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cheers boys

the rocket wrote: Thu May 11, 2017 9:46 pm looks great, are you putting air conditioning in?

yes i am, the unit is behind the glovebox

Cheers
Nathan

Nath what sort of Air con unit are you using?

Blacky maybe we need to do another garage crawl and all go to Nathans

Regards
Neil H

i can handle 1 or 2 people but theres really no room where it currently is, unless you want crawl to mean actually that haha

its a vintage air compact unit from a few years ago (heat/cool/defrost) i'll try and get a model number tomorrow.

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Nathan

NoMAD wrote: Fri May 12, 2017 12:00 pm its a vintage air compact unit from a few years ago (heat/cool/defrost) i'll try and get a model number tomorrow.

For those playing at home the model is 1000-VUZ-A

Cheers
Nathan

Cheers Nath did you have to lose your glovebox to fit it in?

yeah mate completely, i have seen some centre mounted and the wipers changed to a cable / worm type in some other early holdens and then a smaller glovebox made...

I've managed to use the inside of the glovebox lid to mount my fan controllers, gear indicator box and an addition smaller fuse panel but, and then i'll just lock the glove box permanently.

heres where its at after yesterday, the dash and stereo are just resting in place, the 2 screws at the right hand side have relays for the A/C behind them but thats more a not considering them when i put the A/C in the first time and the harness becomes prewired and i can't be bothered extending it, lazy i know



still need to squeeze in some solenoid relays for controlling the flaps but they should fit in up on the passenger side somewhere, and then the vacuum runs will be nice and small.

so theres a few things going on there haha

Cheers
Nathan

Looking good mate.

cheers bud... how goes the sub?

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Nathan

little bit more of an update... polished up some roof chrome... haven't screwed it in yet, but thats really just a teaser



the wiring and engine plumbing is under way... a lot of it will be tidied up once its fired and broken in but here you go boys... getting close





the locker brackets and cables really came together nicely on the Quaddie, just got to adapt the kick down end which is minor.



hopefully fired within 2 weeks, it looks close but theres tons to do

Cheers
Nathan

Just testing photo upload... $*#@ photo bucket

Well its full steam ahead... finally... next weekend is time to fire up the motor...

it did its best to piss me off and thwart my plans (water pump not fully seated, just enough room to get it out between the rad) but i wasn't giving in... just needs an alternator belt and a temp fuel line and its go time!

Still some tidying and stuff but good enough for now!
Cheers
Nathan

Nath is you brake booster 7 or 8 inch and did you use the original brake master position of have to go over to the clutch side to clear the bonnet hinge?

Regards
Neil H

its a 7 inch mate... with the brake mounting moved to the center on the pedal box (cut out and plated up the original spots) and a HQ pedal bent around the steering column.

my initial mock-up for you, should give you a rough idea.

Cheers
Nathan

please brush touch the bolt heads and washers holding the bonnet on

looking good

Mick wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:07 pm please brush touch the bolt heads and washers holding the bonnet on

looking good

haha im planning on stripping and plating the hinges and have new bolts for it mate.... just one of those do it later jobs.

Cheers mate

Nathan