Hi, Welcome to DanSpec.net

My name is Dan, and I created this page to track and share the progress of my builds, I live in Canberra, Australia, and have loved cars since I knew what a car was, which has led it to being one of my major hobbies.There isn't a whole lot that I wont tackle myself out in the shed, from general maintenance to an engine rebuild, auto builds, drive line swaps, rust repairs and lots more.

I currently I have 3 cars:
1977 KC Centura - Summernats Burnout Machine
1970 VF Valiant Regal Hardtop - EFI turbo slant 225
1974 TC Cortina 2L Pinto

Each of these cars have been worked on extensively by myself whenever I can get a chance. Please check out the entire site and if you are interested in any of the work I have done or have any questions, drop me a line via the Contact Dan page

Cheers
Dan

website updates are few and far between these days, i still spend time on the cars, here's a good example of that ;)

so i turbo'd the slant,
worked well with the EFI conversion, easy to add forced induction, basically
- RX7 series 5 turbo that i got from a mate real cheap
- BA falcon intercooler
- 2.5" exhaust

i set this all up on the original motor (Will get it all with pics below), ran it like that for a while but it had always been a bit down on power/stumble off idle, etc, looked further into that and found that the motor had a badly burnt valve, 

number 6 being the offender



So yes they will run like that, just not awesome

A friend was nice enough to donate me a runner slant that he pulled out for a conversion and had been sitting around for a while, ended up giving it a once over/full tear down, ended up pulling both motors down, my original motor had badly scored bearings, glazed bores, etc etc, so it was due for something to be done anyway.
- left the cam
- bearings were good
- broke a ring so ended up installing newies
- found out the hard way late and early cranks do not have the same crank flange spigot at the rear, had to do a quick crank swap the same night that i was due to install the whole situation back into the car, had a few friends over that were keen to get it done so i whipped it out, gave the other crank a once over and dropped it in, re-sealed everything and dropped it in the bay again.
- baffled the stock sump to keep the oil around the pickup under braking (not that it brakes like a modern car, but it stops ok)

Pic of it on the stand with the new coil bracket

Baffled sump

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Managed to slip an EFI pic in here, it did all kind of happen over the same 4 week period

Dump Pipe

Fittings ready for a oil feed line

Making the feed and drain flanges out of some 10mm plate

J pipe goodness