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Sadly that motor soon developed a miss, and was found to have low comp in no 1 cyl... :( So off came the head, to have a look see... nothing visibly wrong with the head, so i pulled down the bottom end... nothing visible there either... oh well... time to give it a refresh... what an exercise in fru...

To keep a track of how much grief i was giving the engine i decided that i needed a tacho, so instead of using the factory tacho dash out of the coupe, i bought a autotechnica tach and made it fit in the blank hole in the cluster. One bent bolt, a 90 degree bracket and removal of the clear plastic f...

I soon had the Galant put on club permit and started to enjoy slowly cruising around, untill one night when a ford fiesta xr4 gave me a run, and i couldn't keep up with him in a straight line ( corners were not a problem), i needed to up the horsepower. So thanks to KHRONY, i picked up the 4g32 he h...

Wheels can make or break a car, so i didn't mess about with anything and had the scorpion alloys that were covered with over spray sand blasted and powder coated in gloss white. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/20130620_115018_zps38e09bb6.jpg i painted all the badges satin black as is ...

They say the most expensive part of restoring a car is the reassembly, but that doesn't apply to tavos. I just cherry picked the best parts i had from the parts cars i had, cleaned them, maybe resprayed them ,and put them back on. The only new parts were the windscreen exhaust, tyres and other consu...

Now it was time for paint... originally i had wanted to respray it the same harvest yellow colour, but it was not available in 2 pack, so from the colour cards i picked a yellow called prairie yellow which apparently came on Mustangs in the seventies, it was not even close to the original colour, bu...

Next came the rest of the body, slowly panel by panel i rubbed back the original paint with a long sand bar, to show all the high and low spots which were fixed by hammer and dolly or a little filler http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/2012-04-23193915_zps908b759e.jpg , until all the pane...

So project yellow peril began... with repairing the only rust spot in the car http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/2012-04-23135038_zpsaf9559a3.jpg fixing the dog leg was a simple as cutting one piece out and replacing it with another that i cut from yet another parts car... this time a ye...

due to a little good fortune.. re no bids on eBay i managed to buy a gd sedan parts car for my coupe for like 180 bucks. it had a 1600 with a blown head gasket, 5 speed conversion, and a near new battery that was a bit flat. but i couldn't complain for 180 bucks. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...

Awesome work.
Let me know when and how much... i might even take 2.

Zvon

Then the galant bug bit back and about 7 years ago i bought a gc galant coupe from forum member RALLYANT. it was just a shell with hanging panels, back window and some interior pieces. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/27102007002_zpsbd7c4ac5.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/z...

My next project was a VJ Valiant Regal Hardtop, which took 3 and a half years to finish. here are some high lights bare metalled http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/beadblastsideview_zpsb2815dc4.jpg after a rotisserie paintjob http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/PIC_0051_zps294...

My next builds were valiants. first a VJ ute that went from this http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/ute4_zps74401d02.jpg to this http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/ute34_zpsf7005dd4.jpg and then finished like this http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/ute43_zpsbb6ca1...

sadly i sold the car to a mate who proceeded to do terrible things to it. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/galant26_zps6644802b.jpg but i had a great time owning it, which included many misadventures like blocked fuel filters in the bush, running up the arse of 2 cars and my brother th...

Then with the help of a neighbour who was a welder i had the lower quarters replaced, the boot floor welded up and a whole lot of body work to do as the car had been hit twice. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/galant8_zps9ad85e73.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c168/zrad770/galan...

Finally i have a Photobucket account, so i thought id post up a threat on my galant builds My first galant was a GC sedan i bought when i was 19. Thats 16 years ago now. it looked like this. http://s27.photobucket.com/user/zrad770/media/galant2_zps9a391fdf.jpg.html?sort=3&o=3 Not much to look at...

Also it may pay to check the rocker gear is actually getting oil. Take out the dizzy if its a chain drive and using a flat screwdriver bit in a long extension and a drill you can run the oil pump.

Looks good. I'll be in for one when they are ready.

i believe narva or hella sell a conversion kit for the 7 inch and 5 inch seal beams to halogen.

Whether to keep or remove the vinyl depends on a number of things. What color will it be repainted. If its a modern color then bin in. If you are keeping it old school or near stock and if it already has a vinyl roof keep it. The best way to go about keeping it is to get the roof sprayed body color....

I can confirm your small clutch theory. I pulled a 1600 4 spd out of a gc wagon and also found that it had the small clutch.

No one wants to divulge the cams specs. Why? I don't know. Must be a works no 5 cam sect or something. Would help the guy recurving the distributor heaps to know the cam specs. As he calculates induction cam compression and gearing to set the distributor for that combo.

I have just put a 4g32 into my gd galant. It is running I'm told a regrind no 5 cam , twin 40 mm webers and the compression is unknown. But I guess between 9 and 10: 1 . It is running the standard distributor with the vac advance disconnected.Now I know the idle timing specs for a stock motor are ar...

Yep you will need to use the astron flywheel, clutch and probably the starter motor too. you will also need to open up the shifter hole in the floor. the trans mount will need to be changed, to suit the trans. either out of a lb lc lancer 5spd if you can find one or cut and weld your own. also chang...

Dash pads... dash pads. c pillar plastic trims for sedans and hardtops. And the fibreglass lip spoiler... why stop there, wheel arch flares and rear spoilers would be good... did i mention dash pads??

Regards
Zvon

I know exactly how many galants were assembled in Australia, as per the figures in The book Great Idea's In Motion.... A History of chrysler in Australia. So Here Goes: GA sedan 4,899 in 71, 2,543 in 72 GB sedan: 2,567 in 72, 9,051 in 73, 4,414 in 74 and 828 wagons in 74 GC: 8,013 sedans and 2,052 w...

Does anyone have a 5 speed gearbox from a GE sigma or a LC lancer hatch and can tell me how many teeth the speedo gear in the gearbox has?
Regards
Zvon

I would, but the speedo gear from a 4 speed won't fit a 5 speed gearbox
Zvon

Yes i'm running 13x6 with 205 60 rubber, which is the same as standard. The GJ ran 14's with 185 70 or 75, which is definetly a taller tyre. So does anyone know what speedo gear -color/number of teeth, LC lancers with the 5 speed and 13 inch wheels ran? As i beleive this is what i'm looking for. Reg...