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Title: I'm Excited! Post by: Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius on September 22, 2003, 11:33:02 AM Got a full day on the FE today, and got a few jobs done, not as many as I would have liked, but hey what's new there.
The trimmer said he will do the roof lining Monday night (after 2.5 yrs :P) no excuses hopefully, I will meet him at his shop and he will follow me home. If you hear a huge scream tomorrow around 4:30PM you know what's happened. Some shots of work some work so far. Blanked HR steering column with a fresh coat of black paint. (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/FEColumn.JPG) This was done quite some time ago, firewall mods to accept a torana booster and master cyl. (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/FEFirewallMods.JPG) A mock-up of the FE dash with an Autometer Speedo left over from another project. (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/FEGuages.JPG) Spent near enough to 3 hours cleaning the gunk off the rear screen surround. (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/FERearScreen.JPG) Added a bracket to the (rusty) hadfield trans tunnel for the B&M quicksilver shifter. (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/FETunnel.JPG) Here's a shot of the rear with some old 13" torana rims with 235 rubber, just to get an idea of the fit. Eventually I will put a torana diff in with 14" wheels and 235 tyres. (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/FETyres.JPG) Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: normd on September 22, 2003, 11:42:05 AM Hey Man Thats lookin' good , look forward to progress shots
Will be listening for the "scream" ;D Cheers Norm Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: robbzfc58 on September 22, 2003, 11:44:57 AM lookin good stinky what motor's goin in?
do you have a shot of the car before you started cheers trev Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius on September 22, 2003, 11:52:39 AM Trev, if you can imagine the car with the rear screen fitted, the firewall unmodified, the old trans tunnel in place, well that's pretty much how I got the car.
The original plan was to "slap" it together and go cruising, that was a number of years ago. It would seem now that I am over the "hump", I have pretty much gathered all the parts. Finding the time to put them all together is the major frustration. Motor is a fairly warm 202 with a traumatic trans, LSD diff courteousy of Al in NSW (sorry if I stuffed the name up). BTW if you are listening Al what was the ratio of the diff? Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: spinach on September 22, 2003, 09:50:08 PM nice looking car stinky, it'll be a great cruiser when it's done. I'll have to bring my old clunker out to a SMASA meet soon, going to join once my car looks repsectable.
Luke. Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius on September 23, 2003, 06:23:40 AM AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Another delay! I will definately have pics of the finished roof-lining on Wednesday night. Either that or a pic of the bloodied corpse of my trimmer. ;D Luke, You don't need a respectable car to join up SMASA, come along to a meeting anytime. If you turn-up at next month's meeting SA Police are putting on a free 1/2 hour Marshalling course. You get a certificate at the end and can work at shows (eg Clipsal 500 etc) as a Marshall. There's free tea and coffee, an bar if you want a beer and we usually put on some food, either nuts and chips during or pizza at the end. The chassis kit is in too, so send me a PM or email and we can arrange for you to drop by, although I don't have the instructions yet, oops, called the shop and they are posting them out to me. Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: Lindsay58 on September 23, 2003, 08:00:32 AM stinky keep up the good work it looks like it will be a sweet ride when finisded more pics when you get some thanks lindsay 58
Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: Al on September 23, 2003, 09:35:09 AM Hi Stinky,
Don't you just love the look of the rear of an FE or FC . Your car looks great stinky. The diff ratio is 3.36 . Like the dash that speedo looks good in it. Cheers Al Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: Sarge on September 23, 2003, 07:00:51 PM Stinky
I would be Excited too. I like what I see, looking forward to more pic's Regards Sarge Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: spinach on September 23, 2003, 10:26:15 PM Count me in on next months meeting buddy, being a marshall at the 500 would be decent. I havnt missed a day of it since it started, even got to watch the start of the race from the podium one year.
I'll send ya a msg about droppin in for a beer, maybe this weekend if I can rebuild my carby's before then. Luke. Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: Ed on September 24, 2003, 03:19:59 AM Looks great Stinky! :o
so many jobs so little time ... Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius on September 28, 2003, 04:08:02 AM Thanks for all the compliments and words of encouragement.
Finally the trimmer came over today and the roof-lining is in, I will put up photos as soon as I scab back the batteries for the digital camera from various childrens toys :) A week of annual leave coming up should see a fair amount of work being done. Title: Re: I'm Excited! Post by: Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius on September 30, 2003, 10:38:58 AM Here's the photers.
Rear section of the roof lining (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/20030929Roof.jpg) The trimmed wheel arch (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/20030929arch.jpg) The 6 1/2" (16cm)speakers and yet to be trimmed parcel shelf, I still have to drill the holes for the speaker screws, seatbelt bolts and child restraint bolt. (Yes I was up a ladder) (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/20030929Speakers.jpg) The steering wheel next to sample of the cloth being used, not a bad match. (http://www.smasa.com.au/glenns_fe/20030929Steering.jpg) The colour was actually chosen to match the original (FC) vinyl, as I was going to restore the door trims. I could never do the roof and everything else justice. So the door trims are being re-trimmed too. |