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Well I have finally ended up with a turbo Falcon! After a long line of falcons including an XD, el and ultra tough Xa I have picked up a 11/06 bf mkII turbo. Ex cop car. On first inspection the car is rough with clear coat separating and rusted out boot from spoiler being removed. Under the car, near on every bush is worn and will need some attention. Engine and trans mounts are shot, different bushes shot. Tail shaft center bearing looks ok and front control arm bushes and ball joint look pretty good too. The plan is to go right through the car and tidy up everything as needed before thinking about going fast. The goal is to have a sleeper car just a regular looking xt falcon with baby on board sticker outback with approx 300rwkw. I have sourced some ba xt bumpers, lights and grill and in search of xt side skirts also. Inside I want it quiet and comfortable so I have sourced a boat load of sound/heat deadening and will fit on top of the front plastic arches, under the carpet, roof and doors. I want it to feel nice inside. So far I have sourced: All rear end bushes in kelpro rubber Kelpro engine and trans mounts Front crank seal Rocker cover gasket Trans cooler (will mount in front bar) delete heat exchange Steel pan conversion kit Ag pipe and joiner for cold air intake and trans cooler cooling With a baby and life getting in the way, I plan to do things in stages. Shocks and brakes are high in the list too. I pulled the cradle out over the weekend and replaced the diff bushes. It was a fun job and while the cradle was out I cleaned the back end as best as I could I gave it a lick of paint. While doing this, I blew compressed air in just about every little hole and crack and nook and got 4 dust pans full of sand, rocks, dust, crud, crap. Its like free weight reduction!! I started to change the engine mounts and noticed on the turbo side that the turbo stud nuts were loose and one even missing. So turbo out and on the bench to fix and will also give me greater access to the top engine mount nut. Post up photos as I go along!

Ran out of steam last night and left the rim change over for another day. A quick and dirty rear wheel alignment corrected the thrust angle and got the steering wheel straight again. I was expecting the damaged rim to be buckled but it really isn't that bad and perfectly fine to drive on. This will give me some time to find someone who can widen the 17 inch steel rears and I hope to get them out to about 9 inches minimum. I'm ready to pull the trigger on some generic hub caps and ford centre cap stickers to go for a total stock type look. I originally looked at Ford Crown Vic (last pic) hubcaps but they were just too expensive to get a set of 4 and delivered here.

Haha I've come this far I might as well share the whole journey. I have a playbook of excuses though, wet road, dark but it certainly wasn't driver error...... Maybe.

It appears that I love punishment in one form or another.. So last week I had a meeting with a gutter after a sleepy drive home... Rims cactus and I even managed to bend the control arm... So I go about sourcing some 27 inch territory steelies and some lower control arms. What I was not prepared for was the lower control arm inner bolt fouling on the diff!! After much swearing I give in. Cradle out, diff bolts out and jiggle the bolts out and get it back together... Wheel alignment next up. If I didnt have access to a hoist I'd be parting the car out I rekon [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Well today was a sh*tshow from start to finish! Up at 4.30 to load up a container and some infrastructure and drop them in... Then get called back to site because I have concrete issues, relating to the fall of the new driveway and a burst pipe... but all sorted One driveway done!!! exposed ag... looks the goods!

Nope just a combination of an Evil kick back to 2nd and +1000 nm's of torque! this was the tune that was in the car when it happend!