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saving a calais turbo

Started by mattlads · 10 July 2016 · 29 replies

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mattladsArchived member
absolutley buried it in hi build
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dougall83Archived member
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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mattladsArchived member
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. ---------- Post added 21-08-16 at 14:13 ---------- and does anyone know the sizes of the auto flexplate bolts? or have a set for sale/trade
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deanoVLCTArchived member
Bolts have AT written on them if you have them around
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mattladsArchived member
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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AnthoArchived member
White gold over silver looks awesome, goes well with red interior as well.
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mattladsArchived member
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 . ---------- Post added 05-10-16 at 16:31 ---------- the glue is still a bit wet and hasnt been fully stretched yet but go mumsie haha
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trkwpnArchived member
anymore pics?
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mattladsArchived member
update i ended up moving ,put the car on gumtree it sold within 10 minutes is now gone ---------- Post added 09-03-17 at 11:59 ---------- ---------- Post added 09-03-17 at 12:02 ---------- 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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KatsaArchived member
What did you end up getting for it mate?
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