BUILD THREAD For 1964 Falcon Sprint to Monte Carlo Rallye FIA spec'

[Paul B]

Thanks very much Guys for the positive replies.
Very nice Futura in Napier! I have some spares if you need help with anything.
If my car comes up as nice as Julian Balme's car I will be stoked... workin on it.
Correct, the FIA was for steel or aluminium bumpers. I think 980kg is wishful thinking for me, my last estimate was 1160kg
I heard of an EH Holden that was around 980kg
Cheers

[Roger Dowding]

Thanks very much Guys for the positive replies.
Very nice Futura in Napier! I have some spares if you need help with anything.
If my car comes up as nice as Julian Balme's car I will be stoked... workin on it.
Correct, the FIA was for steel or aluminium bumpers. I think 980kg is wishful thinking for me, my last estimate was 1160kg
I heard of an EH Holden the was around 980kg
Cheers

Paul B, great to see, those mid 60's Falcons were great and restoring another one, excellent, Gentleman Jim Richards runs one here in Australia in the Historic Muscle Cars series.
Keep up the good work !

Roger D.

[Paul B]

The big thing about dipping a car is getting inside all of the sub frames coated. So I made a small tube sprayer and ran it inside every sub frame A pillar and C pillar etc.and zinc painted inside the lot, makes a mess but did the job.
So the old girl came back from the paint shop and so it prepping for paint now. The next stop is the scaffolding shop for a roll cage.




There was one more small rust hole in the boot floor to repair


Welded up 50 years of holes drilled in the floors - the OEM original holes were left

[Paul B]

Paul B, great to see, those mid 60's Falcons were great and restoring another one, excellent, Gentleman Jim Richards runs one here in Australia in the Historic Muscle Cars series.
Keep up the good work !

Roger D.

Hi Rodger
This is such great viewing, Jims Falcon 5th on the start grid



Cheers, Paul

[Paul B]

While I have been waiting some more parts have arrived... Christmas again! so here are the 1964 Kelsey Hays 4 pot disc brakes that these were fitted with and 11inch rotors. (some Falcons had Girling calipers fitted.



Also after a massive amount of research I discovered what the inline booster was
And this is what I have now


The rear drum brakes are something else, 9 pads on each side, Mainly for cooling, a H-M modification. I figured this out after reading the FIA homologation and researching Holman Moody Nascar program. After reading some period car review magazine articles I found out the Falcons had some rear brake lock up issues and they sorted it by adjusting/ backing off the rear shoe adjustment.
So I am going to have a crack at that ... more to come