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hey guys just wondering if any one is going to the 2013 drags? DIRT DRAGS 2013 12th October Landing Rd Arapuni. It's a week later than the original date. New venue flatter longer and wider. It's going to be sweet! Let the fellow dirt squirters know cheers or can be found on face book here https://www.facebook.com/MdDirtDragsNz?fref=ts

Great job on the headlining man! a tip. once windows are in put a steamer (or electric kettle) in let it steam away like my boss did as an apprentice. wrinkles will slowly disappear.

Thanks guys. i had a mate standing on the tow ball to get this height but i will be getting 2inch drop spindle for the front and getting a spear set of rear springs flattened to suit.

Valiant got a buff in the weekend. looking sharp now! i will get a better picture when i get the time. also whats the thoughts on ride height like this

so ive been doing a bit of upholstery in my spare time lately and i think i need a ap5 wagon. as you can see the sedan isn't quite big enough for transporting mates upholstery around. so if you know of a ap5/6/vc wagon going for sale let me know

few weeks ago i thought i would bleed my brakes again they were feeling funny. Turns out my front ones were kinda seized. here is what i found on my front pistons. we rebuilt them there and then at my mates work shop. but i got home and pulled the rear brakes apart to find this much on my shoes about sweet bugger all. got me some new ones put them on and thought i better get my drums skimmed and see if they were all mint. one was semi good and the other one was rubbish. wobbled every way possible. so had a quick look in the back shed found some and got them all skimmed up looking new. then realized the old ones had been drilled to a bigger stud pattern. after calling a wise old man he recommended me just doing it this way. bolted my semi good one to my now new ones threw the small stud pattern and then proceeded to use the drill press to drill new holes. worked a treat took the bur off them threw them back on the valiant and away we went. valiant now stops. that's that for now. hopefully nothing much more fails on me.

FULL OF UTTER WIN!!!!!! love it!!

that looks typical for a wagon. have you got any other photos of the wagon would love to see it. hope to see the tailgate fixed soon good luck

i do upholstery for a living. there are guys that can die it or spray it. if doing it yourself i would recommend VHT stuff just make sure u clean it really well and would recommend doing it on a hot day or maybe finding some one local or close to do a cashie for you. pm if your interested in a price on a cashie. best of luck any way

so i went to get some wood to build my bench tonight and caught this view of the valiant and had to take a quick picture

well i have some good news. GOT A WOF TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its also the 1st time driving it with a fixed exhaust manifold. goes a bloody treat! i also got busy and painted my floor in the weekend. if u remember my garage looked like this before hand its now looking like this all stripped out ready to build a sewing bench so i can fix my upholstery in my valiant. i used a acid and a water blaster to clean the floor up before painting. i could have done with maybe 2 more letters of acid and about 8 more letters of water. this is the acid i used and this is how it came up. stuff worked a treat. my mate and partner got rather high on the paint fums and it stunk the hole house out for a couple of nights. but thats that for now. off to drive my now legal valiant!! chow.

thanks man will look there and man i wish i could make it to mopars in the south but wont be able to make it.

so my wof run out time is next week so have to get a move on and fix my lil problems. managed to fix one of them tonight, got two new hankook tyres for the front. just by driving it home it felt so much nicer to drive. i now have to fix one bolt and about 5 exhaust leaks. i also thought i would see what the valiant would look like with the mesh visor i had in the back shed for it. here is the photo i took late that night. i think it will be staying on there from now on. just need to find a way to fasten it on now.

very very nice car glad to see the upholstery got done. on a really hot day throw them out in the sun and you will find the wrinkles slowly disappear.

thanks man. i really enjoy working on it myself as much as possible so i can say i done it. and the less money i spend fixing it the more money i can put into it (petrol wise) the rocker cover will look even better once its on it

so its been a frustrating couple of weeks since my last up date. as i was towing my mates car i felt a bit of a shutter as i was letting the clutch out. so thought better get under there rip it out put the one i had in the back shed my dad sorted out years ago for me. here a a few pictures of the old one. and here is where the rest of the clutch was very lucky i had a spear one that was half complete cause check out this i also put a lightened fly wheel on while it was all apart. this is what dad had organised for the valiant. but i was missing the friction plate. i thought i had found one in the back garage but it was broken as well so i ordered one. thought it was correct so put it back together. turned out it wasn't correct. so shot out to a mates place and had a look threw what my mate called a mini horopito motors for mopar parts. turned out he had one will all the million parts he had out there. so back home and chucked it in. here is the friction plate i got off my mate me and my mates were becoming very good and replacing the clutch so didn't take long and it was running and all going again. so one happy man now. but if u need a hand doing a clutch on a slant 6 let me know. will have it all apart in about 20mins. i have also created a group on face book "mopar or no car" if you are a mopar owner please join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/174947822683565/?bookmark_t=group. would love to get more people on it and go for a good cruise.

thanks im currently saving for a few extra things for it and electronic ignition is one of them on the two do list. having to change clutch next week. hopefully things dont keep braking on me.

nothing has really happened since the wof other than i found out it does roughly 380kms to a tank of gas at the cost of $130. turns out it isnt cheap to run. but its also running like a sack of potatoes at the moment. any one recommend some one good at tuning a car in the waikato? here a few pics a mate took last night while we were out and about. also check out the photo street machine shared on there face book page

so thought i better take the valiant for a wof. this here is the result. i didn't think its such a bad list since its last wof was due in July 2006 and it was my 1st time welding. but on another note does any one have or know of two falken tyres sized 14/60/235.

very nice ap5! glad there are more around getting work done on. im still trying to find my brothers 318 ap5

so been a a wile driving around knowing i needed to fix my exhaust leak in the valiant. had a mate over and got thinking and thought we could swap my buggered one with a replacement one. it ended going like this..... unbolted factory one to find it was in close to three peaces, here is half of it and my mate pointing at the 2nd huge crack here is the other half then we tried unbolting the flange to my existing exhaust. and that didn't work, even with a rattle gun. so out with the grinder and chop chop it was. walked out to the garden shed and grabbed this lovely purple thing had a nice flange on the back so shoot down to scrape palace grabbed so pipe to make some kinda tapered mechanism. ended up something like this. bit of welding latter and wabam... looking good enough for me. new gasket was brought from auto trail earlier in the week and slapped that on and put the extractors on. turned out the 2 1/2 inch pipe that was welded on was hitting the floor so a quick cut and bend and weld up problem solved. also just to make extra clearance i took a little bit off the flange as when the engine torques the exhaust will become closer to the floor again. welded the existing exhaust up to the tapered pipe i made earlier and started to put on the intake manifold. came across another problem. the intake manifold was 14mm and the exhaust manifold was 12mm so my washers where not going to pull equally. so out with the grinder yet again!!!! on that went and gave it a quick turn over so i could hear what it sounded like sounds bloody nice!!! thought i better put a new fan belt on as well. managed to get one to short from been an amature. so walked out to the garden shed again had a quick look and came across this my dad had thought of everything!! bloody lucky i had him around to find all these things before he passed away. that's all for now. hopefully i get to fix my own interior soon and give it a good buff.

excuse my spelling. im not the best It wasn't long before i had someone traveling up the North Island to come pick my truck up, so window rubbers were ordered. Meanwhile a few more things had to be done. Headlining was hanging from rust repairs around the windows so brought the glue gun home from work and glued it up. The sound deadening had managed to fall down as well. so glued it all back up and started to put all the side windows in what a mission trying to get that one back in. by the 4th window i would consider myself a pro now wasn't to much longer and the guys from hamilton windscreens were putting the front and rear windows in for me. had to leave them to it so i could get back to work. got home from work and the windows were done so thought I'd pop out say hi to John at World Of Tyres Pukete. Persuaded with some bourbon, the valiant was up on the hoist getting a wheel alignment in minutes. wheels were also balanced. while the front wheels were off i grabbed this photo. not many ap5 valiants floating around with the latter vc disk brake set up on the front. I'm glad my dad knew what he was doing when i was young. the next day i shot back to help out and go get him some parts for his car, i came back to one shinny guard that he decided he would polish for me while i was out in his van quite the difference. im wondering if i left it with him for a day if it would be all shinny for me when i got back..... went on its 1st out of town drive to visit a mate see if he had a exhaust manifold because mines got a huge hole in it. just pulling into his driveway and realized temp was getting warm. popped the bonnet and top water hose has a nice crack in it. so scavenging through his parts trying to find a manifold i also found a nice hose as well. problem fixed. later that day had to go pick up a engine crane for a mate. got this nice photo while i was hooking up the trailer. and today i thought i better give the engine and radiator a flush out after seeing what lovely water i was running. here is a pic of what was in it isn't that beautiful. also gave the windows a good clean. now i have to remind myself i have them and i can't just throw things on to the drivers seat and that's that for now. im still trying to find a dash ash tray for it as ours had a oil pressure gauge in it and ive moved it.

thanks man. the engine will get a good clean down and probably pulled apart to clean things like the cam. as for the right hand front guard. thats mint, no can do with helping you get rid of it. as i also have a parts shed full of extras. but if it going to go to a fee home, you know were to find me

so my trucks on trade me for sale now if any one is after a nice surf. its all so i can make the valiant a hole lot better and go faster. here are some picks of the engine that's been sitting in my garage for a little while and other parts. think they are pretty self explanatory. have a bit of lift on this bright cam any one notice the top of these pistons yet? im glad my dad had done most of this for me. will be happy to peace it all together and see what he had in mind. all new gaskets ready to go. nice offenhouser cover i also got some finger painting done around the body before the windows go back in. got the bottom coat on. nice black paint final coating was in some white. it will do for now till full rebuild happens got the brake master cylinder back together and in the car. bleed the brakes and they are working now. so i think i might go for a drive up the street tomorrow. also checked the tail lights and well they work and that's that for now. will get some info on the engine this week, as you can see its pretty much there. hopefully wont need to much and will come together rather quickly

thanks man. your falcons rather nice it self. they sure can be built to throw some power, we where thinking of changing it to floor change and using a hilman superminx box but i will be leaving it 3 speed column shift.