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Where are you. Been very quiet!

Which oil pan on you using on the big block?

Hey mate, i once asked a painter to do a quick spray job on my first car. He sprayed the car in an old tin shed with my dodgy compressor. All he did was wet the floor of the shed with a garden hose and kinked the air hose in his hand to control pressure? It was one of the best spray jobs i had seen anywhere 🤷‍♂️ So i dont know but anything is possible.

Hi Tom. Just wondering what is happening with the 57 coupe? Has been a minute since you’ve played with that and I thought you were making good progress. Understand you’ve been working on the Ford coupe and GT so just wondering is it simply a matter of time or is there something holding you up on the 57?

Another suggestion for an awesome XA paint colour, Rothman's Blue or Deep Ivy. Keep up the great work!

Isnt the panhard bar supposed to be behind the diff?

They are called "link bars" in case you didn't still know.

Is there a technical reason that the astra p/s pump is not mounted in the boot? Your coupe build is blowing my mind!

Wires with tracers ?

I’ve never used one, but I would if I couldn’t afford anything better - and I can’t 😂.

Why don't you just make a bracket to lift the oil filter higher up on the chassis rail. Won't hang too low and also a better routing to the adapter.

If you want a show class finish pay a paint shop dollars! to each his trade, looks OK in the video! don't worry be happy😁

Drop tank for the coupe mate👌

G’day again Tom, I’m looking at doing a XA after the XE I’m into now, and my favourite colour on the XA GT was Yellow Fire with the black, personally love the colour, anyway I’m sure you will sort it mate, good luck. 😊

Look pretty good. I was thinking the same wheather its worth the investment in the booth? 13:25

Put the exhaust up between the boot and the rear window like Ruffian cars in the USA did with the Galaxy and then run a full width functional diffuser out the back.

Nice effort on paint but I have yet to see anyone use the blow up booth with any success.

Nice to have some content but mate just pick one an get it done, one by one. Sure parts and fabrication can swallow up time but just one at a time would be the way; but that's just me. My colour choice for the XA 'Blaze Blue'

Great job 😊.

I have done a cruise control retrofit on a De Mazda 2, which is basically a ford Feista rebadged. Lots of the bits have FoMoCo on them. In doing this I had to replace the brake pedal switch from a 2 wire to a 4 wire unit. What I discovered when doing this is that the switches have a mechanism that auto calibrates them to their position when you install them into the bracket. The 4 wire switch has one NO contact and one NC contact. So it measures when the brake pedal is both pressed and not pressed. If you were to alter the height of the pedal some how and have not removed and re inserted the pedal switches, then they won’t auto calibrate and won’t register either pressed or unpressed correctly.

2nd colour Green its appropriate ,not the last green Please no

The dust could of be inside the actual booth structure

G’day mate, I am one who suggested the “Inflatable Pain Booth” having seen same on a yank Vidio. But noticed there was a blue blower duct at 4:21/13:25 on the far side of the tent you did not put a lower on? Did you need more air movement to stop trash, just sayin!😂😢😅

Booth doesn't seem like a bad idea, but every booth i have ever seen, even the home made ones, sucks air out instead of blowing it in. Wouldn't be surprised if that duct was blowing crap in your paint, even though it has a filter. If you could figure out a way to reverse the airflow it might work better as long as it doesn't pull the walls in too much.

Turned out ok, but like others saying, spray suit, tack rag, and try not to go in and out to many times, as you keep bringing rubbish in with ya, apart from that, gotta start somewhere, enjoyed 🍻🍻🇦🇺🇳🇿🤝🇳🇿🇳🇿👌👍🦘🦘🏔🌨

Hi Tom the coupe coming up nicely keep up with the good work with the fuel tank talk to Bain Racing at Penrith he specialises with Falcon tanks they do a top job on their work

With all your electrics / loom mods, maybe you need to talk about CAN comms and correct termination with your friendly auto electrician? Best of luck with it.

Hi Tom, love the content, keep up the good work mate. Just throwing a thought out there, perhaps do a only production of the phase 4 tribute Calypso Green - white interior, Bathurst globes with aquajet redwalls, possibly add a Golde sunroof 👌

Looks like it turned out fine a little cut and buff and it'll be great thumbs up👍👍

I think for your first go Tom it has turned out pretty good It may have been sucking stuff in from the air pump did that have a filter on the intake I spray in my shed a few times a year and always get little bits in the paint and between clear or solid colour The visibility get diminished real quick you do need a strong suck out system Howard astil has a very good video showing how he built his filter system and before I do my next paint job I will be building something similar Also I find I have been using Protec for about 20 years now and it’s now ppg I’m using and with mixing I aways put a splash more thinners , not quite 10% and I find it always goes on real nice and lays down real nice with minimal orange peal but you do have oto be careful of runs And the paint is a three part system wet on wet usually primer base and clear well that’s how I do it But I still think it turns out pretty good 👍👍

great trial run , wax a grease wipe on wipe off with clean lint free rags , good though blow , then wax a grease 2 X more, ,, new filters always need some time running to get the loose fibers out 2 Hr.s then ready for use , Good outcome for first time ,👍👍

Did you tack rag the car before paint. I also use a filter in the spray pot and maybe you needed to filter the incoming air to the booth. I have wondered myself how good these inflatable booths are and with some tweeking it could be fine the the odd job. Love ya work and ya vids.

That was a good practice run for the future . You are always going have to cut and buff . Have look at how home built by Jeff made his filters for his home made booth . His first booth was a gazebo then built a room for the second edition.

The crap could be over spray that was hanging around in the booth that falls back onto the car. I sprayed my bonnet in a closed shed and it felt like sand paper afterwards. good job thou. Keep up the good work.

2 vids in 1 week. Awesome. Cut & Buff no problem. I painted my sister's XB Fairmont Hardtop in a $200 Bunnings Gazebo.

Calypso green would be my choice Tom Pity about the rent would be great if you can find a cheaper place

Even the best booths have crap in them, cut it back and buff it’ll be fine

Looks like half a chance, weigh up the cost, if it needs cutting and buffing maybe the booth put you back a couple of grand?

Don't be too hard on yourself mate, the main thing is you got in and done it yourself, did you use a tack cloth, did you tack off your masked up area's with air?

Well done Tom i presume you will paint the fords in it too, so money well spent and its portable

U would be amazed how much crap comes off ur clothes….buy a cheap throwaway spray suit for $25

even high end paint booths you still get some rubbish in the paint no system is perfect we spray in the shed and when we sand it and buff most of the rubbish is gone

I love the coupe just wondering what paint you used? Thinking of painting my car same colour

One of the greens for a colour

Have you put a diagnostic tool on it and just clear all faults and then try to start it. I have seen that happen on Matt Armstrong’s vehicle it would not crank they put a diagnostic on it cleared all the faults, reset everything and then it crank.

I prefer the metallic colours but all great just keep it a original XAGT colour … wild violet or cosmic blue gets my vote, can’t wait for these paint vids

Purple gives that tuff aggressive look being a deeper colour

I’d be checking the pins on those bulkhead Deutsche plugs. If the pins aren’t locked in right they can push back and not engage properly. Hope it’s something simple like that 👍

Hey Tom good to see you back I have a suggestion for you why not get your self a scanning tool and scan your coupe for faults low or no voltage over a long period of time will confuse sensors into telling the computers the wrong information causing a myriad of faults stopping the car from firing up may be worth a try

Kawasaki Green 💚 sweet episode nice to see a video Tom, enjoy your weekend 🍻🍻🇦🇺🇦🇺🇳🇿🤝🇳🇿🇳🇿🦘🦘🌨🌨🏔🏔