EDIT: The wheels were bolted onto a standard length banjo in this picture.. we just put them on for a picture (have got a custom diff made)
Edited by gorto, 04 September 2013 - 12:01 PM.
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LC GTR - FATHER AND SON GROUND UP RESTORATION
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Posted 04 September 2013 - 12:02 PM
Nice GTR Ryan,
Shiny Mags too, Great Job. Dave I
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Posted 04 September 2013 - 12:47 PM
Thanks Dave
Here's a picture of the torana on the rotisserie that we got off ebay
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Posted 04 September 2013 - 12:50 PM
Opinions on the exhaust tip anyone? not sure..
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Posted 04 September 2013 - 01:02 PM
Look good to me
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Posted 04 September 2013 - 01:05 PM
The injection has been pulled apart by the engine builder and ported, still got a little bit more to go
Heres a picture of the head after porting
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Posted 04 September 2013 - 05:42 PM
looking good, i should have bought one of those manifolds instead of webers..
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Posted 04 September 2013 - 09:44 PM
looking good, i should have bought one of those manifolds instead of webers..
manifold cost is similar, but then you have to factor in fuel delivery, wiring, sensors, cpu etc. gets real expensive, real quick.
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Posted 04 September 2013 - 10:19 PM
just had a look back through the earlier pics, fair bit of meat take out of the manifold! what head are you using?
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Posted 05 September 2013 - 08:55 AM
just had a look back through the earlier pics, fair bit of meat take out of the manifold! what head are you using?
Yeah i know right! He laughed at me when i dropped the manifold off, he said "well that will be a bit lighter when you get it back"
Yella Terra 12 port alloy head
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Posted 05 September 2013 - 09:04 AM
Have you decided on an achievable compression ratio with the YT head?
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Have you decided on an achievable compression ratio with the YT head?
What do you mean achievable? I think we could run what ever compression we wanted, just depended on the fuel we were prepared to use
Decided to keep it legal and run pump fuel instead of avgas, comp will most likely be 10.5, any higher and there will start to be slight detonation
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Posted 05 September 2013 - 09:29 PM
Heres the front end assembly to get the 16x7's to fit
2inch drop spindles (so we can still run standard length springs but have a lower ride) and dba gold ford leyland p76 disc (brings wheel-track in 7mm each side) with a custom made spacer to fit the bearing
hydraulic clutch set-up that we used, had it lying around from dads old sprintcar
A9 altrac powder coated chrome molley adjustable arms
Custom length Borg Warner with chrome molley tubes with billet 28 spline axles and commodore brakes
Harrop/Eaton truetrac diff centre
Re-priming the engine bay, for the last time (i mean it this time!)
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Posted 05 September 2013 - 09:33 PM
engine bay once primed
Sanding the floor with his fathers day present between his legs haha
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Posted 05 September 2013 - 09:37 PM
Brilliant. I can't wait to see this car come together. The attention to detail and quality of components is going to make this an amazing car. Keep up the great work.
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Posted 05 September 2013 - 09:39 PM
Thanks Macka,
Have you ever taken your car to toranafest?
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Posted 05 September 2013 - 09:53 PM
Your old man looks like a dude.
Great build - very interesting too 
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Posted 06 September 2013 - 08:16 AM
Your old man looks like a dude.
Great build - very interesting too
haha he is, he was posing for a picture for one of his mates to prove he was working on a sunday!
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Posted 06 September 2013 - 09:50 AM
What do you mean achievable? I think we could run what ever compression we wanted, just depended on the fuel we were prepared to use
Decided to keep it legal and run pump fuel instead of avgas, comp will most likely be 10.5, any higher and there will start to be slight detonation
If you have a united servo nearby with e85 on the pump, consider running that instead, you can run 13-14:1 on e85 in an n/a motor quite easily, especially as you are running programmable efi!
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Posted 06 September 2013 - 06:47 PM
If you have a united servo nearby with e85 on the pump, consider running that instead, you can run 13-14:1 on e85 in an n/a motor quite easily, especially as you are running programmable efi!
If you dont want the hassels of setting up a fuel system to run E85 another good alternative for united Pump fuel is P100. Its their 100 octane ethanol blend fuel (5% eth)
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Posted 06 September 2013 - 07:40 PM
If its a new yet alloy head, it will be open chamber, limiting the compression you can run without running into dramas or welding up the combustion chambers
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Posted 06 September 2013 - 10:36 PM
If you have a united servo nearby with e85 on the pump, consider running that instead, you can run 13-14:1 on e85 in an n/a motor quite easily, especially as you are running programmable efi!
unfortunately no, we live in a rural area, + there are some problems with efi, its harsh on everything and engine builder said even driving it once a week would only just be enough to keep it from eating away at it. He wanted me to run through pump fuel through it to clean it nearly every time too i think, which i don't have the time or patience to do. And when i leave school and g to uni the car will stay here at the house so it wont get started at all unless i get dad to do it..
If its a new yet alloy head, it will be open chamber, limiting the compression you can run without running into dramas or welding up the combustion chambers
It wasn't a new head, bought it 2nd hand off a mate
If you dont want the hassels of setting up a fuel system to run E85 another good alternative for united Pump fuel is P100. Its their 100 octane ethanol blend fuel (5% eth)
dad tried this in his 11.2 comp 588c.i big block (normally uses bp 98) and didnt think it was as good, maybe just in his head though
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Posted 07 September 2013 - 12:12 AM
Fair enough. There are a lot of myths with e85 btw. I'm considering changing my turbo gem over to it but i'd have to bring the comp up greatly as it's only 7:1 currently.
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Posted 07 September 2013 - 11:26 AM
Fair enough. There are a lot of myths with e85 btw. I'm considering changing my turbo gem over to it but i'd have to bring the comp up greatly as it's only 7:1 currently.
The engine builder has built many engines on e85, loves it, but only if you have the time to maintain it and keep everything nice.
Theres an extremely quick full carbon fibre wrx hill-climb car here. He recently changed over to e85,.did it all properly fuel system and injector wise, but says its hard to maintain everything
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