Gregs 64 Ap5 Valiant

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here is one of my 1/4 mile runs up against Clint and his valiant

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so finally done some work on the valiant since the drags. not much thou. i shot down to the local rubber and foam suppler i use at work and napped up 13 meters of door rubber and replaced the old crap. cant see light threw it any more.



 i also ordered 8 meters of the closest and nicest dark green vinyl i could get to my seats. so this weeks jobs for me is to re upholster my car before kumeu on sat. hopefully i don't end up doing it all Friday night. 

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so this is what my front and back seats look like atm. 





i also got bored last night and wondered how my wheels would polish up. before and after photo





so i then had to carry on and do the three others. stupid me

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so yea got half way threw my upholstery and i went back to do my afternoon milking and this happened as i stepped into the pit.



so yea cant finish my upholstery for the weekend but my mates came in and helped me finish my back seat. also sent my starter motor away to get rebuilt but looks like im getting pushed around in a wheel chair for kumeu......

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so had a good weekend at kumeu and i also picked up some parts for my valiant on Sunday to complete my car. i got my horn back together on my steering wheel and a ash tray mechanism.

this was earthing out on the bolt and the main peace it was meant to make contact with so it was going off when ever it wanted. so i quickly put some sticky tape over that and wabam no more earthing out

 

looks all complete with the horn on there now.



also the ash tray works now.





here are some photos of my seats stripped and what not

under neath the back seat was like brand new still



the foam was in good condition as well so i left it all on.



the back rest was a different story 



so i ripped the old horse hair off and put some nice blue hard backed carpet in replace for extra comfort



then pulled the original foam over again 



and at this stage i had sewn it all together and injured myself. mates came put them on. i just grabbed a photo of the back seats all finished and in my car.



rather happy with how it turned out now time to wait till my ankle is better and do the front seats.


 

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i had a guy come with me taking photos of kumeu here are some of my car and my mates







head over to his face book page look at his other photos https://www.facebook.com/ronio.co.nz



 

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thanks heaps to avenger for getting this photo. i like the ride height of it when its 6 up.



 

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so back at work again and thought i would do my seats this week before the waiuku car show and mopar day at cliffs. so out it came.

front seat looked like this



also see above the seat is were i have my head unit stored away

spring protector on both were looking pretty average. base 1st and back rest 2nd





so new marine carpet was replaced with it and foam is all back on





also i had to needed to get home so yeah.... this is my new seat for mean time



haha wasn't a comfy drive home at all. don't recommended this at all

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so i finally got my seat all back together and in the car on Friday night just in time to chuck every one in it to go get some goneburger. it looks like a complete car now and feels very comfy. i sit about 2 inches higher now that i replaced the spring protector. here is a photo of it any way.

a bit of heat and some massaging and the wrinkles will disappear. but for now there is no more rips!!! 



dont know whats on the next to do list but im sure il find something online to buy 

 

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so i finally got around to putting mu globes on the valiant.

whats every ones thoughts on them?

 

myself they are growing on me. need a smaller profile tyre and its also made the car a lot heavier to steer now as well.





i had to use a hammer to beat this a part of my inner guard so i didn't completely wreck my tyres 



but they deferentially fill the guards up been an inch wider.

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so yeah beach hop is around the corner so i thought ild get a few things fixed and what not so i thought il replace my exhaust by putting a straight pipe in HAHAHAHAHAHA that was extremely loud!!

this is my old one



so yup brought a muffler and got my mate to weld that in. this is what the inside of that looks like.



it now sounds a hell of a lot better and seems to go a little better to.

while i had my globs on i also got my other rims painted and polished them all up make them look spiffy. here is basically a before and after 



also i cleaned the white writing with some jiff and water. here is the difference in them



i also dropped my head off to my mate to assemble. which he showed me my triple carbs with new linkages made up and working just minus one clip so i found on of them and shot back next day to find my head assembled and him waiting on my for my block. here is a photo of the head and carbs





i think thats it for now. 

il be at beach hop from Wednesday onward. if u see me around come say hi.

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so i made it to beach hop and event got to enter as a 64 two door soft top impala thanks to MR WEST for not finishing his imp.

i got a few snaps of the car loaded up with people about to go for a cruise and i really need to roll my back left hand side guard a bit as i scrap 6 up.





here is a photo of minimans 76 mini with no bonnet and with mine up at beach hop. his was over heating like crazy and mine decided it didnt want to start.......



oh i also done the hole coke and tin foil trick on my bumpers a night before i left for beach hop. WOW it works a bloody treat!!!

before 



after 



my new muffler sounds amazing i will get a video of it when im next out and about in it.

i also have purchased a new vehicle. it arrives this week. so keep an eye out for the build thread of that.

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so nothing new on the valiant other than went for a random ass road trip to palmy north and back. 

stopped in at taupo to catch a ride with miniman76 in his race car. what a thrill!!!

so after putting a new axle in the mini i thought i better give the valiant an oil change since it was well over due. out to the pits and jacked it up and a quick oil change was done the valiant sounds so much nicer for the oil change.



also had a huge amount of guard rub on my right side so managed to borrow a HUGE bar from a socket set and threw 3 people in the back and a quick roll forwards and back and wabam we had heaps of clearance!!! we had maybe 5 more scrapes the hole trip. success  

motored down to palmy got on the turps a bit and watched che che and chong. next morning was all go, 1st stop was this beautiful picture with the havilland vampire



next stop was another plane picture with the DC3



3rd stop was with the bloody gumboot 



4th stop was at the army base and had to get a photo of the valitank next to a tank. (p.s i cant park while trying to drink a energy drink)



5th stop was at the bloody carrot 



6th stop was the snow. check out our ugly mutts out. haha. got to go play in the snow though.



7th stop was at horopito motors for a quick look and a check to see why i was losing my brake peddle :/



and there we have it. 1000kms latter. about $300 worth of gas. one dead sparrow stuck in my grill (we named him fred) and my brakes disappearing we have our self a wicked road trip.

list of things to do is get a rego and find out where my brake peddle was disappearing to.....

 

hope you enjoy 

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so yea nothing much been happening drove my valiant once or twice since the road trip.

been busy working doing upholstery like always. finally finished my mates 38 ford coupe and he is going to build my engine for me.

so today i went for a drive with a boat anchor in my boot of my c rolla



so now i need to find all the extra peaces laying around my garage to complete the engine.

also the green sedan will be losing parts to the wagon so i can try get that on the road

feeling excited about the new engine getting closer!!!!

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so yeah havnt touched the sedan in probaly 3 months now.....

thought id better have a look the my brake problem and see why i was losing my brake peddle. as i drove it out of the garage while moving the other valiant around went to put my brake peddle down and yeah..... pretty much straight to the floor.

so bummed around and thought ohhh wonder if it has any fluid and how that looks

turns out it looks a bit like this 



not the site i wanted to see.

il put it up on the hoist tomorrow or Thursday at my shop and see what i can find/see.

just about to pull the front brake hoses off to go get some new ones made. 

shull wait and see.... 

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so i chucked the valiant up on the hoist..... couldnt find a leak or i didnt look hard enough (probably didnt look hard enough)

 

while it was on the hoist i invited UTERUS over to use his massive amount of skills to stomp on the brake peddle so i could bleed them and since then everything is all tickety boo.

well seems to be as of yet took it for a bit of a drive to my weekend job and had mates use it for a music video and its still all in one peace and still stops.

i also managed to get this photo of it while my mates were doing there camera magic making a video 



pretty happy with how its looking atm.

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wahoooo!!!!

this happened today!



also thought id better do more things on the engine so i can have it up and running for os drag day. 

so dropped more parts off for engine to be more assembled.

planning on doing it end of September beginning of October so watch this space. 

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nothing much been happening in the lines of this old girl, been focusing on the upholstery business lately, but i got a call from a mate the other day saying i needed some more parts for my engine. shot over to have a look and a chat about what i needed and came back with this photo.



the list of thing i needed was crank case cover, thermostat, some water hose, gasket goo, bolts for the tapet cover and all the torque settings for the bolts. 

needles to say il be dropping the most of this off today minus the sump and crank case as they have been blasted and painted again.


EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh i also went to a closed road event out side MR WEST house last weekend around 11pm and came back with half a tyre hahaha



so need to sort out some kind of lsd for the rear end i think.

and i came across this safari and got a quick photo next to. note the safari is for sale if any ones interested 


 

 

such a mint wagon but i dont have the money and its missing an ap5 front for my liking

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bit of a quick update i have all three valiants in one single car shed at my home now so no work will get done on them and the engine has been put on hold cause of my own business venture. but here is a pic for now 



and here we have a lonely valiant waiting for a mayte

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OHHH MAN!!! this build thread must suck something chronic none of my photos want to load on my computer. hope this isnt the same for everyone else out there reading this. all my photos are still live and visible on my face book. stuff is lame

but i have started using photobucket for my photos hope this fixes the problem. 

i paid for my oldschool nats and with that i went online and ordered my last part for the new engine hoping to have this engine in for nats. this next few months are going to be some busy months of working hard fixing cars and trying to make this work.

found my old clutch plate so thats getting sent off to be rebuilt so i have a fresh clutch plate for when the engine gets removed and changed.

i also had the best new years day. piled 6 of us into the valiant and shot out to raglan for a swim and some fush n chups and nabbed this photo. 



roll on 2015 and the good times. will see you all in 15 days at Kumeu car show