first was in months lol looking at the pics i posted earlier i wasnt happy with the paint, so i gave her a quick bath deleted the stickers off the windows






im stoked with the look of the car now... once i lower it and get the exhaust done ill probably leave it at that externally for a while. toying with the idea of throwing a turbo on, no cooler just BBM conversion and pipe it straight to the TB.. not for any serious power but something to help it move along and have some fun in on skidpan days lol

Now that does look good . That ride height actually looks quite centered and balanced.
But a lowered wagon does look the part eh!

well i no longer hit the towbar exiting my parents driveway.. so its raised the car a bit.. i would have thought with the profile tyres it has on it would be the same as the 15's.. oh well im happy, once i pick up this other FTR to replace the buckled one ill be happy.

the tyre shop said dont destroy it/use it as a garden hose holder, he is pretty sure it can be used as a spare safely, since im driving on it now i think thats the way ill go

Looks good with those wheels, looks much more modern.

no one has noticed the new door strip to fall off lol. first its the rear door, then today i pull up and walk around and see it partly hanging off so instead of it falling off down the highway i decided to just rip it off, ill go buy tape tomorrow and clean them all up and redo them.. they have been done at some stage and not good either. i want new doors so i dont mind if they fall off

No! I missed that. But I did notice the ghostly image of a small child that appears in the house window of your second photo

Spooooky

Hey Huggie.

The Wagon is looking clean and tidy now. Sometimes, less is more, and I think it looks better this way.

So, what about that T5 hey?

Cheers
BenJ

i got the spiggot bearing, it still has the throw out bearing on the box along with the clutch fork.. all i need to complete the T5 setup now is the floor rubber to seal the weather out, and a machine of the fly wheel etc..

will be a few weeks before its in with the new motor and dash skin

I agree on waiting to put it in with the new motor. You can bolt it all up to the new donk much easier outside the car, and then put it in as one unit.

BenJ

thats the plan.. tho i have been toying with the idea of the turbo as mentioned before and im thinking if im going to throw a non intercooler turbo system for s**t and giggles i might aswell just throw the EF motor in and then hunt down another EF/EL motor for the supercharged fairlane...

choices choices choices

maybe i should start a poll lol

not much to update, picked up the new FTR rim on sunday and had it fitted on monday morning. spot on, no buckles.. and free change over, cant complain with that.


then i got stuck into the tail gate speaker holes and brake light

as some may know the first of the EA wagons didnt come with tail gate brake lights, and either did the sedans with the parcel shelf brake light. so i bought one on ebay 2 days before i bought the full tail gate with it on there lol, so i had 2. decided on the best looking one condition wise and drilled some pilot holes, screwed it in and fed the wires through the tail gate, through the rubber tubing (pain in the a**) and inside the car, i then tapped into the same joins where the trailor plug wires join. tested it out and works perfect..

then it was onto the speaker holes, the tail gate i bought had 2 speakers fitted to the panel and when i removed the speakers i was left with 2 horrid looking holes, so i grabbed some grills from a cheap set of boss audio speakers and attached them to the outside of the panel, looks much MUCH neater now, i will be neatening up the holes when the splits get moved from the front to the rear.



on a bad note, my door strips kept falling off on the passenger side, so i cracked the s**t, ripped the whole side off, removed the old crap off the strips and applied new tape.. its spot on now, i tried pulling them off and they are stuck on good.. and it should be for 12 bucks a roll of 4m...

i also bought some bumper primer and some colour code paint to paint the side strips white but keep the red stripe in it. and lucky i did as when i removed the front 1/4 panel one i was fronted with a massive piece of rust, but once scraped away looked nothing more then big bubble rust on the surface.. so a quick tape up, prime and paint to seal it.




i pick up some replacement panels tomorrow so i can replace the panel at a later date...

looks good man, how dark is that tint?? looks darker than midnight express??

not exactly sure, was already on the car. it does look nice, has a few nicks and scratches around the place, 1 nick in the tailgate tint from when i had something in the back, and one on the drivers window but you cant see it when driving and i normally have the window down so im not too fussed lol.

it does look nice in certain angles tho

its does look good, seen the car in person and will agian this sunday, unless it rains

Tint is Midnight Express. Can not see in it at night. FTRs kick it off nicely. Well done Huggie my man. Lovin the threads.