Quote: Originally Posted by ENVMYVL [View Post] hey jsobey i like what you did to the wagon it has given me some idea on what to do to my wagon.. when you moved your fuse box to inside the car did you have remove anything for it to fit it in under the dash & another thing where did you place your place your battery in the wagon?? all good thats what its all about - getting ideas out there. um well thats a good question. the engine wiring from the fuse box that runs up and over the fire wall (engine side) with the factory clips. i just found a way to run that on the inside of the fire wall. its quite tidy and was kinda easy too (as everything just wanted to sit there like it was factory) i might try get some pics for u this weekend. the only thing i have running out of the grommet for the factory fuse box is the air flow meter wiring. ive run the head light wiring in each inner gard. had to make a new hole just under the aerial hole for that tho. the battery is just behind the right hand rear tyre. i havnt finished that part yet as im undecided ( and fussy as hell) of where to put the battery. ive got few options which ill worry about later.

looking good man didnt know this thread existed

That wagz like a family member Looks good

Quote: Originally Posted by PSIWPN NZ [View Post] looking good man didnt know this thread existed yeah i no i was ment to put it under the nz section lol. thats also the reason why the link is my sig ---------- Post added 13-09-12 at 20:51 ---------- Quote: Originally Posted by Turismo [View Post] That wagz like a family member Looks good yep it sure is. i have a family of them to go with everyone elses family Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Slight up date... Got oil feed kit sent during week. Just need to sort out right lengths and bits and bobs. Mate has got exhaust manifold and turbo to make up dump pipe and that part of exhaust. Pictures to come. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

update: got my turbo, manifold, and down piping back the other day.. just deciding how to set up waste gate piping. just started fitting it back on. so last up date got oil feed kit and found some fittings and the length of the feed line was way to short. got it shorterend with new crimp fitting on it and longer drain pipe at same time. here some pics of fitting it up. dummied up the last part of the intercooler piping couple of weeks ago to look like this.. and got it back from my awesome cuzzen who welded it up for me cheers bruv and looks like this.. ---------- Post added 12-05-13 at 17:46 ---------- sorry pressed sent to fast... the last bit of cooler piping looks like this.. im not going to leave the BOV at that length so dont panic. going to shorten it down as i need. enjoy Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Hi all. Sorry about not posting for quite some time. My pc crashed and havnt bening able to up load pics off my phone or pad until now (hopfully if she works haha) Ok so after moving houses a few times and storing her here there & everywhere. Ive finally got her parked up at a good place where I can under take some hard work. There is quite a bit of rust around the windscreen so ive taken the screen out. Didnt take as long as expected. All I used was a large blade knife, flat head screew driver and some old window regulator steel cable I had lien aroound. First I just tried to cut out the seal with the knife so I could insert the cable. Then I just used the cable to cut around the screen. I must confess but I did stuff it up. I cut the top of the dash while I was trying to cut along the bottom of the screen. Thats what I get for trying to work to fast and alone. Sorry I dont have any pics with the screen in. So got the screen out.... haha yep thats me being an egg standing inside So screens out and ive gone around the screen and top of A pillars with a stripping wheel to check out whats underneath. So far it doesnt look too bad. Im hoping this weekend ill be able to start cutting away the bad stuff to find good steel to weld to. Ill post some more pics tomorrow night. Out Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

So tried to strip all the paint and rust back and this is how it looks... I've decided to take the gards off and give the hole front end a good clean up/smooth and paint up Also while the gards are off and she's all jacked up I've got some lil goodies on the way from Aussie... Will show later this month mayb early next month when they arrive can't wait! But yeah plans at the moment will be to remove the engine. Not sure weather to remove the complete sub frame and just drop the motor to do the engine bay. Might be easier to just remove the complete subframe... What's the thoughts? Cheers Jono Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Keep up the good work! Rust repairs don't look fun Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Thanks. Yeah first real go at this kind of thing. I'm lucky as to have my cuzzie on site and he's a engineer to give some advice every now and then Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Finally got a little package from Aussie I found them at a reasonable price with free shipping within Aussie. Got it sent to my lovely sister who then sent it over. Here's some pics. Will try dumby them up this weekend and post further pics again. That's all for now Regards Jono Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

have done some work on this lately. just trying to up load some photos off my phone but its not working and being annoying. so have taken windscreen out and started taking bottom cowl panel\rust panel off from the bottom of the screen. Removed the panel with out to much problems. drilled holes on the spot weld marks and got it to pop off quite easy. got a new panel from rare spears in Christchurch. arrived all good packaged all good. lined it up with the guards and bonnet back on. had to bend the corners up a little to get it to line up correctly. got it to line up all ok.... with my master cuzzens help! Hayden. he the man! He welded it up for me because I didn't trust myself. Also got some other holes welded up around the place. Now I got to grind stuff away and make it sweet for paint. I'm thinking before getting it painted is remove the engine and\or sub frame to get the bar painted also. going to try again to get the photos uploaded because I no everyone loves looking at pictures instead of reading this long stuff haha. until next time... peace ---------- Post added 01-10-14 at 23:10 ---------- ok so I think I got the pictures to work. yeah so that's all the pics I have at the moment. going up to work on her this weekend and have fixed my camera so will be more pics to be up loaded soon again that's all for now peace. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

well my old girl has a new place of home now. have moved from the old farm barn we were in. now at my parents place in the middle of no where only bad thing is its soooo far away to work on it as I live in the city. ive got couple of days off up here now so hopefully I can get going on her and ill post every evening to show progress here is her new place. hopefully tomorrow I can whip out the engine and box... undecided yet weather or not to just drop the complete sub frame or not.... reason for doing all this is to get the paint job all good in the engine bay. suggestions? Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

If you're going to take the subframe out, 1. You will have to get the front end up high enough to clear the engine 2. Do you have another means to move the car around or is that where its staying ? In my experience its very easy to take motor and box out as one then you cann remove what you want out of the bay. Most people just tape the steering rack up to avoid stray paint.

Quote: Originally Posted by priceysVL [View Post] If you're going to take the subframe out, 1. You will have to get the front end up high enough to clear the engine 2. Do you have another means to move the car around or is that where its staying ? In my experience its very easy to take motor and box out as one then you cann remove what you want out of the bay. Most people just tape the steering rack up to avoid stray paint. great questions.... did it today any way... went all good. now I can paint up the sub frame and be happy... Pics to come ---------- Post added 28-12-14 at 21:51 ---------- so did quite a lot today. engine out... paint taken back to metal on some parts of the engine bay. ended up taking the engine and sub frame out as one. heres some pictures... got some acc for my go pro so took all the pics on that. took the piss with a new selfie stick got for xmas haha have a laugh at these.... sooo thankful for old mans big grinder as it makes getting to metal a lot easier my little helper.... shes tired... been following me around everywhere and chasing sheep... (shes a city dog so I brought her out for a couple of days) Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Solid days work

awesome work .....looks like i need to get my A into G !

Lol@ selfie stick They dont take a bad pic haha good progress

haha when I saw some memes on facebook about them been 2014 xmas present I laughed so hard! well sorry not much of an update today... stuffed my back late yesterday and had to zoom off to the city to get it sorted. no lifting or hard work with it sucks cos im not the one to just sit and chill Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

looking good man, keep it up