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Oh yeah it goes hard! Got a go pro vid of first drive will edit get that up.

Finished up the intercooler pipes managed to make the passengers side one piece really happy with how it turned out. Everything done by eye only welded one pipe on backwards.

Had some plumbing to do under car first one was hooking back up exhaust. Which is done not 100% happy but fully functional though I migged it as currently it's one piece front to back was to hard to do with tig.

Epic day on this! It's back together finally just fettling now it's a running driving car. Front bumper back on kind of a sleeper kind of isn't.

So far no issues, and I gave it the fullest of full beans over the hill to Moutere today. The tyres are IRL pretty shit at anything over 80km/h, I may investigate finding something with actual sidewall stiffness. And here is an *action shot* that at least proves my wiring is legit.

Started the afternoon by emptying everything off the car floor and vacuum the carpet to find any lost screw. Got stuck into scratching off the rotten/dried/mankified insulation from the passengers footwell and found out it isn't really too bad, has holes but could be alot worse. So obviously after such a good start i spotted the musical airhorns i pulled out of it sitting on the bench and decided that would be far more rewarding getting them to work again. Stripped the pump down and gave everything a good clean and lube then slotted it back together. Good news is it works again. Bad news is the compressor still sounds like it is grinding rocks. Calling it a day now. In all their trademe spec 2006 glory!

I will guarantee you one thing, i have no idea what i am doing!

Bugger re the plenum rust, have been putting off doing same repair for the valiant. Might use this as inspiration to kick the work off…

Like a premonition I had earlier in the thread, I am considering moving this beautiful 240c on, much to my dismay.. I have the opportunity to buy the house I'm renting, it's a long and boring story but basically I've got about 3 months to scratch together the rest of the deposit, and as you well know every dollar found is $4 extra house debt I can climb into. Yippee. The house needs the muchos loving so this would go some way to lubricating that project, which will be the primary project once in my possession.. Most recent pics. I would however ensure she was rolling again. I've got a manual box for it, and I've also located the elusive side glass so she's all but complete. Jump in my chat to start a bidding war, lowball me, or talk me out of it.

Deal

I have, what is guess is, a coin purse from the 1950s. It's about 2mm too small to put a bank card in, and pull back out easy. So I made one slightly bigger, original has 3 sections, but I made this one 2. Just sealed the edges, will sand them down tomorrow to tidy them up Water lizard skin, with nz lamb interior. Aaaannnd wife has claimed it. So il probably make another just out of leather for me Sewed with my vickers machine. It flew through even the 4 layer bits like it wasn't there.

Yeah ken

Jeeze I just spotted this on Trademe - speak of the bloody devil! https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/car-parts-accessories/holden/brakes/listing/4706364924?bof=Fx6hYD2b

I have owned this car for the past 3 years. It has had a 3.3 engine and a cresta rear end installed. The front end has been gone through with rebuilt ball joints and shocks all around. New dual exhausts that cackle. I have an overdrive that is going to be assembled and installed. The 65 front grill is because I had a 65 when I was in my 20’s. Photo from Kumeu two years ago.

Guess same spot same time in a month @- i5oogt -?

Was Ken for a burger but just not able at moment. Mushroom burger sounds decent!

Cheers @deankdx, the idea has crossed my mind. But that wont stop it from happening again, if i take it all apart i can rustkill and paint everything as it goes back together.

Yeah I'd like to put some blue and black on it to match the rest of the bike. Just happy to get some white on it and get it rolling. Went for a ride with a mate on Tues and had my speedo cluster come off/brake. Had been watching one on trademe for the last 4 weeks. Rang him and picked it up and changed it while we were out and about haha. Squshed my quadlock phone holder onto it and held it in place while we rode to the guys house. Speaking of quadlock, I got that and some wing mirrors off Aliexpress. Happy with the quadlock stuff and how the mirrors look. But they don't hold well at 100kph, the move a lot so I might have to find some none Aliexpress mirrors that look similar

that rust in the plenum, before you drill out 100s of spot welds. just check from under side if they are accessible (from under the dash) you may need to turn the car on it's side/upside down, or weld upside down (liquid metal falls in your elbow vein if not wearing leather sleeves) I've seen it done twice now welded from this side when the majority is solid. (have also seen just a section of the plenum cut out rather than the whole thing) just thought i'd mention it as an option before you get into it.

The last one of those I did , needed extra mounts , as the tank was a lot bigger than original but still bolted in with 4x 8mm bolts or whatever an rx3 has Plus sealing the boot, making sure fuel can't leak onto electrical or exhaust etc

Is there a mobile vehicle compliance option in the waikato? Working on a project thats not mobile yet.

Oh, forgot to mention there are at least 2 more holes in the opposite end of that cowl. And the reason for that? Ford never painted the steel lower panel, or the undersides of the upper for that matter. Same as all the panelwork hidden by the front guards, can't see it? Save the paint for somewhere else...

It raises a question, as I'm sure the likes of the PAC Performance tanks can be certed, but they have fittings in the boot area, and lines no doubt running through the factory in boot locations.

Dash is out! Has been for a week or so but i forgot to take pics. And if we look under the wiper panel... We see this ballsache in the making. If you look through the smaller of the 2 support gusset holes you can see a nice rust hole. So i have approx 200 spotwelds to drill out to split the cowl panels apart and see how bad it really is. That can wait until engine is out though so i have somewhere to stand.....and cry.

Been a while since I discussed it with @cletus for my application, but from what I remember, its more to do with the connections inside the vehicle. So if you have hose connections/clamps that could possibly break or leak, or any sort of flanged/removable connection, then there is a chance fuel vapor could get into passenger cabin if there was a slight leak etc. Which is why sealing off the boot is needed. In my case, all the fuel fittings were under the floor, but because the filler neck passed through cabin and it had 2 hose clamps connecting filler neck to tank, I had to seal it off. I could be wrong but I think we established that if I made a fancier filler neck connection under floor with a low profile o-ringed flange or something like that then I wouldn't have need a sealed off cover. But I'm not sure about whether sealing is required if you have a 100% sealed tank with all connections/fittings under floor when you do a carb to efi swap. Probably depends on how your tank is setup. If you intank pump has a flanged access point inside the boot like Kellys surge pot does, then that would likely be classed as a potential leak point.