My 87 VL SL 5 Speed

[cvellnagel]

Name: Chris
Location: Victoria
Car: 02/87 VL SL Commodore
Engine: RB30e
Body: Red with sun damaged front bar
Gearbox: Factory 5 Speed (MF5)
Stereo: None
Wheels: The wheels that came with it
Suspension: Stock
What Needs Fixing:
- Rear Wheel Cylinders (Done)
- Front Tie Rod Ends
- Front Struts
- Front Brake Hose
- New Bushes (Basically all of them)
- New Tyres & Alignment
- Front Bar & Associated Plastics
- New Horn
- Windscreen Washer Bottle & Motor
- Needs Head Unit
- Secure Battery
- Fuse Block (If anyone has a Niche one they'd like to sell, PM me)
- New Muffler
- Service


Story Behind The Car:

A colleague bought the VL 4 months ago & when he went to get a RWC, he was pulled up for the above items. After the car was sitting in his garage for the better part of 4 months, he put it up for sale & seeing as my Golf R is hell expensive to modify, I purchased this for $500 as a cheap project cheap toy.

Current Plans: My current plans are to get it roadworthy then sell it.

More Probable Plan: I'll not want to sell it, convert drums to disc with a VN diff, convert to power steering & turbo charge for a fun little tow car.

 

[nasty1]

five speed vl cant go wrong looks like a good little project.

just dump a vl diff in it as the vn diff is wider and in my opinion looks like ****.

anyways when you sell the manual steering setup let me know because im after one for a future project once i finish my vl.
and i also have a mint fuse block from a calais im wrecking.im in sa but can post it.if interested let me know.

 

[markER717]

Nice little starting point here mate.

Just my opinion, don't go with a VN Diff, I struggled to get any form of low (had airbags and scrubed a lot lol) in mine with the VN diff installed (bourght the car like that). The VN diff is 52mm wider, (26mm a side). I would recommend either using VN parts to convert your diff, or just putting a whole VL calais or Turbo Diff in.