Nath's EL GLi... Now Turbo

by **nath** » November 5th, 2008, 10:08 pm

Hi everyone well now that I’ve done some mods and got some decent photo’s I thought I mite post up a thread on it, Anyway I brought this EL GLi about 3 months ago after I did some searching for about 3 months looking for a decent car, I had found a EF Fairmont for $3500 in great condition but when I rang up it had sold, so then one day on the way to skewl I saw this el and it had $5000ono on the window so I grabbed the number of it but never rang, but then it was in the paper for $4500 n I rang up n went had a look at it then I asked how much he wanted he said $4500 registered as it was unregistered and from S.A or 4000 with VIC roadworthy cert so I went home and talked the olds into lending me the $4000 and then gave him a call and he dropped it round on the following weekend with a roadworthy cert and then I got it on the road 2 days later.

After I rego’d it I put the 2.5 inch catback that I got of my girlfriends brother, he took it off his turbo’d EL because he got a 3inch. Then I ordered my new springs and shocks ultralows/superslows with Monroe shortened shocks from work they got here about 2 weeks later and I chucked them in the following weekend with help from a mate to get the front in. then just last week my shift kit came from shiftkits.com and I wired that in after school, and I chucked in a chap Sony x-plod heap unit I got from work then I just neatened it up a bit took the towbar out and the bar that runs behind the bumper and got a plug for the hole that was left and sprayed it the same colour as the car that’s it so far.

Future mods include getting some new wheels and hopefully getting a tickford snorkel and paceys of a mates EF before he sells it, then I was thinking about turboing it next year but I don’t really know if its worth it yet. if I do turbo it I’ll change any exterior mods back to stock such as wheels to give it more of sleeper look. anyway heres some pics..

this is when I got it

the day I lowered it

first time I gave it a wash

new pic looks a bit high though

by **pantic** » November 5th, 2008, 10:35 pm

its tidy mate put a set of rims under it and it'll sit abit lower

overall a very tidy el

by **Bipolar** » November 6th, 2008, 12:52 am

Looks like a good base to start with and definitely a nice first car.

by **Dumpsta** » November 6th, 2008, 7:00 am

Sweeet mate, get some wheels pronto

. Looks great!

by **wicksy** » November 6th, 2008, 12:10 pm

and a set of EF tail lights

by **nath** » November 6th, 2008, 5:41 pm

thanks fella's, yeh im tryin to make a choice on sum wheels and get em on the gli ASAP,, can get 4 teritory stockies for $80 dunno if they'll look any good tho and i think there au - fg offest is that right? ef taillights i might get when i have some spare change.. oh and bipolar technically its my 2nd car haha brought a datto ute a year and a half ago

by **Dumpsta** » November 6th, 2008, 6:45 pm

Yep tezza wheels are Au-Fg offset as far as Ive heard, makes sense. Save on the ef tail lights and tint the ones you have

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by **pHaT`eL** » November 6th, 2008, 6:46 pm

Leave it as it is for now,looks great! Put all the money towards boost

by **nath** » November 6th, 2008, 8:48 pm

ohk think ill give teritory wheels a miss then.. cheers for confirming that dumpsta,

yeah phat el i think the urge of boosting the el is becoming to great and i just wanna do it haha, but then i again i have ta choose between boosting the el and puting a 12a in my datto ute

by **nath** » November 13th, 2008, 10:39 pm

i got bored yesterday so i decided to paint my grill centre peice to get the car lookin a little neater, before it was all weathered and was just grey plastic on top and underneath had a little bit of silver paint. anyway i think it looks heaps better than it did neater anyway..

by **misseseries** » November 13th, 2008, 10:55 pm

i have to agree much neater

by **Dumpsta** » November 14th, 2008, 6:37 am

Sure is mate. Looks like a good job too.

by **nath** » December 25th, 2008, 6:46 pm

got bored as today after chrissy lunch, so got mum to come wit for a drive n got a few photos had nuthin else to do haha looks low on grass...theese are some of the better ones haha, broke a hubcap so took em all off so thats why i just got stock steelies lol

by **nath** » May 13th, 2009, 2:15 pm

Car had been out of action for about 3 months due to a cracked windscreen, then i finally got the windscreen fixed so i could sell it, then i got offerd to swap for a boosted el the guy backed out at the last minute :-(

.... so i brought myself a stage 3 snort turbo kit,, so plans now are to keep the falcon and boost it, have allready got the kit just waiting on screamer pipe and front mount then just needa bolt the manifold/turbo on i have allready done the oil lines and just needa bolt the gearbox and motor back together,then all i need to do is get 3 inch exhaust and intercooler piping done done and put a my walbro 255 in then its good to go... hoping i get it all done and ready to drive before i get my P's ;-)

by **nath** » May 23rd, 2009, 2:56 pm

making progress, sort of... just got to get fuel reg hooked up and some intercooler piping and a 3inch exhasut made up which is the gay bit, then i should be able to take it out for a spin

which i want to do asap becasue im sick of driving dads ute around now ive got my p's haha

by **[Sterling]** » May 23rd, 2009, 3:55 pm

holy shit! very nice man, that would be sleeper as! got pics of the cooler poking through the front bar?

by **nath** » June 1st, 2009, 1:25 pm

nuh no pics of cooler through the bar yet...cause im still waiting to get it..and the screamer pipe aswell ;/ yeh hopefully ill keep it lookin pretty sleeper, black cooler asfar back as i can get it, should be mint :mrgreen:

by **Dumpsta** » July 5th, 2009, 8:29 pm

So have you received the cooler and screamer pipe yet? Keen to see how you go with this.. Keep us updated.

by **nath** » July 6th, 2009, 8:14 pm

hey yeh i have recived them got em about 3 weeks ago, hopefully ill get to start working on it again this weekend will hafta find the camera and get some pic's too while im goin, wanted to have it finnished before my 18th birthday but doesnt look like its gunna happen haha

by **SnyperEB** » July 6th, 2009, 8:25 pm

Missed this thread. Man thats looks like my mum's old EL. Nice work mate coming along well.

by **sexyr6** » July 6th, 2009, 10:00 pm

lucky bugger, having a boosted falcon before your 18 :shock:

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by **MontXR** » July 6th, 2009, 10:10 pm

+1 what sexyr6 said.. Lucky bugger...

by **nath** » July 6th, 2009, 10:47 pm

SnyperEB wrote:Missed this thread. Man thats looks like my mum's old EL. Nice work mate coming along well.

Yeh its coming along well.... just not quick enough, haha intercooelr piping is proving to be biggest problem to get it goin atm, mainly the $$ slowing that down but ah well i will get it there soon

sexyr6 wrote:lucky bugger, having a boosted falcon before your 18 ..

MontXR wrote:+1 what sexyr6 said.. Lucky bugger...

haha wel techically its not "boosted" yet as i havent got it finnished haha, but yeh i just put in the hard yards to build what i really wanted insted of forking out the same amount of money for a slightly newer stocker car like most youngens haha

p'plate rules and mildura police are gunna make it a every now and then car though so im gunna hafta keep driven the eb for a while yet haha...NSW license at 17 + living in VIC = FTW but haha

by **sexyr6** » July 7th, 2009, 6:18 pm

nath wrote:
SnyperEB wrote:Missed this thread. Man thats looks like my mum's old EL. Nice work mate coming along well.

Yeh its coming along well.... just not quick enough, haha intercooelr piping is proving to be biggest problem to get it goin atm, mainly the $$ slowing that down but ah well i will get it there soon

Yeah thats the part that took the longest for me, and I had all the tools and knowlage (s/s pipework) to do them..
looking sweet so far, keep up the good work.. :good:

by **pHaT`eL** » July 7th, 2009, 7:13 pm

Coming along nicely. Just need standard size plates.. pretty sure ELT-097 or 098 would look mint on this.

by **Dumpsta** » July 7th, 2009, 7:25 pm

Just noticed the paint in the engine bay is different then the paint on the outside, well so it appears in the photo.. ? Have you had the 3" fitted?

by **SnyperEB** » July 7th, 2009, 7:33 pm

When I turbo'd mine I ran out of coin. Had to wait two weeks for the exhaust to get done.

by **nath** » July 7th, 2009, 9:07 pm

sexyr6 wrote:Yeah thats the part that took the longest for me, and I had all the tools and knowlage (s/s pipework) to do them..
looking sweet so far, keep up the good work..

cheers mate will do,

pHaT`eL wrote:Coming along nicely. Just need standard size plates.. pretty sure ELT-097 or 098 would look mint on this.

haha negitive, i couldnt bear having standard size plates no matter how much more sleeper they made it... unless they garanteed 0 cop attention haha

Dumpsta wrote:Just noticed the paint in the engine bay is different then the paint on the outside, well so it appears in the photo.. ? Have you had the 3" fitted?

i think its because the engine bay doesnt have a gloss finnish on it? and the lighting in the pic does make it alot worse though, nuh i havent, will be getting it sorted out next week when im back in my home town for trade school

SnyperEB wrote:When I turbo'd mine I ran out of coin. Had to wait two weeks for the exhaust to get done.

yeh running outa $ is a killer, waiting is no fun.... aprentice wages + cars is a big FTL

by **sexyr6** » July 7th, 2009, 9:35 pm

what trade you doing Nath?

by **nath** » July 8th, 2009, 8:16 am

Mechanic, light vechicle.. Only in first year ):

by **sexyr6** » July 8th, 2009, 8:31 pm

it's always good to have a trade under your belt..

by **nath** » August 16th, 2009, 1:01 am

okay, well finally got some time to do some more work to the EL, have wired gauges in and made an attept to put teh front mount on,

Boost & Air Fuel Ratio

im not 100% sure about the mountings at the top.. they may not be strong enough, but i will most likely make some up for the bottom out of flat at work to make it a bit more stable, couldnt really find a whole lot of info on here to do with cooler mounting so just went with it

by **Dumpsta** » August 16th, 2009, 9:38 am

Awesome work mate, love the shot of the front of the car. Coming along sweet.

by **boostedbb** » August 16th, 2009, 10:36 am

looking good nath gauges look good how you going with the cooler piping gettin it sorted out alright?

by **sexyr6** » August 16th, 2009, 2:43 pm

this is what I did with the lower mounts on mine..

by **nath** » August 16th, 2009, 6:50 pm

yeah i was thinken something similar to your mounts sexry6, they do look neat as.. i just need to hold the bottom of the cooler out away from the air con stuff because there isnt much clearance behind there,

ummm as for the cooler piping..leaving that till next weekend still not 100% what to do with it, were exactly to run it and were to cut the holes.. have had a play with those bends i got off ya, i will get a 180 and a few straights to cut up n should hopefully be able to do 80% of it, did you get those peices that i got off ya from MTC?

by **boostedbb** » August 16th, 2009, 8:45 pm

yeah i did let me know what other bits i will hook you up with them i can get a full 3 meter length of 3" for like 20 - 30 bucks pm me and i get you an idea of price but it will be cheap maybe a slab lol

by **DEVLXR** » August 18th, 2009, 6:17 pm

WTF!! This is awesome, a first year, 18yo already boosting his EL. Wish I had of not spent so much money on crap and just did this straight up :shock:

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Good work with it so far and good luck with the rest of the build.

by **thebeast.** » August 18th, 2009, 9:48 pm

looks nice mate, cant wait to see it finished

by **nath** » August 20th, 2009, 10:45 pm

yeah cheers guys, always planned to turbo it asap from day 1 when i started looking for a eb/ed/ef/el ;-)

been thinken about my intercooler piping, what do other people do with the piping though from the turbo to cooler, where abouts does everyone run it? keen for ideas/help guys, btw my battery has been re-located

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