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Small update "other" crossmember painted up and installed yes this bit looks shit, not sure if I'm gonna paint it or not.. my nice clean box.. mmm tappet cover, before.. deffo going black, that looks pretty sweet.. going satin black block, head and half inlet manifold, gloss for tappet, and silver/polished alloy for other stuff, prob shouldn't waste my money but I feel I need to for some reason..

luckily I have a few parts around, although the parts are mostly average, but it's hard to find mint stuff.. actually it's not I just sold one for $600 haha.. Damnit!

I hate that shit, thats exactly what I did when it came to putting my "RX5" diff in.. the only problem was it was from a crown and the rx diff was never down the side of my house, but in a toyota carib wreck on a mates farm in loburn that his parents sold 10 years ago.. *fuck

awesome bro, pm me your cell no, and I'll get in contact

A guy was wrecking two 121's here in chch, but they both went to the crushers about 2 months ago as well.. I managed to score some parts before they went but forgot about the front chassis strut as mine is bent.. what sort of parts are you after?

I just bought a compressor off TM and may need it to be picked up and held till Feb 2nd , if the seller isnt interested in holding it for me.. any local GC's willing?

ok, got the front off today, as I already knew it had been in a prang at some point i was expecting some "things".. I'm not really sure how the beaters managed to get everything back on and looking straight coz the nose cone is fucked.. glad a bought one when I did.. so I'm going to paint the front good valance panel, nose cone, bonnet and plenum cover satin black so I don't have to fuck around trying to match a "so 90's" colour.. also cleaned up the cross member and painted it as its better than the other one I was gonna use.. put my p/s bracket on a diet as its big and heavy, painted it black but now it makes the blue and red engine look naf.. if I can be arsed I might consider painting the whole engine black with some chromed, polished and silver coated ancillarys,, see how I go.. anyway time for a pic dump..... p/s bracket removing front.. this rail strut is supposed to be straight some shots comparing two nose cones.. someone else thinks so too these, should look like these, comparison of valance panel,

haha.. I think you have a hole in your exhaust..

Busted thrashing round Governers bay this afternoon with no windows.. naughty naughty..

I'll be trying for the 3rd.. see how I go..

yeah, thats about happen with two of the cars i kept all those years, if I actually manage to sell them.. but i guess the money goes to a good cause, cars are an expensive hobby haha

Ok, been a while since my last update, spent 3 months in auckers shop fitting, no real time to come to a meat, then a wedding in aus+xmas/nys=no time to do anything. Meanwhile in that period, scored a good bonnet and nose cone off a guy in kaiapoi, also another f/ma with a flywheel (finally), a power steering column with proper firewall shroud. Just today got my flywheel back from being lightened and my pressure plate converted to a holden 1 ton plate.. no slippage now,all good. This afternoon pulled the old f/ma and auto, found out that Isuzu MU's apparently have the same shock I need to captivate my rears, have yet to confirm this but preliminary examinations of my old ladys truck seem to confirm it. Plan for the rest of the week is to get the other engine and box in, get the shocks sorted, get the painted cross member in and do up all the tie rod etc bolts... and some fishing.... pics good chunk of metal off the back sides trimmed a bit one ton plate

are you on any of the aussie ford sites?

I'll just put the fastest "running" one down hahaha.. Your car: xc fairmont wagon model/year etc: 1976 engine: 351c performance mods done to car: umm.. ICE ignition< TFC manilfold, mighty demon carb, 302 2V heads, 224/234@.50 cam just to name a few 0-60mph Time: 5.6sec

Nah, facebook.. have you had a look at dramas he's had restoring his xc fairmont coupe?

Hey bro johnny off aussiecoupes wants you to answer your pm's hahaha....

Yeah? that would be great.. Where are you guys located?

Not to the classic horn decal no, but he apparently had a couple of different ones.. I'm awaiting more conformation

I asked around on another site and they seem to think it could be a McLeod Horn car.. they are renowned for their "wild" decals, a good piece of ford motoring history http://www.aus-ford-uk.co.uk/html/spoilers_-_horn_cars.html

your selling?..

Is it a factory 302? could be a superbird.. gt ford performance (fomoco.com.au) have decal kits for early falcons.. you could also enquire on aussiecoupes or fordforums.com.au they have a wealth of info..

Yeah, thats the problem I think I'll have

Yeah sorry, I should have been more specific.. I need my standard flywheel lightened. Anyone know of a place?

Well, finally got hold of an F/MA flywheel for my 121, its a little on the obese side so I was wondering if anyone can recommend me a machinist down here that would be willing to take a bit of meat of a standard flywheel.. Cheers, Thomas

Ok, defitting another shop and have 12 chrome finish 150w metal halide lights to swap for beer(or just take for nothing).. not sure if anyone wants them as the bulbs are about 80 bucks each(5 have blown bulbs), just thought I'd offer them anyway as they were about 200 each and we're throwing then in the bin.. let me know within the next couple of days and I'll put them aside.. 021508073 No cabinetry this time sorry..