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Time to revive this topic! 😂 I bought a bluetooth obd reader from Jaycar a while ago and it works fine, it just wouldn't connect to my kayhan head unit. They gave me one for free that will work - winning! Its basically one of these: mini elm327 First of all, it appears to be wayyyyy faster than the one I got from jaycar. It works on the head unit and my phone (s8). The only issue I'm having is that the trans temp will not read any more. I have tried on both the head unit and my phone and I'm getting "no response". This worked with the previous reader too which is really odd. Using PID 221674, OBD Header is TCM, and equation is ((A*256)+B)/8. No settings have changed between the different readers hence my confusion. Anyone have any ideas?

Yea I'm not worried about the trimming part, nothing a grinder can't fix! 😂 I'm happy with everything I have got or that I plan on getting. Just those shims that are bugging me!! I don't want to have the parts here ready to go, only to find I don't have fkn shims! Being a daily, I can't afford to just leave it sitting till another part arrives. I need to have everything ready to go for a weekend job on the hoist with the boys and a carton 👌 Cheers for your help El. 🙂

Hey all, keen to bring this thread back up again lol Been looking into the 328mm rotor upgrade on the rear of my FG for some time now. I've bought T2 rear rotors already, and the rig came with T2 rotors on the front already - bargain! Bought some brake pads before looking into the rotors, so I have DBA performance XP for the front, and I need to get the correct rear pads as the ones I bought are for stock rears. Looking into this set for the rears, seem like they'll do the job just fine. I'm gonna buy some territory rear calipers - seen some 2nd hand ones on ebay for relatively cheap, was around $150 for both left and right. While I'm there I'll probably end up get braided lines all round seeing as I'll need to bleed the brakes after changing the rear. Here's my questions: I'm not sure what braided lines kits to look for, here's a kit I found but I don't know if its the right one or not - if anyone can confirm that would be amazing! Do the rear calipers have shims for the pads like the front? by the looks of it the calipers I want to buy don't have them in the pictures nor are they mentioned, and some my very basic searching on the web hasn't come up with rear shims.

Ah yes, the fad of the car audio industry 😉 Capacitors' main functions are buffers, aiding in filtering and what not. They are not current sources, instead they are voltage sources (to put it simply). The only thing a capacitor will do in these is stop headlights from dimming if you have a bad battery. Basically. Get a better battery instead of a capacitor lol. Cheers for all the help! Got some things to consider and think about for my build. 👌

Yea I think it might be the way to go. Just bite the bullet and accept that its the best to get the wire from 🤣

Getting there!! I've found the 0 Gauge wires in my research but not been able to find the 2 Gauge. For my setup 0 gauge wire is way overkill, not to mention an b$@tch to install

If I were doing the speaker wire sure, not quite sure it'd work as power wire though 😉

two amps, will be running around 1500W combined output. I've done many installs for car systems and I get pretty pedantic about it. They've all been family and friends cars with relatively low budget builds. So buying the "amp wiring kits" was always fine. Mine however is gonna be a bit different and I want to it right. I've done the calculations, and you're right. 4 gauge in theory would work for my system but its on the edge. To be safe I'm going 2 or 1 gauge wire to a Power Distribution block and splitting it from there in the boot area to 4 gauge for each amp. Got a main fuse going in the engine bay, and 2 more fuses for each amp. Being fairly high end amps, the power to them needs to be "clean". OFC wire for this is the way to go.

Hey all, Prepping the rig for a fairly big audio upgrade. Bought subs already, got the kayhan audio icc (mainly for its RCA outputs and awesome snr, thd values). Will be getting alpine type r speakers all round, amps still tbd as I'm negotiating price deals on them. Anyway, that's not the point of this thread. I am looking into getting some wire for the install, specifically 2 gauge and 4 gauge OFC wire. Really struggling to source this wire from aus at decent prices. Wondering if anyone here can help out or know of any place to get power wire from? Pls do not mention jaycar, I know they sell it but its not the best and the price is a little steep. Cheers all!

Figured as much. One of my few regrets in life is joining that page lol

Opening this again, I installed the filter no dramas on my FG. Got a lot of hate from the club fg fb page, not sure why I was surprised by this lol. Told me it was sh*t and too small... I've run it now for over a month with no issues, granted not long enough to call the part a "success". When I installed it I removed the return off the sump to check for oil flow and boii did it flow. Any ideas why people were hating on this product so much?

Long time searcher of this forum because I've been looking at buying an xr6t for some time. Finally got my sh*t sorted and picked up my rig on Monday! She's a 2010 xr6t 50th anniversary. Love the colour and overall very happy with it. Previous owner was very kind to the car. Hope to be a regular around here! 👌 Got an album up on imgur, but here's a pic of the rig below =.