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I’ve seen a 351 sitting in a Z with modified sump and pickup pipe hanging over the rack, so they do fit. As for the date on the certificate that’s the year the engine swap took place. The reg is circa 75/76 if a Vic plate, mine was first registered May 1975 with reg IEG-380 To me it seems to point to a Zed granted the P137….. reference confuses matters, then again, imagine if it’s still out there running a Phase 4 works motor……..Priceless

An interesting thread on FB there were 4 Phase 4 XA GTHO’s built by Ford’s skunk works, they were known as the Lot 6 cars. It seems one that was written off had its Phase 4 351’s dropped into a “Datsun” Could it have been a most likely candidate into a Z registration number IPQ-686 with a vague reference to P 137308 Any thoughts? If a Zed, it’s priceless if it still exists

😔 still trying to come to grips with this news R.I.P my brother from another mother🙏

Greetings Z Holics Its been 4 years and no I never gave in, but unfortunately my body did to some degree, Covid shut life down somewhat for everyone, and for me injuries from my youth came back to haunt me while new reminders that the warranty period on other parts had expired became apparent, immune system issues, chemo treatments followed, and “Rose” still floating mid air on her rotisserie and i reacquainted ourselves over the weekend. So I’m not sure how quickly I’m going to progress from here on in but just as Randy Quaid stated as he flew his F18 into the arse hole of the Alien Ship in Independence Day……….. “Hello Boys, I’m back…….” Cheers John

Just a comparison between old and new and a look at the new enclosed fuel filler route

Me and perhaps you yes, spare wheel in a can yes, full size spare no LMAO

Buy CBR a cigar! correct, as the tank now sits in the spare wheel well I had to re-route it and encase it as I will be running dual exhaust and dual mufflers so this way the filler will be away from any direct heat source.

Thanks Dave, Jeff’s 1&2 ;) Got onto some nasty surgery today Anyone willing to take a punt on the lunacy I’m up to?

Merry Christmas Zholics Custom rear lower control arms near completion

Greetings

Port lid for the new surge tank done now to build the guts of it next week all

When necessity is the mother of invention Core of the tank is now complete and now to move onto all the ancillary pipes and fittings

Been a few weeks, unfortunately illness and waiting for John Lange to finish the custom rear control arms have slowed me down So moved onto the rear fuel tank fabrication, using the LPG donut tank as the basis First was chopping 65mm out of the height through the centre aa well as removing the center tube section Then it was a matter of fabricating a centre rise section to clear the spare wheel well hump With the modifications, I’ve worked out it should be between 58-60 litres plus another 8-10 in the additional surge tank All in all so far a perfect fit See you all next week

Mine is a 75 coupe and was originally this colour

Rear gearbox mount almost done, just need to fix the height position and fab some outriggers to the cradle lots of room for the twin exhaust and will tuck inside the tunnel snd of course start of the obligatory smoothing of some weld areas and metal finishing due to my OCD

Some movement today finished up the lower torsion rod mounting points incasing the cavities with pipe sections along with closing off the cradle rails at the rear. Removed the temporary cross brace and now I’m ready to trial mount the motor and box so as to configure the revised gear box mount hopefully next weekend Cheers john

P.S. I think I’ve found a new way to prep a car for paint, total rust, dirt and paint removal with no consumables, no heat distortion, no metal damage, no fall out clean up and it gets into every visible space Im making enquirers at the moment https://laserking.com.au/news/

Hi Jeff Yes, that cradle will carry the motor, trans, front suspension, steering rack and headers down to the merge section as a complete unit meaning it can be raised into the bay or the body lowered onto it

Been past 2 weeks but made some progress today Chassis reconfiguration is now flush with the new rails Gearbox rear mount is next up

This relationship is getting complicated I cut away half of the rear chassis today, reconfigured it so all is flush with the new rails. A flat bottomed car is now a real posibility but of course ran out of gas sgain Till next week

Great work, car looks sensational congrats

There, that’s better

Can’t keep up with you Jeff’s lol each if you are powering on at break neck speed but with such great detail !

Ohhhhhhhh Damn that looks the goods Jeff

Jeff Just like all the metal you had to deal with, this is more or less my end game with one last surprise to come for you all Stay tuned