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haydens supercharged 78 UC

Started by _V6 UC_ , Dec 10 2009 08:31 PM

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#1 _V6 UC_

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Posted 10 December 2009 - 08:31 PM

had this car for just over 2 years now was bought from over east with a few mods already done to it, was a VN v6 now converted to L67(factory supercharged V6) mods:
L67 conversion from 00 VT calais 150 000km
CAR: 1978 sunbird
ENGINE:
block stripped honed, decked, crank balanced and polished, heads skimmed reassembled with factory pistons/rods, hastings rings, king bearings all round.
BYE modular pulley setup 82mm pulley
XP-hot cam
double row timing chain
105lb valve springs

GEARBOX:
VN T700 (corvette servo, Z pack shift kit, rebuilt in 08)

DIFF:
VN V8 LSD 3.45 diff shortened to suit, car now has disks all round, HZ 3 inch tailshaft shortened to suit

WHEELS:
VE ute pursuit rims 16x7 all round, have been machined and offsets changed to suit, with more dish on the rear, 245 on back 205 on front

MISC:
lowered all round with competition suspention, upgraded sway bars, front and rear( specs unknown, was done when i bought it)
custom surge tank setup running facet lift pump with VL turbo high pressure pump(standard torana tank)
HQ stub axles, HQ ventilated disk upgrade on front ( commodore/HQ stud pattern conversion)
3 inch mandrel bent exhaust, HM headers 1 5/8
MSD coils
VS radiator and thermo
VN dash cluster has been grafted into the dash and auto selector
battery in boot
stereo(2 12" pioneers subs, 6x9s in parcel, splits infront, 2 amps pioneer head unit)

old setup
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#2 _V6 UC_

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Posted 10 December 2009 - 08:59 PM

new rims on, freshly powdercoated

setting up new surge tank i made, only place under the car was next to the tank so i had to cut out the spare wheel well, who needs a spare

my spare parts bin haha

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old engine pulled out, bay prepped and painted in gloss black, turned out a bit glossier than i would have liked, should have went with satin

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Engine on stand reassembled, all done by me n my cousin first motor ive fully assembled, pretty happy with it, note the headers were just on for mockup and to check clearance, ended up fitting VS HM headers with a few minor mods to make them fit

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Engine in and ready to go to the exhaust shop

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big thanks to pat at mettams in morley he did an awsome job with the exhaust, very good price too ! just went with mild steel as i might need to change setup in near future if im going to intercool it

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decided to ditch the box/panel filter and fit stainless induction pipe and K&N pod, blower really whines its head off now

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went in to the tuners made pretty good power for the mods i have, so far bloody stoked, considering i did about 90% of the work at home(im a sheety not a mechanic haha), done 8000km on it still hasnt skipped a beat, and has put plenty of commodore owners to shame and left scratching their heads haha

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hope i havent bored you too much, enjoy

and let me know what you think, cheers fellas

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#3 Litre8

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Posted 10 December 2009 - 10:26 PM

Very nice transplant. Would be a great package to drive.

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#4 _gen3torrie_

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 12:43 AM

i like it alot

mettams in morley is good i use the mettams in armadale for all my stuff there gonna be building my exhaust system for my LX

where abouts in perth r u?

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#5 _torriechick_

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 07:23 AM

Very nice, I like it alot too. And what colour is your UC hayden?

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#6 _UCV80_

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 08:44 AM

Nice work! Looks really clean. I like the surge tank location. I bet its a rocket to drive.

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#7 MRLXSS

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 08:49 AM

Wow! Very nice work mate!!

Looks perfect in that engine bay!

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#8 Heath

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 09:54 AM

That's f*cken cool!

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#9 _brett_32i_

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 11:26 AM

show us the dash.

breaths well, power to 6k rpm

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#10 _V6 UC_

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 07:39 PM

thanks for the comments guys. Yeah i just wanted something a little different, all my mates drive commodores/ricers etc. but there not really my type of car. so opted for the old look with the performance/reliability of a late model injected motor. ive had 3 torries(im only 21) and each one has taught me diffent things and how to work on cars, awesome to learn on.
im not sure on the colour name but im pretty sure its been resprayed in a factory colour, im saving my pennies now to do a respray keeping same colour but black along the bottoms of the doors/front/rear quarter n windows. yeah it breathes quite well, the cam loves full throttle haha

the limiter is set to 6k, id like to push it further, i know the yanks are running the same cam and pushing 7k+ revs, but its still got stock pistons and its my daily atm. gen3 im up in wanneroo mate

heres the dash, the power/economy button is used to turn the lock up convertor on while doin highway runs etc.

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few other little things, ive made a cold air intake were the battery usually sits, this is with the airbox inplace, now its just putting air straight into the pod

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got another pic showing how fun it is to wind a 3inch pipe over the VN diff haha

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#11 _torriechick_

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 07:58 PM

By the looks of it, I'm pretty sure it is Aztec Silver (my UC is that colour) and that was a factory colour.

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#12 _LH SLR 3300_

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Posted 12 December 2009 - 01:44 PM

Very impressive car mate, well done Posted Image

. How long before you think you'll intercool it?

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#13 _V6 UC_

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Posted 12 December 2009 - 02:02 PM

Very impressive car mate, well done . How long before you think you'll intercool it?

not too sure yet, i need to get it licenced first then a quick respray, so probly about 12 months off atleast, im pretty tempted to cool it instaed of paint but need to make it look a bit tidier first. Anyone know any good backyard spec blokes that can do a reasonable job (same colour) for about 2-3 grand? in perth??

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#14 _LH SLR 3300_

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Posted 12 December 2009 - 03:18 PM

Your car looks pretty good in the pics, so if it doesn't need any major body repairs, why not have a go at getting it ready for a repaint yourself? Plenty of people here on the forum have done this & i'm sure you'd find someone to apply the paint easily for 2-3k. It can get fairly expensive if you have to pay someone to do the prep work & paint it as it is very labour intensive work. Materials alone for a repaint in 2K are around the $1200-$1500 mark. I'd intercool it first, but thats just me. I'm looking at buying a Terra Charger for my EFI 5.0ltr Torana next year which has an intercooler option with water injection plate under the charger. Even just fitting a decent cooler & pipe set up on my VL Turbo made a big difference. Best of luck with your project & keep up the good work, i'll be keeping watch on this thread. Again, very well done Posted Image

cheers Matt

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#15 _Torrie_Man_

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Posted 13 December 2009 - 09:04 AM

i love it mate, exactly what i intend to do. Big thumbs up!

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#16 _V6 UC_

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Posted 13 December 2009 - 05:13 PM

Your car looks pretty good in the pics, so if it doesn't need any major body repairs, why not have a go at getting it ready for a repaint yourself? Plenty of people here on the forum have done this & i'm sure you'd find someone to apply the paint easily for 2-3k. It can get fairly expensive if you have to pay someone to do the prep work & paint it as it is very labour intensive work. Materials alone for a repaint in 2K are around the $1200-$1500 mark. I'd intercool it first, but thats just me. I'm looking at buying a Terra Charger for my EFI 5.0ltr Torana next year which has an intercooler option with water injection plate under the charger. Even just fitting a decent cooler & pipe set up on my VL Turbo made a big difference. Best of luck with your project & keep up the good work, i'll be keeping watch on this thread. Again, very well done

cheers Matt

yeah, im thinking imight do just that, my uncles painted a few cars recently that have turned out pretty decent(both my cousins) so i might get him to give me a hand. Yeah cooled will make the biggest difference, will be a totally different car, will be able to make alot more power by upping the boost

i know a guy that makes a carbon fibre A2A plate that he has on a VN commy running 11s on a stock bottom end, stock cam, so should go pretty well in a torrie haha

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#17 _BAILLIE_

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Posted 14 December 2009 - 01:08 PM

Awesome car!

Good on you for assembling the motor too, must make you feel pretty good when you give it a bootfull.

Can you show us some more 3/4 shots of the car? I'd like to have a gander at the look of it with those chaser rims on it.

+ 1 vote for 'cooler first and then paint it yourself later.

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#18 _V6 UC_

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Posted 14 December 2009 - 11:19 PM

Awesome car!

Good on you for assembling the motor too, must make you feel pretty good when you give it a bootfull.

Can you show us some more 3/4 shots of the car? I'd like to have a gander at the look of it with those chaser rims on it.

+ 1 vote for 'cooler first and then paint it yourself later.

yeah il take a few shots for ya tomorow. How come you guys think i should cool it first??

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#19 _BAILLIE_

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Posted 15 December 2009 - 04:48 PM

Cheers mate.

Function over form i guess.

It already looks fine anyways, although im sure it goes fine too.

Perhaps you will need to modify some of the bodywork to fit the cooler, and in that case i'd say you would be better off paiting it afterwards.

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#20 _V6 UC_

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Posted 20 December 2009 - 07:29 PM

heres a few pics showing the pursuit rims

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got the indicator calncelation sussed today, still got no horn tho, when i pres the button i can hear a relay click under the bonnet (commodore relay/fuse box) but no horn, i think i mustnt have hooked something up when i put it all back together when i sprayed the bay, few morfe little things to do then i gotta take it over the pits to find out what needs to be engineered

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#21 _V6 UC_

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 07:39 PM

went down the drags last night, ran a 13.2 first run. Hit the limiter in 2nd but was still the fastest time i got on the night. was running car just as i would on the street, didnt even let tires down till later to try and get a little more traction. i reckon its got a 12 in it with a bit more practice, and i didnt even launch it, just fed on slowly in first and manuallly shifted due to p.o.s t700 box short shifting in D. Its pretty adictive but, cant wait to get down and have another go

tyres were nexen 205/50/16 on front and 245/45/16 on back, would like to maybe invest in some MTs, but pretty sure next run headlight, passenger seat and subs will all be coming out, and try get my 60' time down to sneak it into the 12s

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#22 _gen3torrie_

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 10:14 PM

wow not bad i went there a few weeks ago in the calais wont be going back until the torana's done did the marshalls pick on everything?

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#23 _V6 UC_

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Posted 22 January 2010 - 06:29 PM

the guys in scrutineering where pretty suprised when i lifted the bonnet haha. Nah they were good, spent more time talking about what was done to it than going over the car.

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#24 GML-31

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Posted 22 January 2010 - 06:41 PM

respectable time, would have had a few people scratching their heads

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#25 _V6 UC_

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 09:19 PM

new pb, been a while since i been on here, did a [email protected]

im starting to strip the car and will be respraying it with my uncle. Will post pics as i progress