[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Yep M78 7.8″ crown wheel, M80 8.0″. In this case bigger is better/stronger.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Nice, keep us posted how it’s going

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

That’s not an exhaust that’s a bit of pipe

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

My money (with full slicks) as it sits now is on 10.9s. Time will tell Whatever its an all rounder, really you could do anything with this, especially if its caged. Wider rubber on the rear is about all you maybe want?

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Thanks a lot mate, always really nice to receive kind words. Been a real lot of fun building it. I really enjoyed doing the oil change yesterday, so much of the details of the car I sat and pondered and had to work out, just nice to actually enjoy it now, took me a lot of thought as how and where to mount the oil filter, actually doing an oil change and it being as easy as I was hoping sort of makes me smile.

Emmissions was a mammoth bloody effort. Lots and lots of discussions trying to work everything through. Having an LSx with 8itb essentially racing set up pass I am very proud of. But the single biggest thing is getting is passed for road worthy, seriously that’s become a bit of a bloody life goal (read obsession), hopefully not long now…

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Only thing I am not a fan off is this obsession car makes have to put some totally useless plastic cover over the motor. Looks like it might be a vice looking motor visually if it were bare.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

+1 for the quadrajet, a great carby. Lovely car mate, nice work

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Fantastic write up mate, great read, really makes me what to have a go at this. Cheers.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

This car will do 10s all day long surely? Just take off in 2nd, or even 3rd, set of semi slicks….

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Well oil change and filter done, really like how the under guard set up works with the filter etc, simple to get too, no dribbling oil everywhere when you undo it. Running sweet as, not a lot to do really on it until the engineer report arrives :(

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Were just kicking ideas around Pete, nothing wrong with doing it as you suggest, but there’s more than one way to skin a cat Just measured my Di Phillipos, they are just shy of 150mm deep, but they are 3″ of course.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

^ holy bloody hell, just read the thread via the link, mind totally blown, what a car. Check out the front suspension, or the work they have put into just the hand brake, unbelievable!!!!

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Driven not hidden, used but not abused, exactly how a car should be!! Great stuff (and welcome!!)

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

I wouldn’t have thought my center mufflers are no deeper than 178mm (7″) so it might work. Maybe you bite the bullet and swap it to a twin, and go twin 3″ or even twin 2.5″. I am not Mr Turbo, so unsure what that would do to performance of course, but just give you more options muffler wise.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Yea agree pretty much with Pete. With mine which is just the one at the rear, it sounds pretty puffy when its closed but does quieten it down a lot. When its open, tbh when giving it the welly its hard to pick. With mine when its going off, the main thing you hear inside the car is the induction roar through the trumpets, and gets pretty busy so your not really thinking to much about the sound. I think you can get an oval muffler with the open/close mechanism on the side, that might work as a centre muffler, but you would have to check the size etc.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Yep one of the things we wanted was it to be dead simple to post YouTube videos. I have done a couple, seemed to work ok for me, are you having issues?

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[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Its such a shame that just as Holden are building there best cars they are stopping production. These sports wagons are very nice units. Looks great on those wheels mate. When are you starting a thread on that Aussie Cadillac….

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Welcome mate, spread the word

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Roll cage, race track, yea baby. 1/4 mile or track (or both)?

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

I think its the future though, these cars are going to start getting harder and harder to find genuine parts for. Once they start falling into the genuine restoration category (they are just on the cusp of that imo), prices will just climb and climb as people want genuine or nothing else. Basic market economics really, as availability goes down but demand goes up, prices increase.

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