Yeah there have been some updates:
My radiator........A stock Monza radiator is like 5-7cm smaller than a VR radiator and the climat here in NL doent get that hot as in Aus so i thought i bring my VR radiator to a radiator rebuild place and give a stock Monza radiator with the VR radiator and tell the blokes there:
This is a Holden radiator and here u have a Monza radiator,the hose connectors are on the opposide sides so here u have a example for size (the monza radiator) and here u have the Australian radiator..make me a Australian radiator with the size of the Monza,so i can drop it in 1:1....
After a week i got a call..ure radiator is done u can pick it up,i went to the shop and they gave me a nice shiney radiator with a thick high performance core..i was happy as a kid,then i wanted to drive away and i thought #### i still have the stock Monza radiator as example inside,so i went back inside and they gave me the the stock radiator back...once in the car i put the Monza radiator for the VR radiator with Monza sizes.....i saw those idiots did nothing than rebuild my own VR radiator with a Aus size core.....i got angry and told them this wasnt what i wanted...and they told me u gave us order to rebuild this..and not to make it smaller...i said....why on earth would i give a smaller radiator as example....after a while they said..u know we make a deal...u pay us just the cost of the cooling block and the labour hours are our lost....i payed 450$ for rebuilding a radiator witch wasnt leaking....with labour it would be over 600$...Now i have to change the shell a bit to get the VR radiator in...not much but i wanted to avoid that..
Next thing is headers..
As i am making everything in mirror vieuw i needed new headers cause the aus cast iron ones from a VR-VS are worthless...cant use them at all..so i cut the plate that bolts to the head off with a grinder and gave it to a company that does some laser/water/plasma whatever cutting of steel....they made me 2 plates of 8mm thick steel that bolt the head and match the exhaust ports and bolts 100%...
But i still need headers so i was looking and looking and saw that Ford 289/302 heads use headers looking like this:
SBF FORD SMALL BLOCK HUGGER HEADERS UNPAINTED | eBay
I asked around on a Ford forum last sunday and found out that the ports of a 289/302 head have exact 11cm diffence between them centre port to centre of the next port and Holden has 11,3cm ......So now i am trying to get those headers...I asked a usa car part shop nearby earlyer this evening if they have those headers in stock or if they import them what thery cost...If they dont answer soon i buy those in the states and import them.
I cut the plate off that bolts to he Ford head and weld the rest on my own made Holden plate and than i can make the exhasut as Holden did it only in mirror vieuw......
It all sounds very easy and simple...but its like everything u need to think off....
Wenn u do a conversion to a VB-VL of a 304 EFI,u click on google and there u have it..a example or shop that offers parts...but in my case....its me,who need to think ask around and and..
(and i havent done a #### the last couple of months to the conversion hehehhhe but now its winter and i have more time..so lets go on and bring the donk back to live)
By the way,but for this guy i really have respect,he does something new here...
U cant buy a manual for it or download it or buy parts parts from a shop....He is putting a BMW V8 engine in a old Opel (BMW/Audi/Mercedes V8 are cheaper here than LSx engines) and i think he will get it running,heheh maybe in the end that conversion is cheaper and easyer than my Holden conversion...hehehe but i will be the only on the main land of Europe that has a Holden 304.....I never saw one for sale in the main land (holland-germany-france-sweden-norway-finland-austria and the rest) i saw a few Holdens on ebay UK......
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