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[burty]

sorry dont know what company made the front spoiler. rear tyres are 265/50/15 front 225/60/15

Managed to pick this car up close to what it is now. Had some running gear I couldnt say no to!

308, T5 Transmission, Ford 9 inch, Twin 2 1/2 stainless exhaust system, McLeod hydraulic clutch.

[UCgazman]

Probably not
But I won't use a Nolathane anything unless I have no other choice

Hmm well its on now so I might just see how it goes... if it gives me grief later feel free to say ''told ya so''

sorry dont know what company made the front spoiler. rear tyres are 265/50/15 front 225/60/15

Managed to pick this car up close to what it is now. Had some running gear I couldnt say no to!

308, T5 Transmission, Ford 9 inch, Twin 2 1/2 stainless exhaust system, McLeod hydraulic clutch.

Cool, I've picked up some nice 5 spoke dragways and was hoping 265's would be enough to fill the flares. Your rear wheels look just how I wanted mine to look.

[burty]

All I would say is be aware of the offset. I had the offset on the front wheels altered by 1 1/4 inches to help fill out the front flares. Fortunately the three piece wheels enabled me to make the adjustment (at a cost! $$$) The rear wheels are as they were when I bought the car. Not sure what offset is on the rear because I havnt had to check them, but I do know they have had to accomadate commodore disc brakes. You have probably thought of these things but thought it was worth mentioning.

[UCgazman]

Yeah the dragways are 2 piece so I could have the hoops changed if the offset is way off. Wont know till I try em on but.

[UCgazman]

Finally finished welding the patches behind the bonnet hinges -




Ground them back a little and finished priming-




Battery tray patched up, not very pretty but the airbox will cover all of this-


Might get some paint on it this weekend...

[a9x868]

Couple of pics of my UC. Havnt posted before hope they come out alright. Has 15 inch simmons FR rims. Might give you some idea how your might look with 15s and flares.

very nice looking uc hatch
they should have made them that way
one of the finest iv,e seen
looks good in that colour and with the big wheels
cheers
davemc

[UCgazman]

Threw some paint at the engine bay today, mmmmm shiny shiny




Actually my partner Kelly sprayed that, not bad for her first time hey. 2k Subaru 'WRX Mica Blue Pearl'....
Got a few little things to do on it next weekend then its off to Motor-Trend to fit 5 litres of mechanical goodness

[Stinga]

good job on the engine bay, thats what mine needs done to it. wish my mrs would do it for me!!

[hawk]

looking good i cant wait to see the flares fitted

[UCgazman]

I've got to check how well the flares fit soon, so I'll take some pics when I mock them up.

[UCgazman]

Got rained on today so we didn't do much; just put the heater fan on and cleaned up the brake lines, sprayed a bit of silver on them and refitted them.


If its not too wet tomorrow we'll pull the old exhaust out...

[Steve TPF]

Burty: That looks great! The front and rear spoilers work surprisingly well with the lights - largely by making them look smaller! Nice car mate.

[UCgazman]

Finally a bit of progress, dropped in at Motortrend today and saw this (sorry, blurry mobile phone pic)-


5lt ready to go in whooo hooo....

[UCgazman]

Well why not? after all Holden saved the best Torana's till last

[UCgazman]

No change from 3 grand so not a cheap mod, but it should be pretty nice to drive so hopefully worth it... feel free to copy anything I've done here, I probably copied it from somewhere else anyway

[UCgazman]

Its home again -


Unfortunately they were pretty rough fitting the motor (note the drivers side rail chipped to shit). Even though I told them to sit the extractors in the bay on that side and then lower the motor in or it wouldn't fit, they obviously felt they knew better and tried to squeeze in the motor with extractors fitted. Not much I can do now but touch it up and move on, at least they did a good job rebuilding the front suspension...

I ended up buying a Redwood gbox crossmember off feebay http://cgi.ebay.com....em=180834673440, it was a bit awkward to fit around the fuel lines but besides that its a quality product.
I've also found that neither the p/s pump nor the alternator will fit with the VP bracketry, they hit the rails both sides. It should be easy enough to swap them over and fit a Torana alt bracket but the p/s is trickier. I've seen that the early Commo brackets will fit in torries on carby motors, but I'm not sure if the top of the pump will clear the throttlebody on this motor. I'll probably just have to buy the brackets and try it... oh well, its only money!