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Also I'll be welding mine up with a mig welder using argoshield light and 0.6 solid wire. I am wondering how to go about welding up the crosses as the cutting disc i used was in my opinion too wide so i'm worried the gap is slightly too wide to fill. should i place something under the area as i...

this is how i am doing mine at the moment on my vl. I'm glad i found this so i know that im not the only one cutting into my bay! can you give me some more info on how you are doing this and how you are using the hammer and dolly and also what shape dolly's are you using. Initially i overheated...

Can a moderator please delete this thread..

Got fvcked around by the metal fab guy big time. other places want too much or arent interested. not worth my money for the result. This car is now fully stripped an no more however i just purchased a perfect one owner 87 vl executive wagon with only 60,000 original kilometres on it, perfect...

alpine white over mx grey with the red berlina pin striping on the tops of the bars and door moulds. or that eubercombe blue or whatever it's called over mx grey.

I've heard these can go and youre meant to lube a part of it to prevent it stuufing up again. I have checked the fuel pump but havent changed anything yet as i dont know if i want to keep the car or not. i just found the vin tag is missing so im going into QLD transport tomorrow to get it...

Hi i'm just having a problem here with getting my fuel injected vk to start and keep running without cutting out. I'm not at all familiar with 202's as i've only ever owned vl's and i only just bought this car because it was cheap and i need a car to drive for when my vl comes off the road...

that would involve replacing the entire pillar and i dont know how i would go with that.. the winscreen area is made up of a bottom skin a middle skin and a top skin which are all pinch/spot welded together. ive just cut out the top skin from under where the screen seat up to half way through...

Do this ^. The only vl's with 28 spline axles are V8's and turbo's. even then they werent all optioned with lsd. The drum brake axles are the same as disc brake axles they just have drum brake **** bolted on. you can transfer all your disc stuff onto whatever housing and use any na 25 spline...

Hi i'm looking for someone preferably from queensland that can make me up a couple of replacement panels from some sheet metal. I've pulled the windscreen out of my vl wagon and it is rusted out badly through the cowl panel, both front pillars and also along the roofline where the windscreen...

Yeah exactly. this should help since you have some people who are dodgy and rebuild blown A8 motors with na pistons, try to re-stamp A6 blocks, or try to advertise and sell series 2 na blocks as turbo motors for premium prices to those who are unaware of the factory stamping system.

I don't understand what you are directing that at.. was that just a general statement? Everyone knows that you don't need turbo pistons to convert your car to turbo. you will just have a higher compression turbo motor. this thread is just to show the visual difference of the turbo and non turbo...

Should have my relacement pillar panels by thursday so i'll be welding them in over christmas :) I'm now rebuilding my rb25det in the shed and putting that in along with some 4.11 diff gears.

Hi i just thought i would post this up to help the people who cant visually tell the difference between factory rb30 turbo pistons and the factory na pistons. As you can see the turbo pistons (from an A8 motor) on the left are dished and this is to bring the compression ratio down to 7.8.1...

Picked up a complete RB25 with only 94,000 k's that has been pulled down, marked and bagged up. I'm soo tempted to quicky freshen it up and drop it in but i dont want to incase i regret not going the 30det.. hmm what to do.

I've swapped the coil over a couple of times to make sure and it isnt that. But if the temp has that effect on the ECU then that could be a contributing factor since i think my thermostat is stuck open. On a non related matter that job you've done on the vl calais is just awesome. I was...

Hi i have a auto non turbo vl that has 270,000 k's that i find to be a bit laggy when i rev it ( this is in comparison to my other vl and some others i have seen). It is by no means a **** motor i just cant understand why it is not as responsive as the rb30 in my other vl which revs up instantly...

You're not wrong about the cam being in there. You should definately put up a video of you driving it around and get it on boost so we can see how it goes ;)

How much would you want for the car or just the motor and gearbox?

how did you get it all wired up and what box and computer are you using?

Things are coming along but slowly. got all four doors off today which was easy except for the lower door pins on both rear doors. So now i can start sanding the door jambs etc. Oh and got a quote off the metal fab guy today when he looked at the windscreen section and all 3 panels i need to be...

Hi i'm just about to start on the body work on my wagon and i want to know what is the correct order to do things in from start to being ready for paint. I just want the right answers to clear up all the mixed advice i've been getting. The car will need to be sanded back to bare metal in many...

pulled out all the glass a couple of weeks ago and the whole area around the windscreen is rusted out really bad. so bad that there is 6 inch long holes straight through the pillar and the cowl panel is completely gone. so instead of getting a new shell i went out and bought a mig welder and...

also make sure your number 1 piston is at (tdc) top dead centre because the cranks gear (bottom gear) will have say 12 teeth on it and the cam gear will have say 24 (twice as many teeth as crank gear) this means that when the crank turns the timing belt which turns the cam gear it will take 2...

The vl should be getting a full bare metal respray within the next 2 months if things go to plan.. I went a few hundred over budget on paint and materials but it should all be well worth it when it's finished.

Not a bad start at all but i think you should have a go at putting the old nose cone on before you respray the car. then maybe strip the paint off the rims and paint them in the silver they come in. and then maybe black out the window frames while the car in being resprayed if you like the look.

Just a small update. All the door strips and the rear bumper have been removed. I also removed the whole intake manifold to be replaced with another cleaned and painted one which i have nearly finished and will get pics up of soon. the reason for the new manifold is because the old manifold's...

yeah..the oxford st special ;)

Yeah i like that colour but it looks better on a vk though. I also like that vh or vk hdt silver too. I've pretty much made up my mind now that i'll be respraying the car in red over silver. It will look better if i decide to take the full calais route in the future too but i wanna keep it...

don't quit your day job i don't think the comedian thing will work out for you. Seriously.. there is no need to hijack a thread just because i told some sarcastic idiot where to go. no need to be a keyboard warrior about it i was only after genuine imput not 9 year old immaturity if you can...

not really, unless it's metallic if not it can look cheap

mate you are a w*%kr.. now fvck off

nah man it's no walky. Im painting the car myself and im not to keen to do metallic because of the difficulty so im limited to solid colours and they only ones that look half decent are white, red, and black. Black is too hard to live with so thats out of the question so im left with either...

Still need more votes on the first 2 options to make a decision!

just scored a free diff housing off the guy i got the diff off plus only had to pay him $50 for the vl turbo diff. Also got with it a whiteline adjustable panhard rod and vlt manual tailshaft. I want to look into getting any rust on axle hubs and diff housing sandblasted while its all out then...

I will check the continuity but im really confused about how to use a multimetre and the correct setting etc. i've only just bought one and have no electrical experience and the instructions seem to be based on an assumption that you already know how to use a multimetre :/. Also does anyone know...

ahh no i love this car. make sure you dont just sell it to anyone who has the cash. I've seen people buy nice cars and just mistreat them and let them turn to ****. Who ever buys this knows what they are getting. Definately worth what your asking for the effort of putting this together so well...

I have a calais front that can go on if i want but i wanted to keep it as sleeper looking as possible while still looking nice and not being theif/cop bait. thats why i wanted an exec front and standard colours. Im not really a big fan of just the silver strip without the sills painted the same...

fixed idle problem. There was no valve in the fast idle control unit on the rear of plenum. But took whole intake manifold off the head and separated it in half and got all the old gasket material off and put on new gaskets, then cleaned out the TB and all the runners, cleaned all valves and...

I stuffed up the last option on the poll it should be white.