Hey, my names Daniel Taylor, i've been on this forum for a little while now and have finally decided i should do a write up of my VL and the work done to it. Firstly i purchaced this clean straight 1987 SL Commodore locally in 2002 after seeing an ad in the Trading Post, i did have my heart set on getting a nice VH SLE, but after seeing this, I had to have it. I drove it like this for a while, and then my mates started getting into 4WD's and since i wanted to join in and not wanting to keep taking the VL on camping trips where the 4WD's were going, I decided to buy one! My GQ Nissan Patrol Wagon So not being able to afford running the 2 vehicles the VL eventually ran out of rego and sat around for a couple of years. Then there was a stage where i was off work injured for a while and i found this forum, reading about other peoples projects and problems and fixes, I decided to do some work on my VL. This is when i began buying parts of the forum and ebay to do a turbo conversion, deciding on going the high comp route, it hasn't let me down yet. When cleaning it up is when i wrote the tech article on cleaning the lifters. I re-rego'd it and drove it around NA for a while, went on a cruise and got the urge to complete the conversion I bought just a standard factory setup, but the further along i got the more i wanted to do to it, I bought a GKTech No Hole Intercooler Kit and got a mate to make up a 3" Exhaust, bought a catch can and bought some wheels off a mate to put on it, new headlights and indicators cleaned up the front. This is how it stayed for almost a year until one Saturday arvo in Nov 07 coming home from work that a guy decided to take a illegal right turn, which made for a series cars bank up behind him and I happened to be No. 3 in a 4 Car Pile Up. So smashed front and rear and me having only 3rd party insurance, I had to cover the car in front and the one that hit me had to cover me. Having a mate working at a panel shop, the car got assessed and was a finacial write off for the rear damage, after fighting with the insurance company to get the full pay out, I finally got the money and bought back the car for $200. With one mate being a panel beater and the other as a painter, they offered to help me fix it up, i purchaced new headlights again, new taillights, all new bars, and a replacement bonnet, boot, moulds, skirts and a calais front courtesy of WOGPSI all in the same colour, it made it a bit easier to match up. With a goal of having it completed ready for the Victorian leg of the Cruise For Charity 5, i didn't expect it to take until the night before to have it done. Leading up towards the completion i needed to get new number plates as mine were damaged from the crash, after finding out that to keep the same combination would cost me $77 i considered Customised Plates. Looking on the forum I was thinking of getting GMHVLT but after my mum said their stupid cause you can see what the car was, you didn't have to be told, I decided to get something else, DEETS which is a nickname, was available so i got them, and put them on in time for C4C5. Just going to enjoy it for a while with no real future plans just as yet, unless I win the lottery, Thanks for reading my story, hope ya like it, I know i do!

Great story mate. Good Luck for any future modifications! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

great story any underbonnet pics of it after the rebuild? still running a cooler?

Underbonnet is still the same, and yeah still running the GKTech No Holes Front Mount Cooler.