I thought I might post my ride up.
Bought it stock as a rock back in late November after selling my EB2 Fairmont.
On Christmas day heading to my wife's parents place from my parents at about 2am on the back streets i hit a medium sized roo at 80k's. So glad we were in the EL and not the R34 skyline as the car would have ended up off the road for sure and maybe written off. The EL took a hard hit but only resulted in a slightly cracked grill and front bar but the complete front end covered in blood that even with the high beams on couldnt see anything (lucky it also went under the car and not over). Found out too a few days later the radiator recieved a slight puncher too so replaced it at that point with a copper core radiator.
Within the past few months I have dual fueled it, lowered all round with super low Lovells (was going to put ultras in the back but thought against it with the gas tank, towing and being a daily) and Monroe shocks, put a 2.5inch cat back exhaust and twin dump tips as well a few things here and there to clean it up and fix the bugs. After converting to gas i had many issues for about a month as the place didnt do a very good job and would highly recommend no one go there....but the fellows at Keith Linell tuning in dandenong got it running better then it ever was even on petrol. When getting this all done i also thought i might rebuild the tickford head with stainless valves to suit the gas and a new gasket.
Sorry about the poor pics but ill get good ones soon:
near future plans:
- Got some ROH 17's to throw on
- Paint calipers blue
- Got some clear rear tail lights
- Clear side indicators
- Tint the windows
- Get air con working better
- do the AUX plug mod on fordmods so i can use a mp3 player and keep the stock unit
- throw in a sub and amp
- mod grill and front bar after roo hit.
will keep you posted as I go.
cheers
