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another good reason to get full rego.

by the way, the rocker cover is sticky taped on, it still doesnt fit, ive been um'n and are'n about this http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HOLDEN-6CLY-ROCKER-COVERS-EH-HR-HQ-COMMODORE_W0QQitemZ110149717233QQihZ001QQcategoryZ50139QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem i just am not sure about the look.

just noticed my rebuild was getting so dead that it had slipped down to the second page, its just too cold to get anything done now.


 That m90 supercharger is just sitting on a 4bbl manifold, lots needs to be done to fit it up and probably some expensive outside fabrication but i finally get to see how it fits and that i have room around it to go either efi or carb without too much drama, i could still start of with the toyota blower or just run it with a carb na till i get the m90 set up.
 its probably a bit early to put the motor in but i need any space i can get, i now have the car squeezed in the shed thanks to the extra room but its still too packed to work on the car in there, just in time but, i pulled the tarp off the car on saturday morning and found the tarp was holding water on the primer and inside the roof wich is still bare metal was all wet with condensation, with the thick ice weve had on the cars here this week in the morning it would have been a tough week for the FC in the driveway.

[ Edit by RET: Photobucket has done something really weird with the URLs lately, with this ¤ funky stuff in them. If you remove the " ?view=t¤ " string from them, they seem to work as usual. No extra charge ;) ]

blown up the tailgate looks lighter but i dont think they would have made the tailgate the light couler, that would have meant a few extra peices of stainless trim.

Either we're looking at different pictures or someone's monitor desperately needs re-calibrating! Actually, Internet Explorer does a very poor job of colour-management, and the default gamma of PC screens is darker than that on the Mac, so perhaps we are looking at different pictures.

But on my screen, the front guard and door are bathed in light from a spotlight at ground level in the corner. Ditto the roof (of every car actually, from all the lighting panels in the ceiling). The shadowy area behind the rear wheel opening on the wagon is the same colour as the tailgate, and both are very different to the dark colour on the insert.

From the angle the car is parked and the shape of the shadow underneath it, it seems pretty clear to me that the back of the car faces away from all the light sources, towards the window (and the photographer).

Anyway, whatever. I'm sure there are better things to argue about. My only point was that the rear of the car is not the same colour as the insert, which is unusual.

cheers
RET

have you gone nuts?
take a photo of what is on your screen and show us.
you mac people always think you are better but i can see the light coming from behind, its bright on the tailgate, the car behind is brightly lit, if the FC wagon has a dark tailgate it must have lighter D? pillars and be divided in colour over the fin, i doubt they would have done that from the factory.

Anyway what amazes me about some of these 40's and 50's showroom pics is that they look like current 2007 showrooms, just no computers or salesman walking around with mobiles on their ears.

holly $h1t

are you sure its not t the light king it look that way?

these were only fitted to the canadian built FC's so they are only rare here.

ha ha, i thought if someone posted something other than andrews car it would be the shark.

nice ute.

So what is the most radicalilly chopped FC ever?

I know that page craig, its been my home page for the last 4 months, i just thought it was cool music to have everytime i open internet explorer.

I bought a magnum flex plate, i said i had a black crank, no est.
 I now tried to put it on and the holes dont line up, it has a hole for a dowl about 3mm from one of the bolt holes but the dowl on the crank is in the middle between two bolt holes, are the holes in  different spots or is it drilled wrong.
 i tried comparing it to a old red flex plate and the red ones dont have the dowl hole.

maybe he was just listening to this song too much-


Thirty one ford with a flat head
merc
Channelled too low I'm a real gone
jerk
I'm in a hotrod gang I'm in a
hotrod gang
I'm in a hotrod gang I'm in a
hotrod gang
Boom boom shang a lang shimmy
shimmy shoo wop bang bang.



 i dont mind these things that much but i just wish they would do a bit more research into what hotrods really did look like in the period they are trying to reproduce before they started building, stilll better than the usuall fibreglass, billets and digital dash we still see a lot off.

As for the FE, it looks good from a distance, the guy musnt have done too bad if we are still looking at pictures of his car 20 years later.

did you make sure the guy @ the brake shop understood it was imperial.
some places have metric nuts with imperial threads and some have imperial nuts with imperial threads.
 I got mine from B&R brakes in blacktown, everything seems to screw up so far.

thanks here too, i will soon be needing the same info!

not sure, if you can go up to about 314 ci, check out the rta site, the ci to weight ratio changes when you go turbo but i think it will be under, you will need to meet the requirements for a v8 like colapsible column etc.
 a gut at work put one in a 86 skyline on the weekend and has been going nuts with it out the front off work, lots of power but still a japanese motor.
 and if my grey painted red motor has 80hp i will take to it with a sledge hammer even though half the people here probably have half of 80hp.
 i myself dont like the jap motors but one thing for sure is they can get up and go without spending alot.

should i first wash it out with a degreaser, its full off old dirty grease but has also had water in it while it was stored and there is some orange stuff, its already painted in white with pearl and the box is kinda roughly polished.
 i had a look in the shed and i only have bearing grease and rubber grease, whats this other grease that doesnt wash of your hands?

Dont forget blacktown swap is on this sunday at blacktown showground across the road from supercheap.

am i missing something here?