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#476 Bart

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 08:10 PM

Well its been over 3 and a half years (i think) building my LJ and today i went for the engineer certificate. And it passed. Thank christ its almost over, still need green slip and rego, should do middle next week.
So im happy and relieved. :nudie:
Oh got to thank everyone who helped and a encouraged me, and advised me, there have been times when i was stuck but there was usually someone here who could help.
Thanks guys and girls.

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 10:32 PM

Sensational!

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 11:45 PM

Well done mate, great to hear she's nearly on the road! Got any pics for us....??

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Posted 26 September 2009 - 12:47 AM

I was just thinking about this one the other day wondering what had happened. :huh:
(I don't post much in build threads but read lots and love these innovation threads)

Well done! 1 down, 2 to go! :clap:

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Posted 26 September 2009 - 08:09 AM

Awesome!

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Posted 26 September 2009 - 12:47 PM

Thanks everyone, i will post some pics. Not the prettiest car, not the pretiest owner either lol but i will get some pics.

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Posted 26 September 2009 - 01:08 PM

I was just thinking about this one the other day wondering what had happened. :huh:
(I don't post much in build threads but read lots and love these innovation threads)

Well done! 1 down, 2 to go! :clap:

Thank you for your thoughts, basically what happened was the oil pan was leaking due to bad welding, Micks metal craft welded it. I was very pissed off and heart broken at the thought of coming so far only to pull it apart again. Rod Andrews in Seven Hills fixed it thankfully. Rod did a great job, he is always busy but makes time to do stuff for me, may take him a while as he has other big projects so its understandable, but you know he does it right.
So since it took several attempts to stop the leak in the sump, (its aluminum so if its not done right the first time, alum needs to be spotless, and it was full of oil, the challenge was greater than first seemed) SO CLEANING AND WELDING, CLEANING AND WELDING, LEAK TESTING OVER AND OVER. It took time. Pulling the engine out is a challenge in it self, while it was all out I thought, well I may as well use a beefier gear box, so I went for the RB25 GB and it turned out great. Previously an RB20T GB, (RB20T and RB25T have the same bell housing bolt pattern but the 25 is much fatter and taller) No regrets, I'm glad now I did that. But of course not that straight forward lol, had to weld in a larger tunnel, I had to fabricate it from 2mm cold rolled steel, (with help/advice from my Torana forum buddies) I know 2mm was too thick but the original was 1.8mm?? Roughly so that was close enough. Tunnel fab is in the "Fabrication" section.

I was just thinking about this one the other day wondering what had happened. :huh:
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Well done! 1 down, 2 to go! :clap:

Hang on lol, what the other 2??? :surrenderwave:

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Posted 26 September 2009 - 01:10 PM

Green slip (wotever that is :blink2: ) and rego.

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Posted 26 September 2009 - 01:16 PM

Green slip (wotever that is :blink2: ) and rego.

Oh I thought you meant another 2 car builds lol, you had me worried lol
I know I got a Pontiac Laurentian but thats way down the track.

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Posted 27 September 2009 - 08:50 AM

Any up to date pics of the Engine bay? or has not much changed in there since the last pics

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Posted 27 September 2009 - 11:50 AM

I have cleaned up the engine bay a bit, not much has changed really.
I should take some pics today, it�s definitely not a show stopper but I think most can appreciate the mechanical and engineering side of it. Much later down the track the body will be completely stripped and straightened out and painted maybe green like on the VY SS Commodores? Or that Purple on the VY SS Commodores. I�m not sure and don�t really care at the moment.
I�m changing the subject and gibbering away aren�t I, so yeah ill get the pics, its just the car is a few k's away from where I live.

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Posted 27 September 2009 - 02:58 PM

just read the whole thread, and i have to say, its come a long way, very nice car indeed! congrats man

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Posted 27 September 2009 - 08:43 PM

Thats great bart well done better get it to the track to test it out :burnout:

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Posted 11 October 2009 - 09:56 PM

Thanks guys for your great comments
Unfortunately the car isnt fully restored as the title says and it shows in these pics, but the idea half way through the build was to complete it to the point of engineering and rego and here it is all engineered and regoed. Since half way through the build we/I was told, and most of us heard the RTA will change the modification rules so i had to rap it up early. Has some primer etc on it but you get the general idea, it has potential to be a real nice looking Torana with some body work and paint which will come later.

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Posted 11 October 2009 - 10:07 PM

Dead right mate, thats got heeeeeaps of potential!

The rims suit the car very nicely too.

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Posted 11 October 2009 - 10:31 PM

Since my camera went flat on me :banghead: i couldnt get close ups and detailed pics
Heres a little peak of the passenger side turbo, GT3071R with K&N filter and a -8 Speed flow fitting hanging down to drain the oil, the oil drains through this and sucked through by a gear type electric oil pump, into the sump, the other turbo shares the same line/pump. The pump is used for drainage as the turbo is below the line of the sump i.e. not gravity drained.
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Posted 11 October 2009 - 10:45 PM

Mate that looks awesome, i can really appreciate the hard work that has gone into this build, to fit that engine in there and have it engineered is a real achievement, well done :spoton:

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Posted 12 October 2009 - 07:09 AM

Thats great bart good to see it back on the road how does it go ?

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Posted 12 October 2009 - 08:37 AM

Thats great bart good to see it back on the road how does it go ?

Thanks guys
Yeah it goes ok, its not tuned and just discovered the Holley Blue lift pump has shit it self.
So will fix that, later get it tuned, it takes off pretty well but flattens out fairly quickly, im guessing its out of tune, its pretty much set to default atm.

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Posted 13 October 2009 - 04:57 PM

Hey guys
Since my Holley Blue fuel pump has shit it self, i.e. not pumping after 15 mins of running/idling or revving, I would like some advice on another fuel pump. This pump is for lifting from the tank into the surge tank. The Edelbrock EFI does the rest.
So I'm looking at:
Carter, 25GPH
Carter, 100GPH
Edelbrock 120GPH
Edelbrock 160GPH

I'm thinking along the lines of Carter 100GPH or Edelbrock 120GPH both have 3/8 fittings which suits my hose ends.

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Posted 13 October 2009 - 05:56 PM

I would agree with you, haven't used an Edelbrock pump but Carter is good and 100gph should be ample

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Posted 13 October 2009 - 06:59 PM

ive got a carter black bart no issues at all

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Posted 13 October 2009 - 07:25 PM

ive got a carter black bart no issues at all

Thanks LJ355 and 76lxhatch, did you have to mount it in line with the bottom of the tank? The Holley apparently has to be in line with the bottom of the tank so its not sucking upwards.
Yeah im thinking Carter.

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Posted 13 October 2009 - 07:36 PM

They're all basically the same in theory, including the Carter. I'm sure the instructions gave some sort of absolute maximum height measurement with regard to the tank which wasn't too bad (maybe 1ft above? but still ideally below), mine's basically attached to the floor pan above the diff simply because there is nowhere else and so far so good.

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Posted 14 November 2009 - 11:51 PM

The car is running sweet but still needs a dyno tune.
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