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Post by guyph_01 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:30 pm

Little update...,
Cleaning stage:
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After, Interior trim
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Rear Seats, Unfortunately i can't do much about the cracks on the top seats or the sun faded trim but they did come up much better:)
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Also cleaned the door trims. Have sent them to get partially redone. I'll post pics when they come back:)
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Post by steptoe » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:25 pm

you could spray grey paint on the browny foam to hide a bit more ?

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Post by guyph_01 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:17 pm

Its a blue trim but yeah maybe, i'll try and see. Thx:)
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Post by NachaLuva » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:34 am

guyph_01 wrote: After, Interior trim
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Rear Seats, Unfortunately i can't do much about the cracks on the top seats or the sun faded trim but they did come up much better:)
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Also cleaned the door trims. Have sent them to get partially redone. I'll post pics when they come back:)

Awesum job on the trim! How on earth did you get em coming up so good?

With the seats...seatcovers? lol :rolleyes:
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Post by El_Freddo » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:48 am

Good work Guyph!

Maybe save up and get the seats re-trimmed to solve that cracking problem on top of the rear seats - get the fronts done too so that everything matches.

Looks like it might just scrub up to be a great little restorer!

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Post by guyph_01 » Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:47 pm

nachaluva wrote:Awesum job on the trim! How on earth did you get em coming up so good?

With the seats...seatcovers? lol :rolleyes:
Plenty of carpet cleaner and 2 good wash with the karcher pressure cleaner:)
El_Freddo wrote:Good work Guyph!

Maybe save up and get the seats re-trimmed to solve that cracking problem on top of the rear seats - get the fronts done too so that everything matches.

Looks like it might just scrub up to be a great little restorer!

Cheers

Bennie
Yeah thats too expensive, I'm going with The front WRX seats so i won't need to re-trim them and selling the front seats:)
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Post by guyph_01 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:21 am

Starting to put Swampy back together:)

As everything was out i laid some RCA, power wires for an amp, a stacker for the future sound system:)
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Also started a cut and polish on the paint. Can't afford a respray so will clean and touch her up as best i can:) Done the LH side and rear. Will attack the rest tomorrow after Uni.

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Post by guyph_01 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:25 am

Also unfortunately found coolant on the passenger side:( So i put a U hose on the heater pipes. I don't really feel the urge of getting that dash out and plus summer is coming. I 've done the heater core on my L series, My bro's liberty but the vortex seems to trickier to get that dash out:(

Ohhh well.....
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Post by coupe » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:18 pm

Hey Guy
the dash is quite straight forward to remove , there are only 8 bolts and take off the steering wheel first. all the wiring is attached to the fire wall and there are only minor things to move.
Try some Cargo " metalic sealup first it will fill the hole in the heater. and not corrupt the rest of the system.
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Post by guyph_01 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:57 pm

Cool, but i still don't have the motivation:( Maybe next year when i do the WRX conversion:D
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Post by mud_king91 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:09 pm

wish i could be arsed finding the inspiration to do something like this

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Post by guyph_01 » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:33 am

Looks like i need turbo gaskets for the vortex. I think its the uppipe gasket. Anyway, where can i find them? I had no luck at the auto shops:(

Mr i know everything, plz help:)
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Post by steptoe » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:17 am

Genuine. The head to exhaust pipe are dear but quality, the turbo to cat pipe - 4 in stock in Oz two days ago. Up ppe ?

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Post by mud_king91 » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:23 am

i think he means intake pipe... tho all my turbo,s just had a rubber tube connecting it to the intake manifold

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Post by TOONGA » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:54 am

guyph_01 wrote: Mr I know everything, plz help:)
Which one? :)

would say Frog would be your best bet

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Post by Tweety » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:35 am

It may well have an exhaust leak....but that sound is awesome.

Now I know why Bennie (El Freddo) is in love with it....I think he has the EJ revving sound on his ipod....

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Post by El_Freddo » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:03 am

Tweety wrote:Now I know why Bennie (El Freddo) is in love with it....I think he has the EJ revving sound on his ipod....
That sounds like a good idea tony for those odd times that I'm either having withdrawals or can't afford fuel at that time.

I do have a video of the exhaust on youtube under the user name of "elfreddoandrubyscoo" if you want to check it out :mrgreen:

Guyph, progress is looking good mate! I reckon you should just pull your thumb out and fix the leaking heater core - much easier with the seats etc out already, plus I bet it needs a good clean in behind there!

Then there's that other thing of you needing to do it before winter again when it NEEDS to be done, not HAS to be done!

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Post by steptoe » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:02 pm

While you have seats out - does the Vortex have air ducts to rear seat passengers footwell? like all sedans since 1984 ?

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Post by guyph_01 » Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:40 pm

steptoe wrote:While you have seats out - does the Vortex have air ducts to rear seat passengers footwell? like all sedans since 1984 ?
No mine doesn't...


Well 2day i removed the exhaust and turbo to get to the gaskets. Luckily I started to soak the nuts with WD40 since the past two days and the bolts came out easy:) Turns out the gaskets were still ok.
This is where the leak was coming from..... lol, clean cut!

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So i'll go to an exhaust shop on Monday and get some new gaskets or maybe use the old ones:p
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Post by steptoe » Sat Sep 24, 2011 7:12 pm

Good old EA82T !

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