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#76 Indy Orange

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 10:46 PM

Heath i know of one of these wagons in country W.A if you are interested,been sitting for many years but all complete.

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 11:37 PM

That's damn cool but buying another one of these isn't on the agenda at all. A friend of mine has an MS53 Custom wagon that I would really like to buy, I would probably opt for one of those over another Cedric at this stage. But I think I should focus some more attention on getting this running better and working on cars that are quick

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 11:56 PM

Ok thought you may be interested in it for parts you may even get it for nicks ,not sure who owns it its been sitting for so long behind an old garage .

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 08:16 AM

Grab it and stick it on ebay, if for no other reason than to save it from the scrappies.

These things are pretty rare and whilst not worth a million bucks,they are appreciating in value.

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:58 AM

They are worth a fair bit more in Japan!

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 11:12 AM

Good example of a car that doesn't really interest me but I can certainly appreciate and respect the effort that has gone into it. Nice work

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 05:51 PM

Very very very cool, should go on the 'cool wall'. Well done

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 08:04 PM

Ok thought you may be interested in it for parts you may even get it for nicks ,not sure who owns it its been sitting for so long behind an old garage .


Just get it dropped off in my driveway

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 09:47 PM

Go the wagons!

Looks awesome mate and love those electric rear windows, that's frOcking mad I want them in my wags.

Looked very familiar from the start of the thread because I remember seeing a grey wagon just like this on Springvale Rd the other night, but I thought not the same coz the one I saw was dumped and had those JDM mirrors etc. but after looking through it was probably the same after all. I remember just rolling past, wondering what the frOck it was, then figuring it was just a cruiser and probably some obscure, beat up old Datto.

Bahah. Nice work with the wheels and the tyres : ) Stretch the frOck out of em! Then be careful of gutters for the rest of your life : P

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Posted 06 August 2012 - 09:21 AM

saw this on boostcruising

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 05:26 PM

That's a big spoiler!

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 10:42 AM

Yeah I love that photo.

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Posted 03 October 2012 - 10:25 AM

Ride height got fixed a little while ago too:
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Posted 03 October 2012 - 08:21 PM

Looks good Heath. The only thing I'm a little worried about is that you're becoming one of those people that gets addicted to putting stickers on their car.

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Posted 07 October 2012 - 08:52 PM

Im more concerned that he hasnt blown a coat of fresh silver over the land barge yet!

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Posted 07 October 2012 - 09:27 PM

I haven't seen Heath for a while but I've heard he's had an eyebrow lift and has dyed his hair black? :dontknow:

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Posted 08 October 2012 - 07:53 AM

I haven't seen Heath for a while but I've heard he's had an eyebrow lift and has dyed his hair black? :dontknow:


haha... lol

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Posted 08 October 2012 - 03:00 PM

Ride height got fixed a little while ago too:

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Car can't actually drift... But I can park it so it looks like it does! haha

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Posted 03 January 2015 - 09:10 PM

Since I'm back on here after my kinda hiatus - I guess I should update this thread? Been over two years, not that much has happened, maybe some things I've forgotten about. I know how much you guys are not into this car, which makes me very proud to update you :)
 
Got some JDM Tail Lights which took at least two years to find!
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The L26 was pretty flogged out so I started preparing some bits and pieces. Bought an L28E, was told it was a nice running motor. After storing it for a while in a mate's factory, I was pretty disappointed to look inside!
 
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This transfer port is a bit of a weak spot in the construction of the head, so I made this up and got the dude reco'ing the head (Chris Collier @ M.R.C.) to weld it in before he decked it.
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Did a few unique cooling system modifications, such as a set of brass outlets above every exhaust port:
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Cast Iron TB42 Impeller machined down to fit a new replacement water pump (pressed tin piece of shit went in the bin), also ported the timing cover out to flow a bit better.
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My mate made this brass coolant collector, and I got some stainless tube and cranked out the TIG for this little header tank to run on the bypass circuit:
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Had some time to kill:
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Had the machine work on the block done by Cave Hill engines, new set of slugs and rings, everything else in the bottom end was within spec, just replaced some bearings.
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Took a bit of extra junk off the balancer:
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Back on the road with a lot more grunt than before! Ported out the standard split headers and got a 2-1/4" exhaust made up too.
 
To be more suited to the larger motor, I dropped from a 4.11:1 to 3.9:1 diff, just put a standard one together with some new bearings and a crush tube I spun up.
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Posted 03 January 2015 - 09:45 PM

Oh yeah and when I got the car back on the road, I had a few guys wanting to do a shoot, one of which I happily gave into! He did a little feature of it on his page too :)

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Top notch stuff. Straight to the digital pool room.

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Posted 03 January 2015 - 09:56 PM

Fumbs up. :)




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