Thanks for the tip FB mad i never thought of getting just parts, yet i bought all the just car magazines since 2004. Il get it tommorrow and hopefully there will be a few front ends in there that are close to me.
If i have no luck anywhere well i found a HR car for $2000 full disc brakes. Plus the guy is located in QLD so it might be woth while.
Need help with what front end to choose ?
no this is for the entire car. If anyone has the unique cars magazine it is in there somewhere lol. But that would be my last resort if i carnt find on by it's self. Would a HQ front end fit ?
Car 1:
1961 Holden EK restoring in progress
Car 2:
1990 Excel, ex Option audio demo car.
Car 3:
1927 Dodge fast four pickup.
Car 4: 1987 Nissan HR31 GTS-X skyling coupe
Car 5: 1979 Datsun C210 skyline with a L20et conversion
1961 Holden EK restoring in progress
Car 2:
1990 Excel, ex Option audio demo car.
Car 3:
1927 Dodge fast four pickup.
Car 4: 1987 Nissan HR31 GTS-X skyling coupe
Car 5: 1979 Datsun C210 skyline with a L20et conversion
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mrs ratbox
i know where there is some HD/HR fronts but i'm in central west NSW so that kills that idea, if yor gunna buy a HR for $2,000 buy mine it's got disc front wide wheels good tyres good 202 twin carbs tune length extractors and then yor still left with a good body shell and panels, i'll deliver it for $500
the HQ front has been done before BUT once again ALOT of fabrication involved
the HQ front has been done before BUT once again ALOT of fabrication involved
thanks but no thanks as i just want the front end and diff, That whole engine will go to waste where the one i saw had no engine or gear box. But thanks for the offer if you still have it later on down the track i pm you cause when we finish the ek im going to do another project car.
Car 1:
1961 Holden EK restoring in progress
Car 2:
1990 Excel, ex Option audio demo car.
Car 3:
1927 Dodge fast four pickup.
Car 4: 1987 Nissan HR31 GTS-X skyling coupe
Car 5: 1979 Datsun C210 skyline with a L20et conversion
1961 Holden EK restoring in progress
Car 2:
1990 Excel, ex Option audio demo car.
Car 3:
1927 Dodge fast four pickup.
Car 4: 1987 Nissan HR31 GTS-X skyling coupe
Car 5: 1979 Datsun C210 skyline with a L20et conversion
Understand what, that i carn't restore my car, that i have to buy a semi restored one. So i have to go out and buy a car of ebay just because you all told me ? Why don't one of you guy's buy it, as i already have a ek.
Car 1:
1961 Holden EK restoring in progress
Car 2:
1990 Excel, ex Option audio demo car.
Car 3:
1927 Dodge fast four pickup.
Car 4: 1987 Nissan HR31 GTS-X skyling coupe
Car 5: 1979 Datsun C210 skyline with a L20et conversion
1961 Holden EK restoring in progress
Car 2:
1990 Excel, ex Option audio demo car.
Car 3:
1927 Dodge fast four pickup.
Car 4: 1987 Nissan HR31 GTS-X skyling coupe
Car 5: 1979 Datsun C210 skyline with a L20et conversion
You are asking questions,people here are trying to help you with advice.This advice comes from combined years of experience of the members here in building cars that you have no experience in at all.
You seem to either ignore that advice or misinterpret it.
Yes,good on you for having a go, no one here will put you down for that.You have to start and learn somewhere,it might as well be here but FFS listen to the advice given and work on that,don't try and do too much at once.
Putting a set of guages between the bonnet and windsceen on a car won't give you the rebuilt car you desire nor will it increase the performance of your 202 you were trying to acheive last week.
$22000 that your mum is giving later on in life will buy you a lot of things but it won't get you the car you want now.You have a limited budget and at this point you have to limit that budget to buying and rebuilding priority items within that budget,like a lot of us have to here as well.
If you want to,send me your phone number via a PM and I'll give you a phone call tomorrow and give you some hints and advice on where to start and how to do it whilst evading the monetry pitfalls you could fall into on the way. This I've gained from over 30 years of working on these and other cars.
You are very welcome here to learn as a person who doesn't really know anything much about cars.
We will help but if you ask for help and you don't heed it then the help will not be given.
I'll wait for your ph number
You seem to either ignore that advice or misinterpret it.
Yes,good on you for having a go, no one here will put you down for that.You have to start and learn somewhere,it might as well be here but FFS listen to the advice given and work on that,don't try and do too much at once.
Putting a set of guages between the bonnet and windsceen on a car won't give you the rebuilt car you desire nor will it increase the performance of your 202 you were trying to acheive last week.
$22000 that your mum is giving later on in life will buy you a lot of things but it won't get you the car you want now.You have a limited budget and at this point you have to limit that budget to buying and rebuilding priority items within that budget,like a lot of us have to here as well.
If you want to,send me your phone number via a PM and I'll give you a phone call tomorrow and give you some hints and advice on where to start and how to do it whilst evading the monetry pitfalls you could fall into on the way. This I've gained from over 30 years of working on these and other cars.
You are very welcome here to learn as a person who doesn't really know anything much about cars.
We will help but if you ask for help and you don't heed it then the help will not be given.
I'll wait for your ph number
I can't think what to write here so this will do.
This is what FB MAD is referring to !!!!!Blacky wrote:Why the hell didnt you buy the EK that was on Ebay with a worked red, 5 speed , disc front with a rack , mags , etc for $1500 ???????
I was you I would have snapped that thing up.
The best advice to give you is work to a plan & finish one thing then move to the next, not run around like a headless chook, - by all means ask questions, take advice from people that have been there & done that, some many times before.
But come the end of the day it's your car, your project, your money.
The only reason for time is so everything dosen't happen at once.
If Macca's home delivered there'd be one less drunk on the road.
If Macca's home delivered there'd be one less drunk on the road.
SPL camry wrote:Understand what, that i carn't restore my car, that i have to buy a semi restored one. So i have to go out and buy a car of ebay just because you all told me ? Why don't one of you guy's buy it, as i already have a ek.
Completely missed what they were getting at. $1500 would have given you a good motor, good gearbox, sump, frontend, brakes, spares panels etc to go on yours.... Then sell of what wasn't needed. Helps give more $$$$for your own ride.
Speed and Style........... One day I'll get the speed bit.
PM sent FBmad,
I know i could have bought another ek for a bloody good price and used heaps of parts from it, But the truth is i got no where to store it and it would just sit out side in the weather, being on top of a mountain we get all the see breeze and stuff rust 3 times quicker then being down town.
I know i could have bought another ek for a bloody good price and used heaps of parts from it, But the truth is i got no where to store it and it would just sit out side in the weather, being on top of a mountain we get all the see breeze and stuff rust 3 times quicker then being down town.
Car 1:
1961 Holden EK restoring in progress
Car 2:
1990 Excel, ex Option audio demo car.
Car 3:
1927 Dodge fast four pickup.
Car 4: 1987 Nissan HR31 GTS-X skyling coupe
Car 5: 1979 Datsun C210 skyline with a L20et conversion
1961 Holden EK restoring in progress
Car 2:
1990 Excel, ex Option audio demo car.
Car 3:
1927 Dodge fast four pickup.
Car 4: 1987 Nissan HR31 GTS-X skyling coupe
Car 5: 1979 Datsun C210 skyline with a L20et conversion
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mrs ratbox
well say i have nowhere to store it, don't go off half cocked that we're telling you what to do and how to do it, like DR said our SUJESTIONS were along the lines of parts for the car YOU haveSPL camry wrote:PM sent FBmad,
I know i could have bought another ek for a bloody good price and used heaps of parts from it, But the truth is i got no where to store it and it would just sit out side in the weather, being on top of a mountain we get all the see breeze and stuff rust 3 times quicker then being down town.
if the guy wasn't full of shit he had a motor that produced 300hp, this is excess of the figure you were after lots of money there, complete ready to use with all parts nessicary 5 speed gearbox minimum $500 there, disc front ready to bolt in $400 worth, can't remember what diff he said it had but at least HR setup that you'll need minimum $100 worth, the wheels on that car sell on ebay all the time from $500-$1,000 this is on top of many other parts you would more than likely need or use don't quote me but i think it had a chassis kit to if you didn't use it there's another $500
as for why don't we buy it if it were within a couple of hundred k's from me i'de have jumped on it as i'm sure blacky W.A., DR VIC, FBMAD newcastle area and many others would have