drippy
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ok i thought i would make a thread for my vk, since it is blowing a gail outside and i cant really work on it atm
i picked up this VK for a whole whopping $250 bucks!
here is how it started
then i decided that i was going to put a V6 into the old girl as it looked to be a farly simple conversion and cheap. so i jumped on good old ebay looking for a VN/VP then i found a VN wagon going fairly cheap so a placed a max bid of $510 and ended up winning it for $501, so at this point i had a running motor and manual gearbox from the wagon.
i got into that old girl to get the good bit out.. that vn had seen better days..
i removed the motor while checking everything over it was missing 2 exhaust bolts, 2 welsh plugs were holy, i removed handfuls of radiator stop leak out from behind the welsh plugs.. and the oil was a thick sludge!
at this point i was thinking how the hell did i manage to drive it back from Melbourne to geelong without something going wrong!
So down to repco to get supplies to get the motor up to scratch
so then began the fun bit! taking the old boat anchor out.
once out i cleaned out 26 years of grim build up from those hard to reach places i started to put the V6 Kframe into her and the suspension.
once in, i put the V6 into the bay, i didnt get any photos of the k frame in
i then had a battle to get the manual transmission in as it just did not want to go back onto the motor but i got there in the end!
So this is how it stands as of today
i picked up this VK for a whole whopping $250 bucks!
here is how it started
then i decided that i was going to put a V6 into the old girl as it looked to be a farly simple conversion and cheap. so i jumped on good old ebay looking for a VN/VP then i found a VN wagon going fairly cheap so a placed a max bid of $510 and ended up winning it for $501, so at this point i had a running motor and manual gearbox from the wagon.
i got into that old girl to get the good bit out.. that vn had seen better days..
i removed the motor while checking everything over it was missing 2 exhaust bolts, 2 welsh plugs were holy, i removed handfuls of radiator stop leak out from behind the welsh plugs.. and the oil was a thick sludge!
at this point i was thinking how the hell did i manage to drive it back from Melbourne to geelong without something going wrong!
So down to repco to get supplies to get the motor up to scratch
so then began the fun bit! taking the old boat anchor out.
once out i cleaned out 26 years of grim build up from those hard to reach places i started to put the V6 Kframe into her and the suspension.
once in, i put the V6 into the bay, i didnt get any photos of the k frame in
i then had a battle to get the manual transmission in as it just did not want to go back onto the motor but i got there in the end!
So this is how it stands as of today
so tomorrow I will be putting my steering wheel back on 
