That car is well worth the money, was advertised in cruzin for $7500.

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quite self explanatory i think usually shave em so that it just dissapears...if that makes sense  

Dave the thumb prints are a marking on the bottom of the head that indicates how much 'meat' is left on the head. ill go snap a pic

EDIT: cant seem to get the pics loaded up off the cam.

I do believe that grey heads could handle 80thou shaved off, but this depends on if the head has been shaved before or not. if you take your head in, just say you want it shaved down to the thumb prints...they'll know what ya mean

LMAO Rob!!!

Eddie,
         You could always go for a small body alternator. Available from VPW

(   http://www.vpw.com.au/productgroup.asp?CatID=8&SubCatID=931&priorCatID=931&PrdGrpID=3332   )

Have ordered stuff online and arrived within 2 days.

The car is coming up great!! Looking forward to some more picutres/updates

cheers, and thanks for the reply

Eddie,
    Fast work! how did your alternator go down the bottom? all fe's/c's ive seen with em down the bottom have a piece of the subframe modified for clearance(well ones with large body alternators). That front end sure is tidy!! the section that gets 'cut out' for the v8 sump looks much nicer than other conversions ive seen...will be interesting to know how your front end turns out.

cheers!! and keep up the good work

Dave,
       With our head on the new motor, we had it shaved down to the thumb prints. we done this as our mate done the same thing to his motor with all his other mods. fully shaving it will be approx 9:7.1 (cant be sure till i have a talk to him)

the only problem was that you need to slightly file out the top holes for the sideplate, aswell as taking a little out of your top water pump holes.

It brings on a nicer idle to, expecially when youve got a big cam

if it was an fe special there shouldve been trim holes just below the rear screen

thats easy, you dont   the only way to tell is by taking the areas where a specials trim usually is back to baremetal and see if the holes have been boged/welded up.

Just some more random pics!! lookin good fat

pretty sure i got a few, ill let you know later tonight/early tomorrow as id have to go and check the shed/s.

Are you sure its standard bore? ive also got some +40thou pistons and i think a couple of +60 just incase.....if u could measure up the bore.

Good Work!! Nice Wilsonia Guage BTW

how many thou oversize?

Alex,
      Great pics. Just thought i would add though, that last one isnt an original Tilli kit, but has been made out of original ek mouldings. Roger () from the fb ek club here in vic spent many hours making those pieces 'work'. Gotta admit though, it has come up pretty sweet

Ek fitted with 'Jetstream' Flash kit

EK standard fitted with 'Special look' trim kit.

EK's fitted with 'Flashline kits'

here is a picture of our fc sedan (slightly photoshopped) fitted with a tilli kit, Ken or RET exactly what kit is it?

you could just weld the fb-ej outrigger onto the hr front end, atleast then youll have some decent brakes

Pretty sure it was CraigA

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not bad at all