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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:39 am 
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Looking the goods there Ben. Nice work and great progress. What are your long term goals for the wagon?

 

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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:24 am 
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EVL098 - Thanks mate. I appreciate the offer but the dark plastic won't be staying all that long.

Banarcus - Cheers buddy. The Wagon is to be my new daily driver.

The plan is to put the EL interior in out of the Red EB. I will probably do the door trims and external mirrors and door handles first, while I decide what approach to take re the wiring.

I will need to replace the engine bay loom with EB11 wiring to work with the EL dash and EB11 loom, so I am considering sourcing EL Fairmont dash and engine looms instead.

The work would be much the same labour wise, and the wiring is much neater.

The Red EB will slowly be de modded, while still maintaining driveablility, as the Wagon needs to earn my trust before I can depend on it as my sole source of transport. The the driveline will be transplanted in to the Poly ED Ghia.

But, for a while at least I will be cruising around with the EB dash and console.

I will shortly be swapping the front struts and springs between the wagon and the Red EB. At the moment, due to the lowering blocks, the Wagon rear end sits lower than the front, and I hate that. LOL

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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:14 am 
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Great progress Ben, looking good!

 

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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:24 pm 
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Get that driver's lock cylinder swapped :!: :!:

 

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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:44 pm 
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snap0964 wrote:
Get that driver's lock cylinder swapped :!: :!:


LOL, actually that was the FIRST thing I did yesterday afternoon. I just forgot to mention it. hehe

I drove the wagon to the train station this morning as I am now able to lock it up - thanks snap

BenJ

 

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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:51 pm 
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Nice work Ben, black manual Ghia wagoon FTW!!!

It will look s**t hot with the red car's interior in it.

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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:21 pm 
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hah don't ya love how friggin long the shifter looks minus the console and boot.

 

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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:46 pm 
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looking great ben.. when are you going to do the EL interior in my lane?

 

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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:13 am 
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looking great ben.. when are you going to do the EL interior in my lane?


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



Cheers PIMP_LTD, I agree 100%.

Oh and Froudey, yes it does.

Here it is with the last piece of the interior.

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I was able to secure the boot and uncracked base off HP Hungry, to finish off the EB version of the interior. EL version to come in a future episode.

I got most of the wiring done for the thermo fans, but ran out of the 25amp wire. I did wire up one fan completely, and found a clever place to put the Davies Craig switch. Pics of that tomorrow.

Cheers
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:28 am 
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Lookin better there Ben, you are making nice progress.

How are you finding driving the manual vs the auto? I bet you try and do things with your left foot when driving the EB! If I ever go manual I will have to retrain myself not to left foot brake!!

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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:57 am 
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But its not finished yet, you forgot the steering column cover :D

F**K the door trim colour is...different.

Looking forward to pics of it slammed!
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:40 am 
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dan1_721 wrote:
But its not finished yet, you forgot the steering column cover :D


Yes, you are correct, still have a couple of bits and pieces to bolt back on.

dan1_721 wrote:
F**K the door trim colour is...different.


And yes again, the door trim colour is . . . . odd, probably looked good when new, but has not survived the test of time.

dan1_721 wrote:
Looking forward to pics of it slammed!


Mee too!!!!!!!!!


Cheers
Ben

 

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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:12 am 
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Well!!!

I finally got some time this afternoon to get the thermo fans install finished.

I am very pleased with the final install. It is MUCH neater and tidier than the install I did in the EB Sedan, and I found a cool place to put the Davies Craig Switch.

See if you can spot the switch in the first few pics.

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All seems to be working as expected.

Look for the LOW DOWN on my next mod.

BenJ

 

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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:16 am 
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damn thats a good idea for the switch... get me thinking about mine...

 

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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:07 pm 
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Now thats using your noggin, i like it.

 

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