Let me start off by Introducing myself.
My name is Nick and my car is a series 1 EL XR8.
I have owned the car for 3 years now it started out life stock as a rock, and me not being that mechanically minded I just jumped on the forums and started to learn/read and get ideas of what I can do to the car. After learning that the heads and manifold on my car were useless. I set about doing some research on which areas of the car I should work on first whilst I built up the cash to tackle the big stuff (heads, cam & manifold).
So first mod was sort of an accident, I took the car for a service after I took ownership and the mechanic mentioned he had a series 2 diff off an EL2 xr8 just sitting there. It has the 3.45 ratio and not the 3.23 ratio my car came with. This gave it a noticeable increase in take off speeds, sorta gets a little sideways if you tromp it off the line (even in the dry). I stress the word little.
Next mod came on a drive to the dandenongs where my trannie wouldn’t get out of second gear, that was an interesting drive home I tell you! So I got the box re-built and strengthened along with a shift kit, it now chiprs in to second and has a nice upshift in to the next gear. Then got the white dials and fitted them myself. It was a little after that, it seemed everyone was talking about underdrive pullies on the forums, So I thought why not they are pretty cheap, so I purchased the race series from BPT. The car seemed that little more willing once fitted. It was a while between drinks for the car and that’s how it stayed for the next year. I then got an AU top end that I haven’t got around to fitting yet as I lost my job last year and almost sold the car….But, Im back at work and the AU top end is next on the cards. But here are some pics. Oh and I forgot but somewhere in there she copped a full exhaust system from hallam performance- Good ol Barney did a great job,Stainless steel extractors, opened up cats & twin 2.25 into single 3”. So here are some pics of my lil beast, Any comments/criticism is welcomed, Open to any ideas you guys want to thow at me....enough jibber jabber and bring on the pics hey!!
the new (old really) parts to be fitted.
one more for good luck...
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