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Awesome, thanks for sharing. Torana looks nice, but I doubt it will end up cheap so think I'll stay home.

Thanks. I like the old cast iron metal working gear. The lathe is a Colchester Master from late 30s or 40s. Have just brought some old slip rollers too (can see a little bit of the iron frame to the right of my workbench). Also got an old bead roller off same person and buying a 1.2 metre x 1.6mm capacity guillotine next weekend. All I need now is a decent garage so I don't have to put more gear inside my house haha.

Something like this might work. I store banana boxes along the top, and fill the hanging shelves with crap. Try to keep the bench clear (has never been yet) and store heaps of crap underneath too. That stores about 1/4 of my crap. MDF backing means you can mount tools on the wall too. I'd take a photo of it full of stuff.... but I can't even get to it to take a photo.

That looks all good. I might put MDF behind mine too. It's makes it so much easier having spanners all hanging rather than mixed up in a box.

Well my day at the drags turned into 3 hours driving and one hour watching qualifying thanks to rain, so here's some pics of mine....

This shows how my drawers will roll. Have a 608 bearing on bottom and just some plastic rollers for the sides. There's another bearing bolted to the rear of drawers that sits inside the gap between the pressed panels in the side. Will be painting satin black and have started making some aluminium drawer handles (with lever inside). Will be very trick and nicely tig welded up.

This is a bench I slapped together pretty quick in my workshop so I've got something to use in the meantime. Cost me about $70 for the wood on top and legs are just wood from pellets. Certainly not flash, but very useful still.

Mine is 4 years in the making haha. I have very limited space so wanted a lot of drawers to put tools and stuff in. The frame is made out of 19x1.2 box with a 3mm steel top. It has 7 drawers on either side which will run on bearings with a cupboard in the middle. Drawers will handle pretty much any amount of weight I put in them (handy being in to heavy chevys).

Will put some pics up later. About to go up to the drag nationals at Ruapuna should be cool.

Sounds like you've got it sorted. But thought I'd mention a tip for anyone wanting to drill something really hard (that ordinary drill bits won't handle). You can sharpen up a masonary drill bit and use that, I've drilled through new bull dozer track pins with them before (hard as fuck!). Use some real good cutting oil.

Re 'granny shifting, not double clutching like you should' did you blow the welds on your intake and fry the piston rings too?

If it's a neat job no one will know it's been done

Unfortunately every one wants things for fuck all. That's exactly what they get in return. And for some reason we're allowed to have poorly built trailers on the road in this country. They should be required to have an engineers certificate to be put on road. Guess it probably won't happen until some people are killed. I remember they barely looked at my trailer when I took it through for its first reg/wof.

You might be able to get an engineer to do it for cash and supply steel at a better price. It's still going to cost you quite a bit to build one though.

Make sure you get a price off a couple places that manufacture a lot of trailers too. They will have jigs made up and drawings already done so they can build them really fast at a competitive price.

Haha - doubt a HD one will stand up to many burnouts then.. Is the rest of your driveline going to cope if you run a hefty clutch?

Reason I say this is if it were me I would rather have the "weak link" in the chain to be my clutch so I'm not blowing diffs, gearboxes and driveshafts..

Put some pizza cutters on and let the tyres do the slipping

Wide tyres combined with LSD and a clutch that doesn't slip so much will really test out a T5. Replacement V8 T5 = around a thousand bucks? So good to have something give. Fun to drive though I bet.

You need to get that rocker cover off, real easy. Could be a collapsed lifter if no obvious damage under rocker cover?

Edit: if you still can't find problem be worth doing a compression test.

Thanks. One thing I will be doing is putting a louder dual exhaust on it. Has a new exhaust but way to quiet for a v8.

Pretty sure I've seen your Torana at Ruapuna drags a couple times?

Does any one know if you can buy replacement vinyl roof kits for these? Some numb nuts has lifted it on one side and glued it back down with silicon! Looked like rust under vinyl but was just big ugly silicon beads. Cleaned it off but roof would let it down a bit once painted nice.

Ok, sweet as

Thanks. Yeah this one's going to be original. I had an HQ premier with 350 in it a few years ago, dedicated LPG, was real cheap to run. I haven't removed the tank in statesman which I know is still good. It really was a half arse install though. If it ever goes back on it will be as tidy as possible. The LPG cert/parts were taken off a Valiant and just had the Holdens number plate stamped over top of it too!

http://www.oldschool.co.nz/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=30915

Tidy, but not perfect yet

Link to discussion: http://www.oldschool.co.nz/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=30916

This is my old Statesman. Recently had is trucked down from Auckland. All original, 308, even smalls like a grandpa haha.

Currently cutting out a few old repairs / couple rust holes. Have removed poorly installed LPG from engine bay and tuned motor up, wouldn't run when it got here on truck. Combination of dodgy rotor, timing about 20 degrees out, points gap 8 thou to big! Going to do up engine bay original and plan to respray whole car. Normally I wouldn't care so much for keeping a car original. I've had chevs and mags and low springs in my last two holdens but this one's so unbastardised I might leave it for now.

Rest of pics are here: http://imageshack.us/g/838/dscf0141f.jpg/

Awesome project

Hi Josh, I'm Roy. I can machine your head if you want. $40 including return post. I'm in Temuka, South Canterbury.

Does any one know if you can change from exempt class B (farm reg) back to G and put a WOF on without all the revin type stuff? I'm pretty sure I swapped my HQ over to G from exempt a few years ago but can't remember if it was class A or B. Most the info I've found searching is about class A.

There's a picture of one in the latest Car Craft (American) magazine in the readers cars section. Someone put a 327 chev in it and the photo shows it with the front wheels half a meter in the air. Ugly but cool! Good power to weight ratio. That one does 11.3 1/4 mile.