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Mondie, OK will dig some up. What model HO? Re pics.. I was ok with taking pics. I normaly take a heap when I first purchase a car. I was only able to take pics of the XB and XW at the same time due to a mate buying the XB from me.. Please PM me with your email address. (unless every one else wants to see...

Ah Mondie. How many do ya want of the HO. Geez it was a nice ride.. So sorry I sold it now. Oh well life goes on. I will scan a few more (back in the days of film...) and post them I am sure you have had a few nice cars in you time... I skipped the Mk II GT Cortina..

XB GT - burger with the lot.. (Emerald Fire) <div class='bbimg'> </div>Stuffed XA GT (Brown) <div class='bbimg'> </div>XW GT HO (Windsor) Reef Green <div class='bbimg'> </div><div class='bbimg'> </div>2 GTs together <div class='bbimg'> </div>AUII XR6 VCT (Venom) <div class='bbimg'> </div>BA XR6 Turbo (Phantom) <div class='bbimg'> </div>ED XR8 Sprint (Polynesian Green - Current ride) <div class='bbimg'> </div>

Dags, Yeh I agree the spot light work seems a bit HSV ish. Although the Red Typhoon also kinda looks like the old Series 3 AU T series.. All in all, not a bad upgrade...

Ah you BA guys are all the same.... . (been there done that) got rid of the BA and got a sprint instead... Take it to ford. Ha.. Be buggered.. . Get the codes your self of the ECU. Easy as pie on this classic sort of V8 power.. Good ol EEC-IV to the rescue.. See my post on the OTHER (shhh) site... On another note.. Hows tricks guys.. Not trying to hijack....

Guys, I have leased for the last 4 years (2 cars) and in the past I have been doing 40,000K+ each year. All in all a lease (through SMB) is line ball and if anything abit costly if only doing 25,000K and is a benifit if more that 40,000K (There are different FBT tax brackets for 15,000K to 24,999K and then from 25,000K to 39,999K then another bracket from 40,000+) All in all the lease is worth it for 40,000+, boarderline if less and definately not worth it for less than 25,000K. This is the primary reason I am selling my car and getting out of the lease. I am now doing less than 25,000K and it it just not worth it. On the flip side, I have found SMB to be one of the best to deal with re leaseing and there are no early termination costs with them...

Premium sound is colour screen, sub in the back, tweaters in the front A pilar. As per above the extra stuff like trip comp is the luxury pack where the car also has climate control. The prestige sound is the std screen (small 2 colour LCD) with a 6 stack cd player, No subby etc.

Quote from go-Auto Enews Feb 16 2005 "By MARTON PETTENDY THE future of Ford Performance Vehicles’ Typhoon sedan – which has joined the Blue Oval’s GT super-coupe as Ford’s second high-profile performance model to be plagued by a major recall in as many months – remains in doubt. “We don’t have a .x at the moment,” said Ford Australia president Tom Gorman last week. “We’re not selling them – we’ve stopped them going into dealers.” Mr Gorman said a solution to Typhoon’s clutch problem, which was exposed during performance testing by Motor magazine and initially dismissed by FPV as the result of driver abuse, had not been found. “There are three issues: 95 per cent of the effort is going into a technical fix for the vehicle at the moment. Clearly that’s where we have to focus and it’s a complex relationship between Ford, FPV and AP Racing, which is the supplier of the clutch,” Mr Gorman said. “So we are making progress in terms of closing down alternatives and honing in on the root cause and, ultimately, coming up with a fix. (But) I can’t tell you today how quickly that’s going to happen.” Owners of 80 Typhoon sedans in Australia and a further seven in New Zealand have been offered an exchange FPV vehicle until the problem is fixed. However, only 16 Typhoon customers have chosen to part with their vehicle. The Typhoon sedan was launched with much fanfare in November as FPV’s first turbocharged six-cylinder model and has a record 550Nm torque output for an Australian-built production vehicle. But the clutch problem, and FPV’s subsequent denial of it, has caused embarrassment for Ford – both publicly and internally. The media launch of Typhoon’s utility sibling, the Tornado ute, was also postponed and both turbocharged FPV models remain unavailable. “I meet with FPV guys three days a week and they don’t really want to meet with me … so we’re working really hard to fix this at the moment,” said Mr Gorman. “The other issue is the process, but when you’re faced with a problem you don’t do that until you’ve fixed the problem. It’s a case of fix the problem and then come back and look at the process breakdown – how did this happen? “And then I think there’s a behavioural issue here, too, because this was identified to us and perhaps we didn’t listen as carefully as we should have to the marketplace. “Culturally, we have to be careful of arrogance. When people tell you something you have to listen. This is a very emotional game, particularly with a performance vehicle. People put their heart and soul into these things and so you sometimes get an immediate reaction that, really, better thought through wouldn’t have been the appropriate reaction. “I think we’ve done a great job of taking care of the customers. We’ll fix the problem first, then we’ll get to the process issues. I don’t want to roll (FPV boss) David (Flint) under the bus. He’s made FPV a great business.” The Typhoon debacle follows a similar recall in the US involving Ford’s born-again GT supercar, which is currently doing the rounds at Australian motor shows, including Brisbane last week and Melbourne from March 3. Ford Motor Company individually advised 2005 GT owners in December “not to drive their vehicle under any circumstances” until two recalls were performed. In the first of two recalls, Ford will inspect the fuel system of all GTs made between October 13 and November 19, 2004. Some of the Ford GTs may require the installation of a new fuel tank. The second recall involves all 470 GT coupes manufactured at Ford’s Wixom, Michigan, Special Vehicle Centre – from job one on June 30 to the final examples built on December 11. It relates to potential suspension control arm fracture, replacement parts for which were not made available until February 1 this year." Come on Tom, looks like you guys and Ford and FPV have finally relised that you MUST listen to the customer when they have problems.. So does this mean you will fix the clunking diff issues across the BA range?.......

Ask a chosen one <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You rang?.... Press the edit button at the bottom of the post and go for it... I have added Geea for ya.. Unfortunatly I will not be there. Too long a day for the 10mth old.. Will stick my nose into FPV the following week though. Button Here............................................................................ ..\/

March 03. 68800Ks of bliss...

Vibe, Welcome to the mad house. Just on the tow bar, even though the bar is heavy duty (2300KG I assume) ALL Ford BA manuals are limited to 1200KG towing capacity due to the clutch.... Just letting you know just in case the dealer did not tell you... Have fun......

Guys, The pro rata thing is standard at the tyre joints. To get full warranty go to the dealer. There is definately a service buliten out on this one, back in around Aug- Dec 03. If the dealer does not know anything about it, go to another dealer. :o (Unless Ford have pulled the service buliten out of curculation - I doubt it though).

Prepsol is the go.. Used buy car painters to clean the surface before apllying a layer of paint. Gets the tar off nicely from paint and wheels. Will not damage the paint either...

Chill out! Tomato Sauce or BBQ Sauce.

Nice try Vik.. :ladysman: If you dont like the subject dont read the thread...

Guys, Guys... Talk about hang'in sh!t ... :violin: This is the chit chat section. No problems with this sort of thing. Like all, we like to share the good things, bad things, and really sad things.. This is is just sad... poor Beemer... and the poor b@stard that owns it.. :violin: Play nice... :ladysman: Dont even start to type if you think this is mod backing up mod... :violin:

Any more of this crap and this one is a goner... End fun police warning 2... :o

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Direct quotes from Go Auto E news re HSV / PWR and a supercharger... GoAuto -news e DECEMBER 1, 2004 Page 3 By BRUCE NEWTON Expensive Daewoo Special Vehicles will launch spectacularly into the aftermarket business next year with its performance parts line-up headed by a supercharger kit for the Gen III/LS1 V8 engine. The Roots-style blower will be the most expensive offering in a line-up initially expected to comprise 25 items. It is expected to retail for around $10,000 with 800-1250 forecast to be sold per annum. But the most spectacular numbers are the potential performance the supercharger will extract from the third generation small-block Chev. HSV’s initial dyno testing using the now defunct 300kW Callaway C4B engine extracted around 350kW and 600Nm, with 500Nm kicking in from 2000rpm. Those figures set new benchmarks in local mainstream performance terms. They outdo HSV’s own newly launched Z Series LS2 6.0-litre range for kilowatts (297), and the brand new FPV F6 Typhoon turbocharged six-cylinder for Newton metres (550). But those figures are only preliminary, based on a relatively low 5.5 psi of boost and without any real attempts at calibration. .... (edit Yeh right....) The final engine and transmission calibration work has been handed over to Bosch as HSV struggles with its own workload. The suggestion is that more power could be extracted, although that will obviously vary depending on which Gen III/LS1 V8 is used as a base. The supercharger is not an in-house HSV development, rather it is the work of Queensland-based PWR Performance and its US partner Magnuson. The money man behind PWR is Queensland businessman Kees Weel, who established the company with son Paul back in 1998. Weel senior also owns a V8 Supercar team for which his son races. PWR Performance specialises in the design and manufacture of high-end radiators, oil coolers and the like for racing and aftermarket applications. In 1998 it turned over $30,000; this year that figure should top $7 million with substantial overseas sales. PWR initially got involved in the supercharger project because Magnuson needed a water-to-air intercooler for the supercharger it was developing for the Australian-built Pontiac GTO. One thing led to another and PWR became intrinsically involved in the project – so much so that Mr Weel contacted HSV managing director John Crennan in mid-2003 to ascertain his interest in adapting the unit for use by HSV. “We are just going to offer a range of products that I think will do a hell of a lot better job in terms of quality, pricing, back-up, service etcetera than what some of the – if you like – ‘amateurs’ are doing,” Mr Crennan said. ..(Edit.. And who are we having a stab at here hey??).. “If we have 25 key products in our tuning portfolio, one or two are under Kees and one or two are from other specialist companies, and another two or three from other specialist companies, then some from our own organisation. These are the things that will make it up.” Along with the supercharger, PWR will supply Alcon brakes to the HSV line-up. PWR is the Australian distributor for the British braking system. While ‘HSV Tuning’ has been the working name for Mr Crennan’s after-market ambitions, don’t expect that to make it through to sign-off. “It probably won’t be. It will be from the House of Clayton or the House of HSV, because we will want to keep the pure brand name in the OE product,” Mr Crennan said. Page 4.. THE supercharger kit for the third generation Chev small-block engine is potentially only the start of a HSV-PWR engine tuning relationship. Next up is a plan to develop an aftermarket kit for the LS2 V8 just launched by HSV in the Z Series. But further out is the prospect of developing a supercharged version of the Alloytec V6 engine for HSV’s VE Commodore-based range due around mid-2006. According to PWR Performance business manager Mark Roworth, that is “the carrot at the end of the vine” which has been dangled in front of PWR by HSV owner Tom Walkinshaw and Mr Crennan. “Tom Walkinshaw identifi ed very strongly to us that … his focus was going to be a V6 program,” Mr Roworth said. “So I guess one of the key goals for us is to utilise the development process for the LS1 and then embark on a joint development program for a (FPV F6) Typhoon killer.” The signifi cant difference compared to the V8 projects, according to Mr Roworth, is that Mr Walkinshaw sees the supercharged V6 as a production model rather than as an aftermarket kit. “PWR is a development company, and if you are going to try and develop something, you want to try and develop it to its full potential, which means having it as an OE product would be highly desirable,” said Mr Roworth. “However, we are not sure whether HSV would want to go down that path completely yet. It’s certainly been given to us as a task to evaluate whether this is at all feasible.” And what about HSV turbocharging the Alloytec? After all, Expensive Daewoo has revealed its intentions with the Torana TT36 concept car, complete with twin turbos. Wouldn’t it be easier for HSV to launch off that program rather than go off on another tangent? Two main reasons are against this, argues Mr Roworth – as a point of differentiation with FPV which has embraced turbocharging for the F6 Typhoon and Tornado, and the long predicted lead time on a twin-turbo V6 becoming available. “At the moment they have a single-turbo 2.8 for the Saab program and obviously that does not apply to what Expensive Daewoo and HSV would want,” Mr Roworth said. “But the twin turbo they have developed from within GM is not planned to be in production until around 2008.” – BRUCE NEWTON Correct me if I am wrong but... Didnt one of the HSV chiefs say they were only in it for the V8 market... Looks like Tom has other ideas... (other thread re the Typhoon and Tornado.. ) Bring it on I say..

Nice...

Most of not all the XB and XC race cars in those days started life as a XA and just had the tail lights, gards and bonnet changed to suit the current road car. All this crap aside. That car is XA through and through... (Gards for example) I have seen the #2 (of the famous finish XC 1-2) and it started life as a XA. Rear quater tail lights changed from horizontal to vertical between XA and XB ( I think) and this car has clear weld marks where it was changed.. Should see the rear inner gards on that puppy.. Std yeh right... Got away with heaps in those days... oh the memories... Enough dickhead from me .. bye..

The Mk II has the same audio system as the Mk I.. So as per above. Nope.. Will not play them..

dingah2, Mate, the issue is primarily only on the early ones (within 12 months from release). they found the problem in around Oct 03 and creatde the notice to dealers and fixed the side wll in the new tyres. The issue is the side walls. (mainly in the cooler climates) mainly on the inner side of the tyre small cracks appear in the side walls. If you have this problem take it to a Ford dealer for full not out of pocket replacement of the effected tyres (not limited to tyre wear) If you take it to a beaurepairs then they will do a warranty but charge you for the usage (wear) of the effected tyres. I has a sh*t fight to get mine replaced as noticed the issue when in Katherine I Oct / Nov 03 and went to Beaurepairs and not ford.. Got my money eventualy...