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Sexy 8) 8)

Is there room in there for a second pillow block to take any side load off the Norman driveshaft ??



The ball bearing block should take up a lot of the side load, though you are right, it will turn the shaft into a lever. The Norman bearings will take the remaining load ...

The good thing is that now it is setup, there is nothing else to do. It just stays there unless you make a change.



The Holley’s have the reputation of being set up to be tuned fairly easily if you know or have an idea what to do, and as you say every engine is different.


The Holleys are a ...

Dummy up for the supercharger snout support


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Harv

I only know one 138 that is “Easily identified by.. the signature “Holden” embossed on the rocker cover”

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Harv

Errol62 wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 3:57 pm Rule of thumb says around 100 flywheel kW whereas factory quoted 86kW for the carb 202 VK.

With some tek screws and mebbe some araldyte, it should be good for another 150,000 miles

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Harv

Brett027 wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 2:23 am Brand and model/ type please Harv. Fast and furious is what I'm after

Apologies - I sold off my red motor gear quite a while ago. Most of it was un-tagged.

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Harv

Tuned length, long primaries for a town car, short primaries for highway.

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Harv

Great outcome 8) . Probably the varnish on the piston, as there is not much force driving them. The sticky threads tell a story... never been removed before.

I've seen some horror stories of "professionally rebuilt" carbs. Passages full of grit, acid soaked so long the press-fit bowl vent tubes ...

Does it lean-ping under load?

Could well be the piston sticking, or the power bypass jet blocked.

Perhaps the power bypass jet and pump bypass jet are swapped. There would likely be enough accelerator pump pressure to force open the misplaced power bypass jet (even without the pin depressed) so ...

Craig Allardyce wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 9:19 pm Also my OCD has made a start on polishing stuff again.

Polishing SU suction chambers has sent more than one Englishman stark raving mad They do look good once done though. Just got to keep the heat out of them so they still pass the piston drop test once reassembled.

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Harv

In a previous post I wrote an anecdote relating to the use of Norman superchargers on an Elfin sports car. The Elfin had been used for land speed record trials in both single and twin-Norman blown configuration. Whilst researching other material, I stumbled across the two articles below, which I ...

Ha, used stainless so they wouldn't rust! I'll dab a bit of never seize on in final fitment.


It's frightening how unforgiving stainless can be. We got turbo piping done for Number One Son's VL a few months back (suspect it is 304), and have been slowly piecing it together. Got them to put a few ...

Good bend in that rod. When the unstoppable force meets the immovable object

Lucky it didn't make some large, irregularly shaped welch plugs like Greg's red motor.

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Harv