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[myss427]

Where's all the holesaw lightening holes in the manifold and sump?

[Kantong]

Big fan of the intake mate, will look mental

[gtrboyy]

Expected you to go all out with external oil pickup...struggler had pics up of his in 308 kingy.

 

Add 2 extra breather lines in middle of manifold to go with rocker cover lines into large catchcan as stroker cranks create alot of windage issues.

 

Ideally you'd want intake/throttle body at similar angle to head port...that's how vn group a manifolds etc were done.

 

Tk had specs on one of those manifolds on pf & how to improve it.

 

 

[Holdenbn74]

Awesome work 💪👍👍

[UC308Hatch]

Lovin your work as usual Heath! Just trying to picture what & how this is going to work with LPG?


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[Heath]

Thanks fellas. Ron your comment makes it sound like I should know know exactly what I'm doing here, time will tell if it can actually be made to work!
 

Is there any off the shelf items on your car that haven't been modified? 😝 Hahaha!!

The engine mounts were good to go as-is! I'll let you know if I think of any other components that fit that category.
 

Are you building more than one torana?
I noticed earlier you had completed 'one toranas worth of sway bars' which made me think you had another one planned

lol, sorry to get your hopes up, but I'm not building another Torana for a bloody long time after this. Definitely got some other cars in my head.

Expected you to go all out with external oil pickup...struggler had pics up of his in 308 kingy.
 
Add 2 extra breather lines in middle of manifold to go with rocker cover lines into large catchcan as stroker cranks create alot of windage issues.

If you can send me any info on the breathing configuration you're referring to, I'd be interested in seeing. Are you talking about PCV? If not I can't understand why that would be worked into this manifold?

I'm not going to be able to have throttles on an angle, although that would be my preference also. This is one thing I do not want to engineer from scratch, I just want it to bloody work.

Want to spend bulk hours on a job? Paint your floorpans without getting a media blaster to help make the job easy. Paint stripper, wire wheel, sandpaper, elbow grease, degreaser, KBS 3-stage kit.

AquaKlean:

RustBlast:

RustSeal(Gloss Black):



And the inside:

[toryman76]

Excellent effort heath. Having done similar work I can feel the pain. But when you lay down the paint and step back to look at the finished result it all becomes worth it. I only wish I did this to my underside as I know how good the KBS product is after doing an engine bay in it.

[UC308Hatch]

Thanks fellas. Ron your comment makes it sound like I should know know exactly what I'm doing here, time will tell if it can actually be made to work!

As usual I'm in awe of you skilled craftsmanship, progress & ability as a card player
Can't wait to see the end result

[Heath]

Hahaha!

Had the manifold ceramic coated by Racecoatings. Just had to polish the tops off the fins when I got it home.



Bought that really expensive 'Lizard Skin' stuff from Car Builders. Two water-based products, "Sound Control" is the first one, a heavy (specific gravity of about 2.0) paint and you spray it on to reduce 'drumming', particularly areas like flat firewalls. The second product is loaded with ceramic and it's designed to be a thermal insulator.


Cleaned up the inside of my droptank cover (it's only 2mm Ally, so lighter than normal droptank material), and gave it a shot of the 'Sound Control' coating.



Laid some seam sealer through the floor where I ripped the old tar-based stuff from.



Then went heavy with the ceramic stuff on the firewall and between the chassis rails, where the exhaust is:


Painted the underside again with KBS 'BlackTop' in a Satin finish:


And then some basic stoneguard in the arches:

[76lxhatch]

All that added weight...!

[SHEEL]

hahah I can picture you crying as you are spraying...

[Heath]

That is exactly what was happening.

The tears also distorted the vision, so the paint job isn't that great.

[myss427]

Yes, looks like you got a bit of peel in it?  

[Heath]

Haha shocking hey? Will take a lot of polishing lol

A bit of actual assembly work!

Installed the parking brake cables under the car:




Made some basic embossed ally heat shields


They bolt onto some stand-offs and also rivet onto the swages in the floorpan for a fairly good air-gap.


Turned up some ally bushes to centralise the upper suspension link bushed rod ends (which are too narrow) into the original mounts in the floor. They have a bit of 'releif' on the bush-side as well to allow for bush distortion.




Got a bit carried away with the assembly and had to mock up the exhaust and tank cover too:

[Bigfella237]

Love the heat shields... once again Heath goes above and beyond!

 

Only thing is, you're gonna have to be careful to mask-up the entire underside of the car every time before any spray painting on the body, one wrong squirt of the gun and all that pretty stuff will look a mess.

[dattoman]

I'd say he's just doing mock ups

And will paint the bare shell then assemble everything after

Like hotrodders do

[76lxhatch]

Nice, looks good under there, all business. Are you going to continue the heat shield a little further forward? That's where I always seem to get hot feet from the headers. Guessing the rear part of the exhaust is going to change to fit around the diff too, or is there just enough room for it?

[Com_VC]

What is that heat shield that you used?

[Heath]

Just cheap embossed ally sheet that I could buy in a big piece from eBay - nothing too scientific, but negligible weight and the air gap should make if effective.

Some if it is finally assembled, some of it is a mock-up to make myself feel accomplished.

That particular heat shield would have been a a bit tricky to extend further forward, but I can get some of that gold self-adhesive tape for the lower firewall. Keep in mind I've also got the ceramic coating heavy in those areas too - most Toranas have like... nothing right?

Stripped the engine bay:


Clamped some shit onto the rad support panel and started bending the top lip down (rather than up)


Made some stainless threaded tubes and welded them into the top rail of the rad support panel as mounting points for bonnet pins, and welded up the slits I cut to help bend the top around:


Time to learn about 2k paints... shot some epoxy on it:

[LXCHEV]

The under-carriage is looking sensational. Love the idea of the heat-shield with an air-gap - I imagine that will be quite effective.

 

Great work on the bay too.

[orangeLJ]

I don't often compliment you heath, so file this one away under exceptional circumstances..

But this is nuts mate. You're frOcking killing it with this build.

Considering we've all watched you go from learning to weld in a gravel driveway with Rob, to this, it's pretty frOcking amazing.

[Heath]

Thanks.

Winter sucks. Finding motivation very difficult...

[SHEEL]

Yep I'm having the same issue... too cold to go out in the shed!

[Heath]

Put the whole weekend into the engine bay. Just filler work, no interesting photos.