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well to anyone that has stumbled upon this. well.. dead thread, LOL.
i've actually managed to pull some money together to purchase a couple things for my baby. first off, i went and bought some RDA front discs and Bendix pads to replace my warped-to-hell discs. this will make my life soo much better, although it'll be weird driving a car that doesn't jerk it's way to a set of traffic lights. lmao. secondly, i purchased a amp power wire distribution block to be able to fit a second amp to power some new splits i'm pickin up off a mate second hand, less than 4months old cos he's already decided to upgrade the sound system of his leb-spec VR commodore. i'll throw up some pics of mounting as well as a pic of my hopeless attempt at mounting my other huge amp once i get em done, this weekend hopefully. but yeah, other than that, i managed to wire up a "shift kit" ($17.00 <3 Jaycar) fully sick wheel chirps on second on a good day, other than that, a nice way to farewell my auto in the hopes of a future t5 kit. thanks & feel free to comment.
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just another thing to add for those people that hate the 4x4 look, in the process of the mods that i'm slowly doing, I am on the hunt for a fairmont xr body kit, all pieces, and will be appreciative of anyone that can help me out, color isn't a big worry (price might be though!), as long as condition is good.
from that point on I will be able to decide on shock/spring setup, that factor as well as sub and gas tank.
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D00d, how much did the new brakes cost?
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$216 for DBA abs front rotors, and Bendix pads, easy as job too.
let me know if you ever decided to do it, i'll ease the pain of paying to get them done, lol. been killing to put this second amp in, weathers too crap, hows your setup going?
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Ahhh awesome. (Y)
Yeah I haven't done much lately apart from the wheels. I've been lazy! Put in some new headlight globes though because one of mine blew. They were meant to be kind of blue. They aren't. Still gotta get my driving lights though 
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 that's the amp positioning under the seat, holds well, just a bit of velcro.  speaker mounted in door with crossover in place, crossover will stay there, it's small, neat and not in the way. tweeters are positioned on the mirror triangle. happy with the job, dreading taking the door trims off next, lmao. but I think I might soon and wire up some plugs for ease of removal.
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o and ignore the glue, car yards terrible effort of replacing a broken speaker grill, chopped most of it away anyway as it was rubbing onto the speaker rubber.
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I hope you're not going to run the speakers like that. The rubber surrounds will rub on the door trim. Not good.
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nah, as said above, i chopped most of the doorcard away so none of it is protruding onto the speaker. the speakers a six inch, but needed a spacer.
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{USERNAME} wrote: nah, as said above, i chopped most of the doorcard away so none of it is protruding onto the speaker. the speakers a six inch, but needed a spacer. Weak, my 6" speaker is held in place by one screw and the door trimp By the way, I have an EF XR body kit if you're interested. Front and rear skirts and door moulds are genuine, side skirt is fibreglass (that is being fixed). PM me if you're interested.
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{USERNAME} wrote: {USERNAME} wrote: nah, as said above, i chopped most of the doorcard away so none of it is protruding onto the speaker. the speakers a six inch, but needed a spacer. Weak, my 6" speaker is held in place by one screw and the door trimp By the way, I have an EF XR body kit if you're interested. Front and rear skirts and door moulds are genuine, side skirt is fibreglass (that is being fixed). PM me if you're interested. PM sent. guys, another question. the screen of my climate control bulb died a while back and a day off today(birthday yay  ) gave me an oppurtunity to replace all the globes i needed, although with this one, i found that it just wouldn't light, new globe and all, so i've spliced it onto the other bulb wire for the climate control.that was all fine and dandy until whilst trial fitting, i shorted it due to not taping the wire splice. my problem now is that with new globes, the climate control will not light up at all, i suspect a fuse but fuse box fuses are all fine, and i can't seem to find the climate control fuse, any help would be appreciated.
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well, been a while and with the cruise coming up on the weekend, i thought i'd neaten up the car a bit, seeing as nothing else really has been done.
so today i started on stripping the paint on a door mould the panel beater painted on, just on the section where it's meant to stay grey, thought i'd do it as the hopeless double sided tape was coming oiff and the chrome tape was ruined so i'm re-doing that. atm it's all stripped and looked a bit pale from the strippers, i tried cut and polish but no luck, so i randomly decided to spray a light coat of clear, try and get a wetlook going. lol.  excuse failed pics, i don't think to take photos til it's usually too late, if at all.
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 start.  progress  and the other day i decided to take the front stage amp out and just go back to running off h/u. amp was only running one channel and sound quality was failing it. gave a good clean too while i was at it, wire brushed the rust off seat bottoms and re sprayed them. once the clear coat dries and i chrome the strip i'll put a pic up, just cos i can..
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and last but not least, i know it's not the greatest, but i get excited and impatient, so i coudnt help myself.
 before it goes onto the door i got clean the old tape residue off and get some wax and grease remover onto it, make sure it's all ready for a clean adhesion surface, hopefully it holds out for longer then a month or two.
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while i've gotten proactive about it, i'm on a mission for tomorrow to go and pick up some long sockets, take my grill off sand and re paint it, decided it's getting car colored as i've still got a can of color coded paint left and i'll give the black a fresh look and clear them with non cheap stuff.
that and i'll have a bit of a go at some cut and polish on the touched up dull spots. oh and if anyone with a fairmont is keen, i've got an ef fairmont grill in arctic blue for sale, good condition, i bought it ages ago impulsively. $40.
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