Popular Post KKtrips Posted April 25, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 25, 2023 It was a big day today... Still got a bit to do but like they say, good things take time. Thanks again to the amazing and beautiful souls @Seedy Al and @Goat for their hard work while I stood there and took photos. Without them and their assistance, I would have struggled to get it over the line. Oh yeah, it may have driven under its own power and I drove it across town to it at home for the first time in 7 years... 44 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted May 10, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 10, 2023 Legal beagle and classic car rego, lets GOOOOOOO OH SHIT YES 52 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KKtrips Posted July 14, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2023 So, since this has been on the road, I've been ironing out a few niggly issues. A couple of vibrations and noises being the main culprits for now. One of the vibrations was the brand new harmonic balancer. Totally my fault. I'm an idiot and don't want to talk about it, but a word of advice, aluminium harmonic dampers are not designed for street cars and I now have a $400 paperweight on my desk... I also found the driveshaft was ever so slightly out of phase from when it was built by local driveshaft "specialist" back when I first did the V8 conversion. luckily I could pull it apart and because it has a centre CV joint with a spline making it easy to reclock it and get the driveshaft close enough to in phase. The main harmonic has gone but there is still a vibration between 90 and 100Km/, so currently have a digital protractor on order and going to check the front and rear UJ angles and bring those back into coo-ee if they are different. If that doesn't fix it then its off to the driveshaft shop (a different one) for a balance, because I cannot see any non-factory balance weights on the driveshaft halves and I don't have the confidence the local driveshaft "specialist" even bothered to balance it. Also as the engine has bedded in it developed a bit of lifter noise, so in the process of adjusting all the lifter clearances again, which if you know anything about Holden engines, know how much of a pain in the dick this is, remove the pedastal, linish a small amount off the bottom of each rocker pedastal, reinstall, check, remove, repeat until the clearance is right. Got the passenger side bank done, but gave up for the night after 3 hours. Drivers side next week. But in good progress, I spent today installing the carpet. Thank god I'm not an upholsterer, this is not a fun job, my body is too old, to unfit and too inflexible to be doing this shit. But I got it done and it looks reasonable. Yes its the wrong colour but a brand new brown carpet set came up for very cheap on Marketplace and I just took a $400 fortnightly increase in my mortgage repayments earlier this month so its close enough until I can afford to buy the right colour carpet. Anyhow, it matches the brown of the dash and centre console kinda OK and I learnt a lot installing it, meaning the right colour one should be easier. Pic for fred. 38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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