ilikefire123 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 oh whats uppppppp? This is a brief run down of my valiant CM project, I purchased it a friend from Dunedin around 1 year ago, He had it for around 2 years, prior to that it was from the North island, Tauranga I think. It was orginally blue, It has been since painted black but will need a respray at some point as the orginal paint job was average at best, It has a lot of sanding marks etc. I drove it home from Dunedin and it drove sweeet! It had just had some headwork done, Its a 245 straight 6 but had a 265 head applied which had been ported etc etc. It drove all the way home to chch sweet, But after around 1 month later the bottem end gave way, Knock knock who is there? no but seriously she was knocking like no tommorow. so I had the bitch rebuilt. Full rebuild with hot cam, forged pistons ( at sometime I am going to supercharge this). all new bearing etc etc ettttccc. The trans has already been rebult recently and was shift kitted, Its a dirty old slushbox borgwarner 35 (will be manual at some stage) When the engine was getting a make over I bought it some shiny bits as per pics below and had the engine bay painted. Since then I have applied different rims to my likings such as centrelines prostars and also just got some 14x8.5 and 14x9 widend valiant pacer wheels which I will get powder coated black. Its due a wof which I have fixed all the problems for but just havent had tme to get it done as I live out of town. But I will get it done and then drink some piss and listen to some classic rock and roll and talk about the good times with me fellow bogan mates. Heres some pictures. Oh I had the engine etc painted to And got these steels today, yet to be painted: I am not sure what im really doing here, Hope this works, If anyone is keen to discuss anything can you please set up a project discuusion thingy, Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikefire123 Posted November 13, 2012 Author Share Posted November 13, 2012 So updates, I got a wof finally: also got my wheels back from the powder coater: Now a question, the wheels with the bigger dish are actually not as wide as the wheels with less dish by about 1,5cm, should I run the bigger wheels on the rear but then have the wheels with bigger dish on the front? do you think it would look weird? opinions here - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/35015-ilikefires-cm-valiant/page__hl__valiant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikefire123 Posted November 14, 2012 Author Share Posted November 14, 2012 Hey guys, I test fitted the rims, without using spacers the dished wheels fit the front but the less dishy ones don't, but the wider less dishy ones fit the rear. heres some pics: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikefire123 Posted November 14, 2012 Author Share Posted November 14, 2012 Arghh my valiant is leaking into the passenger footwell and now I know why rusting through the plenum chamber. looks to be a prick of a job to fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikefire123 Posted December 4, 2012 Author Share Posted December 4, 2012 Hey dudes. Not much of an update but I have now sourced a full manual conversion so will get stuck into that shortly and have installed sounds in her ( essential ) and also My old man sent me a prezzie from down under a CL Regal fuel cap - rare as hens teeth, should come up nicely: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikefire123 Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 Hey guys I got some 245-50-14 eagers for my wheels heres some pics and I will put them on and take a picture soon, Im half way through the manual conversion. everything seems to be working ticketiboo so loving that. Here is a couple pics also of my other loooong term project. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikefire123 Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 Hey so an update, got 245 50 14 eagers put on my widened steelies and also got some trims and centre caps. Also shes fully converted to 3 speed manual now haha, good fun. Here's some pictures. ]http://s889.beta.pho...69091c.jpg.html And here is a picture next to a mates vj wagon: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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