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I have a '58 FC complete Front and Rear Ends, including tailshaft to go to good home... Front end comes with brakes, springs, shocks and sway bar - all attached. Rear End is complete also. I am in Sydney.
Please contact me regarding any info - happy to organise for paid freight anywhere...
regards - luke.
xskywalkerx215@hotmail.com
0415 36 4321

Hey there - I've read every article on this site regarding the HR draglink conversion from the original FC unit, and am wondering if anyone has encountered clearance issues with the HR draglink and the EH sump at full lock? Maybe it's just the way my engine mounts are set up, but upon mocking it all up, the draglink wasn't clearing the sump at full lock... - I hadn't done a full wheel alignment - just mock up. Like I said, this just could be the positioning of my engine & not having the alignment fulling pulled in, I thought I'd ask, just in case anyone else ran into clearance issues. Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated. - regards - Luke.

Thanks Brad! Thats pretty much what I'm looking for. If you could, I would love you to email it to me - xskywalkerx215@hotmail.com
Any other info along these lines would be greatly appreciated. Fitting an 700 horse power street engine into an FC with sub frame rails like rice paper is not the safest thing, they're not even boxed. The chassis kit in it at the moment is great for the hot 6 cylinder and the occasional drag race - but putting a hot eight in it, a chassis is more like it, with correct geometry, airbags, quickchange diff, rear end wheel wells, and steering all taken care of. Don't get me wrong, I love stitching cars together, but for something with lots of horse power, I'd like it safe. Look at Fitzy's FC, thats on a HQ chassis. This isn't the first time something like this has been done. As for the early Chev idea, - already building a chopped 2 door hardtop '51. The FC is one of my first cars, and I'll keep it forever, just want to sort it out once, and not be worrying about it.
Thanks again Brad - appreciate it. - Luke.

I am getting a full rolling chassis made up... That's why I am asking about schematics - it would be very handy to have the original measurements on the sub frame and front clip in order for the measurements to get a FULL ROLLING CHASSIS made up... Then, the measurements can be handed over, and a chassis made up.. This would be the easiest way to put the 'original' body over the new rolling chassis... $5000AU (when ordering wholesale, and with a container load of chassis's for other vehicles we're building) is cheap considering how much the new HR front end's are from Pat Gardener... Again, any help would be appreciated. - Luke

Hey there, I am in the process of getting some Art Morrison Chassis's made up, and would love to get one stitched together for my FC. I am searching far and wide to get the original schematics for a FC (subframe etc) so I can get one made for it... If anyone knows of someone within the clubs etc who might have something like this, it would be greatly appreciated if I could get a copy of such paper work to get a chassis made up to eliminate all the trouble we have with steering/brake/rear end/lowering/ handling and geometry conversions we all do on these... I'm sure that it would be greatly appreciated amongst the wider community to know that for around $7000AU a rolling chassis exclusively made for FC's could be put together.... Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks - Luke.