Got the pedal box the rest of the way out, it was in quite a nasty state, i didnt realise how mangled it was!!! no wonder the pedal wouldnt stay in place!!! you can even see all the welding it did to try and hold it there, to no avail. It did delay the inevitable a bit, but its hard stick welding upside down in a footwell







It seems like the engine is almost done, got a call from HV pearce today, forgot to give them the flywheel for balancing the motor so going to drop it up to them saturday morning, crank was alright, didnt need grinding, just linishing, and no rod bolts are available for the motor, so thats off the cards too, but overall, seems to be progressing nicely.

Im also spending time stripping the rest of the stuff out of the engine bay, ready to respray it. However i have exams coming up at uni, so progress may slow down a bit now until late november, then i should be able to start reassembling over the summer holidays looking forward to that, going crazy in the ED, driving an gutless car with an auto is a big change from the XR.

that exactly wat happened in my xf haha piss-ed me off so much. thort i did my clutch 4 a sec.

Hey guys, its been a while between posts, but ive been getting stuck right into the car lately, havent had much of a chance to get some posts up.

Picked up the full rebuild kit, went to start putting it together, and realised it had AU mains bearings instead of EL, so still waiting on a new set of them.

I stripped the engine bay down as much as i could, in preperation for the new engine and respray. One of my mates is a spraypainter, and he gave me a hand to rub it all back, then lay down some black paint all through the engine bay. Im currently in the process of putting all the wiring back in, hiding it as much as possible in the guards. The front bar is getting a bit of custom glasswork done on it, then a respray as it was chipped to s**t.

Now, pictures





















The black does make it a bit hard to see, but hopefully you get the drift!

lookin sweet!!

Thanks mate!

Another quick update, after we finished with the interior.

The standard interior is dark grey up top, with light grey underneath
I though in keeping with the same two tone theme, go with black on top, with dark grey underneath

I already had to dash out for repairing of the pedalbox, and also just completed the climate control conversion, thanks go to ARM79 for supplying the parts!

Finally decided to do another update on the car
I've been working on it on and off, but I am on uni holidays again so getting back into it much more. The bottom end is put together, crank, pistons and rods are all in. Just saving up for a CMS stage 3 head, 2A cam before I put the motor back in.

While I have been waiting, i decided to start on the boot install. I have already drained the fuel tank from when I changed to fuel pump, and cleaned to fuel tank while I was at it to make sure there was no crap in the bottom of the tank. So I dropped the tank and screwed in some timber from underneath to give me a good solid mounting point, then gradually cut shaped and fit some plywood as a base, so screw everything else down to. Just got to cover it in carpet to make it look a bit neater







I have been working on a bit of everything really, but only a little bit at a time. One of the other things I have been working on is moving the washer res into the left guard, to make room for the gas converter in the engine bay. It's looking good so far, its a perfect fit where the aerial used to be, but I never listed to radio so I figured it was a good swap!



Also debadged by guards out of boredom, going to try and find some fairlane indicators, already got my hands on a set of EF side trims to go with it. So I'm coming along now, going to try and keep more up to date in this thread!!!

Just thought id throw another couple of update pics up



Engine awaiting CMS Head and Cam



Body Kit repair progress

nice work man i wish i had the space to do this stuff to mine

Yes that is definitely one nice thing about living in the country, plenty of car working space! Although its just come around to a year since i took it off the road, and the old mans getting a little edgy to get his shed back hes been pretty good about it so far.

Couple more updates on the rear bar







Its coming along now, going to test fit it on the car tomorrow to make sure the exhaust lines up alright, and then its time to rub it back and get some paint onto it

Joe from CMS rang me last week too to let me know the head was up there and is being stripped down ready for work, so there plenty in the pipeline! Once I get that back the engine and gearbox are going back in the car, so that i can take it from home to my place and get the rest of the stuff underway

Nice car, and good on you for doing all that work!
Looking forward to seeing it finished. You should put up some pictures of your ED.
Thanks

Just a couple of pictures showing how it fitted up to the car.
I should have realised with the extra length out from the lip that the exhaust would sit too far inside the bar, I'll have to get it extended once I get the car back on the road. Apart from that it all fitted up quite well so its time for it to get rubbed back ready for paint. Really glad with how it turned out, I was hoping it would make the car look a bit lower, and I think it does.







Its interesting you asked about the ED, I've been thinking about posting a couple of pics up, especially because I want to sell it soon. I got tired of driving it around looking all dirty so i got out, cleaned it up and polished up the wheels, got the tyre black out, put a new battery and starter motor in it to spruce it up a bit. Ill post up a couple of picture tomorrow, its nothing fancy though

rear bar with twin exhaust will look the goods,

do you want to make me one

how have i missed this one. looking good. and another Bendigonian

Thanks guys, what sort of rear bar do you have? It would be pretty easy with a non-XR6 rear bumper skirt, this is what i did to my standard bumper to get the skirt on, if you did something similar with a normal bumper, you could easily run twin exhausts



Yeah I wasn't sure on the twin exhaust to start with, but with twin 2.5" dumps I'm hoping it doesn't look to over the top. I was going to get twin 3", but I photo-shopped it up and it didn't look very good at all. It took a fair while to get the bar nice and neat tho. The only catch is I have to fake one side until I work out what to do with the fuel tank on the other side. Because the car is usually run on gas except when its getting a hiding, my plan is to get a 30ish liter tank made up to go where the stock one goes, but not extend backwards as far, which should give me the space to fit the exhaust in, plus it means you don't have plastic near hot exhausts, which is great.

Hey WILDEB, I've been on the forum for a fair while, do a lot more reading that posting though. I noticed you were up in Bendigo, I'm actually an Elphinstonian, I just put Bendigo in so people have some idea of where I'm from. Pretty much the same age as me too, I probably know you. Your SVO wouldnt have orignally had the plates SVOSVO would it?

Anyway, it was raining yesterday, but i finally managed to get a couple of photos of old Ed, he came up okay with a bit of a wash and polish. Shes stock as a rock apart from Sprintgas, newish monroe shocks with the ELXR6 springs from my other car, and Kumho KH17's all round. Sticks quite well to the road though I must say.

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nah it's not SVOSVO. he still has his. i bought mine from Harcourt North.