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my guess was when the iac failed it burnt the stepper motor driver out in the ecu and someone reset the base idle. I think Ive done that before it a while to work it out in my case I think the wire was cut with the power on during a conversion of a vn v6 into a hz.
 

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my guess was when the iac failed it burnt the stepper motor driver out in the ecu and someone reset the base idle. I think Ive done that before it a while to work it out in my case I think the wire was cut with the power on during a conversion of a vn v6 into a hz.
yep, anything could have happened when the motor was originally transplanted into the car.
 

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Friday, hot day, drove 5 hours western district to Melbourne return. Car never missed a beat, including in traffic. IAC when cold operates much better. Economy better around 10.3L/100km towing empty box trailer on freeway. Car did have 3.7:1 diff (rd cortina) now has 2.92:1 from 6 cylinder Corry with 14" wheel gearing is now a little taller than a vn Commodore.
 

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JBA kit car V6 series 1
Ps the car only weighs 1140kg.

Do you want interior pics of the car or van?
Tony
 

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Friday, hot day, drove 5 hours western district to Melbourne return. Car never missed a beat, including in traffic. IAC when cold operates much better. Economy better around 10.3L/100km towing empty box trailer on freeway. Car did have 3.7:1 diff (rd cortina) now has 2.92:1 from 6 cylinder Corry with 14" wheel gearing is now a little taller than a vn Commodore.
Looks like you have it well sorted out. We were up around 40 degrees in Euroa last Friday- I don't like taking the VQ out in weather like that- last time I was caught in a bushfire road block and had to turn off the A/C to prevent overheating. Using Holden and Ford parts your car should be on the road for year's ahead.
 

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The JBA KitKat was first manufacturer in 1982 by 3 entrenched Leyland engineers. It is not based on any other design but the 1938 jaguar ss100 is close to it.

Needing a TD Cortina donor car it is commonly made with the 2 litre engine although there is some with turbo Nissan and Toyota engine as well. There is 3 I know of with the v6 commy motor.

There is two models of the JBA Falcon, the router 4 seater with a boot like mine and a sporty 2 seater without boot.

The still make them today assembled with a BMW engine. Body is fibreglass and some sections are aluminium.
 

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2L Cortina engine with some basic mods will blow away a V6 Buick even with a few bolt-on's. I had a 2L in a 68 Capri and there wasn't much around at the time where I lived that could beat me in short drag. Let the clutch out, floor it and tyres would light up no problem at all. I had no problem beating all the Holden V8s around me in the late 80s.
 

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2L Cortina engine with some basic mods will blow away a V6 Buick
it would be a 2 litre with a big cam and lots of head work.
my first car was a td cortina 250 cross flow it would kill the 4 cyclinder cortina off the lights and over a standing 1/4, a 253 commodore or 302 xd falcon would beat it over a 1/4 by at least 2 car lengths. Yes i was a fuckingidoit as a young bloke.
Hopefully the JBA isn't using the solid cortina disks
 
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My Capri would smash V8s on a 200m drag, even 308s and 302 XCs no problem at all. Mate's 302 XC would catch up and pass me, but off the mark I had him all day. Over 400m yeah he crap all over me. I don't know what internals my 2L Capri had, I thought it only had extractors, 45mm webber and exhaust. Another mate had the 250 Cortina, the one before they went to that rectangle headlight, and I could beat him off the mark.
 
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