turbo76lx

June 1, 2022

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.

November 3, 2020

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

November 3, 2020

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.

May 17, 2020

Got one door stripped and in epoxy.

April 9, 2020

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

March 30, 2020

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.

December 19, 2019

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.

December 17, 2019

Chrome bumpers.

December 17, 2019

Yes using the current black wheels i have.

December 17, 2019

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

December 14, 2019

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.

December 14, 2019

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.

September 21, 2019

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

August 19, 2019

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

August 13, 2019

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

July 30, 2019

The KBS is just sealer will be using some Dynamat.

July 27, 2019

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.

July 27, 2019

Update time. Having the shell dipped has turned out to be more work than I thought.

About 14 holes have been drilled in the shell that they never told me they were going to do so these had to be welded up.

Yes that is a hole drilled in the middle of the roof skin.

I was surprised at the amount of rust that started to form under panels, I had tack welded the sill panel and two extra roof braces on to the shell and removed them when I got the shell home.

There are also spots where it looks like acid is still leaching out of the seams.

I was also surprised at the amount of body deaden-er and seam sealer that was still in the shell.

The black shape in the middle of the photo is one of the many big of body deaden-er.

May 13, 2019

Not local unless you want to drive to Shepparton.

May 13, 2019

Yes had it dipped at Recoat paint stripping, they work out of their shed behind their house. I don't think Recoat smash repair are going anymore after the death of a worker the other year.