Valiant Hardtop turbo SB

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earcheese

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heres my next project.
I had a turbo 318 in a four door version of this but always wanted a 2 door, one came up so here we are. Pulled the siezed 318 out of the 2 door, rebuilt it and put it in the 4 door, and now in the middle of this one.
The 2 door is basically the same body as a 67-69 dart with aussie front panels and the stuff required to make it RHD. this one is a 770 Regal which was the more luxury spec one, with a 318, 904, bucket seats, floor shift with console, power steer, vinyl roof, tacho.


was in storage at my boss's place for a while while i sorted out a bigger house and garage

start stripping
 
And my 4 door one that had the good engine

with my brother's VC valiant


did quite a lot of this




and now its a bit more tame, mild 318 back in it


 
car looks like a great start point...like the way you've done the front of the sub frame connectors, nice welds too...what part of NZ you from? I was Hawkes Bay until a move to OZ 30 years ago....Marty
 
car looks like a great start point...like the way you've done the front of the sub frame connectors, nice welds too...what part of NZ you from? I was Hawkes Bay until a move to OZ 30 years ago....Marty

Cheers.. im in Auckland.
Seen your ute on the nz mopar forum, nice work
 
love the black and chrome small block!! ..the white car is damn nice and will be looking for updates on the new one! it's a Plymouth Valiant Regal?
 
In australia and new zealand they were called a Chrysler Valiant, then there was sub models as well-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Valiant_(VG)

i was pleasantly surprised at how that 318 goes, its basically a stock rebuild with a little summit cam, ported heads myself, decked the block 30, bored it 30 and used Magnum pistons, balanced, headers, edelbrock dual plane and 500cfm carb. Its quite zippy.

Cheers!
 
and this is my ute that i did a quick tidy up on, i had all three at once and the only reason i could make the whole deal work was i was able to swap parts around between the three of them, and sell the ute with as many standard parts off the brown car as i could

this was a bit of an odd combo as it had a 273/727 in it, it was a good driver and cheap to run
 
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