Getting the big Fairlane back on the road.... Going the whole 9 inches

[Halgar]

Without a video of you terrorising the neighbourhood.... maybe it didn't happen

What happens in SA stays in SA ?

I couldn't post a video to save myself

So drive that sucker on over to Serious' house and let him post the video!

[klavy69]

So drive that sucker on over to Serious' house and let him post the video!

Exactly what I was thinkin

Todd

[Incredible_Serious]

So drive that sucker on over to Serious' house and let him post the video!

Exactly what I was thinkin

Todd

Yeah, what's 450kms between friends???

[klavy69]

So drive that sucker on over to Serious' house and let him post the video!

Exactly what I was thinkin

Todd

Yeah, what's 450kms between friends???

Not alot when you have a new motor to break in with a road trip mentality

and an AwEsOmE Alex on the other end of the halfway point

Todd

[Incredible_Serious]

and an AwEsOmE Alex on the other end of the halfway point

You self-medicating again, Special K?

[klavy69]

and an AwEsOmE Alex on the other end of the halfway point

You self-medicating again, Special K?

Its been a busy weekend and Yes, yes I am

Todd

[Incredible_Serious]

and an AwEsOmE Alex on the other end of the halfway point

You self-medicating again, Special K?

Its been a busy weekend and Yes, yes I am

Todd

[1300GT]

Looks good RJ. The ZH is the best looking Aussie Fairlane In my opinion. I'm biased though. I had a '78 with a 302 Clevo donk years ago.

If you go on that road trip don't forget the beer.

[RC10th]

Thanks guys,

Maybe we should all pile in and head to Alex's.


Here it is loaded up on the truck, but unfortunately it's still at the shop. Went from engine builders (4.5 hours) to the dyno tuners and the result was a bad carb . The dyno shop re-curved the distributor twice, double checked parts compatability, tweaked the carb, and about the time they were about to give up for the day (after 7 hours) decided to chuck on a different carb that they had laying around. Without any tweaking it fired up and ran pretty sweet.

Fingers crossed Holley comes to the table and warranties the carb, just waiting now to hear from dyno shop.

[klavy69]

Maybe we should all pile in and head to Alex's.

I smell a road trip...one helluva roadtrip from my house anyway


Sux about the carb but if it didn't run it might work with warranty. I know once its installed and running that Holley doesn't do much for you. Worst case scenario is you have to work the crap outta it to make that brand new bad carb. work for you

Todd

[Incredible_Serious]

Maybe we should all pile in and head to Alex's.

I smell a road trip...one helluva roadtrip from my house anyway

Bring it, Special K!

[RC10th]

Maybe we should all pile in and head to Alex's.

I smell a road trip...one helluva roadtrip from my house anyway


Sux about the carb but if it didn't run it might work with warranty. I know once its installed and running that Holley doesn't do much for you. Worst case scenario is you have to work the crap outta it to make that brand new bad carb. work for you

Todd

I don't think you could make it work no matter how hard you tried. Engine builder couldn't get it sorted so he sent it to dyno tuners, dyno guys couldn't make it work after 7 hours. Luckily dyno guys deal directly with Holley so hopefully they have some pull. We'll have to wait and see.... Runs great with a diffent carb.

[RC10th]

Turns out one of the metering blocks wasn't drilled properly. There is still a slight tuning issue which it's going back on Saturday for. I suspect the floats are set too high and the carb is flooding on reasonably heavy acceleration, it loses power and bogs down but goes well once cleared out.

The car physically drives really really nice, and it's nice having something with a bit of power again. I doubt it's making the power I hoped for but I'll reserve my "opinions" untill I get a set of headers and better air cleaner on it, and get it fully broken in. The exhaust sounds a little harsh since the rebuild, I suspect from the increased compression, cam and current state of tune. It is a true dual exhaust without an "H" or "X" pipe. We'll see what it sounds like with headers and depending might get an X pipe at the same time to mellow it out.

It also turns out I wasn't getting full throttle on the carb, it wasn't engaging the kickdown. I made up this little bracket to alleviate that problem. I painted it with Tamiya PS-52

So far so good......

Also, here's the first outing with the car.....

[scr8p]

There's always some kind of little bug that has to get worked out, just takes some time.

[RC10th]

Lets just hope it goes like it should when it's all sorted