Agent Orange (74 Opel Manta)

[OpelWagenGT]

Whats up guys! So I finally talked to the guy at the machine shop again and he said there was no reason he could see that we should have less compression in one cylinder. Despite that he re-did the head job over again. So my dad and I put it all back together today and it purrs like a kitten. I have only started and ran it in the driveway since it is un-insured and the tabs are a year old so I am itching to take it out. Hopefully you will be seeing some updates regularly about the front system now.

Anyway all I have for now are a few photos of the bay and a video I took of it running. This thing growls and the video does it no justice.






-Aron

[OpelWagenGT]

Well I can't figure out how to embed a video so here is the link.

http://youtu.be/gIut7-WrN-U

[rice4life]

Sounds good! Get some polyurethane motor mounts your old ones look a bit wobbly.

I love these cars and yours is a great example, thanks for sharing with us

[OpelWagenGT]

HA! That's a good one. They don't make poly mounts I would have to make my own. It has NOS mounts right now.

-Aron

[Kochiro]

Yay! I've been needing some classic Opel updates.

My GT is still stuck on the other side of the planet until I can get the money saved to have it shipped over to me.

[Randomofodication]

So happy to see this build pop up again!

[anth]

So happy to see this build pop up again!

+1. In for more progress

[OpelWagenGT]

Thanks for the support guys I am really stoked to get going on this thing again. I just need to draw up some ideas for front shock re-location.

-Aron

[nthusiastt]

Dude did you used to be a member of ludeconduct?

[OpelWagenGT]

Dude did you used to be a member of ludeconduct?

No, what is that?

-Aron

[OpelWagenGT]

I need some ideas of where to relocate the front shock on this car so I can put a sleeve bag where the spring goes. It is an old school American style front suspension where the spring is over shock but not connected with dual A-arms.



this is what the axle looks like off the car sadly I don't have any good photos of it on the car but I will try to get some.

-Aron

[primernovaben]

Thanks I spent all of today putting the seats in. If you knew the way that stock Manta seats mount you would understand why.

-Aron

Photos soon.

this is one of the funniest things in this thread. those who know, **** life. i wanna put my OMP seat in my manta so bad but i cant come to terms with what i may have to do.

i also pm'ed you about secret opel things

[ThomasR]

Really nice Manta you got!
Its a shame there is so few of these left..

[SnazzyQ]

Sweet another local here on stanceworks.

Also I dont even know what this car is but its bad ass so im obviously subscribing to this here thread.

[Dutch]

Not meaning to bring up an old thread... but what happened here?