VC HDT tribute build

[Gozza1]

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[Gozza1]

when I took off the exhaust, below an inch of oil and dirt, it look at looked ok.2/1-4 inch into 2.5 inch with Lukey performance muffler, before..

 

[Gozza1]

After a couple of days it came out well, ready to be re-used.

 

[Gozza1]

Today I've almost took off the power steering pump, didn't have the 16 mm spanner at hand, for the rear pipe fitting, I had a laugh on how dirty the oil pump sensor was, it was completely covered in grease.

 

[Vc sle survivor]

 

[Gozza1]

beautiful condition mate! Love the original wheels! Well today I was able to disconnect everything, the only thing holding the box and engine in are the engine mounts, this week it will all come out.

 

[Gozza1]

I've Managed to find used shroud, $25 bucks..after a bit of work it fits nicely on my radiator.Next I need to get a longer spacer and install a flex blade fan.

 

[Gozza1]

Power steering , alternator brackets and water pulley done.

 

[waikato willy]

I've Managed to find used shroud, $25 bucks..after a bit of work it fits nicely on my radiator.Next I need to get a longer spacer and install a flex blade fan.

I just finished upgrading my viscous fan on my vk, Im using a nissan patrol viscous hub redrilled to fit the water pump and a nissan SR20 plastic fan, im using a 4 cylinder shroud modified, this was all stuff I had lying around so was really cheap to do
The way this keeps my cool is unbelievable, a whole day was spent racing at the fathers day drags on Sunday 4 oct in really warm weather, I was doing pass after pass back to back, temps never went over 200F, even sitting in the staging lanes the car didnt get hot at all.
The patrol viscous hub is serviceable so you can put any thickness silicon oil in you want to adjust the drag, I filled it with 7000CST oil from the hobbie shop, using a 82 C degree thermostat, the fan starts dragging at around 95 C degrees
Im pulling the revs up to 7,000RPM limit and do consistent low 13s with my best time of a 12.8@106mph
The viscous hub does not seem to rob any power at all as with a standalone electric fan my best time was a 12.9 and I had lots of heat soak issues with the electric fan.
I only used a nissan viscous hub because they are cheap and easy to get, a holden one here in NZ are horrendously expensive or second hand ones are stuffed
food for thought?

 

[Gozza1]

I would love to see what it loos like, post some photos.

I remember replacing an old heavy steel fan blade on my camaro years ago with a plastic fan blade. It was half the weight and did the same thing. It was fantastic.

So with viscous hub it spins at higher revs then without one? I am still not 100% sure as to what the difference is.

The way I look at it ,my car will be a driver, nothing too extreme, as long as it runs cool that's really I want.

Do you have a link as to where to buy online the nissan viscous hub ? Which model.