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#1 Stinga

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Posted 09 July 2010 - 02:37 AM

G'day again guys and girls,

Have had my eye out for a uc torana for a daily driver for a little while, so i can take my ute of the road and get it ready for my wedding. being away for work i havent been looking too hard, but i managed to buy this from the other side of the world. some of you may have seen it listed on ebay.
it will be living at my mums place until i get back in november and then the plan is to use it for a work/daily driver car, having not really played with toranas before, im planning a full suspension workover so i can have a bit of fun thrashing it round. can anyone recommend springs/shocks/swaybars?
also looking for a tacho dash for it, give me a yell if you have one you want to part with
heres a few pics(they are the ebay ones, i will get more when it gets home next week)

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Posted 09 July 2010 - 12:40 PM

Mmmmmmm... UC :bliss:

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Posted 09 July 2010 - 12:50 PM

Hey thats the link i showed you! lol

Great clean looking UC, if it went for anywhere near the starting price you got a bargain!

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Posted 10 July 2010 - 12:44 AM

Pretty neat looking UC. Good start to making a decent LX : )

I'll ask my brother if he wants to part with his full instrument cluster from his hatch.

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Posted 10 July 2010 - 02:14 PM

cheers dirtbag, pm me if he wants to sell it

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Posted 11 July 2010 - 09:18 PM

after the suspension will probably be a manual conversion, so if anyone has the gear laying round, let me know



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Posted 11 July 2010 - 11:48 PM

Looks tidy. Manual + stiffer, lower suspension in any Torana makes it great.

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 08:33 AM

thats the plan heath, and some fat wheels, and possibly a brake upgrade if i get real excited.

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 08:29 PM

ok, so the mrs organised for the car to go to a storage place today. gave her orders to get decent photos and i was pleasantly surprised how much better the car looks in these ones!!
enjoy!!
p.s does anyone have a 4th hubcap for me?
and by any chance did they do an slr steering wheel to match that funky interior colour or where they all black?

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 08:40 PM

that looks pretty nice hey, as for the steering wheelmy old hatch had a blue/grey interior with matching gts type, dont see them around much though

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 08:43 PM

You can get the GTS wheels in brown aswell, as found on UC SL/E's AFAIK.

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Posted 12 July 2010 - 10:42 PM

Yeah UC SL/E wheel is what ya want I think, or maybe it's just UC SL? Either way they had the cream rim on a wheel with black holed spokes, but the centre (horn button) was a different style that doesn't look racey, suitable though.

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Posted 13 July 2010 - 11:08 PM

UC SL/E

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Posted 14 July 2010 - 01:04 AM

thanks rodomo, thats what im after!

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Posted 18 July 2010 - 05:11 AM

can anyone recommend shocks/springs and swaybars?

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Posted 18 July 2010 - 09:12 AM

I run commodore IRS springs in the back of mine and they are excessively stiff. I wouldn't recommend them unless you specifically need to limit your suspension travel, which I do with my heavily dished wheels. Choppies up front and they seem okay; stiffness is appropriate for the car but I need to change them because I want to go lower.

I would just find a set of lowered springs for all four corners and see what they are like, you might want to go stiffer at one end or whatever, experimenting is the best way to find out exactly what you want in my opinion, thankfully Torana springs are cheap and you can sell the ones you decide you don't want. Shocks? The more you spend the better you get kinda thing. If you want it to sit nicely on the road you want the shocks to be good, Bilsteins would probably be the best option, Konis a close second. The Konis are 2-way adjustable I think, where as the Bilsteins aren't really adjustable but you can change the viscosity of the fluid (i.e. one way adjustable). My limited experience with Monroes, Pedders and things like that is that they are really just appropriate for pedestrian cars.

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Posted 18 July 2010 - 09:34 AM

Koni reds are one way adjustable without pulling them apart, think koni yellows are two way adjustable.

Nice rig mate.

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Posted 18 July 2010 - 05:30 PM

Clean UC mate, will make a great daily.

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Posted 21 July 2010 - 01:12 PM

thinking about maybe getting some of those showwheels streeters, i know they are popping up everywhere but i like them, and they are pretty cheap, thinking the dark grey. opinions???



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Posted 28 July 2010 - 10:47 PM

got this wheel

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Posted 28 July 2010 - 10:51 PM

lol I woulda bought one second hand!

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Posted 28 July 2010 - 11:11 PM

Hey stinga, do you want that dash?

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Posted 20 December 2010 - 01:33 PM

will be heading down to wollongong next week to get the uc out of storage, also got some new wheels, 15x6.5 what size tyres will fit on them?

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Posted 21 December 2010 - 01:35 PM

Like a 195 55 series would probably be about the go. That may not match for speedo gearing 100% but it would be close

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Posted 21 December 2010 - 02:02 PM

sounds good Heath, not to fussed about the speedo, i will roughly work it out from the gps

just brought my HD sedan home, and i had some wheels in it with brand new 205/55/15, that i had forgotten about, would they be too wide for these wheels?




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