Avenga

I'm glad the Mighty Avenger made it. I run my Avenger on 98, but then my engine isn't exactly stock.

They look awesome. Can't wait to see them on the Avenger. Are you going to lower it and take of the rubber strip down the side? Good to see something different and they will suit your Avenger.

Awesome photos! Nice progress on the Avenger, Love the new spotlights and speakers.

I will be there. I will bring my Charger this time. I hope it will get up the ramp with it's new drop spindles.

I'm keen, I will be driving my Avenger.

Im keen for a convoy.

Yeah as long as it's old it gets in pretty easy. I usually go in my Charger but this year I am taking my Charger on the Saturday and my Avenger on the Sunday which should get in fine. Last year there were a few Avengers there. There was a nice 2 door on the Saturday and a really rough Avenger wagon on the Sunday, so if they let the wagon in then obviously standards aren't that high. Here are some pictures of the Avengers from last year.

I will be there. I will probably take the Charger on Saturday and the Avenger on Sunday.

The strip should be just glued on. My Avenger wagon and a few parts cars had strips on them and they were all just stuck on with glue, but the were all post facelift Chrysler Avengers, don't know if the did it differently on the hillmans. Hotwires look mint on an Avenger. here is some shots of my race car when I just got my hotwires with fat eager tyres on it. it was still stupidly high. Sorry about the crap picture quality, these are taken in 1999 with my first digital camera, it was really rubbish. And this is how they look once it was lowered

Yeah it is pretty crazy the difference. I forget how much work I have done on the Avenger until I see it next to a stock Avenger. Yours reminds me of my race car when I brought that back in the mid 90's. It was a stock 1980 1.3GL with the same steel rims and hub caps as yours. mine so didn't pull off the hub cap look being that ugly cream colour but I think you wheels look awesome with the black steel rim and the hub caps. Still need to go for a ride in yours so see what the power difference is like. what did you think of my engine vs stock after going for a ride in it? I was aiming for about double the power of stock. here a picture of mine 1980 when I got it. This photo was taken in 1999 just before I turned it in to a race car.

Hi Guys, Great night out. Thanks everyone for making a Jafa feel welcome in Hamilton. it was really great to chat Avengers with some of the other Avenger nutters. Hunted it was cool to see your stock 1300 super, it is a tidy little car and really original, if a little high. Yowser hurry up and get one of your Avengers back on the road so we can have a little Avenger cruise. I got a bit carried away chatting to Yowser about cars so I had to hoof it on the way home, got back to the North shore of Auckland by midnight so I made pretty good time on the way back, weather was really good on the way back, totally stopped raining and got some clear skies so it was a great night for a little night drive. here are some pictures of the mighty Avengers parked together. Stock Vs customised.

I looked through my manuals and all but 1 shows the UK super dashboard (it has oil, volts, water, fuel and speed guages in a strip format) which has the voltage regulator on the back of the cluster. so does the round cluster Alpine version. This manual has a photo of the back of the NZ super cluster and you can't see the voltage regulator but looking at the wiring diagram it does have one somewhere. I could email you picture so you can trace the wires back is probably your best bet. I have a double up of this manual. it covers a few things the haynes one doesn't I can give it to you on wednesday if you like. I got it of trademe for $1.

Sweet as. I went down and had a look at them again. drivers side has one rip on the base, about 5 inchs long. passengers side is mint. you could probably just take the good skin off the passengers and use it on the drivers.

The voltage regulator is really easy to spot. if you take the cluster out, it is on the back of the cluster sort of just above the speedo cable. its a rectangular box, usually gray.

Mine are 6.5 inch also but I got away with not having to use spacers. I found that they use 2 different styles of those plastic door pouch. the black ones are much deeper than the tan ones. I found this out because I did my measuring and test cutting on an old tan one I had laying around and it would fit perfectly with heaps of room to spare so I went and cut a black one and the speaker hit the door. I layed them beside each other and the black one was about an inch deeper than the tan one. so what I did was use a tan back half spray painted black and a black front half. Yeah dash and drivers seat is always buggered. My low back drivers has a small rip on it but my passengers is perfect from memory. both are really good in terms of springs and comfort. I can take some better pictures if you like.

Yep I will be bringing the Avenger. I checked with work and they are sweet with me taking the arvo off so I will be down there for sure. We can compare Avengers. I like the interior of your car. It is the same colour mine used to be. the old owners cut holes in the door car for some tiny little 4" speakers so I had to swap the door cards out with my old donor Avenger I had. it had a good set of door cards, darker tan with a carpet strip on the bottom. I also used some high back buckets instead of the stock seats. How does your interior look? because I have some spare door cards and seats in your colour that I could be persuaded in to parting with.

Hi Guys, I have done a new update over in my project thread. It shows the broken stuff after my engine upgrade, newly painted bonnet and stage 2 of my audio upgrade.

Okay guys back to the project thread. Avengers are known for breaking a few things after you increase the power of the engine. I learnt this on my race car but I thought I would be okay because I didn't think it was producing enough power to break stuff. The funny thing is I was talking to one of my mates about how the standard fans flex and hit the radiator at high RPM and how we both had to switch to electric fans on our race cars, I told him I thought my road car would be fine without an electric fan then the next day on the way back from a mates place I heard this huge bang. Luckly I was literally at the corner of the road I live on so I coasted home and popped the bonnet water was pissing out of the radiator and I could see a missing blade. I walked back up the road and found the blade sitting in the middle of the road. Also just before that happened I had the other weak link in the Avenger fail. The fuel pump. The shots below are it cracked after my 300KM running in. I replaced it with an electric fuel pump. I had the same thing happen on my race car but again I didn't think the little 1500 had enough power to do that to the fuel pump, it was brand new when I put it in, you can see pictures of it new further up the thread. okay now for some pictures Broken fuel pump Damaged radiator Broken fan Spare radiator Electric fan Thermostat control box Fan "on" light and manual override switch My speedo has never been very acurite and with replacing the dashboard soon I didn't want to fix it so I decided to get a fancy GPS speedo. It is really acurite and it has a programmable overspeed warning which is cool. Next I got the bonnet repainted, It got some paint stripper or brake fuild dropped on it by my mechanic which ate through some of the paint so he resprayed the whole bonnet for me for free!! it is sort of a satin black, not quite a matt black but not a gloss black. After that I was taking it down to a car show so I thought I would give it a good clean, when I was finished it looked soo good I figured I should go take some nice pictures of it. Here is a quick sneak peek at my next project, an Alpine dash and instrument cluster. Next I went on to stage 2 of my audio upgrade. A kicker amp and sub with a new Pioneer head deck. I have also brought my rear speakers but they will go in over Xmas. I got really good deals all my audio gear from JB HiFi. for example I got the rear 6x9 Pioneer TSD-6902 speakers for $101.

Awesome. look forward to seeing your Avenger in person.

I am thinking of taking a cruise down from Auckland to attend. You bringing your Avenger Hunted?

That is a common fault with the voltage stabilisers. happens on the Valiants also.

yeah you got to have them above like this.

Sweet as. they are strong little engines so the 1300 should last forever, give us a yell if you need any advice on the Avenger engine.

I wouldn't bother with the hunter engine. Just because it is slightly bigger displacement doesn't mean it's better. The hunter engine is basically an old humber/minx engine with an extra main bearing. So it was designed ages ago in the 50s, it is a slant motor and in my opinion you can get more power out of an avenger engine. For example a '74 hunter GT 1725cc was 79HP and a '75 Avenger GT 1600cc was 81HP. The gap gets even bigger the more you modify the engine. In argentina they rebadged the Avenger as a Dodge 1500 GT-100 producing 105 bhp. It had the 1800 engine Avenger engine and only two Stromberg carburettors. if that had webers or dellortos it would heaps more. The Avenger engine was designed from the ground up as a brand new engine. unlike the hunter engine which was a slant engine with pretty much square bore to stroke ratio (81.50 mm × 82.50 mm) The avenger engine was straight upright with a very over square bore to stroke (87.30 mm × 66.70 mm). If you are keen on repowering your 1300 I could be talked in to selling my old 1500 with the downdraught weber. it went well but nothing like my new engine. If I was you I would do what I did and buy a 1500/1600 and strap a set of Dellorto DHLA40's on it. they go really well with a bit of modification.

Race car ones were custom made. I can't remember who I got to do them because I got them done 10 years ago. they are heavy as hell for tarmac racing. The 1975 had it's springs cut by the last owner but I want to redo them properly. This is my race car setup