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hey guys, been floating around here for a few months now so thought i'd post up a bulld thread of mine. I'm only 17, worked on heaps of cars before, been in the commodore scene in the past and for the past 6 months or so had this 97 EL fairmont. old man bought it stock standard 7 years ago an had it in the family every since, so its had a decent life. auto, got 226,xxx on the clock, still runs strong. main focus on it is to make it a clean street car, so have the grand or so of car care products. work at autobarn so get staff discount . so far mods have been: lowered on ultras with monroe shocks (fronts standard for now, waiting on springs to be delivered.), full sound system, LED conversion inside.
Future mods: got an LSD in the garage waiting till i have a chance to fit that up, Tickford side and rear skirts and typhoon front, re-spray, zorst system, repaint and retrim interior, head work, bit of a bottom end rebuild and hopefully turbo somewhere down the track, was considering doing a manual conversion as the auto feels old and slugish, but the auto will take the boost better than the manual so might do something with the ZF 6sp next update hopefully during the week. will be installing amp and sub will have a few more pics during the week. |
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looks nice and clean man,
i had commie's for about 4yrs just smashed my VT S into the back of a BA, the BA was fine but my commie was a write off so thought to myself, Time to buy a ford so i got a fairmont to lol, Good luck look forward to seing some mod's on it |
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thanks man, haha yea, oh well glad you turned to the light haha
well got some more pics, of the different mods i have going at the moment LSD!! picked it up for just under 300 bucks, no leaks, clean as. from an EL ghia, had less than 200k on the clock. nulon, best products ever, after using it, wouldn't use anything else polishing a rocker cover, cost me 99c on ebay ahaha and my everyday cleaning products pictures are a few weeks old. rocker cover is looking much better now and LSD is all cleaned up and old brake system all removed. |
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double post, but also an update. cars lost compression, reving at about 500, oil pressure at 2 bars can smell petrol and car is just puttering at idle. gonna change plugs, and go from there.
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bit of an update today, just installed some infinity speakers in the parcel shelf, looking sweet and sounding awesome. 60W RMS @ 2 ohms
also front kenwood speakers, just temporary, stock ones were rubbish. kenwood headunit complete LED conversion, with re-painted needles, from orange to white. |
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update: just scored myself a set of rims, pre-au, 17's, good tyres, wheel nuts all round, only $530. had a massive battle on ebay for them haha.
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your el's starting to look good bro, just keep adding little bits to it slowly and soon should be sick
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haha thanks man, thats how it is isnt it haha.
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nice clean car you have there. you nearly have as many car care products as me lol
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thanks man, haha yea, can never have too many lol
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Lookin good dude, must be preety sweet gettin stuff cheap from autobarns, how you plan on getting away with puting a turbo in, in vic? Howd you go with fixing the compression problem?
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thanks man, yea its awesome, get things either at cost or for almost nothing from company reps well i duno lol, ill see what happens. car will probably stay under my old mans name for the time being, and just drive it around on boost . well i found that the welsh plug from the first cylinder has a leak in it, havn't had a chance to fix it, but got the welsh plug (its 40mm if anyone doesnt know) and the gasket goo. plugs looked a bit worse for wear so changing them too, got all the parts ready to change on sat. plus lots of coolant lol.
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PQV wrote: thanks man, yea its awesome, get things either at cost or for almost nothing from company reps well i duno lol, ill see what happens. car will probably stay under my old mans name for the time being, and just drive it around on boost . well i found that the welsh plug from the first cylinder has a leak in it, havn't had a chance to fix it, but got the welsh plug (its 40mm if anyone doesnt know) and the gasket goo. plugs looked a bit worse for wear so changing them too, got all the parts ready to change on sat. plus lots of coolant lol. That's mad ! Would be handy for aftermarket shizzle I should probably mention I get trade price at ford and r & e auto parts...which is also cool bloody welshies my dads disco did that, he ended up changing all of them we got one left which is a poofter because I think he said you have to drop gearbox back :/
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yea it is man, lucky its only on the first cylinder, so got a mate thats a mechanic coming over tomorrow to help me with it, flush out the whole system, then change plugs, give it a mint wash, pick up the rims and put em on and will be a new car tomorrow haha
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