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#1 UCANG

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Posted 12 April 2009 - 09:07 PM

Some of you might remember me, most wouldn't however. I had a daily UC Sedan that was basically an airloom. Got it at 16 after years of nagging the Grandfather.
1 week away from off the road and restoration/ plans, then below happened.

After 2 years of not having courage to buy another one, due to commitments or something (i don't know) but I came across a project UC. Now that I own a house and have my own shed, and another car I use as a daily (R33 Skyline). I can spend as long as I need to bring my old plans into this new UC but in Hatch form. And can't wait to spend many countless hours working on it!

I bought the car complete, stock interior, and running. But has a nasty ding in the back, and rust in all the usual places..... EXCEPT... An original, straight RUSTLESS Hatch! - fantastic.

So anyway this is the start of my build thread. First I will be concentrating on the body work, suspension, then engine transplant, then interior.

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Posted 12 April 2009 - 10:39 PM

I remember your last UC, sad to hear it ended like that :(

Glad to hear you got another one, looks like you have a lot of fun ahead of you. the hatchbacks are cool as! congrads!

Still have plans for a V8?

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 03:40 AM

Mate, I love it. what is that original colour called? it's similar to my LC.
I wrote off my UC sedan also, you might remember I bought those rear 14" wheels off you...
you must have been at work or something cos I got them off your old man, we were chatting about your written off car and your dad said 'yeah, he #@$^%& it'. haha.
what's the plans for the new baby? lOve UC hatches, have you seen Ben (UNVSM8)'s thread?

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 10:12 AM

Oh G'day Nathan - Yeah the V8 of course.. Have to build another one, I sold my last one I stripped... That's alright.. Engine will come later.


Hey Tyre-fryer, that's right you did! Yeah my dad's a funny bastard. I did read UNVSM8's thread. What a neat hatch! I'm so happy I got one now, I really am, Imean I loved my sedan, but if I could of changed anything, it was the amount of doors it needed to have!

As for plans? As I said, concentrate on body work. I have all the time in the world. I bought a house in Paralowie, I have all my tools (mig welder included :)) so I can get stuck into it. There is a bit of rust (especially in hard to get to areas, but thats no drama). I still have a hatch spoiler and 4 door flares in my room (never found the courage to sell them haha) - so I might be able to maybe do a trade somewhere and get hatch flares, well the rears anyway. I'm not going to worry about front spoiler (I sold my old one), I'm not sure if I will put a rear spoiler on it... Colour? I'm thinking the old GTS Monaro Lime Yellow green colour... similar to the Acid BA XR6/8 colour.

Well I think I might go into a Paint and Panel thread and ask the experts on some tips!

Cheers!

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 08:28 PM

I'm pretty sure i bought the fronts off you too, if so still have the tyres on the hatch!

Good to hear you have another torry!

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 08:38 PM

nice to see another UC hatch getting done up especially in SA!
will be following this thread closely keep us updated!

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Posted 17 May 2009 - 10:28 AM

Well, it's been a month, and I have settled into my first purchased house :) spend the first couple of days removing the rumpus room, which was using 75 % of the shed. Couldn't have that! Now I can fit two cars in there, which means, more progress to the hatch.

As you can see in the pics

Plus I also painted the shed too haha

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Posted 17 May 2009 - 11:18 AM

I like your first post, thinking of captions for the pics UCANG meets the cops, and the good lady looks impressed.

Nice to another hatch rebuild good luck

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Posted 17 May 2009 - 11:37 AM

spend the first couple of days removing the rumpus room, which was using 75 % of the shed. Couldn't have that!

Absolutely, got to have the priorities right! :spoton:

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Posted 17 May 2009 - 08:31 PM

Its sad to see what happened to your old UC however its great to see you've got a new one... hatch even.

Having your own house and shed is always a bonus.

Good luck with your build.

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Posted 14 April 2010 - 07:11 PM

This is more for a laugh, been working on the hatch a bit. Mainly the LHS quarter. I Have removed the whole panel (what a job!).

Just gotto get some rust converter to clean all panels and some etch primer. Then I can weld the NOS quarter in.

Does anyone know what is the best to use on a inner panel? Obviously it's no where near seen to have top coat put on it, but it needs to be something good enough to preserve the inner panel.
Anyway might have a shop around for some products.


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Posted 02 May 2010 - 12:55 PM

cut some access points to rust proof the inner panel under the inner panel :S
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More cleaning the inner panel
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Stitching her back up
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Welded up, then work on that rust hole
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And a bit of etch to finish her off.. Will have to seal it though, might use body deadener or a top coat
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Posted 05 May 2010 - 09:58 AM

looking real good ang... keep the updates coming

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Posted 28 May 2010 - 09:09 PM

Hey UCANG, good to see another hatch coming along. Am onlu around the corner from you in Parafield Gardens. Also have a UC hatch project going but been too scared to post pics as yet.

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Posted 01 August 2010 - 08:14 PM

Just so you guys don't think i'm dead. Been trying to get some time for working on the hatch in between renovating my backyard and front yard. Today I finally got the underside of my quarter panel bare metalled, rust proofed, etch primed and coated with some body deadner. Unfortunately it started to rain so i had to pack it all in. Luckily I got some pics of the inside all etch primed. Looks nice and clean. It used to be 30 year old black top coat with surface rust everywhere!

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Posted 02 August 2010 - 11:01 PM

Wow. Where the hell do you get NOS quarters for these cars?

That repair on the inner quarter looks good. Hope you get some more time to work on it soon.



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Posted 04 August 2010 - 07:59 PM

I used to see these panels everywhere! (2nd hand cut off ones mainly) And I remember seeing them at Rarespares back when I was 16/17 (im 23 now!!) You think I could find one last year!?? Hell no! And the ones I did find were dented and crap! I was prepared to pay the 950 from rarespares I was that desperate. But thanks to the forum here someone pointed me in the right direction and I got it off a company called Holbusters over there in Melbourne or something - i forgot now.

Yeah I can really work on it whenever, imean its not a big money pit at the moment, I have all I need. Just weather here in Adelaide has been shit house! Might as well use the rain to my advantage and work with soil instead of risking my metal!

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Posted 09 October 2010 - 04:13 PM

Some more updates.

Still working on the rear of this car. Alot to be done unfortunately, won't leave this section until its complete.
LHS taillight area was mangled from the accident, so off to find a replacement panel.

LHS taillight area cut out.
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Looking good for gap and line up. (not like before)
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Luckily for me, the donor car had this whole section replaced with a new panel (I think!). I'm guessing it was in a rear ender many moons ago because instead of this panel being spot welded like factory it was actually mig welded in place with small tacks - even around the fuel filler arch. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I highly doubt LH's were tacked welded and on wards were spot welded?
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And alot of trimming and measuring. it's sitting there now, still a bit of work to do. But you get the jist of it.
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Posted 09 October 2010 - 04:24 PM

Oops! Looks like I bought the wrong model rear end! That's not a UC one. Oh no! Oh well! What can ya do?

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Posted 09 October 2010 - 04:35 PM

UC's with early tail lights seem to be all the rage now, keep up the good work !

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Posted 09 October 2010 - 06:01 PM

Geez mate, what kind of idiot welds an LX rear into a UC hatch? hahaha


Looking good. Keep the progress pics coming!!!!

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Posted 10 October 2010 - 12:33 PM

Oops! Looks like I bought the wrong model rear end!

hehe I got a good laugh out of that. Great seeing progress like this. Gap looks better than my car in that area

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Posted 10 October 2010 - 03:30 PM


Oops! Looks like I bought the wrong model rear end!

hehe I got a good laugh out of that. Great seeing progress like this. Gap looks better than my car in that area



haha Yeah man, should of seen it before. The end of the quarter panel that should line up with the boot was half way down the car near the scuff plate. Now that's a gap! ^_^

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Posted 17 October 2010 - 05:01 PM

Bit of rust near the spare tyre well, so I cut it out
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all gone. I have a spare wheel idea in my head, so I'm going to make this area flat (no well)
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After removing some thick bog from one side of the LH rear corner, I noticed the part that goes around the quarter had a bit of a step in,and brass welded. Also the metal had surface rust underneath the filler and paint.
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so it cut it off. I made a template for the new corner, so will be doing that some time soon.
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I've been stuck on the chassis rail part on the rear for a while. So it was time to fix it.
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The LH cut I got, had alot of the bottom of the boot connected, so I used the best side (RHS) for the fix (LHS) I cut it to a certain point which was identical to the hatch (a little bolt hole near the square hole). But I left the bottom part of the rail to help me align and give me more strength. This is the new bit (it's got a step up, for better alignment)
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clamped in there.. I hope its alright. I will tack it in, and do heaps of rear bumper trial fits and measuring. (this section daunts me)
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now since the rail is from the RHS the bolts for the bumper bar were back to front, so I remove the spot welds, filled up the holes and changed them around
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all the right way around now
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quick little tack on the top. It looks like now the bumper sits square on both sides, theres no tilt, or sticking out further on one side. I'm pretty sure I got the curvature of the chassis rail right. I'm going to have to re make the inner panel that sits against the back of the chassis rail where the holes for the bumper are, when I do that, I will continue to measure, test, measure, test this section.
I'm thinking of maybe getting some more 2mm steel and having them cover the joins and welded onto both sections for added strength.. Trying to find a way that doesn't look tacky or anything.
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I did a search months ago to see if someone did a similar fix, but had no luck finding anything
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Posted 07 November 2010 - 05:44 PM

Got stuck into some more work after the All Torana Day 2.
I also have a few 2 week old photos to upload.

starting to clean up and bare metal
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bit of body deadner after an etch prime
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after a clean and etch prime
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second coat of KBS Rustseal (around the fuel filler has had KBS black as well, I just didnt take a photo of it)
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time for me to stand back and see how its looking
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I also done some hammering and dollying on where I have welded, it worked quite well. I was afraid of cracks in the welds, but i grabbed the magnifying glass as I was going.

The only reason I did the wrap around part like this, is because the original metal has half an inch of bog and was quite heavily rusted underneath it.

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Edited by UCANG, 07 November 2010 - 05:48 PM.





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