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Haha yep hawlass was spot on, took it for a spin last night, re-flashed the ECU back to 12psi and she's good as new

Unfortunately no fairies came to fix it! But have found the issue, intake manifold gasket needed to be replaced. Thanks everyone for all your help

Unfortunately no, couldn't find a leak anywhere..... have to travel for work tomorrow so I'm not going to get another look at it till Thursday :( don't like leaving my poor baby sick

Yeah problem is I need something to read the codes with though don't I? and I wouldn't mind guessing the only place with the equipment in my town is the Ford dealership :( not a lot of places to go here in a country town

Thanks everyone it's greatly appreciated, general consensus everywhere I have looked points to a vacuum leak somewhere, going to have to look at this again in the clear light of day, if I can just get it drivable I'll be able to go see what codes it's throwing.

Cheers, that ones going to have to wait till morning I think where I can use the daylight haha

Sorry! Yeah I guess that wasn't the best way of putting it, I checked the vac lines I just meant that I checked the intake pipes and everything as well

Hmmm couldn't find any vac leaks but it;s starting and idling in P or N now no worries, but once it goes into gear that's when things start to get really interesting! Just made a quick video of what is happening.

Cheers! trying to find it now, nothing obvious from what I can see, I have a plazmaman intercooler and the large hose going into the intake manifold seems fine, I can hear a faint hissing sound though for those few seconds when it idles so I think you might be onto something there

Bit of an update, disconnected the battery again, pumped the break and tried to use headlights etc. to discharge completely and then reconnected the battery after about an hour and it's made the problem worse :S Now when I start the car it idles at about 2500RPM (sounds way too high) for about 5 seconds then the engine cuts out.

Thanks will look into that next had the battery disconnected for 45 mins in total and reconnecting it made no difference I'm afraid :(

Yeah this is what I'm currently doing it's been off for about 15 mins now so was looking for other things too if this doesn't work, have also cleaned the throttle body so far as well

Hi All, Hopefully someone here can help me having a serious problem with my BA MKII XR6T right now. I start the engine and it idles well enough but as soon as I put it into gear the engine light comes on and the power is cut to the engine and I can only start it again by turning the car completely off and starting it again but it still does the same thing. It's a Sunday and even if a mechanic were open I couldn't drive the car there, can anyone offer up some advice as to what I could try looking at? I'm handy enough working on cars provided I know what to look for, any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

First car was a VT Calais 97 model, kept it for 3 years and thrashed it around a little bit more then I should of, sold it recently and bought my second car which is a 05 XR6T.

First car was a 1997 VT Calais, still trying to sell it atm actually!

Something along the lines of http://cgi.ebay.com.au/L-K-Ford-Falcon-FPV...A1%7C240%3A1318

Whoops edit, seems eBay has been kind and netted me an F6 Typhoon snorkel for $35, too easy!

Well, after some more investigation into my car and its history I found out something that I'm not sure I should be please about or not? The car has already been flash tuned before (By a reputable tuner) and is running at 9psi. Now, no other mods have been done except for what I have now completed (K&N Filter), haven't been able to find a F6 Air Snorkel yet! Now my main questions is, is there anything else I should be weary of if my car has been tuned to run at 9psi? and on average how much extra boost does this equate to over a stock XR6T? Cheers guys!

Cheers for the welcome and thanks heaps NVT you have given me heaps to go by to get started, I was looking at around $2000-$3000 for the first mods I was going to add so that should all fit nicely into budget, thanks once again

Hi everyone, I have been an avid reader of the forum here for the last few months and have just recently signed up as a member yesterday. I had been on the lookout for a nice XR6T for a while now and FINALLY have got one I liked Last week I said goodbye to what had been a reliable Expensive Daewoo VT Calais over the past few years and said a BIG hello to my 2005 BA MKII XR6T 4spd Auto in Rapid yellow COULDNT BE HAPPIER! Anyway, after driving the car for a week I am now interested in mods and have seen some of the incredible stuff users have done on the forums here, my main question was what are some of the easiest/cheapest mods to get me started on increasing RWKW while still keeping the car running cool and efficient? Cheers! The car is completely stock except it has had a K&N filter added about 2000km's ago, car in total has done 83000km's