Just stumbled across some pics of the 2003 Auzzie All Chrysler Day and there are some nice pics of engines in gallery 5. see engine bay pics 06, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18 & 20.

http://vanillashots.com/gallery/view_al ... 003&page=5

Congrads if they belong to any board member. Nixce work!

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Cheers!
Al T

How do they get the engine bay so clean? I'm noticing particularly Engine Pic 07 and 18. It seems there are no hoses/wires going into the firewall or wires/boxes on the fenders. How'd they do that?

We love our Chryslers down here! It's easy to keep them that clean when it's a fanatical thing with no basis in reality!
I will take some photos of my mate's Valiant wagon when he gets the 465 Holley on so you guys can see a "D" engine, and when I get my twin Su's onto teh truck. Just ordered some headers for the truck today actually.

Regards, Andrew.

Hmmmmm. Pic 15.....it looks like a turbo'd slant, but what caught my eye was the locations of the brake master cylinder and what looks like the booster. The master cylinder located on the right, with the booster on the left? I would expect both to be on the right, (considering where these originated), but wouldn't expect a seperation between the two.

Any explanations from our Aussie cousins?

Roger

by clean I wan't meaning lack of dirt, but lack of parts. I've got a whole bunch of wires/hoses going into the firewall that seemed to be absent on those engine bays. -zorg

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GTS225, that's a MasterVac booster setup. As you can see, the rocker cover is mighty close to the master cylinder, so they run a brake line from teh main master cylinder on the firewall to the boosted master cylinder, which acutates the brakes.
A lot of our early cars had these setups factory installed, due to teh fact that they were based on LHD bodywork, and once you get the steering, brakes etc on teh side that's normally the passenger side, you end up with clearance problems. The LHD bodywork always has the engine and trans offset to the righr of the car looking forward, and that also helps create clearance problems on that side of the car.
I have owned three Valiants with 318's, and although the master cylinder fits next to the rocker cover, it's very close. Chrysler even went so far as to use an offset linkage to actuate the master cylinder from the pedal, and a small diameter booster, but still very tight. When you consider that you also have the power steering box below the master cylinder, and an exhaust manifold close by(extractors require removing the steering box to fit!), it makes for interesting maintenence! It's normal for the transmission dipstick to hit the steering linkage and it's really fun changing the rear two sparkplugs on that side.
On my slant six truck, it's a really tight fit removing the rocker cover, because the clutch master cylinder limits how far up I can lift the rear of the cover. My truck has the MasterVac as well.

Regards, Andrew.

Typhoon....Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like a very slick setup. The way I understand what you said is that instead of having a mechanical pushrod between your foot and the boosted M-C, you've got a hydraulic pushrod. I can see how that would work quite well for space-limited installations. We could probably make use of that setup over here in the street rod community. Some of those guys like putting big Chevy engines into rather small engine bays.

Roger

That's exactly what it is, an hydraulic pushrod. They are really popular on anything that didn't have biisted brakes originally, and weird engine swaps.
They work very well, and rebuild parts are readily available.

Regards, Andrew.