Cliff notes on the conversion: I bought a parts car about 15 years ago but decided to track it instead of scrapping.
I took it out a few times before deciding I wanted EFI.
Then I parked it and 10 years past - until one day I found it hiding in the back of the shed, and stumbled upon this site.
A few months, a hand full of stuff ups and a lot of home made parts later, I finally had an EFI'd Alfetta.
It's still not ready to take to the track yet, but I'm slowly getting there...
First thing after getting it running on the Delco was the suspension.
While fitting some stiffer rear springs, I found that the Watts link setup was going to need all new bushes - so I cast an alloy center pivot block and made up a pair of adjustable arms fitted with spherical bearings. I installed a heavier front swaybar, and replaced the pressed-on link arms and rubber bushes with spherical bearings.
This needed the bar ends to be drilled and tapped, which was a fun job... While removing the front torsion bars to fit an uprated set I found that the lower control arm bushes were in a bad way - with the torsion bar removed the arm flopped around everywhere.
After I pressed the bushes out (they're actually spherical bearings from the factory) here's what I found: That's not a grinder cut - it's from the outer race wearing away the inner. There was a matching groove worn into the pivot axle: While I was sorting that all out I rebuilt the front calipers. I spent a week cleaning the caliper bodies and pistons, just to find when I went to re-assemble them that the small internal o-rings are NLA
![Evil or Very Mad :evil:](./images/smilies/icon_evil.gif)
After weeks of searching I eventually tracked down some in the correct size and shape, as used in a 70's Kombi caliper.
The brake hoses had seen better days, so they were replaced with a set of Goodridge teflon lined braided hoses when the front suspension was reassembled.
A NOS brake master cylinder was fitted, and the clutch master was rebuilt. I also replaced the bolts that hold the lower control arms to the body because they were all bent
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The wheel bearings were re-packed at the same time, I was going to fit a new set but these ones looked brand new. Mabye I replaced them a few years ago? I can't really remember...
While it was all apart I also replaced the steering rack with a good spare. I vaguely remember the front wheels flapping madly at speed last time I drove the car and the rack definately had some play in it, but I don't think the lower control arms would have been helping
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Not much suspension travel there now, I might have to modify the bump stops a bit
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