Dezza's 1990 EAII Ghia & 2000 AUII Fairmont

by **Dezza** » January 27th, 2010, 6:07 pm

I haven't really updated this in a while because not a lot has really happened. Basically late last year I hit the big 300,000km mark

A few random pics of my car along the Licola-Jamieson Rd. Shortly after I got lost

How the EA will look in 2 years time:

Basically I've done 2 mods since the last update. Firstly I got sick of the bright white indicator, dark headlight combo so modded the indicators for a darker appearance. It was a bit of a failed mod as I cracked both lenses so I'll heat up another set and hopefully the lens' seperate a bit nicer! The second mod is I managed to score a silver EB bonnet after Kev spotted one on ebay. The condition's about 50x better than the previous EA bonnet and I reckon it gives it a sleeker appearance. I also got a pair of superlow front springs but I haven't gotten around to fitting them yet, so the front ride height still looks crap

A few pics that Allen took of mine and his cars:

by **SnyperEB** » January 27th, 2010, 6:10 pm

Looking pretty good these days Dezza!!

by **Amon** » January 27th, 2010, 6:14 pm

just needs to b dumped and ull b laughin dez

by **kocho** » January 27th, 2010, 6:40 pm

looks nice dezza i am with amon just drop it more

by **Phillis** » January 27th, 2010, 6:51 pm

and a BBM conversion :mrgreen:

something about the ass of this car that i love...

by **LOW_XR** » January 27th, 2010, 6:57 pm

lol cut ultra's dez! you know you wana!

by **Dezza** » January 27th, 2010, 6:59 pm

Phillis wrote:and a BBM conversion

something about the ass of this car that i love...

Cheers everyone.

The BBM is on my current list of planned mods... as well as re-lowering it. I'm aiming to have the front superlows in before AFD, and Dylan, just no

by **Amon** » January 27th, 2010, 7:17 pm

i got a set of ultra lows if u want em :p

by **Dezza** » January 27th, 2010, 8:00 pm

Amon wrote:i got a set of ultra lows if u want em :p

haha. I'll only consider ultras when I retire it from daily duties (and then I'll probably go a bit more wild and put bags under it). Supers should do me fine for now

by **Phillis** » January 27th, 2010, 8:22 pm

ultras for AFD.

scotty and dylan agree.

by **Dezza** » January 27th, 2010, 8:49 pm

Phillis wrote:ultras for AFD.

scotty and dylan agree.

Haha. I'd leave for AFD, and wouldn't even make it out of my driveway before beaching it!

by **LUXO_8** » January 27th, 2010, 9:03 pm

definantly ultras dezza....

by **67rce** » January 27th, 2010, 9:11 pm

Dezza wrote:
Phillis wrote:ultras for AFD.

scotty and dylan agree.

Haha. I'd leave for AFD, and wouldn't even make it out of my driveway before beaching it!

Park on teh road!

by **Dezza** » January 27th, 2010, 9:18 pm

Haha damn you all!

by **Allen** » January 27th, 2010, 9:22 pm

Pics came out good Dez, I'll email you the rest at full res once my broadband kicks back in... 56k sucks

I lol'd hard at the 2012 prediction, I was seriously expecting to see a pic of a shmick EA or something

Please tell me you perfected powerslides along Licola-Jamieson Rd, it looks made for it!

by **Dezza** » January 27th, 2010, 9:28 pm

Allen wrote:Pics came out good Dez, I'll email you the rest at full res once my broadband kicks back in... 56k sucks

I lol'd hard at the 2012 prediction, I was seriously expecting to see a pic of a shmick EA or something

Please tell me you perfected powerslides along Licola-Jamieson Rd, it looks made for it!

Thanks for that Allen. I must admit I did get wheelspin a few times along that road but the corrugations were pretty off-putting

by **BenJ** » January 27th, 2010, 10:21 pm

Hey Dezza

Front indicators look the goods. They are a pain to get apart in one piece, but you will get there.

Hurry up and put the S/Low springs in. You will be much happier once that is done.

Cheers
BenJ

by **Schmee** » January 27th, 2010, 11:03 pm

looking good Dezza....glad you got that bonnet much better looking with no badge

by **pHaT`eL** » January 28th, 2010, 4:58 pm

Looks tidy as

Im a big fan of those indicators too!

Superlows and Pedders shocks in the front

by **Dezza** » January 28th, 2010, 5:13 pm

Thanks fellas. Kev, I couldn't be happier with the bonnet. That was a good find so thanks mate. Pete and Ben, yeah, I reckon the indicators have potential. They just need non-cracked lenses! As for the superlows they'll go in when I have time. I haven't really had a full weekend at home for about the past month (and knowing me, I'll stuff something up and need the full weekend to swap the springs over!)

by **Dezza** » February 26th, 2010, 4:22 pm

A few new photos of the car at All Ford Day. We did relower the front and while it came down a bit, we'll try to get it lower again. I also modded a 2nd set of indicators. This time they are genuine XR so they have parkers in them. This time I didn't crack them but somehow got moisture in them when I washed the car which explains why they're slightly fogged up. They look good now though and are a lot better than the first attempt. There are also some big changes coming in the next week or two so stay tuned for new updates

by **KR1STO** » February 26th, 2010, 5:09 pm

looks great mate...
any hints on what's coming?

by **Dezza** » February 26th, 2010, 5:16 pm

KR1STO wrote:looks great mate...
any hints on what's coming?

The only thing I'll say is they're mechanical, and friends on facebook will probably be well aware I'm useless at keeping secrets

by **BenJ** » February 26th, 2010, 5:23 pm

The EA is looking Fabulous!!!!

My indicators also fog up. I already had drilled a small 3mm hole in the bottom to allow any water to drain out.

Cheers
BenJ

by **Dezza** » February 26th, 2010, 5:37 pm

BenJ wrote:The EA is looking Fabulous!!!!

My indicators also fog up. I already had drilled a small 3mm hole in the bottom to allow any water to drain out.

Cheers
BenJ

Good to know I'm not the only one! The old ones were even worse, so I made sure I went nuts with the sicaflex sealing up every possible place it could leak... and it still fogs up! Go figure

by **ed40** » February 26th, 2010, 9:18 pm

Mint car mate.
Nice work

by **travs ea-xr6** » February 26th, 2010, 9:39 pm

looking good dezza,what springs you got in her atm?

by **Dezza** » February 28th, 2010, 3:57 pm

travs ea-xr6 wrote:looking good dezza,what springs you got in her atm?

Basically since my superlows turned out to be lows, these are lows minus half a coil :lol:

Despite this, they feel pretty much the same as they did before, so we haven't stuffed them
I'm not aiming for dropped on its guts, just want it sitting flat, with the front sitting more similar to the back

by **Phillis** » February 28th, 2010, 4:04 pm

*sniff sniff* i smell boosting...

by **Dezza** » February 28th, 2010, 4:12 pm

Phillis wrote:*sniff sniff* i smell boosting...

All I smell is oil dripping on my exhaust

by **Dezza** » March 8th, 2010, 9:00 pm

Well, big news. At 307,580km, the 3.9 litre was retired. To say it was leaking a lot of oil is a major understatement, and with a broken timing chain guide, it sounded like it was going to explode. So I booked it into Kev's, and him and Bomber put in a fresher EL motor with about half the kms. At the same time they replaced a gearbox seal, an engine mount, and put BBM on. With the difficult weather they did well to get it back on the road, and it feels fantastic.

The old 3.9. We're going to remove the serp gear off it then the engine will be scrapped

The new 4.0 litre, with the rocker cover off the old engine. It needs a clean and we'll put new leads on during the week but it's a nice change

by **misk** » March 8th, 2010, 9:08 pm

looked good when i dropped into kevs on the weekend.
ill bet its a nice change over the EA motor, i noticed you had a nice pool of oil in the intake

lol

by **Dezza** » March 8th, 2010, 9:10 pm

misk wrote:looked good when i dropped into kevs on the weekend.
ill bet its a nice change over the EA motor, i noticed you had a nice pool of oil in the intake lol

Has a bit more power, and there was oil everywhere! I took the airbox off a few weeks ago and drove around with no intake! So who knows how much crap it sucked into the old engine

by **misk** » March 8th, 2010, 9:13 pm

i noticed when changing from my EB engine to EF that it didnt really have loads more power, but it just revved alot cleaner and was a much smoother engine.
you would have picked up a bit or torque n shit down low from the BBM also, so id imagine it would be a bit more fun to bang around in lol
but yeah, the old engine was very tired look, looked like it had been painted black inside haha

by **huggiebear** » March 8th, 2010, 9:15 pm

Dezza wrote:

looking at this pic, have you thought about grabbing a spare panel and painting the surround around the c-pillar cover in colour code silver? seen it done in white and i think it will look great on your car

by **Dezza** » March 8th, 2010, 9:22 pm

misk wrote:i noticed when changing from my EB engine to EF that it didnt really have loads more power, but it just revved alot cleaner and was a much smoother engine.
you would have picked up a bit or torque n shit down low from the BBM also, so id imagine it would be a bit more fun to bang around in lol
but yeah, the old engine was very tired look, looked like it had been painted black inside haha

One thing about the old engine, it did feel like it had more power than most 3.9s. But it certainly wasn't as smooth as the new motor.

huggiebear wrote:
Dezza wrote:looking at this pic, have you thought about grabbing a spare panel and painting the surround around the c-pillar cover in colour code silver? seen it done in white and i think it will look great on your car

I've thought about it. Might paint some up just to see how it looks. If it looks crap, I can always put it back to the black

by **UNEZED** » March 8th, 2010, 9:30 pm

or just grab a spare c-piller centre part n spray it black or get some black ones would look good with window tint
thats what i was gonna do on my old ed

by **huggiebear** » March 8th, 2010, 9:33 pm

na i think black c-pillars look crap unless the car is black, but thats just my opinion

by **Dezza** » March 8th, 2010, 9:46 pm

nah, they'll stay silver. I originally thought of the black but decided against it

by **travs ea-xr6** » March 8th, 2010, 10:06 pm

good stuff dezza,finally got the bbm setup on it now

you running el manual ecu atm?
you running the thermos off the ecu now?

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