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I thought it was about time I put together a build thread.
I bought the car from the US about 4 years ago. Long story short bad buy.'
It looked good in the pictures, but we all know how they can lie.

As it was when I bought it.

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The start of the strip down

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I own blasting company, so we stripped it and look what we found.

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We replaced both quarters, full floor,trunk floor, firewall,roof and both outer wheel wells. I sold of most of the car as I decided to go with a Pro touring setup.

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I purchased Art Morrision front and rear clips.

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It's been moving along pretty well the last year.

Bringing it home after the firewall, interior and underside where painted.

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The red is Sting Red, the interior is Matt Black and the underside is Gregorio Silverstone.

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brake lines made.

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I have set a mock up engine in place, I am running a tall deck RHS block, but I don't have it here yet, so I needed to simulate it by raising the heads of the one I have.

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I have set up the breathers for the diff and fuel tank.

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I have been working on the headers and exhaust the last couple of weeks. I have used a header design set by icengineworks, that works great.

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one of the headers all fabbed up.

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And the exhaust well underway.

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Radiator, coolers, support panel and dry sump tank in place.

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you have been holding out on us way too long,that is some great looking work,gonna be a real nice ride

Only for a little while Jeff. I will keep it upto date from now on.

Nice work, excellent choice of parts going into this build....

Thomo

Um Greg :smiley_smack: that's not nice to hold out on us like that :D Very nice build there Greg!! What are the plans for the engine? Love the fire wall.

Thanks Thomo

OK Rick, I promise not to keep things :secret:

The engine is a 440 RHS tall deck block, Ozmo manifold, dry sump and all top self internals.

What a corker!

Ya dunny rat, about time you shared this fat cracker with us! :bitchslap:

:thankyou: Sieg, I hope to get it back to the paint shop, while we are in the States in July and hopefully finished by the end of the year.

Great progress.

I was just wondering if you were going to run that suspension as a 5 link? I know AM offer both the 3 and 4 link option, but is there a reason to run 5?

Just curious.

Andrew

Andrew, it"s the same setup that was being used in Project Unfair, I believe there is only the 2 of them. I will use the 4 link for the drags and the 3 link for everything else.

Dang Greg....way to grab everyone's attention! :D

Crazy nice and I can't wait to see more!!

Oh yeah! That'll work!


Thanks for FINALLY posting.... You and I must share that little hold out gene.... I'm big on posting but not big on posting what I'm doing. LOL


You know -- I have to say -- that so many of these cars end up with a complete re-do after being bought when they "looked" okay.... but what we have to remember is that for many many years these cars weren't worth towing to the junkyard... and then there were a few years of "recovery" where they were still just cheap cars... so the repairs were commensurate with their values. It's only now that we can put the proper repairs to them because they're worth the cost and effort. Glad you saved another one.

WHen I saw the title of the thread I thought there was an emergency!
You should rename the car 'holdout', lol.

Congrats Greg. Beautiful car :cheers:

Over the top impressive mate.

Regarding the core support - was it purchased or custom fabricated?

...........I have nightmares about getting my car blasted. :D

Very nicely done. :thumbsup:

Awesome! :king:

Excellent Work!

Thanks Curtis, I will keep the post coming as they happen.

Thanks Jay :thumbsup:

Thanks Greg, I have to say it's much easier to watch and listen.

There is an emergency: get it done before I'm to old.

Holdout, now your just being harsh :twak:

It's a PRC unit Sieg.

All we do is blast cars and ruin peoples dreams.

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Thanks John, it's great to see progress isn't it, yours is coming along great.

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Wow - simply bad to the bone! Wish it was in the States.. :flag2: :D

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ROAD TRIP!!!

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Cheers Flash

You are a bad man Sieg. :hitaxeonthehead:

You just never know, It would be bloody expensive, but a great trip.

nice work greg, what media did you use for the undercarrige? Unusual to see the spot weld color after blasting.

Very nice! Look forward to seeing the progress.

Thanks Vince, We used Soda back then, but we don't use it any more, the car was completely re blasted at a later date, using a system that I developed, called the Diamond blast system.

Thanks.