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My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 2:15 pm
by SnyperEB
Hey guys as you know im selling the Ghia so I thought I would put up what I have bought to replace it.

Picked this up 4 days ago.
AUII XR8
Liquid Silver
Manual
200kw Engine
Mods - Short shifter and 2 1/2' Exhaust.

Plan is to probably lower it and thats about it.

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Cheers
Shaun

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 2:34 pm
by EBOOST
looks good mate.
was this from a bloke in hoppers?
looks very similar to one i went and saw with a mate of mine.
cheers josh.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 3:19 pm
by SnyperEB
Yeah mate that it is.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 3:35 pm
by EBOOST
yeah he was a bit of a weird guy but the car was clean.
if u dont mind me asking what did u get it for as my mate didnt buy it as he wouldnt budge from $13,500 but that was a good 4 months ago
cheers josh.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 3:45 pm
by SnyperEB
Under 13 mate he really didn't want to get rid of it but his missus told him to. Bit strange but he was ok.
Probably a bit much for it but it's mint

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 4:19 pm
by stevo
Was that you I was next to lastnight after leaving maccas? If so, sounds nice man

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 4:30 pm
by nstg8a
nice looking au, getting to be a few au's on here now.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 4:31 pm
by KR1STO
Nice mate..!
I like..!

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 4:35 pm
by Dansedgli
Needs a Forte front end conversion but otherwise its pretty nice.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 4:51 pm
by SnyperEB
stevo wrote:Was that you I was next to lastnight after leaving maccas? If so, sounds nice man


Yeah that was me mate.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 5:00 pm
by [Sterling]
Its almost a BA shuan, You've changed man..

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 5:01 pm
by SnyperEB
[Sterling] wrote:Its almost a BA shuan, You've changed man..


I will never turn! Lol

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 7:22 pm
by 67rce
Manual AU V8's go ok.... It's probably running similar times to your EB :grin: Looks like it's mint though! Shame mine is a heap of shit....

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 9:53 pm
by tezza bear
Nice pickup Shaun looks in good condition, many km's on it????? & dam it being a manual thought i could sell you another shiftkit ;) ...........

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 8th, 2011, 10:46 pm
by SnyperEB
150,000 on it Tezza

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 9th, 2011, 12:55 am
by Dezza
nstg8a wrote:nice looking au, getting to be a few au's on here now.

I've noticed everyone seem to be buying AUs now. They are a seriously underrated car.

Looks like a good car. The mirrors look a bit weird but other than that it looks great.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 9th, 2011, 6:04 am
by justa6
look's good.. silver's the go he he

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 9th, 2011, 8:26 am
by tezza bear
SnyperEB wrote:150,000 on it Tezza

Cool, i think i'll have to get me one of these AU's & keep up with the rest of u lot :-P

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 10th, 2011, 7:57 am
by fordbaby
looks like a cochroach!!!! :P

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 10th, 2011, 9:49 am
by TUFED6
I see it has the factory AU XR nosecone/panel paint mismatch. Nah j/k looks good :-)

PostPosted: January 10th, 2011, 10:10 am
by EFFalcon
haha, that was the first thing i looked for too.

that colour is horrible for it.

i'd just chang the mirrors :P

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 10th, 2011, 10:14 am
by SnyperEB
Leaving the mirrors just to piss you off John.

Yeah slight colour different but they all have it so not much I can do.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 10th, 2011, 10:16 am
by BROCKYB8
looks good mate. Congrats on the purchase .
Nice to see its manual too

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 10th, 2011, 10:38 am
by SnyperEB
Cheers Scotty.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 10th, 2011, 11:03 am
by kocho
i like it looks good even beta its manual

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 10th, 2011, 12:40 pm
by SnyperEB
kocho wrote:i like it looks good even beta its manual


Had to be a manual otherwise I would not have bought it.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 11th, 2011, 1:20 am
by sk8n6
nice pick up snyper

i've noticed this thing round werribee/ hoppers and my old man has talked to him to,

both yours and my old boys were filling up and the owner of yours commented on how clean my dads is.

It would want to be lives in the carport except for fridays since 2002 when he brought it brand new (well it was in the showroom with a te50 rear wing on it at etheridge ford for year first)

I think dads car just hit 80k service,

Just be careful of the rolla rockers in these things mate they break but its usally only clip thingy that names eluded me and its 2,12 including gst from yella terra or 1200 from ford.

Nice car has it really clean from memory

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 11th, 2011, 8:06 am
by SnyperEB
sk8n6 wrote:nice pick up snyper

i've noticed this thing round werribee/ hoppers and my old man has talked to him to,

both yours and my old boys were filling up and the owner of yours commented on how clean my dads is.

It would want to be lives in the carport except for fridays since 2002 when he brought it brand new (well it was in the showroom with a te50 rear wing on it at etheridge ford for year first)

I think dads car just hit 80k service,

Just be careful of the rolla rockers in these things mate they break but its usally only clip thingy that names eluded me and its 2,12 including gst from yella terra or 1200 from ford.

Nice car has it really clean from memory


Cheers

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 11th, 2011, 9:28 am
by apoc
AU2 XR8s ftw! Nice pickup. AUs are damn reliable from the ones I've seen.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 11th, 2011, 11:36 am
by Parfrey
looks like a nice example :)
AU's are pretty nice to drive, my old mans AU XR8 ute just clicked over 205,000km with pretty much no problems at all.

I have some SL front springs for one if your interested too.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 11th, 2011, 1:17 pm
by 67rce
sk8n6 wrote:nice pick up snyper

i've noticed this thing round werribee/ hoppers and my old man has talked to him to,

both yours and my old boys were filling up and the owner of yours commented on how clean my dads is.

It would want to be lives in the carport except for fridays since 2002 when he brought it brand new (well it was in the showroom with a te50 rear wing on it at etheridge ford for year first)

I think dads car just hit 80k service,

Just be careful of the rolla rockers in these things mate they break but its usally only clip thingy that names eluded me and its 2,12 including gst from yella terra or 1200 from ford.

Nice car has it really clean from memory

Dude, it's Valve springs that break, not rockers.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 11th, 2011, 5:59 pm
by EBOOST
yeah au's are great cars my dads wagon has done 354,000km and ive towed 2 cars and heaps of stuff with it without a drama.
also my brothers au3 220 xr8 has 178k on it and we just did brakes on it (only due to shudder) and it still had meat on the pads and no bad lips on the rotors.
clutch is still factory also (he picked it up with 34k on it).
its putting out 191rwkw aswell so the clutches are alright in them.
cheers josh.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 11th, 2011, 6:13 pm
by sk8n6
67rce wrote:
sk8n6 wrote:nice pick up snyper

i've noticed this thing round werribee/ hoppers and my old man has talked to him to,

both yours and my old boys were filling up and the owner of yours commented on how clean my dads is.

It would want to be lives in the carport except for fridays since 2002 when he brought it brand new (well it was in the showroom with a te50 rear wing on it at etheridge ford for year first)

I think dads car just hit 80k service,

Just be careful of the rolla rockers in these things mate they break but its usally only clip thingy that names eluded me and its 2,12 including gst from yella terra or 1200 from ford.

Nice car has it really clean from memory

Dude, it's Valve springs that break, not rockers.


Not in this case is was not, it was the retainer clip that i still cant remember the name of that went,

But yeah we did valve springs as well

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 11th, 2011, 9:36 pm
by SnyperEB
Couple More Pics.
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Cheers Shaun

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 12th, 2011, 8:19 am
by justa6
good looking car ay, just drop it i reckon.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 12th, 2011, 6:13 pm
by EBOOST
did he tell u about the exhaust or give u any receipt?
he went on about it to me and my mate for ages but it looks like a stock exhaust to me.
looks exactly the same as my brothers stock xr8 exhaust.
cheers josh.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 12th, 2011, 7:34 pm
by SnyperEB
He said something about it I didn't take much notice. It's 2 and half inch sounds good I'm not fazed.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 12th, 2011, 7:41 pm
by EBOOST
its twin 2 1/4 it looks to me, same as standard au3 xr8.
they still flow alright and sound good.
cheers josh.

Re: My New Daily AUII XR8

PostPosted: January 12th, 2011, 8:21 pm
by SnyperEB
Meh I couldn't care lol

PostPosted: January 13th, 2011, 7:41 am
by EFFalcon
if its stock they've dropped a muffler out of it.
it deff doesn't sound stock