Nice one dude! Looks awesome. Any chance you can tell me if the original 6 cylinder hard fuel line pipe needs to be different? Or are they the same?
As in line from tank to pump or pump to carby?
Posted 12 August 2015 - 07:56 PM
Nice one dude! Looks awesome. Any chance you can tell me if the original 6 cylinder hard fuel line pipe needs to be different? Or are they the same?
Posted 12 August 2015 - 07:58 PM
The hard line from the tank to the pump
Posted 12 August 2015 - 08:01 PM
Looks pretty good Daniel top stuff you must be stoked
Posted 12 August 2015 - 08:05 PM
The hard line from the tank to the pump
Posted 12 August 2015 - 08:12 PM
Posted 12 August 2015 - 08:16 PM
I am running the standard mechanical fuel pump so I should be sweet to re-fab my line exactly as the old one. Thanks mate.
Nothing wrong with a non detailed bay. Like you say its going to be driven. Looks great regardless!
Posted 22 August 2015 - 06:36 PM
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Posted 22 August 2015 - 07:19 PM
Awesome Daniel great job mate, seems like you had it well organized.
What was the price on the Fenix radiator ?
Posted 22 August 2015 - 08:08 PM
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Posted 25 July 2018 - 10:49 PM
I stuck with a trymatic and Std diff too long with my last toy. It was a wb 1 tonner and I did load it up but 3 transmishions and several diff's later I went to t400 , 9"diff with a 3" tailshaft. Never killed the drive line again, Spent more keeping the old stuff running than the new trans and diff cost to set up. When I retiared the 1 tonner I shortened the diff and droped it and a 355 stroker into my UC and it is still going strong.
The lighter car may not distroy the trimatic but you may end up driving to not brake the diff/ trans rather than just driving it.
Posted 27 July 2018 - 05:50 PM
I stuck with a trymatic and Std diff too long with my last toy. It was a wb 1 tonner and I did load it up but 3 transmishions and several diff's later I went to t400 , 9"diff with a 3" tailshaft. Never killed the drive line again, Spent more keeping the old stuff running than the new trans and diff cost to set up. When I retiared the 1 tonner I shortened the diff and droped it and a 355 stroker into my UC and it is still going strong.
The lighter car may not distroy the trimatic but you may end up driving to not brake the diff/ trans rather than just driving it.
Posted 08 June 2019 - 11:13 AM
Posted 20 June 2019 - 04:12 PM
Nice work on the grinder Dan!
I'm keen to know about the sonic testing. My block is at 60 over and I want to source a block and stash it away as insurance for the future. But keen to get one with plenty of meat on it. Imagine storing one away for years then to find it has thin spots.
What sort of thickness did the rejected blocks have and what did you end up with?
Where did you go and what sort of cost to test a block?
I've heard that VT(VMxxxx) roller blocks are prone to core shift but what about VN-VS(VUxxxx) blocks. Any recommendations?
I'm assuming that the earlier blocks will likely be thin due to corrosion and at least one re-bore.
Cheers, Steve.
Posted 20 June 2019 - 11:03 PM
Nice work on the grinder Dan!
I'm keen to know about the sonic testing. My block is at 60 over and I want to source a block and stash it away as insurance for the future. But keen to get one with plenty of meat on it. Imagine storing one away for years then to find it has thin spots.
What sort of thickness did the rejected blocks have and what did you end up with?
Where did you go and what sort of cost to test a block?
I've heard that VT(VMxxxx) roller blocks are prone to core shift but what about VN-VS(VUxxxx) blocks. Any recommendations?
I'm assuming that the earlier blocks will likely be thin due to corrosion and at least one re-bore.
Cheers, Steve.
Posted 25 June 2019 - 08:18 AM
I bet the shower felt great after that effort! Thanks for the info on sonic testing. I'm in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne so Blackburn is not far to go. I had no idea just how thin cylinder walls are. I imagined them to be twice as thick. So they are about the thickness of an Easter egg.
Posted 25 June 2019 - 08:07 PM
I bet the shower felt great after that effort! Thanks for the info on sonic testing. I'm in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne so Blackburn is not far to go. I had no idea just how thin cylinder walls are. I imagined them to be twice as thick. So they are about the thickness of an Easter egg.
Posted 01 August 2020 - 06:58 PM
Covid may have slowed it down a little but finally got an update, short block is assembled! Very happy with progress, coming together nicely. Just gotta get some paint on her and the welsh plugs in and then its valvetrain time (sump has since been installed)
Posted 01 August 2020 - 07:02 PM
Engine builder invited me in today to do the easier work with porting the heads, the aim of the build is torque and driveability so porting heads and flowing them to the enth degree is pretty much pointless. So in order to save myself a buck the engine builder let me tackle the polishing of the chambers for cc'ing and simpler parts of de-burring the heads.
The heads are VL carb heads, which are factory big valve heads with hardened seats as standard
Posted 01 August 2020 - 08:43 PM
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