EFI_LC

Got the mounts on for shocks, bottom arm and springs today after spending some time making sure all the angles were good,

Still to do:

The brakes don't quite slip over the axle wheel mounting plate so they need a mm or 2 taken off them and modify the brackets to suit. The top adjustable arm needs mounting after the adjustable Panhard rod is mounted which also needs me to fabricate a chassis mount.

Something I hear often by people who obviously have either very little mechanical knowledge or are just trying to sell a noisy engine is that it has a the typical noisy tappets. A good Holden engine is typically very quiet as they Hydraulic the pushrods onto the rockers.

I think I may replace a couple of lifters as they haven't gone quiet like the rest.

It is an easier job in a Holden 6 as they have side plates to get to them, remove the side plates and the tappet cover, remove the pedestal & pushrods, replace lifters & pushrods and torque down. put side plates back on start engine and if quiet, put tappet cover back on.

My plan is to clean up a spare head(mild port) and get it ready for bolting on, add efi flows and a 600 holley on a modofied black carby manifold. You may laugh at a 600 holley with vac secondaries but in actual fact it will be a 4-barrel which will only ever uses 2 throats so actually a 300cfm carb. It is lying around and I have used this on a 6 before and it delivered very punchy performance to about 4500rpm which is what I am designing the engine for, mid-range. If that fails I will throw on the 450 4-barrel.

It should rev to 4500 ok but they were never overly responsive but that can change depending how much you want to spend

While the flywheel is out is the time but it depends what you are after as it will add revs and make the engine more lively. Can't remember the cost. 

These engines can be made to easily rev 6000 but safer to stay under this as they suffer from harmonics at 6000.

Sounds fair enough, you going with factory cable clutch or after market hydraulic?

Hey just thought of another thing you may want to do while going manual. I did this a few years back and it made a difference in get up and go and with the VK still a relative lightweight should help you. Oh and include a dowel in the flywheel or you may have issues if you plan to rev them hard.

In the Video the last flywheel which turned has the dowel and the EST pickup

I am going to ditch the EST as well on my 86 factory manual, you only need a vk flywheel if you didnt want to ditch it as they have protruding dowels which the magnetic pickup triggers the spark.

Very nice car mate, mine //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/48894-efi-lcs-1986-vk-commodore/

Remember YT for 12-port is very expensive unless you are lucky enough to find an older cast iron one but these heads can have some mild head work and stock flow close to the mighty XU-1 heads. 

HP is easier and cheaper to get for these old irons than almost any other engine around.

If going manual I advise not to use the stock 5 speed as they are shit and unless you are very careful will break or lock or destroy synchros or crunch in gears or.....

I am aiming for a healthier output but will work on torque not hp.

So I found that the tappet cover was leaking so removed the tappet cover and cleaned as much sludge from the top and took about half a margarine container of muck out of both rocker cover and head.

Put a new gasket on and and bolted it back on with no leaks now. Next will be a filter and oil change using diesel oil. I have some spare lifters If I can't shut these ones up and the Holden has side covers so you can do this without pulling the engine apart.

And if the lifters are not quiet by 2k then maybe buy a new set of lifters at about $9 each,

Oil pressure is good for a stock engine and quite possibly just as good as new.

This is distracting my main mission so I am in a hurry to sort it out so I can get back to my Starlet

small list of need to do stuff before I am happy to sell the bmw. If anyone has a VH dizzy I would like to buy it.

Leaking somewhere into the boot from the inner guards, possible it may from the rain channel on roof and going inside ?  I will check with Rare Spares as they will have seen this before.

drivers seat back is a bit skewed and needs a straighten, common on these.

wheel alignment needed

fan replacement coming up as well

wipers blades

Getting some double-sided tape so I can do the trim. Also need to paint it all matching. I dont want to go near a carpark until its on as some fuckwit will open his door on it

1 rear tail/brake bulb needs replacing

Gearbox/clutch is shite at the mo, going to pull the clurch cable and lube it to see if that helps and the gearbox may need decent oil.

All else fails I will pull it out and throw in my W55 as it has a Holden 6 bellhousing

not as random as the hose closing in on itself? I have seen this happen when revs are raised.

some temp sensors if they lose water end up air locked and read lower than the true temp.

I just picked up my new Daily Driver and will sell my trusty NZ new BMW 535i Manual so if you want it pm me and join the line as I have 3 interested so far.

Anyway.

VK Commodore

1986 (First Registered 1987) Some call these a VA as the A designates the last of the VK

The Last Holden that used a Holden 6

3.3 Carby motor

Manual 5-speed

137,000kms (116k by the original owner and prior to the guy i bought it from 2 owners were father & son)

Full seat and door trim

I need to add some trime which 90% of it came with the car

It has had a full bare metal paint

The engine needs some TLC as it has some sludge build up and the carby floods when turned off

Any updates?

Estima Diff was narrowed 80mm to account fo the TRD Kit and different offset for the 15" wheels.

Made a decision on the diff setup, decided to change to panhard rod for now instead of Watts Linkage mainly to see that I have a good setup for this and can do the other later when I am happy.

I welded on the bottom mounts to it and banged in some new springs to raise the height a little, just need to weld the spring mounts on and then the single top adjustable arm which will mount over the tunnel. Still need to make the arm adjustable yet.

Once the diff is in then I can mount the rear discs on and check for final fit.

I am making this a multi-sport car so have put the highest profile wheels on to get it setup.

My mate came around on the weekend and cut all the excess wiring out as well as making the loom for the guages and another for the obd2 which I will use a touchpad for using.

I bought an Aluminium EVO Radiator and I am waiting on a new intake pipe so it clears the radiator before installing it and changing the airbox.

In the news again.

What was that about 1 in 100 bags tested were faulty, were these bags that they tested from removed cars or is this 1 in 100 in general?

Going to bang my 27ft trailer on it'll live or cook I guess.

dont forget the vid if your are going to lunch it

So today gave engine bay a massive clean and checked cooling system out diagnosis some dipshit has cracked an egg in the radiator....

I have heard this as a fix by so many people over the years and LOL'd at them and agree only a dipshit would do it. Almost every servo used to keep a thing called Soldrit on their shelf and I have used this.

Have fun killing it on one set of tires

No sync issues on the footage I saw

Maybe they realised how bad it was then, we are talking about the Hemi Cuda?

Dunno what you are referring to, better go back and have another look, they were showing the incar footage while dubbing another sound track that was not even close to what was happening. Gear changes when Murph had both hands on the steering wheel.

Wat

What?

I was looking forward to watching Greg Murphy drive the big Hemi.

Wow I was so disappointed when I heard the sound and watching  him in car and found they had dubbed it....

Why would the producers of Speedweek do this to petrol heads, put sound that is clearly been recorded different to what we were seeing, it's like they have no feeling for what a true petrolhead is?

I feel totally cheated, they obviously figured that we just wanted the loud V8 noise no matter if the sound was changing gears and Greg wasn't

I have some welding to do over the weekend.

Once I have the Diff back together then I jack up the car level, then position and measure the diff weld the bottom mounts then work out where I have to cut the new holes and mounts for the coilovers on the diff and the body.

I plan to have a single centre adjustable top mount and Watts Linkage similar to the bottom sketch except replace the panhard rod and the coilovers will be a bit high mounted

I work for a toyota dealership so i can keep you up to date on this, there are 26000 nz vehicles affected but import numbers are unknown at this time, until toyota nz sends out letters to customers and service bulletins to us we cant do anything, there are zero reported cases of anything happening so far on any nz new vehicles, we have had recalls like this before it doesnt necessarily mean if your airbag goes something will happen it is just a precautionary measure, customers will be notified, you bring the car in, we check and replace if need be, oncecthe ball gets rolling they should be rather a quick and painless task to do. Will keep you up to date if i hear anything new.

Well I hope Nissan are as efficient as you will be.

I bought the top of line Nissan JDM and it was mentioned in an overseas report as being affected. Yes it is worth saying it may not be but the time to find out that it was affected is likely too late

The moisture and age is what causes the problem. The shrapnel was one part of the issue and the most severe reaction.

Apparently they test them to see if they need replacing. The humid conditions make it worse, I bought my car for the missus to be safe in with 6 or 8 airbags and this just pisses me off .

Just under 5 million Corolla, Vitz, Rav4 and other models, mostly in Japan and Europe. Many of the models were built between March 2003 and November 2007, and include 1.36 million to be recalled in Japan. Includes: X-Trail SUV, Fuga sedan, Isuzu Como van. Caravan

Toyota announced today and likely Nissan and Honda may do it next.

It also affect Cars built in other parts of the world and the same company had another recent recall as well.

Every thing from Lexus to Yaris, it includes over 600,000 Toyotas in the US alone.

Estimates are around 6kk Toyotas and 1,5kk Nissans

QUOTE:"Wednesday's announcements raise to roughly 31 million the number of vehicles recalled worldwide since 2008 over Takata air bag inflators, which can erupt with too much force, spraying shrapnel inside the car."

"Six deaths have been linked to the defective Takata airbags, all on cars made by Honda, which announced disappointing profit forecasts last month citing high quality-related costs.

Toyota and Nissan said their recalls were precautionary and that no accidents or injuries had been reported."

The car I bought is affected but I am waiting on an announcement and as it's an import who knows...

I decided to buy a 3kg one off Trademe for $175 delivered and full.

Thanks for the quick help though

Nice score. 

The 5litre can be done with moderate ease.

Main thing to have is the correct ecu and possibly turn VATS off via either modified memcal or an adjustable one like http://pcmhacking.net 

The wiring is likely different so a loom would be great

The F would be just too big for me, I will check out some of the places mentioned though