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saving a calais turbo
Started by mattlads · 10 July 2016 · 29 repliesPreserved from CalaisTurbo. Original authors and dates are shown; archived members are not current Holdcom accounts. View original archive ↗
20-08-16, 06:49 GMT+10#22
Love the bay man, I can appreciate how many hours that goes into them
Love it keep up the top work!
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21-08-16, 14:07 GMT+10#23
can anybody confirm clear this up for me
the car has a turbo box with a 2500rpm stall (dont even know if it works)
i have the sandwich plates and found a flexplate in the boot but the teeth on it seem a bit bigger then the ones on the manual na flexplate is this normal?
i want to use the manual na starter that is on the engine already it seems to line up when i turn the plate in the starter by hand but i want to be certain because the car has had a few random parts in it from other cars and i dont know if its the right one.
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and does anyone know the sizes of the auto flexplate bolts? or have a set for sale/trade
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22-08-16, 15:41 GMT+10#25
yeah i went threw every sandwich bag of unlabelled bolts i had and couldn't find any deano.
alright so im about to start buying paint and i was always just thinking about white over silver with a very light gold pearl in the white like similar to this picture on the left but a lot less pearl. but then i saw a metallic brown fiat today and now im really considering a last second change to brown over silver.
the interior is going to be bright red and black .
hard to pass up a white over silver calais but this brown i think could look great anyone know any vls in a similar scheme to get a idea what it could look like?
what you guys reckon?
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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22-08-16, 21:24 GMT+10#26
White gold over silver looks awesome, goes well with red interior as well.
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05-10-16, 16:30 GMT+10#27
ok ive done basically nothing since the last post because there is a strong chance i will be moving and might have to get rid of the car .
but here is a photo my mum sent me of a old doorcard off the gold vl i gave her to play with to see if shes upto the task of retrimming the interior for me haha .
i just said to make it the same as the standard vinyl ones as practice and ill get her to do a proper copy of the calais doors in the same red vinyl colour .
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the glue is still a bit wet and hasnt been fully stretched yet but go mumsie haha
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09-03-17, 11:54 GMT+10#29
update i ended up moving ,put the car on gumtree it sold within 10 minutes is now gone
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after i was ripped off on the rubbish paint job and spent the last few months chasing around very poor condition second hand parts at gts monaro prices i decided to just get rid of it not wanting to spend 30k on a vl .
and have bought a 240z instead
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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