Well those of you that have read my gold calais project would know that I have put a stop to the gold jet and have brought another car.
I first spotted it on ebay at a cheap price and sounded like a bargain!
I was that keen that I called the guy, and travelled all the way down to Geelong on a wednesday night at 9:00, which ment I didnt get there untill 11:00 at night, luckily the guy works night shift.
I fell in love at first site, but I new that the smart thing to do was to have a good look, ask a lot of questions, and then walk away and think about it good and hard.
I went down there on the saturday with the cash, and had a list a page long of things to look at to make sure it was worth it.
After an hour and a half or so of inspection, I decided it was the right one and realy was a bargain, so I brought it and drove her all the way back home.
When it first pulled up in my driveway it had the left calais eyelid missing and a ****ty hdt grill, so the next day I replaced the eyelid and replaced the grill with a brand new geniune calais grill.
Front end still nees to be re-aligned tho.
So here's the rundown:
Its an original 1987 calais turbo, white over silver.
Only 2 owners, the guy I brought it off had it as a weekend cruiser for the last 5 and half years.
-178,000km's
-3" exhaust from turbo back
-19" rims (dunno what they are I think they're mock up monaro's)
-Lowered all properly with peders springs and all bushes ect done recently
-adjustable panhard rod
and thats all! other than those mods the cars never been modded.
This car drives like a new car, well looked after and it will continue that way.
There are many mods to come on this one, so keep your eyes on this.
Here's a couple of pics Me and a mate took on monday.
As most of you have probably spotted it has a few little bad spots like: R/H/R door has rust above the calais mould, eyelids need aligning, ect.
These are getting fixed up very soon.
Let me no what you guys think!
yer im already starting to get sick of the rear kit.
The gold one is not for sale ill be puttin it up in the for sale section over the w/e, if anyone's interested PM me.
Here's a few of the toys ive got laying round waiting to go on:
GKTECH No holes intercooler kit.
Still got the Hi-flo sitting here aswell.
Also got my reco'd vlt injectors all flowing 100% that I may use, and a malpassi.
hey mate...good to see that u now got a turbo...the gold one was a bit of a slug :P
not a bad find...me and ryan will have to come down and have a look. U using it as a daily or what?
yer mate its the new daily
but i dont no if this is fast enough for someone like you man
I mean rnt u used to TUFF AS **** CARS!????
this wud b a pig for u wouldnt it?
im only 19 mate and an apprentice mechanic so im not gna have the fattest wallet at the end of the day.
but ill build it as a tuff streeter.
My im is 200rwkw, strengthend auto, tight lsd, clean up the body so it looks hot, always going to be rollin on 19"s lol
and a fat stezza! lol
ill build A tuff car in a couple of years i mean im still young, i cant have everything all rite now ey.
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Originally Posted by {PIGYB8}
yer mate its the new daily
but i dont no if this is fast enough for someone like you man
I mean rnt u used to TUFF AS **** CARS!????
this wud b a pig for u wouldnt it?
Yeh true...the landcruiser is faster than ur average car :P
im guessing the fuel is hurting ur pocket alot more than the gold calais did. Nah the new calais looks pretty neat man...loving the 19's.
Well goes in for the roady check tomorrow.
Rims are off, and its rolling on ceptors, if all goes good, ill have a roadworthy by tomorrow night, and then all the fun begins
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
Got the roady tonight!
Hopefully get the time to go down to vicroads tomorrow and do the transfer.
Then all the fun begins, if all goes well by the end of this weekend, should have cooler on, boost controller all hooked up and 19's back on.
Oh and of course the dose pipe!!
thnx guys.
S1roller i no they look alot like them my mate has the vx gts rims and mine r definatly not original, but they look alot more like monaro rims, i dunno man lol.
Anyways before i put the rims back on and the intercooler and stereo ect..
I thought id take a few pics today so i can have something to compare to when its all done.
Also took a pic or two of the interior because you guys havnt seen it yet.
Its a bit dirty now but it gets detailed in a weeks time.
looks like its all ready for calder with the ceptors on it! lol
