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BBQ-202 The Epic

Started by Heath , Sep 05 2006 07:08 PM

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#801 _evil UC hatch_

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 08:29 PM

looking good man, so have you given yourself a time you want it finished by? or you going one step at a time and its done when its done?

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#802 MRLXSS

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 08:40 PM

Licence today or Tomorrow yeah?

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#803 Heath

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 09:41 PM

Yeah with any luck I will have my P's by the end of tomorrow. I got 80% in the hazards which is apparantly a particularly good mark so if I can perform similarly in the practical test I'll be stoked.

At the moment I am just spending a fair bit of time on the car and seeing how it comes along. I'm sick of not meeting deadlines. There is a lot of work ahead of me and there are a lot of things I could have and should have done much better, and there are things that I cannot do that need to be done. But right now I have a decent attitude and pretty good amount of motivation because it's starting to look like a car again, very limited by time though. I wish I had no Yr12, no friends, no parties, no alcohol, no girlfriend. etc, then the car would be done. But life is good so I can't really complain can I? The sooner I get a fuel pump sorted for my car and get it running, the sooner I will feel really good about it. Nothing sucks more than a project that can't even move under its own power...

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#804 TerrA LX

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 09:46 PM

Yeah, i hear ya, but so long as it's all moving in the right direction it's all good.
Keep up the good work and party on.

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#805 _@milco@_

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 09:54 PM

i think i got a fuel pump lying around for you heath, also i still got that disk brake b/w diff for you as well

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#806 DanWA

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 10:53 PM

Sex does wonders haha

looking good though Heath!

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#807 _ToranaGuy_

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 11:07 PM

Wow Heath!

Good stuff.

Now about those pannel gaps. Holden never had them perfect or anywhere close to begin with, but you can use shims & washers to get them better aligned. If your not building a show car they don't have to be perfect, just good enough nothing is rubbing away paint.

I had to grind a bit off the lower tailgate on my Panel Van to make it fit 100% as somewhere in the past my pano has been fit with new rear quarters, and either them or the tailgate was 3mm out from a nice fit. Nothing the grinder didn't fix.

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 11:20 PM

I haven't forgotten about the f/p and strikers. Maybe tomorrow.

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#809 Heath

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Posted 15 August 2008 - 07:57 AM

Well sorry I should have pointed out the the panel gaps are #@$^%& because the panels are #@$^%&, not because my adjustment is particularly poor. Like my rear door has had a good whallop and the front door that came with the car had obviously taken some of the hit so they kinda matched. Now I have one good door and one that is the worst of the lot. All in the body-lines

It looks like this but worse...
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Milco thanks for the offer but I should have it sorted without yours, I will contact you if I have problems. Cheers mate

lol Rob I didn't know you had a spare set of strikers, were they off my Brock? hehehe

Thanks
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#810 MRLXSS

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Posted 15 August 2008 - 08:14 AM

wow, its a long way off looking like that heath!!!!!

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Posted 15 August 2008 - 06:46 PM

Yeah with any luck I will have my P's by the end of tomorrow.

Passed.

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#812 _urkss_

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Posted 15 August 2008 - 07:10 PM

heath are you on the road.. ya or nay.. :blink:

urk ss

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#813 _ToranaGuy_

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 01:20 AM

Heath,

I spent a fair while looking for a good door to replace my damaged drivers rear door, so i sorta know what you mean. Took about 3mths of looking to find a half decent nose cone to fix up & drivers guard as well. Guard doesn't have any rust in it, was a good find, but a very small amount of filler........

Keep working at it, you will have it looking sexy in the end!

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#814 Heath

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 09:49 AM

Yeah well I've bought all the panels I'm going to buy; i'm sick of the stupid prices. I will live with how it is, but I think I know how I will fix it, that will probably be six months down the track as I don't have the equipment for it or motivation for repeating the repair afterwards.

Yep I got my P's and I've already broken the stupid f*cken passenger laws four times.

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#815 _TJ253_

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 09:57 AM

Yep I got my P's and I've already broken the stupid f*cken passenger laws four times.

that doesnt sound good. What Happend

Edited by TJ253, 16 August 2008 - 09:58 AM.

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#816 Toranavista

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 10:08 AM

Yep I got my P's and I've already broken the stupid f*cken passenger laws four times.

I bet you have been through the drive through at Makkas at lest 4 times as well! :blink:

Congrats on the P's :spoton:

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 11:26 AM

Congratulations on P's. Yeah the new laws are pretty gay.. oh well. If I can be in any use or you need a hand with the torana, you know im in box hill on wednesdays.

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#818 Heath

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 11:58 AM

Nah I don't eat that Maccas shit unless I'm forced to. I drove through KFC for my brother's breakfast (does nightshifts lol it was 2pm). But yeah these laws suck arse I was like "yeah boys get in but if a cop car pulls us up, you better duck f*cken quick!". Fingers crossed because I think it's 3 points.

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#819 _ToranaGuy_

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 06:11 PM

Heath,

This is why you need to buy a ute or a Panel van. Can't have as many passengers & it can haul your parts for the other projects around

A ute also makes a great esky as wel. :rockon:

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#820 Heath

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 07:19 PM

Yeah was just talking to Oldn64 today and let him know I wanted a Quie Tonner. He wasn't very impressed haha

Got that bastard hinge spring sorted and managed to get her to fuel up.

Taken today:
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Excuse the blurriness

Finished off my cowl panel as well.

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 12:47 PM

Yeh, Get a HQ Tonner!!! You will love it mate!!! Utes are great!

Then do the torry up for when you get off your P's! Dirty big V8, All the bells and Whistles!

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#822 _ToranaGuy_

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 01:11 PM

Yeh, Get a HQ Tonner!!! You will love it mate!!! Utes are great!

Then do the torry up for when you get off your P's! Dirty big V8, All the bells and Whistles!

What about a tonner or a pano with a 5lt V8 on LPG? ( to keep the cost down ) It's a work vehicle & tows a trailer so you "need" the V8. :clap:

ROFL. I think a pano would be cooler than a tonna, you can throw the matress in the back & nick off for a cheap w/e away, and it can still haul your car parts & tow a dirty big trailer. ( if you fit the tonna springs )

But then again, we are distracting Heath from finishing his torana, so i don't know if all this talk of tonna's or pano's is evil or not?? :gun:

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#823 RIM-010

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 01:40 PM

Heath's not allowed to drive a V8 until he gets off his P's :tease:

I need to get myself a ute in the not too distant future... Probably get a 4WD though.

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 01:56 PM

There's a WB P/Van sitting in a driveway on Springfield Rd, just down from Kerrimuir shops. Been there a while now, doesnt seem to move. Might go cheap?