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Bugs and stone chips are track-trophies to be proud of.

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Harv

Agree that market sets the price, but for what it’s worth I reckon your price is reasonable. I can only reflect on what my wagon conversion cost, but if I wanted another project I would buy yours.

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Harv

Couldn't find my sketch earlier today:


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Harv

G'day Billy, How much cable pull do you need? To check it, have a helper hold a steel rule (or tapemeasure) near the Holley where the accelerator cable attaches. Use your fingers on the carby throttle arm to move it from idle to WOT, and see how much the cable end moves on the steel rule. If you use...

Lol… I’m referring to the van's (and T'rana's) colour (Strike Me Pink). The Torries had some cool colour names - The Lone O'Ranger, Yellow Dolly, Lettuce Alone, Plumdinger Purple.

Not quite as cool as BMC’s Hairy Lime Green for Minis.

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Harv

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Harv

Strike me pink... a van.

And a towbar on a 'trahna. Must be for ballast.

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Harv

Agree. The Norman will provide a lot of mixing and some vapourisation from the vane heat. I can have (relatively) mismatched nozzles into the Norman and the engine won't know the difference. If this thing ran with no supercharger, the nozzles would be a lot more critical for vapourisation and would ...

Onwards to nozzles. The injection process uses a pump to put fuel into the motor. The pump spins up as the engine spins, giving more fuel as the engine need it. In fact, the pump provides a little too much fuel, so some is sent back to the tank by the primary bypass. The primary bypass has a “pill” ...

Doctor Google shows EJ/EH and HD/HR levers with the pivot on the outside of the bend:


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Harv

Masterparts says the auto and manual levers are different.

If you get stuck I'll likely have one here, though not sure how good the chrome will be.

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Harv

Some more progress on fuel pumps. Some time back I got the McGee grey-motor fuel pump tested. This is the little one that sits on top of the magneto angle drive, and neatly clears the Repco inlet manifold. Angle drive assembled with pump and magneto side view.JPG Flow bench testing showed that at 40...

Some info on the ET G1260 retainers I am thinking of using. They are meant for a normal-headed grey motor with double valve springs: Retainer OD: 1.250” (Repco ones are similar if not identical) Outer spring inner ID: 0.975” (my Repco ones are 1” – this would give 0.0125” spring pocket clearance if ...

Squeeeeeeze.jpg Valve stem installed heights inlet and exhaust measured from outer spring seat to tip of valve: Valve stem installed heights.JPG No. 1 inlet was measured with a 0.030” shim in place. No. 3 inlet was measured with a 0.040” shim in place. No. 3 exhaust was measured with a 0.030” shim ...

The rockers cover the head studs on the inlet side, so cannot remove the head with the rockers in place. Those headstuds cannot be gotten at.jpg The inlet rocker shaft came out OK, but the exhaust hung up. The rocker post closest to No. 1 exhaust was tight… because the rocker post stud, which had be...