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85 VK HDT BUILD 355 STROKER was known as 1QUIK6 in sydney many moons ago

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hey guys

well this is my 85 vk i picked up when i was 22(27 now)
found the car on australian muscle car sales and got it for what i think was a good deal for 5k as motor was dead, no rego and he was getting divorced

car only had a genuine 53000ks and previous owner gave me 50k worth of reciepts from over the years
was a 6 cyl efi auto(was a crazy motor with nos, custom ecu and so much more)
brand new paint job(straight as an arrow)
nitrous
msd set up
a heavily built trimatic(was sold off)
all new worked suspension with new bushes, stuts, springs, shocks, sway bars, adjustable panhard bar
new vt front brakes
new 3.9 lsd diff
heaps of autometer gauges
spotless trim
and sooooooo much more

below pic is of the day i took her home
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as soon as she was home my old boy and i got into it and removed all the 6 cylinder stuff and then thats when we started finding a lot of dodgy stuff
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engine bay got a coat of paint as was looking shabby

but that was where the build was put on hold do to a relationship break up and the car sat for 2 years unloved and untouched
 

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well two years later and after building another bagged and body dropped minitruck(its kinda my thing) and moving into a new place
the vk was dragged out of dads garage and work started again(old vp bt1 355 in the back round)
 

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vk in its new home


from there she got worked on almost every day


the genuine ks for the haters


just some of the mess under the dash


dodgy brake install by the previous owner


found this jammed under the cd player


installed the vlt diff that was under my old vl bt1 turbo


new springs
 

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well engine time

my uncles used to race in the commodore cup series but changed in an open class allowing them to run different motors, but after awhile they called it quits and a deal was struck on a engine, g box and race exhaurst

motor=
black block
scat 355 stroker kit, balanced
hi energy sump
jp dual idler gear drive
custom grind cam, unsure of specs but lumpy as hell
hq heads with massive port job, hardend valve seats, huge valves, double valve springs, yella terra roller rockers
eldbrock manifold(have harrop single plane waiting to go on)
holley carb (only a 500 but have a new 750 in the box ready to go on)
msd dizzy
arp studs used throughout

gbox=
m21
full race prep built
bigger input shaft
hardened gears

put it all together using a dellow bellhousing kit witch i was extremely disapointed in, the quility was shocking, bits missing, holes not drilled and tapped, ending having it all remachined to get it to work




 

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the vk sat for another few months while i was busy with another car but then the got back into it and got the engine in and alot of things buttoned up


 

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first time out in day light in about a year(yes this has been a slow build)






 

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once again the vk was packed up and put onto a trailer, off to my old boys new workshop on his new property, plenty of room for our cars





then a little white genuine lj gtr xu1 came into my life. got it for a steal at 8g!!!! off a family member
was known as xu202 in the day, was in street machine mag and trophy winner at the 88 summernats
stroker 233, triple webbers, straight cut gears, the works!!!









and work still continued on the vk






 

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this is the vk as she currantly sits in dads workshop, i moved to adelaide in june last year and then onto sufers paradise in january this year cause of work and havent touched it since.













just waiting on my new place to be finished then it will be brought up in november here where i am going to change alot of stuff on it and revamp the engine bay,new interior, wheels, engine, have been collecting many $1000's in new parts for it so stay tuned for some BIG changes
 

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Hopefully you get another go at it soon. It looks neat.
 
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