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That is amazing mate.

Beautiful car.

21st May 2012 - 07:30 PM  Reply  Quote

So today most of the day was spent driving around and trying to sort out oil problems ( Not getting oil to the rockers, see in "shooting the breeze" thread for more detail) Took the rocker gear off, And wire wheeled it aswell.



Also got my head lights on and sorted out indicator/ parker issues and washed it!

26th May 2012 - 07:20 PM  Reply  Quote

Nice work, have you thought about upgrading your lights? Theres a LED kit on ebay for about $110 looks like it should be a good upgrade

26th May 2012 - 08:14 PM  Reply  Quote

Noooooo. I'd never upgrade to a led because IMO it wouldn't look right. Like new radios in older cars, I just hate it haha.

26th May 2012 - 09:24 PM  Reply  Quote

So today I painted the dash, glove box,Pillar covers, steering column and steering wheel. The colour is just a bit lighter then the original colour but it still looks the goods IMO! Also cleaned up the gauges and the fascia.

First thing first, Sand then paint and chucked on a few coats of gloss. Made a whole lot of difference!









Should have some carpet and a new steering shaft arriving in the next week too.

27th May 2012 - 05:37 PM  Reply  Quote

Coming up mint!

Keep up the great work

27th May 2012 - 08:27 PM  Reply  Quote

looking good ,
the dash looks brand new

This is a good build thread

28th May 2012 - 08:49 PM  Reply  Quote

^^^ Thanks mate!

Jay:
NFI what colour it is as it doesn't say it on the cap or can but I did buy it from aussie auto and there was this colour and a very light brown. It's from "Motospray" and it is a vinyl die. Head down to your local supercheap/ aussie auto and suss it out.

And when I was spraying it I did think to myself " I swear this is the same as jay's Qee " No joke. I also sprayed a few coats of gloss on the lower dash, steering column and steering wheel because without that it literally didn't have any shine. So make sure you grab a can of that too.

28th May 2012 - 08:57 PM  Reply  Quote

What colour carpet are you going?

Coming along really nicely!

29th May 2012 - 11:35 AM  Reply  Quote

"Bark" Tad lighter then chocolate brown.

29th May 2012 - 04:31 PM  Reply  Quote

This weekend was spent mainly mucking around with sway bars. I bought a k-mac 20mm one for the rear last week and ended up picking up a front 24mm sway bar off a wb ute at beenleigh wreckers. As you could imagine the rubbers were screwed so a quick stop at pedders on the way back got us some new ones.

Got the sway bars installed after a quick wire wheel and paint, took the rear right hand wheel and axle off and gasketed it all up. Hopefully that'll stop the leak. Then Done a few little things like paint under the cowl panel vents and bolt that on and polish and put on the front window strips.

Stock hq sway bar ( top ) and the wb sway bar ( bottom )

Because it's a body mounted sway bar ( opposed to a trailing arm mounted one ) I had to drill a hole right next to where the upper trailing arms bolt and mount it there.



Bottem: Before. Top: After a quick polish.


My carpet arrived but because of it's size it wasn't at my local postie and instead at the main sorting facility so I'll be ringing them and sorting something out. Bought my kick panels, boot rubber and rear weather strips so they should be here at least by the end of this week.

Here's a random shot too. Taken mainly because I could Yard needs a mow eh?


Next week I'll probably be installing the carpet, kick panels and hopefully the rear window strips. I'll also probably be buying some new lifters as that may be the problem with no oil getting to the rockers cause they could be blocked.

3rd June 2012 - 03:05 PM  Reply  Quote

Hello Mate, just wondering where you got the car from? My uncle has one identical in Toowoomba QLD if this wasnt his. Great job too, really coming up well and good to see them not ending up at Simms

15th June 2012 - 04:45 PM  Reply  Quote

I got it from up in north brissy and thanks!

15th June 2012 - 05:08 PM  Reply  Quote

Anything been happening with this lately? I really interested in seeing the final product. Would love to do something like this when I have the space.

14th July 2012 - 08:38 PM  Reply  Quote

Hey,

Lately I've just been putting the interior in and doing a general tidy up of the car like putting on the sill trim, Rear window trim, Horns, headlight surronds and washer bottle and then just things in the interior like seat belts, Mirror etc..

I got a road worthy cert and mod plate last weekend and insured it with shannons during the week. Hopefully ill be registering it sometime after work next week and then start driving it daily as I go for my P's next tuesday!

Only thing really left is to finish putting in the seat belts, Boot carpet , Wipers, sun visors, heater setup and to paint the bonnet. I'm Still on the hunt for a good bonnet and wheel arch trims if anyone has one.

15th July 2012 - 09:11 AM  Reply  Quote

Wow, has come out very well. Good luck with the test, I was sh!tting my pants before mine but it was pretty good.

15th July 2012 - 12:03 PM  Reply  Quote

Lookin funking mint Joel you little @#$!! Good to see the chrome scuffs came up good as well. I can't believe how well its come along since i saw it last.. done such a good job!

15th July 2012 - 01:27 PM  Reply  Quote

Thanks, I'm confident I'll pass....hopefully.

Cheers nick. The drivers scuff plate is one of my old ones I sprayed silver and chucked on for now because of the gay cut on the one you gave me.

15th July 2012 - 02:14 PM  Reply  Quote

How many cans of vinyl dye did it take to paint both front seats?, came out awesome

15th July 2012 - 03:02 PM  Reply  Quote

Can't really remember but I used a fair bit, I think a can and a half maybe two and these are those big cans that I'm talking about. Just make sure if your painting fabric to run a brush through it every now and then to separate the fibres.

15th July 2012 - 04:05 PM  Reply  Quote

yeah i have to buy a couple of cans

15th July 2012 - 05:43 PM  Reply  Quote

Building a Q like a boss

15th July 2012 - 06:20 PM  Reply  Quote

Needs more update photos! Hurry up and get it rego'd so i can do some photos with the cars man!

15th July 2012 - 06:56 PM  Reply  Quote

Getting rego tomorrow! Gon be sick.

15th July 2012 - 08:29 PM  Reply  Quote

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15th July 2012 - 08:53 PM  Reply  Quote

Dafuq is TMR?

I wont be driving the quee there, Just taking the plates and paper work an hoping they don't want to check it out.

15th July 2012 - 09:05 PM  Reply  Quote

How Dafuq did you not know, Tmr is "Transport & Main Roads"

16th July 2012 - 04:36 PM  Reply  Quote

I've honestly never heard it being referred as "TMR" it's always QT.

Anyway, Had a problem with the RWC so I though It wouldn't be getting registered today, a phone call later and it was sorted. She's registered and ready to go!

16th July 2012 - 05:34 PM  Reply  Quote

OH FUNK YES!!!!

16th July 2012 - 06:23 PM  Reply  Quote