I rolled it outside to grab some pics with everything fitted up. It still needs the seats bolted in and needs a good detail inside and out. Shame about this bad weather. Fingers crossed that the burnout comp doesn't get rained out tomorrow night...

Stockies on the back :)

Injected 5L in

Looks pretty mean!

Every night this week I've been getting home from work at 7pm and going straight out to the shed and working on the 'K till 12:30-1 in the morning. My good mate Dazza has been busting his ass to help me get this thing done by the weekend.

We dropped the engine in last weekend so this week we've been flat out hooking up all the auxiliaries. There was a few problems with the original wiring that Dazza found and fixed up and we've added heaps of new stuff in. We've fitted the AU thermos and tranny cooler from the wagon, borrowed my monster tacho and oil pressure warning setup from my torana. The warning lights from the computer were just hanging off the computer under the carpet, so Daz extended them and worked them into the factory dash - we used the EST warning light as the engine management light and wired in the original alternator warning light. We also mounted the diagnostic port inside the glovebox so that we can easily diagnose what's going on if I see the engine management light.

The alternator warning light is very important for burnout comps because it lets you know when you've thrown the belts off the engine!! That's exactly what happened to me in the last burnout comp in the wagon, but I didn't put it all together in my head because I was too busy doing a skid. This time it's burnt into my brain that if I see that light, I need to drive out of there because it's going to overheat very quickly! 

Tranny Cooler

Tranny Cooler

Pro Rachet

Yesterday we gave the car a bit of a cleanup and started going over it to sus out what needs doing. Dazza tidied up the engine bay wiring and we mounted up the map sensor and extra computer bits that these things run. 

Today Daz and me shoe-horned the motor in on our own. It's alot harder with the extractors than with the stock headers on it, but we managed to get everything mounted up. 

Before we put the motor in, we put a new set of plugs and leads on it, replaced the starter motor and one of the engine mounts. The old mount was completely torn off!! The best tear job I'd done yet! That's why I've always got a spare one handy because I'm always doing mounts in my cars.

So all the hard work is done now, but there's still a shit load of small stuff that needs doing.

About a month ago me and my mate Dazza entered the wagon in the Burnout Bonanza at WSID. We found some photos floating around the net but we haven't been able to find any videos of the event. Luckily one of our mates filmed both of our skids on his camera phone which is better than nothing. You can here my mates bagging us out in the background ;)

I did a quick edit job on the clips and stuck it on YouTube.

While I was stripping out the wagon I found some fithly bits of paper in the glovebox and decided to see what they were. It turned out that they were 2 year old timeslips from WSID.  There were 2 timeslips;

First run - 15.34 @ 91.73MPH

Second run - 14.72 @ 92.26MPH

To be honest high 14s is what I expected that the car would do which is still pretty respectable for a stock 5L. Although I found the timeslips in the glovebox I couldn't be sure if they were for that car because its not written anywhere on the slip.  So I had a look on Cackling Pipes and found a gallery from the meet that matched the timeslips. Sure enough, there's photos of the wagon exactly as it was the day I bought it.

It's really awesome to find out a bit of history of the wagon, even though it's going to be put to rest. Aparently the wagon had been entered in the Kandos Street Machine Burnout Comp one year. When I bought the car there was a massive dent in the rear quarter and the guy selling it told me that the previous owner had hit the barrier in that event. I'd love to find some pics or videos from that event to see how it went. I'm guessing that it would have been in either 2006 or 2007.

I didn't post up any info last week incase the deal fell through. So now that the car's mine, here she is!

Previous owner in burnout comp

The story behind the car is that the previous owner did it up as a burnout car. It ran an injected 304 with a Yella Terra top mount blower. He spent a fair bit of money setting it up properly for burnouts - rebuilt diff and box, burnout exhaust, big fuel system and so on. Anyway he damaged his engine and took it to get rebuilt and the builder ran off with his motor and his money (and I suspect some other parts off the car). So after getting done over hard the bloke gave up and stuck the rolling shell on ebay. When I saw this car on ebay I knew it was perfect for me because it fitted in with the parts that I have ready for the project (the wagon setup).

This car has everything that the wagon doesn't and everything thats missing, I have!

Here's the specs of the car;

• VK Sedan resprayed in 2pak oranage
• Set up for injected 5L - ready to bolt motor in and plug in
• Rebuilt diff with 4.5 gears and a mini spool (looks to be a salsbury, not sure on the axels etc)
• Rebuilt gearbox TH700 with Stage 1 shift kit + 2500rpm stally
• Surge tank in boot with big Bosch pump and 3/8" lines
• Pacemaker extractors with a twin 2.5" exhaust dumping to the back tyres
• Bonnet mount guages
  
• Battery relocated to boot
• VL calais interior
• Momo steering wheel
  

I'm going to transfer this stuff from the wagon into this shell;

• Engine 304i
• VT front brake conversion
• Radiator and thermos
• Tranny cooler
• B&M Pro Rachet shifter
• Battery

I'm going to rob my tacho out of my torry and the 17" clubby wheels from my VR.

The plan for this car is to do a seriously quick budget build and have a car that's cool enough to enter in car events and the muscle car cruises, but at the same time have a genuine street car that I can drive past the cops and not get screwed by them. I'm trying to go for the oposite to my torry.

The goal is to get this thing to the WSID Burnout Comp on the 6th of June. That's just under 2 weeks away!!

That's a fair bit of work to get done, but I'm confident that we'll make it to the comp. It won't be road worthy or registered by then, but once the comp has been and gone I'll be working to get the car ready for rego. 

Back at home, ready for heart transplant!

Surge Tank in the boot

Today we picked up the new project that I said that I was preparing for. The car was in Canberra and I'm in Sydney. My mate Duffy kindly offered to tow it for me with his beast of a Landcruiser. We hired the trailer last night and got everything ready. We started out at 6:30 this morning and by the time we dropped the trailer back and put the car away it was about 8:00pm, it's been a looooong day...  I can't be stuffed posting any info on the car tonight, I'll do it tomorrow!

Loading her up

Piss stop - check out the calais rear end

Anyone who's not blind will know that the wagon isn't all that easy on the eyes, but it does it's job – smashing tyres. The problem is that when its not in a burnout comp, it's sitting around taking up space looking ugly. When I bought the wagon it was registered but I hardly drove it because it didn't look like it should be on the road.. Driving around in a rattle can painted car with burnout damage and stockies on the back is asking for it! Especially with my driving record! The engine, box, brakes and cooling system are still really good, it's just the body thats rough.  So I've always had the idea of transferring the running gear into a nicer car and being able to drive it on the street. I've had my eye out for a while and looked at a few VK sedans in the last month but they've all needed too much work (gutted interiors, no glass etc). On Monday night I drove to Canberra after work to look at one that I found and I left a deposit on it. I'll post the info on that when I pick it up.

So this week me and my mates have been stripping down the wagon after work. We pulled the motor & box out yesterday.

Alot of people that I know refer to todays V8 Supercars series as the V8 Taxi's which I think is a bit harsh, but today I saw something to back that up. At lunchtime my office building had a visit from a real life V8 Supercar, that's right Craig Lowndes' 888 Falcon!

I found it funny how they drove it to the location in the rain and managed to get it up the very same driveway which prevents me from getting my own wannabe V8 Supercar into the carpark. This thing was a bog stock auto 6 XR Falcon — standard height, bars and interior topped off with some crappy gutter rashed mags and a chrome exhaust tip. 

Maybe it's the reccession or they just think people are getting stupider, but last year's mockup which I spotted on the way to the Bathurst 1000 was far more beleivable. That one almost had me convinced that it was the real deal until I looked under the rear end and saw the stock IRS setup. That thing was like 80mm from the ground, full cage, dipstick on the bonnet, Harrop race brakes and 17x10s all round! That mockup was worth drooling over. I only took a photo of the thing today so that we can all have a laugh at it.

Nice try and thanks for the free sausage sandwich but it's going to take more than a stock Ford with some poorly applied stickers on it to get me to switch phone providers!