Dave's EL XR8

by **EFFalcon** » November 2nd, 2008, 6:37 pm

What a car to Drive.
Turns many heads, sounds mint.
i'd have it as a daily!

Jared tried to tell me how much of a pain it is to drive, but once you get past the high RPM on cold start up.
sticky throttle pedal.
creaking sound from the right rear its fantastic to drive.

my only complaint about the car is kristy wanted to drive it all the time so i didnt get to drive it as much as i wanted

Kristy also wants the car again... so you know where to look if it goes missing

oh... and cool Garage area in ur car park hahah.

and thank god everything in the engine bay is painted black now, looks much neater!

by **wicksy** » November 2nd, 2008, 7:11 pm

skid pics lol

by **fordbaby** » November 3rd, 2008, 5:21 am

thanks again dave for the lend of ya car. its drives like a dream i say.
it does get alot of attention thats for sure.
boy is the clutch heavy. well for me it was.
i hope the car is clean enough for you when ya return.

by the way are ya still coming home after ya bn there for 6 months or ya staying longer?

and dont forget if ya decide to sell the car come to us first cause its ours thats for sure

thanks again dave, your the best

by **Kilma** » November 3rd, 2008, 11:06 am

EFFalcon wrote:and thank god everything in the engine bay is painted black now, looks much neater!

Where's the pics?

Out of curiosity Dave, how many kms do yu get to a tank in this car?

by **EL XR8** » November 3rd, 2008, 6:13 pm

No probs Mr and Mrs Wilson! 8-)

Glad it could help you guys out, so you didn't need a hire car. Sorry that it wasn't really that clean and didn't have a full tank of petrol. I totally ran out of time, before i left for my holiday. Packed the suitcase at 9pm the night before i went, i was that busy. :oops:

I know where you're coming from, they're the exact things that shit me too John, i can fix them easily, when i get arond to it. lol
Except for the cold start, unless i get a new ECU.

Kilma, i get 550km out of it, just purely hwy driving. But if you do a heap of stop start stuff, it can vary between 200 and 450km. Depending on how stick its given, and the horrendous gold coast traffic.

by **EFFalcon** » November 3rd, 2008, 8:30 pm

horrendous gold coast traffic?

haha!

it seemed to get some decent km's from the tank when we were there.
good mixture of driving.

no idea what it got exactly prob used a full tank in the week.

Didnt expect the car to have a full tank of fuel, you did us a big favour by lending it to us.
i could live with the things i listed

by **Kilma** » November 4th, 2008, 9:45 am

EL XR8 wrote:Kilma, i get 550km out of it, just purely hwy driving. But if you do a heap of stop start stuff, it can vary between 200 and 450km. Depending on how stick its given, and the horrendous gold coast traffic.

JEEBUZ!!! I used to see no more than 400kms out of a tank (mine doesn't seem to matter if it's highway or city), but that was before I did the diff. Now I get anywhere between 300 & 350. :lol:

by **bluntltd** » November 4th, 2008, 8:36 pm

A beautiful car.

by **Steady** » November 5th, 2008, 6:25 am

EFFalcon wrote:Jared tried to tell me how much of a pain it is to drive, but once you get past the high RPM on cold start up.
sticky throttle pedal.
creaking sound from the right rear its fantastic to drive.

All that stuff is fine, it's the fukken head rests that sht me!!!

by **EFFalcon** » November 5th, 2008, 6:40 am

Hahahha.
the head rests didnt hit me once.
maybe only short people cop it

by **fordbaby** » November 5th, 2008, 7:30 am

haha the mighty head rests, i forgot to take the clips for dave so they ill send em to ya today. it took alot of hacking the back of seats for me to get them out lol. i thought ya car looks pretty clean to me.

gold coast traffic sucks big time, they change lanes when they want without warning and just do what they want when they want.

i think my car sounds like shit now, comparing to your car

(i knew i should a drivin ya car home and swapped things over)

all in all an awesome car and love driving it.

ohh you didnt answer the question last night "can i have ya supercharger or even better the car?"

by **Fairmont888** » November 5th, 2008, 9:30 am

fordbaby wrote:gold coast traffic sucks big time, they change lanes when they want without warning and just do what they want when they want.

yep... that pretty much sums it up in one sentence, you should try living here, getting cut off at roundabouts then getting abused for getting on the horn is an awesome almost daily experience. everyone in QLD has a blind spot in their vision as bad as stevie wonders eyesight and they have the driving skills to match

by **FOR.0EL** » January 26th, 2009, 5:07 pm

saw this machine today, driving through surfers spot this mint el xr with a cooler hanging out the front, had to drive right beside him,

spotted the boosted stickers which was pretty awesome!
gotta see this car in the flesh to realise how amazing it is.
and took a photo too,

by **EFFalcon** » January 26th, 2009, 5:15 pm

Hhahah top shot

P

by **travs ea-xr6** » January 26th, 2009, 6:15 pm

nice shot man,i like them rims they look greate are they simmons

by **dcstraight** » January 26th, 2009, 7:15 pm

Dave nevarrrr gets spotted - yep awesome shot...nice to see the other fun machine there too

by **67rce** » January 27th, 2009, 9:12 am

travs ea-xr6 wrote:nice shot man,i like them rims they look greate are they simmons

Yes, FR19's, 19x9 and 19x10

by **Commando** » January 27th, 2009, 9:18 am

Awesome photo!

by **fordbaby** » January 27th, 2009, 9:54 am

damn you dave, i would a come out for a jet ski too

car looks awesome like always

by **EL XR8** » January 27th, 2009, 4:07 pm

Yeah spotted you too mate.
The missus saw your car and said to me, that looks exactly like my car.
Sorry i couldn't have a bit of a chat, kept getting caught at shit spots at the lights.

Gotta get the two blown toys out sometime Steve.

Don't worry Kristy, it wasn't the best day to get out on the water.. way too busy, and a litle choppy.

by **SVT8** » January 27th, 2009, 9:04 pm

farking insane el!. Im pretty sure i saw this at a tuning place in airport west like early-mid last year?? i cant remember the name of the joint. The tuner showed me it saying it made 220rwk with a few issues.

by **EL XR8** » January 27th, 2009, 9:13 pm

Yeah thats the one.
EAS in Airport West. Vic would have been the guy tuning it.
Made about 212rwkw on 5 PSI, now makes 240rwkw on 8 PSI.

Now i'm in QLD.

by **EFFalcon** » January 28th, 2009, 6:46 am

i didnt realise it made 240!
no wonder it felt decent to drive.

by **Kilma** » January 28th, 2009, 1:53 pm

67rce wrote:Yes, FR19's, 19x9 and 19x10

I remember reading they are 19 x 8 all around? Still nothing to be shy about though. Very nice rim on a tidy car. Blown windsor FTW!!

by **Steady** » January 28th, 2009, 2:06 pm

Nah they are staggered.

Thread needs more of these

by **fordbaby** » January 28th, 2009, 2:13 pm

i take it thats what your doing now jared.
have one for me then

by **Steady** » January 28th, 2009, 2:22 pm

I wish Kristy! Back at work

by **John_LS1** » January 28th, 2009, 4:03 pm

Steady wrote:Nah they are staggered.

Thread needs more of these

im having one right now...

by **EL XR8** » January 29th, 2009, 5:11 pm

Their 19x9's on the front, and 19x10's on the rear.
I'm not sure where the 19x8's might havbe come from. I have definately recommended 19x8's on the front a few times, but the rears are alright.

by **EL XR8** » January 29th, 2009, 5:12 pm

Their 19x9's on the front, and 19x10's on the rear.
I'm not sure where the 19x8's might havbe come from. I have definately recommended 19x8's on the front a few times, but the rears are alright.

by **Kilma** » January 30th, 2009, 11:26 am

I thought you said it when you were looking for some EL GT rims a while ago. EL GT on FM offered a set to swap for your FR19s but yours weren't wide enough, so he was just going to go and buy a set himself.

What size tyres do you have on the rear? Any troubles with them fitting under the guards?

by **Steady** » January 30th, 2009, 12:46 pm

Different bloke with FRs, I remember I PMd that guy offering to buy them, but I didn't want 19x8s all round.
Daves got 245s stretched onto the rears I'm pretty sure, they rub on that rubber/plastic around the lip of the guard when you have fat kunts in the back.

by **EL XR8** » January 30th, 2009, 4:10 pm

Yeah, that definately wasn't me Kilma. Cause i've got no idea who, wanted to wsap what for what.

Yeah they're only 245's stretched onto the rears. Seem to fit no problems and don't look out of place. So until i need some serious grip, these seem to work really well.
As Steady said, there's no problem, unless you get 3 fat kunts in the back, and then the rubber around the arch touches them. it does sit reasonably low though, so that doesn't help the situation. But without that rubber, they shouldn't hit at all. Or you can always lip them i guess. But i haven't had the need to on the rear. Only the front guards.

by **Steady** » July 22nd, 2009, 9:09 am

bump with oldschool pics i found

by **Bipolar** » July 22nd, 2009, 2:53 pm

Mint.

by **holmsy** » July 22nd, 2009, 9:16 pm

dave more pics please

specially of engine bay etc would be awsome.

by **someLS1** » July 22nd, 2009, 9:43 pm

fuk this is a sick car!! everytime i see new pics reminds me of the sikness

i dont say that about alot of eseries these days

by **Michael (HYPOEB)** » July 23rd, 2009, 6:41 am

+1 for more pics

by **EL XR8** » July 23rd, 2009, 6:51 pm

Not the best shot, but up at the Observatory in Canbera at the Nats a few years back.

Probably one of my favourite pics.

In the middle of the mob at the Nats in '07 i think.

Right after the respray, a bit blury though...

The original colour, and with spoiler. Still had the FR's though.

I don't think i have too many more on the new computer.
If anyone else has any, feel free to post them up.

by **SnyperEB** » July 23rd, 2009, 6:53 pm

First time I saw this car in STKilda I fell inlove with it. Awesome car mate.

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