Kyle's ED Falcon GLi/NL Fairlane Ghia

bentls · Post by **bentls** » August 2nd, 2009, 8:36 am

man if u snapped the studs they were probly done up too tight and stressing the studs... having said that u'd have to do them up FUCKING tight for that to happen..

kocho · Post by **kocho** » August 11th, 2009, 5:52 pm

hey kyle u wanna do those blue lights 4 my eb
they look good:)

Kyle the ED4LTR · Post by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » August 12th, 2009, 10:49 am

http://boostedfalcon.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4908" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; , explains how to change the globes in your instrumentation, pretty straight forward and will save you a bit of coin getting someone else to do it, good luck mate

kocho · Post by **kocho** » August 12th, 2009, 3:23 pm

thanks mate i will give it a go i will buy the globes

SnyperEB · Post by **SnyperEB** » August 28th, 2009, 7:52 pm

This thing is pretty awesome was good having a look at it last night lots of upgrades well done Kyle.

Kyle the ED4LTR · Post by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » August 29th, 2009, 11:08 am

Cheers Shaun

, like with most of my mods without the help I wouldnt have gotten anywhere.

ruleford · Post by **ruleford** » August 30th, 2009, 11:13 am

loved it kyle soz i didnt hang around went home was f@$#ing tired

Kyle the ED4LTR · Post by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » August 30th, 2009, 6:10 pm

ruleford wrote:loved it kyle soz i didnt hang around went home was f@$#ing tired

haha glad u liked it man, yeh I dont blame u i was pretty wrecked too

BenJ · Post by **BenJ** » September 3rd, 2009, 2:55 pm

Hey Kyle

So is it still on the road mate?

Need some recent pics so I can have a look at the mods.

Cheers
BenJ

Kyle the ED4LTR · September 4th, 2009, 10:37 am

GDay BenJ thanks for posting

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Car is still on the road, really loving this dash conversion so far, its like driving an NL. I replaced all of the cooling system about a week ago so the cooling should keep me out of trouble for the next few months.

One mod that I did to this car which I am glad worked out flawlessly was the Speed Sensitive Steering, I bought the EL Ghia ECU off TROYMAN in hope that the NL Steering rack and looms that I installed worked, once I fitted up the computer I was dreading if it would work or not, I knew the mod was a success when i could steer the wheel with one finger, with 18" Rims on the front

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With the tool I got of Krytox i was able to make the cluster show the car's legitimate km's

And one my mate Joel took with the wheels on and clean

If their is anything in specific you want pictures of let me know.
Kyle

t1MMy · Post by **t1MMy** » September 4th, 2009, 10:40 am

Car looks good, but I think the seats let it down.

Kyle the ED4LTR · September 4th, 2009, 10:44 am

t1MMy wrote:Car looks good, but I think the seats let it down.

Thanks mate

, I will agree on the seats, I hate it when things dont match but it was the only way I could get electric seats. I plan on getting them retrimmed but I havn't get found any good retrimmers yet, or im not looking hard enough. First thing I need to do prior is get EL rear seats for the right foam pattern etc etc

BenJ · Post by **BenJ** » September 4th, 2009, 10:51 am

Am very interested in the tool you used to set the Kays to the correct amount.

I find it very satisfying to see others complete mods like mine. Well Done!!!

I like the wheels you have too.

With the seats, you can probably use other EF/EL seats on your electric bases.

Cheers
BenJ

Post by **EFFalcon** » September 4th, 2009, 10:52 am

Why not put Grey EL Seats (Any spec) onto the Elec bases?

Kyle the ED4LTR · September 4th, 2009, 10:57 am

EFFalcon wrote:Why not put Grey EL Seats (Any spec) onto the Elec bases?

Didn't think it was possible, I think I will do that

, how hard would it be to do?

Post by **EFFalcon** » September 4th, 2009, 11:04 am

I don't see why it wouldn't be.

I havnt personally done it, but have seen Ghia seats on Elec Bases.
They should change over pretty easy

BROCKYB8 · Post by **BROCKYB8** » September 4th, 2009, 11:26 am

Speak to tim ( grub73) he knows a fair bit about it

Kyle the ED4LTR · September 4th, 2009, 11:35 am

BenJ wrote:Am very interested in the tool you used to set the Kays to the correct amount.

Best person to speak to about it is Krytox off fordmods, this is a rough explanation of how he made it from the top of my head.

Basically he made up a signal generator from parts you buy at Jaycar, with an AC and A DC i think power source, you wire up the cluster power and the generator pwer, and the speedo signal wire to the generator(Chop some looms out of an NF/NL or EF/EL depending on the cluster, it basically makes the cluster think it is driving. The cluster I got was out of a DL LTD( i was told) with about 148,000 on the clock, with the generator I had it sitting for 3 weeks set at 220k/ph until it finally reached 268,000, turn it off and plug it in like nothing ever happened.

Post by **EFFalcon** » September 4th, 2009, 11:39 am

Bwahahhahahaha
3 weeks.
couldn't go higher then that?

BenJ · Post by **BenJ** » September 4th, 2009, 11:41 am

Sounds like it would work, but there is no way I am going without my cluster in the car for three or more weeks LOL.

Thanks for the info though.

BenJ

Kyle the ED4LTR · September 4th, 2009, 11:42 am

couldnt get it up to more than 230k/ph, otherwise the cluster goes stupid and puts it back to 0. Luckily I had a well ventilated room so it didnt mind being run for 3 weeks straight

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Yeh I don,t blame ya Ben, at the time it didnt matter because my car was off the road

Post by **EFFalcon** » September 4th, 2009, 11:43 am

so driving the car @ ~500km/h should reset my cluster to 0?

krisisdog · Post by **krisisdog** » September 4th, 2009, 11:44 am

0km clusters?????? that could be interesting....

XRated · Post by **XRated** » September 4th, 2009, 12:16 pm

Nice wheels - it's rare to see something decent on an E-Series+. Good looking ED mate.

Besides the seats, the only thing that irks me is the misaligned side mould on the front driver's side.

Kyle the ED4LTR · Post by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 4th, 2009, 2:24 pm

XRated wrote:Nice wheels - it's rare to see something decent on an E-Series+. Good looking ED mate.

Besides the seats, the only thing that irks me is the misaligned side mould on the front driver's side.

Cheers mate, yeh the front guard isnt aligned right yet, had to take it off to put in the NL Loom, ill get around to it eventually

Post by **edfairmont4.0** » September 4th, 2009, 7:43 pm

Dude that is one horny looking ED love it! Good work with all the mods! A+ for effort!

burnt turtle · Post by **burnt turtle** » September 4th, 2009, 7:53 pm

XRated wrote:Nice wheels - it's rare to see something decent on an E-Series+. Good looking ED mate.

Besides the seats, the only thing that irks me is the misaligned side mould on the front driver's side.

yeh they are great wheels arnt they, good choice.

Post by **pHaT`eL** » September 5th, 2009, 11:20 am

Kyle, you could just find grey seats and swap the covers over, then sell the Cappa seats?

Kyle the ED4LTR · September 7th, 2009, 10:21 am

pHaT`eL wrote:Kyle, you could just find grey seats and swap the covers over, then sell the Cappa seats?

Yeh that's probably what I will end up doing, i'm gonna find a set of good condition NL Concorde seats and make them electric.

BROCKYB8 · Post by **BROCKYB8** » September 7th, 2009, 11:04 am

I think the badges need to go .
Looks very awkward on front quater pannel

Kyle the ED4LTR · September 7th, 2009, 11:10 am

BROCKYB8 wrote:I think the badges need to go .
Looks very awkward on front quater pannel

I like them, I think they give the car a bit of definition, plus its a way to cover up some of the paint damage from the old 4.0 Overhead cam badges (Shh

).

KR1STO · Post by **KR1STO** » September 7th, 2009, 11:56 am

saw this on Friday night... looks good... what happened to your back bar??

Kyle the ED4LTR · Post by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 7th, 2009, 6:18 pm

KR1STO wrote:saw this on Friday night... looks good... what happened to your back bar??

Ah yeh cool, where abouts?, well ever since my wheel came off the bar has never been quite right, I had the car parked in a shopping center in Heidelberg when I was in there getting a few things, returned with my bar half fallen on the ground, looked like someone hit it while i was in the shops, so I had to take it off completely

. I plan on working on a way to fix it during the week

KR1STO · Post by **KR1STO** » September 7th, 2009, 7:56 pm

saw you drivin past northland...

that sucks dude...

looked nice drivin past though..

Kyle the ED4LTR · Post by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 7th, 2009, 8:02 pm

KR1STO wrote:saw you drivin past northland...

that sucks dude...

looked nice drivin past though..

Thanks mate

PHAT EB · Post by **PHAT EB** » September 8th, 2009, 1:20 am

it seems your seen quite often mate... ive seen you a few times too and saw u again today in my street!!

Kyle the ED4LTR · Post by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 8th, 2009, 9:42 am

PHAT EB wrote:it seems your seen quite often mate... ive seen you a few times too and saw u again today in my street!!

ah yeh cool, what area?

YBHVE4 · Post by **YBHVE4** » September 8th, 2009, 10:23 am

i like the new wheels. looks tuff as

Kyle the ED4LTR · September 8th, 2009, 10:38 am

YBHVE4 wrote:i like the new wheels. looks tuff as

cheers man, they came off this car originally

BROCKYB8 · Post by **BROCKYB8** » September 8th, 2009, 11:01 am

The turtle car