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Nah I ran that around for a couple years and spent a bit too much moolah on it. Then one day I realised that I owned a BA wagon, an XF wagon, a VH wagon and a Xantia wagon and realised one man can only get so erect/should only get stay erect for so long. So I sold the BA and XF and scrapped the Xantia, concentrating on the VH now. Which in saying that, is fairly close to driving.

Looks fucking banging son. Good job. To re-embed the links you will need to reattach them, settings changed. I have changed the setting to allow them again.

Long weekend, lots of work. Pulled all the yucky bits of trim out of the stack and cleaned off 7 years of storage grime. It was pretty gross, now its just pretty. Will still need to armorall it or something when it is installed, but for now its as good as it gets. Oh yeah I installed the top half of the dash and the windscreen magically installed itself too. At the point where the only things I can do before the sparky gets his hands on it is check the diff oil and plumb up the fuel pump which are this weeks jobs.

Beaudy, thanks Daffyd.

Question for those who have fitted v-band exhaust flanges onto their ride. Is it possible to fit these v-bands and weld the exhaust pipe on, from the inside of the v-band flange (B in my picture) instead of on the outside of the v-band flange (A in my picture) The reason I ask is there is very little room to weld the top of the v-band on without removing the headers because the floor is in the way, I'm trying to avoid what would be an absolute cunt of a job. Your pal Sparky Al

Amazing how much progress can happen with lots of little 1-2 hour bites after work, 3-4 nights a week. I now have all new engine and gearbox mounts and plumbing is well underway, just waiting on some nice fancy T-bolt clamps to finish that off. Biggest thing is throwing a bunch of electrical bits and pieces in the car and figuring out the plugs etc for the auto sparky to do their thing. Also splashed out on a new grunty AGM battery, 850CCA, should spin it over like a sewing machine. I have a big day planned after Wellington Anniversary weekend to throw the dashboard in. Might even get the windscreen put in too, if I have time. Its all go now, it has an important date on the 8th Feb with the sparky. Pic of it on all fours - saucy devil.

I am genuinely humbled with my amazing friends. @Seedy Al@Goat@JasonK who all turned up this morning to help me do some stuff that my aging body just struggles to do, especially on my back (giggidy) . We did a solid 6 hours work, fitting gearbox, making brake lines, mounting fuel pump and filter plus a multitude of small shit I cannot even remember. Thank you so much to you guys for the motivation ♥♥♥, your enthusiasm, your getting shit done while I stood there and complained about my aches and pains. You have done in 1 day what would have taken me a solid 6 weeks of nights to do. For this, I am so very grateful. Love you guys and I hope your good ladies squeeze your buns and touch you in ways that I shouldn't. So now I have pretty much everything done under and outside the car that I need to get done and I move to doing the interior stuff and get as much of that in as I can before I ship it to the sparky for a rewire at the beginning of Feb. Some pics from today. Doesn't look like a lot from previous pics, but I can tell you that a metric fuck tonne got done. (2 olympic size swimming pools stacked to the top of an elephant on a double decker bus travelling to the moon to be precise) Dreamy Al.

That's a bit of a dick move, why are you wasting the time of people just trying to do their job?

Might just do that, will pull things out and scope the deal next Monday, I'll give ya a holla, big dolla.

Want to do a perk job wiring mine?

So, has anyone ever wired up a vehicle using one of these 21 circuit wiring kits? How did you find it?

Heart transplant was a success.

The body is now ready to receive it's heart. Even though I scratched the shit out of my new paint trying to install the wiper motor. What a cunt of a thing. Will have to touch it up.

"308"

Some engine pics - I stupidly ordered 8 pushrods, when I need 16, so need to get them and installed before I can finally button down the inlet manifold

There are some thoroughly hairy mopars running around without an EWP and not overheating, so it has to be either a water to air-flow issue or tuning issue. I'm leaning towards air-flow cos Clint ain't no dummy and the tuning issues should be within a range that it won't fuck with the temps, so either there isn't enough cool air passing over the rad or the water is not in the rad long enough to cool down. When you pulled t-stat out, did you leave a restrictor in place?

Just got the dimensions from the internet. Please excuse the freedom units. Once removed from the shroud, this fan is about 4 inches deep from the end of the motor to the furthest point on the front of the fan. After it is removed, you'll find that the OUTER RING is about 17.5 inches across. The actual fan blade portion diameter on this fan is 388 mm (15.27 inches)

My guess is that it is thinner than that shroud looks in the photos, but they are a bit thicker than I'd like, but only at the fan motor, however I did have to change the bolts holding my water pump on to countersunk jobbies to give me enough clearance. But I also have a dumb front crossmember that gets in the way and had to make a weird shaped fan shroud which spaced the fan blades an inch away from the radiator fins. TLDR - the fan blades and housing are not crazy thick, bu the motor is chunky, I can measure on Friday day and give you some actual measurements. They are actually a huge diameter though and if I mount it flat against my radiator, an inch of fan blade would sit above or below the radiator fins.

The fan unit look like this - all the wiring a direct positive and negative feed to the battery and a pair of wires back to a 2 stage toggle switch in dash (With my new motor I am going to wire one side to a thermo switch so stage 1 will turn on automatically and put stage 2 to an override for when I notice it getting a bit scorchy)

Joining the helpful suggestion team, whats the AFR like at idle? can you fatten it up a bit? Lean equals HOT water temps. If that is not an issue, then if you are looking for a fan that moves MUCHO air, then go to Pickapart and look at the Volvo's grab their fan, the wiring and relays. They are super simple to figure out and they have 2 speeds fucking fast, and even faster again, sounds like a fuckin Fokker Friendship taxi-ing for take off. https://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/volvo_electric_fan.shtml

You'd be surprised how big can fit in a galv bath, I've seen entire boat trailers dipped.

They are NVU gauges - https://newvintageusallc.mybigcommerce.com/gauges/ yeah thet are awesome. Glad I took the leap with them Nah staying carbied with the 304. If anything I might change to the FiTech injection setup but that is a while down the road I think. Car is getting a full require with one of the 21 circuit wiring kits, once I have the engine and all the electrical accessories in place, that's this months job, to get the electrical stuff mounted up.

I replicated the OE except for the water temp and voltage which I flipped for personal preference.

Don't worry, my progress is still considerably glacial.

At that point, I'll be relying on the rev counter.