ITS GREEEEEN

[blue meanie]

Sundowner.man you do some WILD work .wanna work on my van? will pay air fares or pettie

[Sundowner]

Cheers man but i dont wanna work on another transit for the rest of my existance

Sorry

[blue meanie]

now how did i know you,d say that .oh well worth a try and i just picked up an XF Ghia for parts.looks like disc rear a happening thing.allso needed x member and sump for my old tow car[gave it a good belt on tuesday ]so will be throwing spanners and expletives about later today

[madmax]

so Sundowner i think that means you wont help with V8 convertion either.. lol

Also Blue i know what you mean as the work goes on more & bigger things get thrown!

[blue meanie]

your bang on the money with that coment Mad Max.i have a feeling big things will be thrown this arvo.im just procrastinating with the help of the forum

[Sundowner]

so Sundowner i think that means you wont help with V8 convertion either.. lol

Also Blue i know what you mean as the work goes on more & bigger things get thrown!

Im happy to help from my nice comfy ford racing computer chair

[Sundowner]

Now i know i said the next time you see the engine bay it will be all nice and green and new looking, well i lied

Progress is at a minimum but some is better than none, appart from gathering engine parts like alloy heads roller rockers HUGE cam shaft and other bits to draw several hundred horses from my 460 I have been slowly stripping the bay of all paint filling holes and smoothing out bumps

Heres a rehash of what it looked like, rusty ruff and nasty looking



stripped of all bits some holes welded up battery tray gone and braced around the hole



This is after all paint was removed ( i got no bare shots) holes filled and smoothed steering box mount blended into body and filling around the "engine hole"

The black paint is this brilliant stuff call vinyl etch and it realy bites into the bare metal, if you have taken your ride back to bare put this stuff on first you wont regret it


As it sits 2 coats of high fill now 2 more to go on tomorrow, then give it a wet rub and fix any imperfections then its green time



Power steering box mount looks like its meant to be there

[Luke]

great to see an update again i had wondered how you were getting on superb work as usual

[madmax]

What not finished yet??? why not?? lol.. na just joking cant wait to see it in colour and with that 460 thumpin away in there..

Cheers
Daz

[Sundowner]

Cheers

luke i havnt seen any pics of your van lately how it going??

And Daz that new comfort zone looks sweet as, did you go to the south coast nats?? And do you have any vids from the previous years

[madmax]

Na missed out on the South coast nats, just got the van out of the audio mans shop thursday. i have a few photos from a few years ago but no video.. sorry tho a friend was going to send me some of his videos so i will chace him up.. and send a copy to you..

[Sundowner]

Cool im after vids of 2001 and 2003 burnout comps im trying to get some footage of cars i entered but no longer own

[pete_the_4x4]

looking good nice to see a proper engine being used

[Sundowner]

looking good nice to see a proper engine being used

Haha yeah as opposed to these little rover V8's I didnt see the point of fitting a V8 that was smaller than the factory 6

[pete_the_4x4]

hit the nail on the head there would be ok as a wiper motor i guess