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Started by knoath , Sep 01 2006 09:45 PM

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Posted 21 January 2007 - 09:15 PM

yeh from the pics n what you've said its gonna have a nice stance
its looking good

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Posted 21 January 2007 - 10:37 PM

Wow, good choice of wheels dick!! They look amazing!! Really makes your UC look mean!! If you follow up on the photoshop your gonna have a pretty damn mean car then!!

Again - just WOW!!

Cheers
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Posted 22 January 2007 - 08:26 AM

Hey Dick what % is finders fee these days :tease: :tease: :tease: :finger: :finger:

Edited by drewboy, 22 January 2007 - 08:28 AM.

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 09:22 AM

I believe the gowing rate is 2/5's of f*ck all!! :finger:

Thanks for the find!! :spoton: :clap:

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 10:35 AM

just curious, while the car is at standard hight, what is the measurement from the guard lip to the centre of the wheel? front and rear

BTW, looking good,
just gotta do something about the first and last foot of the car :tease:

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 12:09 PM

Hey makka... front is 365mm, rear 340mm, so I think it'll need 35mm rear and 55mm front....
I'll see when I put her in to get done.

Edited by knoath, 22 January 2007 - 12:12 PM.

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 01:06 PM

ooohhh so pretty, i need to clean my K-board new ;) Sweet UC man

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 01:32 PM

thats gotta be one of few nice looking ucs but it still has those ugly taillights
looks good dick i like it never seen those wheels before there tops

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 08:07 PM

These ugly taillights?

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 08:11 PM

Yup, those ugly taillights. Thats them.

WTF were they thinking?

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 08:23 PM

How about these ones??

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Cheers and ENJOY!!
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Edited by Keithy's_UC, 23 January 2007 - 08:26 PM.

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 08:35 PM

Wow!! They're bright Keith!
Are these the lights you were working on?
Is there a special section in the New Thread about these?

Edited by knoath, 23 January 2007 - 08:36 PM.

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 09:22 PM

Tim, you're an idiot. Knoath posted that pic to show his brilliant efforts in making the standard decent looking taillights look spectacular. You weren't supposed to say "yes those ones"; you were supposed to say "oooh i take back my previous comment".

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 09:28 PM

They don't look spectacular. They look like UC taillights that've been tinted.

They look better than standard ones, yes, but theyre nothin spectacular. They'll always be UC Taillights.

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 09:31 PM

i dont think u can fix those taillights there just bad and rim i wanna know wtf holden was thinking aswell .

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 10:33 PM

I'll be working on "Project UC Tail light" tomorrow!!

The backing on my tail lights are in fact chrome at the moment.

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 05:05 AM

RIM, there isn't much you can do to improve on the rear lights, so I figured if I tint them...they'd be harder to see... :D

Look forward to seeing what you come up with Keith! :rockon:

Thanks for the kind words Heath. :spoton:

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 07:52 AM

RIM, there isn't much you can do to improve on the rear lights,

Well, there is one little mod, turn em up side down, then the indicators are on the outside(someone got it wrong at the factory....fixes everything)......makes em look like an Lx/H. Did you also know that collisions into the rear enders into UC's are much lower than for other cars of the era,:blink: especially LH/X(call them the whiplash toranas) :stirpot:

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 08:42 AM

^ Not following DA, please elaborate.

EDIT: BTW do you have a pic of your tail lights turned around? I can't imagine it would really make a large amount of difference... but I may be wrong.

Edited by Heath, 24 January 2007 - 08:43 AM.

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 09:05 AM

Hmm, lets put it differently......perhaps the back of a UC isnt 10/10 for looks, but the alternative of walking around with a neck brace?..........(a higher probabilty if you have a loserx or loserh torrie) :blink:
Yes the colours have a great effect in reducing the size of a rear end......ask Serena Williams:nada:

Edited by devilsadvocate, 24 January 2007 - 09:08 AM.

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 09:22 AM

Hey makka... front is 365mm, rear 340mm, so I think it'll need 35mm rear and 55mm front....
I'll see when I put her in to get done.

WOW! is it really that much?
my car is 260mm front and 240mm rear!

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 09:43 AM

Are you sure? That's bugger all.
You did measure it from the centre of the wheel....?

Well, there is one little mod, turn em up side down, then the indicators are on the outside

Devil's...I've seen that done before, but if you look closely at UC lights, they have a flat edge on the (in)side of the indicater section, and a slightly bowed (if you like) shape along the Brake/Tail (outer) side.
So when you invert them, they now have a straight edge on the outside and it just doesn't look right.... it looks like a cheap and quick mod.

Follow?

Edited by knoath, 24 January 2007 - 09:46 AM.

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 10:11 AM

yup, from the centre of the wheel, 4 inch drop :spoton:

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 02:20 PM

If I had skinnier tyres, I'd probably try for the same thing. That's insane. Gotta be one of the lowest Torries around...

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 02:47 PM

These ugly taillights?

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Hi Dick, starting to look good there.

I think the difference between you car and Keithy's is, yours has the chrome molding, seems to stop the lights from looking stuck on, they seem shallower set? Sort of hides them?
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