Hi,
    You can put up to a 308 into a FE-FC in Queensland. If you are to do all of the welding of the subframe, chassis rails, meeting up with the rear chassis, these are major modifications and you will have to take your car every time you do something, and get it tested and x-rayed to make sure all of the work and welding you have done is safe. It will cost you a fortune, and unless you know what you are doing, you will be waisting your money. You would be better off buying everything from Rod hadfield. It will work out cheaper, you have the paper's for all the modifications, as in Chassis Kit, Crossmember, Austin 1800 Rack and pinion, Collapsable steering column. He has an exchange hr front end with the mounts welded for a holden V8, and the mount's for the Austin 1800 rack and pinion, it was about $410.00 exchange. You will also need 2 Speed wipers, Brake Booster, Seatbelts, External Drivers side mirror, windscreen washer, 9/16 Rear Master Cylinder's, Front windscreen demister. I think that is it. If you buy the kit through Hadfield you just take your car to whoever does Roadworthies and vehicle modifications, hand them the paper work that you get with your kits, and it is checked and passed. Start doing it yourself from scratch, it will cost you a hell of alot more, and after all the work you do, if the xray's show something after they put it in a machine and twist and terrorise your car, you will have to start all over again.
Cheers,
            Spider

Hi to all,
            I did this mural this morning for the wife's car. The same picture is going on the bootlid in the corner
Cheer's, Spider

 :)Hi to All,
                Just wondering if anyone lives in Minchinbury sydney?. I am looking for a place to stay for my airbrush coarse i will be doing. I will pay board and help with your FE, FC if anything needs doing on it. I will be arriving on the 29th June and depart on the 5th July. Or if anyone knows of a cheap hotel to stay at that is near Sterling road Minchinbury.
Thankyou,
    Spider

Hey Slim, Rob said that he had the first view, and then e-mailed him, he didnt say he had the first reply.
Spider

 ???DOH, I thought they had them as there is the holes in the door panels and the door, so they must of put some other arm rest's or another front set in
Cheers
     Spider

 :DHey Jim,
                   I live at caloundra on the sunshine coast. That would be great to have a look at, but be warned  "I might run around naked in amongst the part's" :ohehe.
Cheers Spider

 :)Thank's everyone for your comment's. I live in Queensland Ed. when i wasnt ready to paint it was a drought, and soon as i am ready to lay on some colour it starts raining, and then when the rain stop's i have had to wait for the humidity to drop. Yesterday i painted it, and today it has been storming so thank christ i got it done, i was sick of waiting. If you want to get into airbrushing you are better off buying a good quality airbrush to start with. The cheap ones are good for models and that is it. I am self taught so i have been learning the hard way, but i am getting there. I had to give up tattooing due to the back couldnt take it anymore, and airbrushing is the next best thing, and i can do it at home. I will be down sydney way to do a coarse on airbrushing end of june, for 5 day's which will help alot. It will teach me the tricks of the trade. So If anyone want's a boarder for 5 day's   i would rather give someone on this site the money for board than a motel.
Cheers everyone,
                           Spider
P.S.Alex & Harko, Thankyou for the help with the frenched aerial i will post a picture of what i had done

Howdy All,
               I am chasing a set of rear door arm rest's for the FE in good condition, and am still chasing a good steering wheel minus the horn ring but with no cracks in the plastic.
Cheers Spider

 :)Hi to All,
                Just a few progress shots of the fe. I have been waiting for ages for the weather to be right so i could lay on some colour on the body. Is anyone having problems viewing my album, i would be interested to know.http://photo.starblvd.net/spider

Cheers everyone,
                          Spider

 :)Hi to all,
                Just wondering if anyone has used the rubber felts used in later vehicles, for the window to slide up and down in, as the original metal and cloth one's are rusted out. And if so where about's can they be purchased.
Cheers Spider

 :)Hi Mike,
               I cant see how the process is different. They should be able to drop your surround into a solution that strips the old anodising off, a quick re-polish and they anodise it again. By the sounds of it they couldnt be bothered :-/. The only reason they wont come out shiny is if they dont get a high lustre from polishing the item properly. Keep Trying, there will be some one out there.
Cheers Spider
         

 :)Thankyou once again to everyone, for there replies, and help.
Sherrif i live in queensland on the sunshinecoast, where abouts are you located.
Cheers Spider

 :)Hey Ed,
               I know the feeling. I bought a HVLP GUN and found it horrible. It is exactly as you said, had to move slow just to get a good coat, did the same thing as things as you outlined and will never touch the gun again. I will stick with the normal gun, even if you do lose more in overspray. Actually the FE is being painted with a graco spray unit that the oldman has. It sucks paint straight up, no air, and if you no what you are doing the finish is unbelievable. We sprayed a lx torana i had, fully stripped and everywhere painted, it was painted in half a hour, and only used 1/2 to 3/4 of the paint undiluted and the  finish was like the paint had been poured on. You get no overspray when adjusted right, and it is the equivalent of roughly 2 coats in one hit. It is unbelievable. I dont know why people dont use them more.
Cheers Spider 8

 :)Hi All,
            Wanting to find out, who out there would recommend a good car insurer. Ozfueller said new england but i cant find there website. Some that i have tried only go back to 1970. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers Spider

Howdy all,
                  I am still chasing a good steering wheel for the fe.  Dont need the horn button, just the wheel with no cracks in the plastic
Cheer's Spider

Ed,
    You are right i am talking about a electric motor, 5hp would be interesting, imagine the damage if it hooked up what you were polishing, it would demolish your shed  . I use to work at a jewellers and did there metal polishing for 6 years and the bits from jewellers wholesale were as dear as buggery, soon as you mention jewellery the price shoots up, so things must of changed.  Ed are they the same quality as the dremel?. If you werent so far away i could of given you a couple of mops and bits and pieces i have left over. The only thing is you would have to use my smaller mop's as my new ones are 12inches in diameter. Also if you want a good final finish there is a rouge made in germany that is a green sausage shape, i cant think of the name of it but the jewellery wholesale would stock it. It doesnt leave black smear marks on the metal and you get a high lustre, more so than the white rouge. There is also a solution that when you finished polishing your item, instead of giving it a wipe down, to get rid of any rouge marks, you soak it in this liquid and when you pull out the item, you hose it down, chamoise it, and it sparkles.. Also a tip : when you are polishing any alloy's and you dont want to clear them, just spray on MR SHEEN, wipe it off and it leaves a wax coating that will last a while. And every time you wash your car just spray and wipe. That goes for everything, like chrome etc.
Cheers Spider

 :)Hey Harko,
                   Manifolds are fun arent they :-/. I use to do polishing for a mazda high performance specialist up here and had to polish the engine cases, now that was a mongrel. You can also buy the spindle seperate for your grinder. They are good for small jobs but stall the motor most of the time, and takes for ever untill you get sick of it. Get yourself a mulcher motor, just the type for home nothing industrial, and those motors have heaps of grunt, as you would imagine having to mulch up branches etc.
Cheers spider

 :)Hey Ed,
                Bench grinder can be used but you need a good size one. If you have a mulcher, or grab one at a garage sale or secondhand place, you can take the motor out of that, mount it on the bench and just get a spindle turned up to screw onto the mulcher shaft. The reason you will be getting the scratches,  this is without seeing it,  is that you might have to use more grease after the carborax, as the carborax is a harsh compound. Do you keep each mop seperate for each compound? Also make yourself a rake, by belting some steel nails thru a piece of timber, and puch into the mop while it is spinning, this will get rid of any particles from the alloy and the build up of compond.  You will find it easier if you use a motor mounted on the bench, it makes the job so much easier, also you get black s*%t everywhwer, but when you see the end result it is all worth it.
Cheers Spider

 :)Hey Ed,
               The compound that is like sard wonder soap is called Carborax, it would be dark grey in colour. It is a harsh compound, but will not take out casting marks, but is good when you have a smooth but unpolished surface, or a surface that has been sanded smooth, to get rid of mark's before final polishing. By rights the mop for that would be hard, and full stitched. The finish mop should be soft and like cloth. After carborax, there should be another process in between that you use called grease, it is a brown compound, then your final polish, which the compound should be white dialux. What colours did they give you ED?. To do a inlet manifold is a big job, and to do it you would be better off with a big motor that runs a spindle and has plent of grunt to take the load and pressure without slowing or stopping the motor all together. Then you would use a emery wheel that you make yourself, which is different grades of grit from 300 or lower to 2000. You get your old mops apply this special glue, and then roll the mop in to the grit. When it is dry you go thru the same process again, and keep building it up. When used they rip thru casting marks like you wouldnt believe. I know there is a article in one of my street machines on metal polishing, if you want i can try and find it for you. If you go thru a jewellers warehouse it wont be cheap. There would have to be a supplier down there somewhere. I will see if i can locate one for you tommorrow.
Cheers Spider

 :)Hi Ed,
           You can try a metal polishing supplier they will have what you need. I dont know of any down your way, but you can use the accesseries they have for the dremel as in rubber polishing points, or they have little buffs for the dremel which will also fit your drill, or die grinder. They also have different attachments to take out rough casting and deburring before polishing. You can also use an old tappered grinding stone that you use in your drill and tear off stripps of rag and rap around the point of the stone, add your polishing compound and away you go. There is also different types of compound for metal polishing which makes life easier, but if you are only doing one thing it would not be worth buying. But there would have to be a polishing supplier down your way. Also when polishing alloy be careful not to burn it, once the alloy has been burnt it is neer impossible to get out. What have you been using as your polishing compound? Anyway hope this helps, if you need the name of certain compounds or anything on metal polishing, just let me know as i was a metal polisher.
Cheers Spider