Mine passed with no emision requirements in the ACT, it's build date of early 1990 put it into the commercial vehicle category at the time.

Originally mine was the same.
I fitted a factory stock E series 5.0 so its now under 37/00. I fitted it all 100% stock so had no need to prove compliance as Ford had already done it. You would be in the same boat now.
Anyway the whole supercharger project could be put on the back burner for a bit.
Im struggling pretty bad mentally since my shoulder injury and with some other bits and pieces.
To add to the hard decisions I need to make in the next few weeks , I also need to decide if I will take the redundancy package that is was offered to me at work today.
Big decisions to be made...........................................

sounds like it ...... don't rush it tho

Well its funny how what appears to be going backwards is a step forward.
For starters this post isn't a poor me post. Its a post to get s**t out in the open and for me to publically admit I have a problem. The first part of solving it. It will be a long read so either grab a coffee or hit the back button.
The long and the short of it is I am suffering a pretty vicious bout of depression.
I had a bit of a melt down the other day and its made me sit back and think about things.
Basically life at home is great , the best I have ever had in my life. Donna being around is the only reason I haven't been found hanging from the roof as of late.
With issues at work , my buggered shoulder , worrying about other people and their s**t , sitting back and allowing myself to be walked all over by people , living in a pressure cooker of an environment with a neighbour who has honestly made me too scared to f@rt out loud as he will run to the coppers or other authorities instead of just coming over to see me and some other stuff , in all honesty the last 6-8 odd months have been the darkest and toughest I have had in a long , long time if not ever.
I go through spells where I am running around like a lunatic getting things done and doing way too much then the next day I struggle to get my a*** out of bed , much less get out of the way of my own shadow.
To try and make me feel good about myself I set some stupidly high goals all at once , then look too deep into things , find that I cant do everything at once , get the s**t and then I come up with some other stupid idea. Then the full circle happens and keeps the monster fed. The tooing and throwing of what to do with the Maverick motor wise is a classic example, I have turned into a gunna and it disappoints me so much.
I make myself look like an idiot and f**k people around who are wanting to help me. There are a few very good mates here which I have done exactly that too. I am not going to name who they are but they know.
All I can say is I am truly sorry for it and please let me know how I can make it up to you.

Getting on some happy tablets is in my opinion a stop gap measure. It will help the symptoms but not the cause. It is just something I have to fight myself and to a point let nature take its course and what happens happens. I also have to learn to say no to people and tell people to pull their head in diplomatically and not letting it back up into a fit of rage.
So by now your probably wondering what my sob story has to do with the Maverick build?
The long and the short of it is I have to scale it back and set myself smaller more achieveable goals , so I can do that and feel good about having a win , instead of letting it take on its own monster like personality and consume me. I also have to not be out to have people impressed with me because of what I can do with a car. I have to have people impressed with me , nothing else.
It will happen and will end up being finished as the animal to a high standard that I want but it wont happen quickly.
Basically at this time the body work will be finished and the vehicle put together and put back on the road with the AU 5.0 I have here in it. It will be a stock standard motor. If things go well it might get a set of heads and a cam. I want it back on the road being used instead of sitting in the backyard in a thousand pieces everywhere.
Then we can worry about making it tough.
I need to get home everyday and do a little bit on it to make small amounts of progress instead of trying to do it all at once and getting disheartened when it goes wrong.
Long term it looks like its future will be either a 393 or 408 N/A Windsor. I am currently waiting on some return emails and information before making my mind up totally. I haven't set a time frame on it. It might take 12-18 months. The motor I have here for it might pop the second I start it up. If my redundancy happens it could happen much quicker once the rest of life is sorted out.
In keeping with that idea when the driveline is put back in it will be set up to happily swallow a 351 based motor as a basic engine change over a weekend.
To do this the engine mounts will be moved and the gearbox crossmember modified to slide the whole driveline forward 2" to make use of the wasted space up front.
This will bring the gearsticks back to roughly their standard location with the body lift and make the motor heaps easier to work on. It will also see the tall block clear the firewall and heater pipes easily , instead of having to bash them in. There is stacks of room at the front of the motor as the original 4.2 6 is a very long motor and the Windsor is short. Time to make that space work for me.
So this is whats been happening and what Im looking at doing to fix it.
Have I given up on things? It been close but no.
Is this an admission of failure? No. I have pulled it up so it doesn't turn into a failure.

Sorry for the rant. I had to get it out in the open so I could explain my weirdness as of late and also so I could face the problem and start to fix it.
Also another reason for being out in the open about it is to hopefully encourage anyone else out there to not bottle s**t up. If stuff is upsetting you , f**k talk about it and fix it. Don't let stuff rule your life. You cant be totally wild and take no responsibility , but you certainly don't need to sit back , say nothing and cop it on your own. Don't do it.
If one of the biggest s**t stirring a***hole on this forum can come out and admit he has his own demons he is fighting , anyone can.

Honestly mate everybody goes through times like this so don't feel like you're weird or anything!

People such as yourself who admit to things getting to them are the ones who successfully overcome them.

Unfortunately as much as you don't want the pills, I recommend having them.

Both my parents went through a stage of depression at different times and I won't go into detail but the one who took the pills got over it way quicker and was heaps better off socially then the one that didn't.

The best thing to do is talk about it!

I'm sure anybody that has met you would drop everything in an instant to help out!

All the best mate

mate i know exactly what you are going through, my missus is battling severe depression also and the tablets only help for a little while then you have to increase the dose and then again when they start not to work. the doc put me on anti d's myself for anxiety a month ago and they are already starting to lose their effect.
i had big plans for the falcon too, but with the anxiety i just cant be a*** to go outside the house. its taken 3 weeks to just get the datalogger wired into the ecu wiring (thats only 6 wires) still havent wired in the map sensor or wideband yet.
just poke along at a slow pace and each time you actually finish one part you will feel you have accomplished something.

Cheers guys.
There is certainly no issue with people being willing to help me out Lukeee.
The weekend the body was fitted proved that 100%.
I just don't ask because most of the time the bits I need to get done to do the bits I need the help with haven't been done.
That has to change.

Sorry to hear that Matt... I'm only just getting back on the happy side myself. At least you had the balls to let everyone know what's happening... Unlike me that just threw a tantrum, went silent and changed my username... Best of luck, take it easy for a while and as you said yourself, don't bottle s**t up. Talking and letting everything just flood out always makes you feel better.

Its all good mate. I remember when the EF did the same thing to me, then I bent it racing .

I have made good progress on the EL, and neglected the EF, it still has a lot of issues, but like you, I have 3 cars with only 2 working is driving me nuts. Keep your chin up and we will catchup later this week.

Brett

Lets face it.........the world is f@$cked.....more so for us who like to dabble with the demon that is automotive porn......whether it's blowers, boobs, burnouts, or turbo's.....ok the belt-driven turbo brigade are included.....lol....

I have to say, Matthew, you have a way with words, so much so I can only hope to be as good.

I can say without fear, or retribution, that FordMods is THE best forum I have joined. I have made more friends here, than the 10 years at school, and for that I thank you....

DaZ

We need a like button like on stupid Farcebook, so true, another thing about Fordmods is it isn't all about how big your cheque book is like other forums.

Cheers for the support guys.
Yeah the people here are tops.
The phone calls , text messages and messages on f**k from mates I have made on here over the last couple of days have been very humbling.
I have had people that live over an hour away let me know they are happy to drive up at midnight if I needed a chat.
To everyone I can only say thanks but it somehow doesn't seem enough.
Things will sort out. They say its darkest before the dawn.
So wheels are in motion (not the Mavericks. They are slowly going flat) and I will get past all of this.

Just hang in there. Dig your heels in and don't let go. Grab this bull called life by the horns.

lifes a b**ch, just gotta learn how to f**k it

There you go.

Uhm, DAZ. You spent ten years at school?