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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:01 pm 
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If you not in a hurry I will have a fairmont cluster with the 4 instruments for sale about mid OCT for around $100

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:10 am 
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Man nice work, fair bit of work involved with that. The EA-ED interiour aged poorly so the EF dash gives it a fresh look.

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:02 am 
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nice work.... kepp the EA steering column, That way you can have a sports steering wheel on it. Cant do that to a real EF/EL as they must have the airbags :)

 

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:35 pm 
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was this much of a mission? would look bloody decent full GHIA spec, leather all round etc etc

 

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:56 pm 
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Well Done with the conversion!

I have done a similar conversion with my ea - except I basically coverted all the wiring, ecu & driveline also from a donor car (the way to go if anyone is considering similar coversion). However I haven't changed the front seats! I am also interested in how you made EF seats fit. My EA ones are crap and I have some decient EF ones to replace them with.

More Info Please!!!!!!

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:17 pm 
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Modify your existing seat rails to get the correct height.
I removed the rear brackets and cut them down and rewelded them on and added a small flat peice of metal to the front to allow the bolts to line up. Simple really.

 

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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:37 am 
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i am just about to do tis as well but im putting full ef ghia leather trim and motor and diff as well.u can make the seats fit by knocing the legs of and putting ea legs on.im putting the extra welded floor section out of the ef in mine to eep te floor moulding and seat mounts,handbrake mount :) yurs looks really good well done:)
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:50 pm 
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Harddriver, If you do that to the floor pan you will need an engineers cert for sure.

 

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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:17 pm 
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no different then the seats u need 1 for that as well.
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:59 am 
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falconea wrote:
Harddriver, If you do that to the floor pan you will need an engineers cert for sure.


you don't need to cut out the old floor do to it, that and they'll never know.
it'd be a lot safer and harder to get found out compared to moding the rails.

 

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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:29 pm 
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Damn, time to revive this thread. I am sorry I have not got back to yall about the handbrake. To tell you the truth I didn't want to post anything until I was entirely happy with its operation. An then, I kind of forgot about it with all the stuff going on. Enough excusses, eh?

I discovered why it was not clamping so well a couple of months back when I went to replace the brakepads and I discovered that one of the rear calipers was clamped on. Fixed now.

The doco is in progress, should be finished in a few days.

 

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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:52 am 
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I shall draw some diagrams and take some pics of how I have modified the handbrake and upload them soon. It took a lot of working out to get the lever style (shorter cable travel) to have the same effect.

It involved some welding of the original handbrake arm.

And yes it works just as well as the old one. But it is much easier to use.


Deadset, you were reading my mind. I thought I was doing the thread mining. Cant wait for the doco, I've just finished doing my EF conversion bar the handbrake.

 

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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:25 am 
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I am also waiting for this doco , should be great. Cannot wait to get it working

 

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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:02 am 
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hi nice thread
i'm looking to is myself using a el interior . Did the dash just bolt up or did you need new holes for it :?:
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:48 am 
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Putting in an EL interior into a EB2 or ED, everything bolts up except for the lower outer mounts adjacent to each door and of course the way the dash bolts to the pedal box is different too. I'll post a few progress pics of my installation as soon as I find the photos.

 

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