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Macka · « **Reply #50 on:** March 11, 2014, 11:03:17 pm »

Some nice work being done there, stay motivated..

lukep6470 · « **Reply #51 on:** March 12, 2014, 11:00:01 am »

I've been running RRS power steering as a daily driver for 16000 miles over 3 years and never had a problem and it's never leaked a drop. This is with 225 width tyres on the front with lots of car park work.

From what I've seen people have been running into issues when using a 3rd party pump. I think as long as you use the pump supplied by RRS you won't have any issues.

sea67n · « **Reply #52 on:** March 13, 2014, 09:53:46 am »

Quote from: lukep6470 on March 12, 2014, 11:00:01 am

I've been running RRS power steering as a daily driver for 16000 miles over 3 years and never had a problem and it's never leaked a drop. This is with 225 width tyres on the front with lots of car park work.

From what I've seen people have been running into issues when using a 3rd party pump. I think as long as you use the pump supplied by RRS you won't have any issues.

That's good to hear Luke, still hearing varying reports about RRS stuff but I already bought the stuff years ago so its going in, one thing also is they do seem to replace any faulty bits just a pain in the backside swapping it out, but here's hoping all goes well regardless

sea67n · « **Reply #53 on:** March 14, 2014, 01:27:40 pm »

Finished off the final patch of rust, and now need to tidy up a few areas and get the rest back to bare metal....... heading out to Eagle tomorrow to just have a look at what crate motors are on offer out there for when the time comes, and tips ideas would be appreciated!

sea67n · « **Reply #54 on:** March 14, 2014, 01:29:03 pm »

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sea67n · « **Reply #55 on:** March 20, 2014, 07:19:32 am »

Body should be completely under primer by the end of the week. All body work finally done, final piece of rust fixed in the rear right area of the boot.... have started to mock up the RRS steering kit etc

66 Hertz · « **Reply #56 on:** March 20, 2014, 09:01:49 am »

looking great, keep the updates coming!...

sea67n · « **Reply #57 on:** March 20, 2014, 01:29:20 pm »

Quote from: 66 Hertz on March 20, 2014, 09:01:49 am

looking great, keep the updates coming!...

Thanks mate, just getting up after nightshift so after caffeine injections ill head down and see whats going down today

sea67n · « **Reply #58 on:** March 22, 2014, 05:59:13 pm »

pulled out the rear end today, discussions re adding an LSD kit to the 8 inch which looked to be in pretty good condition on the inside at least. Weighing up the cost of that in comparison to a full 9 inch kit with rear disc brakes etc as Im going to be adding them anyway.....

have also managed to ID the gear ratio at 2.79, would be interested to hear thoughts on this ratio, I have an overdrive transmission to go in with either a 302 or poss 351, will only be cruising, not looking to rip roar off from the lights etc, otherwise the body work is just about all done...... here is some update pics....

sea67n · « **Reply #59 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:01:53 pm »

pretty happy with the quality of the repair work that has been done on the body..........

sea67n · « **Reply #60 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:06:53 pm »

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sea67n · « **Reply #61 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:13:48 pm »

and a couple of videos....

http://youtu.be/mS72G_FDoDE

http://youtu.be/MUTwejQiOAk

Raven · « **Reply #62 on:** March 22, 2014, 09:09:46 pm »

Nice work

Macka · « **Reply #63 on:** March 23, 2014, 06:54:09 pm »

That's coming along well... keep the pics coming.

sea67n · « **Reply #64 on:** March 23, 2014, 10:08:21 pm »

Thanks Raven and Macka........

Michael2009 · « **Reply #65 on:** March 28, 2014, 09:13:21 pm »

The colour looks great. Will you be adding stripes to it?

sea67n · « **Reply #66 on:** April 03, 2014, 04:19:21 pm »

I thought it looked good that colour too but its actually all primer and if I had to lock in a colour right now, it would be Sting Red, I'm liking the colour more and more, they mixed some up and in the flesh it looked amazing. Have picked up some mid eye leaf springs, all the kits to redo the rear drum brakes, decided to go that way and spend money 'more wisely' if that's the correct term.

Picked up some packs of Dynamat Extreme, the bulk packs and a price cheaper than Ebay, Ryda at Petersham selling them at $178 at the moment. So the Dynamat has gone in, the underside has been painted up and the final touches of sealing panels and cleaning up some parts of the engine bay that we were quite happy with... here is the last pics and some of the interior im thinking of running with. Looking at all black interior with a feature of red stitching throughout....

sea67n · « **Reply #67 on:** April 03, 2014, 04:21:02 pm »

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sea67n · « **Reply #68 on:** April 03, 2014, 04:22:37 pm »

and the interior im liking at the moment.....

67fasty.sm · « **Reply #69 on:** April 03, 2014, 09:57:41 pm »

Very nice

sea67n very nice

sea67n · « **Reply #70 on:** April 09, 2014, 09:56:32 pm »

I've bitten the bullet, I keep coming back to red, when this started I never thought I'd head that direction, but have given the go ahead for Sting Red after seeing some beautiful examples, the fun begins......

R_Beckhaus · « **Reply #71 on:** April 10, 2014, 03:24:16 pm »

I had my '68 painted 2003 Dodge Viper red. Very similar to sting red and looks fantastic. Good lucl.

anfo99 · « **Reply #72 on:** April 15, 2014, 06:55:06 pm »

coming along nicely mate hard to go past red; everyone says it'll go faster. I was talking to a bloke ab out diff ratios a few weeks back and he said "something like 4.11 to 1 is for fast take offs, but kills fuel economy", so 2.79 to 1 should be good for fuel economy al though I'm certainly not an expert.

1969 mustang · « **Reply #73 on:** April 16, 2014, 08:25:43 pm »

well done....keep up the good work...its looking very good

sea67n · « **Reply #74 on:** April 24, 2014, 06:28:20 pm »

ok so there has been a fair bit of prep done, the drum brakes have been rebuilt, and the new leaf springs put in......

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