pretty cool...

lol go fiend !!!!

Fiend, you have WAY to much time on your hands!

Cheers
BenJ

Speedy Cheetah 18" Wheels

OK, was able to get some pics of the Wagon with the new wheels and tyres.

Hope you all like them.

















Had to adjust the rear wheel arch slightly with the dremel, and used pop rivets to locate the flare for additional clearance as the screw head was just touching the tyre on full compression.

I replaced the original Speedy large chrome center caps with the alloy clip in ones from the AJR copies for a cleaner, more subdued look.

Hoping you all had a wonderful Christmas, and I look forward to see what 2013 brings in the way of new modding challenges.

Cheers
BenJ

Friiiiigggeeeennnn

Gaaayyyyyyyyyyy


But no, I wrote the script for that game to try and move from back breaking manual labour occupations to more "using ones melon" occupation. Pity I hate computers..........

The Cheetahs look super tough on the wagon Ben....Love it!

wagon looks good as always

next thing on the list should be a decent paint job on the bonnet & 2 bumpers.

Looks perfect on those new wheels BenJ, great choice!

Uniform the window tinting-then forced induction!

Ben... I LOVE YOUR WAGON FFS
haha

Last edited by Stealth6 on Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:51 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Now this is ............

"REALLY f**k GAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY"

OHHHHHH, now that is low.

Twisting a man's appreciation of my Wagon and making light of the many hours of blood, sweat and sanding, yourself and I have poured into the unique creation that now graces these pages, and morphing it into a statement that, while entirely justified given how fabulous I am, is a falsehood of huge proportions.

And to even go so far as to edit his post too . . . . tisk tisk


I hope everyone has a great New Year and we will see what modding goodness comes in 2013.

Cheers
BenJ

Hey Ben,

Excuse my ignorance but it's been a while since I've been in here...

Looking back to early Nov where you are fiddling around with the cruise buttons...

Your option if you don't like them mounted to the column shrouds is to run the BA, or as I know we all hate the huge look of it, the FG wheel and the associate FG cruise buttons (just changing the resistor values in them to the BA values)... Then you can run the AU clock spring, (make the custom column up like I did, EB lower with EL upper)... This will give you 6 wires through to the wheel... You need two for horn, you can share horn earth and add one for radio buttons and then I guess you'll need two for cruise... Then you'll have a spare... Makes it easy when you have no air bag and don't need to sacrifice 2 for that...

You get this looking thing (which I'm sure you've seen anyway)



And again the combo switch isn't that hard either...



You mentioned the radio buttons? Easy as man... Just re-visited this with my brothers AU one tonner when he fitted an aftermarket head unit (AU has the basic radio buttons)...

Buy one of these:

http://www.pac-audio.com/productDetails ... egoryID=29

Ebay it (only reason I didn't link that was ebay links expire)...
About $50ish bucks from the states, being that that's where they're made...

Real easy... I always use an aerpro harness plug when I fit a head unit, you know them? So I have that aerpro plug which plugs into the dash loom plug and then solder the headunit plug to it's tails and make a short patch harness... Then this PAC unit you solder into the switched power wire and earth... You run the white wire to the radio buttons and the other side of them to earth... Hopefully your headunit support remote in... Then either plug the head phone jack into it or hook that wire up to the plug if it's that kind... Done... The other wires you just prevent from shorting out and tape up...

Instructions explain how you program it... You'll set it to revision 3 and turn the headunit selector to the number which represents your headunit brand as per the table... Then program the buttons in their respective program slots.... Bit fiddly but you get the hang of it...

Only thing if you use FG buttons is my Sony headunit does not support answering the phone by remote input... So my FG phone button goes back in the track list as I didn't know what else to make it do...

Took me an hour to add it into little brothers ute but it already had the buttons wired to the harness plug so there was no upside in the footwell type work...



Food for thought anyway mate... Like the territory intake, obviously a heap of other people know about them... Worth a smart fortune on ebay... Not sure how you went with the adaptor pipe in the EB but I needed a size changer for mine (stainless exhaust reducer):




Congrats on that DOHC engine too... Would be something I'd love to tinker with but too much else on the plate for now... Maybe one day... I'd love to do something unique, but trouble with living out here is no one has the engine tuning expertise and we went through the issue locally of about 3 guys with super charged commodores and all the custom wiring and tuning in them and they immobilise on the side or the road and they need to trailer it to back to sydney or melbourne to have to fixed... Only to get it home and have it happen 2 weeks later... Funny thing is, I haven't seen any of these three vehicles around for some time now... Maybe that's saying something about the troubles within... I do still like my nice simple SOHC with a factory EL XR computer and having all the required diagnostic gear in the boot... Would probably prefer to own an old style falcon with a V8 and carby than go to tricky with fuel injection this far from the big smoke where expertise is rare...

Cheers mate, and all the best for the new year... May be coming to Sydney in March, may not be too... Few weeks will tell... If I do intention is that I fluke it with one your Sydney get togethers and get the chance to say hi... As I said I'm not planning on when just yet though...

Tim

Awesome stuff regarding the wheel TimmyA. If, and hopefully when, I get around to fitting a B/F series wheel I'll definitely be drawing on you for inspiration!

And as usual benny, that wagon is looking schmick. I don't know if I'd have those wheels on my own wagon, but it seems to suit yours so well - big, black and aggressive

I think I see the next mod for you Ben! That wheel looks great!

Cheers

ToranaGuy