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[Davis]

nice work, are you goin to put the heater box etc back in?

Cheers mate, I'm undecided...chances are I will fit a much smaller aftermarket heater box under the dash and I will just make some blanking plates for the old holes.

[Davis]

well she is finally home....had to show a pic of what we started with 6 months ago, safe to say im really happy with the end result. Now just to put it all back together, cheers

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[ant285]

Wow! That looks great

[N/A-PWR]

Nice Reflections in the Body Paint too. Dave I

[lxsstorana]

Very nice!   

[Davis]

Cheers guys, appreciate the comments...I still need to give the paint a polish and give it a little more sparkle.

[Stinga]

looks Ace!

[Davis]

Not much progress since I got the car home...just been refitting some of the easy bolt on items. Also did the very tedious job of masking up my headlight surrounds for the blackouts. Have started modifying my steering column too...will be using an LJ column with the ignition barrel removed (so it looks like LC) and an LJ GTR steering wheel fitted.

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[Davis]

Ok, little update...

 

-Finished painting the blackouts on my headlight surrounds (what a pain in the arse to mask up properly)

-Got my LJ steering column (Thanks to Limo) removed the ignition barrel to give LC look and fitted my GTR wheel

-Trial fitted my quarter windows with freshly polished latches (need to get my rubber kit now)

-Had my bumpers polished (check out the before and after) glad I didn't spend a grand re chroming or getting new ones

-Fitted my freshly polished gutter trims to the car

 

Cheers

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[purrlx]

awesome, looks great the fun begins now

[Davis]

I've been a little slow of late, fitted my rally stripes up today and really happy with the look and fit (thanks to Pops SS).  I fitted my front and rear bumpers and just been playing around with small bits and pieces, like fitting glove box and other boring stuff. Im on holiday for the next couple weeks so hopefully make some good progress, cheers.

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[N/A-PWR]

Beautiful Andy

Looks like the Stripes are in the right place

[Davis]

Yeah I still need to polish the grill to the same level as the headlight surrounds...

Any competent metal polisher should be able to revive bumpers to the same level, only cost me $40, beats spending a grand on new ones.

Cheers

[Davis]

Yea he polished the original chrome, fortunately the quality workman ship back in the day lasted, not just a cheap thin layer of chrome as would be expected these days. I was lucky to have bumpers without dents and only very minor chrome pitting...there not show quality but nice for a street car.

[madtoranajzedded]

great work andrew,this build has come together rather quickly,

 

love the colour and the stripes set it off nicely

 

great paint job aswell

 

cheers

[Davis]

Thanks for the kind comments guys...ive been a little slack lately, must be the cold weather!

 

However I have managed to clean and paint my headlight buckets and then fitted my headlights, front of the car is starting to look good. I also refitted the glass to my rear side window frames, I used some rubber strip from Clarke rubber for the seal, was an absolute nightmare but eventually got there after plenty of cursing and some silicon spray.

 

Need some help with my roof lining rods, I think ive got them in the right order...from front to rear does the length of the bend increase slightly? also do I use the bottom or top holes in the roof to position the rods?

 

Lastly I've stripped and powder coated my pedal box, ive used a clutch pedal from a 4cyl model and will be running a cable clutch setup eventually. Will need to add and extra hole to the firewall but apart from that should be relatively easy.

 

Big thanks to Mike Cats who helped me out with some much needed parts...also saw the progress on his GTR and XU1 and must say they are looking very impressive!

 

Cheers

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[308mate]

Really nice LC Andrew, car looks great

[Davis]

roof rods 2 door bottom holes if you want to use a clip or cable tie run it in both holes.
 
looks great mate cheers gong

Cheers... is there clips to stop the rods falling down?