Hi
Could some one help with info on what is the correct voltage requlator for my Australian Clubman GT and can you still buy one or even a photo would help.
Regards Peter.

Is that the one for the Alternator or Instruments?

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8TR, if you mean the alternator one, if the one in the clock cluster same as any other clock cluster regulator

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Hi thanks for your reply.
It's the Alternator Requlator.
Should be on the right hand inner upper guard.
Could you help with a part number and photo of the original item so I can start hunting for one.
Any details would help.
Thanks.

Take a look at this thread for photos of the 8TR regulator location....
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=70522

Thanks Morris 1100.
Great photo's and reading.
Brenton had a posting about some GT's did not have external regulators.
Mine is January 1973 sold new in Auckland so may be that could be the case but how would one know if it was changed apart from checking the loom or would that last lot of GT's had a different loom

Hey it didn't have one.

Neither my 12/71 or 11/72 have one. I'm not sure when they were phased out, but the first Gt's had them.

There are still holes in the guard for it, but they're just spare holes. It should have a 15AC alternator that is internally regulated. It doesn't have a plastic end on it.

My 72 model had the original alternator but the 71 didn't, but they're aren't any wires for it, they go straight to alternator.

Hope that helps

Brenton

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I wonder about the NZ cars, were they full imports or were they CKD kits? If they were CKD they may have been sent over in 71 and not assembled till later. (They were still assembling P76's three years after the kits left Australia)

morris as far as i am aware and have read/heard, is that by the end of 72 the GT was selling rather poorly domestically so they were sent to NZ for sale. (as fully built and assembled cars)

I would make sense as most of the ones in NZ are very late model GT's.

Their numbers seam to match in with ours. Gavins register seams to be down at the moment. But his register shows there are very few late GT's in australia and nearly all of them are in NZ.

Brenton

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That makes a lot of sense, in mid 72 there was the big "Supercar Scare" when Holden, Ford and Chrysler were about to unleash their new "Bathurst" models.
With the resulting media attention anything with a GT badge was fair game and the insurance companies also played their part by driving up the premiums.
Cars that were canned before they were made were the Torana XU1 V8, Ford Phase 4 Falcon and the V8 Charger.

The Morris Marina TC (twin carb) was originally going to be called the Morris Marina GT but this was changed before release in mid 72.
The Clubman GT was run out at the end of the year.

Well to put it in perspective:
My daily driver 12/71 is about YG2S8 910
My resto is 11/72 low 1300's

So in 11 months they were about 400 GT's delivered

From memory the highest car on Gavins register was about 1600 and it was 1/73, so 300 GT's in like 2 months

They really wanted to get rid of what they had.

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