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I was at the spraypainters shop today prepping all my bike stuff. I was using the rear wing of one of those cool old all wheel drive Celicas under a car cover to leave my phone and keys so I wouldnt lose them. Niall, who owns the shop, tells me its a targa car and I take a quick peek and got all nostalgic cos I got to have a drive of a road car back in the day. So then the owner turns up and thankfully is not pissed at me for using his car for a shelf. But it turns out this thing is a an ex Carlos Sainz WRC that the owner uses in the major targa events. Its punching 600 hp and apparently it loves clutches and gearboxes. Its using a Toyota GT26 turbo too, apparently thoroughly hotted up. He was happy for me to grab a couple of snaps. Apparently it cost him quite a bit of money.

So if that's going by holdens usual engine power rating system she'll probably put out a solid.... 330rwkw? Reckon I'd be taking a gtr at that price point... or m3/m5/c63

"once you go black, you will think it looks mint, until an hour later when a fine layer of dust, or pollen, or it rains, or a bird sneezes in Africa and it looks dull and dirty again.... And you realise why people go back"

I used what I had handy - one of those stubby flathead screwdrivers from the $10 kits to scrape up my lead clamps and it worked well Just SMASH IT MAN

Watching movies under the bonnet?

Cos fancy pancy brush is a tool, and we all know more tools = more manhood. "I wish I didn't have so many tools" said no man EVER FACT!

Why would you go and buy a fancy brush when you can just use steel wool? Silly bugger spending to much time looking for new wheels instead of thinking.

Can u imagine the amount of PMs theyre in for

Word filter FTW Car sounds cool power wise. Wonder how many times I'll actually see one around and what the body kit will be like. They should bring back tri-spokes.

You just can't catch a break mate. The trans shop should be ashamed of themselves. Such a blatant disregard for the treatment of customers parts. I wonder what they would accept the part, if the tables were turned. VERY poor form. I almost feel embarrassed for them...

Its water to air intercooled. Theres a ton of cooling in the nose including water sprays for extra coolage. My fave memory is Sainz rolling one of these and then blazing off down the track as soon as the wheels hit the ground.

23 IN THE STINK

Better let all the guys on here know that, pretty sure no one has eclipsed 475 "flywheel" kw's before with an auto.....

Very rare buy a lottery ticket mate

Credit where credit is due mate and you're coming along well in these areas and it shows.... Even a bit jelly at your skills

Need new rims now as well?

What Pissing me off is that no one has been on site all week. Scaffolding up and by contract I have paid for 6 weeks. Anything over 6 weeks and I have to pay for it, says the contract. Will guess what MOFO builder not happening. Every day and everything you do Mr Builder I document including times. Whilst im still on a rant just received invoice for external walls. Here's something Mr Builder how about you finish the external walls first before asking for money just like the windows that I have paid for and 5 still not in and 3 missing glass.

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My first ever dream car. In TRD/castrol colours. Had pictures of them everywhere in my room as a kid. cept the twin headlight model. 'Ol Neil Bates and Corel Taylor. Loved the bonnets, even though top mounts surly cant be that efficient. *sigh*

23 in the mid?

Also adam west

Expensive Daewoo are doing what ford never had the balls to do; build ridiculous cars that are price unjustified, not to make money, but show everyone the mad sh*t that can be done. Everyone wants to test drive the gts-r, and they'll leave driving the omega. No it doesn't make sense, but that's the point when you buy these cars. Imagine if ford built a HO or coupe. People would be loosing their sh*t

Solid attitude ^^

Pixy - stick it to em! Fluff, yeah that or like this (less usable space but cooler). Not necessarily this exact design but yeah. Makes me think of 8 bit Mickey Mouse haha.

Oh gaz please didn't your pro tuner lift your head a half a dozen times trying to get E85 into it hahaha if torque and power are progressively lifting you wouldn't feel anything except a constant pull hence why torque is displayef to show how it "feels" a BA is vastly different to a BF when we tune and how we can tune so 330 in a BA isn't same/same as 330 in a BF I was using the 7k figure as a higher end example as more expensive higher spec parts were used and still only came in at 7k let alone the 15k op spent on the point break tune .....

YA Better Home and Garden, great show that.

Sounds crap pix Stever this is what I meant about shelves

Love the effort and quality you put into everything mate well done

15k with a tune like that ........ You got raped twice over bud I tuned this BA two weeks ago and only just nudged 15psi the car has approximately 7k drive in drive out as the owner didn't lift a spanner ( if you were to replicate the hard parts and pay rrp to install it all ) yes its manual but it would be at least 310rwkw if it was a BTR

Spent 2 hr working on beau car making a trans cooler bracket out of of cuts of aluminium .had to rip them to suit and then machine some holes and shapes out of them to look more race car oriented . Still got to trial fit them to the car ,after that to the powdercoater to get done in black .got to be done this coming week as he will ether tow it or drive it to munchies car show next friday for the Expensive Daewoo show .wish him luckeven went and got proper mounting damper mounts . I also got some 3 mm aluminium for making my catch can etc .will be a buisy weekend

Installed new idle pulley today. old one would sometimes make a ticking sound and when I removed it I could feel how bad the bearing was. Somehow I did it in like 5 minutes but was under the bonnet for half an hour because I like just looking at the thing (it must be love?).

It's just to clean the contacting surfaces so there's a good connection, so yea it will be fine. The spray they tried to sell you is to coat the terminals and stop any corrosion or oxidisation buildup on them.

fark man just try it? lol. Will be fine, ive used a terminal screwdriver to rough up the posts and inside of the terminals, smashed it down, job done. Dont however, touch the steel wool between the posts.....Sandpaper would probably work, wire brush..etc.

Yeah, but it went down shortly after

hehehehe. All good. I placed it there more for Kyle, cause his ute was on one of the first cruises I got out on. I will make some time later on to get them all on that page. I promise...............

Fark me K31th, that stalled the computer for 5 mins while it downloaded. I can't believe that you linked all of that back to here. the least you could have done, was do it in this thread: http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/89609-best-cruise-pics/

John Wick 9/10

That first hit of boost after having a hire car buzzbox for a day, awww yeeeaaaahhhhhhhh

needs more yellow and a massive wing if it wants to pay homage to the super rare original GTS-R. Will be a seriously awesome car. Guess the GTS will be king after all

cant wait till your turning a tyre mate, coz fark you deserve it. Your persistence is admirable

pfft. weak effort, Marco

Just got off the phone with the automotive engineer. He's advised me to put absolutely everything in the application form (ie VSB14). If there's a problem with anything then it can easily be deleted later, but things can't be added. What the engineering process will cover: - The Plazmaman intake manifold and aftermarket injectors. This is what the emissions test was for. - I'm going to replace the standard 4-piston front Brembo/single piston PBR brake setup with 6-piston front Brembo and 4-piston rear Brembo calipers. This might not require certification, but the engineer will include a braking test anyway that will make them legal. - I've put Bilstein shock absorbers on the car, with standard height springs. He's going to measure the height of the car and certify that anyway. Modified suspension cannot lose more than 1/3 of the original travel. - There's a possibility that a noise test may be required because of the engine bay modifications. Everything on the car will be standard factory stuff (ie dump pipe, catalytic converter and mufflers). - I'm going to use 18" wheels instead of the original 19" ones. The engineer will photograph it all and write a report for DOT. Cost: $500 for the lot. Engineering costs: - Two Temporary Movement Permits (to and from emissions testing): 2 x $23.00 = $46.00 - Fitting standard dump pipe and catalytic converter, and emissions testing: $580 - Engineering inspection and report: $500 Total: $1,126 Ok, that's $1,126 that I wouldn't have had to spend if I could have snuck the car through an inspection with its current setup. But, now I know that was never going to happen, so money was going to have to spent somewhere on getting the car through an inspection. Even if I had put it back to standard I couldn't see that getting done for less than $500. To put a standard intake plenum on and then put the Plazmaman one back on after the inspection was quoted at $600 at one place. As much as I hate spending money, and I really don't have it to spend this year, I just don't have the mechanical skills or knowledge to put the car back to standard. Money was going to have to be spent, and it's turning out that doing it the legal way isn't so expensive or difficult after all. At the most, I've got a cost difference of roughly $500 between putting the car temporarily back to standard and getting it engineered legally. That's a no-brainer.

Mate have you banged someone's Mrs or something?!

By the looks of it, the road.

theres a fkn brochure?

Tuesday, 24th May, 2016 The Tornado has officially passed an emissions test! I had been undecided all this time on whether to put the car back to standard for a licencing inspection or to get it engineered legally. The first step to doing it legally was to get an emissions test done. I had been asking around about this for months but kept getting vague and misleading answers from various people in Perth. In the end I rang Plazmaman in Sydney, and eventually had a conversation with someone who knew a bit about this. He told me that getting this car through an emissions test would be a lot simpler than I was expecting. I was told to put a standard Ford catalytic converter back on. Apparently this is one of those rare times when the factory produced something better than any aftermarket place has. Regardless of the tune, it’s the catalytic converter that does the work in controlling the emissions. The first time my car was tested it failed. Cars often pass the first time, but this one didn’t. Catalytic converters work better when they’re hot, so to get them hot enough involves revving the engine a lot before the emissions test. The hotter the catalytic converter is, the more effective it is. When I picked up the car I asked how he got the car to pass on the second attempt. The answer was, “I had to rev the hell out of it.” This was done on the dyno. So, with aftermarket Xspurt injectors, a Plazmaman intake plenum and a custom tune, the car legally passed an emissions test with the standard dump pipe and catalytic converter in place. No tuning changes were required in the end. The car might have failed on the first attempt because the catalytic converter was old. I don’t know how old it is, or how many km it’s done. I think it came from a BA Typhoon, which would make it over 10 years old. I swapped it for something else last year, in case I ever needed one. That turned out to pay off. If I was going to do it again then I would track down the newest and least used original factory catalytic converter that I could find. For the testing, I chose a place called Garage 101, as they have both an emissions testing machine and HP Tuners software. HP Tuners would have allowed them to easily modify the tune if required. This involves altering the air/fuel ratios and ignition timing. However, this ended up not being necessary. Naturally, I’m rather pissed off that I didn’t know about this option back when I first got the car. I had asked around at various Perth tuning workshops, but got fed rubbish answers everywhere I went. The owner of one place refused to even discuss it unless I paid him for the conversation. One thing that I did check: workshops keep a record of this stuff. Although I had briefly pondered if it was possible to make up a fake emissions test, I figured that such a move would be way too stupid and risky. Sure enough, workshops keep a permanent record of these tests, so if an audit was ever done by the Department of Transport then it would quickly become apparent that someone’s committed fraud. Getting this done was expensive - I paid $580 to have the standard dump pipe and catalytic converter put back on, and then the emissions testing done until it passed. One place that I spoke to quoted me $1,500 to do the same job. Where I had this done: Garage 101 70 McDonald Street (East) Osborne Park, WA 6017 Phone: 9444 5977 Web Site: www.garage101.com.au My next step will be to start the engineering process, which will end up making this car 100% legal. Although ultimately more expensive than the option of temporarily setting the car back to standard for an inspection, getting it engineered will ensure that it won’t get a future defect notice (which would painfully restart the entire process). Getting it engineered will also mean that I can declare everything to whatever insurance company I end up insuring this car with. If the car is ever involved in any sort of insurance claim then I won’t have any concerns about it being properly covered. To pick up the Tornado, I drove my other one there, parked it and drove the green one home. I then rode my KTM enduro bike (ie road licenced) back, put it in the back of the blue Tornado and drove it home. Sooner or later I’ll remove the hard lid on the green Tornado so that it can carry motorbikes easily. That will happen when I’ve got a second person here to help me with that. After 11 months of stuffing around, and being stuffed around, I’m finally getting close to actually getting this car through an inspection and licenced. It’s about bloody time.

Same here kyle about the electrician part hey !! Last thing I want to do on the weekends I want it to look like the amityville horror house so I can go chop wood and NO CRYING ........

Yeah we like it. Wanna buy a bigger block at like aldgate or belair ...somewhere like that but enoigh to have a horse and some room to test the bikes etc... Build a big custom house... that's thw dream anyways lol Latest design I was sketching was somwthing like this: Ground floor: Exterior But that's a little away... probs after I go back to full time after bubs 2

I love how I got credit when I really didn't give you any useful info beyond "yeah dunno ay should be similar to B series just pay attention to size of bolts and don't tighten them up so much you snap them" hahaha. Forgot to even tell you what Luke suggested about starting from the centre!