Nice man, I used to have a 67 HR Special with 186s and a 2 speed Poweglyde. Moved out of town and my bro sold it on me for $200. =( I love the HR but will probably get another due to the time spent working on it and lack of funds they are hard to restore for someone like me. I will be following this thread and cant wait to see how it comes along.
Nuthin stupid about your Q's mate. It won't be a flamer, the only cars that do that are the nitro powered cars, and also Pro Mod type cars that burn heaps of NOS ... too expensive for me. The exhausts will come out of the turbo each side, a straight 4 inch pipe that will angle down towards the ground. The body on this is just a flimsy fibreglass replica, not a real FROD. The engine will definitely be in the front too, I will be sitting in the very back of the body, just in front of the diff. It will look something like this cartoon I made.
I am keeping to my self imposed rule ..... do something every day, and soon there will be nothing left to do. I dropped my drawing into the local engineer today, to cut the batwings I need to mount the diff. I started making the anti rotation link today, which just needs cutting to length once the diff is mounted. That's all for today.
nice! i been tryin' to stick to the "do one thing a day" but after around 9 months the CBF'ness starts to get hard to fight. whats your rough eta on this? fancy flying it over to OZ and letting me have a go at it on the quarter you know you wanna.
I am hoping to have it done by November, which is quite ambitious, but I am self employed, so I can make time to work on the thing. I'd love to take it to OZ and race it, our race tracks here are ****, the Kiwi's that take their car's over to your tracks always improve their times by quite a lot.
Today was another productive day, I got the batwings from the engineering shop, so I drilled and mounted them, and just have to profile the notches in them to suit the diff housing and it's mounted. I also started working out where to make up the trans mount as well.
I think I got this thread mixed up, I thought you were turning the HR into a drag car/funny car xD Still following this thread tho, very interesting and love that your working on a V6 I might have over looked where it was written but what box are you going to use? Would a powerglyde be good for quarters like they are for V8 drags? My old powerglyde was stock on a mild 186s and when the foot was to the floor it would pull 55 miles out of first (roughly 90km)
The old HR is built as a drag car, and is about 60% done, but the class it is elligable for is no longer any good to run in with a 6 cyl, so it is on hold for a financial miracle!! It will run a Powerglide trans, and funnily enough, the one I got for it is out of a HR ... it will be beefed like the one in my VL though.
what its not gonna be ready by next weekend LOL. get the box in the vl yet weve been boosting round in the vb tonight
dont worry ari we will take lots of pics and videos for you last ever drag weekend for 2 years while they build the new track so its gonna be a great weekend heaps of aussies bringing cars over by the sounds of it
so yeah. the whole "if i do one thing a day" went out the window did it? lol. either that or you CBF posting it up. either or. just a nudge from a fan
Mostly the CBF posting mate. Still progressing on it, the diff is finished and mounted, and I have ordered some steel for the engine/trans mounting plate. Also have a nice little steering rack coming for it too. It has slowed down due to the fact that I have had to rebuild the powerglide trans out of the VL, as I want to race it with delco, chrr, and co this weekend at thr local strip. Got to put on a good show for the boosted Holdins!!
hell yeah show it will be vb has a hole in the tank someone had a whoops see daisy with an exhaust mount tonight she goes good with lock diff easy fix though in wityh a new pick a part tank
Not a lot happened today, as I am still sharing my time between 2 projects .... but I did manage to lower the seat mount, start work on some aluminium stuff, gauge panel, gas pedal etc. And none of it would be possible without my "Apprentice" Bella
I can do, but I don't have my own tig, so I use the mig on things like this, and get a mate to do any tig that I need done, at his work. Bella can't tig ....
Crikey, I forgot all about this thread !1 still working hard, will be needing an engine soon, front and rear ends are in, steering and brakes are nearly done, fuel cell is in .... plenty still to do though in the next few months Uploaded with ImageShack.us
