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1. california blue

Wednesday, 15 June 2016 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / california blue

california blue | The 1964 Chevrolet Impala is kinda like the blue jeans of classic cars. It’s got a timeless styling, a solid construction, and it fits whatever look you’re after. In other words, you’ll be hard pressed to ...
... the timeless hours he spent at his dad’s garage. Garry Odbert is a true old school hot rodder, still owning his very first roadster from high school days. It’s also Garry who taught Dylan the correct use of welder, wrench and power ...
... Impala. Several times, the project came to a halt, most often for such side issues like getting a high school diploma or starting an own company… »A couple years ago, my brother Dustin and I created the California menswear brand ...

2. Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo Ute – Part 3

Saturday, 23 April 2016 Content / build-threads.com / Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo Ute – Part 3

... than enough for this crazy ute. Although it takes about 3 days to produce one of these manifolds, and more than 6 different swear words (try and list them all) the finished product is always something special. Porter’s ute manifold is ...
Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo Ute – Part 3 | In the third instalment of the Nulon / Impossible Fabrications XR6 Turbo Ute, we see the front end converted to a tube frame setup, and a special one-off exhaust fabricated all the way ...
... from manifold to side-pipe. Previous posts: Part 1 – Part 2 All text and images taken with permission from http://www.nulonnationals.com.au/2016/04/07/xr6-turbo-ute-part-3/ with some edits It’s been a very busy couple of weeks ...

3. east coast attacks

Saturday, 28 November 2015 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / east coast attacks

... the last couple years, those east coast style cars have a strong standing next to the popular west coast style. Among those guys digging the east coast style are Matt Kimmel and his buddy Isaac Bowser. Almost ironically, they’re located ...
east coast attacks | Since the early days of hot rodding, the media have played an important role in spreading the gospel of hopped-up jalopies and turning a pretty much local phenomenon into a nationwide movement. Every month and all over the ...
east coast attacks | Since the early days of hot rodding, the media have played an important role in spreading the gospel of hopped-up jalopies and turning a pretty much local phenomenon into a nationwide movement. Every month and all over the ...

4. east coast style

Saturday, 28 November 2015 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / east coast style

... the last couple years, those east coast style cars have a strong standing next to the popular west coast style. Among those guys digging the east coast style are Matt Kimmel and his buddy Isaac Bowser. Almost ironically, they’re located ...
east coast style | Since the early days of hot rodding, the media have played an important role in spreading the gospel of hopped-up jalopies and turning a pretty much local phenomenon into a nationwide movement. Every month and all over the ...
east coast style | Since the early days of hot rodding, the media have played an important role in spreading the gospel of hopped-up jalopies and turning a pretty much local phenomenon into a nationwide movement. Every month and all over the ...

5. Project Honda City Turbo II – Exhaust, interior, FINITO!

Sunday, 26 April 2015 Content / build-threads.com / Project Honda City Turbo II – Exhaust, interior, FINITO!

... those rare days where you give it a crack and it just works. Very little fussing about and a perfect result straight away. Great feels! After cleaning and flushing out the coolant channels we filled the auto-choke circuit with as much coolant ...
... is a truly huge update which sees the final mechanical work completed, so the car can attend it’s debut outing, Classic Japan. If you’re a fan of odball JDM machinery, then this is the post for you, as you’ll find some other ...
... muffler is blowing a bit but that can be fixed later. The best news is that it finally drove somewhere! It’s running better than when we dropped it off, but still not sorted yet. Adam swapped a couple of vacuum lines to the fuel pressure ...

6. Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 5

Saturday, 03 January 2015 Content / build-threads.com / Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 5

... a couple of videos and a sneak peek at We’re pretty much at the business-end of the F40 LM restoration now. The body is buttoned up, fuel is flowing through the lines, and the turbos are spooling. Click below to see it take shape, including ...
Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 5 | We’re pretty much at the business-end of the F40 LM restoration now. The body is buttoned up, fuel is flowing through the lines, and the turbos are spooling. Click below to see it take shape, including ...
... too am going to have to wait to hear the results. Fingers crossed. A few of the ducts in process of being duplicated. Briefly surfaced to hear first impressions are all going well on the dyno so far. More to follow in a few days. And ...

7. Project Honda City Turbo II – First Start!

Tuesday, 02 December 2014 Content / build-threads.com / Project Honda City Turbo II – First Start!

... of plumbing. We used a rivnut tool to give the pump bracket something to mount to. It took two or three proper goes and a kilo of dirt in my eyes before we got it right. Here’s me hating life. Gotta buy some safety glasses. We only ...
... time. It was only a couple of minutes before we started to see the acid taking action. A few days later – mint! Driveshafts were next. We had to get these in before we could fill the gearbox with oil or else the oil leaks out of the ...
... acid solution (the Diggers stuff above is the acid in crystalline form) and pour it into the bottle. Wait for several days, rinse it out and you should be left with this: Since that worked so well we did the same on our radiator hoses. Bath ...

8. Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 4

Friday, 07 November 2014 Content / build-threads.com / Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 4

Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 4 | Part 4 of the drool-enducing F40 LM restoration is here, and we are so, so close to seeing it that sweet twin turbo V8 being brought to life. I’m trying to update this thread more regularly than I used to, ...
... photographable work goes on hooking up the electrics etc. A couple of detail shots showing that this time we have the engine in with new cam covers and new HT leads etc. Here are the finished turbo inlet pipes we ...
... will stay for now and testing but will hopefully be replaced by something more suitable for controlled track day use when and if I can find it. Still seems difficult to find a suitable exhaust with a dual purpose, open for open track days and ...

9. Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 3

Friday, 29 August 2014 Content / build-threads.com / Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 3

... that whilst it is true to say that great progress has been made in lowering the amount of solvents released into our atmosphere during the painting process, most of this is achieved by the use of ever more sophisticated catalysts which allow ...
... of our fuel tanks undergoing a pressure test. Left overnight and they both passed with no issues. Next couple of shots show Colin checking over our restored exhaust manifolds, which in due course will undergo the Zircotec process, and generally ...
... last few Red shots from the recent past to end on that I have not posted, but then its cold turkey for me for the next 10 days. Engine is the last big one and just waiting for our final parts so hopefully that should be my surprise as soon as ...

10. EG Civic / S15 Silvia – Intro + Teardown

Monday, 25 August 2014 Content / build-threads.com / EG Civic / S15 Silvia – Intro + Teardown

... of the build on Build-Threads.com, to which I happily Not long ago I posted a link on the Facebook page about this very interesting project from Sydney, Australia. I’ve since been asked by the owner, Christopher, if I would like to re-post ...
... wheels at all. this is common in alot of Bum draggers. The EG civic is a very popular choice for enthusiasts or for a first car for a couple of reasons, They are a simple car to pull apart and put together, small, light and great on fuel. We ...
... these motors increasing as the popularity of engine swaps increase, we are finding Supra motors in everything from 6 second drag cars to “Seen better days” drift cars, the same can be said for every “hero” motor from the car builders world wide. ...