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Well I have finally ended up with a turbo Falcon! After a long line of falcons including an XD, el and ultra tough Xa I have picked up a 11/06 bf mkII turbo. Ex cop car. On first inspection the car is rough with clear coat separating and rusted out boot from spoiler being removed. Under the car, near on every bush is worn and will need some attention. Engine and trans mounts are shot, different bushes shot. Tail shaft center bearing looks ok and front control arm bushes and ball joint look pretty good too. The plan is to go right through the car and tidy up everything as needed before thinking about going fast. The goal is to have a sleeper car just a regular looking xt falcon with baby on board sticker outback with approx 300rwkw. I have sourced some ba xt bumpers, lights and grill and in search of xt side skirts also. Inside I want it quiet and comfortable so I have sourced a boat load of sound/heat deadening and will fit on top of the front plastic arches, under the carpet, roof and doors. I want it to feel nice inside. So far I have sourced: All rear end bushes in kelpro rubber Kelpro engine and trans mounts Front crank seal Rocker cover gasket Trans cooler (will mount in front bar) delete heat exchange Steel pan conversion kit Ag pipe and joiner for cold air intake and trans cooler cooling With a baby and life getting in the way, I plan to do things in stages. Shocks and brakes are high in the list too. I pulled the cradle out over the weekend and replaced the diff bushes. It was a fun job and while the cradle was out I cleaned the back end as best as I could I gave it a lick of paint. While doing this, I blew compressed air in just about every little hole and crack and nook and got 4 dust pans full of sand, rocks, dust, crud, crap. Its like free weight reduction!! I started to change the engine mounts and noticed on the turbo side that the turbo stud nuts were loose and one even missing. So turbo out and on the bench to fix and will also give me greater access to the top engine mount nut. Post up photos as I go along!

Merry xmas ya bunch of ohmos. See yous next decadaminium.

when you have access to a hoist like that, it makes your life much easier and probably therefore increases your enthusiasm to get started

Oh good to know! Even with two nuts holding it on, it showed no signs of leaking which is good I guess. Next up was to get the front bar off and run the cold air intake. I also modified the air box and fitted a 100mm joiner. I've glued it in place to seal it and I'll drill a few holes and bolt it in later too. Also grabbed a few pics of the back end looking much better with some touch up paint.

just an FYI, but there was no gasket from the factory between the exhaust manifold and the exhaust housing of the turbocharger (e.g. the T3 flange) and as long as the two surfaces remain flat, there isn't a gasket needed for that point. it's also completely normal to have one missing nut and/or stud nordloc washers and replacement nuts is the way to go to fix this on the manifold-to-turbo and turbo-to-dump-pipe connections.

Umbrellas and hats all round [emoji3]

Just following up on my findings with the injectors dot colours that I have found thanks to my wife working behind the counter at our local auto electrical shop. I calculated the factory flow matching tolerance in percentage for a quick reference

Love mine

J@ got me a new inversion table, must say, with all my issues, it’s definitely a huge win!

To be honest, I have had no increase in NVH with my IMS hat. I love it... I'll be pulling my cradle again soon, to install the true-Trac that I've had here for 18 months. This time, I will be machining the IMS hat to facilitate a O'ring seal. I have done very few km's in the car and it is weeping around the hat, despite using 3 bond during installation. I really think that IMS should consider this option with their hats... Just my 2 cents..

Made another board for Xmas with the fam...

It's obvious. I used to go through the windscreen before a surge tank

Some progress on the ole girl We decided to get some nice threaded water pump block off plates made! Already shipped one to Australia We also got thermostat housing weld plates made Also got a custom hood made to clear the Barra

the funny thing is there are claims of totaly stock FG's making XYZ rwkw but yet when I get them for a retune there know where near the mark & std injectors going to 270 rwkw, yep sure @ 100 duty from 4500rpm from some that I've seen.... please !! as Ratter mentioned there's to many variables & a good tuner will advise you what you can or cant get away with & its not always about adding more boost joe

Hi All, This is how I put my FPV Pod in my BF XR8 (Oil Pressure and Temperature). I used the harness available from Ford which made it easy as you dont have to cut anything. It took me around 6 hours and I think it would be worth using even for aftermarket instruments. I got the harness with a kit off ebay but unfortunately there was no information how to hook it up. I hope this helps you. Cheers Tom FPV_Gauge_Installation_Step_by_Step.pdf

just remembering where we have come from ( approx) eg BA 170- 185 BF 200- 225 FG 230- 260 all depends on different trannies, dynos etc eg my BA 4 speed auto 175 rwkw BA 6 speed man 210 rwkw BF 6 speed auto 230 rwkw