78 2-Door Build Thread

[DubSteve]

Great work! Get rid of all that rust now

[dubmc]

thanks guys, yeah all the rust in the car has now been converted and welded where needed, its fairly straight - so il just seal these bits with some primer/yellow when the welding is tidy - off course i'd love to do a closed door in the same colour down the track but don't have enough $$$!

just bought the wheels of the the forum, came with 4 tyres as well which i can use, so pretty good.

[simohanmer]

Nice score

[dubmc]

i know it looks like there hasn't been much movement in this build as of late, but i have just been lazy taking photos.

on the weekend...

- the motor was dropped from the other car
- the brakes and handbrake cables were adjusted and bled up
- new gear shift bush kit installed

once the motor out, it was a matter of deciding what to do, either keep it as in, or spend some money on it - soo....it was decided that i will be running twin webbers and i have also put a deposit on an upgraded head .... more info to come

another thing which was a bit of a bonus i suppose was the previous owner had installed a kit in the diff which limits wheel spin at low revs/when accelerating. i believe it is similar to a lsd but only applies at low revs ...

one other thing, dashboard should be returning from the dash recovery service dude this week, he said it's looking real nice, so looking forward to seeing it.

pics to come as soon as possible......

[Water Boy]

Sounds good!

[Stephy]

Oh - this is coming along nicely. Am looking forward to pictures of the revived dash! (along with everything else too of course!)

[GeorgeMK1]

The LSD that stops wheel spin at low revs sounds quite interesting..

Nice to hear (read ) some progress

[Jace]

Yeah, single peggers get old reeeeeaaal fast. Torque steer FTW!

Your progress isn't slow at all man. I haven't touched my car in months haha.

Keep it up!

[Jarred]

good progress man, keep it up!

[dubmc]

picked up my head today...a very good end to the weekend - some info:

twin webbers, highlift cam, adjustable cam gear, larger valve/springs: will have photos posted up by tomorrow

have been so lazy with photos, will get on it

[GoLfMan]

picked up my head today...a very good end to the weekend - some info:

twin webbers, highlift cam, adjustable cam gear, larger valve/springs: will have photos posted up by tomorrow

have been so lazy with photos, will get on it

sounds like a nice set up... I <3 the sound of Weber's!

[dubmc]

[dubmc]

got some photos up...

going to go over the head and clean it all up, new gaskets/clean socks etc...so will take some b4 nd after photos.

also just painted up the box and took some photos of the rust work ...which is finallllly finished! (i hate body work)

[Jarred]

looking good, keep it up!

(and paint that gearbox mount too!

[Jace]

Wow, this build just keeps getting better!

Keep it up man. Doesn't seem like you need any encouragement though!