Chev 305 Vortec Holden Rodeo

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MRJUCY
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Post by MRJUCY »

look crazy, cant wait to see when it finished...
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Post by gemhead »

lookin good, those wheels will suit it perfect, go 18x7-8 on the front and 18x10 on the back, will look sick
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At the moment just looking at how we will be mounting the alternator and power steering!
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how she sits at the moment
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new box of bling!
- Chrome:
trans pan
trans dust cover
timing tab
throttle bracket
power steering bottle with level tube
catch can
double pulley
2 packets of chrome nut caps
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what are those headers not sure if you stated it in the first page or not lol
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Post by black'n'blueGem »

um it aint hard to look haha. there Chrome stainless XSPower Extractors
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yeah i know sometimes people are lazy 8) but they are nice headers lol
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hey guys. Its been almost 7 months of doin nothin on the deo. Ive just finished my diploma in film and tv, so now i have some free time while im lookin for work..

Well the latest update is myself and the old man drove to sydney (liverpool) from adelaide to pick up a tub we bought :shock: yes thats right.. a 27 hour drive there and back :cry: god it was a long drive haha. but worth it. we picked up a single cab tub for 200 bucks! :D and a couple hundred in gas getting there. where he said it would cost around 700 to freight it seeing its so awkward to send it. plus they get damaged.
Took us 13 hours to get to liverpool from adelaide. We put it on the trailer and we were both feeling good so we drove 2 hours towards home and stopped at Goulburn.
It has a bit of rust where water was sitting in it, but nothing we cant fix. The sides are really straight. Our last one had huge dents from a forklift loading stuff in the back, and would have been a pain to fix.

Here it is
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We got it sitting on a hospital bed we got! its great! you can wheel it around and lift it up and down
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Heres the rust
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But no fear! we were prepared with cutouts from the last tub
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And it pissed down on the way home. that much when a road train went past, the windscreen was just going white with water :P damn you people up there... drought city down here
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In our times of bordom, we wrote down EVERYTHING that can be done to this project. and some of the stuff agreed on... well... just you wait :p

The TO DO within the next couple months:
Mount power steering pump
Complete all the brackets on the engine
Crome the brackets and bits n pieces
Fan belts sorted
Cut extractor flanges and angle them in
Complete engine mounts and bolt engine in
make the exhaust
mount rear shocks
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Engineer is coming friday. He will write down everything that has to be engineered, give any advice about the build and then write up a report that can be handed into regency.

From a guess, he believes the deo will need a dyno, brake fade test, lane change test and emissions test to be approved. No rigidity test due to the full chassis.
Its all coming along! once this is done we can get some major stuff done like diff and tailshaft cut.
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Post by tunney »

any more photos ?? looks good man
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Post by black'n'blueGem »

not really atm. but we had the visit from the engineer, he made the report of all the modifications being made to the ute, and sent it to regency for approval. A few days ago we received a letter from Motor Vehicles saying they approve the modifications :D WOO. so now once we finish a little project in the way (Triumph Dolomite Sprint) we can work on the deo
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Post by Junk1 »

f*!kin sweet man, so much goddamn work lookin awesome.
Bit of inspiration to get stuck into me longbed KB.
Hard to get parts for, especially a fukin tailgate :evil:
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Post by BLK-TDPANO »

bag and body drop FTW!
haha
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Post by black'n'blueGem »

nah its a legal build. and plus i dont really like the look of dropped utes.

Update anyway:
Total hassles with the engineer getting these wheels and diff sorted.
But for now we are hopefully going ahead with a VY crewman diff, due to we need a load rated diff to get through the pits.
And we have orded some Summit Racing Star 15x7 and 15x10 wheels for it. So its going to have 12" of rubber on the back :wink:

And we got our shipment from the states: :D
a aluminum radiator
billet trans cooler
billet surge tank
twin thermos
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more to come soon
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Post by yldgem »

this is gonna be one cool ride when its done....
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Post by BLK-TDPANO »

that's fair if you dont like em

but bag's are legal if there engineer'd.

they are here anyway, not sure bout in adelaide

deffinitly looking the good tho!
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