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Nice progress mate! Should look great when its done. Very unique too.
don't you loose a s**t load of features if you use the manual ecu in a ghia? (unless its an el gt one) or is it for another project. Keep it up anyway mate. Can't wait to see it done 
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Age: 43 Posts: 683 Joined: 4th Mar 2010 Ride: BF Fairmont Ghia & TS Magna Location: central coast |
starting to look good, and good on you for giving it a go.
lucky you have a air sander at your disposal, cause it looks like you and the air sander are going to form a good friendship for a few more hours yet LOL 
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Looking good. Keep up the good work Mitch! What sorta time frame are you looking at getting the kit done?
I might also add, it does look like a great mont as is with those rims...
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Do not use resin alone to fill gaps, it is not strong enough on its own. Use Fiberglass Filler. also use this where you were going to bog, much stronger and wont flake out on you. Ensure the fiberglass is clean and dust free before going ahead. By the way, make sure you get some 60 grit sanding discs, Glass filler is as hard as concrete. I have been known to use a belt sander
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You must be an expert at taking off/installing front and rear bumpers now!
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| mitchell g |
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evxr6 wrote: You must be an expert at taking off/installing front and rear bumpers now! i've got it to under 3 minutes for pulling it off jacking the car up takes longest SWC wrote: Do not use resin alone to fill gaps, it is not strong enough on its own. Use Fiberglass Filler. also use this where you were going to bog, much stronger and wont flake out on you. Ensure the fiberglass is clean and dust free before going ahead. By the way, make sure you get some 60 grit sanding discs, Glass filler is as hard as concrete. I have been known to use a belt sander .oh ok, thanks for the advise, Yes.40L wrote: Looking good. Keep up the good work Mitch! What sorta time frame are you looking at getting the kit done? I might also add, it does look like a great mont as is with those rims... hoping by end of november, if i don't get carried away with engine work, i hope to atleast have it manaul this year, BEAR80 wrote: starting to look good, and good on you for giving it a go. lucky you have a air sander at your disposal, cause it looks like you and the air sander are going to form a good friendship for a few more hours yet LOL yes yes we doo the old air hose fitting tried to keep us apart by unscrewing and losing the ball bearings which resulted in me cracking the s**t and getting a new one TheELghia wrote: Nice progress mate! Should look great when its done. Very unique too. don't you loose a s**t load of features if you use the manual ecu in a ghia? (unless its an el gt one) or is it for another project. Keep it up anyway mate. Can't wait to see it done not sure,, el gt would only work if i had a v8 though |
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| mitchell g |
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well did 15 minutes worth of grinding and sanding on the rear bar this afternoon,
BEAR80 - i found a new bestfriend it's called a flap disk  using the flap disk helped get the airbubbles out and got it in shape and then just used the airsander to make it look neat, just need to resin the other side fix the cracks and mounts and then fibreglass fill the rest of them pictures up soon |
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| mitchell g |
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pictures,
proof i do get rough at times  then the rest of the bar      old girl needs a bath  
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| mitchell g |
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today, i decided to put the body work to the side and play with my air intake,
i got the idea from my brother as he did it in his ef a few years ago, now what i've done is gotten the bell mouth intake from an ef, and mark it about half way at the open end and then at the top flush with the airbox, like this  then i got a ruler and marked a straight line between the too makrs and cut it off with the angle grinder resulting in this  after this i bolted it back to the el airbox,  this is what i did so that the airbox would seal onto the el pipe  cut the el part in half  then cut the centre out of this  trimmed it all down so that it had no dags or lose parts in it, went to put it in the airbox, and had to cut the little tagg nuts off the outside so it was round, then i stickafelxed it so it seal better and then left it out to dry before putting it back onto the car this picture shows the diffrence in the size of the el and ef intakes ef left el right 
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| BEAR80 |
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Age: 43 Posts: 683 Joined: 4th Mar 2010 Ride: BF Fairmont Ghia & TS Magna Location: central coast |
mitchell g wrote: BEAR80 - i found a new bestfriend it's called a flap disk just don't tell the air sander LOL flap discs work really well for sanding and cutting back purposes, also look at scotch brite pads for removing paint as it may turn out to be another friend.....LOL |
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| mitchell g |
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i haven't herd about them but they sound interesting, please do tell?
yeah i think the airsander is getting abit jealous about it |
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Age: 43 Posts: 683 Joined: 4th Mar 2010 Ride: BF Fairmont Ghia & TS Magna Location: central coast |
they are a disc with green kitchen type scourer material thats on steriods attached to the disc, you can get ones that attach to a grinder or a drill.....
more info found here. |
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| mitchell g |
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oh yeah, my brother was usin them on his xb, for a little, when he wanted to go wire wheel the hole car then decided to get crushed glass done instead
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Good stuff mate,
Im loving the passion you have for your Ghia. It's awesome. Can't wait to see what it will all end up like
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| mitchell g |
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thanks dude,
well while i was at school camp i found a manual conertsion last weekend and it finished last night and i didn't get back till this afternoon, some my mum was very nice and won if for me for a price of $360 came from an xg so i'll modife an el pedal box and this also means i have a 6 bolt fly wheel and i'm currently looking an el 98 xr6 ecu on ebay |
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