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[rodomo]

Good work! Get off the roof! Paint the front!

[Ice]

Major job you have taken on will be good to see finished product

[wot179]

Your grasshopper has come a long way, Grand Master Rodomo.

[rodomo]

Might get him to finish Frankenstein?

[wot179]

I think that is a great idea.

[Heath]

haha you don't think this one will be enough work for me?

[eyepeeler]

Nice metalwork Heath. Very impressed with what you've done.

[76lxhatch]

The cardboard would have been lighter if you'd skipped the bog...?

Nice work, you're making the kind of progress we all wish we were!

[LXCHEV]

Keep the happy snaps coming mate. Let us know when you're back in the road and we'll go for a cruise!

[rodomo]

Your grasshopper has come a long way, Grand Master Rodomo.

Grease Slapper 2007 pic.

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[Heath]

Thanks for the encouragement guys. Just a little update, shitty messy photos, but just made some progress trimming the rails and starting to box it all up.

 

Hey Rob I was wearing that shirt when I was on the tools today!

 

Wayne if I tell ya how it's all going to turn out, you won't come back to my thread to look again! You'll have to exercise some patience

 

 

Edited by Heath, 01 January 2015 - 08:26 PM.

[Heath]

lol DJ you never cease to impress.

 

40°C in Melbourne today, so didn't want to be welding and grinding all day. Basically finished the rails at least.

 

[Bullet]

Looks very neat Heath, well done.

Cheers Bullet

[Redslur]

Gees you have come a long way in the time I have been frequenting this forum Heath.  Hat goes off to you "maturing Grasshopper"!

[Heath]

Don't want to use the standard radiator mounting tabs



Passenger side of my front cut had been bastardised for a crappy A/C install I'm guessing, so had a go at repairing that.

[Toranamat69]

Sweet,

 

You are doing lots of the same I am doing on my engine bay - I really should do some pics now I have a new PC.  It is at an interesting stage.

 

I didn't realise how many lumps and bumps in the Torana bay until I started smoothing everything.

Are you doing the big lumps and holes where the brake lines go through?

[Heath]

Yep keen to see Matt! I actually haven't made up my mind about the brake lines still - I've gotta decide soon hahahaha

Finished the square mouth on the rad support, awful photo though.


Starting to move onto the dash area now. It seems pretty clear that if you had an LX and a UC and wanted to swap dashes between them, you wouldn't be able to. You absolute need to molest AROUND the dash in the LX, and you need to molest the dash itself in the UC.

The obvious join along the top is a 3-layer spotwelded join. There are two challenges to drilling this out - you don't want to drill the whole way through without paying good attention to what you're doing (or the LX dash getting grafted in your UC will look like swiss cheese where you want to plug weld it), and in addition to that - there are probably 10 spot welds that are obscured by the top layer of metal. They joined the bottom two and then put the top one on and spot welded more. I elected to drill the visible spot welds and cut the top of the plenum off to get better access. This means the dash that I've cut out is neater, BUT I do not really want to remove this piece on the hatch, so I think the hard stuff is just beginning.



At this point, the previously shrouded extra spot welds are exposed:

[Statler]

Your metal working skills have come a long way m8! 

 

Nice work!