83 VH commy wagz

[PEAKN6]

Name: Brad
Model: 1983 vh vacationer wagon
Colour: blue
Engine Type: half a blue 202
Engine Mods: none
Power: not much
Exhaust: none
Gearbox: 3 speed trimatic (with a locked up tourquey )
Diff: 3.08:1
Brakes: factory
Suspension: factory
Wheels/Tyres: couple of flatties, 14" and 15"s
Interior: half missing
Other Mods: clear indecators.
Stereo: zilch atm
Future Mods: respray, vk mirrors, dark tinted windows, new diff, new rear brake line, new seats, new carpet, new rear shockers, new tyres, silver piggies. there's a sh!tload more i just cant think of many more atm

i did have this in this section a while ago but cant find it.

Anyways im trying to get the regency defect off of it and it needs a bit of work as she's a retired SKiD car (only made it to one comp tho haha, but we scored 3rd outta the six's).

neways ill throw up some pics.

in it's former glory



after a while in the sun the paint went even worse (wasnt very good to start with), so we gave it a quick respray for the burnout comp. (it got the regency before then, thats when we decided to make it into a burnout car)



still got wet paint.






the next morning



at the burnout comp



how it sits now is not pretty as we resprayed it in enamel (enough said?). so im gunna respray it once the defects off (just incase it doesnt come off). ive put a vk dash in it, and soon hopefully pull the motor out, change the diff and put a good rear brake line in. i need to change seats and carpet and take off my racing pedals, put on another bonnet and a few other things then hopefully get the defect off.

ill get some pics of how it sits now maybe tomorra or within the next couple of days.


the driverside window is cactus, it use to work but it would go up on an angle and it just got worse. sometimes it couldnt go up at all so we put it up and jammed some crap in there so it would fall down or nefink. does neone know how hard it is to change the window mechanism? ive gotta few spares so i figured id have a go.

So the goal is to get her up to scratch and get the defect off it. and then respray it and make it look puurdy.

[DANNY8]

Yeah that paintjob was a a real qwik dodgy one. Gave the car a light sand, washed it, taped it up and painted haha....only used 2 pots of paint on the whole car

It's faded now and peeling in a fair few spots....so when we paint it again it's gonna take lot of work. It's going white to match my wagon. So the 'KerrBros' will both have white commy wagons

Here's a pic I took about 2-3 months ago. The only changes is our yards a fraction cleaner and the wagon is pushed back a bit more haha.



This weekend we're dumping the old PEAKN6 VK and the roadster....take them out to the scrap man and see if we can get $50 for them haha. Then we can do a few rubbish trips which are waaaaay overdue!!

[PEAKN6]

well today i went out and had a play with the driverside window mechanism in the wagz (it was cactus), it was bent and had teeth missing off the gears. so i pulled the one out of my vk's door and put it in and now she's all good. i was expecting it to be a headfcuk but it was pretty easy, only took bout an hour. i'm proud of myself now.
i was originally going to pull the door off but had a bit of trouble, so i gave up and thought it couldnt hurt to have a play with it, i mean i could'nt've made it ne worse, so im glad i didnt now.

[PEAKN6]

put the retractable seat belts in today outta my vk. tomorra i might pull the seats out if i get a chance ready to change the carpet.

does ne one know if it would be better just putting the carpet over the old one or just rip it out? i figured it couldnt do any harm and it might feel a bit better.

[Goon]

Depending on the layer of carpet i guess and how thick it is and if it will go into place with the old carpet.. If you want to to look nice, then u might take ur time ripping out the old and installing the new

Goodluck bro, sounds like great progress!

[PEAKN6]

i reckon i might ditch the old carpet and throw some underlay down then the carpet on top

[Dirbatua]

Originally Posted by PEAKN6

i reckon i might ditch the old carpet and throw some underlay down then the carpet on top

nice man, shouldnt the carpet just lift off after the seats & console and a few other peices come off, i changed my vk carpet bout 2-3 months ago and it was fine, just came off without a prob once everything was out of the car.

btw ive been lookin but ive never been able to find any pics of that roadster, did u put ny up or were they lost in the forum crash?

[DANNY8]

I chucked some up of the roadster a while ago, but yeah rekon they went when the forum shat itself.

Here's a few for ya.

















And here's the latest pic...it's up like this so we could weld a few bars in underneath to strengthen it.


We've decided to strip wats left and scrap it. We haven't got the right gear (a mig) to be able to finish it properly. Maybe oneday we might try a roadster again, but at the moment it's just taking up room in the yard and we're doing a fair bit of work on both wagons and PEAKN6. We haven't touched the roadster in months...well actually Brad cut the new apron off the front the other day which I welded on when I sprayed the engine bay.....but yeah no room or time for it at the moment so it's gotta go.

Here's a pic of the old PEAKN6 getting loaded onto the truck yesterday morning. (This is in Street Commodores Issue 131 in the readers rides bit...the latest mag to date with the red VL on the front)


Also, we pulled the motor out of the blue wagon yesterday. It was rebuilt some time ago so we're gonna clean it up and put it in PEAKN6 (then back in the wagon when the wagon is ready). It's on the stand out in the shed stripped down (leaving the bottom end 2gether tho)...got all new gaskets, a balancer and oil seal for it this morning, gonna go out soon and start cleaning it up.

Brad's got some new pics which he'll prolly post up when he gets home from work.

[Dirbatua]

hmmm, just a tad difference between the pic in street commodores and that one there, but i just cant put my finger on it

[PEAKN6]

prolly coz there's nothing to put ur finger on

[Goon]

That roadster rocks, putting some roll bars in her should make her street legal ?

[PEAKN6]

roadsta is gettin scrapped havnt got the tools for it.

not sure if u know or not but a couple of days ago we pulled the donk outta the wagz ready for the freshen up for PEAKN6 (figured i'd put it in here coz it's gonna go back in the wagz when it's ready for the road). i got some piccies wif me fone (excuse the high quality ) coz the camera had flat batteries.

anyway we replacing all the gaskets, balancer and then paint her up and make it look pretty, then take out the old motor from PEAKN6 and bolt the manny tranny to the new donk and drop her in. hopefully it sh!ts out atleast 80rwkW. we're gunna take it to the Jamestown show on monday (well thats the plan neways), LMG are gunna have a dyno there so we figured we may as well get it put on and see what it does with the new motor

anyways here's some pics

head gettin degreased



motor straight outta the wagz (head wasnt bolted on)





the old balancer looking a lil bit shagged. the pulleys stuffed it up when they were bolted on





and it rubbed against the timing cover (good thing it didn't make it to the pad again, could've been interesting)



just a few things for it


after (VHPirie) scraping the carbon and crap off the top of the pistons we noticed that they're 40thou over, yippee never had nefin bigger than a 202

the motors bout 80% done. just need oil pump, dizzy, balancer, thermostat and housing and water pump put on and then i think its time for paint. once we get the donk out of the car we can then take the new one off the stand and bolt up the flywheel n clutch then the tranny and finally the starter motor. the exaust and intake can be done in the car.

bought some new batteries for the camera too








hopefully not long now, i can feel the stallions trying to get out

we're just hoping that it's gunna run alright wif the injection setup on it.

[Goon]

Looking good mate, hope she runs right with the injection setup and rips out the 80rwKW's u want or more !

Did it take alongtime to clean the carbon off?