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190mm thats a fair bit different ... im sure i took 105mm off the long side and about 8mm off the short side but then as you say you have deep dish wheels and i have commodore offset wheels!

i hadn't really put much thought into the tubes and oil flow back but i guess like you say time will tell ... i've had the same setup in my LH Torana for nearly 1 yr and about 20,000km's and its been faultless so far

i also had the same experience with re-splined axles! nothing quite beats a properly made and *HARDENED* axle hey

well on another subject i have been able to finish the brake line last night and had plenty of extra length this time hahahaha



so rear line in the pic is rear brakes, front one on the left is to the drivers caliper and the angled one on the right is for the passenger side.



this is my artwork around the firewall which was too short the first time obviously its not secured in place yet, i need to find some nice rubber insulated clamps i can pop rivet on or something but it will be secured on the underside of that join.

the good news is after tightening a few of the flex hose to pipe joins i have no more leaks and i have been able to bleed the brakes and they bloody well work hahahah

well they work in the shed with no wheels on anyways, next step will be to see how they feel with engine running and the cars weight on them ....

oh im getting mighty keen to back this beast out of the shed ..... even if its not finished its another phycological hurdle!

Good on ya Sammy,

The work your doing is very impressive. These small feats all coming together is what keeps the fire burning. Keep up the great work.

Cheers

no Malcolm what keeps the fire burning is me today putting it in gear and having it move

so the brakes work and the gearobx has forwards and backwards (which is a minor miracle in itself as there was a very small amount of water in the gearbox after the floods)

so of course now that i can back it out of the shed its bloody raining damn it!!!

hopefully tomorrow it will be dry and i will be able to get her out for a sun bake for a while!! might even do a photo shoot in the sun

very excited!!!

Go Big Kev "Im excited"

Nice work Sammy

Keep it coming

spot on harko hahahah

well i let her get a bit of a tan today in the sun



also had to take a video of the maiden voyage!

its about 6mb, so probably not very dialup friendly, then again most of this thread isn't very dialup friendly

http://www.oldholdens.com/images/cars/f ... tdrive.wmv

excuse my dodgy accelerator action, its actually a hand operated cable stuck through the firewall at the moment

oh and if your wondering if i hit the clothes line or not the answer is no, it looks like it was going to but it actually cleared it, marie stopped the video at that point so she could come over and tell me how much clearance i had!

the v6 in the back has now been removed which is handy cause i can now get to the flat battery under the boards in the tray!!

It's alive

Nice Job Sammy, Long awaited i bet!

You've done very well considering mate!

Cheers
NoMAD

yeah i was just thinking that yesterday after driving it .... it was pretty much up to making the front brake lines before the floods so its been nearly 1yr and 4 months to get back to where it was admitidly half of that was buying a house and building the shed, but its all part of it eh!

i've got a B&M Megashifter on the way for it now and then i will have to work out where to mount the accelerator pedal but its slowly getting there!! i'm also going to hook the radiator up so i can have it running for a reasonable amount of time ... its amazing how quick a car heats up when you start using the engine with a load on it!!

well today i put the radiator and fan in and did alot of little bits and pieces that were missing off the engine and all that type stuff....

thought i'd post up a few pics of the engine bay, its close to full of everything thats going to fill it!







all i can say is i hope i don't have to change fan belts too often ... it can be done but its a royal pain in the ass to say the least!


theres about a 10mm gap between the fan and the water pump pulley.

i'm going to start working on all the little things i need to finish off for the engineer like seat runners, fitting inertia reel seat belts and a few things i need to do under the dash to satisfy the engineer for the steering column conversion.

some time ago i made the seat brackets which allow fitting of standard commodore seats and runners, they attach to the original outer floor mounts and then have plates under the floor for the inner mounts.

so this was all fine and dandy, used the required thickness or thicker for the brackets to satisfy the rta guidelines etc .... so in the below picture you can see the original bracket that i made.



i spoke to the engineer and he said all i needed was some sort of strengthing support for fowards and backwards, eg, if someone rams you up the bum and the seat has to support the impact of you going backwards then it would just twist the brackets, so i have put the 2mm tin plate on the outside of it figuring 1. it will resolve this issue and 2. it will make the outside look a bit tidier.

so i welded her all up and cut where it needed it and here it is on the seat - note this is the side you don't see



now installed in the car with the seat at its highest setting



and now right down



please note its not going to stay this colour, thats just to stop rust!

so i have to do the same thing on the passenger side outer and im all done with the seats ....

also purchased a b&m shifter which i'll be installing over the next day or so, i wanted to get the seat back in first to make sure the shifter gets located in the best spot that suits me as i will have the seat right back in the ute and i want to be able to easily reach the shifter once the car is in drive....

the shifter i got is the Megashifter and for those that haven't seen them, they have a pull up handle to move from park to reverse neutral or drive etc .... then once your in drive you simply ratchet the handle back to go down the gears or fowards to go up ... you can ratchet to neutral but have to be in drive if you want to use the lever to go back to reverse or park.

i reckon they are a great option for a street car because for anyone that wants to just get in and drive it like an auto it can, but then if you want to have more control over it you have the ratchet mechanism for that and you really can't stuff up with it, you just bang it forward then let off and it will be ready for the next gear then, no shifting past the gear you want!

anyways i'll put some pics up in the next few days of that.

i've also just recieved a heap of electrical bits and pieces for it, things like interior light door switches and some tail light globe fittings as i only had one of them out of all the wiring loom so i needed to get more, and i also wanted to get new ones just so i know they should be hassle free for ages.

Woodzy was great in pointing me in the right direction for a supplier of what i needed!
I've decided that i will have the stop/tail lights as normal then in the blinker i will also incorporate a reversing light by the use of a twin filament 21w/21w bulb so the blinker and reverse light are as bright as one another.

last on the list was some new connectors for the H4 headlights, which i really didn't need but they are brand new and i wanted to get as much of that stuff new as possible and then it will be spliced into the VR Commodore wiring loom.

Looking good there sammy i like it, definetly makes it look a lot tidyier from side on...

any pics showing how high the seat sits in there? i'm sure some people would be interested....?

Cheers
NoMAD

Those seat brackets look the business, I'd suggest a dummy fit with carpet/underlay though before you go any further

its funny you should mention that, i've been trying to decide how to go about the carpet, and i was thinking, do i keep the whole bracket above the carpet or do i put the carpet over the bolts and plates but have it below the middle bit ..

either way it's not going to be hard to trim the cut out at the bottom if needs be ... i'm thinking when i strip the car for paint and interior i will be getting the seat brackets probably powder coated or something so i can make changes before that!

I got stuck into fitting the shifter tonight, as you can see its not complete with the cover and all that but the shifter is mounted to the floor and the cable and linkages are all setup.

this pic is more to show where the shifter is located compared to the seats etc, the drivers seat is right back against the rear wall of the ute and i can reach the shifter without having to really move too much.




i turn my back for two seconds ....... its times like these im glad the camera is close by - i think he is keen to go for a drive


also i thought i'd show ye all the glob holders i got, they are from Narva, and they are really cheap, very happy, they fit into the tail light housing perfectly!