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Went and nabbed a 700R4 out of a HSV VP commy on friday night. Lots of fun pulling a gearbox out of the grass, got it done quickly though around 45min and it was out, the guy lifted it with his tractor which helped heaps.

 

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Ended up paying $230 for the box, converter and driveshaft! awesome score as these non electronic 700's aren't easy to track down. Even more of a score as the guy who was parting the car reckons his son in law had the box reconditioned before it came off the road. Had a remanufactured by AC delco sticker on it so I tend to believe him.

 

This thing has filler on it and I knew that when I picked it up. Was curious to see how well the 2 door conversion had been done as the welds on the roof chop were pretty good.

 

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Its actually not that bad, its no file finish piece of art but I can't complain. Will try get the whole outside stripped over the next couple weeks.

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For KK. Front numbers and middle numbers.

 

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Also ports are stock as a rock, still casting parks, that other photo was just the angle and shadow I think.
 
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Also going to pick up a steering rack out of a VH commy tonight, should do the trick, I CBF grabbing the one out of the VP the other day.
 
And even more exciting I managed to grab a cheap Exploder diff, $200 and its out of a 98. So disk brakes and 31 spline axles! its a gamble if its a posi but fingers crossed! man so much betterer than going Hilux diff.
 
That's about my budget blown for this week! sold the TH400 and the money paid for the diff and steering rack. Next pay I'll spend my coin on some body work stuff and steel so I have heaps to do over the holidays.
 
 
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Oh almost forgot the best bit! Got some P76 discs last week! this makes the stud pattern ford 4x4.5" to match the diff. Also brings the track in 1" which is greatly needed with this Holden front end I think. 

 

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Leyland,Holden and ford parts in my ride! fail.

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Whoops. 

 

Anyway today I went and collected a bunch of parts I had been lining up for awhile.

 

First a smelly Commodore power-steering rack, looks to be a bit wide for me but will build a jig to measure bump-steer and dummy mount this and play around

 

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Also got this exploder diff for a good price, thanks tom! Poor mans 9" 31 spline exactly the right width and already disc brakes

 

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It had the diff tag missing which is annoying! Anyway popped the cover off (it had been terribly siliconed up at the last service by the looks) and bam its a posi! you can see the clutch plates in the end of the nugget. Its also a 3.73 ratio which I think will work out lush with the OD on the 700, at 65 MPH and a 26" tyre its somewhere around 2000rpm.

 

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I also picked up a 1000L IBC water tank, Im going to chop the top off and turn this into my citric acid dip tank for rust removal. Guys have awesome results with the stuff so should save me a fortune in blasting. I'll keep you up to date with that once I'm all setup., pretty much anyone on OS doing up shit cars should get into this stuff.

 

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Have fun at the drags, I'm jealous.

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Finally had a full day on this yesterday. I hate cars with no steering! so gay to move around so that was the first thing to attack. I jacked it up for the first time and the wishbones stayed stuck in max slam mode haha. So basically tore the whole front down and lots of WD40 and re-tapping all the fasteners. The bushes are OK (they are nolothanes lol), but all the steel collars are rusty and fucked so it will need a round of bush. The commodore rack is all metric spec and has a slightly larger  taper on the tie rods, so I got to crack out my trusty taper reamer! only used it once years ago.

 

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Then dummied up the rack on the jack, got it all squared away and in a reasonable spot.

 

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Made up some cardboard templates and made some temporary mounts. Once these were zapped up I could adjust the rack up with shims and play around with bump steer. These commy racks are a tad wide, but was hoping with the HQ steering arms I could get away with a full length rack.

 

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Can't quite get it high enough to get the bump steer acceptable, well I could but the boot would be rubbing the chassis. This was kind of expected, but some people get away with these full racks, my subframe has been recessed into the chassis rails so this is why it doesn't work for me. Will track down a manual steering rack out of a VL etc and shorten it 20-40mm and get the rack allot lower. 

 

At least the wheels steer in the same direction when I move it around the shed haha.

 

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OK so took a bunch of photos while making the mounts. I am no fab guru but just copied what the off the shelf mounts for these look like, took about 5 hours I'd say but better than spending $200 and it not sitting where you want it, most after market stuff is made for Mustang II front ends, not smelly holden ones anyway.

 

OK so photo bomb time, somewhat in sequence.

 

made up some pads, these sit into the older style chevy mounts, bolt goes through the tube

 

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Got a cheap reciprocating saw and removed the factory gearbox crossmember. These no removing the gearbox in place on these old closed driveline beasts.

 

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Had to lol at these mounts that were there, wtf were these for. I would almost bet they are for a 308.

 

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Gone

 

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Motor in

 

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Leveled it all up, its all centered to the chassis the best possible.

 

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This thing is my favorite tool because its a johnson.

 

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All happy and tacked it up.

 

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Its fucking tight in the trans tunnel, I will have to fab up a new trans cover anyway as the lokar style shifter sits on top of the box.

 

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Had to take the front subframe out to weld these up lushly, man that sucked! awkward and snapped most of the bolts holding it in. Anyway gob was easy once that was gone.

 

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Buzzed up the top of the mounts.

 

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And cutout and welded up some gussets that go down to the chassis lip, bit dark in this shot.

 

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Anyway the motor now sits on these just fine, currently whipping up a gearbox x-member.

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