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Started by _nial8r_ , May 10 2009 12:18 PM

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#26 _nial8r_

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Posted 23 June 2009 - 01:14 PM

thx fella's

Heath- i cant wait to see what is gonna look like either mate but for now it will stay in etch until i finish the support and then it will all get blasted again etched bitt'a Nikki here and there and then it will sit in primer until the rest of the repairs/mods are done

Paul- mate i hook in when ever i get the chance but there is nothing worse that getting al set up and then you get stopped dead in ya track for some stupid reason, also trying to get new driveway orginised and other reno's done on the house, it never seems to stop :cry:

Dougal- the washer trick i got shown of an old fella yrs ago now after he watched me trying to hold a new piece in place and tack it in aand burning my finger over and over again then he showed me that and when it was pretty much all common sence in the end and guess what.... i can line new pieces up with ease now and NO MORE BURNT FINGERS :spoton:

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#27 _youngy_11_

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Posted 04 July 2009 - 05:24 PM

Hi Lee, Project looks good and it seems like you are doing everything right the first time!.

Im also from wollongong and know paul as well. We will organise a time to pop down when my car is done. Hopefully mid august.

Cheers Ryan

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#28 _nial8r_

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Posted 04 July 2009 - 06:45 PM

Hi Lee, Project looks good and it seems like you are doing everything right the first time!.

Im also from wollongong and know paul as well. We will organise a time to pop down when my car is done. Hopefully mid august.

Cheers Ryan

Hi Ryan, its getting there slowly but i hit a nasty spot last week and im not looking forward to attacking it but hey its gotta be done, im almost finished the engine bay but i had to split a seem open on the left iner garud were it meets up with the inner floor pan cause i spotted some rust in between the seem so that wasnt fun but its all clean now and clamped and plug welded it all back together :<_<:

i see you have a hatch to i looked and looked but just couldnt find the right one for the right money so i had to settle for another sedan. anyway it would be good to meet you and hope to see ya car on the road mid august :spoton:

do you have a thread going on here in the members plans and projects ??? as i dont think i have seen it yet ???

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#29 _nial8r_

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Posted 08 July 2009 - 07:00 PM

Hey Kids just thought i would post up a bit of an update to where im at with the construction of the LX, i have now made my way into the inside of the car and started poking around :huh:

found a little rust under the dash where the heater vent is but thats all and yesterday i picked up the transplant victim that will power the Torana although the motor will get ripped to bits and some nice go fast bits will be going into it :3gears:

but thats a little bit down the track yet anyways here are some pic's of the transplant victim and it all seems so familiar as i have aready owned one a few years back, its a VNSS 5 Speed Manual, LSD and all with a little hit to the front gaurd and only 167,000k's on the clock so im pretty happy and i picked it up for 3k which isnt to bad i guess, oh yeah the pic's :spoton:

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#30 76lxhatch

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Posted 08 July 2009 - 09:32 PM

5 speed manual, nice :spoton:

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#31 Heath

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Posted 08 July 2009 - 09:34 PM

Almost a shame... would be quite a nice car

Ohh well so will yours lol

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#32 _UNVSM8_

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Posted 09 July 2009 - 04:50 PM

nice work mate! engine bay is going to look sweet especially with the inj 5ltr in there.. keep up the good work

Ben

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#33 _nial8r_

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Posted 09 July 2009 - 04:52 PM

yeah there not a bad looking car i used to really like my old one but had to sacrifice it for a wagoooon to fit all the baby stuff in when my daughter was born, no room for pram's and baby seats and all the weeks shopping and the missus and me :<_<:

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#34 _studricho_

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Posted 22 July 2009 - 07:37 PM

Something doesn't quite match up on the pictures. The date is out by nearlly a year and it looks like it was taken at the old wreckers in montegue street in north gong or it's from farrels in dapro.

Either way it will be a very nice car to drive when it's all said and done.

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#35 _nial8r_

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Posted 22 July 2009 - 07:52 PM

Something doesn't quite match up on the pictures. The date is out by nearlly a year and it looks like it was taken at the old wreckers in montegue street in north gong or it's from farrels in dapro.

Either way it will be a very nice car to drive when it's all said and done.

Hey Ya Paul :spoton:

i picked it up from up in cambletown wreckers, i se what ya mean about the date dude i didnt even notice it my self :huh:

but its here now and selling what i can off it ( besides all the running gear of course ) and then it will go to the scrap yard, PM SENT Paul with my address and phone number so you can come and have alok at the mess i have got goin on here LMAO

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#36 _studricho_

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Posted 22 July 2009 - 08:46 PM

Would that be the one on blaxland road by any chance?

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#37 _LH SLR 3300_

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Posted 22 July 2009 - 08:52 PM

Nice score Lee, should go good in your Rana. Almost makes me want to fit a T5 to mine. When do you think you'll start pulling it apart?

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#38 _nial8r_

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 08:10 AM

Would that be the one on blaxland road by any chance?

thats the joint Paul :spoton:

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#39 _nial8r_

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 08:14 AM

Nice score Lee, should go good in your Rana. Almost makes me want to fit a T5 to mine. When do you think you'll start pulling it apart?

Hi Matt, i have just started to get rid of some of the shit that i dont need, i will take the bonnet, gaurds, front & rear bars off, then will take the radiator out and cut the support out and wheel the donk and box straight out then sell the other shit then i can start on the Torana again :spoton:

i thihnk its been 3 weeks and i havent touched a thing on it :cry:

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#40 _nial8r_

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 03:01 PM

Just a quick update to where im at with the Torana, wel i fininshed ripping the VNSS apart and sold what i could of it to make some money back and now it has gone i have the Torana back in it spot and i have been making a new radiator support ot of 2 stuffed ones, a big thx to Matt ( LH SLR 3300 ) for giving me his old one that still had the bottom intact but i needed to replace the left light bucket so i had to make sure i got it right as i only had one go at it other wise it would be stuffed so here are some pic's of my progress but still gotta tidy up the lower section but there isnt much in it so wont take to long to sort in out, here are some pic's.

here is mine and Matt's um i guess you know which one is the good one....... the one at the top Posted Image

after standing there for an hr and marking it out with masking tape so that i knew i had it right i started cutting
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i clamped both sections on to the car to get them square and tac'ed them together
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then it came back off again and i started welding it together, the wife snapped this pic of me the sneaky shit she is Posted Image

no wonder im blind look how close my head is to the job Posted Image

the new light bucket all welded in and smoother off ready for a quick hit of etch primer before i attack the lower section, im not at all happy with my work but it will have to do untill i come across another support that only needs a touch up here and there Posted Image

ready for the etch primer
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and here it is in etch and it still sucks ass Posted Image

but hey i guess i shouldnt complain as i might not even have one at all and could be waiting for the next 12 months for a good one lol
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also thought i would chuck these in while im here, its the loom out of the VN that i need and a pic of a massive ball of wires from it that i dont need.

under the dash of the VN Posted Image

the loom i needed
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and the massive left over ball of wire that could run 5 more Torana's Posted Image

as soon as i get this slab poured for my entertaing area i will be able to hook right in to the Torana more pic'a to come soon i hope Posted Image

Edited by nial8r, 01 September 2009 - 03:12 PM.

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#41 MRLXSS

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 03:20 PM

Wow! That is a lot of wires!!!!!!

At least you wont have to buy any wire for a while.... You got enough there to last a lifetime!

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#42 _nial8r_

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 03:33 PM

Wow! That is a lot of wires!!!!!!

At least you wont have to buy any wire for a while.... You got enough there to last a lifetime!

lol funny you should say that i did keep alot of the left overs as i always use them for something. Posted Image

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 03:35 PM

^^ Yeh, the amount of times i have gone "shit, i need like 150mm of yellow wire" or something like that and only had red or black has driven me insane! So i don't throw out any good condition wire anymore, just chuck it in a box or something haha

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#44 Heath

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 04:22 PM

Nice steering wheel on the Commodore as well

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#45 _mello92_

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 04:37 PM

Good stuff Lee! Glad to see you could sort out that loom!

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#46 _nial8r_

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 06:14 PM

^^ Yeh, the amount of times i have gone "shit, i need like 150mm of yellow wire" or something like that and only had red or black has driven me insane! So i don't throw out any good condition wire anymore, just chuck it in a box or something haha

me too or when you a different gage wire and all you have is wire that you could jump start a truck with lol

Nice steering wheel on the Commodore as well

Lol i didnt even notice that in the pic, i ended up useing a socket and a pair of vice grips when it came to pulling it up my driveway to go to the scrap yard, i got one of my mates to be the pilot while i towed it with the ute Posted Image

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#47 _nial8r_

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 06:20 PM

Good stuff Lee! Glad to see you could sort out that loom!

thx mate it wasnt the greatest job and because im useing both relay and fuse blocks out of the commodore to use in the Torana i had to watch what i was cutting, but i guess it will be a lot better than the old glass fuse block ( i hope )

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#48 _V6Hatch_

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 06:22 PM

You are to hard on yourself that repair looks awsome! and it is going to be behind the nose cone so your not going to see it anyway if it were up to me the support would probably look like swiss cheese i take my hat off to blokes with your skills.

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#49 _LH SLR 3300_

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 06:45 PM

Ah glad to see you've got some progress pics up Lee Posted Image

& that motor on the stand in the background looks horn Posted Image

Mate, I think you're being a bit too hard on yourself with the quality of your cut & shut on the support panel, it looks fine to me. It looks to have been a real tricky job, but you've done very well. Job well done. We are our own hardest critics though. The paint finish on my engine bay is still playing on my mind. I may be too embarresed to open the bonnet if it ever makes any car shows Posted Image

Keep up the good work & keep the pics coming.

Cheers Matt

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#50 _nial8r_

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Posted 05 September 2009 - 07:08 PM

hey all jsut some more pic's of this arvo's effort and some help or advice from someone would be able to tell me if there is something that i may have done wrong ??? its a 304 going into a LX, i have changed the sump to HQ and the engine mounts and brakets to Torana ones ( V8 SLR/A9X ) the motor seems to be laying back towards to the firewall but the T5 manual seems to be sitting nice and plumb, also even though im not using the manifold of the 304 i will be going with a harrop manifold, but the fuel rail cover on the left was hitting the firewall so i had to take the off to get the motor in..... anyway here are some pic's i toook so maybe there might be someone out there that can shed some light on this problem ??? ( the motor and box is only a dummy sit for now so that i can cut the hump for the T5 stick and line a couple of other little things up ) thx in advance Posted Image

motor going in with the fuel rail covers on Posted Image

here you can see how the motor is laying back and i have left a 40mm gab from the top of the box where the shifter is to the top of the hump.
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