Lachlan's 1986 VL Calais auto

[VLC86]

well its a little bit different to most vl's going round but its the way i like it.

Alpine white over asteroid silver freshly painted, sitting on highly poilshed whitewalled calais alloys, colour coded sunvisor, polished chrome strips all round, lowered just a touch (probably sl's), venetians in the rear and sides, chrome tow ball, turboed with a hidden black intercooler sitting behind a little chrome nudge bar (if i can ever source one) and me sitting in the drivers seat to top it all off.

There is alot of little touches i want on the inside too, but thats the image.

Imagine away!

 

[VLC86]

and a couple of pictures of it in the shed where i get to work on it.

The blue convertible is my cousins 68 MGB. Awesome car to drive in, i drove it back from Wollongong with his, so much fun!

 

[detox_nath83]

yeah do a stealth cooler.... i can powder coat it black for u.. unless u wanna spray paint it.. i have done a few coolers..

i got a small cooler here which came with my piping but i put in a 600 instead u may b of interest

 

[VLC86]

yeah mate for sure. i wasnt going to run a cooler at all, but a small one hidden would be good. powder coated would be awesome.

I will begin removing the gearbox and engine on thursday, super keen to start on it all.

My mate is droping around tomorrow in his new imported 82 RX7 with a 13B rotary. Cant wait to see it Holidays coming soon too, so im preparing the workshed for it all

 

[VLC86]

Well spent a few hours removing everything. Here is where it is at at the moment..

I like to take pictures.

Radiator out...Yes that is a fossilised dragon fly in there

 

[detox_nath83]

whats with the green stally man?? is it of any goods>?

 

[VLC86]

I dunno haha. What colour is a usual torque converter? I just bought it from the wreckers inside the box. Any easy way to check whether it is a stally or not ?

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[VLC86]

went for a trip out to the wreckers today

Got some new injector plugs with the little metal clips intact

and some of these:

King Spring Lows. Just what I was after, don't want to go too low and want to keep it legal. Just need to get the front now
Also made a bit more progress on getting the engine out.
Tailshaft out and riping more stuff out of the bay.

 

[detox_nath83]

nice work man... usually the stally is silver to

 

[VLC86]

well havent updated in a while but have made some progress

Took the front bumpers off cos they were broken and cracked all over and found out that a few pieces of wire was all that was holding the front left piece on as the plastic had broken away

Also installed a new indicator arm. Was a hassle simply due to the steering wheel not wanting to come off easily

And managed to get the engine and box out. Never thought I would manage it by myself but was easier than I thought.

Also. If you remember a while back I had issues with the car running on 5 cyinders and they found low compression in 3/4 cylinders. This is the exhaust gasket and it clearly shows the 6th exhaust outlet has alot more carbn build up. Could this be a cause for low compression in the cylinder perhaps?