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Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 1:35 pm
by Commando
Looked nuts on the cruise :D

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 1:36 pm
by BROCKYB8
Some how thing that the number plates and that create alot of attention anyway.
Plus you ca hear it from a fair distance

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 2:43 pm
by pHaT`eL
I still cant believe you drove it around with the cooler Monday, gold!!

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 2:57 pm
by ruleford
love it looks f@#$ing sick cant wait to see what it goes like with the snail bolted on she goes fucking pretty good anyway

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 5:48 pm
by old_mate
haha i hope you dont pay taxes or something, the government makes a lot of money from you

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 6:14 pm
by YBYAVL
lol, they dont make as much of me as they should...they dont fukn deserve it
altho thats guna change soon with this bullshit about not bein able to pay ur rego untill u pay ur fines

my regos guna cost me 12grand
looks like itll become "the missus's car"

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 7:43 pm
by forbsy
hey wats else is needed to build the 4.11 diff i got a pintara and ea wrecks ? besides from the mini spool? ill get a diff place to assemble it

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 7:58 pm
by BLCKED
YBYAVL wrote:lol, they dont make as much of me as they should...they dont fukn deserve it
altho thats guna change soon with this bullshit about not bein able to pay ur rego untill u pay ur fines

my regos guna cost me 12grand
looks like itll become "the missus's car"

haha yeah how bad is that?

im only 8700 but yeah i see what ya mean

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:59 pm
by oneredED
YBYAVL wrote:lol, they dont make as much of me as they should...they dont fukn deserve it
altho thats guna change soon with this bullshit about not bein able to pay ur rego untill u pay ur fines

my regos guna cost me 12grand
looks like itll become "the missus's car"
Yeah, my old bosses rego for his work van will be in the vicinity of 12k too. He'd already transferred his other 4 cars into a friends name, and his van will be sold before the rego expires :twisted:

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:21 pm
by Phillis
YBYAVL wrote:
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haha luke- we had that VL in at work. i put the rollcage in it. howd it go down the track? the owner (big fat guy, early 20's) was talking it up like its the best car around. shit hot picture too

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 30th, 2009, 10:41 am
by YBYAVL
lol phillis, did yuz?? nice fukn cage man....mi rykie arot!!!

ye i hatw the way him an his old man talk about it,
im not guna say anythin else but ye.....it dusnt make me stand back an go "FWARK"
specily wen ino how much the bucket of bolts owes him *shakes his hed*

its ran a 10.3
my mate drives it coz the owners duno the 1st thing about racin it *shakes his hed again*
my mate rekns theres a 9 in it,
atm apprently its ozi's quikest VL wagon, they like to think its an achievement,
but like i sed, the price tag on the car dusnt leave much to be achieved...im sure i could go hell faster with the bank roll theyve got.

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 30th, 2009, 5:59 pm
by ed40
OED666 wrote:ea's had the 3 bolt flywheel = gayer than aids. throw in the 6 bolt, and you'll be right. the clutch i had with the 3 bolt was good, and copped some abuse, but just didnt like high rpm shifts..

my clutch pedal used to come out so farken hard it my foot would get pins and needles.
maybe ur flywheel was fucked. I'm running 3bolt and she is gold, i dont shift below 5500 lol

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: January 30th, 2009, 6:04 pm
by YBYAVL
i jus waked the 6bolt in after the decision was made for the new plans for the drifter...
so now everythings jus gone into the green bucket of snot....

iduno wat was rong with the flywheel/clutch
i threw 9 bottles of nitrous at it, went driftin, miles of street abuse
out of nowhere it jus started stickin then the flywheel came los twice...now its in my mates car
an so far he hasnt had a problem, well not that hes told me about anyway....
and i havnt had a drama with the 6bolt comin lose or stickin down

*shrugz*

cars man, theyve gota mind of there own

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 8:47 am
by YBYAVL
so i got stuck into the engine today, started at around lunctime
sonny sed it had done 150,000km so i didnt bother doin the rings/bearings
jus gave it a gasket kit an seals an sum paint....oh, an a turbo :P

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this thing had been cooked to within an inch of its life sonny lol,
every water jacket on the pass. side had been corroded over an was blocked
so no water was getin down there...fried half the head gasket on there
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got sum new parts, all up was about 300bux for everything
gasket kit, head bolts, F/R main seals, welsh plugs, oil filter, sparkies, leads, cap an button
an $30 in cleaning shit...
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Acetone is wonderful shit

popd out the welsh plugs threw sum rust converter down the block an over the face
of the block
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so with the engine all cleaned it was time for a lick of paint
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started off with the exhaust manifold an exhaust housing of the turbo

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everything that was black, went black....everything that was alloy was guna get polished
but im not keen on upkeep, so it with the engine enamel silver

so with that done it was time for assembly
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by 10pm i had it prety much 90% complete
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jus have to go fit the water pump, alternator an p/s pump today
then i can start strippin the engine bay an hopfuly by the weekend,
ill have fitted upthe engine an most of the cooler piping

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 9:16 am
by BROCKYB8
Very nice i like how this is going man.
Looks really good.
Cant wait to see it finished .
So when are you going to court ???

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 4:05 pm
by Phillis
thats gunna be nuts man. even more so that it was

acetone isnt going to bite you in the ass later?

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 5:09 pm
by Nikk O'lass
man you never fail to amaze me in you efforts, E-Series ninga.

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 5:12 pm
by Steady
Why would acetone bite him in the arse later?

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 7:03 pm
by psychotic-angel
i really love this car.it started life off as a dead soul going to the big car yard in the sky you saved it and now your taking it places will keep an eye out on this

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 8:15 pm
by theboss290
nice work mate ;)

Im hoping to start on mine soon :twisted:

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 8:35 pm
by Phillis
Steady wrote:Why would acetone bite him in the arse later?
its not going to corrode anything is it? i dunno, ive just never heard f it being done and was crurious!

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 10:55 pm
by BLCKED
looking good mate. keen to see it finished

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 2:50 am
by Steady
Phillis wrote:
Steady wrote:Why would acetone bite him in the arse later?
its not going to corrode anything is it? i dunno, ive just never heard f it being done and was crurious!
Nah it evaporates pretty much straight away.

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 5th, 2009, 1:25 pm
by BROCKYB8
Looks nice i saw it last night .

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 5th, 2009, 8:30 pm
by Nikk O'lass
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That really looks awsome, don't change it!. Standard E-Series come up awsome with some good wheels and slammed.

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 5th, 2009, 10:13 pm
by ELOVER
hahahahahaha at the your convo with the cops.
car is looking sick!
best of luck with her!

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 6th, 2009, 8:50 am
by BROCKYB8
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For those not doing anything tonight and may want to help out. i started a thread .

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 6th, 2009, 6:31 pm
by ruleford
what turbo you running? and did you make the oil lines or did you get them made up?

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 7th, 2009, 12:17 pm
by YBYAVL
thanks for ur help lastnight guys, not that we got much done lol....
glad yuz all like her,
shes startin to grow on me, i dont look at as the green bucket of snot now
its slowly getin sum style to it....

big big BIG BIIIIIIIG thanks to brocky....ura fukn chmpion man, couldnt have gotn this far without u.....thanks mate ;)


ruleford - T-04e...oil lines r courtesy of CVE,


any1 got a serp. alternator theyre willing to part with??? asap!!!
cant put the engine in untill i get 1....
im lookn for sum1 thats willing to open an account with me untill payday...
cmon guys, helpa nigga out ;)

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 7th, 2009, 2:57 pm
by YBYAVL
so the engines all done an pulled the old 1 out....takin a break from this weather, its fukn ridiculous...
heres sum more pix of wats been happenin

started pullin the engine out at around 5ish yesterday...
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didnt get very far due to a missing clutch fan tool :angry:
so after a few ours of "relaxing" i got stuck back into it..
moved the cooler up a few inches so it dusnt look like bubba joe
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woulda been around 10ish i pulled the box out
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had the engine in the air by midnight
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next day was jus a go slow
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painted the inside of the headlights while i waitd for my windscreen to turn up courtesy of the city of casey....thanks guys ;)
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i back handed the windscreen the other day whilst killing a fly, an the kunt crakd...
next morning due to wat id like to refer to as devine intervention i was drivin past a council dude on his ride on, that jus happend to be mowing near sum gravel, an wouldnt uno it...as far as he knows, he spatt a rock up an craked my window!
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an now its apprently 47degrees around dandy so the cars on hold....
an jus herd the hwy is closed in hallam dingley an dandy due to fires...fuk me eh!

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 7th, 2009, 3:32 pm
by ruleford
well done luke good to see you got some process

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 7th, 2009, 6:09 pm
by hXc_Cam
still interested in the konis i had?i sold them but i mates wants to resell them so send us a pm if your interested, good progress on the car, i saw the cooler on aus day when i was driving past yours (in a mates car i beeped but you had no idea who it was) ever in need of a hand i am at school in franga and drive eastlink home almost everday so lemme know Cheers mate

Rob

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 16th, 2009, 12:37 pm
by YBYAVL
well the cars finished an goes rather well i must say....apart from sum slight dramas saturday afternoon (didnt plub the thermos up an the engine cooked within a couple of mins an popd the headgasket) so im guna maybe get stuck into that today...
heres sum more update pix...

had to modify the clutch fork coz it kept bendnig
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got the engine in at like 2am (i got bored)
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gearbox was in shortly after then i crashed out

installed the vapour injection kit
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left the nitrous kit on
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then got stuck into the cooler piping saturday afternoon
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relocated the batt.
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whipped up a 3inch dump pipe from the turbo and a 38mm screamer pipe
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an 3inch all the way back to the diff, no cat, 1 muffler and a diff dumper
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so ye, with the car done i took if fora fang up an down the street with no thermos, an like i sed....it jus baked
(footage at a later date)

it made it to AFD...just
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didnt make it home lol....
had to tow it from weribee
dumpd all the milky oil at the servo, lost 3 cyl due to chemi weld all over the plugs

thanks to every1 who helpd me yesterday
BIG thanks to mark_td especially ;)

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 16th, 2009, 12:46 pm
by EFFalcon
Hahahah luke.
I'm impressed by the work over the last couple of weeks.
its come a long way and is looking pretty good.

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 16th, 2009, 2:18 pm
by Aus.Waz
coming along mint, really taken a liking to this car as i am sure many other people are, seen it aus day and looked mint at AFD sucks didnt make it home man sorry to hear that keep the posts comin

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 16th, 2009, 3:29 pm
by travs ea-xr6
shit yer you did a nice amount of quick work,looks tops,you gunna chuck a au head gasket in this time ;)

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 16th, 2009, 10:43 pm
by BLCKED
god damn your a good welder, i might have some work for ya mate, any good with role cages? mates te cortina needs finishing.

its getting 4 link ladder bar done in it not and tubbed, when he gets it back wants to finish off role cage. be cash work..

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 16th, 2009, 11:51 pm
by SLY5LT
great build ya done ;) wish i had some space where i could get my hand's dirty :lol:
so we'll be seeing you at the street meet on the 28th to see how the new setup go's ?

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 18th, 2009, 6:36 pm
by UNEZED
so did ya finish fixing your car last nite luke

Re: Another E-series Saved From The Scrap Heap - YBYAVL Round 2

Posted: February 20th, 2009, 9:57 pm
by YBYAVL
another headgasket bites the dust....
getn a rising rate fuel reg tomorow an AU gasket, should be all good fromt here...hopfuly the gas goes on tuesday.
i cant stand this hwy robbery on fuel