Firstly, this has had no where near the mods as some here including my ED Fairmont but it is a work in progress.

Bought it back in December 2006 after trading in our VY SV8. This car was a gun, but had a few problems



I was looking at a BA Fairmont 3V but the dealer was a clown. I drove down the road and found my XR8. Pretty much nil options other than the XR mats but had a 6 speed manual. Took it for a test drive and bought it.







Yes, it already came with the BF GT stripes. I didn't like them at first but they've since grown on me, especially white on red. I needed to do a few things to it. Firstly I fabricated a DIY CAI for a real throaty growl.







Yes, I rode the clutch a bit on this one

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM_cnUx4ibk[/youtube]

Anyway, with the CAI done, I needed some sound coming from the other end of the car. I initially bought a Berklee twin 2.5" after hearing a youtube video. I was very disappointed. It sounded no better than the stock and it set me back $500. I had the rear muffler chopped and it sounded worse! A fuel injected diggeridoo that had massive drone. I bought a XForce rear section and fixed the problem straight away!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujFfWQGLdz0[/youtube]

After this, I built and fitted a pre-amp so that I have a powered AUX input for my MP3 player. Sorry no photos.

I found a set of pacemakers off a bloke who blew his motor up. I had them bead blasted by my brother and then I painted them in high temp paint







And then came time to fit them. I have to say that all the talk that I've heard about fitting extractors to a Boss V8 is negative. I made a few custom tools and got to work. Much easier to fit than pacemakers to a VR V8 and after doing it, I can confidently say that alot of the banter about fitting these is mostly hearsay and 2nd hand information. In other words, they have no idea what they are talking about!!



I had one injury. I squashed my thumb between the cat and Y pipe flanges when I slid the middle exhaust section forward. A dirty big blood blister.





Next thing coming up will be a flash tune. Sometime within the 1st quarter of next year I will be installing a GT ICC with the colour TFT screen so I can then install a car computer. I'm in the planning stages now and already have the sat nav software, the front end(Centrafuse 2.0) and a shopping list. Looking at something like a mini ATX size so I can mount it under the parcel shelf where the factory sat nav sits. I will be able to have WiFi internet, my complete collection of MP3s, sat nav, TV, DVDs, bluetooth for our mobiles, emails and ECU real time data connection just to name a few, all at my fingertips.

great read... with the induction and exhaust growl sorted she sounds great... you wont be disapointed with a flash tune..

Nice work mate.
Looks like you got a few nice cars in your stable

Thanks for the replies. I've had this thing on the dyno when it was only fitted with a CAI and a cats back exhaust and it had 219rwKw. Now with the extractors and hopefully a flash tune, perhaps a healthy 230-240kW would be possible? I'll post another video up this week now that the exhaust is completely done.

Nice car banarcus

very tidy xr8 sound nice (thumbs up) your right about the gt stripes they grow on you. im getting a flash tune for my car soon

Hi Barnacus

I like the XR8. But your wagon is much better LOL.

The car pc sounds interesting. I look forward to further details.

BenJ

hi mate nice ba have you still got the wagon ? the wife sold the ef and got a xr ba . i still have the fairmont .done heeps more the fairmont since you saw it when you were living in orange

Hi mark, yeah still have the wagon, I too have done heaps to it since you came over that time in Orange. EF interior, heads, inlet, cam, extractors and a LPG conversion plus I ended up painting my window wipers as you suggested . I have a thread here somewhere in the Garage. I was only at Bathurst about 3 weeks ago for a cruise too

The wagon is a sweet ride, loved the cruise to Bathurst (Thanks again) and now going to hit Mark up for a ride in the XR next time