Carps Member 61 Member For: 18y 11m 8d Gender: Male Location: Caloundra, QLD Posted 14/11/07 11:31 AM Posted 14/11/07 11:31 AM Well, another new ute to the forum.Used to have a commodore, and always wanted one of these bad boys, so now I finally got my turbo ute :D:DBeen reading through the forum for a while now, and there's some fantastic info on here. I threw on some of those silver grills from themeshman on eBay, and it looks great. The lower mesh isn't in the photos, they were taken yesterday, lower mesh went on today.Planning on throwing on a typhoon intake, and doing that chair tip thing on the BOV. Any other cheap mods I should know about before I start putting big dollars into it? (which wont be for a while hahaha).Plates are changing too, being in QLD, the VIC plates get some weird looks.
EZ2CME Formerly XR6NA Member 3,512 Member For: 20y 9m 18d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 14/11/07 11:40 AM Posted 14/11/07 11:40 AM Congrats. Looks great. Auto or manual?
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 22y 4m 23d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 14/11/07 12:50 PM Posted 14/11/07 12:50 PM Looks like it's in pretty good nic. Congrats on the new baby
seventytwo Still have a turbo, it's just on a diesel. Legacy Donating Member 5,368 Member For: 21y 2m 10d Gender: Male Location: The 8th Dimension Posted 14/11/07 02:14 PM Posted 14/11/07 02:14 PM Welcome Carps, There are no cheap mods that will make much of a difference power wise. Start with the edit and work your way up from there.
Carps Member 61 Member For: 18y 11m 8d Gender: Male Location: Caloundra, QLD Posted 15/11/07 06:30 AM Author Posted 15/11/07 06:30 AM Pretty happy with the power (for now). Dyno'd at 205.5 rwkw.It's auto.Currently looking to get it sounding better, particularly with the turbo. Absolutely love the sound it makes when I back off at around 3500revs, the fluttery sound, so want to get that happening more often and louder, but really don't want a ricey whooooosh sneeze sound.With the EDIT, I know im a total noob for asking any questions about it, but do you reckon it's better to wait and do a whole heap at once? Like valve springs, injectors, all that, so I save money on tuning? And on that, what sort of stuff can you change without having to worry about a tune?
XXRLNT TURBOCHARGED Member 372 Member For: 20y 5m Gender: Male Location: MELBOURNE Posted 15/11/07 06:41 AM Posted 15/11/07 06:41 AM looks very nice man
SCRIBR Yaris member Member 4,486 Member For: 20y 2m 27d Gender: Male Posted 15/11/07 07:33 AM Posted 15/11/07 07:33 AM nice mate
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 23y 10m 3d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 15/11/07 10:06 AM Posted 15/11/07 10:06 AM Got a nice stance on it.
senna_T Forged Member Legacy Donating Member 15,818 Member For: 19y 7m 10d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 15/11/07 10:17 AM Posted 15/11/07 10:17 AM Welcome Carps, do a bit of searching in regards to what you can do/can't do with the tunes. Enjoy the car palWhat wheels are they, I can't quite figure it out on the photos
Carps Member 61 Member For: 18y 11m 8d Gender: Male Location: Caloundra, QLD Posted 16/11/07 12:25 AM Author Posted 16/11/07 12:25 AM They're Herrod wheels, not 100% sure on which ones though.Changed the plates over and got some photos with the lower grill.It's insanely low... I've found myself taking routes involving extra traffic lights just to avoid speedbumps.Considering debadging the rear, but not totally sure yet. I really like the fact that it says turbo :D:D, but love a cleaner look.Also threw the typhoon intake on last night. Haven't really noticed a change in power, will have to throw it on the dyno at some stage and see.
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