The Bronze

Went into Waikumete Auto Upholstery today for a chat and ballpark on getting my seats and door cards unfucked, old fella in there was talking about some guy with a crown, said i knew what he was talking about and he just kicked off on how amazingly built it is. Well played. When are you putting it in shows and winning all the prizes?

Anyone daytripping from AK tomorrow? mega-broke, but feel i kinda should go anyway.

sick, truly sick.

Congrats on scoring something that'll potentially turn out mega-fucking-ace. No pressure then...

Must've been you bro. I always smile. Dont take pics of Camaros and you'll be sweet. They all look the same anyway. Will go down at some point for an indeterminate amount of time. The bonehead factor is too much for an extended stay.

I hear ya... not my first time at this rodeo... We're going that way/time because attentionwhore mates. /greybeard

I am doing a late run (around 10.30am) up, out of Te Atatu North

Over the weekend I got the head deck in, and the 6x9s running, they'll do for now because mounting the fronts is gonna be a prick. I'm putting the woofers under the dash and putting the tweeters up under the headlining but need to make a special mount for the woofers coz they're heavy and room is scarce. For such a huge car there's f.all room for stuff. Based on sound so far, will probably can them later on. Of course that's after cutting a hole in the parcel tray... Also apprehensive about putting holes through my firewall so ppussied out on connecting up the amp.

Yeah that makes sense too. Mono because of soundstaging. Want stuff to sound like it's in the right spot so those will fill without fucking stereo effect? Front amping makes sense too. Probably a better idea for sound hierarchy. Thanks.

So, i've assembled a bit of this and that stereo wise and am about to put into my Galaxie. The main stumbling bit i want sense checked is filling the two factory 6x9 slots. My plan is to run them both mono, as such i plan wiring them up as shown on the diagram. Will it work? Amps will run off the head deck pre-outs. Front speakers from the head deck speakers. Does the rest of my plan make sense? Thank you very much.

Funny I was looking at those hotwires the other day and then territory turbo searching this morning after reading this thread noticed it was the same vendor. both of those things would make my xb perfect. so much tyrekick right now.

i love the idea of putting one in my xb, much cooler than a V8, but the price, and cutting up a low kms grandad spec car puts me off.

so you gonna flick the terraturbo or save it for another project?

Bags the pre-xflow if/when you go that way. I just binned a 4.1 block and bits month or so ago, was suitable for a rebuild, stink luck.

yeah, daytrip for me.

that paint job would be supreme restored. crossflow six?

Anyone doing this Sunday? I might actually make this one.

I got some for my XE from Ford, I got some for my XB from trademe. tried rarespares?

I've got a flaring kit and decent pipe benders. In Sunnyvale by hendo. Not a pro but done a few that don't leak, happy to show you what youtube taught me.

If you don't mind saying, what sorta money did it set you back? You don't get them over here, but I have an early falcon or ranchero Ute on my 'one day's list and most realistically it'd be importing one from oz.

More metalflake. That is the only answer to this question. Have a taco and mull it over. You'll see that it's right soon enough.

How have I not seen this was snapped up by an oldschooler before? I love that car, supreme colour and interior, perfect daily. Rumour has it chrome door handles break less; might try it when the latest ones shit out. Done 2 on my drivers door in 2 years.

Gold looks sweeeet. It's not something most people would do but that's why I quite like it. bellflower kustom.

New belts for the power-steering and alternator today. The alternator belt has been squealing like a small pig for a while, was the wrong width, now it's not. That's all the news there is really.

So, mainly I've just been driving this with a mis-timed motor and disfunctional windscreen squirters. I know right? Dodgy. So I spent Saturday pulling apart the old washer motor and retrofitting a super pumpy new motor from repco. I diligently and carefully dremeled out a perfect circle in the old mount, and subtlely rewired and replumbed the lines so that the new unit would fit discretely inside the body that housed the old unit and look legit, but with modern functionality. So the very last stage was refitting the alloy/tin cover over the whole unit. In taking it off one of the tabs had snapped due to being old brittle metal. in refitting it the other tabs went. So, all in vain really. Oh, and adjusted the timing, so much nicer. Need to re adjust that mixture again.