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Yeah I am too. Whenever I am in the "sports" mode and I am changing gears, I always hold the shifter at the base, not the handle, and I dont pull or push it all the way. Just enough to change gears.

Kinda off topic; the only good thing happening to Toyota Australia is that they are getting the "block girls" to show off the new Klugers! mmmm, kylie and amity.....

Great offspring quote "drivers are rude, such attitudes but when I show my piece, complaints ceace something is odd, I feel like in god YOU STUPID DUMSHIP GODDAM MOFO!!!!!" Love the offspring, little Metallica, a bit of Rod Zombie, and virtually any music off any of the Crusty's video's! miss ms700 has a few of those wild compilations, sometimes they are good for a twisty road as well..... :banghead: As long as its reasonably fast, I'll listen to it!

Welcome to the forum IM2QIK! You are lucky, Ken is overseas, you would have a nice "warm" welcome by now.... I'll get back to you in relation to seats, a bit busy ATM, for your information, you cant buy the seats as a complete part, you have to buy all the individual components and assemble it yourself! Ill get back to you shortly....

I totally agree, but the APS kit will void my 6 year warranty! Dags, trade price for a front XR bar is a tiny $1323.44!!! The price will come down dramatically after a few people crash em though....

Umm, it costs the average joe 3 grand, I get a " little discount" working for spare parts, still wondering if its all worth it though......

According to Microcat, that price is a little "cheap", trade is $4626.22, and it is a BARE motor, no turbo, no pipes, no manifolds, nothing! Could be another catalogue error too.....

I would say whatever the factory put in it at fill time. As a rule, we dont change the oil at pre delivery time, and every other dealership I know dont either. However, Bryan Byrt's may have changed your oil, but I strongly doubt it. All the lube stickers we put on the cars at PD time specifies Magnatec at service time. Hope this clears things up.

If you picked your car up new, it wouldnt have magnatex in it, it would have whatever the factory put in it! Magnatex was probably on the lube sticker stuck on your windscreen. We certainly dont change the oil in the T's as part of Pre delivery.

Depends on your insurer! Make a phone call and ask them.

These are trade prices, to be honest if you are paying this much coin for parts, and your local ford dealer isnt willing to do trade for you, walk away!!! Front bar unpainted = $2281.13 Mesh = $576.93 Fog lamp surrounds = $181.12 pair As far as I can tell this is all you need to do the conversion, ill let you know if you need anything else!!! Cheap as chips! :lol:

I am thinking about putting a genuine GT bar on my XR6T. I have very good reasons why I want to, and one of them is NOT to look like a GT!!! I love the GT, dont get me wrong, but I am not trying to imitate one. Here are the reasons why: Increased airflow to intercooler, radiator etc due to bigger intake mouth on GT bars as opposed to standard XR bars. The genuine FPV mesh can be attached easily to the GT bar, providing some much needed protection for the intercooler, radiator etc. With summer on its way, if I can increase airflow to the cooling system, it will be a good thing I reckon. What is everyone's opinion of this? Obviously the purists will be a little upset with me doing it, but if I am flamed down in a big way, I will not go ahead. I still want to be invited to cruises and BBQ's!!! My flame suit is on. Honest thoughts and opinions please!

The beauty of this system is that its not that expensive ($250 absolute max) and you only have to drill 2 small holes in your inner skirt for the mounting bracket. If you needed to, when you put the XR6 assy back in, it would be extremely hard to find the two holes. We definately picked up some more KW's, but hard to tell exactly how much. If people want me to, I can post the part #'s and $$$.

MODERATORS!!! MODERATORS!!!! ARE YOU LISTENING!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

These days the media jump on anything like this, Im sure they would have made a bigger deal out of it it was a "turbo" I hope im right.

Excellent ian I will be looking forward to your results and findings.

I do like the factory 18's but they dont fit on my car! (due to the larger brakes). I dont mind my 19's, the main reason I got them so I could stick out from the crowd and be different.

No smoking in any of my cars, end of story. If I am in your car, do what you want. Im not a fan of being in a car when somebody is smoking, but I cant tell you what to do in your car. I HATE PEOPLE FLICKING BUTTS OUT THE WINDOW!!! ANNOYS ME SO MUCH!

Sixfan you are between a rock and a hardplace! Id be either getting it towed into my local Ford dealer, or removing my crossover pipework (the one that says TURBO on it) and looking for a breather grommet or something on the rocker cover that I could pour some oil into..... I dont know if there is any other possible locations in the rocker cover.... I havent seen a bare rocker cover unfortunately. Maybe look at Nizpro's photo's here somewhere on the site, they have a good shot of a r/c without the crossover pipework, maybe that can give you a lead. Hope this helps mate.

Do you honestly believe that is the way it works? If that is the case, dont you think all car manufacturers would be putting on the cheapest, cr@ppiest tyre they could find? The SP Sport 9000 is certainly not at the bottom of Dunlop's range. The way a car handles has so much to do with the tyre fitted, and if the car maker can "tune" a chassis to suit a particular tyre, the car should handle much better. Go and put some retreads on your car, then you can try and out corner me. I can tell you right now who will stop, go around corners, and generally perform a lot better.

One thing you have forgotten was that all these tyres are fitted to one car, a Monaro. The way the Dunlop SP's handled on the Monaro may be totally different to the way they handle on a XR.... Monaro's certainly dont have identical suspension setup's and geometry to Falcons.....

I might stick with my leather seats methinks. That steering wheel looks like its been wrapped with a hessian bag! Each to their own, but im not a fan. Might change my view when I see one in the flesh and actually sit in it..... hope so..

Anyway, back on topic......... I have entered my T in the show and shine!!! Looking forward to it.

I seriously looked at trading my T in earlier in the year on a GT. City's were going to give me about 47k trade in, I was happy as larry about that! But there were a few things that drove me away from the GT unfortunately; Insurance The fact that I couldn't park it anywhere without stressing about it (I am terrible when it comes to my T as it is!) I will have my T paid off a lot earlier due to lower repayments. I still dont own my own house! I am always jealous as hell when we get a new GT or a GT-P in at work, and I always will be. But at the end of the day I still own a fantastic car, which I am very happy with. Now that the AP brakes are on, the T is even better. My 1.8c worth.

Yes! Buy some Brembo's and come and see me when you want new pads! Retail for front pads only are $1156.49! Thanks for coming. :lol: My AP front pads are only $330.00. Something to keep in mind.