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Felany's Calais Build

Started by Felany · 4 Dec 2011 · 29 replies

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FelanyArchived member
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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VLWAGONITArchived member
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 ---------- Post added 05-12-11 at 09:09 ---------- also i found pics from ages ago of the car getting painted and everything if you want the link
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FelanyArchived member
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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inkArchived member
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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VLWAGONITArchived member
http://calaisturbo.com.au/showthread.php?t=67078 theres the original build thread when it was getting painted and everything
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zaksvlArchived member
looks really good with the custom plates and the cooler sticking out. good on ya
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FelanyArchived member
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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zaksvlArchived member
looking good mate
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VLWAGONITArchived member
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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FelanyArchived member
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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FelanyArchived member
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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VLWAGONITArchived member
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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FelanyArchived member
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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FelanyArchived member
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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FelanyArchived member
New updated pics
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zaksvlArchived member
That's looks awesome
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FelanyArchived member
Thanks Just finished putting vt brakes on
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Andy-30LArchived member
Really like this colour. really nice blue Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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VLWAGONITArchived member
are they 1 piece or 2 piece rotors?
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-pumba-Archived member
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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