haha, i thought there was something 'sus' going on there with the air cleaner so far forward !! Nice one !

only ever raced it on an 1/8 mile with the bigger turbo and auto. used to do mid 11's. also used to spin the wheels to 1/2 track ! it still needs a lot of sorting out. the converter is a little small. yes,i love my pit. it is the bomb.

i have been using a shell i found at the tip to practice on. i have converted it to 2 litre. i also used somebits i had to convert to lpg.

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took it out for a drive today. seems fairly responsive. wants to boil though. [V] got some work to do on the lpg conversion, hook up the safety switch and so on. used an impcomodel lconverter and an impco 200 mixer. i plan to blow through this later. i am getting excited about having a sneeze valve !

i probably should elaborate. i used the throttle butterflies out of a falcon weber. i then made an adaptor to go to a rubber elbow. ( i shonked up this elbow to see if this would work. hence the welding wire ! ) then an impco 200 mixer.

also lashed out and bought a full manual valvebody. will fit it up soon hopefully finally fix some nagging oil leaks in the process.

had some issues with starting the guinea pig. wouldn't go when cold. made another inlet manifold gasket out of better paper and it is infinitely better. steampipe, bends and flat bar for the manifold turn up tomorrow. decided to use a log manifold. will have to pull the head off at some stage. i suspect a blown head gasket. will give it a basic port job too. finish the wiring, fit the turbo, drop some smokeys outside the police station ! i plan to pick up a heap of gear from my parent's place over christmas.

finally put the new pipe cutter to some good use ! started narrowing a lsd falcon borg warner i found in the tip today. also did some work on the turbo manifold. pics soon !

haven't made any more progress on the diff front. i have made the decision to go over to a blow through 500 holley. finished the adaptor off tonight. in the process of putting the carb together now. it has a nitrophyl float in it. there is a low pressure rising rate reg here somewhere too.

also lashed out and bought a rollmaster cam pulley and a degree wheel. here is some pics of the holley with the plastic float and the other bits.


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well, made some progress.i got sick of fried plug leads. so i lashed out and bought a different exhaust housing. it is also slightly smaller. ( 0.58 as opposed to 0.70 ) just have to get one new turbo stud and a gasket. the remake the exhaust. then clearance the brake booster mount.