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harasn

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  1. that's the main reason I got the Orange interior. I have had 3 BA XR's before this one. The first was safe with the grey, the second had the purple interior which I liked, and the current one we went back to grey! I now find the grey BORING! big time, so when we picked the colur we decided to match the interior to the exterior again! All fun!
  2. I love the colour on the XR more than I thought I would! I had seen it on a territory and because the side of them are very flat they looked a bit dull, maybe there was not enough metal flake in that cause the XR looks awesome in it! I love the interior to! was scared at first when we ordered it but then thought, "hey we only have it for 6 months hopefully!" Can't wait to pick it up and boost away! man I need this turbo! haha! I already have the GT airbox, BMC filter, Fairmont number plate chrome trim, boot liner and wheel lock nuts to go on. Will be interesting to see what it looks like with the tinted windows!
  3. a blood orange to compare picture 3 too! love the manderine! I have bigger versions of these files if anyone wants them!
  4. This one shows the yellow/gold quiet well me thinks!
  5. This one shows that the colour has different colours on different angles
  6. This one shows how it looks a different colour on the edges of panels and stuff like that!
  7. Okay here goes. I got the car in the sun as much as I could but the camera has not captured the colour perfectly, but you get the general Idea Looks different colours in different lights!
  8. funny you should say that about the credit card, we were in melbourne today returning imturbo's car back to him after I made it stop and go better. We got lost a few times and sh*t like that. By the time we got home she was stressed and said she needed some retain theropy! She has the money I was paid for doing the car!
  9. haha! no way! is a very nice and fast turbo XR6 sedan thanks very much! hope the pictures do the colour justice! wife not home to email pictures to me! :-( till later
  10. Actually this will be the 4th BA XR6 since they were released! Love it! This one cost me $400 to own for 6 months. Love it! No real depreciation. Finally this one is a turbo! Will post pics soon! Might have to get the wife to email them to me at work so I can do it for ya's sooner! The car is at westpoint ford in werribee if you want to have a look! No bas*ard better key it or I'll find them and rip their head off!
  11. Hey guys, been hanging on the new car getting to the dealership to have a look at the new colour and also check out the orange interior. The car has just arrived and looks great. Looks yellowish from certain angles in the sun and on the panel edges and the like. Will look better when its clean! I'll post some pictures tonight when I get home from work at about 9pm. The interior looks like a tiger with orange and black strips! took some photo's of a blood orange in the same light to compare it to.
  12. the sound you are talking about is actually the centre bearing in the tailshaft making the noise. has nothing to do with drive line backlash. a new tailshaft will fix it, for the short term. I think the T has the V8 tailshaft so there is no bigger bearing yet! we had this heaps in testing but never got it sorted I dont think! some cars are worse than others.
  13. yeh thanks guys! I am getting old! 30 years old! when do I need to book in the mid life crisis for? got a BMC filter for the up coming T so not is all bad!
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    colours

    my Mandarine T should be in the dealer by friday so I'll go take some photo's and post them up here ASAP for ya all! might be the first mandarine car! not sure if that's a good thing! haha give me that turbo! ppssstttt!
  15. Is it possible to teach someone who knows everything anything? This is one of the big problesm I see! Young drivers who think they know it all! I'm not that old Almost 30 :-0, but alot of the time you can't tell these youg people anything! I have done alot of driver training with my job and also outside my job and alot of the time the young guys get into it without listening and then wonder why it all turns to crap on the road! I love showing them up through experience and also listening! Amazed a few fellow workers at the tracka few times! And the jim mercott trainging guys! hehe! I dont know how you get experience on the roads without driving on the roads! same with getting experience for a job! how to get a job when you need experiece! I have seen guys whos parents have put them through driving course cause they saw there kids as a risk! all it did was make them worse! thought they could drive the pants of Peter Brock and the rest then! Power limits are a good thing but then at the same time not enough power can get you in the crap almost as bad! A lanos is a hazard cause of how slow they are! cant cross a busy road!
  16. to me its just a car! although I am picky with who drives it! the XR was recently used in a wedding and that was hard cause I supplied a fairlane for the wedding too and as I was in the wedding party as well, I was unable to drive either car! All drivers were given instructions before being given the keys haha! a few mates have driven my cars but I usually pick the people who have at least as good a car and who know how I like to keep it!
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    GTP Wagon

    been looking at the wagon specs. You can't even get a V8 wagon! One big tosser! All that go fast stuff on the outside would make it slower than a normal wagon! haha!
  18. haha love these threads! lots said but nothing said at the same time. Cloak and dagger stuff! We haven't tested a "BA2" yet so I dont think it will have major changes. There are a few cars with interesting bits and pieces floating around, but until something comes through my area for testing, it can not be released, unless it is just cosmetic stuff! Expect to see something by the end of the year! Hypnodoc. I know the answer to your question but I can not say! So you put a deposit on an F6? without knowing the specs? wow! brave boy!
  19. I recon they would be fine if you didn't want your suspension to work! That is a stupid mod as when the suspension goes up and down with bumps and stuff the springs move on each other! By fitting that thing your holding it all in place and not allowing it to work! bad bad idea! Might be find if you only drive in a straight line at the drags but come to a corner and the like at speed and I recon it would all turn pair shaped on you with no chance of getting it back! I recon you would get an unroadworth if a copper saw it an knew what it did! I would like to see a bigger picture to make sure my thoughts are right though! For those of you with squeaking rear springs, this could be a fix! hahaha. Cant squeak if it cant move!
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    Handbrakes

    Been hearing about handbrakes that dont work! It shouldn't be normal! If I can get enough responses I'll go have a chat to the brake engineers and see what we can find out/do about it! As we all know dealers can be useless at fixing stuff!
  21. you could follow the above procedure but you wont be doing it correctly! There is actually 3 adjustment points on the system! One at the handbrake lever, one at each rear wheel and also one under the car just above the tailshaft! The suggested way of adjusting is to loosen all the adusters on the outside of the car off, remove the rear wheels, calipers and discs. Then you need a vernier caliper to measure the handbrake shoe diameter. This needs to be adjusted to 189.7mm if memory serves me correctly. Then you can reassemble it all after cleaning any dust out. And adjust the other cable adjustments as required! The hand brake lever should come up no more than 7 clicks at full travel. done! the right way! I have had an EL Fairmont that has the same handbrake system except for the cable design. I never had to adjust the cable in 115,000kms! I have now had 3 BA falcons and sold them all with 13,500kms and all with perfectly functioning handbrakes! never adjusted from factory! Not sure what you guys are doing! driving with the handbrake on? Not the right way to get round corners! haha! I had a mate with an AU that had the hand brake problem you speak of, untill we did it at my place and adjusted it how the workshop manual says! The first BA falcons produced had a big problem with the handbrake travel due to cable length stretching and the like! Does anyone other than this one car, have a very new BA with a sh*tty hand brake?
  22. nice! that reminds me of some of the TESTING that gets done around here!
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    colours

    What yep this is true! that's why I ordered Manderine as its a new colour! Blood Orange is gone! I only have it for 6 months so dont care really! was going to get envi but every one else at work is getting it! That vibe colour is way to dark! I recon phantom needs to be made brighter but they made it darker! Wish we could stop following Expensive Daewoo with colours and make our own! New blue coming to but no idea what it looks like yet!
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    Cats and Dogs

    Dogs for me! I have a german sheppard that is great with the kids! Tell him to protect them and he goes and lays on top of them if they are big enough, or next to them when a baby and looks at you and growls! haha funniest thing! Told him to do it one day although he was never trained and off he went and then growled at me when I tried to get the kids till I told him it was okay! Great dog! Silly thing is he wouldn't hurt a fly! Lick ya to death but that's it! I have had a few other dogs. One black lab that could catch birds. This thing used to act like a cat! pounce and stuff! very funny! Also had a stafford shire bull terrier! These dogs are what you make of them! It was a great dog. These agro ones are treated the way the owners want them! hate all this talk of banning them and stuff! I am amazed at the amount of feral cats I see around the hills and the like round here! At the local park there are signs about it being a bird place and that dogs must be on leads. WTF its the damb cats that are out at night that catch the birds! My dog goes swimming in the lake and the birds come to see what the splashing is about! hate cats!
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