05 Typhoon Or 08 Fg Xr6 Turbo

["Captain Retard"]

That's awesome CHALAXN!

I think he said he bought it at about 90,000kms, it has 163,000kms on it now so that's what I meant about half it's life.

So it looks like I'm the 4th owner then.

I love the car and for the future I'm just going to tidy it up which won't take much as the cars in pretty good nic.

Did you take out the screen in the oil feed line too the turbo as that was going to be my first job?

Did you do any mods beside blue silicon hoses and lowering it?

This car will be a keeper so any additional info (good or bad)from a previous owner would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

[arronm]

Ask chalaxn if he left the cop chip in the on or off position.

I prefer it in the on position but ralphy likes it *off

[CHLAXN]

I brought it from Sinclair ford with about 68,000kms traded my BA xr6t ute in for it.. traded the F6 in for my fg xr50 ute in September 2010 at Sinclair ford had 120,000kms when it was traded in. Yeah had fair few mods done to it was was returned back to stock when I traded it in. The a/c was re-gased in about October 2010..

Yeah I took the oil screen out did have a an oil line but removed before sale.

Gearbox was serviced at 100,000 with castrol transmax z and diff with castrol SAF- XA oil. Coils were replaced at 100,000 to with genuines. I used nulon 10-40 engine oil.

I'm surprised by rust in the boot though had none when I had it.

Did have another set of wheels on it

Edited 23/05/14 07:38 AM by CHLAXN

["Captain Retard"]

Thanks a lot for the info CHLAXN , I really appreciate it.

The pics look great!

It's only the boot lid that has rust that I can see so far, so I will either repair or replace, haven't decided yet.

Inside and out the car is in good condition for its age.

I'm just going to give her a good going over and enjoy driving her for a while.

My 9 year old daughter has already named her " BUMBLE BEE"

Thanks again!

[JETURBO]

Bloody hell I remember that chlaxan

But....... Don't I also remember you with the engine out one time ?

["Captain Retard"]

Oh no here we go again I'm starting to FREAK OUT again!!!!

Naaaah just joking LOL!

What ever he did to it he fixed it cause the engines running sweet and that was over 40,000ks ago.

I'm still stoked with the car!

[CHLAXN]

Yeah should be running sweet mate. Original motor lost compression so got it built by atomic performance. I fell on hard times with a back injury so had to part out all the bit off the car. That included the built motor which was sold to a forum member and still going good. Atomic performance ended up building me another motor for the car using all the gear out of the original motor including the F6 rods and pistons. That went in the car around around 110,000kms so was a fresh engine. If you look at the rego papers you will see it has a different engine number to the vin. Can't be any more honest with it. All the best

Edited 24/05/14 10:34 AM by CHLAXN

[Ralph Wiggum]

Can't be any more honest with it. All the best

You didn't actually have to say anything so good on you for giving the new owner the rundown!

["Captain Retard"]

Cheers for that CHLAXN , yeah I did notice the motor didn't match the vin when I first checked it out, I wasn't to worried to be honest!

["Captain Retard"]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not dirty about the car, quiet the opposite, I'm stoked !

When I first had a proper look at the car and saw the blue silicon hoses and odd engine number I had a feeling someone had had a play but the car drove really nice and had obviously been looked after. It was good buying for the money. Finding a previous owner that's as honest as CHLAXN is a real bonus after all it was his car too do what ever the hell he wanted, I hope you don't feel guilty about it! Otherwise I would be still wondering 10 years from now.

I've got a couple of questions I hope you can answer CHLAXN.

Can you put me in touch with the member you sold the motor too? Or get him to contact me if he wants to as I would like to keep track of the original block.

Do you still have the original pod gauges? I like the autometer gauges and will keep those in place but would also like the originals as well.

Is the exhaust system original as it seems to have a bit of a note? It sounds nice though!

If I come across as a bit pedantic then I'm sorry it's just that I've been playing with cars for over 30years and remember well the 80s and 90s when GT fords were cheap and people thought nothing about keeping things original. When the prices went up I had mates trying to locate their old blocks for their GTs etc.

Now a lot of people don't think the Typhoons will be worth anything in the future but IMO they maybe wrong and I think it's worth hanging onto the original gear.

I'm not anti- modify , quiet the opposite it's just I'm old enough to remember and history often repeats!

The Typhoons and XR6ts are a bit special IMHO !

It was along time between the 70s GT falcons and Cobras before Ford made anything special , I mean a Turbo 6 that with minor mods can put out serious HP!

I don't think the V8s will be as popular though IMO. It's old tech and GTs were just living on the glory days(sorry if I upset anybody but they didn't appeal to me where as the Typhoons really got my attention )

Other cars that will be worth money down the track are the first of the WRXs( before they got porky) and the Aust delivered GTR 32s in original condition .

Sorry to rattle on , I didn't mean too write a bloody book but this is where I'm coming from.

Cheers!

Edited 24/05/14 09:51 PM by Tex Scrotum rides again