The AU corner

by **SNR** » December 14th, 2011, 11:31 pm

BA IRS = cheaper and lighter - for Ford that's a win. Handling losses vs profit increase obviously wasn't worth keeping the AU setup. AU with IRS should handle the best; they are overall lighter than a BA (I think) better IRS and front end is the same.

[edit: you still can't help ugly though]

AUs are fucking sick when done right

Fap fap fap fap.

by **Intercepted_AU** » December 15th, 2011, 7:47 am

The Y2k point intrigued me lol.. Thanks for the comments, we appreciate people recognizing the AU for what it can be. I think that if you do see a good AU it's worth looking twice as they can be a difficult car to make a head turner. Mainly the factory height, horrible stock interior, lights etc break balls but considering our age and money constraints its a decent effort

Me and XR6JET usually spend every weekend revamping the AUs and found the key points to increasing the personal value were:
- Leather interior conversion
- Go as low as possible..
- wheels
- colour scheme should be noted!

She's not a girl you'd straight away take home to mum but with a bit of work she scrubs up allright. If you can get past the factory cosmetic issues remember that the AU engine is well..The AU Engine bulletproof really, solid diff, most reliable car i've known..

by **AaronEF8** » December 15th, 2011, 7:59 am : **TechXR Likes this post**

lol wtf.
I'm guessing you're a virgin.

by **ClassicAU** » December 15th, 2011, 8:07 am

Whatever, haters gunna hate. All I say is that apart from an FG, the AU interior is the most comfortable of any Falcon I have owned, and I have owned one of each series from X to A and my housemate has a B. The mid to high series AUII/III interior is my favourite still, and mine have even converted a few Ford haters into believers. They are effortless on a nice long trip. This is the main reason why I opted to keep my current AU and throw cash at it instead of “upgrading” to a B series.

by **TUFED6** » December 15th, 2011, 8:40 am : **Sunboost Likes this post**

So basically she's not a girl you'd brag to your mates about, but you'd do one if they couldn't find out

by **apoc** » December 15th, 2011, 8:49 am

TUFED6 wrote:So basically she's not a girl you'd brag to your mates about, but you'd do one if they couldn't find out

I lol'd.

I don't mind the au xr series 2/3, series 1 xr the front bar looks like aids.
The falcon/fairmont/pointy light front/whatever you want to call it looks retarded. Doesn't get any better with age in my opinion!
Interiors are ok, my s2 xr8 interior was awesome. I loved it! Would like to get my hands on some of those seats for my eb.
They handle awesome too.

by **braad** » December 15th, 2011, 10:31 am

Intercepted_AU wrote:

Me and XR6JET usually spend every weekend revamping the AUs and found the key points to increasing the personal value were:
- Leather interior conversion
- Go as low as possible..
- wheels
- colour scheme should be noted!

She's not a girl you'd straight away take home to mum but with a bit of work she scrubs up allright. If you can get past the factory cosmetic issues remember that the AU engine is well..The AU Engine bulletproof really, solid diff, most reliable car i've known..

That list is the same with every car, except that you dont end up with the ugly afterwards

by **Intercepted_AU** » December 15th, 2011, 10:32 am

AaronEF8 wrote:lol wtf.
I'm guessing you're a virgin.

Definately not. Just a professional troll. Out of interest, will you be at the next meet?

Intercepted_AU wrote:
AaronEF8 wrote:lol wtf.
I'm guessing you're a virgin.

Definately not. Just a professional troll. Out of interest, will you be at the next meet?

You should threaten him, get angry and shit. Thats what I'd do.

by **braad** » December 15th, 2011, 10:52 am

ebashing is where it's at
Or ibashing

by **Kenaz** » December 15th, 2011, 11:07 am

This thread is starting to deliver :thumbsup:

by **TechXR** » December 15th, 2011, 11:25 am

You seemed like a nice guy Intercepted_AU. Then you started being a terrible troll. :cool:

by **Intercepted_AU** » December 15th, 2011, 11:57 am

This Brad bloke is full trolling my car. I'd just love to see him at a meet 'he can see the car in person'.

Hey I was nice.

by **NUT347** » December 15th, 2011, 12:49 pm

He also said your mum was fat.

Fire up man, i wouldnt take that shit hey...

by **superhuS!** » December 15th, 2011, 12:54 pm

by **braad** » December 15th, 2011, 3:25 pm

Dear sir I am a successful DTE VTPR DTF business man, I wouldn't do such a thing if you had've mounted that gauge

by **Intercepted_AU** » December 15th, 2011, 3:40 pm

My troll emitting rays require rest. Brad when I read your post I just became bored. I'll retort later dude.

by **Sterling** » December 15th, 2011, 5:00 pm

superhuS! wrote:

bahahaha.........agreed

by **AaronEF8** » December 15th, 2011, 5:25 pm : **67rce Likes this post**

Intercepted_AU wrote:
AaronEF8 wrote:lol wtf.
I'm guessing you're a virgin.

Definately not. Just a professional troll. Out of interest, will you be at the next meet?

Amateur troll you mean.

I'll more than likely be at the next meet, considering I've been at nearly every one this year.

Can we get all Frost spec and bring keyboards to bash each other with?

by **TechXR** » December 15th, 2011, 5:57 pm

I'm bringing my mouse, **** your keyboards.

by **superhuS!** » December 15th, 2011, 6:06 pm

I'm from Broadmeadows. I'll bring my phone uleh.

by **TechXR** » December 15th, 2011, 6:15 pm

If it's an iphone, it won't last, it will die after one phone call

All I need is one phone call.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opY71mwvLJI

by **TechXR** » December 15th, 2011, 6:51 pm

**** I love fat pizza.

by **Sterling** » December 15th, 2011, 7:48 pm

love that. first time i saw that i swear it was the funniest shit i've ever seen

by **elitexr** » December 21st, 2011, 2:09 pm

justa6 wrote:was never a real fan of au sedans, until this

thanks for the comment ,got a new boot install almost finished for nats so ill post some pics of it finished hopefully by the weekend

by **Hayden** » December 21st, 2011, 2:18 pm

AU's are gay.. end of discussion

by **Sunboost** » December 21st, 2011, 2:28 pm

Kenaz wrote:This thread is starting to deliver

Started to delivar, n00bs jumped in with shit and/or recycled jokes and it has gone to shiat.

by **EFFalcon** » December 21st, 2011, 2:32 pm

by **Sterling** » December 21st, 2011, 5:02 pm

****!

that colour is mint! Very nicely done

by **Nikk O'lass** » December 21st, 2011, 6:23 pm

Imagine if the AU carried its early intended designation of 'ER'....

:?:

by **braad** » December 21st, 2011, 9:35 pm

werent they looking at running a sequential box in them as some fancy option? that would've been cool

by **Nikk O'lass** » December 22nd, 2011, 6:17 am

I know there was a EL concept built by ford using a sequential gear box...

by **LUXO_8** » December 22nd, 2011, 7:08 am

Funnily enough that thing was called the EL Sequential. Lol

by **justa6** » December 22nd, 2011, 8:25 am

I've been in sequential, and outside it when he smoked the Shit out of it. Was a tuff car in its day, sounded mad at idle.

Wasn't it bob romano built.

by **LUXO_8** » December 22nd, 2011, 8:28 am

I thought it was autotek. I don't remember though

EDIT: it was built by tickford and was a prototype rather than a concept. Apparently there were a bunch of them which makes me wonder how close it was to production before being canned. Would have been cool to have sequential manuals alongside ESS auto in T-series
Is now owned by "roman autotek" but doesn't have the sequential box anymore.

http://www.trueblueford.com/EL_Sequential.html

by **oneredED** » December 22nd, 2011, 8:32 am

Well done elitexr, you've fixed the AU shape. That is the best looking AU sedan I've seen (although not a fan of the gold rocker cover).

In my opinion it looks as good as or better than any BA out there.

by **braad** » December 22nd, 2011, 11:37 am

Yeah I heard it was an R&D prototype, but beancounters killed it.

Ahh! that link was it. Sexy EL.

by **justa6** » December 22nd, 2011, 12:14 pm

I was half right ha ha. When I saw it, it (must of been early 2000 sometime) didn't have the sequential in it then either. And was owned by a mate in Sydney.

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