Hi guys, I was just going to put up a couple of pics to show you what i have done to my vauxhall over the past twelve months, but decided to copy some of my posts from another forum to give you a better idea of what i have done, the following posts should fill you in on whats been done up till xmas.
cheers barnsey
I thought i would fill you in a little about my red vauxhall and what is happening with it at present and n the past.
The Red Vauxhall is a 1948 velox, It was first built as a hotrod in the late 70's in sydney by a guy called Tony Smith, the car had a HR disc Front end, banjo diff, and was running a warm 186s and 4 speed box, it was painted mercedes metalic blue, Tony had neals wheels in sydney make him a set of wheels for it, they were 15x10's for the rear and 14x7's for the front,Tony later moved to the central coast and later sold the car to another guy Robert Brougth in the early 90's
Robert drove it for few years before pulling it off the road to give it a freshen up, it was fitted with a 202 and a 5 speed box, it was then painted in Firethorn red, an early brock commodore color.
Then The car was sold to me in 2004, after i was getting frustrated that my purple car was taking me so long to finish and i wanted to get something to attend the rod runs and summernats in it would also let me work on the purple car without the need to rush anything, in hindsight I should have sold the red car and kept the purple car, seeing as the purple car owed me 4 times what i had paid for the red car, but * happens and now i need to make the best of what i have. I drove the wheels off the red one for the first 12 months going to as many runs i could get to,
A year later i decided to remove the bumper bars and set up the suspension, lowering the front by 5'' and the rear a further 4'' I retrimed all the door trims and kick boards from choc brown to red vynal and removed the Volvo bucket seats replacing them with a pair of tarago buckets, they were a lot narower and a lot more comfortable on long runs, I moved out here to Wellington just over two years ago and used the vauxhall for work, removing the back seat and filling it up with my floorsanding equipment, also towed a trailer behind it with the rest of my tools, that might not sound too bad, but if you could see some of the jobs that i have done out here, you would be shocked to see just how hard this old girl has been treated, getting to some jobs means driving for 80 to 100;s on dirt and rutted roads, a lot of jobs are out on properties and all roads in are dirt or gravel, most properties have at least 10 cattle crates wich are most always eroded around the sides. but no one will ever see this car on a trailer, its definetley a daily driver lol.
found out the hard way that you need bear claw latches in sueiside doors, the front drivers door came open at about 90k's and slamed into my back gaurd.
The decision to put a supercharger on it was made about 18 months ago, I was at CRAKK (canberra rod and kustom kruze) I was talking to Steve (buickroadster) and he was telling me that he was putting a bigger supercharger on his Hemi, I asked what he was doing with the old one, he said he was going to sell it. I asked how much and a deal was stuck.
Little did i think that this would lead to a complete rebuild of my chassis and suspension. not to mention the buying of a new motor , new head and gearbox.
video of first start up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPUxCcqDg0
The body was removed and the chassis was boxed, this time i never went overboard smoothing it all up like the last one, as this was going to be a full time driver, everything under the car was painted in KBS Rust seal. I bought a volvo and removed the rear end complete with upper and lower controle arms, was going to put coilovers under the rear but decided on using the whole volvo setup including the coil spring, it doesn't look too bad and the volvo is disc brake rear. I bought the whole volvo for less than the cost of a set of coilovers. I will be keeping the front discs off the volvo and fitting the to it later as they have a twin pot caliper set up. the new engine has been mounted 4'' further back towards the firewall, this should get a bit of weight off the front wheels and make it handle a little better, although it wasn't too bad at handling before. have decided to stay with the HK steering box as it was less modifications i would have to do. the chassis has been frenched or chaneled into the front crossmember getting the car lower to the ground.
wll add some more pics later.
cheers barnsey
cheers barnsey
I thought i would fill you in a little about my red vauxhall and what is happening with it at present and n the past.
The Red Vauxhall is a 1948 velox, It was first built as a hotrod in the late 70's in sydney by a guy called Tony Smith, the car had a HR disc Front end, banjo diff, and was running a warm 186s and 4 speed box, it was painted mercedes metalic blue, Tony had neals wheels in sydney make him a set of wheels for it, they were 15x10's for the rear and 14x7's for the front,Tony later moved to the central coast and later sold the car to another guy Robert Brougth in the early 90's
Robert drove it for few years before pulling it off the road to give it a freshen up, it was fitted with a 202 and a 5 speed box, it was then painted in Firethorn red, an early brock commodore color.
Then The car was sold to me in 2004, after i was getting frustrated that my purple car was taking me so long to finish and i wanted to get something to attend the rod runs and summernats in it would also let me work on the purple car without the need to rush anything, in hindsight I should have sold the red car and kept the purple car, seeing as the purple car owed me 4 times what i had paid for the red car, but * happens and now i need to make the best of what i have. I drove the wheels off the red one for the first 12 months going to as many runs i could get to,
A year later i decided to remove the bumper bars and set up the suspension, lowering the front by 5'' and the rear a further 4'' I retrimed all the door trims and kick boards from choc brown to red vynal and removed the Volvo bucket seats replacing them with a pair of tarago buckets, they were a lot narower and a lot more comfortable on long runs, I moved out here to Wellington just over two years ago and used the vauxhall for work, removing the back seat and filling it up with my floorsanding equipment, also towed a trailer behind it with the rest of my tools, that might not sound too bad, but if you could see some of the jobs that i have done out here, you would be shocked to see just how hard this old girl has been treated, getting to some jobs means driving for 80 to 100;s on dirt and rutted roads, a lot of jobs are out on properties and all roads in are dirt or gravel, most properties have at least 10 cattle crates wich are most always eroded around the sides. but no one will ever see this car on a trailer, its definetley a daily driver lol.
found out the hard way that you need bear claw latches in sueiside doors, the front drivers door came open at about 90k's and slamed into my back gaurd.
The decision to put a supercharger on it was made about 18 months ago, I was at CRAKK (canberra rod and kustom kruze) I was talking to Steve (buickroadster) and he was telling me that he was putting a bigger supercharger on his Hemi, I asked what he was doing with the old one, he said he was going to sell it. I asked how much and a deal was stuck.
Little did i think that this would lead to a complete rebuild of my chassis and suspension. not to mention the buying of a new motor , new head and gearbox.
video of first start up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPUxCcqDg0
The body was removed and the chassis was boxed, this time i never went overboard smoothing it all up like the last one, as this was going to be a full time driver, everything under the car was painted in KBS Rust seal. I bought a volvo and removed the rear end complete with upper and lower controle arms, was going to put coilovers under the rear but decided on using the whole volvo setup including the coil spring, it doesn't look too bad and the volvo is disc brake rear. I bought the whole volvo for less than the cost of a set of coilovers. I will be keeping the front discs off the volvo and fitting the to it later as they have a twin pot caliper set up. the new engine has been mounted 4'' further back towards the firewall, this should get a bit of weight off the front wheels and make it handle a little better, although it wasn't too bad at handling before. have decided to stay with the HK steering box as it was less modifications i would have to do. the chassis has been frenched or chaneled into the front crossmember getting the car lower to the ground.
wll add some more pics later.
cheers barnsey
then let run at 2000 RPM for about an hour.
