well not much is happening with the BF so ill share my brothers EF with u.

the car was bought by my dads work back in 1996 as his work car and he then bought it off them in 2001 when he got his new commodore (we bought that 1 aswell) when my dad got his new company car in 03 ( a BA fairmont). My mum got the commodore and there was no use for the EF anymore. so my brother being 15 at the time they decided to park it up until he got his L's.

many flat batterys and dust later. we begin.

stock as a rock. washed once a month and never been polished for 10 years.



then came a new set of tyres and a set of $15 hubcaps and 5 hours of polishing washing and scrubbing plastics



next was the new headunit and gas boot stuts (supplied ty TwistedEL thanx) installed by my uncle my bro and myself with help from a few members of the forum.



next came the subs bought off a mate for $200 after he wrote his car off. we had a fun night pulling the car apart and with alot of help from a forum member im sorry your name has just gone out of my head (burgandy EL)
and finally had sucess





and finally.. new seat covers and a really good clean up. also noticable is the damage from some1 hitting the car and driving off

Last edited by BF XR on Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:32 am, edited 5 times in total.

that is one very neat and tidy falcon.. and of course with a rim and suspension modification it would look even better... well done

thanx mate. rims and spoiler are next.

im discussing with Dan. atm to get parts for a EL GT black theme

that would be unreal you guys have an excellent clean base to build on. good luck with it all mate

yer. he wanted to do gt kit. but we cant justify putting such an ugly mess onto this car. so its going to end up xr

ok update : just got a very filthy set of plastics from Dan dropped off by frankieh (thanx man) all is in great nick compared to wats currently in there. so cleaning commences tomorrow morning (hope i dont have to work) then hopefully will hit the paint tomorrow afternoon and install when we can take the car off the road

heres the new mats (old 1s are stored till the car is ever sold)




im saving my 8.1mp camera for tomorrows progress pics. stay tuned

update.

spent this morning cleaning parts





if u just stay calm and go slow its quite easy to dismantle everything.

teaser of the spoiler



and now painting the ashtray up. heres the new 1 nxt to the 1 already in the car

my economy switch isnt plugged in (green 1 ) weird

anyway.. called it a day. heres todays finish . we cant pull the fascia off till sunday the car is to important until then


more painting happening





T-Bar coming off




(note the black tbar was a totally filthy 1 that got a shot of paint )

T-Bar on with new plate





no holes no grey

black ashtray in



passenger vents out



new 1s in



dash spear out


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new 1 in



END OF DAY 1

falcon plate just went in. unfortunatelly that is also broken.

the 1 out of the car is now getting painted y the broken 1 fills the spot

also. the plug thats plugged into the back of the falcon plate. will that clip straght into a XR6 clock?

another update. everything is finally painted and ready to go in.

need to get another can of paint and do the radio surround when we pull it out of the car. also the rear demister switch

i was set back an hour or so today when my sister decided to shake out dusty towels directly over the drying paint. all was salvaged and is now stored on my brothers floor

-dash fasica
-falcon plate
-right airvent setup
-middle vent setup
-selector surround

will get some pics up. but as said cant strip the car off till sunday.

day 2 officially at an end.

just realised i dont have ps installed. this will have to do

Last edited by BF XR on Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:09 am, edited 1 time in total.

coming together nicely man. i would like to paint the same plastics up in mine the same colour. looking forward to a completely done pic.

yer. i had a look at our painted dash fasica tonite.. 1 clip is there. the others just have the holes. so i can pull that off the old face. other then that it doesnt look to damaged to go into the car. will see on sunday i guess .

were using the colour satin black. its not to in your face and goes with the grey a bit better

we've already declared if nothing else atleast that hiddeous butchered T bar surround and filthy tbar is gone.

i didnt even request a Tbar and when it arrived with the parts i though the hell with it. cleaned it pulled the button out and just went nuts with the rattle can. i put the EF black button back in off the current 1 as the EL is grey

going very slow at the moment. the big dash fascia and the plastic that goes on the console around the T bar plate are the only 2 taht remain unfitted. im going to see if i can fit the T bar 1 without removing the upper fascia it looks like if i remove the tbar and tbar plate i can pull that up from bottom and slide it out