|
|
|
|
|
|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
|||||||
| The Pub For General Automotive Related Talk |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
19-02-2011, 07:43 PM
|
#3181 | ||
|
65 Galaxie Hardtop
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane QLD
Posts: 3,751
|
Spotted this Camry the other day just outside work... speechless...
__________________
Red on red 65 Galaxie 390FE C6 9"  |
||
|
|
19-02-2011, 07:56 PM
|
#3182 | |||
|
off in outer space
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: newcastle nsw
Posts: 1,176
|
Quote:
__________________
"Always be yourself... because the people that matter, don't mind and the people that do mind, don't matter".
|
|||
|
|
|
19-02-2011, 08:33 PM
|
#3183 | |||
|
Donating Member
 Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5,142
|
Quote:
But each to their own....
|
|||
|
|
|
19-02-2011, 08:34 PM
|
#3184 | |||
|
Mr. Multiple Projects
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: morayfield qld
Posts: 3,801
|
Quote:
BU11****!!! some bastard stole his chev boot badge 
__________________
1985 KB laser Turbo white lightning 3 door EFI 1927 Model T 1998 GU Patrol 2004 Forester Turbo 2006 Corolla Wagon BLAAAAAAACK |
|||
|
|
|
19-02-2011, 08:37 PM
|
#3185 | |||
|
65 Galaxie Hardtop
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane QLD
Posts: 3,751
|
Quote:
__________________
Red on red 65 Galaxie 390FE C6 9" |
|||
|
|
|
19-02-2011, 08:37 PM
|
#3186 | |||
|
Cruising...
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Perth
Posts: 3,819
|
Quote:
__________________
FBT '98 BA XT '04 F100 4x4 '82 Subaru Outback '02 |
|||
|
|
|
19-02-2011, 10:07 PM
|
#3187 | ||||
|
Regular Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: WA
Posts: 308
|
Quote:
With the money they'll spend finishing the Camry, they could've gotten a better car. Much prefer a stock gtr/supra etc etc etc than a tarted up Camry.
__________________
Reality is an illusion caused by an excess of blood in the alcohol stream! Quote:
|
||||
|
|
|
19-02-2011, 11:27 PM
|
#3188 | ||
|
Regular Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Cairns, QLD
Posts: 193
|
was looking at some new rotors and i came across these, not really sure what to think hey....
ummmmm?? not sure if its a fail but certainly different and unique thats for sure
__________________
2010 FG XR6, Lighting Strike, ssl/sssl springs, G6 tail lights, roof lip etc etc...LOVIN IT!
|
||
|
|
|
19-02-2011, 11:38 PM
|
#3189 | |||
|
▇ ▅ █ ▅ ▇ ▂ ▃ ▁ ▅ ▃ ▅ ▅
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 4,893
|
Quote:
__________________
[Moto] Darkness Black - Hornet 900 [Daily] Molten Orange - '14 WZ Fiesta ST - Team Dynamics Pro Race 3 Wheels - Bluefin Stage 1 - Resonator Delete - Stubby Antenna [Weekender] Winter White - '06 BF XR6 Turbo - 6spd ZF A/M - Leather - D/Zone Climate - BF XR 18's Headlights don't work in your B Series? Here's how to fix it! |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 08:56 AM
|
#3190 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: On The Footplate.
Posts: 5,086
|
Quote:
The "Chev in a Ford" hotrod craze was (and still is amongst old school rods) pretty much standard...chev V8's had a reputation for being pretty hot motors and revvy, Ford's had a rep for being torquers. So people usually chose a Chev smallblock for thier hotrod. I agree on Commodores it's a bit of a ****...everyone knows that they have Chev motors now...what's the point of putting a badge on it? When we owned a VS Berlina with the Ecotec V6, I really really wanted to have a go at Chev badge guys by putting on a Buick badge...the original VN Commodore V6 was straight from a front wheel drive Buick...that's why the injection throttle body is way down the back of the motor instead of, as with the Ecotec, halfway along the plenum chamber in a more sensible position. |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 10:06 AM
|
#3191 | |||
|
71Mach1
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Melb
Posts: 465
|
Quote:
Yes, it looks stupid to us, but each to their own... Remember the idiots who put carbon fibre on their Yaris' ... just as stupid ... They're everywhere...
__________________
roses are #FF0000 violets are #0000FF all my base are belong to you |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 10:22 AM
|
#3192 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: On The Footplate.
Posts: 5,086
|
Quote:
 The Porsche there might be reasonably exotic, but it's just a car...Boxters and 911's have a rep for being one of the few supercars that's perfectly useable as an everyday vehicle, not something that is fragile and fiddly and needs to be coddled and serviced every 1000km. |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 10:29 AM
|
#3193 | ||
|
The 'Stihl' Man
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: TAS
Posts: 27,585
|
Agreed 2011G6E, its like seeing old pictures of GTHO's towing stuff around, I think its awesome.
__________________
|
||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 02:07 PM
|
#3194 | ||
|
You can call me Chris
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Sydney
Posts: 712
|
Finally have something to post!
Just came back from a week in NZ - and spotted this beauty in Auckland... I think it speaks for itself  
__________________
'06 LS Focus Hatch -2 1/4" Lukey Exhaust -RDA Slotted discs/Greenstuff pads -Rear Whiteline swaybay -Lenso 18's w/Kumho rubber -Tinted Windows |
||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 04:08 PM
|
#3195 | |||
|
Jim
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Craigmore SA
Posts: 3,650
|
Quote:
__________________
The Daily. White 2017 ZG Escape TDCI AWD Wagon The Wifes. Grey 2015 MD Mondeo TCDI Hatch The Old Daily.......2003 Octane BA Taxi Pak Egas Falcon Build Thread |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 04:16 PM
|
#3196 | ||
|
Mr. Multiple Projects
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: morayfield qld
Posts: 3,801
|
geeze is that holden badge big enough? i dont think you can see it from Jupiter
__________________
1985 KB laser Turbo white lightning 3 door EFI 1927 Model T 1998 GU Patrol 2004 Forester Turbo 2006 Corolla Wagon BLAAAAAAACK |
||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 04:34 PM
|
#3197 | |||
|
V6 3L
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 536
|
Quote:
A VE SSV is certainly not rubbish, especially considering that Ford Australia currently dont even market a V8 Falcon of any kind. |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 04:40 PM
|
#3198 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 510
|
Quote:
 Average auto, 10kW less and barely any (even no?) better on fuel.
__________________
Daily: AU1 Fairmont Ghia - 380,000 km (still going strong)
Weekender: 2009 G6ETurbo - 21,656 km - Seduce/Cashmere (The only shopping list I need: 4 Litres and a hairdryer) Daily: SZII - 56,000 km - converted to Tezza |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 04:58 PM
|
#3199 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: On The Footplate.
Posts: 5,086
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 04:59 PM
|
#3200 | ||
|
You can call me Chris
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Sydney
Posts: 712
|
yup - had me lost, why spend good money on a car, and then have those as your plates.
I can only hope he has a rubbish removal company of some form...
__________________
'06 LS Focus Hatch -2 1/4" Lukey Exhaust -RDA Slotted discs/Greenstuff pads -Rear Whiteline swaybay -Lenso 18's w/Kumho rubber -Tinted Windows |
||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 05:28 PM
|
#3201 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Sun City, North Australis
Posts: 4,274
|
Quote:
__________________
You've seen it, you've heard it and your still asking questions?? Don't write off the Goose until you see the box going into the hole.... |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 05:32 PM
|
#3202 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: On The Footplate.
Posts: 5,086
|
Quote:
Related story: I was 18, sitting in the drive-in with the girlfriend in my '72 Valiant Charger which had a heavily worked 265 4bbl hemi and four speed. I was flicking my foot on the gas pedal, and the missus said "Stop doing that or you'll break it!", and as I scoffed, sure enough, it cracked off at the weld on the bracket, leaving only the top bit with the cable hooked into it...the "floating" accelerator pedal and rod coming down from the braket just fell on the floor! I didn't know what to do, but luckily I had a spare accelerator cable in the boot from a recent repair, and so I hooked the knob on the end of the old cable into the bracket and voila, a hand throttle. ...a 300hp, four speed hand-throttle car... Wasn't that a fun drive home... 
Last edited by 2011G6E; 20-02-2011 at 05:41 PM. |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 05:43 PM
|
#3203 | |||
|
2008 BF Futura
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Adelaide, S.A.
Posts: 595
|
Quote:
__________________
2008 BF Falcon Futura 2009 BF Falcon Wagon Dedicated LPG Previous Cars: 2003 BA Falcon Wagon Dedicated LPG 1999 Ford Fairlane Ghia XF Fairmont Ghia Escort MK2 RS2000 Replica |
|||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 05:47 PM
|
#3204 | ||
|
Brendan
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 911
|
This number plater should only be on a big rig truck. I dont think Optimus Prime would turn into a pleby magna!
|
||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 05:47 PM
|
#3205 | ||
|
Banned
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Bat Cave
Posts: 1,237
|
my valiants accelerator cable used to melt on the extractors, and would not return from wot, so you had to reach under the floored pedal with your toe and lift it up, almost as much fun as the bonnet randomly popping up... but damn it was a great car, and **** me it went hard, over a hundred meters it'd easily have the g6e i have now on the street, but then the g6e would fly by, but by then your well over the limit..
|
||
|
|
|
20-02-2011, 05:49 PM
|
#3206 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: On The Footplate.
Posts: 5,086
|
Quote:
That said, in England you can still get an awful lot of speed equipment for the good ole' 1.6 Kent engine... 
|
|||
|
|
|
22-02-2011, 06:21 PM
|
#3207 | ||
|
Big Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: SE Qld
Posts: 5,874
|
You may not see it from back here:
 Look closer:  He was at Supercheap, so I guess he was replacing it....
__________________
The Scarlet Fairlane: 94 5.Slow Litre NC II Fairlane 488800kms & Climbing Rollin' on genuine ELGT wheels. K&N Filter /////Alpine Sound. EBGT Momo Woodgrain Steering Wheel The Scarlet Fairlane Build Thread Project "White Knight" 93 ED XR6 ROH Alloys Momo wheel Cruise Sunroof Premo Sound Manual HO Goodies PWK Build Thread 1990 Yamaha FZR 250: 59000ks & climbing. New fairing, old tank, my angry mosquito in a coffee tin! 14.977 1/4mile. 
|
||
|
|
|
22-02-2011, 10:09 PM
|
#3208 | |||
|
71Mach1
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Melb
Posts: 465
|
Quote:
But the condition of those wipers! He's treating it like it's an old bomb! shame on him...(even kits like this cost quite a bit)
__________________
roses are #FF0000 violets are #0000FF all my base are belong to you |
|||
|
|
|
22-02-2011, 10:40 PM
|
#3209 | |||
|
Constant annoyance
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Japan
Posts: 567
|
Quote:
__________________
GT Club - no longer for ford enthusiasts, now for fat old men who need air con and power steering for the maccas drive through. |
|||
|
|
|
22-02-2011, 10:46 PM
|
#3210 | |||
|
Clutch Cable Killer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bald Hills, North Brisbane
Posts: 2,264
|
Quote:
__________________
Matthew 1997 Manual EL XR6 in Heritage Green Extractors and 2.5" exhaust- - 16" Tickford Wheels - Full EL XR bodykit - COYO73 Plates HID projectors, lowered on King SL and Koni Shocks. Daily - 2002 AUIII SR Stock as she comes. Coyote's EL XR6 ^^Click Me^^ 15.132@ 91.51 MPH Photos by Me https://www.facebook.com/PhotosByMatthewWylie
|
|||
|
|
Linear Mode
