dr.wylde

Thread revival My quaddie is now running richer at idle on my 308 with larger cam (specs unknown) its a late carb on an early 308 I havnt altered a thing on the carb as it ran perfect on my stock blue 308 cheers

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=961512183877989&l=5085861692179098200 short video! hear that note!

Agreed old man high lyfe

That's a sweet movie

I got lucky admittedly I had money tied up in 2 other cars and shed loads of old holden and mini parts that i sold to fund a new engine, its hard having project cars that you can't put any paycheck money into due to raising a young family/bills/daily bullshit the race aint over till its driveable!

Ok! I didn't get this car driving by christmas as I had to work on christmas day. (Stink) But every spare moment i had was spent on the statesman. Eventually it began to look like a car again so finally my driveway looked less like a trailer park got the nose fitted and the mrs fitted the lights while I was at work Got the manifold and carb on as well as ALL! the plumbing ( word of advice dont own luxury early pollution engined vehicles everything runs of a vacuum pipe which is a total mindfuck) oil,fuel set the timing and battery in , cranked it over, turned over four full revolutions before it fired .got running oil pressure came up to spec nicely within 10seconds lifters pumped up and yeah sounds so good. I'ma happy. on a different note here is a shot of the factory head/tape deck for you holden foamers and a shot of my rear seats every door has a ashtray and ciggie lighter I believe I had a little race on with Flyingbrick and Shaz who could get there holden going first! I think i might be winning! Hope you lot had a sweet Xmas cheers The Doc

h'mgod uleh updating build thread

Go onto youtube search habib fat pizza

Not quite as the driveshaft is still out Tonight I drink in celebration

IT RUNS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PICS TO COME

very nice. its gonna be sweet car mate

Is it 4wd? if so it needs to be jacked up sky high with 44" mud tyres, roll like a redneck!

noice

^^^^ please excuse that last blurry photo didnt realise it was so blurry anyway.. moving on I then got the new engine ready to go in the sump that came with this engine had been painted on the inside. I'm not cool about that sort of thing so i removed it and fitted my one from the blue engine after giving it a quick coat of black. Those tall rocker covers were cool and all but they were bloody rusty, Thankfully I had a spare set of chrome ones left over from my scrapped 253. all the original pulleys, cruise control diaphragm, water pump ,engine mounts were fitted and the oil pump re-primed as it was full of grease ( following Neal/ 3onthetree's advice I'ma use vaseline) Then I refitted the engine and what a prick that was in full humidity an engine crane not designed to be operated on gravel and the car and engine being on an angle to each other however I got it done . Yeah its in now! I'm Fuckin' Happy with that! MAYTE! stay tuned weirdos I want this driving before Xmas! discuss--------->//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/44998-wyldes-84-holden-statesman-deville-series-ii/

OK! We last left off with and empty engine bay! at the present moment. I dont have any bits for my shitty mig welder so there will be no extractor fitment just yet. as some of you know the blue/black 308s have a retarded flap on the drivers side exhaust manifold which when shut forces spent gases back through the head and through a passage under the intake manifold and exits through the passenger side this helps with better fuel atomization at the expense of power. So my thoughts where to remove the retard butterfly flap for my red engine. I then proceded to remove the manifold and i was greeted with this well waddaya know some GC has done it for me

your wallet must be getting light mate! nice wog spec wagz tho!

or do this instead! puhuhuhuhu

this or the bro'ham either way they are both sweet rides! very jelly

hey mate just saw this.... noice! dont change a thing on that van paintwise just seal up that uderside and fix the mechanical and roll it as a survivor from the van craze of the 70's cam up the 253 and use that in this, then do a massive skid it would be fully sick uleh! h'mgod

Yeah Still keen for this! I'll have me car sorted by then.

No I'm Habib/ Fat pizza

Holden red 308 of the 1972 vintage

hey Flash yeah There was no way in hell i was going to pay that! just lucky i located this because I was looking at crate 350's when i came upon this

nah sorry mate just std rockers checked that hoping it would be rollers but its so mint happiness

I'm a leave this here still has assembly lube and has never fired a shot yeeya now tell me, whats your preferred method of oil pump priming?