luke and kimmy's ek special - colour done, onto reassembly

matches · Post by **matches** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:33 am

parisian, yeah it sure is. he's only 15 months old and already has more mechanical knowledge than his dad

. but he's a great kid, and yes i am biased, but we'd rather him grow up outside doing something like playing around restoring cars instead of sitting infront of a computer or tv watching his health fade away. just got to finish my car then once we figure out if he's a holden, chrysler, or god forbid a F@#D boy we're going to buy him a real car to restore for his 18th.

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:16 pm

I feel the same way about my son also, Matches.I'd rather him muck around with cars as a father/son thing when he gets a bit older rather than get into the some of the other things some kids get up to.

I've got a few old car projects kept aside for him when he gets old enough to want a car.At the moment he's eyeing off one of my HQ's that I want!!

matches · Post by **matches** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:29 pm

fb mad, at least he's not eyeing off a falcon or something else in the street. best thing is he can get all dirty and greasy then hand him back to his parents

matches · Post by **matches** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:33 pm

hiya everyone, i was just playing around with some colour ideas and came up with this. what do you think?

matches · Post by **matches** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:44 pm

i finished rebuilding the gearbox and have fitted it up to my engine.

now i just need to get the car far enough along to fit it up.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:57 pm

Looks good Matches, have you got an EH sump n pickup so it will go in the EK? Trev

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matches · Post by **matches** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:01 pm

trev, yeah it's on the 186 thats still in the car at the moment. i'm just using the old engine to move the car around the yard while i'm working on it so i'm not ruining my hot engine.
i can't wait to get it in though. i want to hear how lumpy it is.
how do you figure out the 30/70 or 40/80 ect spec for a cam?
L&K

matches · Post by **matches** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:57 pm

hi guys and girls, finally been able to get a bit more done on zippo.
i've now stripped the roof back to bare metal, stipped out most of the interior (just need to go buy one of those door handle remover tool thingy's), removed front and back windscreens and hood lining.
the roof looks like someone danced a jig on it

so alot of smoothing and straightening to be done there, but at least its not rust

i'll post some pics as soon as they get uploaded onto photobucket.
L&K

matches · Post by **matches** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:14 pm

okay got pics

and one for ratbox that i promised i'd eventually post,
the diffent backs on ac and vdo speedo's

EKSPCL · Post by **EKSPCL** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:25 pm

Danced a jig

Michael Flatly would be happy with that effort

Nice work Matches

Finny · Post by **Finny** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:02 pm

Luke, keep going and it will look like mine. A shell with hundreds of bits in lots of different places.

You're even using the same type of garage I have.

I like the steering wheel too..

Keep going it will get there.

matches · Post by **matches** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:10 pm

thanks for the support, Finny, yeah it's starting to get like that........ dad's hating me for it as its at his place and filling up his yard

i like the wheel, it's also got a chrome domed horn cap for that real old skool look, i didn't want some new design looking wheel, its not jap crap after all, it's an ek!!
i got a fair bit more sanded back today and found that in its earlier days it's had a rather hard shunt in the rear and the repair wasn't too bad for how old it looks but it needs a bit of aligning, i'm glad i've got a good spare boot lid because whoever "fixed" it before got the gap aroung the boot by using an angle grinder

dors on the other hand are great, no rust and no repairs

both sills clean and rust free, just had to clean out a bucket full of red bulldust out of each one.

Luke.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:51 pm

Going well Luke

EK speedo in an FB dash

FB speedo in an EK dash

Crazy

matchew · Post by **matchew** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:25 pm

nice work so far, its ashame about the roof

, i was lucky enough that when i got mine down to bare metal that there wasnt one ding so im pretty happy

matches · Post by **matches** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:28 pm

craig, how do you determine which ones which?
are the ek ones vdo and fb ones ac?