Damn big blocks

[HK1837]

Hope you're thinking of using at least one tailshaft loop

No, means butchering a GTS327 body. I won't be drag racing it. Just nice to build something GMH should have.They planned to put the LT1 engine into the HG GTS350, which is a 360hp, solid cam, 11.5:1 firebreather but I want to go one better than that. The last of the HG GTS350's were the equal of a phaseIII in 0-100 and 1/4 mile times so imagine another 60hp.

Ever since I saw a 1969 Dodge Charger with 440 blow away a full house w-rex at some lights one day i've wanted a big block coupe. The Charger wasn't even trying, he was shifting at like 4000rpm and the car had wedding ribbons on it! Also the Fast and the Furious 2 with the pretend-fast asian rubbish getting slaughtered by big block muscle inspried me a bit too. There is just something about a bright yellow or orange proper coupe (no B-pillar) with factory racing stripes or blackouts, sitting there idling like a tractor with twin 3.5" exhausts out the back, and a 3 digit badge or decal on the side with the first number being a 4. I could have built this as a 454 as I have all the crank and rods off this block, but 427 sounds better and is more period correct for a HK. I have thought about buying a big block Camaro or Impala, but I have the HK to restore so I thought why not do both in one car? Plus the stupidity that goes on with idiots carrying on about correct this and that, looking at dates codes on wingnuts etc on cars like XU-1 and GTS327/350, if I put this big block in this car they'll all shut up and leave it alone. My mate is thinking about doing something similar with his 1973 XU-1 (one of the 150 special cars). He's had enough about all the forensic stupidity, and is probably going to pull the XU-1 engine and M20 out and wrap it up on a pallet, and put a 308 and M21 into it. This way the idiots will leave it alone and go annoy someone else. I have full plans to make the HK look original inside and out, but not underneath. This is how I like my cars, it is how i'd restore a Sandman too ie stock body, interior and wheels but different driveline done without altering the body.

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Were tramp rods standard on a HK327?....

Mauser

Yes, radius rods were standard on a HK GTS327. This is why they have factory installed wheel spacers as the D70 tyres on 6" rims rubbed on the radius rods. HT's got a different offset so didn't need the spacers.

[Innuendo]

Wouldnt it be wonderful to have a HQ Sandman keep up with most cars on the road around corners and straight line speed

Been there, done that (1994) HQ Van 454, TH400, 9" - and it was great. Until your stuck in Western Sydney traffic at 45°. Also when your paying the fuel bills.

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Plus the stupidity that goes on with idiots carrying on about correct this and that, looking at dates codes on wingnuts etc

This way the idiots will leave it alone and go annoy someone else.

Hmm, sound familiar to anybody?

He's had enough about all the forensic stupidity, and is probably going to pull the XU-1 engine and M20 out and wrap it up on a pallet, and put a 308 and M21 into it. This way the idiots will leave it alone and go annoy someone else.

Been there and done that also 1990. 9/71 Bathurst LC with Rammed 308 with Manualised Powerglide, 9" etc.

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[Alien DNA]

Been there, done that (1994) HQ Van 454, TH400, 9" - and it was great. Until your stuck in Western Sydney traffic at 45°. Also when your paying the fuel bills.

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Any more pics of the old girl Innuendo?

[Innuendo]

Any more pics of the old girl Innuendo?

Mate, not many survive. I wasn't much into taking photos (pre-digital) so I reply on others who shot photos of my older cars.
Even that one is before the windscreen blackouts and a few little mods. I wish I had more, but I have plenty of memories.

Like the day I took on a VL Walky on The Great Western Hwy at Toongabbie. Put a couple of car lengths on him from a standing green light start. I had to turn into John L Peirce truck yard to collect 44 Gallon drums of Pennzoil (Three at a time in the HQ) and before entering the yard I had to go to the servo to pump up the air shocks to 130psi so I could carry it home to the 'gong. The Walky pulled in behind me, said f*ck me what's in that? To which I answered, tickled up 253 with a trick Tri-matic. Bullsh*t was his answer as he lent down and seen the 4½" custom 4 into 1 collectors....

Great days!

[thatotherguy]

Mate, not many survive. I wasn't much into taking photos (pre-digital) so I reply on others who shot photos of my older cars.
Even that one is before the windscreen blackouts and a few little mods. I wish I had more, but I have plenty of memories.

Like the day I took on a VL Walky on The Great Western Hwy at Toongabbie. Put a couple of car lengths on him from a standing green light start. I had to turn into John L Peirce truck yard to collect 44 Gallon drums of Pennzoil (Three at a time in the HQ) and before entering the yard I had to go to the servo to pump up the air shocks to 130psi so I could carry it home to the 'gong. The Walky pulled in behind me, said f*ck me what's in that? To which I answered, tickled up 253 with a trick Tri-matic. Bullsh*t was his answer as he lent down and seen the 4½" custom 4 into 1 collectors....

Great days!

excellent, my mate had a HD prem with a 307 in it with 186 badges on it ..good times

[Vombil]

nice taste in HQ Innuendo

[Innuendo]

Ha!! Fun times indeed!! Looks really nice too!! What colour was it...in the photo? Nice fat rims on the back too

It was a custom mix I called "Soap". Started as Opaline blue but has a green tinge. The rear rims were 14x9¼" by Harman Wheels with 265/50/14 TA's. Rims were custom offsets and were powder coated. Only just scaped with 3x 44 Gallon Drums (full) in the rear on a bad bump or stupid driveway angle. Handled like it was on rails. Wollongong to Sydney and back daily there for a while.

nice taste in HQ Innuendo

Ta dude, I loved that Van. Almost as much as my black boat anchor (HT Van)

[hj308]

It was a custom mix I called "Soap". Started as Opaline blue but has a green tinge. The rear rims were 14x9¼" by Harman Wheels with 265/50/14 TA's. Rims were custom offsets and were powder coated. Only just scaped with 3x 44 Gallon Drums (full) in the rear on a bad bump or stupid driveway angle. Handled like it was on rails. Wollongong to Sydney and back daily there for a while.


Ta dude, I loved that Van. Almost as much as my black boat anchor (HT Van)

You didnt happen to buy that HQ van of Ross Starr who lived in Russell Vale by any chance??

[Innuendo]

You didnt happen to buy that HQ van of Ross Starr who lived in Russell Vale by any chance??

Nah, but Rooster's Van had a similar look "sort of". It was sky blue in colour and had Magnum 5 slot mags. Oh, and it sat like a 4x4.
I actually lived with Ross when I was around 19/20 years of age.