A labour of love and frustration // Ford EB wagon build

[heef]

1991 Ford EB Falcon GL wagon.

I brought this thing a while ago because I had spare cash moneys and I buy cars when I'm bored/annoyed/depressed/horny.



Basically it was a heap, but cheap, with rego and new tyres.

Even though I told myself I wasn't going to touch it apart from maintenance/stereo it hadn't even been dropped off before I'd ordered clear front/side indicators



Then I couldn't live with the pinstripes anymore so I broke out the hair dryer and blade.



To anyone who hasn't done this before, it's an incredibly slow and tedious task and I got so frustrated and annoyed with it I actually went out brought another this.



Here are some random photos of it.











Most of those were taken up at my parents on an iPhone5.

Anyway, fast forward a few months the maintenance was getting ontop of me, i'd been flat out at work and it was almost undriveable, so I pop off the front left wheel to do a bearing and discover this.



/headdesk. I knew the front was lowered but it drove way too well for me to suspect cuts. Oh well, they're going.

Then the motor was at it's end, that made me depressed so I brought this.



Did this.



Then this.



Tadaaa.



With way more stuffing around than I intended. The motor that actually made it's way in is another motor I got given, long story but the head off the red car's motor is getting sent to a mates shop soon for work.

Anyway, I'd never thought of bothering to try and fit this thing as they're a prick and I couldn't be bothered but then I swapped a clutch cable for a set of 35mm spacers, so then, naturally..





But it's still not running, which made me depressed so I agreed to buy this



So I'm in the process of finding the right wheels. These cars are either typically slammed with massive rear rake and poorly fitting 19s/20s or have bright coloured, Mexican fitting Rotas so I'm really hoping to be the first to do a decent, gentleman's E series.. Plus no-one has bothered trying to fit an E series wagon so I'm hoping to set a trend.. Anyway, thanks for looking and I'll update when I find wheels

[99sil-teg]

Haha, very entertaining so far, love when people mess with something that is not the norm, keep it up!

[Nick475]

Haha you are crazy man. I definitely like what you are going for with this

[heef]

Cheers guys! I'm basically stuck with E series Falcons, I brought one when I was 17, learnt a bit about them, killed it, learnt more and now everything else just doesn't appeal to me, they're slow, ugly, hard to make turn corners, ugly, rusty and majority of people who own them these days are oxygen thieves.. Buuuuut, what can you do? Haha..

Got a few mates with spare wheels willing to lend so I can sus how I want mine to sit but it's like minimum 40' Celsius here all week.. And I have two air conditioners.. So, don't expect anything but text until then, but you never know. :P

[heef]

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[heef]

I think I found the wheels I want



A mate is selling his collection to fund buying a house, 17x9 +26 Iirc will be almost flush. Buuut the $1100 price is a bit out of my range. I'll have to see what I can do.

[TheTynosaur]

I love when something different shows up on here, and I love those wheels

[heef]

Cheers man, I can already tell people here are going to **** it (pretty much anyone who is into these runs these wheels



Don't look too bad, but are poorly fitting and overused)

And I'll be critisised for doing something different.

And although I **** the use of words like '******' to talk about people with a difference of opinion.. Bring it on.

[heef]

Just a quick mess around on falconbuilder.net
This is basically my idea, with other wheels and slightly pumped guards.. But about this low, static.

[heef]

So this happened..



They're a shitty +42 offset but I'll just get new barrells, the price was right.. So I'm kinda happy with that.. Then I packed the Rolla up and headed to Adelaide for a cruise in which I jumped in a mates car for

Then this happened..



Basically we came over a crest to see a whole lot of cars stopped, my mate Ben pulled up just in time and veered to the left a little and the Prelude behind us went right to avoid us, just as I was about to say "Thank fuck for that!" BANG! a Lancer three cars behind plowed through and straight into the back of the Mirage, sent us airborne between the guard rail and cars in front doing this to the guy infront's MG



Before we came to a stop three cars up from where we were..

The Prelude



The Lancer



There was also an MK V R32 infront of the MG that took a belt from the MG but that is hopefully going to be fixable, we ended up next to the R32 Skyline in front of the R32 VW (Confused? I certainly elephant.)

[heef]

Ideas come and go, and as much as I liked the idea of 17/18in wheels just tucking, I can't shake my attachment to the standardnotstandard look, so they're gone and I spotted these:

16x7 NL Fairlane wheels..



But a mate snatched them up, so I'm after these:

DL LTD wheels..



With 2" flappers and my ideas on height, I think it will all tie in well together.

[heef]

Just a quick one, making progress on the car hoping to have it ready for All Ford Day in late April!

Please ignore the tint that'll be the first thing to be fixed when it's running

[R31 Mark]

nice eb wags bro, nice to see some more SA Ladz on here. I think i've seen this around, that kebabhunters sticker looks familiar. Are you on boosted or nah?

Also, Me ED, I'll give you a wave if I seeya round m8