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  • #21198
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    Some nice parts going into it mate, been thinking of getting those coil overs for my ute, so can run a wider front tyre etc. They do a solid axle coil over as well.

    Love the build mate following it closely. Wouldnt mind your brakes as well haha

    munch munch ls1s for lunch
    Best 1/4 mile 13.1@105mph 60ft-1.8sec Reaction time .8 sec 0/100-4.8sec

    #21203
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    did you find the xyz easy to adjust height and damper Frazer

    Hi mate, sorry was so overwhelmed looking at all your goodies I missed this question!  To be totally truthful I haven’t actually touched them yet.  Its probably something i should have a play with at some stage.  Man I would love to do a first gen like this one day, going to be awesome.

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    Cheers guys

    was in the garage today after sorting ute and trailer out for warrants anyway carried on from where I had left it in the boot got some shrinkers and stretchers of a mate and man it’s good so was able to do the corner on the bottom valance will post pic after the weekend , Hey Gary I had a play with the height adjustment on coil over and it’s so easy no need to muck with spring, it will just be sorting damper once on the road

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    Hey Been busy over the break have replace the rear panel and fixed a cut and folded section I wasn’t happy with , got some stretchers and shrinkers of a mate so made the job easy , while the floor was out made up some tube for the chassis as crash tubes for the rotisserie when I get it going to bolt from underneath , found some new parts for the girl aswell new bonnet ,guards, radiator support , good grill and front bumper

     

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    forgot one

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    Hey slow355 I haven’t driven on them but the install and adjustment is so easy and the dampers seems easy too

     

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    Nice progress

    munch munch ls1s for lunch
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    Hi Gent’s and Lady’s well over the break found some new parts that some one was selling changed his mind and now doing an HQ ,,,, my bonus :yahoo:  so for 750 I got two new guards , bonnet, front slam panel, second hand front bumper, grille ( grille is vc ) wasn’t sure about it but I am starting to like it, hdt head light covers but they will be sold on as I don’t like them ,,,,, Also the boot floor is all welded in now so start on the lower quarter’s (no Photo’s yet )

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    up date picture of boot done , finally  found a 9″ from a vc commodore already shorten all mounts done billet axle short side open centre but will put Detroit with 3:9s in, came complete with disc brakes and control arms $1200good deal, so will be getting rid of the whole brake set up and control arms, going to use adjustable top   arms white line and custom bottom arms with adjustable spring height , for brakes 315mm rotors and 4 pot wildwood with hand brake off the diff head

    also brought a new toy for the garage a sand blaster cabinet had a play today and very impressed anyone thinking of getting one it’s well worth it just to do all the small things

    9″ diff

    sand blaster

    parts all cleaned up

    dam photo bucket is slow :-(

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    You did well getting a 9″ pretty much ready to fit for that price mate, yeah those sand blasting cabinets are really handy only way to get rusty parts properly stripped back I reckon, coming along nicely mate

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    cheers bud if all goes well hope to have all painted by end of year

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    Mate this thing will smash my power level.Can’t wait to see it on the road.

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    Good deal on the diff & nice progress too.

     

    Going to be fun!

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    Really nice progress mate, nice work.

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    hey all you wouldn’t believe it the 9″ I got only cost me 400 bucks in the end  I sold my 10 bolt factory v8 lsd sali for 800 bucks, any way no update just been sand blasting bolt and clips

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    Hey a present update today got some 4 pot wilwoods for the rear second hand but never used ( brake porn ) :cool

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    Nice score!

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    Definitely a good score :-)

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    Hey all it’s been a while but plans have changed I found a better car to start with a lot less work for what I want to do so now I have a 83 vh commy a 92 year old was still driving it he had it 27 years so it’s in good condition just the common things like boot lip and a couple surface rust bits but easy to fix it has the 3.3 blue motor but goes well did a round trip to Auckland so about 1200ks ,,, so I have been doing work on the vb and it’s just about done going to sell this one , have got all the interior back in not going to put console back in they just look ugly, I have removed the 308 given that a clean up and paint (black got rid of the green) have cleaned up engine bay and sprayed that as well so just putting it back together so will be a nice clean factory 308 sle with a 6 speed so hope it will sell quick , still got to do brake and fuel lines as old ones were f*&ked  pictures :-)

     

     

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    Clutch t56 putting this up so may help someone in the future, so some may know that the early t56 vr-vs come out with a cable hydraulic clutch so cable on pedal to a hydraulic master then over to the passenger side slave and it’s all a pull clutch, this made it a real heavy clutch this was a big issue as it started damaging syncros mainly reverse , so converting to hydraulic only.

    This is what I have done once on a vk and a vr gst worked well the gst was a pig to drive and that’s being nice you had to turn car off to get it in reverse oh and do 60kg leg pushes,  I have just made it better with the vb first I used a auto pedal box as it has no hole for clutch cable but has the prevision for the clutch pedal had the manual box as well just used the pedal , so worked out were to drill the hole for the master in the p/box ( note all the stuff is reused Master and slave) drilled hole in clutch pedal for rod pin then bolted master to p/box and welded nuts on the back then got some larger 8-10mm thick nut and welded on to the front of the p/box as they have the 10mm rubber between the box and fire wall once that was done I had to weld up the hole in the fire wall so I could drill a nice neat hole were the master would go and the bolts boles as well.

    Now that is done with hydraulic you need a stop point so you don’t bottom master out or make the fork hit the side of the pressure plate , behind the clutch pedal below the pivot point I welded a plate with nuts, between  the side where the clutch pedal pin runs use a bolt with a nut screwed into the plate with the welded nut the other nut is the locking point when it’s all set up.

    photo’s below hopefully make more sense once done you should be able two use two fingers to push clutch , reservoir is simple I’m sure you’ll be able to work that part out

    Hey Gary not sure if you want to put the in the tech section

    the first photos of the original set up just have not shown the cable goes into the box the master is on

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