Holden 202 cam, carby, manifold, etc upgrade project

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Originally Posted by rovey

I have the easy conversion to the lt 77s 5 speed , this is in my iia forward control. The holden 6 uses the common 6 to landrover conversion found all over Aussie , the lt 77s bolt pattern is a sraight fit .The lt230 can be then used to this and make the truck permanent 4x4 or with an ashcroft kit can be 2 or 4 wheel drive (as mine is). The gearing 1st to 4th is almost the same as series ratios with the 5 th being overdrive. The lt77 ratings are for around 320 nm whereas series boxs are 290 nm , the lt77s is around 350 nm as the large bearings and mainshaft is almost the r 380 box spec . This will make it all Landrover and all modern for spares, give it a try! Mine has the Webber conversion, extractors, electronic ignition is a must, set up manifold vacuum and towing cam and larger valves but i didnt go for the 186 head. It goes great and top gear gets 2500 revs at 100 km/ hour. It delivers around 19 lt/ 100 km (it is pushing a shed lets face it) and when the distribiture is recon it will do better.

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How much would i expect to pay if i change the gearbox i have now, to the Lt 77 and the ashcroft kit to make it 2 or 4 wheel drive??

Cheers
Joel

OH NO, i'm making water.... and i have a few other issues with engine.....

Its as i expected when i bought it, sitting for a long time, start to add "bolt ons" and other upgrades, things start to let go...

Have a doner engine ready to go, a 202 block with a 186 head on it.. Will put it in with my redline manifold and 350 holley, new (well, old but cleaned up) headers (nothing flash), and go from there. Will see how it goes before i put the torque cam in it.

So this has set back the project, so will be hoping to continue project after xmas, i'm not made of money, so will take some time to save a few pennies and buy the small bits and pieces i need to do the swap over..

Will be doing a few other things also while the engine is out.

Prop take off the gaurds and clean up whole engine bay/fire wall and prob put on a spray on body deadener to the firewall, new engine mounts and prob some gearbox mounts too.

Will add more when more done :)

Enjoy xmas guys and gals :)

Hi All

Joel while you have the engine out check the clutch and change the thrust bearing and maybe the front seal on the gearbox. Pm Dandlandyman on here for his gearbox sealing solutions :):D

Regards Mark

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Originally Posted by marko66

Hi All

Joel while you have the engine out check the clutch and change the thrust bearing and maybe the front seal on the gearbox. Pm Dandlandyman on here for his gearbox sealing solutions :):D

Regards Mark

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You my friend, are a genius :banana:

I was going thru all the things i may want to do while doing it.

Thank heaps :)

Hi All,

Been a while since been on.

Well, i have had yet another detour with the project, still working on the car, just not the engine conversion yet.

The brakes gave way, so i got them sorted. Gee wiz, she pulls up good now lol.

Was still running points distributor. In the now 14 months i've owned her, i have put 30,000 klms on the clock. Did the points when i first got her, bout half thru last year, and just last week needed doing again.....
So i bit the bullet and spent the cash and put an electronic dizzy on her. Got an RAE from repco. Cost $350.
Man o man, does she go good now :)
No more pinging, no more hot engine temps at high revs, and now i've got full power.....

And talking about power, far out what difference the dizzy made. A guy estimated that my engine, a 202 with the carby, cam etc etc that i'm running, would give similar power then an ecotec holden V6 stock engine.
I'd have to agree i think.
Driving home this arvo, full load in the back of my wagon (approx 500kgs), plus my builders trailer loaded up (approx 800kgs), comfortably sitting on 90klm/hr, and put my foot down on a slight incline and no worries at all, just pulls away... Let me tell you, VERY happy camper :)

I know i originally wanted to put it on the dyno each time i put the upgrades on, but with moving house and a couple of other things happening, my access to the "cheap" dyno i had, has since gone.... So no dyno figures in the interim.

I am still considering putting it on the dyno, it'll just be for a final figure readout after i do the upgrades.

So, next thing to do, is saving up for a fairy overdrive so i have 5th gear. Then continue to get things ready for the engine bay overhaul with the engine swap.

Will endeavor to put up some pics too. I did put them up here somewhere, forgot where i added the photos, but will add some to this thread.

Cheers all
Joel.

Good to hear things are still going ahead, its good when you get a project and you keep going with it. That sounds like a sweet setup with that motor and the overdrive would just make it a proper road cruiser, you'd be able to sit at 110Km/h easy. I've got a 202 sitting in the shed that I picked up for nothing and I was going to do the same thing, chuck a couple of bolt on mods and rebuild it but my 202 has a slight problem with no.3 piston, its broken at the oil ring and separated from there so its a 2 piece piston now. I would replace it but its been bored out to .080 thou so its not very easy to find one and the rings to go with. Keep us updated on how it goes and I'm certainly interested in what power and torque figures it puts out.