make sure that your auto is in good condition prior to fitting a shift kit....if your auto is in poor condition it will shorten the life of it....if its in good ocndition it will extend the life...makes sense right???  

your local transmission place can fit a shift kit, either that or there are other ones that you can fit yourself, just simply remove oil pan and bolt up.

carby/exhaust and a tune will get it up and running well.

if youve got the $$$ look into things like

mild stall (if its an auto)
shift kit (if an auto)
bigger cam (power range that begins when stall locks)
diff gears (3:5:5)

your head choice seems to be ok....with the above things id say it will be a pretty quik 6.... u will be catching the vl's with ease  

Sweeeet car man   love all the smoothing thats been done on this car.....congrats on the purchase  

Matt (earlyholdenfan) knows more about this than me, but the earlier box (pre commodore i believe) were able to be drilled and tapped, so that you could fit the original grey motor gearbox mounts. I can give you rodger Hancock's phone number as he is the guru on this....pm me if u want it.  

as for the high stall, i know a guy who can modify the original convertor if you still have it (or we probably have one here...) what do you want it to stall at? with that cam im guessing around 2800?  

what is the drivers side like, just after the wheel arch towards the rear

Alex,
      I look forward to the update every weekend.....very informative thread! Love what you guys have done with the car also....will pm you with a few more questions  

cheers, Torque  

dug up a video from fullboost.com, was just going to post up the link on fullboost but you need to be a full member to do this...so i put it into photobucket.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/pro_058fc_350/?action=view&current=fullBOOST_calder_060609.flv&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch5

bloody looks and goes good this beast just be warned if you have dialup...it may take a while  :-/ and also...youve gotta wait for a few other cars to do their thing before old59 but 11.6??? shit  

...drooool

pretty much sums up my thoughts   bloody nice car mate...nice pipes too!!!!! love the stance on it...cheers

not real sure...but im pretty sure its on the giggle gas  

pic doesnt seem to work...guessing its the green(blue?) and white one that is at calder quite a fair bit, bloody nice car  

guide plates are not a neccesity (spelling?) but are good to have. I do believe that they are interchangeable tho, do you know what stud sizes they suit? best advice would probably to ring somewhere like vpw australia or even a local engine builder, etc.

sorry i couldnt be of any more help.... :-/

SOLD  

may be something dumb to say () but an fe fc with a v8 and the appropriate chassis mods will weigh more than 1100kg's, will it not?

have got a set here (attached to an ek electric motor) pm me if interested.........

got one lined up, thanks fat

cheers, TorqueFC

cheers Fat, will pm you!

need that section above. the corner of rear wheel arch/quarter panel. prefere a little extra on it iff possible, doesnt matter if it has a little bit of rust, as long as its straight. Will consider this section off a sedan/wagon/ute/van, doesnt matter.

cheers, TorqueFC

give CRS a ring in victoria

The diffs were something like $800 thats shortened housing and cut down F100 axles (31 spline)

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