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Posted 29 August 2008 - 03:17 PM

Good mate of mine built this up in the early 80�s.

Sold the car to another mate who put in a methanol sucking 308, quiet a made motor and so was he, as a driver. Had some exciting rides in the car way back then.

The motor still sits in the original owner/builder garage today. Talk to and see the owner now and again when I pass through his part of the world. Always loved the L 34 and after a long chat the other day, he said it would be alright to post the few old pics of his for you all to have a look at.

The car ran the webber set up as you see with a ram air induction from the lower spoiler to the Webbers.

The exhaust was a system that was split from the extractors. 2 pipe ran through the conventional muffler set up dumping out at 45 deg or so at the back wheels, the other pipe ran to just in front of the rear diff, it had a vacuum flapper arrangement operated from inside the car so you could close of these to pipes if you wanted to quiet down the beast, but when the where open, what a symphony.

She was a dead set ripper and the work put in by the builder was monumental���VB

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#2 Litre8

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Posted 29 August 2008 - 03:30 PM

That is one trick looking induction setup. Rest of the package looks great too. Not sure on the spider (?) hanging from the mirror. :)

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Posted 29 August 2008 - 03:38 PM

That is very very cool!!!! Im impressed!!!

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Posted 29 August 2008 - 05:56 PM

Man, what a sweet looking rig. That paint job is awesome, Rory would like it :D

And what a trick induction set up.

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Posted 29 August 2008 - 06:53 PM

Are they perspex induction air box things??? Awesome setup... i hope he is running air filters under the radiator or wherever the induction pipes go to

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Posted 29 August 2008 - 10:06 PM

Was it actually an L34 at any stage?

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Posted 30 August 2008 - 08:16 AM

We'll probably never know unless we get a look at the tags ...

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Posted 30 August 2008 - 09:43 AM

Well thought out induction system..Noice!
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Posted 30 August 2008 - 06:54 PM

Love it. Very oldschool and Weber setup is mint.

I doubt it was an L34 because of the woodgrain dash alone, but maybe I'm just jumping to conclusions.

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Posted 30 August 2008 - 07:08 PM

That's a tough looking car!

Love the paint job, especially the little detail pin stripe in black, just above the blackouts.

The cockpit has more guages and switches than a 747!!!

Those wheels? Magnums? - look awesome.

Haha, I just watched Cannonball Run last night on DVD, and drooled at some of the machinery in that.
Love the Lambo, and reckon the wheels on that would look trick on a Torrie!!!! :P

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 11:24 AM

ive seen that engine picture on here before.
I like the paint too.

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Posted 01 September 2008 - 01:23 PM

ive seen that engine picture on here before.
I like the paint too.



Un- likely arrimar I got the old pics you see from Ron�s photo album and scanned them from home and posted them.

If you did see a similar pic or even the same one would be interesting to see, but when I mentioned to Ron about doing this, he never mentioned it being done before. But stranger things have happened.
But to all the people who posted reply�s and had a look at the old girl thanks, she was a awesome car and as I said in the original post, the work put in by Ron was huge, wish he had built a dozen and I had one in my shed����VB

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Posted 10 September 2008 - 09:28 PM

Un- likely arrimar I got the old pics you see from Ron�s photo album and scanned them from home and posted them.

If you did see a similar pic or even the same one would be interesting to see, but when I mentioned to Ron about doing this, he never mentioned it being done before. But stranger things have happened.
But to all the people who posted reply�s and had a look at the old girl thanks, she was a awesome car and as I said in the original post, the work put in by Ron was huge, wish he had built a dozen and I had one in my shed����VB


Here are the pics I saved from this forum on 24th July 2007. Same car or similar car?

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Posted 10 September 2008 - 09:32 PM

Ask him what the oil filler cap is for that is pictures next to the top radiator hose please?

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Posted 11 September 2008 - 08:35 AM

I'd say it goes directly to the sump.

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Posted 12 September 2008 - 09:20 PM

Reminds me of the Norm Beechy setup on the Monaro

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Posted 13 September 2008 - 08:39 PM

pwoah love those rims!!!
Sweet torry, yeh love the induction setup...kudos...

LMAO...i actually rekon the spider is kinda cool...:S

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 04:52 PM

Very nice induction setup, luv the cold air intake for the webbers BRILLIANT, i will be mentioning it to a mate that run's webers on his 202 LX

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 07:41 PM

simpson eh......sorry mate couldn't help myself... call me monty lol

there was someone on here with an LC 2 dr I think it was blue, that had a 6 with a similar type of system, maybe others can recall and give you a link.
I will have a look also

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 07:53 PM

here mate got to love search function....same but different.

i though it is pretty trick

i think the pics were in post #32

http://www.gmh-toran...?showtopic=3087

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 09:56 PM

Love the number plates, where do ya get'em :tease:

Regards .............. Barry

PS ................ Goddamn that's a nice machine :spoton:

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Posted 15 September 2008 - 10:02 PM

Did any L34 come with a woodgrain dash ,not to my knowlege

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Posted 16 September 2008 - 10:16 AM

Have seen a woodgrain dash L34 before.
As L34 was just the HO engine package for the LH SLR5000, then any SLR 5000 could get it, regardless of interior.

Just as an aside, how many of the smooth (not stipple) black ashtray LH SLRs have you seen?

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 07:10 PM

Well as far as I know, the only "SL/R" woodgrain dashes were six pots and L32s so that's completely wrong. I would be suprised if LH was any different to LX, but I could be wrong.

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 11:10 AM

L34's all left the factory with black dashes the same as the LH SLR5000. having said that there would be no reason the woodgrain dash could not have been retro fitted later or by the dealer. As Heath says, only the 4.2 and 3.3 SLRs had woodgrain dashes. Smooth black SLR ashtrays were not a factory thing, there were only 3 types, black grain finish, dark woodgrain and in the LX range they were all silver.




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