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Next was to sort out the pedal box and intermittent throw out bearing noise. I had suspected that the spring on the pedal might have been broken but once I stuck my head up under the dash and had a look it was worse. The pedal box was cracked and peeling away.


Straightened up and welded back together

Then with that fixed on to pulling out the box and fit the new clutch kit

Ummm yeah about that 5.0 life…

Much better

New boot and retaining spring because the spring was missing for some reason?

New pivot ball because the old one hasn’t seen grease for quite awhile and was worn


Had to helicoil one of the bell housing threads because someone gave it to many ugga dugga’s

New clutch in ready to go all back together

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Gave the tailshaft a birthday with new uni’s, CV and centre bearing. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were the originals.

Had one hell of a battle trying to work out why the horn no longer worked but then very, very rarely would?

Narrowed it down to the “clockspring” and worked out the shaft of the steering column wasn’t being earthed out.




Both of these were broken/gone? So it was no longer making contact with the bearing and not completing the earth from shaft to bearing to outer steering column for the horn to work

New one

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So it’s been quite sometime between posts due to life/covid/work but I got accepted for Summernats next year so I thought I better tidy a fews things up and also do abit of maintenance on the old girl.

Before the Holden signs finally disappeared

Cluster out to replace some blown globes

Found this shit when I pulled the door skin off to replace some broken/missing clips

Surprise it’s on the other side aswell

That’s better

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Was Amazing! Already want to go back in the Summer time and start in LA instead and head east!

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Came back from America and moved into the new house only to have it under threat from the Fires two weeks later, then once they were over went back to my home town to grab the SS which they had been copping massive dust storms every week so the poor car was absolutely covered in dust!

Now at it’s new home and stuck in Canberra where I don’t really know anyone and can’t cruise cause of this stupid Rona Virus!

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Then in December had the opportunity to step up and take a managers position, but it was in Canberra. Decided to take it but obliviously needed somewhere to live, went and saw the bank and was able to get the right out amount of money without having to get rid of any cars so was happy with that. Managed to find a house and have it settle just before going over to America for Christmas and New years in New York city and then drive Route 66 from Chicago all the way to California (a trip that was planned two years in advance) drove a total of 3200miles across 10 states in 13 days and was Amazing!

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In November last year I had a mate practicing photography and got him to come and take some photo’s of my cars in the old Holden dealership in town, I think they turned out alright 

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Finally ended up making it to AHD ACT after having a couple people annoy me to get there for awhile and changed the grill over the night before to the SV type

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So again it’s been quite awhile between posts… but I’ll update on what’s been happening over the year and a half.

 

V6 Daily was running out of rego and needed more money then it was worth to fix it and was wanting a ute, a week or so looking around a 99 VS S3 factory Manual ute popped up on FB market place that a young bloke was selling cheap, V8, Ute, with rego perfect!

 

Exterior is rough but didn’t care cause I wanted to be able to throw dog/tools/dirt/whatever in it, take it to the river/farm and not have to worry about it getting scratched.

 

Being 99 S3 it has the 179kW Roller motor

 

Had the typical breather hoses broken and smelling like fumes

 

Some Hi-tech hose clamps I found holding on the fuel supply/return/breather hoses :cower:

 

Fully Sick sub woofer holes!!!

 

With the absolute butchered wiring to match…

 

Had a panel beating mate come and unpick the rear firewall and weld in a new one from a donor ute at the wreckers

 

 

 

Put some Dynamat down that I had laying around

 

Purchased a $80 shifter off ebay to piss off the shit house factory Getrag setup that makes you feel like you are stiring a bowl of soup trying to find a gear…

And just tried to unfuck all the things the young bloke touched and make the interior a much nicer place :joyous:

 

 

 

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I almost sent you a message when we were on our way down, but had a pretty tight deadline on the trip

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And Finally! Pissed off the yellow plates, and before anyone asks GTR are my initials hahaha, I know it will probably confuse some people but don’t care they look 100x better then the yellow shit

And taking my OCD to the next level the number plate protectors have writing on them, so had to get rid of that hahaha

 

And just on the weekend we had a our Injected5ltr Christmas Cruise to Caves beach, was a good turnout for a hot day

 

Also managed to have the three VN SS colours together

 

Merry Christmas

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Had a little Peter Brock memorial cruise to the mountain

This was pretty cool, went pretty good aswell for a standard VT 5ltr

There was a white VR GTS there with the cloth devonish interior, if anyone knows of some for sale Let me know Please! :yup:

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Next was a quick cruise down the coast again to Coledale, such a good drive through the Nasho

 

Shed Growing

 

The car developed a bad knock in the rear end when going over bumps, turned out the shocks were proper fucked so decided to give it some love and put some actual lowered springs in it aswell while I was there

 

Sits better and drives/rides 10x better, I dare say they were the original shocks still, now just need to do the front

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Once again, been almost a year between updates :knock: but 2018 has been huge! Done alot of traveling this year Thailand, Jindabyne/Snow, Hervey Bay/Fraser island, Central Coast, Canberra and drove 12+ hours to Adelaide to pick up a car stay the night and drive 12 hours home again hahaha

 

So yer drove to SA to pick up this VH that has had an injected 5ltr fitted but not wired up, always wanted one and this come up reasonably cheap and was the right combo so jumped on it! Needs a little bit of work but is a long term project at the moment.

 

While I was down there went and saw TK and picked up my crank and rods that he was kind enough to hold on to for over a year

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Thanks mate 👍

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cava454 wrote:

Photos didn’t work mate. How’s engine tracking along.

Fuck I hate Photobucket!!! and still in a pile of bits hahaha

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Saw you cruising around looked Tuff as always 

Why do you say last Nat’s, Have a run in with Security?

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Jesus, Been awhile between updates! “BULK PIC’S AHEAD”

Not much happened last year other then work/football/pub :lol: End of this month though I have owned her for 3 years and in that time the value of the VN SS has atleast doubled so I haven’t been driving it much at all!

 

Finally got the Walky’s painted up and finished just in time for All Holden Day 2017

 

At my local car show

 

And most recently went down to Sydney for the Injected5Ltr Christmas Cruise where we went for a run through the Nasho and finished at Coldale RSL for a Beer & a Feed. Have never been down that way before and will definitely be doing it again

 

Sorry for the Spam

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Nice engine parts porn there buddy ,any idea of compression ,you still going to run efi

Thanks mate, we had to go with the 14.5cc dished pistons cause a flat top would have been to much comp, so we will just shave the heads to bump it back up for pump 98 and yep staying efi. Don’t understand the last part?

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Well pretty close to 6 weeks for the JE Pistons to finally show up… Also got a few other things JE Pro Seal rings to suit, ARP head studs & Cleveland main studs, Powerbond Race balancer, Rollmaster D/Row timing set, Permaseal full gasket set, Felpro Head Gaskets, ACL Race series Main set and also ordered Cam Bearings in .002 but they don’t have any and the eta is middle of February.

 

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