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Nice progress mate, but more pics please 

Yea I have Cav, its all good having a low idle when its warm but when its cold bit of a pita keeping it running.  I was just paying around to see how low it would go.

Lol.

  Yep, yep, and triple yep.  Mines the same.  Soooo much easier, and I dont have a front diff!!

Also got the engine all adjusted up, idles beautifully, can get it down well below 800rpm.  Thought I would also fit the trumpet screens as that’s an accident waiting to happen.

Got onto a company in the UK called ITG Air Filtration, EFI Hardware (thanks to IJ) put me onto them.  They look like having a nice filter set up specifically for the J…[Read more]

Managed to get the pins for the under dash, as they are still available through GM.  Funny how some things are, others are long gone.  Also found a place called Gen 2 Automotive 10 mins from me.  Its run by a pair of second gen enthusiasts Danni and Ben.  They run its as a part time business selling and wrecking them to fund their own “ob…[Read more]

Nice work mate, gotta get myself that new helmet & hood…

Its really once you go away from Holden, especially to higher end European, you get an understanding of really how primitive Holdens were…

Didn’t know that, I thought it was really about the finish on the inside, mines not showing any signs of cracks or breaks, yet…

That’s so true isn’t it.  Tools are ridiculously cheap.  That noid set was $30.  “he who dies with the most tools wins” ha ha

I didn’t back purge mine system, tbh I think its a little over rated unless you are trying to squeeze out the last tenth of a killerwasp

Yea I thought the same, I reckon one of those pieces of kit I won’t use often, but when you do its invaluable…

You mig headers IJ?  I thought you would tig?

There you go, I would have said off the bat, all VS were IRS.  Good info.

^Pretty much exactly what Canton said to do with the sump they supplied.  Once I had it all going, first oil change (not filter) I used my catch pan that has litre graduations on it and wrote down how much drained.  When I did an oil change and changed the filter I did the same thing and recorded the amount so next time I knew either way how m…[Read more]

Thanks very much all

So have been giving some thought to troubleshooting this bad boy.  Tbh it has been an issue a couple of times.  It’s so angry/loud at idle it can be difficult to tell if it’s firing on every cylinder etc, or what the source of an issue is (at least to my untrained ear).

I think using my old school timing light I s…[Read more]

Thanks very much all

So have been giving some thought to trouble shooting this bad boy.  Tbh its been an issue a couple of times.  Its so angry/loud at idle it can be difficult to tell if its firing on every cylinder etc, or what the source of an issue is (at least to my untrained ear).

I think using my old school timing light I should b…[Read more]

Well there is that, at least its done now…

Yep sure is…

Happy to design and make one of these up for you (or anyone else).  I would just charge the regular cost ($140) and do all the 3D modelling etc for nothing, but after would offer them on my website.  I actually think it would look super neat.

That makes me sad, if only I had stuck with the stock LS3.  I paid a number of times more than that just because of the bloody emmision testing.  This thing will be a weapon mate in a little, light, 1st gen.