Fixing Engine

[VKCOMMO]

hey

i have a LH Torana with a High Performance 308 (L34) and it was driving perfectly in 1991, but then it got put in a shed and forgotten about because the owner was sent to the slammer, what would be involved in getting the engine back to running state.

I'm guessing new oil, plugs, leads and dizzy cap will be in order

its a 4 speed manual and the engine bay is infested with red backs if that helps.

thanks

[Goon]

Are you talking about Unseizing the car engine?? its probley cheaper to buy another motor, or rebuild it..

does it run??? if it does it sounds like u have a good idea on where to start, give it a timing check.. change the oil 4sure if its that old..

[VKCOMMO]

i haven't tried. i do believe there is a tiger snake in the boot so im sh!t scared of it.

Are you talking about Unseizing the car engine?? its probley cheaper to buy another motor, or rebuild it..

i was thinking rebuild it with all the goodies but i just want to get it running for now.

[WogBoyz]

id give the engine a good degrease first lol then flush the oil and new plugs leads ect and new fuel too

[delcowizzid]

ive bought holdens that have been parked under trees for 10 years some gas down the carby and a good battery they fire into life oil filter and maybe fresh fuel and see how she goes as long as no valves have stuck open youll be laughing

[VKCOMMO]

so the oil wont be like sludge on the engine and bloody caked on the crank and all that??

[greenfoam]

Change the oil first, if it hasn't rusted inside (shouldn't have) then it'll be fine. Either way you have nothing to loose apart from a very rare L34 engine (doubt it's really a L34)

[burnz]

just turn it over it will start.

on some carby's they dry out, and the float and seals clumble. (carby rebuild)

[VKCOMMO]

Change the oil first, if it hasn't rusted inside (shouldn't have) then it'll be fine. Either way you have nothing to loose apart from a very rare L34 engine (doubt it's really a L34)

i thought the same about the engine but it is, not out of the L34 torana's but the engine model (if thats what it is) L34, just like the stock 308 are L31

[old mate]

is it a standard L34, or the high output L34? still all standard?

[VKCOMMO]

idk, it doesnt have the air filter if that helps.. lol.. all i know is that the codes match and the plate in the strut says engine:L34, which i researched and found that it is the high performance 5l

[old mate]

hmm, does it have a holley carb?

[VKCOMMO]

im 90% sure its A holley 4 barrel

[old mate]

im 90% sure its A holley 4 barrel

are you serious? what car did it come in? its definitely not a quadrajet is it? you got some photos of the engine? if you haven't, can you take some...

[VKCOMMO]

are you serious? what car did it come in? its definitely not a quadrajet is it? you got some photos of the engine? if you haven't, can you take some...

its just sitting now, but if i can get a chance next time im out there ill take lots of pics of the car, inside and out, but ill have to have someone with me because im pretty there is a tiger snake living in it because the back lights arent in it and i think it has got in there and is living in the oil bottles and rags and so forth left there from 1991.

[VKCOMMO]

oh, and it came in a LH torana, I think its a genuine SLR 5000 but im not 100% sure

[Reaper]

i thought the same about the engine but it is, not out of the L34 torana's but the engine model (if thats what it is) L34, just like the stock 308 are L31

Can you post a pic of the dizzy (with the cap off) and tell us the first few letters/numbers of the engine number? Am interested about this one.

Cheers,
Reaper

[old mate]

this is what my holden v8 book says about the L34 option, but i don't know how correct it is..

there was 2 versions of the L34, a road and a track. the road version was just an L34 High Output and then you could get a 'racing pack' ontop of the L34 high output.

racing pack had:

- 4 barrel holley carb (780??)
- modified exhaust system, 2 piece extractors
- roller rockers
- solid lifters
- twin coil ignition (i spose thats why you asked to see the dizzy, coz its got a different rotor button)
- bigger valves? (intake 1.95, exhaust 1.61)
- 'slipper' pistons
- higher compression (9.8:1)

this book i have is very ambiguous in what it says, really frustrating at times, so maybe half of that is right, the other half is just random stuff that they tried to do in development of the engine..

[Reaper]

this is what my holden v8 book says about the L34 option, but i don't know how correct it is..

there was 2 versions of the L34, a road and a track. the road version was just an L34 High Output and then you could get a 'racing pack' ontop of the L34 high output.

racing pack had:

- 4 barrel holley carb (780??)
- modified exhaust system, 2 piece extractors
- roller rockers
- solid lifters
- twin coil ignition (i spose thats why you asked to see the dizzy, coz its got a different rotor button)
- bigger valves? (intake 1.95, exhaust 1.61)
- 'slipper' pistons
- higher compression (9.8:1)

this book i have is very ambiguous in what it says, really frustrating at times, so maybe half of that is right, the other half is just random stuff that they tried to do in development of the engine..

From memory (all my stuff is at home), that's more or less what I understood a L34 to be. I've got a list of casting dates and marks that you can use to tell what is what somewhere. The problem is that very few saw 1979 in tact let alone another 30 years! From what I understand they were a pig of a thing to drive on the street and the only way to get one was to "know" somebody at Holden and have a CAMS license - thus most had the wheels driven off them.

Reaper

[VKCOMMO]

ok.. when im out there on sunday (probably) or i might eb there next weekend because i have exams next week ill get some pics, just give me some reccommendations and ill get the pics

[old mate]

Can you post a pic of the dizzy (with the cap off) and tell us the first few letters/numbers of the engine number? Am interested about this one.

do that, the extractor setup, uhh, the whole car, heaps of engine bay shots, get the serial numbers and engine numbers etc.

just go nuts with the camera in general

[ryno_vrx]

i'd hump a death adder with a diseased asshole to get my hands on a genuine SLR 5000 so harden up

[VKCOMMO]

i'd hump a death adder with a diseased asshole to get my hands on a genuine SLR 5000 so harden up

what do you mean harden up, i haven't softened down recently

[Calaber]

I'll believe this thing even exists when I see it, and not before.

[ryno_vrx]

i mean i cant stand spiders or snakes but they wouldnt stand in my way of that car, just open the boot grab the snake bite is head off and your set lol