:-) Suspension As a "homologation special" its not actually being built as a race car, so the suspension is not set up to be hard, but rather to have all the pieces available that you might need if you were to race it. Perhaps when P76s are worth $100,000 each. I'm putting the original pieces (where reusable) back in the same shed that the car came out of, in case someone ever wants to return the car to completely original.
The mechanical mods are pretty extensive, but also mostly removable. For this renovation, I'm convinced that I should retain as much as possible of the original car, but still try to get the drive-line into 21st century trim, hence the GTHO theme. The first owner also came from country Victoria, and found it too large for his needs, so kept it mostly garaged. 10 years ago I'd have been much more aggressive in modifying, and I'm afraid not much of the P76 would have remained. I was planned to renovate it around 10 years ago, but luckily it never happened. I asked him to keep it for me when it was no longer needed for towing the family van. My P76 happened to be owned by my father who was the low mileage second owner and it has been in the family since the early 80s. Every modification is purely bolt on (with the original items being kept in storage), but admittedly using some trick items would not have been available back in the 70s. My concept is to build a P76 GTHO model, something that could have been built by Leyland for homologation purposes for a Bathurst that never came. I still have to finish the air-conditioning system. They have some "features" that make them unusable for the road. I cannot recommend the originally purchased Outlaw brakes for anything other than racing. The front brake calipers have been changed to APRacing from Race Brakes in Yarraville. ECU is fitted under the glove box, with fuse and relay boxes to tidy up the electrics. The Edelbrock throttle body works excellently. Injectors are VN Commodore, as are the ignitors fitted onto custom plates over the rocker covers.
They have done a very professional job, and I highly recommend their work. The engine management system is by WolfEMS in Bayswater. Updated from the original text there are some modifications, you could add to the page. It would be nice to have a (almost) finished picture of my car there.
Adrian, here are a bunch of new photos for the personal pages of the club site.