Just won this on eBay. Guess where it's from! (Not Australia)
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:14 pm ] |
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Just won this on eBay. Guess where it's from! (Not Australia)
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| Author: | Pierre [ Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:20 pm ] |
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Sweeden? Whoa, stock reverse valve body? Or is that just a linkage trick? |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:26 pm ] |
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Not Sweden. And no, the valve body is not reverse-pattern, and the linkage is ordinary. That's a clue! |
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| Author: | Pierre [ Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:38 pm ] |
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Found the ebay auciton.. South Africa. Still don't get the reverse pattern... mirror trick? |
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| Author: | 62savoywagon [ Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:05 pm ] |
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Well if it's right hand drive I'll bet it has some funky linkage to get to the left side of the trans... |
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| Author: | Pierre [ Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:44 pm ] |
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Good catch, looked a little closer at the picture and theres a hint of the steering wheel at the right side. |
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| Author: | Dart270 [ Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:05 am ] |
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I was going to say Holland, but S. Africa sounds even better. Lou |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:50 am ] |
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Quote: Found the ebay auciton.. South Africa.
Heyyyy, that's cheating!  Quote: Still don't get the reverse pattern... mirror trick?
Nope, it's a right-hand-drive car. Steering wheels' on the right side of the car, gearstick is on the left side of the column.
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:55 am ] |
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Quote: Well if it's right hand drive I'll bet it has some funky linkage to get to the left side of the trans...
Different trans case and valve body; the shift controls are at the RH side of the trans.
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| Author: | Eric W [ Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:37 pm ] |
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Pretty cool. Are there any sources of information on these cars? |
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| Author: | 75dartcustom [ Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:49 pm ] |
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i thought that was argentina's car. they have reverse seasons, reverse success with carburetor brands, their rivers flow the wrong way... |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:55 am ] |
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Quote: Pretty cool. Are there any sources of information on these cars?
Well, there's this brochure...  The South African market had an interesting mix of North American-design and Australian-design Mopars. The Valiants were mostly North American-type until the mid '70s, when Australian designs came along, but still equipped with the slant-6 engine rather than the Australian Domestic Market Hemi-6 unit. A friend of mine in Cambridge, England moved there from South Africa. He has a (deep breath here) 1973 Chrysler Valiant Charger 190 Sports Coupé. That is a rebadged 1971 Demon with the following factory specs (some mods have since been done): -Right-hand drive -Floor-shift automatic -Bilingual controls and displays (English/Afrikaans) -ECE 3-point seat belts -Factory 2bbl 225 engine w/remote-mount oil filter on bracket welded to valve cover since clearance needed for steering box -Amber sidemarker lights front and rear -White front reflectors He has a book buried somewhere in his office that describes the history of the South African Valiants, but he hasn't seen it since he showed it to me when I was there over a decade ago. I should pester him again... |
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| Author: | Pierre [ Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:18 am ] |
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What sort of 2bbl setup? Anything like the bbd supersix ? |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:03 pm ] |
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Carter BBD with integral automatic choke. That is: black round bakelite housing on the outside of the air horn; steel heat tube passed through the exhaust manifold on an extra-tall #2 runner—same exhaust manifold and heat tube used in 1960-'69 Canadian-market 1bbl slant-6s with the optional carb anti-icing system, and all 1969 North American-market passenger car slant-6s got that same anti-ice system, see Here. Intake manifold was a non-EGR item, but aside from that substantially identical to the intake used in the North American '76-'81 Super Six setup. Air cleaner was plain flat/round kind (no snorkel). Camshaft is same as US '71-'80 item (244°/244°/26°) |
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