I'm Excited!

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Got a full day on the FE today, and got a few jobs done, not as many as I would have liked, but hey what's new there.

The trimmer said he will do the roof lining Monday night (after 2.5 yrs ) no excuses hopefully, I will meet him at his shop and he will follow me home. If you hear a huge scream tomorrow around 4:30PM you know what's happened.

Some shots of work some work so far.

Blanked HR steering column with a fresh coat of black paint.


This was done quite some time ago, firewall mods to accept a torana booster and master cyl.


A mock-up of the FE dash with an Autometer Speedo left over from another project.


Spent near enough to 3 hours cleaning the gunk off the rear screen surround.


Added a bracket to the (rusty) hadfield trans tunnel for the B&M quicksilver shifter.


Here's a shot of the rear with some old 13" torana rims with 235 rubber, just to get an idea of the fit. Eventually I will put a torana diff in with 14" wheels and 235 tyres.

[normd]

Hey Man Thats lookin' good , look forward to progress shots

Will be listening for the "scream"
 Cheers
  Norm  

[robbzfc58]

lookin good stinky    what motor's goin in?
do you have a shot  of the car before you started
                                  cheers trev

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Trev, if you can imagine the car with the rear screen fitted, the firewall unmodified, the old trans tunnel in place, well that's pretty much how I got the car.
The original plan was to "slap" it together and go cruising, that was a number of years ago. It would seem now that I am over the "hump", I have pretty much gathered all the parts. Finding the time to put them all together is the major frustration.
Motor is a fairly warm 202 with a traumatic trans, LSD diff courteousy of Al in NSW (sorry if I stuffed the name up).

BTW if you are listening Al what was the ratio of the diff?

[spinach]

nice looking car stinky, it'll be a great cruiser when it's done. I'll have to bring my old clunker out to a SMASA meet soon, going to join once my car looks repsectable.

Luke.

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Another delay! I will definately have pics of the finished roof-lining on Wednesday night. Either that or a pic of the bloodied corpse of my trimmer.  

Luke,
You don't need a respectable car to join up SMASA, come along to a meeting anytime. If you turn-up at next month's meeting SA Police are putting on a free 1/2 hour Marshalling course. You get a certificate at the end and can work at shows (eg Clipsal 500 etc) as a Marshall. There's free tea and coffee, an bar if you want a beer and we usually put on some food, either nuts and chips during or pizza at the end.

The chassis kit is in too, so send me a PM or email and we can arrange for you to drop by, although I don't have the instructions yet, oops, called the shop and they are posting them out to me.

[Lindsay58]

stinky keep up the good work it looks like it will be a sweet ride when finisded   more pics when you get some thanks   lindsay 58

[Al]

Hi  Stinky,
   Don't you just love the look of the rear of an FE or FC . Your car looks great stinky. The diff ratio is 3.36 . Like the dash that speedo looks good in it.

     Cheers Al

[Sarge]

Stinky
        I would be Excited too. I like what I see, looking forward to more pic's

Regards
Sarge

[spinach]

Count me in on next months meeting buddy, being a marshall at the 500 would be decent. I havnt missed a day of it since it started, even got to watch the start of the race from the podium one year.

I'll send ya a msg about droppin in for a beer, maybe this weekend if I can rebuild my carby's before then.

Luke.

[Ed]

Looks great Stinky!  

so many jobs so little time ...

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Thanks for all the compliments and words of encouragement.

Finally the trimmer came over today and the roof-lining is in, I will put up photos as soon as I scab back the batteries for the digital camera from various childrens toys

A week of annual leave coming up should see a fair amount of work being done.

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Here's the photers.

Rear section of the roof lining


The trimmed wheel arch


The 6 1/2" (16cm)speakers and yet to be trimmed parcel shelf, I still have to drill the holes for the speaker screws, seatbelt bolts and child restraint bolt. (Yes I was up a ladder)


The steering wheel next to sample of the cloth being used, not a bad match.

The colour was actually chosen to match the original (FC) vinyl, as I was going to restore the door trims. I could never do the roof and everything else justice. So the door trims are being re-trimmed too.