My Torana Rebuild

[ari666]

(i reckon it looks heeeeeeaps tougher with the LX front end on it):

agreed, fat and tough as fk

 

[Hangman]

Gettin there mate :spot on:

 

[383 hatch]

Well i had a spare couple of hours today, as we came to a bit of a stand still with the HR waiting for steel.

So, i cut the dash out of the LX front cut. It came out fairly easy actually, wasn't very hard at all. Pleased to say, there is 0 rust in it also. It has some surface rust on the inside, but i've already cleaned and painted it.

I got my rocker covers too. Sexy times.

Pics:

Dash cut out

Rocker covers

Sooo, black crinkle manifold or silver?

 

[Pub247]

what colour you doing the block?

 

[383 hatch]

Undecided atm. I have decided on the body colour though, it will be going the Cyan blue like it was, but with the Torana black outs on the bonnet and around the window frames.

 

[Reaper]

Well i had a spare couple of hours today, as we came to a bit of a stand still with the HR waiting for steel.

So, i cut the dash out of the LX front cut. It came out fairly easy actually, wasn't very hard at all. Pleased to say, there is 0 rust in it also. It has some surface rust on the inside, but i've already cleaned and painted it.

I got my rocker covers too. Sexy times.

Pics:

Dash cut out

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Do you know how much crap I went thru to fit a UC dash to a LH??? Stick with what you have, fit a SL/E cluster and epic win :thumbsup:

Rocker covers

Sooo, black crinkle manifold or silver?

Yes - looking the goods

Reaper

 

[383 hatch]

LOL, sorry Reaper. I knew you'd be disappointed about the dash conversion. I'm doing it for 2 reasons: 1 I don't want the car to look like it's a mixture of parts (I know that sounds wierd as it's still a UC) but i want it all to look like it was always an LX hatch. I want it to all look factory. (that's not to say i'm going to turn around and try and pass it off as being an LX, as it's not and never will be) 2: You just can't beat the SL/R cluster....IMO (obviously that's the key here).

 

[yZoH]

????

 

[Hangman]

Do you know how much crap I went thru to fit a UC dash to a LH???

Reaper

You put a UC dash into an LH???

 

[mr j-man]

nice workmanship bv6! my pop is a retired panelbeater of 30yrs he did his time through the late 50's through to late 80's....alot of hands on skills with no bog at all back then!
good to see you take alot of pride and perfection in what u do!
when i was looking at the rearend conversion pics where the rear wraps around to the quarters........
was it an illusion or was there a bit of sinkback in the panel where it was welded??
if so what do you do when it comes to counteract it???
keep up the good work...lookin foward to the updates