VR bunky

[savage1987]

Picked up a VR Exec today to use as a runabout while my VN gets her heart transplant.



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click here to skip to some pics of how it turned out all cleaned up

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With no further ado, I give to you, THE REASON IT'S A NON RUNNER!

Lucky for me I have a V6 handy that I shan't be using for a while


I'll document this thread with my tidy ups along the way, the car should come up delightfully well with a little work.


Sam

 

[SHANBANGER]

nice starting point there mate, ill be keeping an eye on this thread to see how she cleans up.

 

[neet_wagon]

^^^ at least the thermostat housing is clean......

 

[excalibur]

all i could say was FARRRRRRKKKKKK!!!!!!!!

that looks shithouse lol

 

[savage1987]

^^^ at least the thermostat housing is clean......

Yep thermostat housing and water pump.. I'd say the dude had a mystery water leak for a while and couldn't work it out, so just started replacing coolant related parts at random


It's a bit yucky in there.

Sam

 

[savage1987]

Feeling lazy tonight so all I got done was remove the header bolts and remove the radiator. Unclipping a few random hoses, was little more than prodding about really but hopefully I will grab a crane off a mate this week and get the engine out.

Had a long day at work today and simply couldn't be arsed working any more when I got home

 

[Kurtp]

That's disgusting.

 

[nathanVY]

wow thats hectic! good luck with the repairs mate.

 

[neet_wagon]

I think its a thing of beauty.
How long was it running like that for?

Reminds me of what we used to do at the wreckers, set engines up on stands and see how long they'd last while running them on all sorts of stuff!

I tell you the best little motor we found was the lil' Isuzu out of a TE gemini, that thing ran on sand, oil, bloody anything you could think of. and it still started the next day!

 

[nathanVY]

lol. the place I was at last night getting the trans seal done, he had a few mates come at one point and they had this video of a vr v6 they ran into the ground, brick on the accel pedal. went hard for a good 4 or 5 minutes at max rpms then it seized up and popped lol.