64Valiant's ideal AP5

[flyingbrick]

LOL did they ask, greg?

[64valiant]

that was from motoring times write up they done on me and my valiant so i gues since they took the photos and did the write up on me they have the rights to the photos

[hop]

Saw this at my mates wedding couple weeks back A+++! Cheers! Tough as guts! Even got one of the old boys yarning bout the good ole days,one of them may have mentioned something about carrying a can of nails on his motorbike to disperse  the fuzz lol@!

[64valiant]

Haha Cheers man. 10/5 hit me up like 2 days out from wanting it for the wedding. At that stage the windows where out and headlining was missing and was looking average but greg to the rescue windows back in get some rego and away laughing they went. Hopefully it looks just as good for the wedding this coming Friday

[64valiant]

POTATO CAM UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





this is how the next week will go

windows in tomorrow and go do wedding

work my ass off for a few days

remove windows

put headlining in and make it look pretty

put windows back in

remove gear box and put new gearbox and clutch it

ready for nats

panic about new paint and roof racks going on.....
 

[Evan]

Fuck I miss changing clutches in this at 11pm more than I should

[64valiant]

I think what makes it more awkward is I miss working on it at stupid hours also.....

Your more than welcome to come kick tyres when ever you want.

Next on the list it to do headlining and install heater.

[1963 AP5]

Great to see the AP5 is up and running and back in use.

It was cool to catch up and thanks heaps for the spare glass, it cleaned up very well.

Are you going to take The Valiant down to CHCH?

[64valiant]

no one had there phones out. (our request)(paid a bunch of money for someone to take good ones) the photographer got a bunch been such a long skid haha.

 

[64valiant]

Yeah was going and going and going and Beth said that'll do and I kept going.... 

 

Kind of glad I did stop still had to drive back from the Mt on those tyres. 

 

But when in Rome they say. 

[cletus]

Im impressed the little dana diff has lasted so long in your car

My brothers one in his vc lasted 2 skids before it shit the bed

What size tyre do you run?

[64valiant]

5 years of some abuse of that little old diff. And I gave it some abuse when I was 17 as well haha. Silly Greg. 

 

Running a 245 60 14 on it. Those hankooks got 5 years out of them.

 

My brothers diff didn't last long. They put a mustang one in if I remember correctly. 

[RUNAMUCK]

Some dirty Bogan I used to buy parts off had a theory that those 7.25" diff were stronger because merica made and better steel. I never popped one. And my ap5's laid some Uber hektik one wheelers. Seen a few fall apart though. Pinion nuts come undone while driving.  Fortunately not in my cars. 

[64valiant]

@nzed there you go. burnout pics.

we got the link for a few photos and i scrolled right down till i found the burnout ones haha

[64valiant]

i think it was about half way through she was like "that'll do greg" haha nope i just kept going.

the one and only time im so called aloud to do a skid im going to make sure its a big one and the amount of smoke was bloody good to.

came out bloody great.

 

[64valiant]

On 25/07/2016 at 20:23, Evan said:

Fuck I miss changing clutches in this at 11pm more than I should

do you still miss doing clutches @Evan?

[Evan]

No.

[RUNAMUCK]

By which method has it been lowered? 

You can flip the front spring hanger if you weld up the holes and d

Redrill them the other way around.  5his goes good on early Vals, as the spring eye is quite small. On a CM the from spring eye rubbed on the floor. On my VJ, the pinion snubber then rested on the floor too. But tilting wedges tip the diff forward, and correct this. (Also offers 6mm extra slam)

[64valiant]

ah i had seen that done on some other cars before @RUNAMUCK. i hadn't thought about how i was going to lower it as of yet other than i really wanted the rear to tuck a little more and that seems like a god way to gain a small amount.