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Hey guys,

well a while back i sold my XR6 ute to buy an XR6 turbo and here it is, had it for around a month.. (not that i've been driving it at all 'cough cough')

Its a 2003 4sp auto with about 70k on the clock.. has leather and premium sound
also has a flash tuner wih a 10lb tune.. should be going in for a custom tune etc. in a few weeks. I got shane (NFGHIA) to detail it last week and it came up good as! very happy with it!

anyhow


dash mat is gone now...

love it man. but why auto?

93edxr6 wrote:love it man. but why auto?

why not? turbo autos are heaps better than manual, you lose boost everytime you take your foot of the acclerator to change gear where an auto just keeps boosting, XR6T manuals are actually quite disapointing when you drive one compared to the auto

mint car by the way man, awesome colour choice aswell

yeah i wanted an auto for a change.. i still love manuals tho. Auto xr6t's are faster at the drags too.

also i didn't want to get a 5sp manual and couldn't find any 6sp that were any good in my price range

Looks very clean!. Nice pick up. How much did ya pick it up for, if you dont mind me asking.
Cheers

Got it for 20g... i thought there was alot more around for less than that but once you start looking the cheaper ones have no options and too many k's.
Put a k+n in it the other day.. and tonight i'll prolly paint the cross over pipe where all the paint is flaking off cos it looks gay.
This car makes my ute feel like a waste of time.. It went good but this pretty much stock is way better. NA sucks! lol

flat change
problem solved.

nice car man.
didnt know you could drive turbos on P's?

You can't . That's why he took the turbo badge off the boot.

yeah i'm not really driving it until i get off my p's only a couple of months to go. Still got the ef to cruise around in.

i got caught driving an 8.
stupid chick cop didnt know if it was an 8 or not.
got off pretty easy

Car went into Bluepower for a tune last week.. Chris had warned me that being a BA it would most likely need valve springs, but he wanted to see what it was like. Anyhow it does need them, they played with the tune a little but wasn't worth trying to tune it with the springs how they are. It still made around 245rwkw as is, which surprised me!
Also got the windows tinted dark and got an FPV wheel off Bluepower.
oh and they are blue led's in the footwells plugged into the standard plugs that normally don't have globes in them. might change them for white led's i dunno.

FPV wheel FTW! How much was that?

^ i agree, how much? its one thing i need

the wheels are normally $400 off bluepower..
feels heaps better and looks awesome too! i always wanted one and looked on ebay but they always go for a fair bit.

Fitted the F6 cooler i got the other day.. painted it black for more stealthyness! Not sure if it made much difference because its freezing outside tonight, but it loved smoking the tyres through 2nd gear
Also got some SSL rear springs and should be getting fronts this week. Can't wait to lower it.

Parfrey wrote:Car went into Bluepower for a tune last week.. Chris had warned me that being a BA it would most likely need valve springs, but he wanted to see what it was like. Anyhow it does need them, they played with the tune a little but wasn't worth trying to tune it with the springs how they are. It still made around 245rwkw as is, which surprised me!
Also got the windows tinted dark and got an FPV wheel off Bluepower.
oh and they are blue led's in the footwells plugged into the standard plugs that normally don't have globes in them. might change them for white led's i dunno.

245rwkw? what have you got done too it to make that much power? just the cooler?

good work man. love the black. the phoon cooler is fair bit bigger eh?

cini wrote:
245rwkw? what have you got done too it to make that much power? just the cooler?

That was with a 10psi herrod generic tune, k+n filter and modified airbox. and no the dyno doesn't normally read high..

Lowxr the cooler is bigger but still smaller than a wog cooler i think. It'd have to make it a bit better, the standard cooler is tiny! and it was only $100

Parfrey wrote:

cini wrote:
245rwkw? what have you got done too it to make that much power? just the cooler?

That was with a 10psi herrod generic tune, k+n filter and modified airbox. and no the dyno doesn't normally read high..

Lowxr the cooler is bigger but still smaller than a wog cooler i think. It'd have to make it a bit better, the standard cooler is tiny! and it was only $100

god they make power so easy!

Got the car back from Bluepower today with some added power
i got valve springs and injectors fitted + retuned..... resulting in ~280rwkw
pretty happy with it, drives like a normal car until you put ya foot down!

better start saving for more tyres

very nice. you will have to take me out in it, dont think i been in a modded ba auto.

That's decent power! No fuel pump yet? Does it have a exhaust?

pretty sure its still stock exhaust. wish i could have good power without all the noise of my exhaust. too fuckin loud.
what are stock xr6t exhaust rated to? power wise.

93edxr6 wrote:love it man. but why auto?

I drove Kenaz's BA XR6T auto ftmfw!!

they both have their advantages and dis advantages... i would never change mine to manual even if i could get a t56 setup cheap....im loving auto + turbo... but at the same time every time i do mountain run or have track day i wish it was manual......

yeah stock exhaust, fuel pump n stuff. i'd say the exhaust will be the next restriction, then fuel and then most likely the auto
sometimes i want a manual.. a modded auto and a t56 conversion are prolly around the same price...

its kinda deceptive to drive because its so quiet and smooth, it just keeps pulling!

car is sick. i love ba/bf xr6t's even more when there is no turbo badge. black typhoon FMIC...going to become abit of a sleeper?

the only restriction in the exhaust is the cat and dump on these aparently u can get a direct bolt in for both of them and people make 400rwkw so id do that as i like the sound of the exhaust on these not to loud.
but the fuel pump and injectors would be maxed out nearly id say.
cheers josh.

I drove a auto's for a year and was stoked to get back in to a EA manual with a shit clutch and no 2nd gear that I bought $400 bucks. Since then I've only been driving manuals Just can't live with an auto!!

ELOVER wrote:car is sick. i love ba/bf xr6t's even more when there is no turbo badge. black typhoon FMIC...going to become abit of a sleeper?

can't really become much of a sleeper because it still looks like an xr6/xr6t.

not sure how the old BTR is liking the power.. might have to start thinking about a t56 or better auto!

get a xt kit up ya

bentls wrote:get a xt kit up ya

LOL
make it so you cant turn with your wheel on full lock aswell?

yehhhhhhh. but i could with the 16s

Finally lowered the thing! I put in ssl rears and sl fronts on standard shocks.. and its still too high!
i really need to take some better pics of this thing...





Here's a pic with the icc painted silver, looks heaps better

Yeah we lowered Tiga_EL's XR6T over the weekend as well and it just seemed too high for SSL's at the rear and SL's at the front, they definitely need to be compressed.

Still looks way better though, silver ICC looks good too.

ba springs take a while but eventually sag. if you dont have tyre tuck at rear with ssl and 17s there is something wrong. james me an dylan got some springs for ya hahaha

get some swaybars next makes them handle so much nicer.... and some bilstein shocks hehehe

Yeah i'll leave it for a while see how they go.. maybe i'll drive around with my toolbox in the back! would help with traction too lol.

new shocks are on the list but so is about 1million other things! Fixing the gay auto is first

you know once you have fixed your auto you would have spent about 2 grand more fixing this car then i have on my EL! lol "I'll have 3 AU motors thanks! :That'll be $995"

Woot to fixing cars!

lol yeah, but there's 2 ways of fixing something!!

and i've only put 6l of engine oil and 5l of auto oil in mine! lol

cars are fun until they break!

lol i've prolly only put that much in these engines too.... They don't run any differently without oil... just a tad noisy!!! I can never find oil that looks like milk for my car anyway.. haha