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01-09-2019, 01:14 PM | #91 | ||
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01-09-2019, 01:21 PM | #92 | |||
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Copied concept from the ol Supercharged Bentley. Front mounted direct drive blower. Sorta worked but kept breaking blower drives due to constant flexing and misalignment. Scrapped that idea and went back to stock.
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01-09-2019, 01:24 PM | #93 | |||
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Never had a problem with fuel pumps. I did have a firewall modification tool so the back carbie would fit in, 6' of 2" water pipe & a sledge hammer. |
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01-09-2019, 01:28 PM | #94 | |||
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But I could not afford a 4X4 or want such a thing unless it was on the beach or out in the bush really other than that I can't stand them. It was about 1990 working for a big company and say 30 tradesman and every car that they had that I walked by, if I was a cop I could of took off the road, balled tyres and just junk and nothing worth over $3000 it was that bad. But now you have kids with the way over the top flash 4X4, cars, bikes and all, but all in hock to the eye balls most of them are on drugs and totally crap tradesmen to the point of a joke f ing hopeless brain dead morons beyond belief. living in a fantasy world claiming to become a billionaire and then they loose the lot. |
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01-09-2019, 01:32 PM | #95 | |||
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Also found any SU's gave serious problems with vacuum if it ran an auto gearbox. Manual boxes were fine.
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01-09-2019, 01:34 PM | #96 | |||
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01-09-2019, 01:39 PM | #97 | |||
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I was driving a fake HJ GTS Monaro.
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01-09-2019, 01:47 PM | #98 | ||
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That a bit of a fallacy, my HX triple SU van was a courier car and gave really good fuel mileage especially after conversion to a 5 speed Supra box (due to the 1/2 pound pressure) this was the reason they were always referred to poor mans fuel injection.
I got called into the RTA emissions testing at Lidcombe for to loud exhaust where they put the sniffers into the pipes to test emissions ( I was packing **it thinking I in big trouble ADR 27A stuff removed) the guy comes back and tells me "that's the cleanest running Holden that's ever been here" he put it down to the SU carbies vacuum system and fuel burn. They sort of turned a blind eye and I was back out couriering the next day with quieter mufflers.
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02-09-2019, 12:08 AM | #99 | ||
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just wondering if anyone has triple carb'd a Barra?
Would it be a weapon? Back on thread: 1970 XJ6 1979 Renault 12 Virage wagon
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02-09-2019, 12:09 AM | #100 | ||
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No , fuel injection RULES
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02-09-2019, 12:49 PM | #101 | |||
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Just look at the Valiant with triples Valiant Australia could not get them to work for crying out loud and they sent the engine to Italy for them to work out how to tune them correctly it took some time even for them to work it out. I would have a 265 R/T with a 2 barrel Carter any day than the stock 265 type one with triples, you have your E49 and that's fine with triples because she has the big cam to make use of that. Sure I had 4 carbs on my ZX10 Ninja back in 1988 but she can rev to 11500RPM I think one problem with the old SU was that the needles wore out messing with the tune problems. Many of them real hot cars back in the days were temperamental one day they would fly and the next they were a bastard running like crap and you had to know what you were doing yourself because you would spend a lot of time under the bonnet. |
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02-09-2019, 03:05 PM | #102 | |||
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SU's needed to be adjusted so they didn't open all at once, otherwise they would just bog the car down with to much vacuum. I became pretty good at tuning mine with a small length of pipe and never had a problem with them considering the van was driven everyday at high speeds delivering stuff. The 208 had a mild "Competition Cams" cam. I regularly did urgent transplant organs to the airport from Wahroonga Hospital.
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02-09-2019, 03:41 PM | #103 | ||
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My first brand new car was similar to this one.
It was a 1971 XY Falcon 500 with bench seat, saddle trim, 3 speed manual and ER70 tyres. I bought it in January 1972 just as the XA Falcon was about to be released. It cost me $3,150 I bought it from the Ford Dealer in Maroubra. The salesman name was Todd, he was married to a famous blond female singer whose name escapes me at the moment. UPDATE This is them .... Last edited by Cav; 02-09-2019 at 03:51 PM. |
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02-09-2019, 09:43 PM | #104 | |||
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I also remember that the tall poppy syndrome also applied to people who bought foreign (in particular, Japanese) cars, rather than Australian made ones. Last edited by MrZ; 02-09-2019 at 10:00 PM. |
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03-09-2019, 04:07 PM | #105 | ||
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Nah, back in those days cars were built solidly and lasted for years so they didn't need replacement as often as now.
Back then cars weren't junked because of a ECM or a little bingle that no one now, knows how to fix.
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03-09-2019, 04:20 PM | #106 | ||
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Rokwiz is right cars lasted a long time back then. The only thing that really killed them was rust.
They were easy to fix, parts were cheap, and the Bumpers were made of metal. |
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03-09-2019, 04:39 PM | #107 | ||
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I would argue that modern cars last just as long, if not longer, than cars of the 60s/70s. Today's engines can easily go for beyond 250,000km, whereas decades ago it was rare for an engine to last that long. Today's car's require far less frequent servicing as well. Furthermore, it's a fact that the build quality of today's cars is far better than at any point in the past.
The facts speak for themselves: in 1976, only 13% of cars were over 12 years old, and 3% were over 17 years old. By 2001, over 40% of cars were over 12 years old, and about 20% were over 17 years old. Last edited by MrZ; 03-09-2019 at 04:52 PM. |
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03-09-2019, 04:43 PM | #108 | |||
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03-09-2019, 05:47 PM | #109 | ||
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I do have to admit my MC Ford Mondeo now has 290,000ks on the clock and still going strong.
It has the original Drive Belt on it still and I replaced the Battery six years ago and had an engine mount replaced, Brake Rotors and pads replaced and that's all apart from getting it serviced. |
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04-09-2019, 12:10 AM | #110 | ||
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Anyone think the purple/harlequin BFs will be worth anything?
Saw one the other day and thought about getting one. It's not like I don't have enough cars already...
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04-09-2019, 09:15 AM | #111 | |||
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Don't know how far you are talking about "Back in the Day" but I do remember in the 60's & 70's if you could buy a new car you did with pride and be proud to show it off for all to see. Cheers. |
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04-09-2019, 11:54 AM | #112 | ||
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1974 Landau - one in particular that was almost mine
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04-09-2019, 02:16 PM | #113 | |||
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But did not know that you did not adjust all SU's to open at once and I never had triples and I never tried to tune such. You must of opened the middle one first I would think then. I remember a LC XU-1 that had number 3 and 4 piston 0.030 over size and the rest were stock and this was done by Holden dealer on warranty, but the owner did not know why his was done and did not know this until he removed the head many years later. maybe both of the carby's on the ends opened in tune and 3 and 4 kicked in later ? But if Valiant Australia could not get the tune setup right and had to send engines to be sorted out and it took weber months to sort out things are not as easy as one would think to set up such a thing from scratch. I would think that the story that you said about the RTA well with one SU only set up as such no wonder it was fine. |
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04-09-2019, 02:41 PM | #114 | |||
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Boy forking out for ER 70 Tyres in 1972 would of stung ya. I remember people bagging people for forking out for such tyres back in the day and steel belt only became popular around 1976 say in general as most were running on rags that I remember. My 90yo mate is still stuck in the 1960's with tyres as the only point he has is mileage you get out of them and nothing other is of interest to him, he claims that the more the tyre weighs the more rubber is in them thus a better tyre. that I am sure was correct back in 1930's to early 60's, so he argued that I was wrong and he went to a tyre bloke that knows his stuff and spun his line to him and this bloke flew off the rocker and gave him back both barrels yelling that he had no idea what he was talking about. |
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04-09-2019, 03:18 PM | #115 | |||
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Jap made cars in the 60's and 70's were a insult to the people who were in WW2 especially the ones who were prisoners to the Japs. one of them blokes owned 2 fuel stations and anyone who came in to repair their Jap car got told to clear off and in formed they they were a traitor. But people in general just looked down on owner of a Jap cars as not a true Australian, many who bought Merc's were what was called new Australians Germans or Italians loved their Merc's and wealthy Pommy's drove Jaguars or a Rover. My dad had a Jag in the late 50's and he could not give a toss what anyone thought at all and he had a 1971 Galaxie and I remember people yelling out capitalist pig as we drove by and I could see dads face in the mirror smile from ear to ear. I remember people squabbling at a job site about my new 2003 SS ute as they did not like that I had it for sure, but I could not care less what anyone thinks at all. my only interest is in what they do know, not what they may think at all. |
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04-09-2019, 06:34 PM | #116 | |||
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XU 1's ran triple single barrel Strombergs a totally different breed to SU's, they were more like a conventional carby but like triple SU's had the inlet manifold connected via a log runner between them, they weren't totally independent like modern day fuel injection manifolds. Hence it wasn't such a matter of which one opened first as long as they didn't open all at once. Valiant's E49's would have been a nightmare to set up if you weren't familiar with them as they were a large 45mm barrel for each cylinder.
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04-09-2019, 06:52 PM | #117 | ||
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I had a car with triples 45's as standard (not a Valiant) I didn't even consider trying to set them up properly
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04-09-2019, 07:03 PM | #118 | |||
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The factory XU-1's had triple Stromberg CD's IIRC, they were very similar to SU's. Rokwiz - they were still a side draught carby. The Bathurst cars had triple webers. |
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04-09-2019, 07:06 PM | #119 | |||
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He did show me how but i never got them to run as sweet as he did, my excuse was a pierced ear drum
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