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[orangeLJ]

Was just uploading some photos for something else and thought Id put these up.

I bought a VR calais from a workmate about 3 years ago for my old man who was planning to turn it into a street stocker and have it running in a few months.....

Well that never quite eventuated as he changed his mind and we also started gettin the purple torry ready for paint etc.

But anyway, we swapped in a VK K frame and put in a healthy little 202 and varijet.





Car was a stat write off from saltwater flood damage and basically came as a near bare shell, no motor etc, we sold off the electric window gear and some other bits and then we stopped.

Its sat next to the shed for the last couple years, but after realising he didnt have enough to head to the states and bring back a wingless sprintcar, he has gotten back into this.

Over the last couple weekends we stripped the car down to a shell, no doors, windows etc.

Then came the fun job of heating and scraping off all the sound deadening.

Ive got to grab some photos of the finished floor, but once we were done, and primed it, it looks great!

Anyway, once that was done it was cage time, so off to my uncles house (dont have 3 phase in rays shed, so we are storing the tube bender at his joint)










Cage is about 50% in there now, bought a bunch of alloy sheets to panel the interior and doors over, Ive started cutting everything but the skins off the doors (weight reduction )

So we are doing pretty well again.

With no weight limits on cars in the class, the lighter the better! and we are so far looking pretty darn light!

the other interesting thing I discovered was the difference in weight between "stockies"

Ive got a few different sets, and some of them are atleast 75% HEAVIER than others, its really weird.

I'll grab some more photos next time we are doing some work, but fingers crossed he will be ready for the start of the season this year

[Heath]

Nice one!

Rip into it with a set of holesaws mate!

Good thing it's getting properly barred out because a modern car with no screens would be really bloody flexible! hahaha

Edited by Heath, 22 June 2010 - 12:01 PM.

[Neils LX]

Hi

Fist time i have seen a old red donk in a VR. Iv seen rb30/26 and gen 3 chevs shoved in.
You dont have to be scared of smashing it as replacement shells are all stacked 4 high in wreckers everywhere.
Chears Neil

[orangeLJ]

Yeah thats the best thing about it! replacement bits are everywhere, and it doesnt have to be perfectly straight (no street stockers are!)

Cages for them are pretty extensive, Ray startedf off racing toranas in street stockers back in the early 80s before moving onto faster things, so its a bit of a return for him! haha

but yeah, good CHEAP fun!!

Holesaws are definitely coming out Heath! all the rear panelling, dash, etc etc, anywhere we can get away with it!

The 202 looks suprisingly good in there though!

[orangeLJ]

Has to be VP onwards so VK isnt an option

[Heath]

It will be the best sounding 6cyl VR Commodore in the world

An earlier Commodore like a VH would surely be a bit too 'nice' to put on a speedway track

[orangeLJ]

That and I only payed $200 for the car! haha.

the original LSD centre went into my VT too (IRS)

[76lxhatch]

Surely a VB-VK would be shitloads lighter.....

Would be interesting to find out, a lot of it would be in the parts that have already gone over the left shoulder - ABS, airbags, electrics, etc etc

[orangeLJ]

Really?? Different rules to here then.

Feel free to ignore me.

Cheers.

Im not sure how its governed TBH, whether each state has different rules etc,

but I notice out bush they still run older cars, it just seems that the larger speedways have tried to keep the street stockers as more modern cars and the fender benders etc as the older car section.

It definitely sounds meaty with only a single muffler at 2.5" and dropping at about the back of the front doors:)

[orangeLJ]

Yeah Ive done it with dry ice before, but this time it was on a weekend and boc and supagas were either shut or we were just too lazy to drive out to get dry ice!

Liquid nitrogen works better, you just use a styrofoam cup and pour it over.

Heat worked pretty well, just a bit messier.

[orangeLJ]

Was around there the other night to pick some stuff up so grabbed some more photos of what we have gotten done-


floor pans are clean, going to give it a coat of white 2pac


holesawing the rear sill-






still have a fair bit of the cage to weld in (taxi bar, driver door gaurds, rear legs etc.

But its getting there.

Im butting the doors on the weekend (well the 3 that need doing) as I did the drivers door the other week.



car will be all white, with minimal signage and black wheels.

[orangeLJ]

Well turns out I forgot to update this! whoops!

I dont have the photos on this laptop of the debut night, but we had a few dramas with overheating and diff ratio was all wrong (was 3.46ish)
next two meets were rained o
ut, and we wernt able to get to one other, but we finally got back to PCR on satdy night.

changes from the first night were-
we swapped out for a set of pintara 4.11s and bumped the compression up to around 10.5:1, running around 8 degrees initial advance and a reasonably rich tune.

You can see the results in the blow ups thread! lol.

But heres some general pictures of the finished product as it stands ATM


intrusion bars, spear plate for feet etc


head spear plate


stripped doors and barwork, battery etc


removable boss, autometer basic gauges


stripped boot


fuel cell and not much else


couple holes

[TerrA LX]

join the dots.

[orangeLJ]

yeah its pretty strict on us here, original carby, no stroking etc etc.

Its hard being up against guys in AUs with 250 EFI ford motors though, we can run a V6, but they limit the shit out of them too (president drives a falcon.... not hard to see why they have better rules on their side...)