sixfan

So you can make sure you don't bang your head on the rear parcel shelf when climbing through from the boot.......

I still wonder about some of the options I skipped (Stav Nav, Sunroof ect) but I got the big ticket items I thought mattered, the brakes, leather and tinting. I kept with the 17's but still wonder about the 18's but I suspect I made the right choice as some of the roads I drive can be "rim benders"

56Mainline, I think you have an excellent Idea, I don't see much fog here and would rather an extra pair of lights, not that the normal lights are that bad mind....

1 stones in sideskirt. that's it. I must be lucky!

The closer it gets the worse it gets. I had to sit for 2 F%$%*&G hours in the dealer while they sorted paperwork out. My T parked 4 mtrs away waiting for me to drive it!

Dead right Bez, therefore a well desighned big engine will out last a well desighned small engine. P.S I like small revvy engines, they're fun, but I also like big torque cruising up hills. Each to his own I guess.....

If we are discussing reliability, just do a search on "blown up" I can't find any reference of a T engine , even a modded one letting fly with engine internals becomming externals....Sure, hoses come off and some trouble with little ancillaries ....It may still be too early to tell but given that there are no glareing flaws with the barra, I think plonky's spot on, what wears out an engine? RPM. The 2ltr motors do more RPM to make up for the lack of cylinders (boosted or otherwise) bores wear, rings wear and bearings wear. The less RPM for a given power figure the less engine wear. So reliability wise my money's on the falcon. (And yup, an 8 will last even longer...) Anyhow, that's how I think if im wrong ...edumacate me , cheers!

never even driven any of those other cars let alone on the track, but I've got the premium brakes and am glad I did. I cruise at 160 kph on the highway (In the NT) and like the added confidence of the premiums.

In truth I haven't seen a bad roadrage since I left Canberra (7 years ago). Kalgoorlie and NT people just don't seem to get all that worked up over it. Perhaps it's the lack of traffic........

owned: XB 250 falc 240K another XB 250, a skyline, then another 240K, nissan patrol, mk1 1 3.4 jag, EFII XR6, 4.2 serII and now the "T" all 6cyls, Sixfan seemed......apropriate.

I just think it's funny now: way back when I had a XB and lived in Canberra I pulled along side an old s%@T box 180b, just as the lanes were merging into one, he accelerated, so I in my youth with testoterone fogging the higher functions of my brain, I planted my foot. I was just pulling out in front of him when the lanes came together and he pulled in really close. I eased off the accelerator doing 80 in the 80 zone. He put his highbeams on, sat so close that I thought I had a trailer. OK stab at the brakes, finger out the window, ect. Unfortunately the road came to a T with enough traffic that I had to stop. The datsun pulls up behind me and the door opens. OK I think Im 6'4 (afroementioned testosterone still present) If I get out Im sure he'll calm down. I looked back and this arm, the diameter of my leg came out then his leg followed It was massive. The torso that was pulled out was immense draped in a tight fitting white t-shirt with "AIS Wrestling team" scrawled accross the front. OK change of plan, I lock every door and start looking for a break inthe traffic, he comes up alongside my window and says "GET OUT" I look up and say "You gotta be shi$$ing me " he hit the window twice, I thought the glass would give. Anyway a gap in the traffic and I was off! No wonder he was so angry, willy all shriveled from the steriods and crammed up in a 180B!! :lol:

I'm pretty sure it's been stated elswhere that ford released th XR knowing about the brake problem, it's going to cost them a packet to fix but I guess it was a marketing descision to release when they did. I got the premiums without even knowing about the problems, but I felt Ford have a history of supplying the XR's with less than perfect brakes....(It is a modified car with standard brakes) Oops off thread....iaschmidt, given your experience, do you think underbonnet temperatures would be reduced by (GADS...I wouldn't) bonnet vents?

Just wink and blow 'em a kiss. They love it.

see you there, BTW if you want to go to the breakfast with the drivers on friday I'm giving my ticket away to the first to reply on the V8 supercars page

LAMENT OF THE COMMADORE MAN I wish I was a wiser man well read of books and stuff, I wish I was a smarter man studied up on all the guff I wish I had read Motor or even browsed through Zoom, or perhaps had gone to ford to hear the XR6's tune But it seems I am a man of lowly wit not kowing any better I bought a Expensive Daewoo piece of sh#t

Just a quickie, don't clean your discs while they are still hot, that is unless you wish to join in on the brake shudder Poll.......

Can't see the point for the T, If it works the ECU will just read an overboost fault and shut down the fun, if it doesn't work..well what would be the point then?? Better off fooling with the ECU.

It's the one way valve mounted immediately on the end of your tailpipe immediately after the fart-strings.

Haven't found any rubber bands, but I'll look tonight I did get a free screw in the drink holder though, :lol: :lol: amazing the lengths they'll go to to keep the customer happy.

I like the bsa264's too.

does anyone know how many T's there are on the road today? how long have they been in production? There must be at least 2000 on the road by now (?)

Whats starts as a few drinks (and ended up 4 bottle of wine) has lead to something great! I Let her drive the T on the weekend, I pretended I was asleep and watched the speedo creep up to 185 Kph. Boy can she drive :inlove: Enough of that.... IMO, If you can't ask to her face, use the phone and good luck the T has TWO seats in the front! (and a big bench in the back, that is unless you've got a ute

C'mon, behind by 800!

Just tell me where and when and I'll be there

BAS$%DS who ignore the freshly sealed road signs and temporary speed limits and tear down the road pratically straddling the centreline hurling stones at my BRAND NEW XR6T!! (Last weekend)