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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - air intake mod
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:41 pm 
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update, when i was doing my air intake mod last weekend i noticed that my big mouth intake was all cracked, adds to my suspition that my car was in a bad front end stack, engine bay is painted black too???

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today i had a go at plastic welding it,
how i went about this was a nice gentel heat flame from a little butain tourque my brother has and melted zip ties into the gap, used the same method as fusion welding,

me holding the crack apart
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when i started welding
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all finished
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when i get motivated i will fibreglass the hole up and put some spray putty over it so make it all the same size and then spray it black

now i also pulled apart an el throtle body i found down stairs, which i will bore out hopefully to a 70mm bore size when i'm at work where i can sue a 4 jaw lathe and a boring bar
pictures of it before i decembled it
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both censores removed
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butterfly vavle removed
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after about 10 minutes of jigging around i managed to pop the cerclip on the end of the butterfly shart
leaving it like this
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just a couple of randomw pictures of me turning a vice handle at school
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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - air intake mod
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:09 pm 
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well tonight saw another step in the right dirrection for my car :D although i didn't entierly need this i prefeered to have it, i won myself a 98 el xr6 manual ecu off of ebay for $270 + plus postage

so if anyone is interested in an el futra manual ecu shoot me a pm or i'll put it up on ebay

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - air intake mod
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:18 pm 
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I missed the word "ecu" the first time I read that. I was like "MANUAL EL XR6 FOR $270?! THE f**k!?"

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - air intake mod
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:19 pm 
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haha, well my mates having trouble with his el xr6 the last few weeks,droped a lifter so we stuck a new motor in and he reckons it's done the same thing again so you never know :lol:

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - air intake mod
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:10 pm 
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got a bit sick of my standard front bar, mainly cause the soccer ball bumped into the front of it last weekend and half of it fell off :| so today i decided to finish off the fibreglassing, just waiting for the edges to dry and for me to sand them up and hit them with some pain, going to fibreglass the numberplate section while it's on the car and fix the cracks on the car too, will upload pictures once the front bar is bolted to the car

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - air intake mod
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:27 pm 
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pictures,

sprayed it matt black for now just so it doesn't look boring,sorry the side on picture looks dark don't know why i'll get a better picture tomorrow
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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - air intake mod
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:19 pm 
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well finished all the visual fibreglassing on the front bar today :D
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cracks i need to fix
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whats left now is to fix up the cracks, join the two bars together at the inner wheel area so it looks like 1 bumper, bog up the sideskirts and cut, heat and bend the back dog legs on them, paint them and then bog the rear bar and cut my exhaust off and i can bolt the hole kit up, really happy with how the front bar changed the presence of the car, will also get my brother to wire up my driving lights,

ran out of resisn and hardener today so i don't know when the rest will be done by, have a motor bike rebuild, a manual converstion and an ecu to pay for yet, so once i get that done i'll know when the rest will be done,

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - typhoon front on
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:02 pm 
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pictures of it all done and painted matt black, loving the look of the car now
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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - typhoon front on
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:43 pm 
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well car is back to matching colors,

going on a road trip up north on sunday to pick up my gear box but not sure on the road conditions and all that and don't wanna risk damagin the bar

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - typhoon front on
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:45 pm 
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todays road trip went well, car didn't run hot, sat on about 2 grand at 105- 110 mark the hole way, got about 730km to the tanks,
problems that arised, in order
1, boredom
2, my cd player randomly ejects the magazine hmmm
3, my knees don't like car trips
4, people who can't stay at the posted speed limit and constantly speed up and slow down

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - 5 speed aquired converstion soon
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:32 pm 
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got productive this afternoon, took me all of 5 minutes to knock the pins out of the xg pedal box and put them back into the spare auto box i got here, taking it to school tomorrow to modifie it as by this docment here {DESCRIPTION}

also found some plate to make a firewall strenghter as per this document here {DESCRIPTION}

pedal box and plate
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standard xg
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gear box needs a degrease will get to that during the week
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plans from here are, once i have my bike, the gear box and ecu paid off, get the flywheel machined and buy some gearbox oil and convert it over, while i'm under the car will also drop the diff oil and change that too, and finally when i can afford it a rip shifter

Cheers Mitch

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - 5 speed aquired converstion soon
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:39 am 
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had a play with the falcon builder app today
http://www.boostedfalcon.net/FalconBuil ... tes=661RZY

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - 5 speed aquired converstion soon
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:56 pm 
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my manual ecu arrived today, so if anyone is interested in my other manual ecu or my current auto one give me an offer


items left before i can start the converstion
modify the pedal box, doing that tomorrow during lunch time
make firewall plate, should be done tomorrow,
get gearbox oil and flywheel machine

been talking to josh (XRLANE) about some ideas for my gear stick so that i can use after market gear knobs, my original plan was to drill and tap a hole to suit the ea stick then thread the otuside to match the aftermarket options which when talking to josh confirmed my idea that there wouldn't be enough room for it to work, so i'm going to slightly head up the ea gear stick cut the top off and machine a new thread into it,

another idea i had was to make one up out of mild steel, cut a threa onto it heat it up and bend it up like an ef/el one

 

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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - 5 speed aquired converstion soon
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:52 pm 
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so i went about making myself a plan this afternoon, the way i was taught to at work
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so after i get this made up i plan on heating it at the following points and bending it to the desired angle,
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 Post subject: Re: mut's el fairmont ghia - 5 speed aquired converstion soon
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:59 pm 
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so i went about making myself a plan this afternoon, the way i was taught to at work
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so after i get this made up i plan on heating it at the following points and bending it to the desired angle,
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looks the good, now make one and post up pictures :lol:

 

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