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Oh man, i didnt really want to remove the thermostat either, can it be done with thermostat on or will that definitely have to come off?

Kickdown rod is finished, i put brand new battery terminals on the car & used 1 of the old pieces from the terminal to bridge the gap between the kd bracket & kd rod. Then got Ian from KAM autoparts to help me adjust it & am happy to says its running sweet, so thanks to Ian for his help as always & thanks to Greg & Bear & Dean & Jack for their help/advice much appreciated. Nxt thing i might do is get the edelbrock performer manifold, so im assuming the dizzy needs to come out to fit the manifold up?

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I think c6 is a heavy bastard too & bellhousing doesn't come off

Yeah FMX is more beefier than c4 but heavier

3 hours ago, bear351c said:

Yeah, I got an FMX, and I manually shift it all the time. Heaps of fun through the hills, bit of a pain sometimes, when dickheads pull out in front of you and you try to get around them, but theres enough torque in 3rd gear. 

Is that in ur XB Bear?

Cheers for that Greg, ive got a C4 & yeah the vac modulator is at the rear of the trans. I reckon i might be able to get a piece of thin flat metal & drill 2 holes & fit it up to the kickdown bracket & rod to fill that void & get the kickdown rod operating.

Do you mean always on or off the throttle?

Nah Greg i'll be taking it easy, what do you mean by always on or off mate?

Accelerator is all sorted now, drove it to Ian's & he gave it the once over. Its running really well . He tried to fit the kickdown rod with the spring perch kit but bcos of the adaptor plate being under the carb its made the throttle bracket abit high & is interfering with the kickdown rod, had there been no adaptor plate wouldn't have a problem but without the adaptor plate there would be no holley so can't win em all. i'll have to manually down shift til i figure something out.

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I decided to make a slice in the bracket to get the inner cable in & have the adjusting nut on the front & locknut on the back. Got the engine started earlier no probs but now i think ive flooded it from fucken around with the throttle linkage for ages, it has spark so thats not the issue

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Hey guys just in the middle of hooking up the throttle cable & ive noticed there is no slice on the bracket where the inner cable slips through. Should i make a slice myself or isnt it supposed to have a slice in it. Most brackets ive had in the past have had a slice in it so that you can get the cable trough the hole & have the adjusting nut on one side of the bracket & the locknut on the other side.

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I reckon ive figured out how to hook up the cable. If i keep the block on the front of the bracket with the springs then the cable will have to go around the back of the motor but if i was to run the cable around the front of the motor like on the TQ then i would have to take the block that has the springs flip it upside down & mount it to the back of the bracket & do the same with the block on the front of the bracket that holds the throttle cable. Ill have to test this when i get home, in Geelong atm doing some sanding on the "New" rear bumper on the NU Fairlane.

14 hours ago, gerg said:

I was worried about that shit, even had my cobra air cleaner on (yes not the std big silver dunny seat) and the bloke didn't even batt an eyelid. Funny too how nobody's even said anything about my T5 conversion or Shelby drop... Kinda works for us that many mechanics don't really know what they're looking at if the car's pre-1990. 

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When i got a rwc back in 2017 the guy noticed that it had extractors so didnt have the little pipe that goes from the factory manifold up to the carb but let it pass.

Cheers Jack, just needs some rust work everything else ive done is brand new. Im a bit worried they might knock me back on the new carb having no EGR who knows.

5 minutes ago, gerg said:

She purrs! I bet you can't wait to turn a wheel in anger

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Ooooooh yeah looking forward to it Greg:).

13 minutes ago, Outback Jack said:

Awesome Free!, nice quick response on the carby.
Getting closer to rego, bet your excited.
Well done.

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Yeah she feels very responsive Jack, i like it. She is still registered atm i just need to go for a rwc & get it registered in my name. Its in a friends name atm. Long story

Got it running without the cable

Got the throttle bracket on & sorted out the airfilter everything else is hooked up. Not sure how to hook up the throttle cable but ill have a look at some car mags & see how others have done it

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Haha oh I'll be using it alright soon as i get this sum bitch carb hooked up

This should do the trick

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Ive pretty much figured how the bracket will go on (can only go on 1 way) which means i gotta run the cable around the back of the motor. Need to take the carb off again & get 2 longer bolts as i figured the bolts aren't long enough to bolt both bracket & carb down. 

Also bought this, will drill a hole in the air filter base & screw this in & connect the hose that goes to the cannister

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This arrived in the post today, not sure if it goes on upside down or downside up + now i think the bolts that came with the adaptor plate are too short now to bolt the carb down aswell as the throttle bracket.

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Will still soumd like a bag of shit!!!, it has a standard exhaust fitted atm cos i was planning to go for a rwc & get it registered in my name. Sure sounds better with the twin 2.5". Im confident it will perform much better than the TQ was