When I got it it looked like this:
After I took it apart and cleaned it up I painted it ford light blue (yeah its ford but the holden blue is crook):
I managed to pick up a reco head with unleaded inserts for $250 which saved me a shitload. For a while I fed it a diet of new bearings and a 40thou overbore until it was ready to go in the car. Me and a few mates pulled 2 late nights building it before the end of my school holidays, including a 3am night the day before we went back.
Here's a pic of the engine:
And the obligatory standing in the bay shot:
I took it to the mechanic down the road who got it running and ran the cam in that day. When I brought it home the clutch didnt work properly which I later found out was because I'd forgotten to put a spigot bush in the auto crank for my manual box. So the engine had to come back out and went back in that weekend and I finally got to drive it.
Unfortunately a few days later I crashed my mums vt into a tree and spent 2 days unconscious in liverpool hospital. When I got out I got back into the run in stage and spent 500kms going real easy, did the oil change and then gave it a few small tests and was very happy with it.
Since then its got extractors and a 2.5" lukey exhaust:
And I bought a set of triple sus off blown308 which look like I can make them fit a 12 port head pretty easily so hopefully by the time we get to the christmas cruise they'll be on and running and the xu1 engined commodore will be finished driveline-wise
It just doesn't look right with a single carby:
So hopefully these will go on soon:
A pic of the whole car:
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