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Bought this 74 coupe 4 months ago and have just started restoring it has 351, 3 speed C4 and 9 inch diff running 4.0:1 gears. The bloke who i bought it off has fitted it out as an XC so i pissed the XC dash off and fitted an XBGT dash, just trying to track down an XB front end now.. Has stuff all visable rust but i guess i will find out when she gets striped backed to bare metal at the end of the year for a Red Pepper paint job. Not sure what i'm going to do to the motor yet but i'd like to have between 350 and 400hp. I have replaced nearly every peice of suspension and also new tailshaft yokes ands uni's...all i have to do to get it registered is fit a set tailpipes new tyres and wire up the dash which is happening next week...i will post more photos of the resto as it goes along.... http://i46.photobucket.c.../rrcm81/My%20XB/XB1.jpg
If I'm going to HELL it will be in an XB COUPE!
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Nice. Not a fan of the XC front though. I'd like a coupe one day but I think $'s will keep me out of one. XB Fairmont sedan : [email protected] |
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Thanx...yeah i hate the XC front end so that will be getting changed as soon as i can find a decent GT grill....you'd be surprised at how many
straight coupes are for sale out there and not all overpriced...this one
only cost me $6500. Just a matter of
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hey could u blokes tell me how to tell the difference between a 302 and 351 , do the engine no tell u the difference any info is good, i really need to find out what my donk is JG37NM
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I may have this wrong but I can tell you it is a March 73 built engine from a Fairlane 500.
I think the K on the end means it is a 351 but I'm not sure.
If you have a look at the ID plates on the car (assuming it is the original engine from the car)
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The only way to tell the diff is pull the sump off and the crank will have 3.00" for 302 and 3.5" for 351 stamped on it...you can also pull a spark plug out and put a piece of wir down and measure the stroke...3 inches is 302 and 3 and a half is 351...
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cant seen to be able to post a pic of my ute how do you do it....cheers Reg
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The easist way to post a pic is to create an account on an image hosting site such as www.photobucket.com and when you load the photo to the site it will also give you a link to the pic which you can insert in your post. You can use the IMG tag (image ta
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