How About a Gearhead Thread?

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Have you ever had a car that you now wish you'd kept?  I got my driver's license during the heyday of muscle cars, when GM. Ford, and Chrysler were in a battle for the hearts and souls of young drivers, aided by songs like,

409..  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKP_cZuk54

Li'l GTO   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FSicQWimU

Little Ol' Lady From Pasadena  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MhiHZvq8zc

Shutdown  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nll2r0h8rRE

After a few "almost good enough" rides, I finally got my hands on my dream car.......a '65 Malibu SS with an L79 327. 

[serendipityricho]

Hi Joe---how did i know you would appear on this thread lol...........................Richo.

[viewmont1071]

EH is nearly there Richo..... but the new rego ETA is Christmas lmao.....hopefully we will not need to revise that and it will

be registered soon....... 12 month build birthday on 10th July....... not happy Jan

I have been also working on a Street rod. A 38 Chev with 308 with 350 turbo box. LH Torana front end and rack with HQ

stubs and discs and a shortened Ford 9 inch disc rear.  I will get some pics... working on a tight deadline with the other...

needs to be engineered by the end of July...

[lloydslights]

Fascinating. 

DEB

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Biggest problem I had with the Monza was the original 2.56::1  and the subsequent 2.90:1 gear sets.........I had the axles and brake drums drilled to accept 14" Chevy bolt pattern wheels, and slapped 50-series tires on Centerline rims.........but the rear suspension was for the birds.

        On the return road at Redding in 1977.

Motor block was a 66 (took 5 before I found an acceptable one), bored and honed to 4.030" using steel crank and rods from a 64 Corvette, with new forged 11.1:1 pistons.  The heads were from an '71 350, effectively lowering the compression to 10.25:1.

A Sig Erson Cam, 600cfm Holley doublepumper on an Edelbrock manifold, with Hooker headers exhausting everything rounded out the motor.  I didn't fool with the HEI ignition, because it was a daily driver........which got 22 mpg on the freeway.

[joz*garage]

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@serendipityricho wrote:

Hi Joe---how did i know you would appear on this thread lol...........................Richo.

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g'day richo,

how did you know i'd pop in.. was the same reason i knew you'd be here

like bees attracted to honey, 😄

and viewmont (whoelse? carp it, i cant read back and forgot what B.camp said too 

[joz*garage]

b.camp, i knew a fella here in perth had one, he found the original wheel pattern to be a design flaw

he chose HQ Holden stud pattern and fitted 14' wheels the same as how the A9X came out

he copied a few ideas from the A9X, electric driven radiator fan *what else did he do?!, disc drakes all round etc

either models had it's good and bad points, although minimal on the A9X the monza had the chev motor!

didnt have do much to them to make 'em go hey! but at the same time the A9X had an excellent power to weight ratio

[chuk_77]

we need DSK here

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

I wish I still had my '69 kombi

We have drags here, um every month I think.  They use the local airstrip, and anyone can take their car along and have a burn.

Viewmonty, is that an early 80's SR250 you're sitting on?

[crystal**flake]

I'd never let mine go.

[dskracing]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Do they have drag strips in OZ?

My '75 Monza 2+2 launching at Redding Dragstrip in '77  Car had a 331 smallblock with a 4-speed...........ran 12:30's

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Yep

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