Well done Loki! Looks great & sounds even better, Hope you leave the 3300 badge on the guards� 
This thread's back from the grave
Haha, yeah mate, she's completely as she was before, badges and all .
All that's been done to her (Aside from engine swap) from genuine SL/R 202 condition was : Lowered, Tinted Windows, 205's.
No intention of changing anything except maybe trying to fit 225's on there (Worked 308 + little 205's can lead to a bit of accidental wheelspinning)
Original block, clutch setup etc. is all still around and I have no intention of tossing it/selling it etc.
Where the car goes, the rest of that gear goes.
I named the car Sin 308 (Sinfully stripped away the genuine SL/R
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Power difference is amazing over the 202, had a number of cars rev up and try and race, particularly riced up 4cyls, and the old girl just chomps them up without even cracking 2.5K rpm
The heads she turns is the sugar on top for driving it, twice as many as before, plenty of positive shout-outs, few older guys at traffic lights impressed at how well she looks right down to the original SL/R hubcaps
Would estimate maybe a 13.5 quarter mile [:cough: Based on other cars that have run the 1/4 that are close in acceleration to mine] on current useless tread, not the fastest thing out there, but not the reason I wanted a v8 anyway
Fuel wise, not too bad when driving featherfoot, maybe a bit over 300k's to 55L with PULP pure suburbia/city driving.
When dry filling an auto its best to have the back wheels up and off the ground, and go through the gearbox selecting each gear. This allows the trans fluid through all the passages of the valve body without any real load being placed on the transmission.
I did do this but it still slipped once or twice tops, hasn't done it since (although my dipstick is dribbling a bit so I have to pull that up once again, and that bolt is a whole lot of fun to get to).
Edited by Loki, 21 January 2006 - 05:53 PM.
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