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  1. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Took a break from other projects to look at this again today. The white tank was pretty scody, have heard a few methods of sorting this, but tried first scraping the powdery stuff off with a razor blade, went ok... Then tried some cutting polish, made it shiny but bugger all difference, so tried some wet and dry sandpaper with a bit of this instead of water, started with 240, then 400, 1000 grit on a flat test section... And can definitely see where I've done it... But it's pretty labour intensive, so I tried making a paste out of bleach and baking powder. Brushed it on and left in the sun till it dried... And blasted it off with great excitement... To see it's done fuck all... So looks like sanding is the go. Interesting exercise anyway. Won't be too bad if I take it a section at a time...
  2. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Great read. Another topic I'm too scared to venture into lest my latent Barryism kicks in and it takes over my life...
  3. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Crew shirts pretty much gonna be these with an EA tweak... Gave mine a trial run Saturday and was only told off by one lady for wearing it...
  4. Lord Gruntfuttock
    And yes it'll be slow, but he's rallied before and is aware of the costs involved in trying to stay in the top ten. This is really just a fun project, something to play with and use. I'm on the crew, which means road trips, carrying tyres and getting out of the house... Trip to its new shed was via a pub or two to refresh and top up sharns... It's gonna need a new seat as it is a bit snug for fat old blokes... And came with enough tyres for a couple of years of rallying... So was sort of running to get on/off trailer, but cleaning the water out of the distributor and fresh fuel fired her into life, air in the tyres and it was hoon time... A slight road trip to private-ish gravel roads let us have a wee play, shee-itt it's gonna be fun. There'e an easy hunderd or so HP available with bolt-on bits (heads, mainly) so the engine will be pulled for an inspection/freshen up. I'll post updates as things go, and am looking fwd to being on a race crew. Pit girl applications welcome...
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    Just putting this up to keep track of things. Mate bought an old EA rally car last week after pining for an AU. Essentially he knew this one was out there, rang the owner and did a deal. It's an EA, converted to V8 mustang, 5 speed, all roll cage certed etc. Picked her up Sat morning in gay old Gore and drove it onto trailer... And a snug enough fit for the drive home... First mission was a good hot steam clean inside and out, lichen on the body and lots of oil on the engine, it is a detuned 86 5.0 donk, that somehow manages to strangle itself to give 150kW... Bogan VB bought specially for the occasion, did like the old badge... And all clean, pouring water out the speed holes. A new paint scheme will be forthcoming...
  6. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Cool. Have yet to try my old thermette. Thanks for the reminder.
  7. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Holy shit that's awesome. What a great way to get to events with an old car...
  8. Lord Gruntfuttock
    The concourse restoration guys go to great pains to reproduce factory orange peel...
  9. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Forgot a shifter linkage bracket bolted up to the trans pan. The original had an L shaped spacer plate on the thin steel pan... I won't need that with the thicker alloy flange, but the bracket fouled the welds on the alloy pan, so I filed some off it... And fits ok... It looked heaps thicker and I was worried it would throw the alignment out, but was only 3mm more than the original so should be fine... And realised I'd left the engine plate and flywheel off, so lifted it off the stand, was happy to do this as I'd forgotten to grease the tube and it was a bastard to rotate... And scrubbed the surface rust off the plate... And it cleaned up nice... So flywheel and plate back on, pretty much ready to mate up to trans when things are torqued up...
  10. Lord Gruntfuttock
    That's my understanding. 2 pack epoxy on bare steel, sticks like shit to a shovel and seals it, then fillers etc...
  11. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Oh I bought an air one off Ali yonks ago too, and have been filing by hand like a chump. Forgot I had it....
  12. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Just read whole build thread. Great stuff. Had an HQ ute while at uni, such nostalgia...
  13. Lord Gruntfuttock
    The fearsome beast snapper was a TC100. Looking good for CT90 tho...
  14. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Tentatively interested...
  15. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Yep real progress, should be good for summer cruising hopefully...
  16. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Loving it in the new garage, gets beaut sun in the morning, so encouraging to get into things... Put the cover back on the diff, still got pinion seal to install... And wheeled trans out in the sun, dropped the pan and uh-oh. Sort of expected some debris, but not a loose bolt...? Pretty sure it came from here after googling images of C4's... So carried on replacing filter, forgot about the spring and plunger under it but caught them ok... and cleaned things up and replaced that bolt... Shiny new bits to fix the leaky pan, sweet... And cos the alloy pan is deeper you need a deep pan filter. Nice thick reusable gasket... I did measure things, but looks right... Was about here a duck turned up to help... And done... Fitted a new mount as well... So trans should be good to go, there was a bit of gunk and a few metal shavings that bothered me, but as it costs a couple of grand to get a trans refurbished I'll just hope a new filter and fresh fluid will be ok. Never had any issues (apart from blowing a torque converter during a burnout) and interweb consensus is bits in the pan are normal, so we'll see...
  17. Lord Gruntfuttock
    If this pic had boobs it'd be damn near perfect...
  18. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Morgan cycle-car...
  19. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Nah this is Old School. Doing dumb things with old gear is great. I reckon you're way overcarbed but interested to see how you get on...
  20. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Sorted out a lot of bits I need for the next stages, good to find most of them and get things sorted. Crawled under the back end for a look at the leaky diff... I know the brake lines need replaced, that'll happen as soon as the wheel alignment is done. Also dragged the trans into the garage and inspected it, noticed the rear mount was perished so ordered another one, pretty common item, carried in SCA and Repco... And pulled the diff cover off for a cleanup. Needs cleaned, painted and dents taken out of rim... After wire brushing the cover, bolts and drain plug, I just brush painted everything with durepox, came out ok really with a thick mix, will trade again, easier than setting up the spray gun... So I'll put that together and fit new front seal when things are dry...
  21. Lord Gruntfuttock
    I bought 64 and 66 jets for a warmed up 302. Not sure how small you can go with a 600...
  22. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Moved my OS car over the weekend. Not under it's own power of course... Got it here on my own till I needed assistance... To push into its new home, slope of drive was too much... And there's a gap in the man shed now I will fill with tools/bikes and maybe a sofa. Be nice to able to walk in here now without climbing over stuff So nearly ready to install engine again. Next step is finding all the bits and pieces (crossmember, bolts, engine mounts etc) and putting trans together for mating up...
  23. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Can you change main jets or is it a metering block? I changed mine so could alter jets, was cheap enough kit. Been a while since I twiddled... [Edit] yeah same question runamuck asked...
  24. Lord Gruntfuttock
    pics of CT...
  25. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Yeah front two mounting holes of footpeg mounts go through rear two holes of bash plate...
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