My Torana Rebuild

[Hangman]

Cut out where the tail light sits on an LH/LX, cut out the same piece on the UC and swap. That's a simplified version, but that's basically it.

 

[383 hatch]

is it too difficult to convert uc rear to lh/x lights?

Never compared them so i wouldnt know but i have seen cars with it dont know how they went about it though

Yeh, Hang man pretty much covered it. Without going into heaps of detail, it's just a matter of finding a donor LH/X beaver panel/tail light buckets, cutting the UC lights out and cutting and fitting the LX tail light buckets in. It's a bit of work, but not too complicated.

Anyway, here is this afternoons effort. 1 side of the tailgate repaired.

Rust cut out

Section made

All welded in and ground down

 

[Hangman]

This thread makes me wish I still had my hatch

 

[nemesis_adrasteia]

geez i wish i had some skill at welding.

coming along great, keep up the good work.

 

[walesy]

i remember reading the old thread on this a few years ago now, it was always an amazing looking car, now its getting even better! well done

 

[Big_Simmo]

I really wish I had some skills for body work, then id hunt down a 76 lx ss and restore that bad boy.

Jesus that thing is coming onlong nicely mate

 

[ari666]

just wondering why you boxed in the headlights? not saying it doesnt look awesome, just curious.

 

[walesy]

just wondering why you boxed in the headlights? not saying it doesnt look awesome, just curious.

oh i forgot i was going to ask a question about that... how do you change a globe? pull the whole light out? i thought most headlights bolted in from the rear aswell?

 

[ari666]

if its anything like mine, then undoing the adjuster will let you get it out. other wise there are two more somethings at the bottom:

i just thought it might be a good source of cold air, but then again blocking it off would assist flow to the radiators, so yeah. dunno

 

[383 hatch]

Cheers for the comments guys.

I boxed in the back of the headlights purely for aesthetics. With it all boxed in, you won't be able to see any headlight wiring from the engine bay side, also you won't be able to see the headlight (obviously) which was what i was after.

You can still change a globe, it's just involves removing the grille and pulling the headlight out via the 3 adjustable screws as you pointed out Ari. So instead of it taking 2 minutes to replace a globe it might take 10. No big deal.

I used to have the air filter right behind the L/H headlight and yes, it was a good source of cold air in that respect, but with this build the filter will be under the L/H inner guard behind the rad support so there was no need for the headlight buckets to be open. I will probably be building an airbox under the guard that will pick up cold air from beneath the front panel.