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Eww, it's a diseasel.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say number two is a bit dodgy. When you cleaned and re-gapped that plug how long did it run good for?

Lol at Barry Ave here too.

I thought the pink and white suited it. No-one wants to see your anus.

Should be sweet without indicators as pre '77. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Didn't say it was sensible Bart, just an idea. Makes about as much sense as six motorcycle carbs.

What about triple SUs? Or even triple Webers like an E49 Charger has.

Fuck off, it's hard old cross ply smoke.

Iron head ftw.

Wonder if my work mate's V8 XD has one. It was a Taxi Pack model with the alloy head 4.1 and still has the Alloy Head badges on the front guards. Should ask him one day.

Or should have had them but nobody bothered to do it.

My Vanguard has near enough to full tread depth on the new retread cross plies I got in the '80s. That'll be cos I haven't driven it since the '80s. Warrantable tread, rubber hard as hell, and probably sidewall cracking for Africa.

1 hour ago, 8ball said:

Mpg isnt always a good indication of running well.

 

 

This is very true.

Last rough calculation was 22mpg, got down to 14 mpg a couple of years ago towing a double horse float from 'clutha to Colac Bay and return.

I've had 29 mpg on a long trip out of another one with throttle body injection and 4 speed automatic. Whangarei to Porirua 802 km on 78 litres. What's yours do?

Work mate claims to get fairly consistent 25 mpg from XD sedan with 302 and auto.

Has not been overheated and the oil looks clean, not milky like when water gets in it.

Is probably due for fresh antifreeze. Has been a while.

My mother came out with this one many years ago. Not an acronym but still amusing.

Buy a Holden,

buy the best,

drive a mile,

walk the rest.

Welcome aboard. Build thread for Mistral please.

Cleaned and re-gapped the spark plugs tonight. Healthy colour but those gaps were enormous. The book says 1-1.1mm, the gaps were all around 1.7mm. Blasted the air filter with compressed air resulting in all manner of filth coming out. Took it for a hurtle up the road and back, resisting the urge to lay some Os on my mate's gravel truck turn around, and now it runs heaps better right across the rev range.

Gotta love a clean sheet wof.

If he needs a shitbox for his daughter to drive why not that?

Perhaps Mr 808 is correct and it's fucked.

Was going to say it needs more high but having seen that pic it really doesn't. Looks about right to me.

The only V8s I have driven were Holdens belonging to my doctor. An '02 Monaro with little more than delivery kms on it so not to be driven hard (1100 rpm at 100 km/hr in sixth gear, torque for Africa, and dangerously quiet with factory mufflers) and a VL Walkinshaw special. Loved the Walky, heavy clutch, clunky race box, lumpy cam and all. Perhaps I just have a thing for dinosaurs.