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matches · Post by **matches** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:27 pm

hey sammy, hows things going with the ute? haven't heard from you in a fair while.
luke.

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:49 am

tell me about it man, honestly i haven't done much at all on it with the torana v6 conversion and the wedding and stuff, but thats all done and dusted now so hopefully in the next month or so you might see an update.

stubby · Post by **stubby** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:51 pm

be good to see more progress sammy . im going the same as you with v6 just bought th doner car a vr commadore

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:10 pm

actually the first thing i want to do is get the slow leak in the front wheel fixed, its annoying the crap out of me

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:25 am

well i finally started looking at the ute again the other day ... then it got F@#%#N hot .... anyways ....

i am planning to weld up the spare wheel door seeing how its useless to me (commodore wheels don't fit in it) so i started looking at how to do it ....

i'm interested to hear anyones thoughts who has already done this .... im not sure weather to leave the door as it is and weld it in or go for a wagon rear bumper and have the number plate on it and smooth the panel .....

i think im pretty sure i want wagon bumper ..... just need to see a few and work out whats gonna be the neatest option!

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:04 pm

If your spare wheel door is in good condition remove it and make a new skin to be welded in its place, those doors are getting very hard to find, I'm sure someone on here would be glade to take it off your hands

, Trev

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matches · Post by **matches** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:56 pm

great to see your back into it.

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:58 am

Trev wrote:If your spare wheel door is in good condition remove it and make a new skin to be welded in its place, those doors are getting very hard to find, I'm sure someone on here would be glade to take it off your hands , Trev .

well other than the previous owner spot welding the hinge onto it yeah its in good condition .....

if someone wants to make me a replacement panel i'll swap them for my door

dave68 · Post by **dave68** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:46 pm

Sammy wrote:well i finally started looking at the ute again the other day ... then it got F@#%#N hot .... anyways ....

i am planning to weld up the spare wheel door seeing how its useless to me (commodore wheels don't fit in it) so i started looking at how to do it ....

i'm interested to hear anyones thoughts who has already done this .... im not sure weather to leave the door as it is and weld it in or go for a wagon rear bumper and have the number plate on it and smooth the panel .....

i think im pretty sure i want wagon bumper ..... just need to see a few and work out whats gonna be the neatest option!

Hey Sammy, I have done this and have posted up some shots of it. I removed the door, well Louie did and welded a plate over it, now I am using a fc/fe bumper and I hope to have a set of wagon over riders soon as well as a fc number plater surround.
I think the snaps are in my car and what I did on the weekend.
Hope this helps.
Cheers Dave.

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:37 am

yeah i've found a few pics of panel vans and utes with it done ... i'm pretty sure i want to go that route with the ek wagon bumper .... looks heaps neater!!!

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:53 am

don't know how you will go using FB/EK rear bar with the large curves/cut outs for the taillights that aren't there on utes
might be able to do something with a front bar

Post by **Blacky** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:25 am

FC bumper is the go.

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:42 am

Well i know its been far too long between drinks, but i've finally done something to this!!

I had to get my FB Ute out of the shed the other day to get at the camping gear, so i thought while i was at it i would put some mufflers on it.

so currently this thing has a VR V6 with custom made extractors into 2.25 inch pipes then into two stock v6 cats and then thats pretty much as far as i'd gotten with it.

so a while back my mate put a new exhaust on a car for a customer and he was just going to throw the old exhaust out, so i loaded it into the ute and brought it home

so this is basically a stock system off a VT monaro and as it happens the flanges are the same as on my cats and the pipes are 2.25 inch into the mufflers and 2 inch out so that was perfectly what i wanted!!

it was pretty much a matter of cutting the bends out of the pipes and a few small changes and on they went!

one day i will get some nice 45 degree bends to point the pipes down at the ground but i need to check with mr engineer to make sure i can do what i want before i get too carried away.

I also need to slightly modfiy the left one as its in the wrong spot, but it was the best i could do with the pipe i had ....

either way she sounds heaps nicer now and not as loud and annoying as it was before! I just need to get some bits and pieces to mount the rear supports for it!

Oh and i reckon its quieter than the Torana is and it passed the emissions noise test so this one should too!!

I have a video of it too http://www.oldholdens.com/images/cars/f ... 010-12-11/ low and high quality options there.

FB wannabe · Post by **FB wannabe** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:29 pm

I was reminiscing on an old thread today (bored at work)

and Sammy's name popped up, so I searched for this thread and just had a good read.

Has anyone heard from him, or know if anything has been done lately to the ute? I remember watching this thread from the start, hopefully all is well with Sammy and he has been to busy to post updates as he's been working on the ute lol. It's a shame when people dissapear and your left wondering what ever happened to them or their car (Row1) comes to mind. He was building a pink and white fb sedan that he bought as a unfinished project, from memory he was trying to sell it and wanted big $$$ for it, I have had a few sleeps since then though

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:19 pm

Well i have good and bad news

the good news is yes i am still alive and yes the FB Ute is still in the family.

Bad news is i have sold it back to my dad who funnily enough is who i bought the shell off in the first place - pretty much been way to busy and other priorities in life these days i rarely get on the forum and have no time for the FB Ute, i wasn't planning to sell it cause i didn't want to see it go, but when dad started talking about getting a project now all the kids have left home i thought i could handle seeing it go to him cause i know he will do a good job of it and i'll get to see all my work finished and get to enjoy it still.

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