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And who says wagons dont come with rear headrests!
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lookin good dude now just need a big boy engines for it and dropp it on its belly
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Ill be dropping it on its belly fairly soon, but the motor is big enough at the moment with the t4 highflow on 9psi.
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T4 highflow on 9psi without no intercooler and u call that big ?
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lookin good man, i think last time i saw this car, the pics of it were from a webcam.. nice lookin paint bro !
Ollie
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with the small wheels i can only fit under the rear guards of the wagon, even when they are rolled is enough of a handful on 9 psi.
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So it is an internal wastegate T4. or is it a T3/T4 hybrid
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Yes its internally gated with a t4/t3 hybrid setup.
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too good. If you think it is fast now just wait to you get a cooler and boost it up to 15PSI.
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Well im actually going for the stock look. Not many of these around now that are kept stock. But we will see, ill probably get boost happy eventually.
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09-01-04, 00:56 GMT+10#10 lovely looking paint work , nice
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09-01-04, 10:07 GMT+10#11 Nice Paint Wagon01, has it been fully resprayed with the engine out of the car. Looks really neat mate. Love the stock look.
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09-01-04, 10:33 GMT+10#12 Yes the engine bay was sprayed with the engine out. Its got a few scratches in it now due to engine installation thou.
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18-04-04, 19:09 GMT+10#13 Thats sweet. Nice paint too. I like the motor the way it is, I see your point. But more boost = more fun too.It all depends what you want out of your car. Anyway It looks very neat. I like it lots.
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18-04-04, 19:26 GMT+10#14 AHH u ****er!! that looks like the same colour i wanna paint my other wagon!!!
lol. like the car, nice n clean
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18-04-04, 19:54 GMT+10#15 Well neat car man, engine looks mint.
You got one of those mad dash's.
If you can make me one that plugs straight, I'll pay good money for it.
Cheers
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18-04-04, 20:17 GMT+10#16 Thanks for the comments guys its really appreciated. Well these pic are very old now and the car has progressed to the stage where its almost complete now. I painted the bumpers and the lower calais mouldings on saturday and they look better than the car i believe. Ive done them in gunmetal grey instead of asteroid silver, but i think its going to look smick.
Regarding the dash, ive driven around quite a bit, but had a bit of a scare recently where the car didnt change from 1st to second when i took it for a good boot. Im not sure if it was the trans playing up or the signal from my speedo to the trans computer, i have to test it still a bit more before i consider doing a few of them. Thier no point in doing them if their not reliable.
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19-04-04, 15:56 GMT+10#17 shmick engine man. Keep up the good work!!
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19-04-04, 16:10 GMT+10#18 What exact colour is it?
(if you don't mind me asking)
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19-04-04, 18:40 GMT+10#19 Yeah dude nice looking colour and paint work Pretty clean engine you got there!...
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20-04-04, 12:24 GMT+10#20 How lovely to hear someone wanting to keep thier VL original! very refreshing,
one thing I think you guys don't talk about very much is the fact that when you start doing little cheap things to your 17 + year old motors like boost etc bla bla winding up the turbo to 14+ psi is the fact that you are going to have major costly problems with your car - gaskets blown heads cracked etc.... speed kills, and who wants to pay of a vehicle that they cant drive because of the smash they had when they couldn't handle the extra boost. Insurance is hard enough to get, the more mods even harder and not if but when you loose your licence you cant drive your lovely car anyway.
Please don't take this the wrong way but just remember how much you love your car and all the blood sweat & I'm sure tears just look after these classic cars and appreciate & respect them for what GMH produced them as . Cheers
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