Thread: my 48 Vauxhall

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i drove the car for a few months with the rear still in undercoat, as this was my only transport at the time, and i needed to tow my trailer with all my tools to and from work.
as i said before I treated her quite hard during the week, most of my work required me to take many dirt roads and tracks just to reach the properties i was working on. most of the work out here is up long driveways like this one.
see video below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_XKzTyB3WM

anyway I went too a rod run down in canberra for a weekend, which is only a 4 and a half hour drive from home, I got talking to another mate Steve who owns a 1926 buick roadster pickup built over a 59 chrysler royal chassis, it was running a 265 hemi with a eaton m90 supercharger on straight lpg, anyway we got talking and he mentioned that he was replacing the m90 with one that he got from the states, an eaton M114 and said that the m90 was for sale, he took me for a ride in his buick and i was hooked, I just had to have this m90 on my car, so a deal was struck and i purchased the m90.
here is a pic of steves buick with the hemi and the m90 still on it.

and one of it with the new m114 on it.

and the two sitting side by side.

well little did i realise that by buying the m90 cheap, i would later end up spending big dollars getting another engine built to suite it, Steve has built my new engine to run on straight lpg, it has all the good gear interally and was built to rev to 7000+ rpm and should be making between 320 and 340 flywheel hp, its a big gain compaired to the old engine which had about 150 hp
here are a couple of pics of the new engine,after steve finshed building it for me.




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I can't sleep so i might add a bit more to this thred tonight, morning lol its 12.20am here.
cheers barnsey