Well then will put it in post so you can have it Thursday so it will be ready Friday Night

I had enough glass dust in my hair the other day, to use it instead of hair spray hehe.

BenJ

atleast you wont have issues with it not sticking

What issues are you having?

i ment using it as hair gel as Ben suggested..

i havnt touched fiberglass in years, but im ITCHING to try again

Ha Ha Funny bugger

well it cant be my old bush it didnt look that bad.

anyways i had a good trip good to see the photos up and ill be lowering my car more now. after i fix a few other things.

good to meet you benj and everyone else i met at the meet

I have been doing a bit of work here and there on the BA front bar.

This included envisaging the final look of the BA Front, BA SR side skirts, and the MMM rear.

Blending together different products can either work well, or FAIL big time. After looking hard at the BA Front while sanding back the fibreglass on the top I decided the join gap between the bottom lip and the main part of the bar needed to be filled in.

To begin with I did a couple of photoshops to see how this would look.

Before

After


Before

After


I liked how this created a more cohesive, less fussy look, and that would work well with the smoother MMM rear bar.

I spoke to SWC about it and he said to bring with me on my next visit and he would fill it with fibreglass bog filler, which he did. I then sanded it down when I got home.







Looks a bit like a cross between a BA and a BF bar now.

My main reason to visit SWC, was to work on the MMM rear bar. The MMM bar is a 3/4 add on and hangs from the groove in the EB bar below the strip. It was too wide, and needed to be tucked in all the way around as it sat approx 10mm out from the rear bar.

SWC had already cut it in half through the middle so we could get one side right before duplicating the work on the other. After much cutting, grinding, test fitting and removal, we got the left side to the point we were both happy with it. There was A LOT of fibreglass dust floating around. I thought I was in a snow globe for a while there LOL.

As a result of the tucking in work, SWC will now need to section the left and right sides, as the bar now sits 8mm to far in the wheel well. It would appear the original work done to lengthen the MMM sedan bar to fit the wagon bar, was a bit rough and ready, but with SWC on the job, and his high level of expectation and workmanship it is coming together really well.

I will get some pics of it all on the weekend.

Cheers
BenJ

Looking good BenJ.

Cheers

ToranaGuy

+1

Flush door handles are over-rated....hahahaha

Why dont you get rid of them alltogether??? Now that would be cool. What are you going to do with your old handles? I was contemplating going with a falcon handle. Might stick with my chrome ones i have (yet to fit).....

Catch you on friday hopefully

Cheers

Daz

Got a bit of motivation last week.

I did this mod on my Red EB Sedan, and it was one of the first mods I attempted to do on the Wagon, well over a year ago now, but gave up on it quickly due to the position of the LPG gas filler.

I am of course yapping on about the flush fuel flap mod.

For those that don't know, EA-ED Sedans and Wagons and EF and EL1 Wagons have a fuel flap made of plastic with a raised section designed for your finger to pull open the flap. This is necessary on the early EA-ED base model cars as they did not have a remote fuel flap release fitted. The Fairmonts and Fairlanes however did, the finger pull was not needed. With the introduction of the EF sedan the fuel flap was made of metal and the finger pull was deleted leaving a nice clean flat fuel flap. The wagons however, being the same as the early cars in the back end, still had the old plastic fuel flap with the finger pull. The EF/EL sedan fuel flap is NOT a direct bolt in to an EA-ED sedan or wagon. It is however possible to swap the hinge from the EA-ED plastic flap, and install it on the EF/EL sedan metal flap, mod the catch and give you that nice smooth clean look. An even easier method is to locate the fuel flap from an EL11 Wagon, as these cars have the smooth metal flap with the early type hinge already installed from factory. These DO bolt straight in, making things much easier. These EL11 flaps however, don't have the mounting bracket for the Fuel Flap Ajar sensor.

Now the history lesson is over, and you are realising the amount of trivial E Series crap floating through the large expanse between my ears, it is time go get on with some pics etc.


Seeing as I needed the Fuel Flap Door Ajar sensor, I chose to mod a EL sedan flap and install an EB hinge with the required mounting bracket.

On the left is the modded EL metal flap, and on the right the EB plastic flap.


You can see how I have used some small nuts as spacers to centre the EB hinge on the EL flap. To fit the EB Hinge you need to open up the rolled ends, remove the EL hinge, insert EB hinge, and the close the rolled ends back up. As they are metal, this takes a bit of effort and care.

This picture highlights how far the EL support bracket intrudes into the fuel cavity compared to the the EB flap.


On most cars, this is not a problem, and the EL flap will fit without any issues. On my Wagon however, the LPG Fuel Filler is located very close to the edge of the filler cavity.


There was no way the EL Flap was going to close. This just gave me a good excuse to break out the Dremel and some cutting discs.

I marked up the inside of the flap and got to work.


After many trial fits, and several cutting sessions, I ended up with this.


I modded the catch assembly to work with the EB Fuel Flap release solenoid.


And was finally able to close the EL Flap.


At this stage I continued on with some more adjustment to keep the gap lines equal. When I was satisfied, I sanded, primed and painted the fuel flap in Black Pearl.

Here are some before and after comparison pics.






I am yet to clear coat the EL flap as I still want to play with the adjustment. While the final result of this mod is not dramatic, it does clean up the left rear quarter. When the rust in the wheel arch is repaired and I can paint the quarter, the finished result will be worth it.

Cheers
BenJ

Looks good Ben

That does indeed clean up the rear quarter. It's all the subtle little mods like this that add up to an awsome custom wagon! I think i may have to look into this mod for my car's now.....

Cheers

ToranaGuy

It's amazing how subtle mods can clean up the whole look of the car. Nice work BenJ

I must say, that second to last picture of the wagon with the black rim on the back looks pretty cool. I reckon black rims would look tough on the wagon

I hadn't even looked at the fuel filler door until now. Looks great BenJ, definitely has been added to my list for the EF.