Hi guys, haven't really posted up any pics of my beast so I figured I oughta start a diary thread. Anyhoo, details:

1973 Series III LWB 2 door hardtop with Holden 202 conversion.

Bought her for $500 around September 2009. Wasn't running when I bought her (hadn't moved in over a year) so we towed it off the previous owners front lawn and around the corner to a park using my Subaru. I spent the day playing around in the engine bay an realised the only reason she wouldn't kick over was because of crappy fuel lines. Not wanting to make a mess at the park I filled a juice bottle up with fuel and plumbed it straight into the mechanical fuel pump. This got me home (was only a few kilometres but we didn't want to tow because we had to cross a lot of very busy highways).

Replaced fuel lines, ignition leads and gave her a general service and tidy up and she was running a treat.
This is a rough clip of her after a bit of a light service. She's running much better these days. Blew the cobwebs out.
Popped her cherry by taking her down to Pemberton for a week of great 4WDing, fishing etc. Took my Subaru down there also, blew a clutch and we ended up towing the Subaru 400km back home at night using the Beast. Love it.

Anyway, pics.

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Spent today cleaning up the wiring. I'm fairly confident in the mechanical sturdiness of the beast but I know all to well how shocking the wiring is. It is an absolute bodge job of poor terminations, lack of solder and all round poor cobbling together. I don't trust it. I don't want to cross a river with it. I don't want to have to rely on it.

Replaced the two front lamps with sealed lamps I got from Malz auto (one was dead anyway). Replaced the shockingly old and rotten relays for the front beams and installed much smaller ones and started cleaning up. The wiring really was shocking. Redundant wires everywhere. Pulled loads out that didn't even need to be there. Got to work replacing all the ignition wiring but ran out of time for the day. I'll have a crack at it again tomorrow. I just really cannot stand wires everywhere, especially if I cannot make sense of it all.
Grease and grime I can handle, spaghetti wiring I cannot.

Anyhoo, that's where I'm up to so far. She needs a lot of work. I've got no plans to restore or even make it neat. Just want it reliable and somewhat comfortable enough to do some small trips in.

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Excellent stuff.

She sounds great.

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Good stuff

Got a bit further with the wiring today but I'm taking a break. Been fiddly with the car for days on end and need a rest
She's definitely running better than in her previous video. Took a quick vid today.

I'm looking at removing the belt driven fan and installing electric fans. Should yield a VERY VERY slight increase in power/fuel economy but more importantly it'll make river crossings a bit safer. Anyone done this with a Holden Red? Is it just a matter of taking the fan off and that's that?

Also, I wired the lights up today so that they only run when the ignition is turned. I'm so use to the lights turning off on my Subaru when I kill the ignition that I get caught out a few times in these older vehicles.

Next on my list is to run a sight bit of water through the engine to blow out some of the built of carbon, then run a tank of BP 98 and then have a crack at tuning the timing properly. Fingers crossed.

With the fan you are right you just take off the old fan and install the electric one, just remember if you install in front of the rad then the fan must blow through and if installed on the engine side it must suck other wise when you start driving it won't cool correctly.

There are lots of mods you can do with the red motors running them on 98oct fuel will work and a better breathing exhaust will also help.

Ive had 2 with red motors.

Adam

Other than fuel and exhaust, what type of mods would you recommend. I'm intrigued Having this Landy has really made me fall in love with Holden reds. My dad was pretty stoked too when I showed him as he spent his youth screwing around with Toranas with reds in them also.

Cams, heads, holly carbs, shaving and porting etc etc

Its proberly wasted on the landy but you can do alot of the littler things to make it more everyday friendly

Adam

I got the blue 202 with holley 350...



The build pics are here if your interested .I rewired all of mine to tidy it up a bit..
Pictures by mebanjo - Photobucket

Well I took the "beast" for a trip to the beach this morning for a surf. Much to my disappointment I noticed the clutch starting to slip on the way home Such a pain in the arse.

So basically, a SIII with a Holden 202, I'd be looking at buying a Holden clutch right?