1976 GD daily
1976 GD daily
yo! this is my sexy little beast
from certain angles it looks like a show car and them from most other angles it looks like a rust bucket. but i love her and she drives amazingly, ive just installed a set of 4-1 extractors connected to a 2 1/4" exhaust and lowered king springs in the front and soon to be lowering the back with 1" blocks seeing as the leaf springs have sagged so much. The old man said hed pay for a full respray but its tricky because if i do that then ill never stop fixing up the exterior components, and once you make one part look amazing then everything else starts to look alot worse.
ive taken off the hotwires and put the stockies with hubcaps back on, they look good but id love to find a set thats alot straighter than th ones i found. im going to get the seats re upholstered and new carpet, and definitely a venetian. ive also got a 76 wagon that i do doughies in, thats my parts car. ive spoken for long enough, ill keep everyone posted with my progress.
from certain angles it looks like a show car and them from most other angles it looks like a rust bucket. but i love her and she drives amazingly, ive just installed a set of 4-1 extractors connected to a 2 1/4" exhaust and lowered king springs in the front and soon to be lowering the back with 1" blocks seeing as the leaf springs have sagged so much. The old man said hed pay for a full respray but its tricky because if i do that then ill never stop fixing up the exterior components, and once you make one part look amazing then everything else starts to look alot worse.
ive taken off the hotwires and put the stockies with hubcaps back on, they look good but id love to find a set thats alot straighter than th ones i found. im going to get the seats re upholstered and new carpet, and definitely a venetian. ive also got a 76 wagon that i do doughies in, thats my parts car. ive spoken for long enough, ill keep everyone posted with my progress.
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Very nice mate, keen to see what you end up doing with this
Could almost play it off as the good twin to my GD
Cheers
VGJONO
Could almost play it off as the good twin to my GD
Cheers
VGJONO
Re: my 4 wheeled 1976 girlfriend
i know right! ive frothed over your car for a very long time! is it yours that has the huge black rims on it? because i substitute that picture for porn.
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Yeah thats it, used to have the huge black wheels on it, have wide hotwires on it and dumped it on its ass now (rear needs to come down a little more though)
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damn dude that thing is beautiful! are you stock under the hood? what ya hiding?
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I have the black wheels now
Where are ya located mate? I have.... 12 wheel trims, and 10 hubcaps not for sale! But, we may work something out with a swap with a bit of a bonus?? Like.... YOU'RE SOUL!!
Haha
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im in perth dude! way way waaaaayyyy over the other side and away from everything!
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by the way what size are those rims and have you lowered it much?
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The rims are 17x7 +25
And she's lowered 35mm
Going another 30mm lower and a different set of wheels soon
And she's lowered 35mm
Going another 30mm lower and a different set of wheels soon
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i dunno man, ive gotta get a quote on the body work and the respray and then sort of go from there, just do little things here and there, bit of engine work bit of interior bit of exterior. its no where near as nice as VGJONO's gal
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Cheers mate Hiding a low compression 1.6 with 1mm oversized pistons and some work to the head to tidy it up, also suspect a re-grind cam then ive bolted a 32/36 weber onto it and a set of extractors and a 2" exhaust, hooked up to a jap 5 speed. soon to come off the road for a tidy up and a Turbo conversion
EDIT: my Gal looks good in photo's but needs a respray, new front seats, new carpet and the vinyl top replaced
EDIT: my Gal looks good in photo's but needs a respray, new front seats, new carpet and the vinyl top replaced
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yeah i lowered mine on low kingsprings which are 30mm i think and it ended up raising the car seeing at the springs had sagged so much. do you reckon its worth getting super lows of just cutting them?
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Ah yea what colour ya thinking?
And Jon... Aren't ya glad we swapped the wheels now??!
And Jon... Aren't ya glad we swapped the wheels now??!
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i want them back for the goon or karlys GA, one or the other but yeah glad for the wheel swap
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yeah well i need all those things done plus alot more, and annoying stuff like straightening/replacing the bumpers and body work and carpet and all that, so i have a feeling ill have this car for a while, id love a sigma galant though! defs my favourite car, that or a stock sigma turbo.
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Yea well when I get my new wheels... You have first dibs
And Ry;
Don't go choppies! It stuffs things up bad... Ask Jon
And Ry;
Don't go choppies! It stuffs things up bad... Ask Jon
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i was thinking of keeping it the same colour! i love it, it changes from blue to green in different light.
and in that case, i need to find some one who wants to buy a set of low kingsprings and also someone who has a set of superlows
and in that case, i need to find some one who wants to buy a set of low kingsprings and also someone who has a set of superlows
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yeah the 1978 sigmas, first ones! for me theyre the best of both worlds between the sigma and the galant.
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Choppies and strut tops dont get along
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The springs you want are king springs, the part number is KHFL-116
eBay that and you will find em
eBay that and you will find em
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cheers dude ill give it a look!
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Hi RyBj,RyBj wrote:i was thinking of keeping it the same colour! i love it, it changes from blue to green in different light.
and in that case, i need to find some one who wants to buy a set of low kingsprings and also someone who has a set of superlows
Another option is to reset your springs -better than chopping them. I had to reset the rears in my GE wagon because King "lows" all round resulted in a 50mm drop in front and 0mm drop in rear.
Got them done at Fremantle springworks -in O'Connor. Have had them in for couple of years so far without sagging or anything -I'm very happy with them.
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Re: my 4 wheeled 1976 girlfriend
that blue/green is a super hot colour!!!!
I'd respray it in that.....is that the original colour???
I'd respray it in that.....is that the original colour???
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Watch the Kings, some are good, some not so much. Had two 30mm sets sag to the extent the car was below legal height and hitting the bumpstops on normal road bumps inside six months.
-Josh.
Daily: 7/96 EF Falcon, 4.0 SOHC, BTR95LE, 3.45:1 LSD/Lukey extractors, full 2.5” exhaust, EL intake, Tickford snorkel, 87DA cam, AU injectors, shiftkits.com.au single stage kit. PB 14.93@91mph.
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Re: my 4 wheeled 1976 girlfriend
The colour is original which is awesome, so im most likely going to get it resprayed in that! does anyone know reliable panel beaters/painters in perth?
and id definitely be fine with it sagging, i doubt my car with ever get much police attention, but i can understand if you went low low then they sagged it could be a problem.
whats the advantages of getting the springs reset? and how does that knock up against getting a new set of super lows?
and id definitely be fine with it sagging, i doubt my car with ever get much police attention, but i can understand if you went low low then they sagged it could be a problem.
whats the advantages of getting the springs reset? and how does that knock up against getting a new set of super lows?
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heres a pick from the other day when i swapped the springs over to low king springs and ended up raising the car around half an inch.
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and this is an example of the wonderful people in fremantle, on saturday night some knob jockey decided to go through my car for anything to steal, and also did a great big double foot jump on my bonnet. i popped it back out but itll need alot more work becuase its still very visible
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