Measuring up front seats. . .

New seats for the front of the wagon have been carefully chosen and put in place with Corey being used as a dummy, I mean the dummy? It's good having Corey in town so that the front buckets can be fitted as required by his 'smaller' frame. As said previously, the seats had to be chosen very carefully because of the size of the transmission tunnel and the added requirement that the whole exhaust is going to be housed in there as well as the tailshaft. Donor seats are from a Mazda 929 and will be re-covered in period style tan leather. . .

A man and his car. . .

With Corey living and working out of Townsville, he is only able to get down to see his 'pride and joy' every couple of months, so when he see's it in the flesh he gets a big surprise and his happiness shows! For those of you who know Shetland, you know that he's only 4'2" at the shoulder, so this picture makes for one low-slung beast that he's leaning on. Just as a gentle reminder, the rear has to come down another two inches to make it 110mm ride height and the front has to be wound down about 6inches at this stage. Crazy man ridin' a crazy horse. . .

In goes the tail-shaft. . .

I love this pic with the car sitting so low, bare in mind that it still has 2inches to be lowered at the rear. Front is around 4inches high at the moment.

Shortened VE tail-shaft fitted in place, the shaft had to be shortened from both ends so that it the centre bearing was equally spaced from both ends. . .

Tail-shaft joining up with the diff. At this stage the body is sitting on top of the diff and a special 'hat' has to be moulded into the floor so that the car can be lowered into its correct position. . .

Steering column. . .

This is a picture of the old steering column that has now been brought up to modern standards. The base of the column has been honey-combed so that it will collapse in case of an accident and the inside shaft has been replaced with a unit from an XD Ford. The modern internal shafts have a sliding telescopic fit so that they will also collapse forward in case of a collision. . .




Notice anything missing from the back of the gearbox? Yeah, the bloody tail shaft. Local diff builder decides to piss off to Surfer's for a weeks holidays and then tries to blame his workers for not sending it while he was away. . .full of shit!

Up and running. . .

Corey's wagon up on the hoist for another inspection. Michael (engineer) keeps a close eye on proceedings and works hand in hand with Hodgey so there are no surprises or expensive make-overs at the end of the build. Michael is happy with the progress and work is allowed to flow onto the next step. . .

V6 Conversions front end looks good and works well but anyone considering buying one should be prepared for 'little' problems. . .

About time. . .

About time, it's taken ages to get the power steering rack into the front end of the EH. V6 Conversions will only recommend a VR/VS power rack for their EH front ends and they "Bolt straight in." Pigs bloody arse they bolt straight in, they are 4inches too long on each end. Four inches, I'd hate to see what the idiots thought six inches looked like? Anyway, good friend and super tradesman, Kenny Clarke was given the job of fixing the mess. . .

Dave The Awesomenator hard at work fitting the under dash brake power booster and main cylinder. Not an easy job when it goes in the same place as the steering column and guage cluster. . .

Trial fit of the brake booster up under the dash, that's Dave's nearly bald head that you can see in the pic. Best wishes to Dave's lovely wife, Mrs Awesomenator who had to have major surgery today. Some say that it was to remove all the bullshit thats built up in her ears over the years of being with Dave, but others have said it wasn't as serious an operation as that. Whatever, we all wish her the very best and a speedy recovery. . .

Back on its own wheels. . .

Have a look at this picture folks. Hodgey sent a quick snap-shot off to Street Machine and within 1 hour it had gone 'viral', yep well over 700 likes in the first hour!
Anyway, she looks stunning sitting down there on her own rubber, but, and this is a bloody big but, she still has another 40mm or an inch and a half in the old language lower to go! Yep she's currently sitting at 160mm and Hodgey has chosen 110-120mm as the safe ride height for this old girl AND that will include full suspension travel! This is one wild ride that you all should be subscribed to because this is gonna be one incredibly insane, fully engineered, street marrauder. . .