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Well to start, I have been building my white sl for about 2 years. Stupidest thing i ever did was strip it and will probaly regret it forever.
I then lost interest for a while till vlwagonit put this blue shell up for sale.
Brought it as a rolling shell, basically complete apart from from motor and box. Over the last few weeks have got this licenced with the turbo motor and put my plates on it. Swapped my brakes and suspension in, just need to swap diff now. And finish the motor and piping, few pics and specs below -
Motor -
Stock bottom end
Avo stage 2 cam and head ported
GT35r (0.7front, 0.86 rear) low mounted on stock manifold with 20mm spacer and braided lines
3inch turbo back exhaust with one muffler, no cat
38mm Turbosmart gate with screamer pipe
600x300x120 front mount
CPC plenum
XF throttle body
10mm top gun leads
Ally radiator
Sard fuel pressure reg
CPC catchcan
Driveline -
VS booster, VT master
DBA slotted rotors
VT front brakes
Rebuilt and shimmed up LSD
4.11 diff gears
18 inch VT GTS rims or calais wheels
Lowered Eibech Springs and shocks
Adjustable pan hard rod
Exedy clutch and MX7 gearbox
Nolathane bushes
Body -
Mitsubishi electro blue over asteroid silver
Waiting for a new genuine calais grille atm
Polished allen key bolts down fenders
Solex door locks (going back to standard ones soon)
Interior -
Standard calais interior
Rear venetian
Eclipse CD player, amp etc
2 spitfire gauges
Autometer A/F gauge
Custom trimmed and boxed boot(still have to install)
Fuel/ECU-
660cc siemens injectors
14mm fuel rail
Undercar surge tank
Stock intank pump, 044 external
Haltech e11 ecu and haltech loom
Other -
Battery in boot
Wiring hidden in guards
Momo Steering wheel
Day i got it -
Had to put venetian on straight away
Painting motor and doing turbo lines -
Motor ready to go in -
Installing motor -
Cooler installed -
Motor in, got radiator and fuel reg mounted, still need to get rocker cover welded and painted -
Bay at the moment -
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looks good bro. regreting i didnt have white venetians in it when i had it - looks heaps better.
you work as fast as i do lol
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also i found pics from ages ago of the car getting painted and everything if you want the link
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thanks man, yeah i had all the parts ready to go so has been going together pretty smoothly so far
Yeah chuck up that link if you want
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CT: keeping it all in the family haha
Looks mint with the cooler and custom plates! Must bring it out on the next CT cruise man
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http://calaisturbo.com.au/showthread.php?t=67078
theres the original build thread when it was getting painted and everything
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looks really good with the custom plates and the cooler sticking out. good on ya
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thanks
In the process of painting inside wheel arches and installing new diff atm.
Got fuel rail and injectors in now, and a heap of speedflow fittings for it which i still gotta install.
Had -10 fittings welded on to rocker cover and got it painted same colour as car, sat it on tonight to see what it looks like, crappy iphone flash pic
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lucky your going push lock fittings for your catch can, took me about an hour to make up the lines for mine haha
is it on the road yet?
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30-12-11, 00:24 GMT+10#10 Nah still probaly a month or two till its on the road, just got heaps of little things left to do on it
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22-01-12, 12:28 GMT+10#11 Few updates -
Fitttings on fuel rail, and installed undercar surgetank. Just waiting for new internal pump to arrive atm
Ran new 0 gauge cable for the battery in boot, installed false walls in boot and all black carpet
New dash mat and cleaned interior
Gunna put my haltech loom in in the next few weeks
Brought new boot seal and bailey channel rubbers
Swapped a few chrome trims around windows
Painted and fitted the new diff, painted wheel arches aswell
Pushed it outside the shed for first time in ages, so much dust on the roof, needs a clean
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22-01-12, 22:08 GMT+10#12 looking good man.
have you acctualy washed it since you got it off me? just asking because the paint looks even better when its clean!
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22-01-12, 23:27 GMT+10#13 Me and mate wired in my haltech this arvo aswell. So should be ready to start in a few weeks.
Nah i havent washed it yet haha. I'll probaly wash it once i have the bonnet back on. Once i get it running its goin to painters to get the scratches fixed and polished properly anyway.
Cant wait to see it all clean and in the sun
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31-01-12, 23:32 GMT+10#14 Update time -
Mounted undercar surgetank properly, replaced internal fuel pump and fitted new 044 external pump, still gotta get some pics of this.
Finally got gearbox, tailshaft etc in, so now driveline is basically complete
Getting some more polished bolts for throttle body and bonnet tomorrow
Got a vs reservoir to sit on my vt master so the fluid doesnt tilt back
Pic of the wiring, still gotta hide it a bit
How low i want it to sit when its finished
Things left to do -
New battery terminals
Install new bailey channel rubbers
Wire up oxygen sensor and hide the wiring a bit more
Hose for catch can
Need a new drivers window motor
Order a new door and boot lock set
Cooler piping
Screamer piping
Dump pipe and maybe new exhaust
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28-02-12, 00:27 GMT+10#17 Thanks
Just finished putting vt brakes on
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28-02-12, 10:14 GMT+10#18 Really like this colour. really nice blue
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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28-02-12, 20:20 GMT+10#19 are they 1 piece or 2 piece rotors?
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28-02-12, 21:15 GMT+10#20 look like 1, just vt discs so seperate hubs.
car is looking mint man
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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