1984 Holden Calais

Let's hear all the gory details about your car and how it became alternative fuelled.
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Denno
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Joined: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:02 am
Location: Australia

1984 Holden Calais

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Hi all, i thought i should post some pics of my daily driver...

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It was originally a dual fuel set up when I bought it but i was sick of the compromise in trying to tune for both LPG and petrol and mainly ran it on LPG anyway so i went the Impco 425 route. This gave me bonnet clearance issues hence the scoop which is active.
motor is a 308cid V8 with ported big valve heads, extractors and a mild hydraulic cam and a few other goodies.

A couple of other neat things i did were to get the correct LPG tank sender that's compatible with the factory fuel gauge so i dont have to run that tacky and inaccurate LED gauge that they stick on dual fuel cars and I also got the correct terminals to mount the LPG blade fuse into a spare slot in the factory fuse panel.

My beast was top of the line for luxury Aussie motoring..... in 1984.

future plans include suspension upgrades, increasing from 308cid to 355cid V8 and going for a solid cam.

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