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^tend to agree with Vin.  I am not sure I have heard of 3 pass radiator.  Mine is double pass, which means the tanks have a divider in them so the coolant has to go across the radiator once like normal but then back across again as a second pass.  Power makes heat, that’s the prob, and the bays on these cars are small which makes it worse.  May…[Read more]

^the prototype of that was displayed alongside the Senator at Holden’s Back Home.  So beautiful, they should have built it.

I can’t say I remember what you are talking about, must have had a good batch or something.

I’m surprised, I found it really easy, what don’t you like?

Yea that’s the other way, have them separate.

Yea nice, my S/S is one unit with separate jaws I swap over.  On the weekend I was actually thinking of maybe a solid RHS frame around a metre long might be good then I could bolt all three along it, then there is no need to buy a vice and I can have all of them permanently bolted to them and available to use.

Gotta love receiving “bits”

Yea right, that is clever.

Thanks IJ

That’s me done for this holiday break.  Really happy with the progress, learning heaps as I go.  At the start of the break the plan was to give the project a kick along, but also to get me back into the swing of the resto.  Think I have nailed both.  Just waiting on a few little bits to arrive and pieces then its onto the nose.  Then that’s the…[Read more]

  said every car build guy at some stage of his build…

That would be great mate.  I was actually half thinking of welding up a 100×100 post with top and bottom plates, and mounting a vice on it.  Then dyna bolting that to the shed floor.  Then I was thinking I could use that for my little break press, the shrinker/stretcher or sheet roller.  And have some sort of place to hang whatever is not bei…[Read more]

Never got a chance to post yesterday, but have to say, as a namby pamby office boy, I am officially stuffed!!  This is tiring work!!  Wanted to get the other rear comer done before I head back to work.  That meant fitting the battery tray and also making up a replacement repair for the lower part of the column.   My favorite tool is now with…[Read more]

All looking very neat and purposeful mate, nice work.

^^79 A9X, greatest Aussie touring car in history

Walter approves!!

Long side pretty much done, def feel i am getting better particularly at prepping then welding.  The cut was pretty ordinary initially and varied in gap width.  So I hit on the idea of using a 2.5mm wide cutting disc,.  I clamped it so the widest gaps were 2.5, then went along with the 2.5 cut.  Then released it all and closed it up 1.5, lea…[Read more]

Cost vs ease of use and simplicity for me is a no brainer.  You end up with one series of unused parts not 3.  Just my opinion. To each there own.

Hard to find a reason to not go Teflon everywhere.  Easier, smaller in every case imo.

Looking sweet mate.