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for sure mate,alot of good info/guys on this site plan is to buy a new low km car ( eying up a 2009 honda fit with 40xxx ) for the next year while we have the baby/sort out bills life etc 😂😂 plan on getting another FG xr6 turbo or maybe go for a xr8

correct, had it booked in for Monday as well 🙃 he came up on the Saturday, had a look, took it for a drive, paid for it then drove it all Saturday and Sunday in the 4s & rotas car show, hes going to gett his motor snd trans built and then throw it in my old car, got 18.5k for it so both party's were happy

guy put up a post on facebook, he had a dash green xr6turbo that he crashed, asked him how much for his gearbox etc, he drove up and brought my car as is, he'd been looking for a dash xr6t for a while with no luck,

they said ita around 3-600 depending on what they find, ill get them to fix it up for that as well , they are gearboxfactory.co.nz, they seem pretty good

looks like its only around 300-600 to get mine rebuilt, going to look at getting that done while I keep on looking for a 2nd hand zf in nz 🙃🙃

Are the turbo and na the same?

Hay mate, Can’t seem to find any factory ones, only hi stall ones which I’m not familiar with

any one selling a 6HP26 for a fg xr6 turbo????? been trying to find one on new zealand for the last month or 2 and there's pretty much nothing about or even a torque converter would be good, there is a bf 6hp26 gearbox but got told id have to send the tcm to be reprogramed?( seem to be mixed info on the net ) tried talking to the workshop but they don't wana talk about it, pretty much just said bring a box in and they will swap them over \ atm trans feels good, nothing weird happening with it apart from the torque converter slowly playing up not looking at a built box as I just want to get it fixed so I can sell it ( have a baby due April so car has to go )

they didn’t actually give me a figure just said it be a sh*tload cheaper to put a 2hand one in, I’m in Timaru only really one shop that does transmissions, tbh I’m going to sell it after it’s sorted, Day after all this happened partner told me she was pregnant lol

wow haha thanks mate, a lot of good info there, some I'm pretty much better off only really looking for one from a FG onwards really, have seen a couple in nz for sale with 200-211xxx km, think ill see if I cvan find a lower km one 1st lol did see a full FG manual kit pop up for sale last night, only 7.5k for it lololol

thank you for the info some did say they have a fg trans with 60xxxkm for 700 but seems to good to be true, Facebook is so full of scams

Does any one know if a bf xr6t zf would work in a fg xr6 t? Or does it need to be a fg one? Found a bf one for 1600nzd with 120xxx

such bad timing hahah, friday night the trans cooler craped out, then the saturday the GF tells me shes knocked up lol oh well, any selling a zf for a fg in new zealand????????????? 🤣🤣

workshop rung and said he took it for a drive and the torque converter is on its way out, he said the gearbox will be as well 🙃

hi mate sorry for late reply there was some coolant mixed with the oil when they flushed it, they said there was more oil in the coolant than coolant in the trans, booked back in today, going to get them to check to oil level and take it for a drive and see what they think, then go from there, guessing if its worse case ill try get a 2nd hand gearbox over a rebuild

cheers mate ill ring up and book it in, can the oil level drop after a drive or 2? https://imgur.com/dbTF86V - video of the revs

looks like I may of not been so lucky, 1st few drives were sweet, gearbox felt better than before, but this morning when I was driving to work the revs were jumping around quite abit, will see how I go after work, just my luck lol

Will do, I did flush all the cooling System straight away, was just the trans part I wasn’t confident in, here’s hoping

update, got the car back, they flushed everything replaced trans cooler, and car drives amazing, gear changes feel smoother than before, looks like I got lucky

Yeah lots of things I could of done better, got the car back, they flushed everything replaced trans cooler, and car drives amazing, gear changes feel smoother than before, looks like I got lucky

Sorry 1200nzd is for the 2nd hand stock one

have been looking at other bypass's etc, think ill stick to stock for now and just get the car up and running then look at it again

hay guys looking at getting a 2nd ZF out of a 2009 ge6T 90,xxxkm, guy has a built gearbox but is going in a different direction with his car, atm valve body and convertor are in the car with his built gearbox question is can I use the valve body and convertor from my gearbox or would they be stuffed from the coolant and trans oil mixing? car is going in on thursday for them to pull it apart but pretty sure its stuffed, when I we checked the oil line on the trans cooler it was pretty much all coolant 😒 im thinking it might be cheaper to buy the 2nd hand ZF ( 1200 nzd without the valve body and convertor or 1600 nzd with them ( would have to wait 2 weeks for him to remove them from car ) than for them to muck around pulling part mine and doing flushes etc is there anything else I should be aware of? sorry if they are dumb questions, any feedback is welcome

Hopefully be tomorrow, had to wait for mate to be free, I’m not that mechanically minded with cars, have drain all the coolant out

yeah they nice guys but they are rip offs, tried charging me 1500 nzd to replace the water pump, the idler and also the tensioner ( cost me like 350buxs for the parts ) im always down for ideas mate, yeah I dono why id do that lol was only bubbleing from the coolant leak, im a dumb ass lol