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#1 _Aquarius - LC_

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 09:54 PM

Hello Everyone,

My name is Bernie. Proud owner of LC Torana. I love this Forum and have decided to come a part of. With any luck, I have posted a few photos of my car.

My wife and I built 'her (Tatianna)' about 5 years ago. Please ignore my spelling in the future.....( lol...... )
My wife is typing for me now. I am a huge Torana/Holden man, having owned one after the other for all of my past 17 driving years!!!!

Enjoy the photos, Bernie

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#2 surfmaster

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 10:00 PM

Hi Bernie,
welcome aboard.

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#3 racean69

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 10:01 PM

Welcome Bernie

Sweet looking machine ....very nice.

Interesting cold air set up.(I guess that's what it is)

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#4 _MYLJ_

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 10:03 PM

Welcome, tell us more about the car, is she a genuine gtr.............or.........xu1?

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#5 _Aquarius - LC_

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 10:38 PM

Hello Racean69,

Cold air intake, I fabricated out of a aluminium plate, it picks up outside air from #1 behind front grill and #2 from underneath beside front airdam via 3" pipe. Plate seals against bonnet.

MYLJ, yes it was genuine GTR, however, registered on body number alone.

Cheers, Bernie

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#6 tinkers

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 10:51 PM

Please ignore my spelling in the future.....( lol...... )

Welcome to our humble online home.

As for the spelling, wait til Tiny gets back LOL

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#7 GML-31

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Posted 26 February 2006 - 11:22 PM

I fell in love with the real Tattiana when she first appeared in the olympics... hope your car has a body as good as hers....

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#8 Heath

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 06:51 AM

Welcome aboard mate, that's a fantastic looking vehicle and i'm very intrigued about that airbox setup you have. Sort of a heat shielf and cold air intake in one is it?

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#9 _hrt1and2_

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 07:17 AM

Welcome mate. Love that car, can you give us any more spec's on the car? Thanks.

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#10 _keith1962_

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 08:04 AM

Welcome Bernie
i hope you enjoy the forum as much as we all do. There is so
much you can learn on this forum, very neat torrie
cheers
Keith

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#11 _Leakey_

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 05:18 PM

Great car. Love the colour. Very neat.

- Leakey

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#12 _gtrtorana_

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 06:43 PM

Love that intake set up. Very nice Tory

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#13 gtrboyy

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 08:01 PM

Bugger,only the last photo works.Very nice engine bay.

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#14 _Aquarius - LC_

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 08:26 PM

Thank you all for the welcome,

Firstly, sorry about the photos sizes. we are still trying to figure out what the hell we are doing!!! :rolleyes:

Secondly, thanks to the person who edited my post so it looks more like, I know what I am doing. I think it may have been Heath, Cheers Mate!!

I need some help posting pictures, the way that you guys do!!!! Thanks.

Now for all those interested,
Some Spec's;

1970 LC GTR;
External Colour: Aquarius.
Interior Colour: Tan/Brown.

Engine: 202 Black, Counter-balanced Crank, Starfire Rods, Hypertectic Pistons,
Competition Bearings, Molly Rings, 38-78 Dynotech Cam (Hyd), 186 red Head, Extensive Porting, Stainless Valves, LT1 Springs, Roller Rockers, Elec Dizzy, Elec Fuel Pump, Tuned Length Extractors, 2 1/2" System, Triple 1 3/4" SU's, Fully Balanced, Lightened Flywheel, Decent Harmonic Balancer.

Driveline: M21, 2.78 Banjo.

Wheels & Suspension: Koni Adjustable Shocks, King Springs, Swaybars F & R, 6x13 Centrelines, 225 Rears, 205 Fronts.

Heath, Yes, I designed the plate to double as a heat shield aswell as essentially making 1/3 of the engine bag into a cold air box.
The extractors are also insulated. Works very well. :clap:

Please feel free to ask questions, but be patient with me as I am a VERY slow typer!!!! LOL

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#15 Heath

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 08:32 PM

Holy $#!+. That is one of the nicest setups I've seen in my life. Looks like something out of a track car. Gotta go right now but i'll have a better read through all those specs when I get a minute. Thanks for the extra detail.

By the way, I'm not the one who edited your post; only a mod has that power, so it would have been one of Tiny, Dattoman, Tinkers etc

Looks like you've sorted everything out with the photos though, if you need a hand resizing anything or got some technical troubles, send me a PM and I should be able to sort you out.

Welcome aboard, it's nice having people with modifications on their car that are a designed and fabricated by themselves... or someone who knows what they're doing anyway.

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#16 _smiley_

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 09:40 PM

I gotta ask,
I see that the heater box isn`t hooked up so where does the 1 hose from the thermostat housing go??????? :blink:

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#17 gtrboyy

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 09:44 PM

Ahh much better,do you drive mainly on the freeways running that cam with 2.78 diff gears?

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#18 _Aquarius - LC_

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 10:15 PM

smiley,

Very well spotted mate!!!!
In fact that hose you refer to, is a dummy hose. It's propose
is to protect the often very fragile mechanical temp sender wire.
This is something I tried after a couple of failures of this sender wire.
I found this dummy hose protected the wire from engine vibration and
subsequent failure. Seems to work well and looks semi factory.

gtrboyy,

Thank you for your question,
I have a good strong engine in this car with a very flat torque curve.
I have experimented with many dif ratios and have found that mainly
due to the light weight of the LC and wide torque spread, 2.78 gives me
the best comprimise between performance, ecomony and drive ability.
I have read a lot of comments about how 2.78's are too tall for outright
acceleration and around town drivability.

However, my car launches very easily but pulls very strongly from as
little as 1800 rpm and still runs a low 14 second quarter mile. (hand timed)

Having said that, this car with 3.36 or even 3.08 is capable of easy high 13's.

Cheers, Bernie

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#19 _JBird_

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Posted 27 February 2006 - 10:58 PM

damn thats a hot colour and your engine bay is so neat and clean!! :spoton:

welcome to the forums looks like your experience with torries will be in demand

-James

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#20 tinkers

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Posted 28 February 2006 - 12:30 AM

Secondly, thanks to the person who edited my post so it looks more like, I know what I am doing.

me *curtsies*

If you need help just ask a mod or even in the post as there are alot of members who might be able to.

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#21 _Aquarius - LC_

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 07:16 PM

Hello Torana Nuts,

Firstly, thank you Tinkers, for all of your help. Much appreciated.

Took a couple of interior photos today, plus a couple of others.
Sorry about all the photos, still trying to figure out how to make the
outside shots the same size.

Still on my L's when it comes to computers. LOL :fool:

Enjoy,

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#22 surfmaster

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 08:02 PM

\That's one smooth interior, my cook has a question (well several but only one that relates to the LC), is the highlighting around the guages silver or white on your car, I thought the camera may have altered it a little????

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#23 _Aquarius - LC_

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Posted 01 March 2006 - 08:58 PM

Ha Ha!!!

G'day surfmaster,

If you could tell your cook, that it is infact a white
paint pen around the guages.

The flash makes it seem really bright or really white.
In normal light it just looks clean.

Unfortunately the guages are a miss match, still looking
for genuine ones that I can afford.

Did the photos turn out OK?