Torque's Ek resto

[TorqueFC]

OK guys here it is
my ek was oficially towed away  :'(  :'(
so we are getting workin on the grey ek
its a bit of work and is taking me a lot of work
here it is ok i am the one that took the diif housing back to baremetal, im the one that took the front end and components to baremetal, im the one that sander all of the engine bay to baremetal and im the one who took the underside of the floor back to baremetal
dont forget that i took most of the car back to baremetal, and it just isnt this ek, same as on the ute, i was there for ages sanding the quarters to baremetal  while he was inside sleeping
now there has to be some rights for me so when we sell the car i get something out of it
....im only joking but i am doing most of the work but i guess its mostly experience and when i finally get another car whatever it may be i will get it 100% accurate
i will popst some pics asap as tomorow i will be stuck under it finishing off the floor....lol....

anywayz we have picked the colour and have already done the roof
one thing when i post some pics you will see there is one spot where you can see that we put a flor pan in and we are wondering if they will pic on it for the roadworthy, the floor has been welded very well but its bloody rarespares fault for not having the right sized parts


hopefully we can get some help with the folowing things
the floor section underside where it sticks out will they pick on it?
what brakes stock or upgrade?
diff change to hr pr stock?
with the motor we definately want to put a really really lumpy cam in it but dont know where to get one, can anyone help????
and the appropriate exhaust size and where to get some extracors from
thanks
Torque
ps:the pictures are on the way

[TorqueFC]

heres some of the pics...finally
i will have to take some more tomorrow as we have got no light whatsoever
i will get some pics of the floor as we progress

also i will get some pics once we do the dash and pillars
hope to keep yaz updated andinformed
torque
ps:i will post the pics afta this post in a sepret post

[TorqueFC]

hopefully these pics arent too small as i had to resize them for photobucket



the ek progress

[TorqueFC]

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Hey TorqueFC, some contructive criticism here - learn how to use the crop function on you picture editor, it will help you cut out all the white crap people don't really want to see.

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Here's one I prepared earlier (resized too).
You should be able to modify your shot and re-upload them without destroying the links.

[TorqueFC]

sorry guys

have now worked out how to fix up the images and will re post them with more info

[TorqueFC]

heres the freshly painted roof
we custom made the color, its hi opasity white with a red tinter (130 drips)

[TorqueFC]

heres the motor, it only had done about 20 000 miles

just cleaning it before dissasembly so it isnt such a dirty job

[TorqueFC]

heres the fresh engine bay

well it was fresh, now its nearly all baremetal, thanks to sandblasting

[TAYZ]

Torque,
               What are your plans for this vehicle?  Is it going to be a stock or modified?  It would look good about a half inch from the ground to the lowest point!!!!    EK is a great model, good luck with the build

                                                            TAYZ

[TorqueFC]

hey tayz

we would love to modify it to the max, but we aint gonna as the fc already owes us tons, all we were gonna do was detail underbody, and the engine bay, then paint up all the motor custom colors, then get some stockys modified eg: get the rear rims modified out to 7 or 8 inch and up to 15 inch, then have the front rims shortend an inch and go out to 15 inch, the last thing to do: dump it 2 the ground

[fe2ek]

Good to see a young bloke into Old Holdens instead of "2 fast 2 furious" type cars.

Cheers Geoff

[TorqueFC]

today brought out some new ideas, the body colour is about to change to a custom color of which we already have here. actually its a long story about that paint, we had it custom made for our first ek resto, the we ended up taking that one to the tip, then it was for the flash on the fb, then that changed to being the ute color, and then it was goin on the hr, but then we changed our minds again. anywayz weather was so shit today we just cleaned up alot, tools needed sawting and sand needed sifting. over the weekend the i have sandblasted almost the whole engine bay and underneath up to the subframe area, when the weather changes this week it will be finished off. the engine bay will either be the body color:rasberry pearl, or a silver or gumb metal grey, as well as the undercarriege being gumb metal grey.

just updating the progress,  (probably hard to understand as im in a hurry)

cheers
torque

[TAYZ]

Torque,
               just cut out the b$%&^&*(^t and rstore it to original like it should be, pastel paint colours, it will look a million dollars.  You need to make up your mind period what you want this car to be.  Remember it is 1962 and make it look how it is meant to.  Forget about polls and what so forth and make it original to the specs that YOU WANT.  I am not being picky but you need to make up your mind young fella,
                                                    TAYZ

[TorqueFC]

yes tayz i agree with you

but we were goin to do everything completely original, but then we had the discussion that the motor would be very worked, and that the interior we have wont be really original so came to reality and said tat we didnt want this car to be that original, and we didnt want it like everyone elses cars, this is why we wanted the custom colors, and now more discussion we have had about wiring. previosly someone had chopped wiring up and there were about 6 dead ends, so we have decided to re wire the car, and also hide the wiring while we are at it.

the only reason why we wanted the undercarraige painted another color than black was because i have/will be putting much work and detail into it

cheers
torque

ps:does anyone know the streetlegal height that we are aloud to lower the ek to in Victoria?

[TAYZ]

Torque,
                 4 Inches from the lowest point and the car must be same height all the way through.

                                                     TAYZ

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

How about this for colour and style!
(Probably a little low for Vic road rules though  :'( )

[TorqueFC]

now thats nice stinky
now thats motorvation ;D ;D

that two inches is that the from the front end and diff or from the cills right through ???

[TorqueFC]

here are some pics of the color for the ek

i am posting a few as they come up as different colors

they are actually on the ute doors, but now the color is for the ek... ;D ;D