used paint stripper, dug out all the putty and washed down with a chemical. looking forward to painting her now.

Have not made much progress lately as we had a major f*#k up. We were sooo happy with the engine bay, it came up V good. Left it to dry and came back a few days later to put the colour on and the paint was still wet. My old man was given the wrong hardner. I was not a pleasent person to be around that day.

The guy who owned the garage had another job to do which he needed the space. I deceided to take the car to my old mans house and strip the engine and start all over. I then deceided to paint to whole car. This will give my mate time to finish his new job and punish my old man for his f*#k up. It not his fault but someone had to be punished .

I will post more info and pics of my right angle dizzy. Ive had a few PM's about it so I will get on to it soon.

Really , I talked to a guy at pedders and he told me he done a set before and it was a pain in the arse. He told me he needed a bit of time and without him telling me, he made it clear he didnt really want to do them. He hinted that it would cost me so forgot about it. I was going to leave them until the car was ready to drive. That makes me happy that I dnt have to put the old oil shocks back on the front .
Hey dato1000wagon, how is your coupe coming along dude?

Nice, did you have to do much work to make them fit?

Good luck dude. I think some of the boys have used 4cyl toranna shocks but they are still an old and small type of shock, possible only come in oil (not sure on that). I found some NOS 1K shocks in a dingy little parts place, but they are very old and only oil. I started to talk to pedders about getting some made but they didnt want to know about it. If you find anything on your quest please let me know, I would love to upgrade.

can I get a permit if the car has no rego?
Its drivable. Its only a 1k though, with an a10.

Im thinking about getting a dato from near melbourne and transporting it to sydney. Does anybody know or recommend a company?
Would anybody know a ball park figure on how much it could cost?

put some pics up dude

I never type www in so ive been fine. I just checked and put it in and I had the same problem.

overheating when in traffic but not when driving could be number things including the head gasket. This problem is an indication of a blocked radiator. If your radiator was cleaned out correctly (not just back flushed with a hose) check the flow like ddgonzal said, your flow should be really good.
Did the people who cleaned it tell you if it was blocked? The reason I ask is often your car will overheat due to a problem and as a result of this, the head gasket will then blow. So you may have fixed your original problem but your car is still overheating due to your head gasket.
You need to diagnos the problem before you pull the head off.
1) This is exspensive and you dont want to fix it if its not broken and
2) You dont want to overheat your fresh head and gasket.
A few things to check
Your fan is big enough
Your fan spins to correct way, it should draw the air through from front to back
Your condensor fins are not clogged with dirt so you have good air flow
Try to do a compression test and a TK test on your head gasket
Check for milky oil and check under oil cap.

You could always pay a mechanic to diagnos to problem and have a go at fixing it yourself. Good luck