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[Ruts]

Top job buddy keep up the great work.

Ruts

[meanmachine72]

looking great blake ...keep up the good work

[Zook]

That could lead to problems as during manufacture, the main cap tunnels are line bored with the caps assembled to the block.
Which means the main caps will only suit the block they are machined to.

You're right, Rodomo. Caps and crankcase are machined as one unit. Since this is a low performance motor (like all Holden engines) changing the cap on one bearing shouldn't be too much of a concern.

Regardless, it's coming along really well Blake!!

[blake]

hahaha yes brett, brass all the way ! shit happens ay :( oh well...look forward to sein your car out cruisin soon

cheers Blake

[blake]

thanks for the positive comments. sadly havnt done much to it lately, with school and a new part time job afterwards i get hardly anytime to work on it. luckily dads agreed to start helpin me get stuck into it, and hopefully painted this year. over the school holidays have purchased rust replacement panels, so am just waiting on them, then we can put them in. also recently had a BITCH of a time at getting the door pins out. they had actually snapped inside so we chopped the doors off and are making up new chubes on the lathe. all is good, hope to have this baby done soon!



cheers Blake

[blake]

started on the rusty boot these holidays was easy removing old rust with grinder and multigrips... :/ heres some pictures of my hunk'o'junk







cheers,Blake

[blake]

pulled my diff out recently to only notice shorter bumpstops....curious to find a stamping i degreased the rest of the diff and found out its a genuine 1970 xu1 diff housng with the original 3.08 gearing: "3.08 course normal DA 2809395 1970 XU-1 and LC & LJ GTR"

more post to come over the week as im getting stuck into her big time

Cheers Blake

[blake]

WOW. talk about long time since last post haha. a lot has changed with the build plans with the LC, have gone with a prostreet build and am aiming for summernats 2016. Watch this space

 

cheers

[blake]

heres some pictures of my tubbs

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[blake]

some boot supports I fabbed up

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[blake]

some more pics to help get the idea of things done, smoothed the bay off, got rid of heater holes, xu1 batt tray , wirimg holes etc etc. underneath was all wire wheeled, cleaned , deadener applied and sealer to all gaps, and satin blacked

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[blake]

PWR radiatot purchased, moved the mounts forward on radiator support panel to bring the rad forward to miss elec water pump, was never gonna fit with std timing cover so purchased a thinner, billet bullet timing cover, all fits with twin thermos n shroud. also a pic of the car in 2pak primer

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[blake]

have also tried to change the name of the topic, anyone know how to do this? cheers

[sibhs]

WOW, thats a slight change of plans.

You must of come into a heap of money, congratulations.

 

Looking really good by the way, super tuff!

 

Marty

[Ice]

Hell yeah that looks pretty good cant wait for colour
good work Blake

[blake]

thanks fellas. I didn't come into a lot of money, still an apprentice 4th year vehcle body builder. what I earn, goes into this, everything haha. however the story behind the change of plans was all this running gear was going into a vl Calais I picked up, I was going to mini tub it, put this motor in it, and just cruise it. but on the last day of rego on the vl it got T-boned in the tafe car park by a guy in a magna that slammed on the accelerator instead of the brakes!! the car was turned into a banana unfortunately so I stripped the Calais and made surprisingly good money from the interior and what not from insurance money. the torana was just sitting there and ive always wanted a v8 one so I thought. f*ck it im gonna do the lc with one! and here we are... lol

 

cheers blake

[IMORAL]

I've never seen this thread before. Love it!

Is that Blake Evans car seen on face book? Farking nice