igor
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Is probably due for fresh antifreeze. Has been a while.
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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.
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Welcome aboard. Build thread for Mistral please.
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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.
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Gotta love a clean sheet wof.
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If he needs a shitbox for his daughter to drive why not that?
Perhaps Mr 808 is correct and it's fucked.
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Was going to say it needs more high but having seen that pic it really doesn't. Looks about right to me.
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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.
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A friend of a friend in the '80s had a Hunter with a 2.0 litre Pinto in it but he had put a big square hump in the bonnet to get it to fit. Consequently it looked as ugly as a bag full of arse. Good luck with the project and please do it better than he did.
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Does one need very small hands for that Valiant? Perhaps I can get the youngest boy to help me. It's time he learnt some mechanical stuff.
Took the coon for a run this morning and it started up rougher than ever. Was running like a bag of arse. Thought for a moment it was down on four cylinders. Came good though and was running sweet. Fifty miles or so into town with no trouble. Went to Repco for an air filter, which they didn't have, and a bottle of injector cleaner which they had a selection of. Nulon, as recommended by 8ball, on special at two for $25 instead of $19.95 so I got a diesel one for the tractor as well. Tank was under a quarter so gave it a dose and filled up with 95 (98 not available). Got within ten miles of home and it started hesitating a bit but not as bad as before. Leads all look okay, will check plugs when the engine is cold then have a go at the dizzy.
I'm aware that the XR6T is governed so it can't out power the XR8. Wouldn't be good for sales if a six had bigger balls than the V8.
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2 hours ago, locost_bryan said:
Jag HE V12 and Tremec 6-speed?
And I thought I was making a ridiculous suggestion.
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Yeah triples mate.
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My boss and his dad tried a BA when they first came out and reckoned it was too tight across the shoulders. They are both pretty big guys though.
Be more inclined to do a V8 transplant than a Barra into an EA given the choice. Mate at work regularly gives me cheek about my six cylinder coons. Reckons anything that big needs an 8. He is of course biased as he's on at least his third V8 coon.
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I might have suggested an ohc Falcon six until I went to check the dizzy on mine today and found it so far up under the manifold as to be unreachable. Still might be a good idea though. Would go hard enough.
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My eldest jokes about setting his watch back fifty years when he comes to visit.
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Sounds like a huge fuck around to do the conversion but it is an interesting thought. Surprised it is popular enough for a conversion kit to be made. As it happens I have two throttle body injected EAs and an XC here. What're the odds the XC carby will fit on the EA manifold without mods?
Is the conversion for speedway/stockcars?
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So uprate the springs. They went hard enough in Cortinas. Uncle had one new back in the day.
Diff might be an issue.
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Yes you do. Falcon 4.1 iron head crossflow.
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Heater works fine UJ but will check hoses anyway.
Thanks for that 8ball. Will try that. Can't get 98 around here though. How much difference does it make?
Totally unkeen to take the manifold off to reach the dizzy. This is why I love old pushrod dinosaurs with a carby.
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So the whole thing was a con job then? Have to admit I did use it back in the early '90s.
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Just had a look at this while the weather was good. What stupid bastard designs a thing with the dizzy hidden so far up under the manifold that you can't even see both cap retaining clips much less reach them? Far worse than putting the alternator directly under the power steering pump so it can fill up with leaked oil and fuck itself. Air filter looks disgusting so that'll get replaced first then a dose of injector cleaner. Anyone recommend a good product for this please?
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Good to know you've got this fixed. Bless all the OSGCs who helped a member in his time of need.
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Thanks for all the thoughts guys. Now I need a day when it isn't raining or blowing like forty bastards so I can look into it.
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It's always idled a bit high but it never bothered me. Not always evenly though. Sometimes idle speed will rise a bit just randomly for a while. I've always run 91 octane same as in my carby and throttle body injected coons. Serial coon driver since 2000. This is my fourth one and the others all ran sweet on 91.
EA Coon running rough
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Has not been overheated and the oil looks clean, not milky like when water gets in it.