turbo76lx

Got the gearbox in and the front drive shafts.

Just planning to have the wiring neat and hide as much as possible.

Got the rear subframe in and back on its wheels, also fitted the motor.

The colour is GMH mandarin red.

Got the front subframe and suspension in.

Got the shell, doors and rear flares painted at work, now I can start putting it together.

Update time. Quit my job three years ago that i was at for 14 years after getting sick of watch stupid management decisions and having to deal with a continuous stream of HR managers that hate people. I was lucky enough to get a job at Southern Rod and Custom in the assembly area. So i've been putting other people's car together and thought it's time to get back into mine. Some photos of work.

Things are happening.

Time for an update, haven't touched the torana for the past year, but I decided to build myself a whiskey lounge. Only a few small jobs left to do then I'll clean up the shed and sell some of my skyline spare parts then back into the torana. Dog found his seat.

Getting it engineered, everything is done to the VSB14 standards.

Finished the filler work on the doors and put a quick coat of epoxy over them to seal them up and epoxied the door hinges.

Got one door stripped and in epoxy.

Got the crank sensor mount machined up, just need to machine 2 bosses to set the distance from the sensor to the harmonic balancer.

Put another coat over the shell and rubbed it back again, the shell is now rapped up and need to start on the doors. Also got the motor back from JPC and started fitting the manifold, sump etc. The motor has, CP pistions 9.0:1, Spool I beam rods, Spool oil pump gears in N1 housing, APR head studs and main studs, Tomei cam gears, Nitto head gasket, Ross balancer. The head has only had new valve spring, will be running the standard cams as I need to pass a full IMR240 emissions test. Also had to finish off making the oil pick up.

No sorry guys it's going to be mandarin red the reason is when I was a first year apprentice I brought a LX SS 253 hatch with flares. I had the car for about 7 year until a woman failed to give way and T boned me. I kept the motor and sold the rest off, I've always regretted selling it and not fixing it.

Chrome bumpers.

Yes using the current black wheels i have.

The colour is going to be mandarin red with black outs around the side window and tail lights but probably not the black bonnet.

Not much to look at, still a lot of sanding to do but your welcome to come around. The way i'm going it's going to take at least another 10 months or so until it's done.

Bit of an update, the rear bob tail needed a but of work to get the gaps better, basically cut off the side of the outside pieces and fibreglass them back on and add some fibreglass to the centre section. Got a couple of coats of All-U-Need poly primer on the shell and started sanding.

Got filler on both sills and quarter panels, also fitted the flares to check the gaps.

Got the second coat of KBS on the inside of the shell.

Got the sill back on and a coat of epoxy on it and the rest of the engine bay.

The KBS is just sealer will be using some Dynamat.

I have had to strip and clean and sand every part of the shell so finally got the inside and underneath painted with KBS. One coat of silver KBS, still need to seam seal then a coat of black KBS.