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Anyone heard of a red 138?????

Yep. Sure have. In toranas if my memory is correct.

yep, mate of mine has one, he'll get rid of it to if you want it, hes in albion park.

aidan...

no its cool just never heard of one but thank u anyhow!!!
Tony

LC and LJ toranas I'm pretty sure.

John wrote:LC and LJ toranas I'm pretty sure.

yep, another mate had a lc and it had a 138 red in it.

aidan...

Red 6's came in 138, 149, 161, 173, 179, 186 & 202 (I think that's all of them).

Torana LC Red 138 had 2250 badge on the front guard , 2600 for 161 , there was 130 Red listed for them but never seen one

MeFB wrote:Red 6's came in 138, 149, 161, 173, 179, 186 & 202 (I think that's all of them).

Dont forget the good ones 179HP and 186S

gordon wrote:Torana LC Red 138 had 2250 badge on the front guard , 2600 for 161 , there was 130 Red listed for them but never seen one

same heard of the 130 but never seen one someone on here once posted a pic of i think a 201 or something like that it was in a forklift
it's funny the amount of people that have never heard of the 138 red and will argue with you they don't exsist
also the 149 are strange with no size cast on the side of the block i bought one from a clearing sale once (the auctioneer could have been a member from here ) because there was nothing on the side of the block he tried to palm it off as some type of prototype engine luckilly there wasn't any gulible people there and i got it for $5

130 reds were export only (apparently). Not sure what the thinking was though.

Never seen any over here in NZ

t950cat wrote:Anyone heard of a red 138?????

Yep,

Got one in me shed, came out of an LC Torana, has trimatic attached.

Externally they look like any other red motor but have 138 cast into the block.

The engine number prefix also gives 'em away.

Starts with prefix Cd ( or something like that , the engine's not sitting in my lap ATM )

Will throw up a pic of the 138 casting later if you like.

They only came out in LC/LJ Torana's.

In the early 70's they were the easiest way to go to get a red motor in an early holden legally.
The rego guys and the cops use to look for the numbers cast on the side of the block first, before writing out a defect.
Engine numbers were not a problem
But, some of us knew how to change the 186 casting to 138

Smooth customs wrote:In the early 70's they were the easiest way to go to get a red motor in an early holden legally.
The rego guys and the cops use to look for the numbers cast on the side of the block first, before writing out a defect.
Engine numbers were not a problem
But, some of us knew how to change the 186 casting to 138

there's a few ways i learnt alot of them from an engine reco mob when they were telling me about guys that had bought there 138 reds in to be rebuilt