Moffat Federation Insurance Replica

[greenjgs]

Well this has been a long time coming but seeing as it's an average winters day in Melbourne I thought I'd give a build thread a shot, so here goes. So for any of you that don't know what the Federation Insurance car is this is a model of it

And this is pretty much where I go serious Easter 2011.

[greenjgs]

Let's see if this works. Front cut of donor car

[351@GT]

Just had a look through the full albumn, thats some pretty serious panel work. looks like your beater is doing a good job though. looks like what landau stable does on a reg basis.

if you put [img]"http://s625.photobucket.com/albums/t...fronttidy1.jpg"[/img] your pics will show up on the page also. ( take out the " " )
as such

[Bearman]

I'm so looking forward to this one being completed. The Federation Insurance coupe is the best looking coupe to ever grace a race track.

About the time my coupe was being repainted I contemplated having it painted Black and doing a Federation replica. I realized pretty quickly I wouldn't have the budget to do it justice so abandoned that idea.

[greenjgs]

Originally Posted by 351@GT

Just had a look through the full albumn, thats some pretty serious panel work. looks like your beater is doing a good job though. looks like what landau stable does on a reg basis.

if you put image your pics will show up on the page also. ( take out the " " )
as such
image

Thanks I'l give that a try. This whole posting pics thing is why I haven't done it before. PITA!!!

A lot of the rust repair and mods were done by me including 90% of the cut and shut. My friend has taken it from blasted shell to where iit is now.
I'll give the post pics thing another go now

[greenjgs]

Let;s see what weget now. This pic is of the front and rear of the car coming together. Once I get the hang of this I'll do multiple pics at once

[79FordEsky]

I had a look through the album from start to finish, the car looks way better, nice body work, did you check out about the vin for the coupe when you had the sedan front put on. Very nice work it is going to look great.

[greenjgs]

Originally Posted by 79FordEsky

I had a look through the album from start to finish, the car looks way better, nice body work, did you check out about the vin for the coupe when you had the sedan front put on. Very nice work it is going to look great.

It's a race car only so I'm not too bothered

[gtxb67]

it looks great - magnificent work

[greenjgs]

Originally Posted by gtxb67

it looks great - magnificent work

Thanks. If I could just get a handle on how to make the pics work I'd post more and add to the story

[landau_jon]

Before you paste the link, click on the "insert image" icon (the one right of the world icon and left of the speech bubble icon)

it will put [IMG] before and [/IMG] after your link and show the pic

if you paste a link without the [IMG]'s you will just see the link

ie http://s625.photobucket.com/albums/t...FedShutDS1.jpg

if you use the [IMG]'s

you get this

using this [img]https://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt339/Greenjgs/Fed%20Insurance%20Car/FedShutDS1.jpg[IMG] (slash removed so you can see)

equals this

[greenjgs]

[img]https://s625.photobucket.com/albums/tt339/Greenjgs/Fed%20Insurance%20Car/?action=view&current=FedRHTubinboot.jpg[IMG]

I must be thick, I cannot get the pics to show up like you guys do.

[neptune blue]

Originally Posted by greenjgs

Well this has been a long time coming but seeing as it's an average winters day in Melbourne I thought I'd give a build thread a shot, so here goes. So for any of you that don't know what the Federation Insurance car is this is a model of itimage

And this is pretty much where I go serious Easter 2011.

image

Glad you have started a build thread. I agree with Craig regarding the Moffat federation coupe as being one of the best if not the best looking racing coupe.

This is going to be great. Cant wait to see it up close

[greenjgs]

Thanks. Once I get this, (my), photo dumbness sorted I will tell the whole story. Still trying for the Club Track day in October but it's looking less likely each day.

[Geez Louise]

It is not working as you are not copying the whole IMG code.

On the right hand side of the image in Photobucket is an IMG code. Click on it and it will say "Copied" then paste it into your post by right clicking and pasting in the code....like this

[GasoLane]

I posted this for another member a while ago, it might be of some help....

Hover your mouse over the picture you want to show, this will bring up a menu underneath the pic.

Go to the bottom line on that menu where it says "Image Code" and left click on that, it will then say 'copied'....this also means 'linked'.

When you want to post the picture here simply right click and 'Paste'

Oh, and if you delete the picture from Photobucket it will also be deleted from wherever you pasted the link to.

Originally Posted by greenjgs

Thanks. Once I get this, (my), photo dumbness sorted I will tell the whole story. Still trying for the Club Track day in October but it's looking less likely each day.

[greenjgs]

So let's see if this works. THis and the last pic I attempted to post are of the rear tub widening that was carried out on the race cars, it increases the tub clearance by 35mm

[351@GT]

the [img] at the end of that should be [/img]

looks like you got it sorted, will look forward to the story.

[HELLOYOU]

Nope Did Not Work.

[greenjgs]

Originally Posted by 351@GT

the image

Yeh I know, it looks like that when I post but the pic doesn't come up. It just worked, when I pasted directly into the message so I'll try to post some more and see if I finally have a handle on this.

[greenjgs]

Ok, so let's try to move on with this. Rather than show you more depressing rust repairs I'd rather cover the race mods, so now you seen the rear tub here's some shots of what was required to make the 15 x 10 fronts turn through the full steering sweep.






Finished ready for grinding

[greenjgs]

Got it sussed, thanks folks..... Moving on.

Here's a front trial fitted to the car with the guard slipped over the top





And now the savage surgery





We ended up pushing the lip out 65mm.





And with a bit of protective black paint so we have an idea how it's going to look.

[neptune blue]

Yeah baby !

[Marquis]

Looking forward to the build. Nailed the pics. Good job

[Tha Jack]

Geez!!! That's Looking good Graeme, You certainly have come a long way with it.
The amount of work you have put into it is incredible
I really like what you did with the front guards. It looks like it matches the bulging rear quater's perfectly.
Cant wait to see it meself.

[greenjgs]

Originally Posted by Tha Jack

Geez!!! That's Looking good Graeme, You certainly have come a long way with it.
The amount of work you have put into it is incredible
I really like what you did with the front guards. It looks like it matches the bulging rear quater's perfectly.
Cant wait to see it meself.

Thanks Jack, When I look back over the pics it is a huge amount of work not only the rust repairs but the racer mods. I'll add some more now and over the weekend. The best thing about the front guards is from most angles you need to look twice to be sure they are modified, same as the real racer

Got some great news today, expect pics of the car in topcoat end of next week. Cheers Graeme

[greenjgs]

So to finish up the race mods in the front I have done the Lee Dystra Mustang mod to the suspension towers and added re-inforcement plates





While doing the towers I also stitch welded the whole engine bay and strengthened the crossmember internally

[FPV-HSV]

Cant wait too see the end result!!

[greenjgs]

THought I'd go back to the rear of the car now and show you folks the construction of the panhard rod mount. The 1st couple of pics of the mount are on the left over floor of the donor car. Turned out to be a great way of mocking the mount up. It's a pity I don't have pics of working out the rear roll centre.



[img]https://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt339/Greenjgs/Fed%20Insurance%20Car/PanhardRodMount12



Now on the racer

[greenjgs]

Next on the to do list is fire walling the boot from interior of the car. THis turned out to be surprisingly easy to do, a sheet of panel steel bent on the side if my trailer, trim it, tech scre it, weld it. Only took a couple of hours





Stitched in



Filled in the speaker holes as well