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[Guns n roses]

looks tops!!!r u pretty happy with the job they did??what have they put in the middle of the 1st vapour line and the 2nd vapour line?

[MRLXSS]

Looks great Luke!!! Thanks for the pics! The set-up looks nice.

Does it go hard? LOL

[Heath]

Looks neat mate, just need to clean up that inlet manifold to match the carbie! A bit of bling never hurt anyone

[LhMusL]

Head gasket gone :( hence leaking water on dyno a lpg shop.
Really don't want to take it to a shop to get done as it will cost a fortune! Really want to have a go at doing it but don't have the skills or tools, waiting on a friend of a friend to maybe have a go at it but its been 2 weeks and no word. Thinking maybe the heads need to be machined.....
Prob go Cometic too, which i think are .027" thick versus the Felpro .039" i think i have now. Anyone know what change in compression this might make on std VN heads if i have close to 0 deck height and around the high 9's on compression now???????????? Biut vague i know but will measure everything again when heads are off (deck height and cc heads).
Not loking good for Autobahn show BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah Milco its just sitting in kew atm so you are welcome to come have a look when ever

[LhMusL]

Well........ heard back from mate as he has a few days off to give me a hand doing the head gasket today.
Got half way through and noticed front drivers side head bolt missing under extractors!!!!!!!!!!!!!! right where the leak was, funny that! Seeing that she was apart already we have sent the heads off to be machined and changing to a set of comtics (even though the felpros were prob ok).
Might take this chance to change to a fresh set of lt1 valve springs (should have done that first time) and fix some suspect valve stem seals aswell. I the know valves are ok, not perfect, but not sure if i should do them too, as it might start costing too much! new seats cut etc.....
Then its back to LPG mob for a proper tune and secondaries that actually open should be nice and fast then, hell she is pritty good now just on the primaries

[LXCHEV]

Ditto - looking cool mate. Was great to catchup on Tues and have a look at the beast.

[LhMusL]

Yeah its never gonna be a show car but still gotta fix up some rust and bad paint areas, then its really just some whitewall flapper (which are in the boot) and will go on when i get new tyres soon. It is for now gonna keep the rat rod look as i can't afford proper paint and panel atm!! lol

Head gasket fixed, just gotta put 1000k's on bit before it goes back to the LPG shop for a proper tune and dyno run, can't wait coz atm i cant really rev it out past 3500rpm. Also ended up reco'ing heads while they were off and got some new Lt1 springs in there.

Yeah was great to catch up with the old gang and to meet some new people, oh the MO is for MOVEMBER and not part of my usually apearance
Sorry if i might have seem abit out of it, just got dumped by the girl of my dreams last week so F$%king shattered as it was a huge shock and getting about 3-4 hrs sleep a night :(

[MRLXSS]

Yeah was great to catch up with the old gang and to meet some new people, oh the MO is for MOVEMBER and not part of my usually apearance
Sorry if i might have seem abit out of it, just got dumped by the girl of my dreams last week so F$%king shattered as it was a huge shock and getting about 3-4 hrs sleep a night :(

FAR OUT MATE! Hope things are ok. Things will be on the up soon! Hang in there!

[LhMusL]

Taken back to LPG shop today for service and dynoed for a proper tune.
Timing changed from 22 to 28 total and 16 static, was running lean so its best i just babyed it around the last few months!!
Power run 204.3rwkW @ 6001rpm and 736Nm@5430rpm.
Drives real good now and scream in the top end with the x pipe
Not a bad daily street setup although currently getting 37ltrs/100km but that is all stop start so might get a bit better with some highway and playing with the economy valves.
So today has been a good day compared to the last few months of feeling like SH%T!!

Edited by LhMusL, 11 December 2009 - 12:25 PM.

[MRLXSS]

WOOOHOOO!!!

37L/100km is alright! Thats only $20/100km! HAHA! Wish my Torry did that!

Congrats on cracking the 200rwkw barrier too!

[Heath]

Considering how strong that motor felt without even opening it up properly... I'm not surprised it makes that much power. 200rwkW in a Torana is more than I would consider 'adequate' haha

That economy is pretty bad, thank god it's not premium. I think you will be able to get it a fair bit better than that, but it could be driving style as well because you just got to open it up properly recently.

[Guns n roses]

nice looks good!!who ended up tuneing it??

[LhMusL]

Tuned at Swift Automotive (Gasresearch).
Blew the sniffer out off the exhaust on the last run lol
Yeah i think the economy will stay bad for some time as i can't keep my boot out of it atm it just sounds so awsome!
Stragely the little 205's grip really well?? i suppost the detroit locker helps a fair bit but as long as i am moving and boot it they seem to grip ok, they are brand new though so that might change as they wear a bit. I never really drop/slip/pop the clutch though, if i did this they would have no chance

[LhMusL]

Got a Vacuum gauge for xmass and put it on the car today. There was a spot on one of the runners on the manifold that had a 1/4' thread that i got a piece for that conects to a vacuum hose, then ran that to the gauge.
Would my combo 355, Vn heads, Reldine single plan intake, Technocarb, 286 crane cam only produce 7-10'hg at idle (900rpm)???????????? gauge says normal idle reange is around 20'???
Or is it just my cam not producing much vacuum?

[LhMusL]

Ok idle is more like 1050rpm and when warm it sucks about 10-11' on the vac gauge.

Car now at Heath's for a little rust work and tidy up

Edited by LhMusL, 27 January 2010 - 08:39 PM.

[MRLXSS]

His mum must love him! HAHAHAHAHA

[rodomo]

Or a parking lot for dunger ricers.........

[Heath]

So Luke you want these repairs posted or kept for your own records privately?

[LhMusL]

Post away mate, if anyone can learn something from them then thats a good thing.

[Heath]

I spent about 10 hrs working on this thing today hahahha

Now which one is a Torana sleeper, and which is just a Torana that's just wearing a set of white walls? lol!


Tried to sort this out this morning but no luck - need a bigger slide hammer!


Reason it's at mine:



RHS, just cut it out, treated and painted behind, welded in new



LHS, same as the other side



Cut out most of the bad stuff, treated it, painted it, spent AAAAGES making a replacement panel, then spent AAAAGES tacking it in really carefully and slowly. The photo doesn't do it must justice but I really took my time and I think it's a very nice repair. Will upload finished welding pictures tomorrow.



Will still need a decent skim of filler but it will be half as much as the car came with! hahaha shoulda got some more shots beforehand.

Had lots of bog behind the bumper bar irons which had cracked and created what would have become another rust problem, so I just removed all of the bog would be compressed by the iron and i'll clean it up around there, should be fine with a lick of paint, Luke is coming around in the morning to make the job quicker and easier, but I'm not sure what we are doing as far as paint is concerned yet because I don't know if the black around the bottom is actually acrylic or not, so I may have to remove it.

Edited by Heath, 28 January 2010 - 10:03 PM.