Torana ad slogan was ‘When You’re Hot, You’re Hot’. But it wasn’t referring to the weather.
MICK MCCRUDDEN
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HOLLEY TIME
Work on Guido’s VK wagon project continues and we can almost see a day when it hits the road! The latest progress is we’ve settled on a Holley carburettor and one thing we like about them is, once you’ve set the jetting and the powervalve, that’s it. You shouldn’t have to touch it again.
They may not be the most sophisticated option out there, but for this car we like their relative ease of use.
One twist in the plot has been we needed to fit a TPS (throttle position sensor) switch for the lock-up in the four-speed auto transmission. The lock-up in the torque converter is like half an overdrive. When you have one (ours is out of a VS Commodore), you’ll notice in top gear at about 90-100km/h it drops about another 250rpm – that’s the lock-up. It was originally designed to work with fuel-injection and accompanying electronic committee.
We’ve been putting these transmissions in older models
