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LC 4 Door back from the dead

Started by _wrm78_ , Apr 25 2020 04:04 PM

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#1 _wrm78_

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Posted 25 April 2020 - 04:04 PM

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd share the build of my LC. Trying to do my part in keeping Holden alive and releasing another back into the wild! With this virus situation it's given me some time to really get stuck into it. Done a heap of work the past 6 weeks.

It's started life as a Oct/1969 gold 4 door, 173, 3 on the tree with tan interior (from memory - a while since I decoded it). Car hasn't been registered since 1983. I bought it for $2000 in really bad shape about 4 years ago. Was actually too big of a job for a 4 door to be worthwhile, but I was bored at the time and it came with nearly all the repair panels so was just labour. I worked on it for the first 6 months when I first got it but got distracted building a few other cars.

I'd list all the body repairs, but it's easier just to say I repaired every single panel. Mainly due to rust in every normal LC/LJ location, but had some small accidents over the years too.

Where I'm up to is I've completed all the repairs and epoxy sealed the whole car. I like doing this as it holds back any repairs and also gives you a chance to have a good look at the car in paint before priming it. Just 2 weeks back after knocking back the sealer and doing a couple of tidy ups on some repairs I finally have it in high fill primer.

Past couple of weeks I've been prepping the inner doors, dash and door jams ready for primer and might get all this primed this afternoon.

The driveline is a RB25DET with the matching R33 GTST 5 speed manual and a commodore Borg Warner diff. I have already rebuilt the full driveline and have a 3" thick wall tailshaft built. Engine is stock internals, just with a freshen up. Gearbox I just put new syncro's and bearings in. Diff has 31 spline billet axles with modified factory LSD and 3.9:1 skyline diff gears.

I know not to everyone's taste this conversion, but I'm into modified cars and EFI. Totally appreciate nice original factory cars though.

Brakes are the normal HQ front conversion with VN-VS commodore rear discs. May not be enough to stop it, but will see how it goes.

Here's a couple of photos of it in sealer and then primer.

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#2 purrlx

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Posted 25 April 2020 - 05:15 PM

Sounds like a good little project.

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#3 madtoranajzedded

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Posted 25 April 2020 - 09:49 PM

She has come up well Warick.looking forward to how the
the rest pans out.

Cheers maz

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#4 _wrm78_

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Posted 26 April 2020 - 10:05 AM

Got the inner doors, door jams and dash primed last night. Got the engine bay and inner boot and bonnet to go.

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#5 _wrm78_

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Posted 02 May 2020 - 01:05 PM

The handbrake was smack bang over the top of the shifter location. Went through many different options to relocate the handbrake and didn't really like any. I also trialled using a HG dash mounted handbrake. Could of got it to work, but didn't like how it would of sat under the gearbox cross member. Landed on the old stumpy handbrake trick!

Had to grind off the factory rivets and pull it apart then section the stalk taking about 70mm out of it. Should still be heaps of leverage for it to work ok. Got to do what you've got to do.

Yes it's very dusty at the moment! Doing lots of sanding.

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#6 _wrm78_

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Posted 03 May 2020 - 06:42 PM

Bit more progress this weekend.

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#7 _wrm78_

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Posted 10 May 2020 - 11:40 AM

Bit more progress. Had to do a few repairs in the engine bay and re-prime as I wasn't quite happy with it.

Finally painted some colour yesterday. It's clear over base 2 pack. Colour is a heavy metallic charcoal, basically a Toyota colour just a tad darker and bit more metallic. Got colour on everything but the external panels now.

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#8 ido09s

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Posted 11 May 2020 - 11:55 AM

hell yeah!!!! gotta love an RB powered LC Torrie

Its one of my dream cars. I am hanging to build one but I have too many other cars in the shed that I cant seem to part with.

I am looking forward to seeing more progress pictures of this build!!!!

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#9 Heath

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Posted 11 May 2020 - 01:29 PM

Very cool Warick. Thanks for sharing.

Going to put the tan interior back in?

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#10 _wrm78_

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Posted 11 May 2020 - 08:49 PM

Very cool Warick. Thanks for sharing.

Going to put the tan interior back in?

Thanks Heath. No I'm actually going all black. Have full brand new interior for it already.

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#11 _wrm78_

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Posted 16 May 2020 - 02:57 PM

A wet rub and a massive clean away from painting.

Put the door pins back in yesterday for the first time in a few years. Door gaps were horrific. Who the hell designs a car with welded on hinges! After a huge fight with them I got the gaps pretty close. Will wait for all the doors to be assembled with the extra weight in them and recheck. Might have to do a bit more tweaking. Also got replacement door pins that you would need a sledge hammer to get them in. Had to turn them down in the lathe quite a bit to have any hope of fitting. Took about 0.6mm off them and they're still an interference fit.

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#12 _wrm78_

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Posted 19 May 2020 - 08:42 PM

Hired a booth and finally got it painted. Very happy with it.

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#13 Ice

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Posted 19 May 2020 - 09:44 PM

Wow that looks pretty good

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#14 Covert

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Posted 19 May 2020 - 09:47 PM

Nice, that colour really suits the car :spoton:

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#15 Mitchyboy

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Posted 19 May 2020 - 10:22 PM

Love the colour.
Top job

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#16 _wrm78_

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Posted 19 May 2020 - 10:58 PM

Thanks guys. Really hard to pick a colour and wasn't sure how it would look.

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Posted 19 May 2020 - 11:00 PM

Hired a booth and finally got it painted. Very happy with it.

So you painted it yourself? Nice Job! How much and where was the booth?

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#18 _wrm78_

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Posted 19 May 2020 - 11:10 PM

Yes painted it myself. Thanks. $350 for the day in Bayswater. I've hired other ones before and they all seem to be around the same price. This ones a nicer booth though.

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#19 purrlx

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Posted 20 May 2020 - 06:52 AM

Looks good, now the fun bit assembley

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#20 _wrm78_

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Posted 20 May 2020 - 09:32 AM

Looks good, now the fun bit assembley

Yep. Just laid out all the bits last night. I bought the car in pieces as a bare shell with all the parts in boxes so going to be interesting to see what's missing.

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#21 gad05

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Posted 20 May 2020 - 10:45 AM

Nice work Warick, car looks great.

Cheers Graham.

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#22 Heath

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Posted 20 May 2020 - 12:17 PM

Beautiful. Lovely job with the paintwork.

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#23 Gatti

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Posted 20 May 2020 - 01:52 PM

Wow! It looks fantastic

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#24 Zook

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Posted 22 May 2020 - 07:24 PM

Nice mate. Let me know what little bits and pieces you need to get it together again.

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#25 _wrm78_

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Posted 21 June 2020 - 10:21 AM

Been chipping away at it. Got all the door mechanisms and windows back in and working. Put front and rear screens in too and really happy with the fitment. Used New Old Car Company windscreen rubbers.

Lately I've rebuilt all the steering, suspension and brakes. Brand new everything. Rebuilt front and rear callipers with new kits and pistons. Rebuilt the little toy steering rack too, Painted everything in satin black 2K.