WINSCREEN MOULD
This is no biggy and has probably been done before but I made the mistake of deciding to put the mould on another day, this doesnt look so bad on a standard or commercial but is pretty messy on a specail. About 3 weeks after carefully replacing the screen without damaging the old rubber I decided to polish up the moulds and wack em on but as many probably know you can't just wack them on with the screen already fitted, about 10 months later I ended up fiting the moulds.

Gee ED, sorry to hear about your new mac, you must have been pissed off and as for someone having the hide to rob you in the situation you were in sounds pretty bad.

PAINT
The previous owner of my car used to give the interior a clean up by jumping in with a tin of paint and a brush.
The day I went to paint my car for the first time I had the whole car primed except for all the interior and door jambs apart from the dash.
I rubbed it all down inside so it would be ready to prime early in the morning with intentions of painting the car at mid day.
As not everything always goes to plan, A couple of minutes after squirting the primer it all fried up. Whatever the previous owner was painting the interior with didnt like the primer, I spent the next day rubbing of all the fried up paint and didnt end up finishing the paint job till 10:30 pm the next night.
A simular situation occured when I painted the engine, I bought two cans of engine enamel from the new PEP parts store in cardiff. after using up the two cans I still wasn't content with the coverage, I didn't want to spend anymore on engine paint but it was now or never as it was time to put the new engine in its new home.
After uming and aring I went down to the local autopro shop down the road and bought a can of paint, I got home started squirting away I was pissed at the color difference but after a couple of coats I noticed it was all starting to fry up.
by time I got all the paint off and more paint back on I spent near $100 and a whole weekend painting the engine.
Back in 98 I smashed the FC into a lost driver.
after the car sat for a couple of weeks with the front pulled apart I decided to get it back on the road for the second Newcastle motordrome burnouts night.
I spent all after noon and night repairing the panels trying to not use to much bog, I got a bit carried away on the bonnet wich was donated by the bush and rubbed of to much steel cuasing part of the bonnet to sag as it still does now. I mixed the paint at about 5 am and had all the paint on by about 6:30, looked ok but when I got to work I parked the car and then turned around to notice a pretty nasty color match, I drove it around for a couple of months but it bugged me too much so I decided to paint the whole blue area again.
This time it got a pretty rough over night prep up but I had access to a booth the next day. In the booth everything went like a dream till I got a bit carried away on the last coat ending with some pretty nasty runs on the drivers door, fortunately I got the runs out with some 600 over my fingernail.
Shortly after painting my car to get all the color match spot on my boss gave us a demonstration of how volvo drivers get their name. I was working away at work when my boss stormed in going on about how much it was going to cost to fix his volvo, I didnt quite catch what he was on about at first but then I looked outside and noticed his volvo was awfully close to my FC, I said you dont want to have touched my car, walked out the front and screemed the F word out, My car was left undrivable.
It wasnt real good timing either as we were of to hospital for my first son's birth the next day, due to this I allowed the car to the hands of a panel beater who made things even worse, have you ever seen a FC with one guard welded and bogged to the stone tray, I explained the color and how to make it but they just ignored everything I explained. when I went to pick it up he tried to convince me that it was a factory color from a ford or something, what bullshit, I just poured in some tinter to white till I liked the color. He had done a match ten times worse than the one that I had resprayed the entire blue area to cover.

After a loose steering wheel nut led to a striped spline inside my steering wheel in a car park I had to replace my wheel.
I cleaned up an old wheel to paint up and whack on, went down to Go Lo grabbed a can of primer and gloss white, went home, squirted away recoated it every hour till all the cans were empty and left it to dry.
next day I went to grab it but it was all sticky. I gave it a couple more days but on the Saturday it had to go on as we were going for a weekend away. I drove from newcastle to peats ridge holding the wheel with a couple of fingers but once I hit the windy wisemans ferry road the wheel just started turning black as I had to handle the paint that had refused to cure.

sounds like fun craig, we tried sleeping four in a LX one year after spending all our money on beer at the summernats in I think 94, by morning to of us decided that it was more comfortable to sleep on the gravel a couple of feet of the road wich was Northbourne Ave, none of us had gravel rash but the fact that we all got severly sunburnt didnt make the torana or road any more comfy.
I have found the wagon to be pretty good in these situations and have spent many nights sleeping above a busted diff.

GEARBOXES, DIFFS, UNI'S and AXLES contd.
now that I think of it, it was only like a week or two that the diff blew again after that week with the bad run of diff's when I was heading to a 50's cruise night, I was running a little late but making time with a bit of speed when I spotted a couple of hot rods, I was about 5 car lengths away trying to catch them when I went to change lanes, only problem was that I had some dickhead in his new BMW in the rite lane playing silly buggers and not letting me in by accelerating everytime I tried to change lanes, I got the shits, threw it in to second and floored it as I let the clutch go, next thing I was limping of to the side of the road watching the hot rods dissapear. To really rub it in an hour later the cruise passed with about 60 cars and they all waved as they passed me, then two hours later they did the same on the return trip, later in the night a mate pulled up in a FB ute and called one of my other mates (who had a EK )and I had a diff and tools delivered to me at about 11 the next morning.
When I first fitted the red 202 I kept the crash box from the grey to save all that mucking around, after a couple of days and still excited about the speed of red power I was heading to work one morning a few minutes behind scedule. There was a small tunnel with a give way sign down the road that you had to stop at to give way to cars coming from the other direction, this one morning I saw a car coming but thought since I now had red power , no cops were around and I was late, I decided to just floor it and let the clutch go. the car jumped forward with a big bang and stopped in the path of the oncoming car that had rite of way and just stopped in time to aviod a head on. The car was towed home by a Austin 1800 and I was 2 hours late for work, the next week was spent enlarging the transmission hump and a guy at work supplied me with my first  3 speed all synchro and speco centreshift.
One time I changed a diff in a hurry on the side of the road and didnt pull out all the old chunks of steel, The next week end I drove to sydney and started to notice a knock coming from the new diff, I pulled it out in my nan's front yard and found the bits of my old diff had attacked the new one, I replaced the new one again in mud and heavy rain with long hair, this time everything was thoroughly cleaned but the combination of flowers in my nans neihgbours yards and laying in mud left me with nuemonia for the next 5 weeks.
my first ever diff experience happened in a non FE FC car, this was a datsun with a 2 itre 4 cyl running twin sidedruaghts and a 2" sports exhaust back when 2" was big for a four cylinder. I had my liscence now for about 5 days and decided to try some figure eights in a gravel car park, I went for about 60 seconds till I noticed a loud knocking noise coming from the back of the car. I limped home and ended up having to tow it up my drive way, fortunatly I had a spare at home but after my mechanic mate and I did the swap of the whole assembly doing one side each we took it for a test drive but it was making a bad clunk nearly as bad as the one in the first place, I pulled in at my nans house up the road to pick something up and told my nan about how dissapointed I was after changing the diff and it still clunking. my nan who has never driven before said " I hope you did the wheel nuts up tight", I said offcourse nan were not stupid. we then drove up the hill a bit to were we were out of my nans site and checked the wheel nuts wich both of us seem to have only done up with our fingers. I ran home and grabbed a wheel brace and we got the diff going smooth as a newy in no time.

GEARBOXES, DIFF'S, AXLES and UNI"S
I have no Idea of the amount of these things I have been through but I remeber keeping a good stock at home and probably changed these parts more often than my under wear till I became a family man (no I dont change my undies more now) my first diff in the wagon was blown while smoking it up at 3 am in a culdesac when I was 20 while dropping mates of after crawling pubs after crawling pubs all night, I changed it the next morning on the side of the road in Bualkham hills meters from my fresh tyre marks.
I have done 3 diffs, an axle and a uni in one week. however the last diff was the first one welded up wich survived a hard night at the second newcastle motordrome offstreet burnout night, I snaped the axle in a spot were I had a mate living on either side of the road, one wich had a neighbour with a couple of FE's and FC's.

TIMING GEARS at MT WHITE
Back when I was still grey powered I was heading home from Syney when I decided to pass a truck at Mt white, just as I got in front of the truck I heard a grind and lost all popwer, although I had never striped a gear before I knew instantly what happened and after putting my last $10 in the tank I knew I would have a bastard of a time, fortunately a mate was heading up the highway about 6 hours later with a truck and he loaned me cash to hire a trailer and dragged the old wagon home, I ended up putting in a 2nd hand gear and cam from a fj motor and the motor didnt seem to go as good so a week later I turfed it out for a stocker 202 from a torana in my nans back yard and a holley and X2  headers off my FE.
A couple of weeks later I was running down the freeway with new paint and a more modern powerplant as I passed that same area and reminised the timing gear incident, I then passed a truck thinking my new late model 202 would be more reliable at speed but just as I passed the truck I got the same grind again only metres from the last incident but on the other side of the road. now I was pissed and decided that a new motor would be going in with a alloy or steel gear.
the car was towed home again and the new motor was started on that day with a alloy gear and new everything.

here will I start?
FIRES AND WIRING
I originally bought my FC wagon for a parts car for a FE sedan I was doing up but it turned out the car had rego. Since my japanesse runner (ke 30 corolla) had just kicked the bucket second time around I decided to use the FC for transport till its 9 months of rego expired.
Since the car had pretty much sat in grass for two years pink sliped by the previous owners mate the brakes were pretty much not there but the more I drove the better they got even though you had to leave plenty of stopping distance and fight the steering wheel to stop.
after driving it nearly constantly for 24 hours I had a couple of fuel problems that I ended up fixing with a electric pump of the FE. a couple of weeks later I had the choice of going to the canberra (1995) nationals in the rough FC or my mates Nissan.
I just about had them brave enough to ride with me and leave the nissan at home but then the day before the nationals I snaped a clutch fork and they decided that they were definately not riding in my car.
next mornig I picked up a fork and told my mates that if they gave me a hand we could be on the road in a couple of hours.
being the good mates they were they packed the boot of the nissan and headed of, I waved bye with my middle finger and proceeded to the back yard wich was drowning with heavy rain. I was extra keen to get there now and climbed under the car in the mud with a beer and wipped the box in and out with the new fork, packed my car and drove down to canberra in my FC to prove my point that it would get there. ya shoulda seen the look on their faces when they saw me pull up.
every thing went pretty smooth except for losing the last bumper bar bolt on the front drivers corner resulting in the bumper being held on with electrical wire. Unfortunately heading home as I pulled into the twin servo's my motor stoped from a lack of fuel, Me and a couple of other club guys mucked around with it a bit but couldnt get fuel through. After someone called someone (I think Alex) I had a fuel pump on the way but then the car carrying the fuel pump did a wheel bearing and I waited at the servo for about 8 hours till I discovered that the fuel pump had a bad earth wich took seconds to fix.
A couple of months later I was running every one home at about 5:30 am after spending most of the night at various pubs when I noticed smoke and a orange flicker around my feet, I pulled over, stamped it out and pulled of the battery lead then went to source the problem wich was quickly found after burning my finger on a disconnected choke cable that caused the short.
After driving arond for a year in house paint I decided to pull it off the road for a couple of weeks to give it a repaint and repower as well as do some rust repairs as I had kind of grown attached to the wagon and now wanted it for more than parts. one night at about 2:30 am my uncle and I were doing some rust repairs when the sound proofing on the fire wall went up in flames. next thing we were running for the tap filling up what ever we could to put it out as neighbours lights came on and the new primer on the cowl panel and dash bubbled away.
shortly after it returned to the road I came down from newcastle to sydney, I reached castle hill road and the cars started to shit itself followed by a whole lot of smoke pouring from under the dash, no bastard would let me into the left lane so I stopped on the middle lane and disconnected the battery before so my car wouldnt burn to the ground, it was pretty risky but thats life on the road in Sydney. I ended up getting the car over to the left after about 15 mins of waiting for a chance and nearly fifty rear enders almost happening and found a melted wire supplying accessories had shorted out in a spring. I took the car to the nearest servo and replaced the wire so I wouldnt have to do the last ten kilometres without music.

Sounds pretty bad 4 hammers, in my first go I just felt a little dizzy and wore a lump on my forehead for a couple of days. I've never tried pulling a steering wheel without the nut partly on ever since.
If you are trying to wack or pull the wheel. try to get even pressure from both sides and level with the colum (just under the spokes) and pull upwards on the angle the colum is pointing.
whatever you do make sure you dont pull it with the nut rite off, the nasty headspins can over rule the joy of finally getting it off.

reminds me of the time I decided to fit another fan to my radiator the night before Summernats.
on the last stretch of road from Newcastle to Canberra I remembered that I had to remember to fill the radiator before I left but didnt remember to do it. fortunately I found some taps in NATEX and filled it up after travelling over 400 k's dry,
The motor has been running for about 4 years since with no noticable problems.

Wow, Thats it, I often wonder what happened to this car
I was also in the parade on a BMX bike for blacktown city BMX club, at the time my uncle was doing up a FC van as a FE on Lucas Rd in Seven Hills, dont know if you ever saw it but it was almost in Blacktown. I remember drawing pictures of the car at my Nans house after the festival., From memory it sat on Avon race tyres and sounded pretty cool, I was probably in year 4 or 5 at school at the time.
I feel that little bit better now knowing that the car still exists.
I think Ill have to find the full story and check it out.

Are you sure this isnt the cars auditioning for the movie "The cars that ate paris"

I feel much safer now, the drivers area looks to be quite intact on the FC with a fairly easy repair to the front. however it apears that it may be a good idea to keep an eye out for falling cars as the FE is unfortunately pretty crunched.

I haven't seen that one, I was refering to the NRNR- No Root, No Ride, not really the sticker you want if your car is chockers with blokes though.
Hey norm, Ive seen your cars twin when I was a young fella at the Blactown city festival (Sydney NSW) probably in the mid eighties, for me it was the highlight of going to the festival, it was actually a race car that would rumble around in the parade, finished in yellow with big flares simular shape to yours. I should have taken a pick, I would have been in primary school at the time.

Dont worry, you can luagh when they are broken down in the middle of no where with a fried computer. Or there late for a meeting becuase they have been up all night trying to rectify why there car wont start.
I was working in a car yard once were we had a VN just stop, all 4 mechanics and 2 auto eleco's had a go over 4 months, with the heads on and off and about 4 different computers and heaps of head scratching they decided to change the whole motor before it cost more than it was worth in wages, it was also quite common to have the V6 commodores come back with major engine problems.
I think a warm old holden 6 is one of the sweetest sounds in the world and adds well to the feel of a FC and has been well proven, Victor Brays set up in the worlds fastest sedan looks pretty primitive compared to some of these new skylines and stuff running around but the ol Aussie tomato farmer would still blow there friggin hi tech doors off in his 57 chevy and he isnt running a RB26DETT or 20B turbo wich many young ricers are mislead to believe are the worlds fastest engines.
I dare any Honda spoon car to take the challenge.
no offense to the hi techers but there is nothing like the feeling of hammering along with a nice old warm all aussie six banger, its like comparing the feel of sitting in a FC to a hyundai excel.
I bought a FE of a guy who had another one wich was running in the 11's onm the quarter with a naturally aspirated 186 running a alloy head and triple webers, it looked pretty serious but it was still based on a 186, how many V6's are doing this?

looks quite good if it's three grand but to keep its historical values you would be stuck that horrid colour scheme perhaps a winfeild style paint job would have made it more desireable.

Hey Craig, that sounds like a sweet mill you were running there, this is this sort of weaponary you wanna wack in the poo mobile when we finally run at Eastern creek.

Mark,
I don't think it's stupid to have triples. some children are happy playing with lego basic and duplo while others need a more sophisticated and exciting challenge like lego technics.
its a bit the same when you get older but we play with real cars now.
they say small things amuse small minds, so I guess he who says one is stupid for running triples must be running either dual quads, six or eight single barrels or triple two barrels or have a small mind.
I had a four cylinder for my first car with twin SU's and enjoyed racing my friends after school so I would always make sure the carbs were synched before I left in the morning, I enjoyed going in to roll call with greasy hands and smelling like petrol and knowing that no one with a car and liscense could beat me in my school. this created some good times and memories and I am glad I didnt leave my car stock.  Its not stupid to want to have fun and excitment in your life for the small price of extra tuning and a couple of extra bucks in the tank, after all you only get to live once. I love the look of triples too, I currently only have a 2 barrell holley but it goes great and runs better up top than any factory holden carb, it also is pretty good on fuel but I still get strange bastards tell me to put on a single barrel stromberg, I had a single barrel stromberg on a red for a week and hated it, it went like I was carrying a ton of bricks in the back and used as much fuel as the holley.
When I was at tech my rather elderly and conservative teacher explained the efficiency of multiple side druaght carbs compared to a downdruaght single, the only advantage a single carb had was its ability to stay in tune and lower cost to make.  Rolls Royce is one example of a car that used multiple stromberg CD's in a time that toyota cressidas and nissan skylines had EFI.
if Rolls Royce engineers were stupid why do people pay more to buy the cars they designed.
unless you are a fuel economy freak or hate mucking around with old cars, I think you have made a good
choice. with better looks, sound and efficiency and fun than a single stromy wich is the common choice by those who bag bigger or multiple carbs.

Nitrous oxide system

I am not real sure with the ACT rules but is nitrous ok to use on your L's there?
IMO I wouldn't worry to much about a set of billets, they look a bit mid nineties, I bought a set of mags for my FE when I was 18 and then sold them to a mate who had a FC wagon when I was 19, he took them of and sold them to another guy with a torana, I ran moon disc's for a few years and then decided to have a go at making up some hubcaps, I get comments on my hubcaps everywere I go and I am glad I went that way.
If you bring it right down to the bump stops it may look cool with floating hubcaps, this is when you have your hubcap simply bolted to your stub axle, it means your front hubcaps wont move, you can hide the rears with fender skirts. in the end the car has a hovering effect as it moves along without the hubcap turning. to show of this effect you need to buy or make up some caps that features that show that the hubcap is not turnig, you can even glue on a dummy valve.
Then you can fit one of my flamethrower kits and make your hovering vehicle look rocket propelled, this will really trip out those ricer boys just before you shut em down when you open the bottle.
I hope you kick some ricer butt in your old holden, I to have a 192 in a FC, yesterday I was running a little late for a job interview when a winged honda integra tried me at a couple of sets of lights and i just kept beeting him till we came up to a set of lights were he pulled in behind me when we were off again i decided it was getting a bit risky and backed off and he went flying past at about 6000rpm, i didnt want a race, I just wanted to be on time. Dont forget you have no pollution restrictions, more cubes and less weight than a R34 GTR Skyline. I have a neighbour with a new lancer evo look alike running massive wings and wheels and a big dash board screen, he's tried to go me the other night but we both had to turn, I can't wait to see him at a red light, he has a massive tailpipe and tacho and its a 4 cyl auto probably stock as a rock from the tail pipe forward as is pretty typical with these cars. After I shut him down my other neighbour with the 59 chev can give him another show of low technology.
Dont get into to much trouble but, I lost my liscence to a total of 26 demerit points when I was on my P's with a limit of 4 and spent alot of hard earned bucks on neg driving and speeding fines wich really sucked.

I couldn't find NRNR on there.

I  have driven 3 different Rams as well as two vipers, the Rams all had the same Magnum V8 wich seemed OK.
Across the road from were I was working a guy had another Viper wich had a whole lot of upgrades such as brembco brakes and stuff. This made a total of 3 vipers stored at two side by side addresses, pretty common cars I guess, but if you kept driving past my old work and took the second left heading towards Newcastle you would be on a road that had a house that stored more than double that of FE's and FC's.
unfortunately I never got to give any of the Dodges a proper try but the Rams were quite easy to drive for a big pick up with super lite steering and colum change auto even the LWB ones are a breeze to park.
I found that even with the super wide tyres on the vipers that it was pretty easy to break traction, The V10 runs pretty smooth but has a nice strong sound pumping out of the pipes, you kind of need the rpm up before you let the clutch go or it dies, I think if the tyres were any more narrow on the back that you wouldn't be able to take off without smoking it up.
As far as I know the V10 was originally designed to be used in dodge trucks before the viper was even a tadpole in its Dads pants.
This would be a good truck if you have a bunch of starving horses that are hangin for some hay as you could probably get to town and back quicker than the average 302 F 100.

Woo hoooo!  it finally works!!!!

I bags front seat in the test drive once you fit it.