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Sweeeet, a beige sigma wagon with venetians sideways on a track!

(max points if it was also a GE and with roof rack )

nice! If you do get a quote for fixing that bumper, let us know how much it costs just to give an idea on what the real value of a straight bumper is. Also I would probably paint back the silver line at the bottom of the grill at some stage (the one that follows the chrome trim line of the indicator...

vacuum is meant to be low at idle and wide open throttle, I believe. I think you're supposed to get abt 200mm of vac at norm idle speeds which is around 1/4 full vacuum, so it mightn't FEEL like a vacuum with your thumb over the tube. From your description it sounds like it's hooked up correctly.. y...

i didn't think any sigma wagons were made with disk-brake rears.

Nice work Shuggy, you're really getting stuck into it!
Where did you go to get rust repair quotes? -i need to get a couple of spots on the wagon looked at.

What are you gonna do for the plates- can you keep em NSW? In a way it'd be a bit of a shame to lose the original plates.

Love everything but the wheels-you need some deep dish rims on that baby. Awesome car-I want it.

You don't mean deep dish like this do you...?

It's not million; if you hover your mouse over the 88 million it gives the original japanese text ; there are two characters the last one means yen the first one mean 0000. so 880000 yen or abt 11k. -Much better than a million bucks!

Wow, nice!
I may have seen your crown coupe around a few times though not recently- is it silver?
I really dig 70s J-tin too. I think a '73-75 Corona Mk II coupe (one of my faves from that era) would look ace in your collection.
ahem.. but anyway- back to the mitsu'!

have never been a fan of the way the factory rear treatment on the LA's look. They seem unfinished or something? The problem I have with the trim panels is, if they are the original grey/silver they leave a body colour section around the number plate. It almost looks like there should be a 3rd pane...

Thanks scorplover,
Though due to the autosizing; if anyone wants to see larger pics then click on the links at the top and it will open up full-size in your browser.

For anyone interested in such things, i've scanned a 12 page Japanese 1979 Galant Estate brochure (GE sigma wagon for most of us). There's a few interesting differences between the japanese and aussie versions of the GE and they had some interesting options we didn't get here. Anyways links are down...

Nice; I love the new wheels!

Heard your sigma got totalled last night- Is it really a write-off?
Such a shame -it looked to be in really good nick too..

Yep, that looks great -IMHO the GH bars only look decent painted if done in a dark colour.

aw.. i actually prefer the old bonnet. But i guess a bonnet catch is kinda important.. looks like the bonnet was missing the first 50mm or so.

cool, thanks guys :thumpsup: so i'm looking at a 3.42 then... that would put my speedo out by a bit over 10% from the current 3.9 -which is way too short IMHO anyway I'm in 5th gear at 45km/h already. anyone know if there'd be any issue with the GE tail shaft mating up to the 10 bolt diff? are there...

The GN wagons have the 3.7:1 for the 1.6L and 2L and have a 3.42:1 for the 2.6L.

so they used 3.42s for autos and manuals in the GNs?

well the GHs are basically GEs with larger wheels so I'd guess that the 3.7 would be for 2L auto (3.9 for GE) and 3.4 for 2L manual (3.53 for GE) maybe the 3.2 is used in the 2.6L manual? Can someone confirm what a GN 2.6L auto wagon should have in it? regarding a 10 bolt diff.. would this be incomp...

Hi guys;
Anyone know what diff ratio is meant to be in an auto GN wagon?
The diff in my manual GE wagon is way too tired and i found someone wrecking a GN wagon..
I believe my diff is a 3.9.
Thanks

hey Taps, welcome to the forum- good to see more perth peeps on here.
Twin 48s on a 4g52 must sound awesome.
I'll be looking for extractors for my GE at some point too. Do you have anything lying about that would suit a stock 4g52?

well, I certainly noticed the wagon! what's happening to the poor ol' thing?
btw most of your pic links look broken.. or is it just me?

congrats on the sigma. i saw it up on ebay a couple of times -looks very nice indeed.
love the whitewalls too- was thinking of getting a set for my GE wagon- wot brand and size you've got on there?

wow, turned out to be a good thread -a lot of good info here. Sometimes you don't get the technical content and the variety of experience in these kind of threads unless there's a few sparks to get things going!

That car looks really neat and tidy. Makes me a little dubious about the odometer reading being genuine. I would have expected more like 100,000 to 200,000 km's max. Could the instrument cluster been swapped out at all in it's lifetime. What does the drivers side carpet and the pedals look like? hm...

Hi, nice straight GE - i don't think i've ever seen one in dk brown in that good condition. I like it.
Put up some daylight pics when you have some time too -looking good!
(though i prefer the original door skins. have you tried using a semi-gloss black vinyl paint on standard door trims?)

I guess i should make up a page for 'LIL RED WGN' .. http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae340/duff-munt/LIL%20RED%20WGN/IMG_5984lilredwgnsm.jpg This is the car as it looked when i purchased it from a nice old lady. The odometer showed a healthy 490,000km but been well taken care of. http://i985.phot...

Wow, that's the sort of condition you expect a 3yr old car to be in.
I also have to favour the consensus here; go for the pepperpots if you can.
The turbs are a bit too 'pretty' for your GN IMHO - the PPs look much tuffer and suit the bigger chunkier GJ-GN shape.

looks awesome with those wheels and low profile plates. Nice one.

http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae340/duff-munt/Miscellaneous%20crud/sigmauteGEfront.jpg love the siggy ute -what a great idea! though i reckon a GE front end could look even better. I reckon the front end needs a bit of chrome to balance the shiny wheels and tray bits -like in this photochop. t...

Hi,
Good to see another GE wagon on here; should be lookin sweet with a bit of attention.