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Youngy's LX Hatch

Started by _youngy_11_ , Jun 19 2006 10:39 PM

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#101 MRLXSS

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Posted 25 January 2007 - 05:39 PM

WATER WASTER!!! We are not aloud to do that in Vic :cry:

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#102 _TJ253_

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Posted 25 January 2007 - 05:52 PM

Haha i was gonna ask about the other hatch what u sell it for ?
looks good mate

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#103 _Chamois hatch_

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Posted 25 January 2007 - 06:19 PM

im pretty sure your not allowed to do that in NSW either. still looking good tho. are you gonna fix the paint in the engine bay?

cheers

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#104 _youngy_11_

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Posted 27 January 2007 - 10:56 AM

Yes thats correct. But its allowed with tank water

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The car is going to be resprayed completly.

ryan

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#105 _Brad1979UC_

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Posted 27 January 2007 - 01:31 PM

From many of the photos, the paint actually doesnt look too bad,
but hew are the doors etc...u got straight panels to work with?

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#106 _youngy_11_

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Posted 09 February 2007 - 07:32 PM

Have got the car back from the conversioner.

Heres some pics of the R31BW diff with new pedders lowered springs, nothalene? bushes and swaybar.

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The engine conversion kit came the other day aswell and we have ordered the hoppers brake kit for the front end.

I have also wire brushed all the front end nearly lol and are going to spray it and fit the new brake kit and all new nothalene? bushes and pedders sway bar.

Anyone know the exact ratio of the diff??

Thanks Ryan

Edited by youngy_11, 09 February 2007 - 07:36 PM.

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#107 ls2lxhatch

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Posted 09 February 2007 - 09:14 PM

Ryan,

If you are respraying the front suspension components then I recommend you consider using the POR15 paint. Once dry POR15 is far more durable than normal paint. It is expensive and a pain to apply but the results are worth it. The finish you get with a brush is almost as good as spraying.

http://www.ppc.au.com/

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#108 _youngy_11_

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 02:06 PM

I have already brought black enamel for the front end, which wil be sufficient i believe.

Thanks anyway

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#109 _Viper_

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 05:17 PM

I also recommend POR15, painted my diff and pretty much whole underbody with it, altho i got my front end powdercoated so will see what holds up better... A tip if u use POR15 tho.. WEAR GLOVES and dont get it anywhere else on ya skin. ya got about 10 seconds to clean it off after that ya wearing it for bout a week... Good for tempory tatoo's actually

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#110 _Chamois hatch_

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 07:56 PM

where did you get that swaybar from? looking good

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#111 _youngy_11_

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Posted 11 February 2007 - 10:12 AM

Yeah ill look into it.

The sway bar was from pedders.

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#112 _racyrabbit_

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Posted 11 February 2007 - 10:25 AM

Youngy , what did it cost your old man for the diff and haveing it fitted , would not be cheap , How much is it costing to get the front end and brakes done , just interested as it seems to be much like what the Rory and Nos have been doing and i wanted to compare against doing it yourself like them and getting some one else to do it , TREX

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#113 arrimar

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Posted 11 February 2007 - 10:37 AM

are the upper bushes on the diff mounts pushed into a tube welded to the upright or through the upright only?

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#114 _youngy_11_

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Posted 11 February 2007 - 11:09 AM

I got the diff for free. But the conversion cost about $2000. Thats with boxed trailing arms, fabricated brackets that were TIG welded, fitting the sway bar, new disk rotors that had to be converted to 5 stud commodore and the axels converted to 5 stud.
He checked out the centre as well to see if it was ok.

We are doing up the front end our selves but the brake kit is from hoppers at $1350 and all new bushes and sway bars was $1200.

Not cheap i know but its will be worth it in the long run with everything done right.

Arrimar im not sure what you are asking but the conversioner had to modify the upper trailing arms with a step i think so that it would take the torana bushes.

ryan

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#115 _youngy_11_

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Posted 17 March 2007 - 03:26 PM

UPDATE:
The front end is complete, sprayed in POR15, all new bushes, tierod ends, springs, balljoints, shockies and have since just fitted the hoppers kit. Went on easy and only had to file a couple of the spacers to make it sweet.

We should have the engine back next week to fit up with the conversion kit.

Will get some photos soon.

We are going to fillet weld all the seams on the chassi rails to increase the strength a little as well.

Has anyone done this before??
I have been advised to use 0.6mm Mig wire as it is better with lighter steel.

Car should be done by xmas. give or take. hehe

Thanks youngy

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#116 _JBird_

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Posted 17 March 2007 - 04:43 PM

Mate that's really good progress your making on the car.

Glad your doing it right from the start, it will drive like a dream once you get it moving. With your new brakes and all that, make sure you run fresh new brake lines through out the car :spoton:

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#117 _youngy_11_

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Posted 18 March 2007 - 12:33 PM

Pics:
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Caliper

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Complete

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#118 Heath

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Posted 18 March 2007 - 02:49 PM

Bloody oath mate you're not mucking around. That looks awesome. I didn't even see the pics when you put the diff in lol.

Keep up the good work.

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#119 _youngy_11_

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Posted 19 March 2007 - 07:30 PM

Fitted the steering rack today, so i thought i send some more photos through. hehe

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Cheers

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#120 Neils LX

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Posted 19 March 2007 - 08:14 PM

Thats a very nice front end you have there, would love the same brakes for mine. Your project seems to be coming along well
chears Neil

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#121 Heath

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Posted 19 March 2007 - 09:34 PM

would love the same brakes for mine.

I know lol he's making me jealous too!

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#122 _JBird_

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Posted 19 March 2007 - 11:17 PM

Aren't those calipers from the 330mm kit?

Didn't you get a 290mm kit?

You should've gotten braided lines =p.

Brakes...I want..

Nice stuff.

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#123 _youngy_11_

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Posted 20 March 2007 - 08:38 PM

Yeah its the 290mm kit.

yep she should stop alright especially with those on the front and the skyline disks on the back.

ryan

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#124 _youngy_11_

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Posted 05 May 2007 - 07:32 PM

Its been a while since an up date.
But the torrie was had a bit of work done since the front end was finished.
We decided to get the chassi rails joined, seams stitch welded and controll arm mounts re inforced as the fabricator recommended.
Although it isn't necessary for the Hp im running now, we decided to get it done for any future up grades and also for the improved handling as im going to be doing a bit of track stuff hopefully.

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Under side of the connector
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Uppercontrol arms mounts. He strengthened because the top control arms are in tension and he was seen them rip out the floor in other cars.
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The bottom control arm supporst wer also strengthend but not to the tops extent.

I have also been getting the underbody and inside of the car ready for painting in POR-15. Which is happening tommorrow.
I wirebrushed all the underbody, which was a shit of a job while the car was on the trailer.

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The engine is ready and we are picking it up on monday.

The gearbox is being reconditioned as 2nd and 5th gears were stuffed.

The booster is at a brake place at the moment and we are getting a VT master cylinder with sender unit.

The brake guy had a spare line bender that he doesn't use so he has said we can borrow it to make all new lines for the car as the ones in the engine bay are quite ugly how they are run.

Will keep you updated.

Thanks Youngy

Edited by youngy_11, 05 May 2007 - 07:36 PM.