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Haha, it becomes a bit of a game. The guys at work used to be impressed when I'd show them liters per 100km in the v8 coon. They'd all be like IMPOSSIBLE MY V6 DRINKS THAT MUCH blabla but if you watch the realtime readout and drive to suit its quite easy

Yeah still got her Dave. Basically can't go any further until I finish the LS. BUT reality is that if I finish that motor it won't be going into the gem..it will go into this because its just so much easier and so much less upgrading to do. There were a few areas of the gem that worried me and which were very difficult to rectify (skinny spindles, weak front arms, etc) plus tbh I'm dead fucking tired of hearing how ugly she is. Mostly the nearly complete lack of aftermarket support bugs me. My cousin reckons he will buy the gem shell (next weekend I think) to use as a skid car with v8 but who knows And.. Additionally.. The gem has sat there idle because of lack of $$$ while I played musical employment and had no access to sweet homer tools.

Give us the deets so we know where to go!

Do you think it has slots in it? Rare spares 92006009BUMPER BAR STONESHIELD WB COMMERCIAL (FRONT)NZ$145.13

Oh its one long piece... I seeee. I wonder what the hell its called

Hey man! Yeah they seem to be a love hate thing. Unfortunately they don't have as much support as the other models. Anyone have a pic of the panel that sits directly under the grille?

Another item ticked off the list. An hour of grinding and zapping with new mig welder (old, swapped it for my tig) and a borrowed bottle of gas from work and the floor is patched and shifter fitted. I made up a bracket with tapped holes for the shifter to bolt down to and then zapped that to the patch. I should have experimented with power and feed BEFORE attempting patch but it is what it is. The floor had quite a big hole from a previous manual conversion (guessing) Also here's a few pics of the radiator fans and shroud in their final shape. All mounting brackets have been cut off and clearances for pipes cut. Might file up the shitty bits.....but probably wont. Renovator tools rule.

Hahaha. Well its not the one in the photo.. You can have the old one. Its not THAT bad.. But it is bad.

Driveshaft hoop.

Nah I think chris is making that shit up. Iv looked errwhere

Does anyone want a brand new b&m shifter to suit most autos? Navnav might remember the model name?

Mate of mine in chch used to play a shit load of pool and a while back sent me a set of old snooker balls to turn into shift knobs. I only wanted one but the whole sets been sitting there. Then last night I'm like.. I wonder. BOOM there's a yellow one the perfect color.

Forgot to mention. In the pics before collection I could see a rusty water stain down the firewall. The previous owner told me he thought it was the heater core. I was thinking HA be a good tui add. From everything I can see he was actually right! A good excuse to use the little heater unit I made for the gem.

Neal when this gets its first WOF I'll shout you to a nice warm VB. I'll stash a tray in the tray for that occasion

The plan right now is to avoid my usual getting carried away and just get it legal... Which means cert. Its so close I can taste it. Paint wise I'll be sticking with the yellow OR going satin black. Provably a really bad yellow job tho. I'd like to get some paint colour matched and just spray over the shit bits as they are "fixed"... She will be a 50m job. Be cool to retain the pinstripe down the side and maybe later get some louvres punched in two rows down the middle of the bonnet. If I ever finish my ls that will go into this.

Thanks bro. Yep have got a pair of hq tails sitting for me at a mates. I'm odd.. Quite like the wb front. At this stage its staying put.

Destroyed the front apron getting it off the trailer. OOPS! On the hunt for another!

It sure does! I'm putting pics up now mate. The fans fit good now

So its been running a 2.8 diesel for years- the fuel tank is old and everything's yuck. It also was using a fuel cell at one stage meaning there are mounts under the tray at the rear. To make things nice and easy I got the alloy fuel cell from another guy here and just need to make some hoops to hang it. Im Praying it doesn't hang too low as the alloy won't handle much contact with the road. And Daniel at Bunce auto in auk is EXCRLLENT and has a new rotor on the way to me. Finding chev account delco shit here is bloody hard

So I left home at 9am on sat and picked up vk327 and his flatmate and then threeonthetree, collected the ute then hauled it home. Lots of drinking and crawling around the thing happened but ultimately she wasn't fired up because of a missing rotor in the hei dizzy. Doh! She came with a terrible wildcat wheel but I happened to have another hanging in the shed that I purchased just because hoarder. Neal threw that on but in hindsight with no power steering its probably a bit small. (Man I want that nardi) The engines a pretty fresh smallblock 350 with refurbished 600 holley carb, nice flash intake manifold and unknown cam. The motors cleaner on the inside than the outside! There are old pacemaker headers that need plumbing to an exhaust And it came with the correct new & fancy looking throttle and kickdown cables. Threw the throttle cable on tonight. According to the block numbers its likely a four bolt mains and the heads are smoggy but have had the ports blocked. Google says these are pretty good as far as smog heads go and compression should be reasonable. There's a fancy Gilly drive with polished alt and weiand pump for additional wank. She came with two good radiators. There is a good big aluminium one with outlets to suit the chev PLUS a damn good condition 308 HQ radiator that I need to sell (pm me) I bought a set of AU fans off Trademe as I heard they fit the HQ radiators but they do need a bit of modifying. I'm getting there.

English to Australian translator fail

Thanks to some bonza company 'n' a borrowed navara plus transporter i bought this home on saturday. will post more later but its going to be my occasional daily (replacing the coon) 'n' isn't too far from being finished. unlike most crikey off trademe this trader was 100% ridgy-didge 'n' she came with more bits than i expected 'n' in better condition.. hugs all round. Discussion Thread //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/45620-flyingbricks-198-holden-wb-ute/

Nice. Do ya use clay to build up a wall?