Hq Ute Build Thread. - Another one!  

Be-Hating

Eh, Each to their own imo. Depends on the body shape too.

OT:

Found out tonight some more about the ute, Before the guy I bought it off owned it a 15 year old kid owned it out in cecil plains. It did originally have a 253 with a 4 speed but it was changed to the current 179 and celica box.

The motor also has roller rockers as I found out tonight and also used to be running a 500 holley paired with a redline manifold.


Heres some pics of it's previous life:









And a better view of the quee front now on it:

75 KINGSWOOD

so your painting the ute silver?

Be-Hating

No white. The front end will be coming back off.

vk134

Spacers are just illegal, not worth the hassle, 15 x7 pontiac GTS type rims look mint and in the HQ era. Single headlight, GTS rims with 235/65/15's would look spot on and be legal, but if you want to run pursuit rims, commodore hubs up front, and change rear diff to borg warner (banjo and cheesesticks be gone) and change stud pattern if can't get right axle length.

75 KINGSWOOD

You do know the Pontiac rally rims or "GTS" as you cal them are basically exactly the same as the HQ GTS rims

vk134

Yes, the centres are the same, different centre cap, but we only got the crappy 14x6 rims in australia, 2 different back spacings, HQ and the wider L34/A9X, you can get the 15x7 bands from ROH, we'll you used to be able to. I used to buy the gutter smacked rims and cut the centres out for this purpose, set them up on a wheel balacing machine to get them spot on before the final welding, then the long painting process........but they always looked great, 350 silver metallic and Charcoal grey blackouts.

Be-Hating

Eh, I'm not really a fan of the gts rims tbh. I'm leaning more towards running weld drag lites but finding a good set is hard. I want to look at my ute and get the tough impression from it and I don't think i'd get that from GTS rims haha. And running drag lites will also eliminate the whole running spacers thing.

CAM-327

Centerline Autodrags, really low in the ass, 6cyl front springs, 90/10's in the front.

Instantly gives the tough impression.

joel you may have seen it, but theres a HQ ute getting around with PRO HQ on the plates. So tough.

Be-Hating

Autodrags wouldn't be bad. And it doesn't look bad with them on too in the previous pictures ( well autodrag fakies anyway )

I have seen PRO HQ and it looks awesome. Love how much or the rear guard is filled but I don't think I'd run that stance with a 6 haha.

CAM-327

Pfffft. I would. it'll look tough, and be p plate legal.

Be-Hating

But that's you kent.

Anyway, After talking it over and photo chopping different things. This will be the end goal. Bit different from my first plans but eh.

nightcrawler

Ah the old primer grey paint job , you will soon get sick of people asking you when your going to paint it lol

Be-Hating

Haha won't be primer, It'll be silver. sh!t photo is sh!t.

hq statesman

should get rid of the tourno cover and its hooks

Be-Hating

Yeah ill be welding up the holes and just running no type of cover at all and also gts flutes in the guards.

75 KINGSWOOD

If your not putting a cover on it, definately get some "UPOL Raptor Liner", about $100-200 and your tray will look awesome

AZNPRIDE

WOW!!! settle down speed racer, Pretty sure Joel is entitled to put what ever rims he wants on his car...

Considering you still owe me money for the steelies on your car, I'd shut your mouth.

BTW Joel, good progress pics....

CAM-327

Oh burn. James you should know by now that Nick is tighter than a nuns box.

Be-Hating

Hey all,

Bit of an update. I've since put lowering blocks in the rear and got some widened 8" stock rims for the rear and 5" for the front running 185's and 245's

How it currently sits with the new tyres:


Also, I went and bought another ute. This ones a rolling shell with a Prem front ( will be putting on a single headlight ) that I'll be using instead because it's rust free and paints fairly decent.

So now the plans are as follow's: Pull motor and box out of the blue ute, clean and paint it all and dump it in the white ute. Put my wheels on the white ute, change over the front springs and shocks and get all the little things worked out then get rego on it and drive it. Will do a resto on it when it actually needs it.

Be-Hating

The utes home and wheels on!

CAM-327

Neat.

Be-Hating

Hey all,

Another update, Dad and I pulled the motor/ box and front springs/ shocks out of the blue ute last weekend and painted the motor and box.




Decided to paint the motor "Case paint" black and the manifold, extractors and alternator "Cast Iron" by VHT. I've also painted the rocker cover, thermostat housing, walking stick and a few other little things Wrinkle black. So this is how it sits now:




And this weekend so far I've pulled the head off and replaced it with a 186 High Compression YT head I picked up on friday and whilst swapping the heads I was confronted with some flat top pistons! I then measured the bores ( stock bore is 3.563 ) and they are currently at 3.645 so it's the tiniest bit just over a 186 ( .40 thou ) So that's pretty cool. Will be a tough little 179.

CAM-327

Looks like i'm putting a bigger cam in mine now...

Gotta keep up somehow!

Be-Hating

Haha James, Stop kidding yourself. I'd be lucky to keep up with you how it is now!

Anyway. Today was spent pulling out the old springs/shocks and replacing them with the springs/shocks out of the blue ute and also painted the chassis, Control arms, Stub axles, fire wall and surrounding areas. I was hoping for it to be satin black but it turned out being gloss black from some reason.
But anyway, Here it is now. Motor/ box will be going in next week hopefully and the inner guards and radiator support will be painted during the week.

Front end off obviously.

After being degreased, hosed off and masked up it was ready to paint;

Painted, Springs/ shocks back in and back on wheels:


Shenanigans shot. Welcome to Ipswich.

Be-Hating

Hey all.

Todays update;

Got the motor and box into the ute this weekend a got it running but was having problems with my 350 holley so I went and bought a 465 and redline manifold, Got that on and sorted it. Also have a few electrical problems but that's nothing major. I'll just drop it off at a sparkie when it's road worthy and get it sorted. And the only other problem is the tail shaft. Because the other ute had a banjo and this current ute has a 10 bolt the yokes wont fit, Obviously. So I'll have to get them changed if anyone knows decent place to get it done?

And here's a video of it running and some pics Enjoy!

PIG208

Are you running a commodore or HQ pattern diff?

Be-Hating

Hq.

PIG208

Be careful if running commodore rims, the difference in stud pcd has been known to snap studs

Be-Hating

Pig: Yeah I know. If you look up previous posts in the thread it's all been discussed.

Update: Haven't done much. Got the front end all back on it. I went and got my tailshaft re-sleeved, Rear yoke changed ( Because banjo yoke when I'm using a sal's diff ) new uni and etc but went to bolt it up and the uni caps don't fit. They're too big. So tomorrow I may be buying a Sal's LSD with 4.44 ratio that I'll put in and hopefully the uni caps will fit.

Today I welded up my exhaust. 2 1/4 through to muffler then I made my own dump tip then painted it all. How it is now it'll be dumped right before the diff.

TwinCam16

Well done on the work.

But i have to ask, you're worried about spacers being illegal yet you're happy to dump the exhaust in an illegal spot.

Be-Hating

Thanks!

I was never worried about spacers being illegal. I'd run them If I were still going to run chaser rims. It's the others that made a fuss about it.

TwinCam16

Ahh valid point.

Side question. Wouldn't the 650 have been WAY too big? We have a 600 / 650 on asias 308.

Be-Hating

650? I'm running a 465. And it depends. If it's vac secondary it'd be fine because it's only using what it needs. But then again if the motor doesn't have the goods to support the carb even the primary's may flood it with out even using the secondarys.

TwinCam16

Ahh ok, i thought i read earlier it was a 650.
All i know about carbs is NOT to lean over one while HSV is at the ignition and Asia has a can of start ya bastard in his hands.
I was looking for the injectors, crank angle sensor and computer...

PS - HI JAMES!

CAM-327

Hi Shane!

All is looking good Joel, exhaust came up sweet. Can't wait to be cruising with ya!