Back in the year 2000 a turn of events occurred that saw a good friend leave his life & possessions behind him, far too early & a tough time for all concerned. Left in the shed was an incomplete vn ss copping an engine build complete with a vl grp a twin throttle manifold, and down the back, the beloved EH resting under a blanket of dust. Being a sentimental kinda guy, I suggested to his dad that if at any stage was he thinking of letting it go, give me a call first. Some 6 years later, that's what happened.
Last shown as a roller in the 1978 Hot Rod Spectacular at the Wayville Showgrounds, it had been fully resprayed, detailed to the max, decorated in yellow & chrome. Every nut & bolt had been ground down & chromed, door & bonnet hinges chromed, diff u bolts & brackets, control arms, steering arms chromed, drum brake springs & mechanisms chromed..... You get the idea. Larger parts were painted in yellow.
My mate ended up buying it mid 90's & simply dropped his driveline in from his eh.
So I buy it in 2007 as a roller too, and with a 186 & gearbox but not fitted to it. I've since gone through a few different engine combos, manual to auto, then back to manual, fitted up an hr front end with hq discs and a narrowed Borg Warner disc brake rear. Along the way I added some doglegs, guard spears, rear vision mirrors & put its "special" badges back on for a little bling. Picked up some roof gutter trims recently that I'll tidy up & fit shortly aswell.
Interior consists of prem seats, door card chrome, smiths gauges and a mis-match of colour (but I'm not really an interior guy - can you tell?) Oh yeah, fitted the 15 x 4/8.5" convos when the stud pattern got changed over also.
I also did something pretty cool which I hadn't seen done before, custom make a radiator to fit in front of the area where it would originally mount. This was to gain space to mount a descent thermo & to stop the bloody thing overheating. Used an S80 Volvo fan turned upside down & cut down. Filler sits in a modified hr top hose & lower hose is a cut down vs v8.
So now I needed to put together another donk to get it moving again since the beemer seems to have stolen it. It's a std bore vl prefix 202 that has been freshened at some stage, a low comp stage 3 9 port head, crow solid cam with around .520" lift, modified standard rockers (lol!), electronic ignition, blue 3.3 timing cover & balancer, crank drilled & tapped for retaining bolt also. A big thanks to the forum members who helped out with the go fast bits too. That's the head (Orangelj), cam (Chevlx77) & ignition (Ice). Cheers all. It's no race engine, just a streeter, so it had to sound good. Unsure of carby choice at the moment, but I'm sure you guys can help me out with that. 350 Holley or twin Strombergs?
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