VR V8 Project Car

[AJS85]

Bought this HSV Enhanced VR V8 for the running gear for my 1 Ton ute project http://www.eight-five.net/holden.php.

But I decided to keep it in one piece and restore it.
Had a manual conversion done was running the Getrag 5 Speed, so I replaced that with the T5
Replaced everything on the ignition side.
New Clutch, tail shaft CV and tail shaft Bearing
All oils dropped and replaced.

Next step when it's back on the road is to give it a full respray in it's factory red.

Before Pictures (How the car was when I picked it up)






The After pictures so far.
The interior, Engine bay and Brakes all cleaned up. (more work to the Engine bay is needed)






Got these rims for it but are going to blast them and powder coat them Gunmetal gray.

[The1]

awesome job, will be good lookin car.

[Helical]

Good work. What on earth were they thinking with that interior!?

[Holden202T]

yeah I was glad to see you removed the interior red bits
I say with the ute, keep the 202 and turbo it with a delco

[AJS85]

Little up date on the VR SS
Got a new front bar to modify to make it the same as the SS
Got 2 SS front lips now
Let the prep work begin for a full respray.

Front bar

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On another note a got another T5 manual gearbox for the HX ute rebuild so will be putting the 304 and gearbox on to the ute chassis soon.

[AJS85]

Been a busy week getting the VR ready for the complete respray.

New bar

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Here is a sneak preview of the HX 1 Tonner

Hx 1 Ton

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[AJS85]

Another Update SS Body work all nearly all done.
Resprayed factory diablo red with an orange pearl to be a bit different.

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[vlad01]

wow looks great!

its too late now, but you can still buy genuine new ss bumpers. I know because I was looking for new standard genuine bumpers but could only find ss ones. You can get the ss bumper inserts as new genuine as well.

[AJS85]

Yeah they want about $250+ for SS bar when all it has is cut out for the bezels and I all ready had the bezels from the old bar

Got that standard bar for $130 to my door and modified it to fit my bezels

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[Dazza92VP]

like the red looks really good what happened to the roh rims still got to get them sorted?