Looks good Lurch, keep the updates coming
Oh, there is more to come Alister!
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The C80 wasn't 'completely' forgotten however - the Ol' Boy's interest in it got the better of him.
The C80 is stored at my parents place (I have no room at mine) & one night I popped around after work to find the Ol' Boy had
replaced the broken side indicators with some Pajero items, fixed the non-working headlights, tail lights, front indicators, horn and a couple of other non-working electrical items.
I got a bit enthused again, so I began the hunt for a replacement exhaust manifold OR a set of extractors.
A common failure with the C80's was a cracked exhaust manifold, so on the few C80's I know what are running, they have extractors fitted (Graeme's in NSW being one).
Phone calls to various exhaust company's yielded no results sadly
I resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to begrudgingly build a set of pipes myself, so I procured some H-series exhaust flanges via Lou the Datsun Roadster specialist,
as well as a box of mandrel exhaust bends, & started planning...
At the end of last year (2014) I happened to do some work with a pommy bloke called Tim, who as it happened was a bit of a guru at building exhausts & extractors.
Tim was so much of a guru that he actually spent time working in Cologne, Germany for the Toyota F1 team building their exhaust systems.............
So I booked him in earlier this year & we got cracking:
2 looooong days & they were finished. I learnt a lot from Tim & the amount he does just by eye had me surprised.
After media blasting & a couple of coats of Pot Belly Black, they were ready to go on with the rest of the exhaust I built.