Family wagon Black VL

[vspeteParticipant vspeteVE SV6 MY12 SPORTWAGON View build HERE Member since: May 2, 2015 Posts: 74]

I like what you have done so far.

The black and grey go together well.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Yea my experien

gtrboyy wrote:

Still comes down to luck on day of inspection then trip rta or whatever amalgamated thing they got in nsw now.

Def my experience is it varies engineer to engineer what they will pass.

[DaveParticipant PakenhamVL Family Wagz View build HERE Member since: December 29, 2015 Posts: 36]

Went for a drive on Father’s Day, my kids loved it!

Was intermittently running rich and bogging down, was really frustrating.

Just finished fitting new injectors and fuel pressure reg, seems to idle a lot better but a bit late to go for a squirt now, will find out if it’s better on the weekend

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

They really got the proportions right on the VL I reckon, such a nice looking car.  Had a 5L sedan back in the day, was lot of fun.

[sands vsParticipant vs commodore View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 619]

VRSenator065 wrote:

They really got the proportions right on the VL I reckon, such a nice looking car. Had a 5L sedan back in the day, was lot of fun.

 

 

The 5lt are very uncommon in the vl not many around

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Yea right, mine was a ex SA cop car.  So had the T400 box, and the sports dash.  Was an awesome car.

[DaveParticipant PakenhamVL Family Wagz View build HERE Member since: December 29, 2015 Posts: 36]

Seems my rough idle and over fuelling is finally sorted, starting to get some confidence in it now, went for a drive in it today to pick up some interior parts.

 

Getting rid of the flame interior and changing it to grey berlina, so far I have the rear seat!

[DaveParticipant PakenhamVL Family Wagz View build HERE Member since: December 29, 2015 Posts: 36]

Found a grey crash pad so pulled the dash out and replaced that, while I was doing that I moved the fuse box inside the car, still need the lower part of the dash so will be in pieces till I find that

 

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[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

^looks like the pic link isnt working, keen to see how it looks, if you get a chance repost it

[DaveParticipant PakenhamVL Family Wagz View build HERE Member since: December 29, 2015 Posts: 36]

Should work now, unfortunately when photobucket saves the link on my phone, it replaces some of the code, all fixed on a pc now

[DaveParticipant PakenhamVL Family Wagz View build HERE Member since: December 29, 2015 Posts: 36]

 

Heres another shot, pardon the torch lighting up the photos for me, it was dark by the time I had finished

[DaveParticipant PakenhamVL Family Wagz View build HERE Member since: December 29, 2015 Posts: 36]

 

Finished the bones of my dash this weekend, found replacement broken sections from previous owners/repairers

All painted in duplicolour vinyl paint, its a darker grey than the colour I was looking for but it’s close and I like it.

Need to keep moving my fuse box into the glovebox and just a tidy up of everything else and the inside is just about done once I put new carpet in.

Hopefully next year I can start playing under the bonnet

[DaveParticipant PakenhamVL Family Wagz View build HERE Member since: December 29, 2015 Posts: 36]

 

Finshed the cleaning up the wiring on the Left hand strut tower today

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[DaveParticipant PakenhamVL Family Wagz View build HERE Member since: December 29, 2015 Posts: 36]

Got my front seats back from the trimmer just before Christmas, I gave him some creative licence and said I just wanted grey, he came back with this:

I first thought that it was too dark, but the grey vinyl matches the duplicolour grey perfect  :yahoo:

The downside is that now I have to trim the back seat and redo door trims so it all matches!!

The upside is that it will look horn!!

I left my run on ordering carpet too late, everywhere is shut for the Christmas break, so now have to wait till the 9th to make an order.

 

Don’t worry about the headrests, they will be getting sorted when I get the roof lining changed and the car is at the trimmers

 

 

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[Judge1 FrazerParticipant new zealand1983 VB LSA MG9 6060 6 speed View build HERE Member since: February 5, 2016 Posts: 775]

seats look good it gives me ideas on patterns for mine and yeah will look better when head rests are done

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