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Nice pics quigebo your ute looks great mate. Who own the black uste with the black/machined 20's and chrome mirror covers?? Seen that thing a few times around Success, looks very neat.

I just finished my home theatre install on Saturday, first time I have done one and I am very happy how it turned out. Just a few finishing touches to go. My room is about 6m x 4m but one corned of the room has a 2.5m recess at 45deg and this is where my screen is. Anway this is all low budget stuff, but everyone who has seen it so far has been blown away. Both by picture and sound quality and clerity. My projector is an Acer PD113P DLP Projector Specs: Click Here My home theater is a Yamaha 5.1 Channel Digital Home Theatre Package Specs: Click Here The projector cost me under $1000 and the home theatre package was $500. Plus all the other bits such as cable, screen materials etc were about another $200 max. Its a very simple setup. One componant going from the Yamaha amp to the projector and my DVD player, SD set top box, PS2 and/or PC plug into the Yamha receiver Componant inputs. I use fibre optic digital audio for the DVD and set top box to get 5.1 DTS, for other I just use standard L/R audio cable. The projector is 4:3 native so I decided to make the screen 4:3 also. With a 2m wide screen the picture is plenty big when watching movies and SD TV in 16:9. Frame is built out of HDF splade type skirting (62mm x 19mm) from bunnings and covared in black valvet from Spotlight. I painted the wall with normal Solver low sheen paint called "Slightly", which is an off-white with a touch of grey in it. I made the frame and put it on the wall to make it look neat. Here are a couple of pics via my mobile. I'll take a few better shots with my camera tomorrow and post them. Like I said I did all this myself and it is great experiance. Next house I am going to get a 16:9 HD projector and a better home theatre package, will stick to Yamaha again because for the money I could not find anything that comes close to them. Sorry about hijacking this thread but I just wanted to show that you do not have to spend big to get a nice setup. I will take a few pics of it all running just to show how it looks.

I have a couple of pics at home of a BA XR8 ute with cutom polished tray. Once my ADSL is activated I will post pics.

He's in Ocean Reef but will prolly come to do your house - where do you live?? ← SOR in Success, just off freeway. I'll give him buzz in a week or two to give me a quote.

Where does your mate live? I need some house windows tinted on my new place, but not much point calling this guy if he is way up NOR. Cheers. PS. Trent from TKO is very very good.

Yea my bad. The factory 18's are 245/40/R18.

Quick question. Appart from the speedo being out by about 3% are there any other negatives buy running smaller then factory wheels on a BA? Factory 18's are 245/45/R18 and I was running 235/45/R18. Factory 17's are 235/45/R17, would running 235/40/R17 be a bad thing? Specification Sidewall Radius Diameter Circumference Revs/km Difference 235/40-17 94mm 310mm 620mm 1947mm 514 0.0% 235/45-17 106mm 322mm 643mm 2021mm 495 3.8%

Love it .....I love the 300C and this is very much along the same lines.

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You will find that any decent exhaust shop should be able to knock up a custom rear section of the exhaust with quad pipes. I have seen a heard a custom one like in the pic with no rear muffler and quad pipe. I do agree it looks good, but IMO its just w*nk factor and the NA 6 sounded sh*t when under load.

People will be jumping out of their skins to help you with that attitude, get of your arse and search for one yourself ←

They look tops! Do they come in shadow chrome?

If you were in WA I'd give you $700 for the set.

In my opinion spending money supercharging these NA cars is a waste of money. CAPA had that white BA ute that they put the intercooled kit on and with 240+rwkw, they still said it was slower then a stock Turbo. Beats me but I don't know why anyone would spend 7K+ on one of these kits when you can just buy a Turbo. If you are real keen then look for some stock parts of a Turbo and do a Turbo conversion.

They told me they with match Tempetyres prices, so basically anything you see on tempe website they will get for same price.

They area a nice looking rim that is for sure!! I priced them up a while ago and they are not cheap, the 18x8 were $275 a pop. The Fusion rims from Tempetyres look identical and are a lot cheaper. You can get 18x8 for front and 18x9.5 for rear with rubber for around $1600 I think.

Old school rx7

Mine also did this and was fixed by the diff mob when I was getting my diff inspected. You are 100% correct in saying it is coming from the rear left. What the problem is is that one of the rear diff cradle bolts (left side) sits about 2mm away from the fuel tank. When you go over bumps etc, the entire cradle moves a little bit and the head of this bolt thumps against the fuel tank. The head of this bolt is domed, so the fix is to simply grind away the some of the domed part of the bolt. You will notice that there is actually a piece of thin foam stuck to the fuel tank to cushion this bolt if it touches the fuel tank. (At least mine has the foam - June 2004 build) Get underneath there and have a look for yourselves. Obviously you will find that this issue only affects sedans and not the utes as they do not have the diff cradle. ← Thanks for that mate. I'll have a look once the car is on the hoist, bit hard to get under there with the ride height

But a car for under 5k and save your money for a few years then invest it in something like a house

Steve, have you spoke to Wilkinsons Suspension Centre?? They did my supply and install plus alignment for $400 and quoted me 260 for supply and install of camber kit. If you go Kings SL and SSL you need camber kit. I learnt the hard way :( Good luck

I think we will see a lot more marked and un-marked Falcon now Black BF XT Mk2 6 speed auto persuit cars ....... <insert Borat voice> ......me likes very much!

Mate I got SL and SSL springs in my rig and it sits a lot lower then your car. Mine is guard on tyre and that is with factory 16 inch wheels. Not sure if I would go any lower. Over the last 5 years I have been pulled over by cops 4 times and all 4 times have been in Rockingham area. I think you may be asking for trouble.

......f*ck I just wrote this huge post and lost it!! Steve long story short. Cheap ADSL or ADSL2+ = Exetel ADSL1 no Tel. ADSL2+ inc Tel. Im with them and very happy. Any questions fire away!

Best advice is to ring insurance companies and get them to tell u the real deal.

Not sure about the new model Sony amps but I had a couple of their 2002 model 4x50wrms amps in my old EL and they were very good. These also had high level inputs but I did not use them, but I did read a long time ago that there high level inputs are much better then using external line level converters. I know that Strathfield are currently selling Sony 4ch amps for $269, which is pretty cheap and would be a very good upgrade. Wouls be pretty easy to install to.