out fortuitously because it means clearance for those valve covers I've got, else I don't know if they've have fit!!
Pedal feel / braking is remarkable, but I'm not sure how much of that is the jump to the 6 pot APs up front, it has all new brake lines and braided flexi lines so yeah, feels really really good.
Yeah space to the valve covers is what i'm chasing, had to take a hammer to the booster just to get it all to fit as it is!What goodies have you gone for brake booster wise? I have a Hydratech hydro-boost setup in the Ro, mostly for aesthetics but worked out fortuitously because it means clearance for those valve covers I've got, else I don't know if they've have fit!!
Pedal feel / braking is remarkable, but I'm not sure how much of that is the jump to the 6 pot APs up front, it has all new brake lines and braided flexi lines so yeah, feels really really good.
Basically just no booster at all, manual brakes with a correctly sized master and slightly adjustable pedal ratio if need be. Couple of companies in the states have made quite a niche kit to tick those boxes and then just ship it as a kit with a firewall adapter.
https://www.savageautoworks.shop/product-page/tand...
This being the kit in question, looks really quite simple but I could not find this master (nor a similar tilton, OEM, etc product) for love nor money in the UK so figured i'd just bite the bullet and rely on someone elses R&D, should save a ton of room compared to the old monstrous unit.
And cheers, leaving it all in the hands of the engineering shop this time so hopefully the engine has the best chance possible going forward
Samjeev said:
Yeah space to the valve covers is what i'm chasing, had to take a hammer to the booster just to get it all to fit as it is!
Basically just no booster at all, manual brakes with a correctly sized master and slightly adjustable pedal ratio if need be. Couple of companies in the states have made quite a niche kit to tick those boxes and then just ship it as a kit with a firewall adapter.
https://www.savageautoworks.shop/product-page/tand...
This being the kit in question, looks really quite simple but I could not find this master (nor a similar tilton, OEM, etc product) for love nor money in the UK so figured i'd just bite the bullet and rely on someone elses R&D, should save a ton of room compared to the old monstrous unit.
And cheers, leaving it all in the hands of the engineering shop this time so hopefully the engine has the best chance possible going forward
That kit looks great, and as you say nice when someone else has done the R&D!Basically just no booster at all, manual brakes with a correctly sized master and slightly adjustable pedal ratio if need be. Couple of companies in the states have made quite a niche kit to tick those boxes and then just ship it as a kit with a firewall adapter.
https://www.savageautoworks.shop/product-page/tand...
This being the kit in question, looks really quite simple but I could not find this master (nor a similar tilton, OEM, etc product) for love nor money in the UK so figured i'd just bite the bullet and rely on someone elses R&D, should save a ton of room compared to the old monstrous unit.
And cheers, leaving it all in the hands of the engineering shop this time so hopefully the engine has the best chance possible going forward
I'm sure what the 86 needs is 6.6 litres of torque mate, going to be hilarious fun
Had to shuffle cars around to get the Ro in the garage (once I've tidied it up...) so an angry cold chop video was inevitable... Secret package contents looking good
The Monaro is in the garage now, with the plan being to fit the box of parts that arrived from Australia (they're suspension parts...) and I figured whilst it was back in the garage (I know, it hasn't seen the road since coming out of the garage last time) I'd also try and investigate this ABS light further.
To that end, I have arbitrarily loaded the parts cannon with a pair of front wheel hub / bearings as the ABS sensor is integral to these. No, I don't particularly think that I need to replace the bearings, but it won't hurt to do them as the car has done 70,000 miles, and it will likely rule out the sensor as being the issue (and ensure focus remains on my dodgy wiring as it likely should be)
Worst case if I get them out cleanly then I have some passable spares for the Ute should that need front bearings in a hurry for some reason
To that end, I have arbitrarily loaded the parts cannon with a pair of front wheel hub / bearings as the ABS sensor is integral to these. No, I don't particularly think that I need to replace the bearings, but it won't hurt to do them as the car has done 70,000 miles, and it will likely rule out the sensor as being the issue (and ensure focus remains on my dodgy wiring as it likely should be)
Worst case if I get them out cleanly then I have some passable spares for the Ute should that need front bearings in a hurry for some reason
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