Holden powered Midget

by yelgem Tue 20 Sep 2011, 4:10 am

Back in the late 50,s I was in awe of the these little machine racing around the Ekka, so I took the the Offy midget and made a real Aussie racer by shoe horning in the a Side Plate Holden 6, I loved these motors in the sixties anyway Rolling Eyes

back to the model, choose to run fuel injection same as Mc Gee system driven from the dissy drive and added a mag,the only mod to the kit is the radiator , removed the bell housing and used what was left as a dog box, then added a roll bar to complete it enjoy
Holden powered Midget Sideone

by scummy Tue 20 Sep 2011, 5:09 am

Really neat conversion , excellant .

by Deadly Tue 20 Sep 2011, 5:45 am

That is AWSOME twothumbsup

by baZOOKa Tue 20 Sep 2011, 8:15 am

That looks sweet. The only improvement to the grey motor I would make would be a Waggot twin cam head and that thing would be a weapon. Very Happy

If you want to know more ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggott_Engineering

by sports850 Tue 20 Sep 2011, 8:22 am

That's a cool looking midget , any photo's of the motor before it went in showing the box as well ?

by stevegt738 Tue 20 Sep 2011, 3:53 pm

by yelgem Tue 20 Sep 2011, 6:48 pm

sports850 wrote:That's a cool looking midget , any photo's of the motor before it went in showing the box as well ?

It is a resin kit from the Parts Box and from all my experence with side plate motors a excellent reproduction of the real thing.
Holden powered Midget 008