nice work with the gearbox man! the thing will be able to take a mad beating now lol

coming along nicely mate good build thread cant wait for updates

picked up some chrome centre caps today

I brought another vl a few months ago to do up as a daily and it is now finally on the road so this has been retired from daily dutys. The turbo set up is back on now with the changes of afm in cooler pipeing and running airbox (or dose pipe) instead of pod filter. The diff is also out of it at the moment getting a mini spool installed till i can afford to build a 28 or 31 spline with a tru trac centre. Ill post up some photos of when it is all back together again.

The mini spooled diff went in about a month ago, it is abit of fun but terrible for normal driving so a 31 spline tru trac with billet axles is next on the list to go in. As it sits at the moment Also picked up a couple of turbo hubcaps, one is nos in original packet and one needs a bit of attention, i am after a set for a decent price if anyone wants to sell any. A pic of my new daily that is due for a repaint some time this year in original colours I will have to get a decent camera one day and get up some quality shots.

Did you change the front seats for the red VL?

Yeah i did, it has vp calais front seats because i got defected for a tear in the original drivers seat. Im thinking of getting some beige vl berlina seats and getting them trimed in sl material so it has the pocket in the back but looks original.

Defected for a tear.....farout. Should have just whacked on a Seat cover. I've seen mint front seats at the wreckers; shouldn't cost much.

Just restored a vlt plenum i had laying around, a few hours work in cleaning and painting but i think it came up well and has fixed the idle problem that it had. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

looks good , and the attention to the bay work makes me want to paint it to o.g keep the progress coming also , found an old c4c pic Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Haha back when it was still na. Ive still got to tidy up the bay some more before im happy with it. It wont be driven much till im off p's next year anyway.

Finally got some turbo hub caps and gave them some tlc and a paint up. Im quite happy with how they came out. Now i just want to repaint the bars and moulds and ill be happy for a while. fitted a calais interior light and some interior shots with my new camera Plans for it in the near future is try to find some calais roof lining, visors and rear quarter surrounds. Also looking at putting in a built 9 inch to replace 25 spline spooled diff that is in it at the moment. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Looks good mate... 9" diff, jesus! You can get 31 spline billet axle for the borgie diff... The calais roof lining will have holes in it for side lights, which there are no brackets for on SL's. Youll be able to work something out though

Yeah ive been looking into all the diff options and i want to go a tru trac centre and they are alot cheaper for the 9 inch which means there isnt alot of price differance between built 9" and borgy. I have the rear coutesy lights, loom and brackets all here for when i find the roof lining.

Took the vl up to the drags on wednesday for a bit of fun. My best run was a 14.238@99.57mph. It was running as it is on the street on 14 psi boost still with the high comp motor, it ran perfect for the 7 runs that i got in and im going to head up again in 2 weeks to attempt to crack a 13.

Picked up a 9 inch diff to replace the 25 spline borgy on the weekend. The 9 inch is minispooled with 4:11 gears. Now i just need to get the rear of the tailshaft modded to suit and itll go in. Plan is still to get a tru trac centre for it but this will do for now. Also went up to the drags again last wednesday and ran a best of 14.163@101.16 mph

Got a 3 inch turbo back exhaust made by Redstar fabrications in late feb. It is the best fitting well made exhaust, very happy with it and the performance gain was great. I took the vl up to powercruise Sydney and had a ball. The weather was a bit om and off but still had a great time till the vl developed a miss on the saturday arvo which ended up being it lifting the head and blown head gasket so i spectated for the rest of the weekend. I didnt want to got to all the effort of doing the head if i wasnt going to improve it so i got 1mm oversize valave on the inlet and exhaust and 1.3mm mls headgasket and arp studs to keep it all together and ever since has been going great. After all that i took it up to the last sunday wsid street meet and ran a best of 13.66@102mph, i think thats not to bad for a stock little t3 turbo and i think there might be more in it with a bit more boost and on a cooler night. i also picked up complete beige berlina trim but the seats didnt clean up well enough for me to put in so im going to get them retrimed in sl material and have the pocket in the back of the front seats and the fold down arm rest in the rear. The door trims and kick panels are in tho, not pics yet tho.

good read mate im lovin it turbo and the turbo caps mint cant wait to see more cheers

Nice build thread, good to see that you know whats going on and are doing the work. If your not handy with a spray gun, you can get mx grey mixed into a spray can and do your bumpers like that.

Thats for the comments guys. I got a mate that is painter so i am going to get him to repaint all the bars and moulds for me eventually. For now the focus is on getting my berlina turbo wagon restored and on the road.