Luke's 1200 Coupe

luke · Post by **luke** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:05 pm

boring nothingless update, car has sat unloved for a long while, but watch this space in the near future, ute will get love first as its my daily and i want good brakes.

luke · Post by **luke** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:14 pm

no pictures yet, but have been sinking money into this shed ornament again lately.

ordered so far....

82mm shorter 1981 n10 pulsar shock inserts
60mm trumpets for throttle bodies
weather seal kit from ebay
new set of wheels outta japan, along with some wider options for the ute
bump steer spacers from john as my other set were pinched for the ute

hopefully lewis isnt too busy to fit the hoodlining on saturday then some glass can go in.....

still need to order coilovers, but am considering maybe wing it without for now, and just shorten the struts to suit new shocks in the meantime. as soon as thats done there will be some slammed pics

Post by **Bartman** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:23 pm

I was just thinking the other day, that I haven't seen your smiling face for aaages Luke.
PLease finish this car in time for labour weekend.

luke · Post by **luke** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:30 pm

hahaha unlikely sorry bart, but just had lewis round to fit hoodlining etc.............. and damn that guy has skills...... its all in and pretty! next on is fitting windows

Post by **gingofthesouth** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:20 pm

luke wrote:hahaha unlikely sorry bart, but just had lewis round to fit hoodlining etc.............. and damn that guy has skills...... its all in and pretty! next on is fitting windows

Good shit. I was thinking about your vehicles the other day too wondering what was up with them.

Good to hear about the progress.

luke · Post by **luke** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:49 pm

wheels have been shipped from japan via moonlight racing. 14x6.5 +4 fronts/ 14x7 -2 rears in ssr star formula...unsure if these will go on coupe or ute yet as brendan did sell me a sweet set of enkei apaches a while back.

Trumpets have been purchased from phil huttie and temporarily fitted and look so so sexy. gonna sweet talk greg asap about zincing my trumpets and air flow manifold thing.

total remembered costs so far inclusive of the $3200 of the purchase price excluding all wheels/tyres is $31,350. so learning to weld/panel and paint/upholster/enginey stuff so i dont have to repeatedly throw money at things i dont understand. this admittedly does include a lot of double ups of the harder to get bits.......3x interiors excluding seats, 3 sets of chrome trim, the list goes on and on

Post by **Bartman** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:28 am

That's a lot of money Petal.
Whoever, you have come a very very long way since the first time I met you. We're all very proud of you!

luke · Post by **luke** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 5:43 pm

yea i was really green when it came to anything car related..... but i picked up a thing or two over the last 3yrs

luke · Post by **luke** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 5:52 pm

also some recent purchases.......

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will be dropping these along with my vaccuum manifold to greg tomorrow to get adonized

and wal is gonna cut my struts down this week to suit the pulsar inserts

Post by **Kitch** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:01 am

luke, your running tab is partly my fault ... sorry...

hey, FYI I am not using my vacuum manifold with my setup now, nor my O2 setup.
I am tuned on TPS position only. MAP readings through ITB's did not prove reliable enough.

That was my setup, and what tuner told me, and your setup may be different - just letting you know
perhaps you tune in TPS mode first, then look at MAP sensor / vacuum manifold later?

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