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Fixing my brothers UC hatch

Started by _dirtbag_ , Dec 30 2009 01:19 PM

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#1626 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 02 May 2011 - 05:13 PM

Hand grenade project #2.

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#1627 its Paul

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Posted 02 May 2011 - 05:40 PM

He could do a twin turbo 460 in the escort, that should be fast enough.

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#1628 _Kush_

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Posted 02 May 2011 - 07:54 PM

I would have had the shit stroked out of it before it went in anyway...... But that's just me

Simon should give the car to me anyhow.

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#1629 LX2DR

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Posted 29 November 2011 - 10:54 PM

After finally getting to the end of this rediculously long thread, i have come to the conclusion that all you guys who gave praise on this build dont know what your talking about.

After all he phuked up a perfectly good UC and made a freak!

:sofa:

Great thread and a brilliant build, car looks SO good, if GMH had built them like that they would have had to make twice as many.
When can i drop mine of for some work?

Edited by LX2DR, 29 November 2011 - 10:55 PM.

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#1630 Mort

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Posted 29 November 2011 - 11:42 PM

Stand in line buddy

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#1631 _dirtbag_

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Posted 10 March 2012 - 09:24 AM

Well I just thought I'd come back here and say the car is still going but my brother hasn't handed me the keys yet : )

I went down to canberra last year for a visit and snapped a couple of pics.

Hahaha we're so mature : )

I took this one with my phone going through the tunnel near Civic.

My friend Adam is an awesome photographer and took a bunch of pics of the car for Simey, so thanks Adam!!!

Here's a few.

So there you go : )

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#1632 ls2lxhatch

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Posted 10 March 2012 - 12:16 PM

Photos are great. Any chance of putting up links to the full resolution photos?

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#1633 _dirtbag_

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Posted 10 March 2012 - 12:44 PM

There's no links to them. I can email them though : )

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#1634 _AD_75_

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Posted 10 March 2012 - 11:37 PM

Awesome pic mate! car still lookin good. :spoton:

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#1635 LXCHEV

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Posted 11 March 2012 - 07:09 AM

Bloody AWESOME shots

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#1636 orangeLJ

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Posted 12 March 2012 - 11:39 AM

Great photos!

It has the perfect stance. Too many LH/LX torries sit so awkwardly due to the wheel/tyre choices or they have the 80s style rake to clear the uncut rear guards.

But you sir, have found perfection!

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#1637 _mick74lh_

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Posted 12 March 2012 - 12:39 PM

Wow those photos are amazing! Thanks for sharing them.

Love the choice of wheels too by the way. Bloody awesome.

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#1638 _sjohnst7_

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Posted 14 March 2012 - 04:52 PM

Just to annoy people (probably)... I am soooo glad the car does not have the rear spoiler. I love the shape of the hatches without it.

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#1639 Stinga

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Posted 14 March 2012 - 05:31 PM

Just to annoy people (probably)... I am soooo glad the car does not have the rear spoiler. I love the shape of the hatches without it.

i agree, it looks much better without the rear spoiler, UC's rock :clappin:

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#1640 myss427

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Posted 14 March 2012 - 05:41 PM

I love the new clear bonnet you put on it for the pics! Looks awesome.

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#1641 its Paul

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Posted 14 March 2012 - 07:16 PM

So what were you doing, why is the grille out?

Why didnt I get you to do my car? oh well if I win lotto........

Photos & Car looks amazing, keep comming onto the forum Simon and flicking pic's up, you must be proud of the ugly one, Its amazing how something ugly can create something so pretty..... ;-D

Only kiddin Tim, have seen uglier.

Cheers.

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#1642 _sjohnst7_

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Posted 16 March 2012 - 05:53 AM

i'm living proof that there is uglier!

Grille was out to adjust bonnet latch.

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#1643 RBTORY

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 01:49 AM

Bloody nice car Simon, and a top job by your bro, well done Tim!

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#1644 _ls1lj_

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 05:11 PM

I'm only about 2 years too late but awesome car. So must be time to get it blown?

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#1645 _dirtbag_

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Posted 18 October 2012 - 11:10 PM

Well I haven't been in here for a while!!!

Ben, yes a blower would be lovely, but unfortunatley illegal : (

Well my brother and his lovely fam came up here a few weeks ago for a holiday and he brought the gearbox x member with him so I could chop it up : )

The reason being it made the exhaust too low.

This kind of shows how bad it was. Considering this is now Simons only car and gets driven every day it needed a bit more clearance.

So the plan was to cut sections out above the pipes and raise them. Simple. This is the before shot. There's about 35mm above the crossmember above the pipes, so that's how far I'm going to raise the crossmember.

So I made up a simple jig and used nutserts (of course hahaha) to bolt the x member to it.

Simon wanted to do some welding, so I tacked the jig together and let him fully weld the jig. His welding is excellent!

So with the jig made and the crossmember fitted to it I started chopping : )

I'm using 6mm wall pipe for the new pieces to allow room for the exhaust, with pieces of 10mm plate as bracing.

I gave it a quick sand up.

And finally a coat of black.

I then introduced Simon to the plasma cutter : )

I think he liked it : )

So anyway, that was what we did up here. Simon took the crossmember back home and stuck it back in the car. Heaps of clearance now so he can get the exhaust modified to suit.

Here's another before shot, showing how low the exhaust is. Plus the car has actually been raised recently so it was lower than this!

And after the exhaust was changed.

Simon also fitted a tail shaft loop.

And he also fitted this swirl pot (or whatever it's called??) above the drop tank to stop it surging.

Here it is parked outside his work next to a friends VW.

And what's with the tail shaft loop and tow strap?

Well he's entered the car in this -

So there it is. The car is still going and getting driven every day, just like a car should be!!!!

Oh, and he had Jakes Performance in canberra retune it recently and it spun up 243rwkw. Not bad for a stock motor!

I found a couple of pics that are just silly but I like them. Neither of us drink a lot, but when we get together a beer is nice so we made sure we got some bogan pics : )

10.45am sounds like beer time to us, especially when we're about to weld a crossmember and play with a plasma cutter : )

That's it for now : )

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#1646 _j.e.d._

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Posted 19 October 2012 - 07:15 AM

That's good stuff Tim, there will always be things to fine tune on a car when you use it every day & work out the kinks - & it's good to see it used every day too, you can tell by the chipped paint under the sills!
When it comes to the nutsert tool, are they all much of a muchness? or are you better to pay more for a better quality tool?
Cheers

Edited by j.e.d., 19 October 2012 - 07:16 AM.

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#1647 _dirtbag_

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Posted 19 October 2012 - 07:43 AM

Hi Jase. I guess with everything you get what you pay for, but having said that I've only ever used this nutsert gun so I have no idea what the cheaper ones are like. I assume if you're just using alloy or mild steel nutserts they should be ok?

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#1648 76lxhatch

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Posted 19 October 2012 - 09:13 AM

I've got a cheapie, it works fine for the 6mm ones I normally use.

That cross member will be stronger now than it was before too, many of the off the shelf conversion ones seem to be under engineered and have a lot of flex.