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Ordered it. Never in a million years thought I'd head down this path, but ordered a BYD Seal Performance. EV tax deals, 390kw and 0-100 in 3.8 was too hard to ignore. Need to hang out here with you guys more. Someone on the Seal FB group asked how people on novated leases are finding their cars so far. Exactly the friggin same as anyone else I would have thought. Posted what I thought was a hilarious reply about pre-tax kw but no one seemed to get it. Sent from my Pixel 9 using Tapatalk

I installed the VN Group A transmission. New Group A brakes, rotors and braided lines.

Needed some new pads and rotors, so did some CarMath™ and bought some new calipers too.

Hey guys, I had been wanting to do this to my FG trey for years now and finally did it. However, I got a pro to do it. PFA blueprints of the Fg trey. The next photo is the work done to my tub. Thick marine ply was set down and bolted to the cross members, the anchor rails, and tool box screwed into the wood, and then marine carpet. Ps. I know I'm replying to an old post, but this is more for the people who are looking to do something like what has been discussed. Cheers

that sounds... horrendously complicated... I'd imagine the best bet is just to get all loom from the same vehicle (ideally the ZF6 one) and go from there...

Not a thing. Combination of starting a new job and lots of house priorities got in the way. I reckon I'll knock over a few things on the house for the next couple of years and then look at getting some sort of dinosaur juice weekend/project car that I can mod without having to put back together before Monday morning. Main project has been to replace crappy concrete porch/steps with decking Sent from my Pixel 9 using Tapatalk

Pic uploads work now @STAINLESS again plz . Anyway, I watched some YouTube vids, learned Autocad & bought a tig off marketplace. Still have front infill pannels, rear taillight pannel & drop sides to do, but they'll be a while down the road since we're about to settle on a house. Is about 300kg lighter than the steel tray I had, much more aerodynamic, economy & wind noise are well improved. Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk

fair dinkum, that was an awesome concert mosh pits for days my glasses copped it, but that's ok I won't be needing to go to the gym, either... intense circie pits

Washed the car yesterday afternoon, proceeded to rain last night for the first time in a couple of weeks. Out there with the chamois this morning again

I saw a snail cruising along today and he looked a bit slow. I thought if I removed his shell he would speed up, but instead he seemed more sluggish.

It took over a year and 100k to get a dyno and a shed. It took many more years and a whole lot more money and study to learn how to provide that level of tuning and customer support. "Get to it" is not something that is readily or easily done. I'll stick to my principles of providing the best tunes available and whoever that appeals to can have those tunes.

Could do with one of those on top of my VN

It has been some time between posts. Work has kept me from all areas of my life. Time for a break and spend some time on the car. 8n.jpeg

I know what will fark them, print them out and colour them outside the lines. Muahahaha

You and the missus

Splinter from TMNT, is what you meant?

Much easier than getting people to pay for tuning work. Heads up people, if you need tuning work of any type I will help, but not for free. This is my livelihood, it pays for the past 25 years of learning how to tune, it helps pay for the $110k I've spent in the past 12 months on dyno etc, the over 70k I've spent on Barra based car parts learning to fit, mod and tune, the couple hundred K of tuning and mechanical tools I've acquired and it honestly it gives you a better tune or info that you can get anywhere else... By a long shot. Don't forget the tens of thousands of hours spent researching and learning. I've handed out 10s of thousands of dollars worth of free info into the public forums, nevermind the years of free message support. Yeah I wanna help but if you want a file, tune advice, remote tune, custom dyno tune or anything related, show some respect and offer to pay. For example, I have a close mate that I would help do cam install and tune for free cos mates...he insists on paying full price cos he knows I have kids, mortgage, all the same sh*t you do. Anyhow there's that. If I win the lotto I might tune for free... In other news I have an ear ache..fml

The hp tuners application has a help file that shows you how to use it. Their forum will have all the tuning info you need, this forum has plenty of tuning information and the PCMTec forum has tuning info. Happy reading!

Trimmed my beard, am now Santa/samurai

Got the dyno up and running in the shed today, it's been nearly exactly a year, $110k and a whole bunch of work but it's there. There's still plenty to do but the hard part is done. I did some tuning on the Caprice, my neighbour was in his back yard and he reckoned it wasn't that loud, even with full ramp runs. He said he couldn't even hear it in his house so I reckon I'm golden. So yerp there's that, I'll post another pic tomorrow, didn't look much different though lol.

I know it's a pain, the manifold also needs to be straight. A decent straight edge across it length ways. A strip of paper 10mm wide can be placed under the straight edge in various spots. It should be snug to impossible to pull the paper out. Other option before pulling off the manifold, get a piece of rubber hose and put it to your ear like a stethoscope. Use the other end to survey the manifold and turbo area in detail. The leak will be very obvious to the ear when you've honed in on it.

Modern cars with their "adaptive cruise control" just sit behind other cars at whatever speed they happen to be doing; annoys the crap out of me in the missus' i30 n-line... it so subtly slows itself down that you really have to be paying attention to notice it immediately and I'm always pushing accelerator to move the cruise control closer to the car in-front and overtaking as though it didn't have the "adaptive" part (like my XR6T, for example) Anyway, fun times. morning all, happy Sunday 🚯

Was driving in the 100kph zone yesterday, carnt was up my arse with led low beams blinding me. Plenty of room to overtake. Kicked it back 3 gears to make some space. Carnt caught up and proceeded to tailgate again. Dropped the bitch down to 80kph and carnt just sat there...until they eventually decided to go past a minute later.

Brake upgrade - 'TBS Racing' custom brake system. 6POT front calipers, two piece slotted rotors, braided lines. 4POT rear, one piece slotted rotors, braided lines.

Custom remote res independent suspension on both front and rear. All but one leave spring were taken out but the caltrac bars, axle and dif braces were left in. Bit of a hybrid set up, but the handling and traction is night and day compared to the old peddlers suspension I originally had in from when I first baught my F6 over 8 years ago. See pics - - -

Hey guys, t's been a while since I've posted but here are some of the upgrades - New engine bay post stock shot.

Fortunately it's one that I can provide. I don't have any appreciable overheads or time constraints. It's just me putting to use the tools and skills I've accumulated over the years. I can take the time needed to get things right, not just good enough.

If you want a completely custom tune formulated for your specific vehicle, tuned on my personal dyno... I have everything here to tune your car to perfection. You aren't going to get it back in 24 hours, I will be keeping it until it's perfect. This takes time and I will not compromise. A usual timeframe can be up to a couple of weeks depending on mods. The end result is a car that drives perfectly from startup to shut down, alternate fuels no problem with full PCMTec support. Aftermarket tuning is available, with my personal car making over 1000awhp with both stock pcm and haltech plugin. Transmission tuning is available for mild to wild applications. I can tune your stock TCM to keep it in the game and can tune a built TCM for multiple drag passes while remaining calm for street driving. TCM revisions are extensively supported, this is something you can absolutely expect to work to your personal preference. I am local, reliable and offer extensive and comprehensive support. I don't run a workshop, this is done as a hobby. I have a dyno, the skills, the tools and the space for your car. If you bring your car to me, your car comes first, I don't have 10 other brake jobs or services to knock out. Finally, I've always wanted to help you guys and I've tried to, although I thought it would always be me helping out for free online. Haha I still do that but now I can actually give the hands on help people deserve. I am based in SA and available most of the time so send me a pm if you need work.

We know and have personally tested each auto combo at jusy shy and just over 300rwkw's and if it's a Genuine 300 and you have a clean pass there's no reason you can't to BA BTR 318rwkw = 11.89@118mph,1.73/60 FG F6 ZF 305.9rwkw 11.8@116MPH,1.78/60 FG XR6T ZF 292rwkw@115mph 11.8,1.71/60 all on 98 fuel with 275/40/17* M/T ET streets