Well it first started as a project search, for a vehicle that i could use for drags ,burnout comp and club days, so just an all round thrash car , Had to be an V8. Found a vlt sl for $1000 in my search for this holden v8 that i was looking for, on an interent site for $1500 lic needing work. Quickly rang the number got the address drove 250km for a look . The first thing i looked at was the body ,which looked like its been driven through a farmers fence a few minor scratches, broken windscreen ,rust wise there was a couple of patches at the bottom of the windscreen so not too bad ,as the screen had to be replaced . Asked the bloke if it ran he got the keys and the battery was dead, so i got the jumper pack out , What a rattle it had checked the oil/water on the dipstick , Yep broken head. Offered the guy $1000 as he was in the process of selling all his stuff to go work on a farm.so he said yes. So left him a deposit and told him ill be back in a couple of days with the rest of the money and a trailer. In the mean time organised a beater and painter for a quick cheap job.So i didnt even have to take it home . 6 weeks later the car was finished ,so paid them and it went home .In that 6 week period i had google vlt and stumbled across this site and was pretty impressed with the parts that people can buy and the videos of vlts on youtube made me think that this is a keeper. Pic of car at beaters [IMG]http://http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1/****-bucket/IMG_0232.jpg[/IMG] Thanks Lee Pic of car at painter thanks Trav http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...t/IMG_0243.jpg (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1/****-bucket/IMG_0243.jpg) I only got the front end done as i want to use and abuse it without worrying about paint and body work. I started looking for engine parts on ebay, gumtree and the web,some bloke had acl race series forged pistons , a jpc manifold ,head ,crank bearings advertised, so i picked up the pistons with a machined block and the recond head which has a port job ,the plenium .Kinda felt sorry for the bloke had to sell it as he had a kid. The next part was getting the engine built, Talked to a mate of mine James from bottlefed preformance an he said he will build it for me ,so he checked all the machine work ,wasnt too happy with the crank so had to send it out to get checked and rebalanced ,while i organised some forged H beam rods for it ,and a nitto oil pump. He had the parts back for a couple of days when i got a phone call ,what fuel do you want me to set the ring gaps to pump or alcohol ,had a little dicussion with him and decided it will run on alcohol all of the time ,so that was sorted. More to come ---------- Post added 01-11-11 at 12:23 ---------- Quote: Originally Posted by SLSLEEPER [View Post] Well it first started as a project search, for a vehicle that i could use for drags ,burnout comp and club days, so just an all round thrash car , Had to be an V8. Found a vlt sl for $1000 in my search for this holden v8 that i was looking for, on an interent site for $1500 lic needing work. Quickly rang the number got the address drove 250km for a look . The first thing i looked at was the body ,which looked like its been driven through a farmers fence a few minor scratches, broken windscreen ,rust wise there was a couple of patches at the bottom of the windscreen so not too bad ,as the screen had to be replaced . Asked the bloke if it ran he got the keys and the battery was dead, so i got the jumper pack out , What a rattle it had checked the oil/water on the dipstick , Yep broken head. Offered the guy $1000 as he was in the process of selling all his stuff to go work on a farm.so he said yes. So left him a deposit and told him ill be back in a couple of days with the rest of the money and a trailer. In the mean time organised a beater and painter for a quick cheap job.So i didnt even have to take it home . 6 weeks later the car was finished ,so paid them and it went home .In that 6 week period i had google vlt and stumbled across this site and was pretty impressed with the parts that people can buy and the videos of vlts on youtube made me think that this is a keeper. Pic of car at beaters [IMG]http://http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1/****-bucket/IMG_0232.jpg[/IMG] Thanks Lee Pic of car at painter thanks Trav http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...t/IMG_0243.jpg (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1/****-bucket/IMG_0243.jpg) I only got the front end done as i want to use and abuse it without worrying about paint and body work. I started looking for engine parts on ebay, gumtree and the web,some bloke had acl race series forged pistons , a jpc manifold ,head ,crank bearings advertised, so i picked up the pistons with a machined block and the recond head which has a port job ,the plenium .Kinda felt sorry for the bloke had to sell it as he had a kid. The next part was getting the engine built, Talked to a mate of mine James from bottlefed preformance an he said he will build it for me ,so he checked all the machine work ,wasnt too happy with the crank so had to send it out to get checked and rebalanced ,while i organised some forged H beam rods for it ,and a nitto oil pump. He had the parts back for a couple of days when i got a phone call ,what fuel do you want me to set the ring gaps to pump or alcohol ,had a little dicussion with him and decided it will run on alcohol all of the time ,so that was sorted. More to come sorry pics are not working will sort it out

Quote: Originally Posted by SLSLEEPER [View Post] Well it first started as a project search, for a vehicle that i could use for drags ,burnout comp and club days, so just an all round thrash car , Had to be an V8. Found a vlt sl for $1000 in my search for this holden v8 that i was looking for, on an interent site for $1500 lic needing work. Quickly rang the number got the address drove 250km for a look . The first thing i looked at was the body ,which looked like its been driven through a farmers fence a few minor scratches, broken windscreen ,rust wise there was a couple of patches at the bottom of the windscreen so not too bad ,as the screen had to be replaced . Asked the bloke if it ran he got the keys and the battery was dead, so i got the jumper pack out , What a rattle it had checked the oil/water on the dipstick , Yep broken head. Offered the guy $1000 as he was in the process of selling all his stuff to go work on a farm.so he said yes. So left him a deposit and told him ill be back in a couple of days with the rest of the money and a trailer. In the mean time organised a beater and painter for a quick cheap job.So i didnt even have to take it home . 6 weeks later the car was finished ,so paid them and it went home .In that 6 week period i had google vlt and stumbled across this site and was pretty impressed with the parts that people can buy and the videos of vlts on youtube made me think that this is a keeper. Pic of car at beaters [IMG]http://http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1/****-bucket/IMG_0232.jpg[/IMG] Thanks Lee Pic of car at painter thanks Trav http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...t/IMG_0243.jpg (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1/****-bucket/IMG_0243.jpg) I only got the front end done as i want to use and abuse it without worrying about paint and body work. I started looking for engine parts on ebay, gumtree and the web,some bloke had acl race series forged pistons , a jpc manifold ,head ,crank bearings advertised, so i picked up the pistons with a machined block and the recond head which has a port job ,the plenium .Kinda felt sorry for the bloke had to sell it as he had a kid. The next part was getting the engine built, Talked to a mate of mine James from bottlefed preformance an he said he will build it for me ,so he checked all the machine work ,wasnt too happy with the crank so had to send it out to get checked and rebalanced ,while i organised some forged H beam rods for it ,and a nitto oil pump. He had the parts back for a couple of days when i got a phone call ,what fuel do you want me to set the ring gaps to pump or alcohol ,had a little dicussion with him and decided it will run on alcohol all of the time ,so that was sorted. More to come ---------- Post added 01-11-11 at 12:23 ---------- sorry pics are not working will sort it out OK HOPE THIS WORKS ---------- Post added 04-11-11 at 18:21 ---------- FIRST PIC OF FRONT END DAMAGE SECOND PIC AT PAINTERS AFTER PAINTING FRONT END NEW WINDSCREEN. ---------- Post added 04-11-11 at 18:27 ---------- FITMENT OF INTERCOOLER 300X600X112 3" INLET 4' OUTLET PIC OF ENGINE AS I BOUGHT THE CAR PAINTED ENGINE BAY 2 BOTTLES OF JACKS AND 15MINS LATER ---------- Post added 04-11-11 at 18:38 ---------- ALL PAINTED GETTING RID OF DEAD WEIGHT THATS BETTER ROOM FOR CELL AND SURGE TANK AND FUEL SYSTEM SEATS CARPET OUT GEAR STICK HOLE PATCHED READY FOR CARPET AND SEATS ALL STERIO WIRES GONE LESS WEIGHT THE BETTER NEW CARPET AND SOME SPORTS SEATS THATS IT FOR NOW ---------- Post added 04-11-11 at 18:49 ---------- NOW SOME GO FAST BITS JPC PLENIUM CUSTOMISED TO TAKE 100MM THROTTLE BODY ,ID2000 INJECTERS AND FUEL RAIL ALL FROM PAUL AT JOHNSON PERFORMANCE CENTRE. THAT TAKES CARE OF THE COLD SIDE

looking good mate but how come you have covered over the gear stick hole??

Going to run a 2 speed ---------- Post added 05-11-11 at 02:12 ---------- b&m pro Magnum shifter ---------- Post added 05-11-11 at 02:18 ---------- Done a few converts in my time dont want to to do **** twice .also dont want to be beaten by any v8s thmy mates own . ---------- Post added 05-11-11 at 02:21 ---------- [/COLOR]also my $1000 bunkee owes 20 plus in parts in less than 4 months

What a mission, put powerglide in today ,had to do a fair bit of panel work to my tunnel to make it take it.3800 stall transbrake, just need a yoke and to get the tail shaft redone. ---------- Post added 06-11-11 at 17:55 ---------- Mounted the 6boost manifold and the modded t04z ready to start work on the piping.

gd stuff bro. its amazing how fast you can spend money on these things!

Bit of an up date tail shaft shortened new uni's rubber ,yoke thats all in .I made a dump pipe while hung over on Sunday ready for hpc coating slowly getting there. http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/...EPER/photo.jpg (http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l521/SLSLEEPER/photo.jpg) ---------- Post added 19-12-11 at 22:36 ---------- <a href="http://s1122.photobucket.com/albums/l521/SLSLEEPER/?action=view&amp;current=photo.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l521/SLSLEEPER/photo.jpg" border="0" alt="dump pipe and 6boost manifold ready for hpc coating"></a>

good work mate its getting there.

Ordered some plates for it today $104 latter i got plate numbers not 304 something different for thr price

Hurry up and finish it for January so we can race ;-)

Hoping by the end of jan it should be on the road bought new m&w cdi and 6 hec coils for her today ,. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

just finished the exhaust 6BOOST manifold and dump pipe droped off for hpc coating slowly getting there.

Any updates Kal?

no mate ,no progress havent had the time to touch it ,might have to send it in some where soon to get finished off.

Hey mate its good to see someone give a car like that a fresh start One thing though, if you are fitting a 2 speed with a B&M shifter or something you could have bought a shifter box off Red Star Fab off here (or made one) so the shifter sits under the factory console, looks neat as compared to cutting a massive hole!

shifter mounting battery wired up in boot turbo plumbing water oil lines done just started the fuel lines

Is it running yet Kal :-p

Bit of an update Mo, its got heaps of dust on it ,hopefully it pisses down on thursday ,that should wash it.

Haha, gd stuff, maybe I should come over with mine and that should kick things into gear for ya!

intercooler piping is finished and mounting the fuel system hopefully this week.