Kevin Continued - My 1984 Leone

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:06 pm

Last november I flew to Bendigo and drove this car home to Adelaide. I have not done too much with in since, just some basic maintenance and repairs. I also got some new wheels and a sun visor.

It has an EA81 engine, dual range 4 speed manual, aluminium bumpers, UHF radio and custom exhaust.

Future upgrades might include a Weber 32/36 and a 2" lift.

Proton mouse · Post by **Proton mouse** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:18 pm

Great to see Kevin lives on!!

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 6:48 pm

This weekend I put a weber 32/36 on my car

Before:

Old and new:

Though the adaptor plate I got was for an EA81 engine, apparently 1984 EA81s have a large hole on the manifold, like the EA82, so I couldn't use it. I did have a home made adaptor that I had found in the junk yard though. It needed a lot for work to fit, but it got there in the end. Only problem is that it is too low and the choke ends up on the distributor. I temporarily removed the choke and blocked up the hole on carb body. I am waiting on a better adaptor from Sprint and that along with the spacer should make it high enough.

The return spring fit nicely here, connected to something underneath

High performance custom cable bracket:

Got it running pretty good. Still need to connect the PCV hoses to something and tidy things up, a job for next weekend.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:24 pm

How's the tidy up go?

Also, with your images, size them to 800x800 pixels before uploading them

Got that 2 inch kit in yet? Should go sweet with those rims/tyres you're running!

Cheers

Bennie

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:04 pm

I have worked out how to make the pictures smaller now.

I have the correct adapter plate now and the choke is working. All the vacuum hoses are gone now, even the vac advance (the diaphragm was leaking and set the car on fire and I have not found a new one that doesn't leak). It runs great though, it only can't do full throttle.
I plan to adapt the stock air box to fit onto the weber but for now I have sorted out the PCV.

I have not been able to find a lift kit yet, but I will keep looking.
I might sell those alloy wheels and get steel wheels, they don't sit on the hub all the way and they stick out quite far.

henpecked · Post by **henpecked** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:29 pm

Looking good , still Very envious of the the rear bumper, would hand over a 2" lift kit for that in a heartbeat

looks very similar to this one on a "L' in Vic

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:36 pm

henpecked wrote:Looking good , still Very envious of the the rear bumper, would hand over a 2" lift kit for that in a heartbeat

looks very similar to this one on a "L' in Vic

Thanks. As much as I would like one, I can't give up the bumper. It is actually for an L, you can see it doesn't sit quite flush with the tail lights.

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:23 am

I saw this very similar looking Subaru at Lonsdale, also yellow with a fawn door

And I got a diff bash guard from the place that cannot be named, and up next is a 2" lift which I will install when I have the time.

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:11 am

Sweet

Was the bash plate hard to fit up? Also are there many MY's at Lonsdale at the moment?

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:15 am

It was easy, just 4 nuts and 2 washers.

There were heaps of MYs there but it was a few weeks ago so I don't know how many are still there. Some were in pretty good shape. I got a good set of white steel wheels with the chrome rims and some other things.

henpecked · Post by **henpecked** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:46 am

was there last week, two have left from 5 months ago, basically fully picked over IMHO

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 5:52 pm

2" lift done!

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:47 pm

Nice!

Now you need some bigger wheels to fill up those guards

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:14 pm

Yep, I have a set of 27" BFGs ready to go. They're on alloys now, but I am getting some steelies to put them on.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:59 pm

Looks good mate!

Did you find it easy to install? First lift done?

Cheers

Bennie

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:04 pm

El_Freddo wrote:Looks good mate!

Did you find it easy to install? First lift done?

Cheers

Bennie

Thanks.

It was my first, and it was not easy but not too hard. All went well on the front, except the steering shaft didn't fit so I had to make something up for that.

The rear was fine but the bolts took hours to get out. By the time they were out, I was out of time so I put them back in and did the rear the next weekend. I managed not to strip any though.

The front brake lines didn't need changing, and I just removed one of the brackets on the rear so the rear lines could reach further.

I put a spacer in the 4WD lever linkage so that I can put it in reverse, but I still need to take it out of 4WD before I can select reverse so I will work something out for that later.

Yesterday I got my first set of brand new wheels ever:

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 5:47 pm

Any idea on the offset of these new rims and are they 14x6"
Are they speedies ?

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:50 pm

Cliff R wrote:Any idea on the offset of these new rims and are they 14x6"
Are they speedies ?

They are from Dynamic, but they seem pretty much the same as Speedy except the inner stripe is black. I am not sure if Speedy still make wheels with this PCD.

They are 14x6 and the box says the offset is 14.

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:12 pm

Thanks for the info.
They do look good.

JP147 · Post by **JP147** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:25 pm

Tyres are fitted. I went to Port Adelaide and tested them out, they fit perfectly and don't touch the guards at all, and there is no rubbing at full lock.