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Started by _Viper_ , May 08 2014 11:22 PM

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#26 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 15 May 2014 - 10:45 PM

Im curious as to how you got 3" under past the NCOP?

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#27 dattoman

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Posted 15 May 2014 - 10:49 PM

They just drop it Bomber

When the yellow sticker appears on the window they raise it

If the shock bottoms before the car hits the bump stops... it can be abit of a problem

The car might not have been designed for such drop and the shocks might not suit (or aftermarket shocks fitted with different travel to stock)

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#28 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 15 May 2014 - 10:54 PM

Bit differnt in QLD apparently, a defect requires a several hundred dollar visit to the pits to be cleared, whether the car passes or not.

Cheers.

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#29 _Viper_

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Posted 20 May 2014 - 10:51 PM

So the roof swap is complete, no more rusty Gutters!

Same ol same ol but finished welding in the two other inner C-pillar sections:

passcpillerwelded.jpg 67.48K 3 downloads

drvcpillerwelded.jpg 86.23K 4 downloads

Also welded on the C-pillar gutter section (after sandblasting and weld through priming the insides of course)

gutterwelded.jpg 61.17K 4 downloads

There was a rust repair in this following section altho I don't have the progress pics as Cam did this while I was working on the inside, Involved repairing the inner section, a section of the gutter and just above the gutter. Here is one pic I do have from when the roof was off the car:

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rustpatch.jpg 78.34K 3 downloads

I had a couple more holes to fill on the passenger side, not sure what these were from as they were then when the car was delivered... im guessing there was a rust hole and someone had cut the sections out in preparation, anywho they needed to go.

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cpillerholedgone.jpg 80.93K 4 downloads

Then both outer C-pillar seams were blasted and then lead wiped... Same deal tho Cam did this part so I don't have the in between pics:

Blasted:

cpillerblastedforlead.jpg 67.22K 3 downloads

Lead:

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passcpillerlead.jpg 88.7K 3 downloads

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#30 _Viper_

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Posted 20 May 2014 - 11:12 PM

Then the rest of the sections we had worked on were sandblasted and everything sealed up with Epoxy

Some of the blasted bits:

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Some of the bits primed:

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prime2.jpg 81.6K 4 downloads

prime3.jpg 68.61K 3 downloads

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hmm Seems I didn't take a pic of the car as a whole.

Thats enough on the Torry for me, Rob will take over and do the Beaver panel next. Ive got another Gemini to work on.

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#31 _LONA-CK_

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Posted 21 May 2014 - 07:11 AM

great reading thanks for sharing

cheers gong

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#32 John/lj

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Posted 21 May 2014 - 03:31 PM

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hey guys just thought we would post a pic of what the car looked like before it got dinged.

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#33 _mick74lh_

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Posted 22 May 2014 - 10:11 PM

Looks like a nice car in the photo. What happened that warranted the roof swap? Was it rolled or something?

Beaut job on the roof swap by the way though Clint.

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#34 John/lj

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Posted 23 May 2014 - 11:07 AM

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this is why it went into the panel beaters and has been the old story of opening a can of worms, the drip rails had a fair bit of cancer so a roof swap seemed the best option.

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#35 _BARRY JACKPOT_

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Posted 23 May 2014 - 11:15 AM

Oh Dear :-0

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#36 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 23 May 2014 - 11:21 AM

Well thats one way to make it look like a 4cyl model....

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#37 dattoman

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Posted 23 May 2014 - 11:02 PM

Took a look at the black falcon today you've been playing with CLint.

Mums the word... wink wink

The boys are very impressed

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#38 _Viper_

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Posted 23 May 2014 - 11:22 PM

Hah how'd you manage to get a look at that?

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#39 N/A-PWR

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Posted 23 May 2014 - 11:29 PM

Gee's sorry John,

That is very Painful. Dave I

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#40 dattoman

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Posted 24 May 2014 - 12:27 AM

Hah how'd you manage to get a look at that?

People ring me when their brakes don't work

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#41 _Viper_

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Posted 24 May 2014 - 10:15 AM

Ahhhh I see

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Posted 03 June 2014 - 11:25 AM

Nice Tig welding on the fancy pipe work Clint,

the Lead wiping makes the Torana look like a bought one,

and a fantastic body repair Reaper Custom shop you have there too.

Edit:-

Oh and almost forgot, here is the LHD Torana link:-

http://www.gmh-toran...-lhd-lj-torana/

Edited by TORYPOWER, 03 June 2014 - 11:29 AM.

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#43 _Viper_

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Posted 03 June 2014 - 10:16 PM

Cheers Dave, appreciate the kind words Hah Factory Chev badge on a Torana

Ok so Robs been busy as on the Torana, I raided his phone the other day for some pics.

The rear beaver panel had evidence of rust in once corner, originally was just planning to patch that section but after cutting the corner out and having a look inside with a torch we could see the rust inside and decided it best to open her up to clean it inside and out.

Looking further we found some holes in the inner panel that was hidden by bog :/

passengerinnerlowerquarter_zps65b5b63d.j

Blasted the lot

A section of the inner beaver was cut out the way to give access and all the rusty steel was cut out.

passengerinnerlowerquarter2_zpsee4626ce.

Patch made up:

Test fit:

And fully welded into place:

Another Pesky hole:

Gone:

Inner beaver section put back in place:

More holes!

Which seemed to be caused by debri getting trapped behind this bracket:

Usual story, cut out wherever there is rust:

Make a replacement part: (was a little trickyer as its not just straight but has a kink in the middle but only in the second fold not the first)

just about done

No more holes:

Onto the lower rear outer quarters... the passenger side didnt look too bad at first but the inside was very badly pitted, already starting to pinhole and very thin so off it came:

Rare spares made it a relatively quick and easy repair

No warping

Drivers side had been "repaired" at a earlier date, John wasnt happy with it so out that came also. including the spare wheel tub

Out with the old

In with the new

New beaver on (best pic rob took sorry)

Small patch on the corner

And that was where the car was up to last friday...

Edited by Viper, 03 June 2014 - 10:17 PM.

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#44 Ice

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Posted 03 June 2014 - 10:21 PM

Great work clint looks like you guys are on the ball

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Posted 03 June 2014 - 10:30 PM

and I like the Rares Spares Stickers on the Weld in Parts for the Photo Shoot too,

also I noticed one thing you said that is great, and that was the cut-out piece is the piece to make a repro from,

now that may sound funny, but the action-ed thought makes thinking simple.

top progress

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#46 madtoranajzedded

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Posted 03 June 2014 - 11:08 PM

very professional fab work Clint love it,when are you moving to tassie its great you have put pics up of the work to beaver panel

as thats helped me out on how far the panel goes up to where you have cut it out,didnt think they went up that far.

love the lead work,had any experience with allmetal,its like bog but its alloy and sets real hard you can hammer it.havn't seen anyone on the forum use the stuff yet,thinking about using it instead of lead

cheers Maz

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#47 _Viper_

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 01:14 AM

The beaver was actually 10mm short on one side, Rob actually made up a extension but didn't seem to take any pics, it does go right down to the bottom like factory and it actually went abit higher to the next bend but we trimmed it back as it was easier to do a buttweld and grind flush the external bend.

Have not heard of allmetal, do you have a link to any info?

We have tried the lead free solder but it's plasticity range is a lot narrower then the "normal" lead/tin sticks, also was a higher melting temp so would cause warping easier.

Hah rare spares stickers were not intentional but I wouldn't say no if they wanted to sponsor us haha

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 01:23 AM

Mate, your comments are Fantastic.

Hope Rares Spares do Sponsor 'Reaper Customs'

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#49 _Viper_

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 09:13 PM

Few more pics...

slightly better pic of the beaver:

And the bracket on the inside of the boot repair and glued back to the floor:

The parcel shelf had been hacked out for speakers at some stage, John prefers to listen to the sweet sounds of the engine and wanted them filled in. Dont actually have a pic of them before but im sure you can imagine a rough hole cut for speakers... But here is some progress pics:

Passenger side:

Drivers Side:

Another job was to re-locate the seat belt mount holes. John prefered the location of the later LJ's as the seat belt doesnt fall off your shoulder as easy.

here is the original mount with the pic taken from the inside: