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Not that keen on the colour, but would take the car in a flash. Always had a passion for mopar and Chargers.

Finally had time to wash the old girl after the WA nats, Ive driven it around but filthy !
Formal Duties !!
Greg

Sits real nice!...Was the Torana front end worth the effort?

Very sweet Greg


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oz_ek wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:19 pm Sits real nice!...Was the Torana front end worth the effort?

The front end is awesome, the car sits very flat around corners and is quite easy to steer.

If I ever do it, maybe add some power steering but thats it.

Oh and one more thing I'm going to make some offset camber pins and washers for the lower comtrol arm alignment, at the moment I have offset bushes but they move and need monitoring, set and forget I say !

Greg

EK283 wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 5:15 pm

oz_ek wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:19 pm Sits real nice!...Was the Torana front end worth the effort?

If I ever do it, maybe add some power steering but thats it.


Greg

i think it's TC/TD Cortina power steer rack thats a pretty easy swap on to Torana front end, a mate had a LX years ago with power steer and i'm sure that's what it was off

Heap of Torana power steering info here.... https://www.gmh-torana.com.au/forums/fo ... -steering/

The link didn’t work for me but I am on that forum a fair bit and one of the old regulars specialises in power steering for Torana front ends. Very knowledgeable. The UC front end is generally considered as the ducks guts. I would rate it above CRS at least.

Having a ride in your car in Albany I can say it is a most impressive car on the road as I would expect from the amount of effort you have put in to building it as well as your capability mate.


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It is the silly season !
Tried to go for a drive the other day but can’t open my roller door on the shed !
Unlocked as per normal but can’t lift it, 4 meter wide and heavy. Closer inspection has revealed the composite drum wheel has broken where the lift spring bolts to. Mmmm door needs to come out but I can’t do that because everything else is in the way including my car.
A few phone calls and no luck getting anyone this close to Chrissy, grrrr.
So I’ve had to pull it apart in the air, not fun but I did manage to get the old drum out. A bit of ebay shopping and a new one is on its way.
Car will have to wait till I fix it, of course I would like to spend the free time driving it but no !!!!

Greg

Bugger!


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So,
My roller door fixed but I have a new problem. For the last 12 weekends Ive been cleaning my family home (where i grew up) to help my mother transition into a new house, shes 82 now and starting to get wobbly on her feet so needs a flat home with less maintenance. Unfortunately my late fathers collection of everything from tools to steel and more had to be moved, a big task which has worn me out.
The down side to this is everything is at my place and i have to sort what goes and what stays, and I now have more work ahead of me.
This car has been sitting for 20 years at the old house because I just havent had the time or room to store it. The issue here is I have to get it going to move it on to my sister who learned to drive in it but has no mechanical knowledge. Its going to need fuel tank, lines brakes and cooling system fixed up so I can get it off the trailer.
For the first time in my life I feel overwhelmed with the stuff Iv'e accumilated and am staring at a massive clean up !
Oh well It is what it is ! Greg

Looks like a solid old girl - the XP not your sister


Cant you buy new tanks for early frods ? A reco radiator , new hoses and thats 2 jobs down


Brakes will take a bit more doing I guess .....

My parents are in a similar situation, they have been in the same house for 55 years and recently sold to move into a villa on flat ground with no steps - I will be flying to Sydney in a few weeks and my brother is coming down from Ballina so we can help them move and set the new place up. The old man has had a big car parts cull but we are going to have to play garage tetris to get all his gear into the new place.

Nyze eggs pee mayte.


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Hey Greg,
Tidy looking car, just noticed it is a Fairmont. I guess the Fairmont owner got a cigar lighter as standard over the basic Falcon owner!

I have been through what you have been up to. My parents lived in the same house since 1959 and my Dad was a carpenter. We moved my Mum into residential care a couple years after our Dad passed. As our parents didn’t throw anything out it was a mammoth job for my sister and I. Took us 18 months.

When I demolished my shed I shifted my vehicles to Mums place. So after maintaining her house for 18 months the house sold and I spent three days of Easter 2024 shifting timber, screws, nails, hardware, tools, bikes, sidecars and general stuff back to my place in the Ute. Whilst I grew up in the house I was glad to see the back of it by the end. And….. where was my brother (lives in Adelaide) the whole time? Nowhere to be seen

After that was done I then helped my wife clear her Mums house! Same deal but fortunately less stuff but a 50 min drive away!

Our place looked like a salvage yard for a while with motor/gearbox, sidecar, timber, steel, bricks and crap out the front with more crap out the back.

It can wear you down looking after other peoples places, working full time whilst your own place goes down hill. It is just one of those things you have to do I guess.

Regards
Stephen