I need a car to lug my tools etc around for the next year or so, so I found this bad girl for $500 unreg. 93 model NC Fairlane Ghia. It was completely stock with mudflaps, epic ride height and snowflakes
It has a few issues as you'd expect, ABS inop, LHF brake caliper works a lot better than the RHF, roof lining is borked, RHR window doesn't work, the paint is CACTUS and it doesn't have enough power to turn the tyres off a T intersection while it is raining.
However, it has an LSD, the interior is mint, I have lots of parts for it in the garage and the drivetrain is very quiet, smooth and brilliant to drive (bar the complete lack of power). The cruise works, I also get over 500km from a tank so it's great on fuel
Prob has 13psi fuel pressure or something haha. As soon as I picked it up I had a look around for some better wheels, which I got off revengelane for a reasonable price. I already had Rollin Motorsport sik kunt modified Koni red shocks in the garage from about 3 years ago that nobody ever wanted to buy off me, so they went in the front with half a coil taken off the stock springs, and I took the rear springs and shocks out of the ED to get the back sitting right. The ED will get new springs all round with shocks to match before it goes back on the road.
I also picked up a disassembled slightly water damaged AU VCT motor off another forum member which I am going to reassemble, and I'm not sure if I should stick it in this or not.
The AU motor came with 95% of the stuff required- all serpentine stuff, manifold, computer etc, and I've done one or two trips to the wreckers to get the rest. I believe I have all the parts to do a full VCT motor with matching computer etc into an e-series, but I'm not sure if I want to do it.
Every hour I spend working on this car is an hour probably better spent on the ED :/ But it would be very cool to do a fully functional engine swap. I'm in a pickle.
What would a complete running AU VCT motor with all supporting hardware be worth? Probably more by itself than the value of this car with the motor fitted lol.
Anyway, this thread is useless without pics!
Soon after lowering, note dodgy hanging bumper
Nice fixed bumper
What is the best way to spend my money and time? Logic says build the VCT motor and ebay it for 11ty profits, but my natural idiocy and addiction to unnecessary pain is leaning very much towards putting the VCT motor in...
