G'Day from Australia..

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RogueRunner

MOPAR or No Car
Hi fellow Moparians !!
Found this forum via an article in the latest RockAuto newsletter... my favorite source of standard parts for my Mopars!!
I have owned many Mopars over the years, mainly Aussie Valiants but I have a 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sebring hardtop that I am the 2nd owner of that I bought off Harvey in October 1982!!

This pic was taken back in 1985..
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This pic was taken 2008, I am on the left and Harvey (original owner) is on the right.. car is still yet to be finished
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This is where it is at now..
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They're never really finished, though, Right?
That looks great!

Welcome and G'Day.


(and thanks for not making us ask for pics. :D)
 
Welcome to the board!! The rockauto affiliation is paying off....a new member...:)

Pretty sweet car...Thanks for posting up some pics. How about some more details....how was the car ordered...where is it going to end up?
 
If you click the username, a menu appears with a link to the user's website (if they entered one into their profile)
Rogue Runner has one.

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So, Rogue,

When a car gets swapped to right-hand drive, how do all of the things in the engine compartment get re arranged?

Obviously, the steering box has to move, but does anything else need to get flipped to the other side?
 
i had a long talk with aussicharger a LONG time ago about all that swapping....heater, brakes, steering k member ...basicly the whole firewall and everything attached to it

what in the world kind of dist is that?....never seen anything like it.....im diggin the cal-custom valvecovers and air cleaner hats...but ive never seen a set that small
 
Thanks for the welcome..
Back in 1973 Harvey had to convert it to RHD but now you can register imports LHD if they are over 30 years old..

To do the conversion properly involves lots of modifications..
Firewall needs to be changed to suit RHD, move the brake master cylinder & booster over, cut hole for the steering column, replace the heater with a RHD unit and make it fit on the firewall, wiring needs to be relocated as well.. when my Plymouth was converted it was done very poorly & I have had it redone properly now..

Newly redone firewall.
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A modified Rallye Dash Instrument panel was fitted into a modified Aussie Valiant dash frame.
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I have been working on the rebuild of my Plymouth since 1989 which was before the Internet & Ebay and back then USA parts were hard to come by & expensive to ship so I decided to fit a Jaguar XJ6 front end into it which gave me HD rack n pinion steering & huge disc brakes..
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Fitting the Jag meant I no longer have shocker mounts in the engine bay which gives me lots of room for my 2 1/8th inch mandle bent headers..
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The dissy setup is a Cumputronics unit and uses 2 coil packs rather than a rotor button & dissy cap.. http://compu-tronix.com/DIS8.htm

more pics to come
Cheers
Colin
 
I'm betting the coil packs are Ford EDIS. Are they? That's what I'm using on my EFI conversion, completely distributorless. The EDIS setup, with the right ECM, only requires a crank-trigger signal from a 36-1 wheel, but the same could be accomplished with a 72-2 wheel in a distributor. I have Davis Unified Screamin' Demon coil packs for mine.

Nice looking car, and glad to have you here!
 
jag front end..very nice..definatly going to outhandle what it was ment for.....im a resident crazy and love the oddball swaps
 
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