Hi there just joined the forum & thought I would post some details. (Photos to come later sorry)

After having serious near fatal lung surgery last year, I decided that before I go, I want to own something fast!

So I scoured carsales whilst in hospital & found this peach.

2011 FG XR6T 6-speed manual in silhouette...with only 40,000km on it!

And it came with sweet 19" OZ racing rims, 6 & 4 piston brembos & luxury pack black leather.

All that for $27K, it was THE best drive back from wagga wagga to canberra.

Drove it stock for 1000km then couldn't help myself

Mistakenly bought a HDi GT pro2 intercooler off ebay with "all the correct piping". Got the front bar off, went to work with the grinder & got the intercooler fitted. As I lay out the pipes I realise something is wrong. The pipes don't line up.

Called Grant at ESP in Qbn & after reinstalling stock cooler, took it to them to get more work done.

Earls turbo oil line

HDi intercooler

Hi flow stock airbox

1000cc injectors

SCT X4 Flash

4" Dump pipe

Turbo back 3.5" system with mufflers & resonators

Told them I wanted a mild tune so could get used to the power & the boys didn't disappoint me...311.1wkw!!! Bit faster than my 1.6l getz

After that I found some LED headlights & taillights from MARS performance & after installing them found 1 of the taillights wasn't working. A quick call to them & they sent me out a new 1, works a treat.

Am hoping to get more photos up soon

Thanks

P.s I'm looking for an upgrade to the stock suspension, not going to race track with it(yet) so street performance is priority.

What would ppl recommend between:

1. Pedders XA Coilovers & Whiteline swaybars F+R or

2. Tein Super Street Advance coilovers

Same price for option 1 or 2

Any help would be great

Nice car mate. Few people are going to shockworks coilovers and have been happy with them.

Which led tail lights did u get, I quite like the ones with stock looking lens.

Also have a look at the shockworks as suggested.

Thanks Kjoy064 & barnz will have a look.

barnz, I went for the full smoked, as I thought they would blend in with (always needs washing) black paintwork. Will upload more photos as soon as possible.

Also, was that shockworks by nts?

Edited 27/02/15 06:14 AM27/02/15 06:14 AM by DRKNESS

Yes, Wholesale Suspension (site sponser) will be able to sort you out/tell you more about options

Is Pat doing Shockworks now? Awesome if he is

There's a couple of threads on here and and on AFF (more so AFF where shockworks is active) that go pretty strong into the work they've done and the results people have gotten with their coilovers

I'm a convert

Grats on the car and the tune - and well done on picking up one with the brakes already sorted

Grats also on beating the health scare - glad the only thing that was lost was a Getz

He may not actually that was an assumption....surely he could though?

Thanks Rab, will have to do some more research before I commit to buy.

Got some more photos

Here's the day I got my new intercooler & new headlights/taillights

Was so proud when I got front bar & stock cooler off, then panicked a bit when I saw all the parts layed out.

Got the HDi cooler installed but had no luck with the pipes

And heres the dyno sheet after I took it to ESP

more pics to come

f*ck those hdi coolers sit low