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Yep....I was out visiting my buddy Cliff yesterday, and he was in the final throws of finishing up the rebuild of his low mileage 1966 Australian Chrysler Valiant - 225 /6 and three-on-the-tree manual transmission car. I had helped him out with buying a few parts in a few years ago....new fuel tank, spare hold-down, carbonrooter etc......and we even still laugh about the video made with the engine he found for the car in a barn.
The original engine in the Valiant had suffered from age and neglect sadly, with broken rings, cracked head and poor condition block. So the donor engine came in at the right time. Cliff had to buy 5 different heads before he found a good one.....all this costs money, as a lot of the damage is not noticed until the machine shop clock has been running for a while. Anyway, that's all done, and the donor engine itself received a few new parts....and it runs so well, and sounds nice.
Here's the video from a few years ago starting up the barn find....as found, with only hooking up a few essential parts to make it run. This is a genuine first up start, not one of those doctored videos, where the engine had been run prior.....
And here is the video shot yesterday, with the car running when I turned up. We had planned to have a different video shot, as there was also another Valiant in the shop, along with my A100. Quite a full house of MoPar.
Next post will have a few photos for enjoyment. Bear in mind that Cliff has put this car back together as a daily driver and so the rebuild has not been done to Concours standards....as we might have done a few years ago. A road trip to visit another old friend is planned for the end of this month already.
Yep....I was out visiting my buddy Cliff yesterday, and he was in the final throws of finishing up the rebuild of his low mileage 1966 Australian Chrysler Valiant - 225 /6 and three-on-the-tree manual transmission car. I had helped him out with buying a few parts in a few years ago....new fuel tank, spare hold-down, carbonrooter etc......and we even still laugh about the video made with the engine he found for the car in a barn.
The original engine in the Valiant had suffered from age and neglect sadly, with broken rings, cracked head and poor condition block. So the donor engine came in at the right time. Cliff had to buy 5 different heads before he found a good one.....all this costs money, as a lot of the damage is not noticed until the machine shop clock has been running for a while. Anyway, that's all done, and the donor engine itself received a few new parts....and it runs so well, and sounds nice.
Here's the video from a few years ago starting up the barn find....as found, with only hooking up a few essential parts to make it run. This is a genuine first up start, not one of those doctored videos, where the engine had been run prior.....
And here is the video shot yesterday, with the car running when I turned up. We had planned to have a different video shot, as there was also another Valiant in the shop, along with my A100. Quite a full house of MoPar.
Next post will have a few photos for enjoyment. Bear in mind that Cliff has put this car back together as a daily driver and so the rebuild has not been done to Concours standards....as we might have done a few years ago. A road trip to visit another old friend is planned for the end of this month already.
