Street Machine Australia – September 2019

TROY DAVID
1954 HOLDEN FJ UTE

Paint: Spies Hecker custom

Fifty Shades Of Grey

ENGINE

Brand: LSX 427ci
Induction: Shaun’s Custom

Alloy tunnel ram, twin
Accufab 4150 throttlebodies

ECU: Haltech Elite 2500

Turbo: Twin Garrett T51R
ball-bearing

Heads: All Pro 15-degree

six-bolt heads
Conrods: Lunati

Pistons: CP

Crank: Lunati

Oil pump: Peterson R4

belt-drive

Fuel system: Enderle 1100

cable-drive pump, 16 ID2000

injectors

Cooling: Race Radiators,

16in thermo fan

Exhaust: 3.5in system,

Knoxville mufflers

Ignition: LS1 coils, Haltech

ignition

TRANSMISSION

Gearbox: Reid-case two-

speed Powerglide

Converter: TCE

Diff: Mark Williams 9in,

Truetrac centre, Race

Products 35-spline full-floater

axles, 3.5:1 US Gear final

drive

SUSPENSION &

BRAKES

Front: RodTech independent

rack-and-pinion front end,

custom adjustable front-end

bracing rods

Rear: Strange Engineering

Gold Ultra coil-overs, Rod

Andrews parallel four-link,

Rod Andrews rear anti-roll

bar, triangulated track locator

Brakes: Wilwood discs

(f & r)

Master cylinder: Wilwood

WHEELS & TYRES

Rims: RC Components Exile

S; 17x4.5 (f), beadlocked

15x10 (r)

Rubber: Mickey Thompson;

6/17 (f), 12/15 (r)

THANKS

Vic Martyn for building the

tilt front; Troy at Bo Chassis;

Glen for help in keeping it

going; Davo for having great

ideas to problem-solve; Paul

at the Resto Shop for the

paint; Jamie for making air-

jack lines and brake lines;

Chris at A&C Auto Electrics

for the wiring; Mick for

doing the glass; Morrison

Fabrication; Craig at All Car

Upholstery; Dale Heiler; Adam

and Luke at MPW for tuning

the car and their on-going

support; my family for

understanding my passion

I HAVE GIVEN THE FJ TO MY SIX-YEAR-OLD RACHEL, WHICH WILL

SUIT HER WELL AS SHE IS A LITTLE WILD

chassis dyno as a fresh combo on

approximately 18psi, and Troy hopes there are

plenty more ponies hiding inside as he and

MPW get a handle on the combo and step

things up. “Adam [Rogash of MPW] is keen

to put all the boost in it, but we’ll see,” he says.

With MPW’s experience in running seven-

second passes, it shouldn’t take long to land

Troy’s goal ET. “I can’t thank Adam and Luke

[Foley] enough for all the help they have given

me,” he says. “They have been absolutely

amazing with the effort they put in.”

Behind the seven-litre noise-maker is a

Reid-case two-speed Powerglide wearing the

same-spec TCE converter that Adam Rogash

uses in the ALLSHOW VK Commodore. A 3.5-

inch Mark Williams tailshaft links the fabricated

nine-inch, also from Mark Williams, which has

been filled with all the goodies needed to put

over 1100hp to the decks. There is a Truetrac

centre, 35-spline full-floater Race Products

axles, and a set of 3.5:1 gears from US Gear.

Those gears will likely need to be chopped

out in Troy’s quest for seven-second slips,

though. “We’ll need to go to a 3.2 ratio to dip

well into the sevens,” he says.

Troy’s FJ took out Grand Champion at Red

CentreNATS last year, then backed that up by

landing in the Top 20 Elite and being part of

the Magnificent Seven in the hunt for Grand

Champion at Summernats 32. While many

would be happy with that, Troy is already

eyeing off another, even crazier build that will

be given to one of his daughters, just like the

FJ has been.

“I have three daughters, and I said I will

build each of them a car, all old-school,” says

Troy. “When my first girl Alicia was born, my

father-in-law bought an HG Monaro for her

first birthday present. I have given the FJ to my

six-year-old Rachel, which will suit her well as

she is a little wild. My youngest girl, 18-month-

old Erin, is the craziest of them all, so I will

have to build her one of the fastest true street

cars around!” s

Pro-J