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Whiteline 20mm Rear Sway Bar - for the UTE DBA T3 Clubspec Front Rotors - 355mm Bilstine Front shocks Front SSL King springs Pedders Heavy Duty reverse eye Leaf springs Front sway bar D-bush Rear shackle bush Rear spring eye bush Rear sandwich plate bush Lots of Bush! All this should make it handle more like a car and less like a boat!

Thinking he means with GPS tracking. Disable it/find it fasterer? I used to think that. Then visited a mate in hospital after he'd been touched-up with a baseball bat because he used to keep his keys under his mattress. Mine have sat on the kitchen bench in plain view ever since. That's what insurance is for.

Aftermarket - bfii/gas - ba

Another roof spoiler

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Modern society is too hard for em so they go back to what they know I spose

Just go a big in tank like a walbro 460. That'll keep you happy until 400rwkw and keep your fuel cool

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Yeah was about the stripes. I was a bit sensitive about it at the time and got over it once it started appearing in multiple threads. All in the past though, no hard feelings and I can see the funny side now haha.

For performance if I had to spent 160k you can't go past the GTR 35. 11.2 secs 0-400 stock,not too shabby!

Bit of progression today and finally the build is officially under way, aiming to have it running with the ba turbo engine, ecu, tr6060, interior and new front end in by this time next week. This morning we changed the rear end over to the 3.73 lsd from the gold xr6. The car had done 105k's so its in much better condition plus had a bunch of bushes recently replaced. Have some nolathane trailing arm bushes to go in but dont have the press working yet so that'll be later this week. After lunch we spent a few hours on the car, dropping the engine and trans and stripping down the front end to get ready for a bath. Hoping to get it all cleaned up and harnesses swapped over the new dash in before I hit the sack tomorrow night. Here's the last pic of it as a stocker, complete with dogsh*t on the front wheel Gotta love having a hoist. Pain in the ass job turned nice and cruisy and swap completed in a few hours Got the drag rear end setup for extra squat Engine out back first, thanks to Rollin on boosted falcon for this tip! Fits perfectly with 1.5 pubes clearance on the flex plate All naked in the front and ready to wash off 10 years / 290,000km of grime

/\ finally someone who knows how to spell brakes.

Hit up the toadmiester. He just fitted one and probably has the FG mounting hardware kicking around.

/\that car looks like

So had my FG on the track for the first time on Sunday, and holy hell... even after 3 years of driving it on the road I wasn't really prepared for just how hard it could go. The brakes definitely took a beating and now need replacing, but it was totally worth it. Had my winter wheels on with cheap tyres so corners weren't as good as they could be, plenty of squealing and sliding going on, but it was seriously good fun. Had a Toyota 86 behind me for a few laps, he'd be right on my butt out of the corners but then would all but vanish in the mirror on the straights. Was topping out around 205kmh on the main straight, passed a Boxter going up it at one point which made me smile. Average fuel economy for the day was 31l/100km... was quite surprised to see quarter of a tank disappear in 20 minutes. Now I definitely want to go again but feel that some improved brakes and something to help with the body roll wouldn't go amiss.

^^^ Oh yeah!! Good time ahead jet

Facesux = dicknutz

Never stopped me.

You can do that but it depends on what the manufacturer uses to seal the lights. Has obviously changed between B series to FG. Had mine in oven for over half an hour at 150 and couldn't split them

Got most of what I wanted done today. Most likely have another crack at the interior to get the dash out after dinner so I dont have to touch it again. Cant say its my favorite job. Also have a slight issue where the rear door isnt opening. I temporarily disabled the outside door handle to stop the car from unlocking when its pulled but it also seems like the child lock was on, had a quick stab with a coat hanger to try unlock it so it might not be locked. Next bet is the inside handle cable is now not doing what its meant to so happy days lol. Current plan is to cut the door card apart and manually actuate the lock but im open to suggestions. Front all washed up and looking like new. Hit it with a kerosene high pressure sprayer then twice over with truck wash.

You talking about getting the clear lens off the lights? I heave read on here that FGs aren't as easy as B series. My BFII lights came apart after just leaving them on concrete on a mid 30s day Bseries4lyf

I do have a brand new retrofit source D2S projector kit if you know anyone interested in doing a transplant on a older model

Needs "Roof Spoiler"

Poor trent

I ate coco pops

Do it! Poke the sh*t outta him till a roof spoiler that fits a ba falls out haha

No video, meant to get an old phone setup and riding in the windscreen but as a first timer I was being super wary about them saying they didn't want any lap timing etc, next time I'll have video and hopefully overlayed info from my bluetooth ODBII dongle

Normal mate. Nothing to worry about. If it really bothers you get your tuner to take a look at the timing at idle. Reducing it will reduce the POP

I'm tapping out at a bloke picturing another bloke

It is https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=man%20flu%20is%20worse%20than%20girl%20flu

? that's a huge intercooler ! Old mate in his Kenworth will be wanting that back once your finished ? Will be great to see how much it handles the temp

so here are a couple of pics, new cooler (without endtanks) compared with the nizpro one. the nizpro cooler is about 80mm thick.

My stock ba bottom end was pushed to 420rwkw an I ran a 10.5 at the drags with it. Had it tuned on united e85 I think with 21psi, was like that for over a year an then decided to go bigger on my project.

Coilovers and brembos. Watch out its addictive and expensive lol, glad you enjoyed it!

wait 10 years and the c63 will be worth less than a new festiva.

8 and 10 sounds pretty stiff lol, lot stiffer than I've got at the moment, what did you end up with on the track? The other massive benefit to coilovers is the independent adjustability of height and dampening. On the circuit we don't need all four corners completely set up the same, adding or removing height or dampening can help maintain grip on any given corner, say if it was being unloaded due to the characteristics of the circuit, eg all right handers, the load on all corners isn't the same so you can dial in more grip on the unloaded corners of the car. Either way shockworks or teins are both high quality coilovers that are a great improvement on handling for daily and occasional track duties.

nice one mate- whats the point of having a quick car if you dont enjoy it!

I had a mid 80's v8 fairlane years ago and it got flogged from my carport- the cock sucker was out on parole for 1 week.. low lifes.....

I've always wanted an lsd. It's just want go fast bits more

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/DBA42107S-DBA-T3-Front-Slotted-Rotors-x-2-Ford-Falcon-FG-XR6-Turbo-G6E-XR8-V8-/321134260194?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4ac517efe2&_uhb=1 You want the 322mm ones. Also, if you're gonna get them discount code is: VPPVIP. Dunno if it still work but it should.

Did somebody say Paint?

Was it about the stripes? That was funny, he wouldn't let it go like Ralph with steves paint

hahaha picked my car on a Thursday, 320rkw by Friday arvo Drove about 30ks with it stock

I knew a guy once, ran p98 in his lawn mower Tens years late bam! Herpes. True story

haha yeah Ben, good ol' Jonny at mount compass. dropping it off this sunday and picking her up when im back from work. will be very interesting to see how much better the new cooler performs especially after the huge increase Jonny got out of his GTX3576

At a rough guess Jarrad, "a good mate" = old mate down past Willunga and over the hill a bit? If so, cant wait to see the difference.

MiKa, I took an FG for a spin a year or so back (before fixing the trans+turbo), but the change over cost was large, and was hard to justify. Decided to stick with what I knew, fix it up and make it better than ever Graham West is doing the work/tuning. They have a good rep in Adelaide (also known as adelaide performance engineers), know there way around a xr6t, but dont get mentioned much on here. I was going to do a fuel pump, but he said mine was going fine, unneeded at this stage. I think your right about the wastegate, will be talking to him about it when I pick it up. Not sure how much more power I need....famous last words....

Consider it done, what ever it was it will be back tomorrow. We have heard rumours that it was a bit of tampering by someone who didnt like getting a ticket, a senior tech. has been assigned to the vehicle at all times. This is what I heard but dont quote me.