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Yet another Hatch rebuild

Started by its Paul , Jan 10 2009 05:18 PM

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#176 its Paul

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Posted 12 March 2012 - 10:02 PM

Hi all, not much has been happening with the SS, but I have been doing little bits n bobs.

Bought a sheet of ply, & started to cut it up into some familiar shapes.

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Then recovered some with vinyl & carpet.

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Bit of a trial fit just to see how things are going,

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Happy with that, so time for paint.

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Refitted the carpet, looks good but don’t like the style of the hatch carpet, will call Boom Funk later & buy a split original type.

While I was at it I cleaned and painted these.

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Been playing with the tank as well.

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Sorry fellers, I know im posting a lot of pic's of the tank, but it gives a better idea of the way I butchered it, also I like it, so I'll post some more. ;-)

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Bought some fittings for the carb & reg.

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Well thats about where Im up to, I have done a little more but this PhotoBucket is laging and I better stop before I brake some thing :-/

Cheers Paul.

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#177 _sjp67m_

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Posted 30 August 2012 - 07:46 PM

Very impressive hatch Love the color scheme

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#178 _BARRY JACKPOT_

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Posted 30 August 2012 - 11:44 PM

That tank is a work of art.

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#179 its Paul

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Posted 31 August 2012 - 12:05 AM

Thanks Chris, its pretty big,

Cheers Stav, bet you had to dig pretty deep in the forum to find this. Lol

The car is up at Dirtbag's at the moment, I sent it to him in the hope to finish it in time for Toranafest, but the wheels are holding me up, they are still in the US, so maybe I will drive it down there next year.

I'll see if I can upload some pics over the weekend

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#180 _LS1 Hatch_

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Posted 31 August 2012 - 04:20 AM

but the wheels are holding me up, they are still in the US, so maybe I will drive it down there next year.

Drive it here to the US to get your wheels, you mean ? Sweet....

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#181 _BARRY JACKPOT_

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Posted 31 August 2012 - 06:57 AM

Hanging to see this one done especially with those wheels, love the pro touring look. Plus hatch back toranas are the greatest car ever produced in Australia (and I'm a Mopar guy) it's looking good dude..

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#182 _LXSS350_

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Posted 31 August 2012 - 01:48 PM

Hatch looks very nice. What a great job.

Hanging to see this one done especially with those wheels, love the pro touring look. Plus hatch back toranas are the greatest car ever produced in Australia (and I'm a Mopar guy) it's looking good dude..

I will second that.

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#183 _hatch76_

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Posted 31 August 2012 - 11:52 PM

hi mate,
just read from start to finish and awsome looking car. Your dash looks great, I have just ordered some door trims through dash original and can't wait to get them, but may have to get the dash done too after seeing that!
cheers Dan

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#184 _dirtbag_

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 09:21 AM

I'll post a couple of pics of the firewall mods. Gained an extra 50mm of clearance.

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Choppy choppy : )

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I cut through the seam where the floor meets the firewall, so after reshaping the firewall to it's new location I could weld the fllor back to the firewall from the outside. Hard to explain, but if you do this yourself you'll see what I mean : )

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Some etch primer then stone guard and it's not too obvious.

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Quite a lot of room in there now.

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This is all you can see of it from inside. It's been cleaned and etch primed.

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The other side is done now too.

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#185 _L31SS HATCH_

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 06:26 PM

Awesome job, love the black and white hatches!!!! So, how long untill she's on the road Paul? You must be itching so bad!!!!!!

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#186 its Paul

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 07:26 PM

Yeah its not far off now Marcus, what I wanted to do was drive down to Toranafest, but the wheels and a diff rebuild have held the car up. Had an email from Boze (wheel people) the wheels are finished and ready to be shipped, the diff will be finished next week, so at a guesstimate I'd say Tim would be taking it on its first test drive in about three weeks, . :-)

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#187 _L31SS HATCH_

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 07:45 PM

Cool, all the best with her , hope there's not too many gremlins.. Ha ha

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#188 _BARRY JACKPOT_

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 08:33 PM

I'm on the edge of my seat for this one.

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#189 Ando

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Posted 07 September 2012 - 05:24 AM

I can't wait to be taken for a ride!

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#190 its Paul

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Posted 07 September 2012 - 07:37 PM

I can't wait to be taken for a ride!

haha no Ando you can drive it

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#191 axistr

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Posted 18 September 2012 - 07:15 PM

Looking good paul, dont worry the power steer rack will be on its way to you very soon. I checked the list and you are second from the top,
Hope this helps.

Lenny.

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#192 _greg2240_

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Posted 21 September 2012 - 06:53 PM

if that aint the sexiest dash ever made i dont know what is. keep up the good work.

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#193 its Paul

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Posted 26 September 2012 - 09:26 PM

Hahaha, thanks Greg.

No worries Lenny, Just let me know when you're ready.

The wheels have arived, I think they look awesome, cant wait till I can put them on.

They are BOZE, ZE Forged, Injected.

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Cheers.

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#194 fatslr

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Posted 26 September 2012 - 11:19 PM

"!!!!!!!" get them on now nice looking in the house can't wait to see them on the car

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#195 _BARRY JACKPOT_

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Posted 27 September 2012 - 04:36 AM

They're gunna look awesome!

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#196 its Paul

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Posted 27 September 2012 - 08:19 PM

Yeah Im hanging to see them on the car Garth, every time I walk past them I stop for a gawk, lol

I hope so Chris, Im hopping to have them on the car at some stage next week, the diff should be finished by then

and yes, photos will follow

Cheers.

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#197 its Paul

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 05:51 PM

Went up to Tim's (dirtbag) the other day, dropped a few things off and took a few photos....... Awesome..... :spoton:

Tim also has a regular visitor, a Python, we went to see if he was there but he wasn't, well part of him was there.

Tim's hand in the snake skins mouth. the snake is about 3 meters long.

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Any way going to Tims again in the morning (Saturday), and do a bit of work on the car, I'll take more photos, hopefuly with the car on the ground, want to see how she looks at ride height.

Paul.