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Far out mate, last time i looked at your progress you had only just got her. I thought i'd give it some time before i checked back but you are absolutely flying . I think that dark green will look tops.

 

ONWARDS AND FORWARDS!

 

Matt.

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Far out mate, last time i looked at your progress you had only just got her. I thought i'd give it some time before i checked back but you are absolutely flying . I think that dark green will look tops.

 

ONWARDS AND FORWARDS!

 

Matt.

 

 

yea cheers mate i appreciate that its lucky that i had been giving 8 weeks off at the begining of jan or it wouldnt be to that stage each day i am trying to do more to it looking forward to having it on the road in a few months fingers crossed

 

 

well the next things on the list i wanna buy for the beast is as follows

 

1. paint the car the colour and clear coat to finish it off

2. waiting on a 5 speed shifter that a guy is sending me

3. engine got to get some money for that

4. racing seats for the driver and passangers

5. new slotted front rotors and pads

6. exhaust need to be made up

7. tacho not a monster one and as well as oil pressure gauage and possible new steering wheel

8 mod plate

9. front and rear windscreens

10. all put back together and all fluids put in

11. test

12.RWC and the rego then hopefully driving the beast

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well the next things on the list i wanna buy for the beast is as follows

 

1. paint the car the colour and clear coat to finish it off

2. waiting on a 5 speed shifter that a guy is sending me

3. engine got to get some money for that

4. racing seats for the driver and passangers

5. new slotted front rotors and pads

6. exhaust need to be made up

7. tacho not a monster one and as well as oil pressure gauage and possible new steering wheel

8 mod plate

9. front and rear windscreens

10. all put back together and all fluids put in

11. test

12.RWC and the rego then hopefully driving the beast

Sounds like a plan Undertaker.

 

Nice progress by the way. :wink:

 

Josh :hmm:

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well some more progress has happened i have managed to paint the floor pan in the interior and also the boot section of the car , the bonnet is primed and ready for a coat of paint , soon the whole car will be getting painted just little things left to do and also painted the underside of the boot looks great i will post pics in a few days

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I'm about to endeavor into the world of ta22's and after reading through your thread this has given me some more inspiration, keep it up mate.

 

cheers yea its a big task for me and well i enjoy it and glad to have appreciation from people its awsome and good to see you want to join the ta22 spirit lol

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Looks like you are doing some great work. I have a real soft spot for TA22's, my sister had one as an everydayer for about 15 years.....plum purple with a white vinyl roof.

Will be keeping an eye on progress! Good work sir!

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time to show you guys what i have been up to i am going upload pics for everyone to see

 

this is a new guard i picked up for the left side and the next pic is of the right

 

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the following few are a transformation of the tappet cover and block

this is just the cleaning process

 

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this what the old pistion looked like before then the new ones installed

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Its coming along great, mate.

 

Itll be together before you know it.

 

:jamie:

 

 

Looks great mate.

 

 

yea iam really enjoying the build and looking forward to getting it on the road this year sometime that is and when it is finished plan to want to go on a cruise with the rollaclub boys and will be at the friday night munch inn when finished and rego'd

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well here is some pics of what i am currently been doin over the last 2-3 weeks

 

motor and box connected up together and now in the car also tailshaft is connected

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i just dummy fitted the extractors and thats what they looked like before i painted them

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this is with the extractors fitted to the head and just starting to add more stuff to the motor

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in a previous post in one of the pics you can see the motor spread out and in pieces well take a look at the head and then see what it looked like after it was cleaned up and fixed at a head reconditioning place

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i also took the sway bar off the car and went ahead and painted it and put justins sway bar bushes in as the were pretty much not even a month old before he stopped using the car

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and well i assembled the front lights and grill and stuff as you will soon see in the pics below

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and finally its been an awsome build its not perfect but none the less iam happy and can't wait till its on the road in the time i have worked on the car its been a blast and i will look forward to the next project down the track still got a small amount of stuff to do but yea

from what is was to now what a transformation

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there will be more updates as the build continues but i am going back to work tomorrow after a 7 week period off due to the slow season at my work so mainly weekend work and means more funds lol whats everone think of it so far

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