guess I should do an intro on myself.

by **EDXR61994** » August 12th, 2009, 4:37 pm

Well my car is in the show room section anyways but my names Tim I am a 22 Ipswich fellar who loves his fords loves his fishing and cant wait to find work again and be able to afford to catch up with folk

by **jarryddelany** » August 12th, 2009, 6:29 pm

welcome, post some pics on this thread of your car.

by **EDXR61994** » August 13th, 2009, 11:43 pm

ok here we go

Photo of mine and my bros

photo of mine and my bros 2

by **EDXR61994** » August 13th, 2009, 11:45 pm

by **TickXR** » August 13th, 2009, 11:48 pm

Nice clean lookin XR6 you have there mate

You planning on putting rest of Sprint kit on?

by **EDXR61994** » August 13th, 2009, 11:56 pm

Once I find work yes. Bought it with the front part but yeah both me and bro want sprint kids for our cars. But first this one needs abit of work.

Auto needs overhaul.
Car needs a major service including tune
needs new bushes and shockies hoping to put superlows through it
needs new tyres 205 cheap rubbers atm need to get 225s of something good when I can.
needs new pads and rotors.

other plans
Extractors pacemaker
Exhaust luckey
High flow cat

by **EDXR61994** » August 14th, 2009, 11:37 am

small tiny little vid of my car. Under that user name is two 0-100 tests I've done on it atm but its fairly slow cause it needs abit of work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5KA8pNpEZo

by **nr2877** » August 15th, 2009, 12:41 pm

xr6 looks good mate

by **EDXR61994** » August 16th, 2009, 5:27 pm

Thanks

good economy too...was towing the boat home from fishing trip this weekend from the coast. At first toll on the motorway my fuel warning light came on. Car was loaded to the roof on back drivers and middle seat. I had 3 passengers and a loaded boat. Made it all the way to yamanto.

by **travs ea-xr6** » August 16th, 2009, 6:13 pm

yer they have good torqe down low which is perfect fot towing,when your towing with weight like that do you click onto power

by **EDXR61994** » August 16th, 2009, 8:14 pm

haha nope.....dont ever seem to need to...today was concerning tho was at jacob's well boat ramp on the lowest tide ive seen. Folks trailers were hanging off the boat ramp and there was shit loads of wet sand all over the ramp. Saw an AUXR8 Ute bag em up trying to pull his boat out. (tbh I think he was being a tool giving it too much throttle given an SSZ ute had very little wheel spin pulling a similar size boat out). Will say tho I love my torque. wheel spun in drive but put her in 1st and she pulled the boat (while being fully loaded herself) pulled it out like a tractor.

by **EDXR61994** » August 16th, 2009, 8:17 pm

the cool thing about me keeping this car automatic is I have a spare XR6 ECU for it

. But yes...the manual side of stuff is fun I will saying having driven the red XR6 which is manual. But geeze I tow way better then his car

not that his struggles but it sure eats juice towing. The camping/fishing trip I did we normally take both XR6s for but we were short on cash to fuel both cars and a boat so we just fuelled mine and the boat. Somehow I fit it all in my car

by **travs ea-xr6** » August 16th, 2009, 8:25 pm

next time try the power switch it hellps a fair bit especialy when coming to hills just hangs the gears out longer and drops down better when it feels effort,

by **EDXR61994** » August 16th, 2009, 8:30 pm

ahh ok wouldn't it actually rev higher and eat more fuel tho? due to power mode probably putting it in a lower gear? cause pulling up hills she does it no worries in econ mode....sits on a tops of 2500 RPM up hills and cruises along at 100KPH at about 1800 RPM while towing.

by **travs ea-xr6** » August 16th, 2009, 8:34 pm

not really if a cars stugling up a hill you natraly cellerate more and it chews more juice and by having it on power moder it drops down a gear and its less throttle required to climb the hills,my dad used to just drop down a gear when coming to a hills worked a treate :thumbsup:

by **EDXR61994** » August 16th, 2009, 8:51 pm

Hmm I may give it a try next run. That being said its only a 14.79ft Tiny boat wise so its not anything huge. And my car does haul its arss along pritty easilly....maybe the tickfords are different I dont know.

by **travs ea-xr6** » August 16th, 2009, 9:03 pm

oh yer tinys are cool but not when its chopy

our family boat is a swift craft 6m seagul mk2 with a 70 evinrude.
but being fibraglass its quite a bit heavyer then a tiny and dad tows it with his triton turbo diesle

you go snapper fishing much

by **EDXR61994** » August 16th, 2009, 9:14 pm

yeah I go out to mud island or pearl island...and on one occasion we went out to the 24s....but every other time ive gone out to 24s its been choppy....last time I went snapper fishing tho all I caught was 1.5m of wobbygong

our boat is an allycraft 445 shadow-pro with an Evenrude Etec 40HP she goes ok also has a min kota electric on the front

by **jarryddelany** » August 17th, 2009, 8:56 pm

i love the xr lights

:)

by **EDXR61994** » August 18th, 2009, 4:15 pm

Yeah they're pritty cool. But whats really cool is I have 2 spare sets of them

which would maybe make some peeps cry...

by **EDXR61994** » September 14th, 2009, 1:30 am

thought id post a few pics of my car pictured next to my 3rd brothers ED Fairmont

both looking pritty good

by **psychotic-angel** » September 14th, 2009, 1:25 pm

nice falcons mate

by **EDXR61994** » September 14th, 2009, 4:55 pm

thanks

by **EDXR61994** » September 21st, 2009, 1:29 am

Ok an update......One I wished I was never going to have to make. Last night I ended up in a nose to tail photos will be up as soon as I can upload them on my mates computer. Basically was on my way to a mates place when a girl in a red manual VZ Clubbie ute decided to slam on the breaks and dive down the gears for a stupid little bunny rabbit that ran across the road and sadly long story short .....94 automatic doesn't quite break anywhere near as well...especially going down hill.....and as a result I hit the back end of her car.

The bonnet and grill with lights is fucked. The front lip...I fear is fucked....front bumper front quarter panels radiator condenser all shagged..radiator support looks kinda twisted..id say clutch fan is shagged...car still sort of moves at walking pace but was towed to crash yard. Tomorrow Suncorp go to look at it thank god I am insured.

by **burnoutxr6** » September 21st, 2009, 9:25 am

Crap mate thats got to hurt,that car was so clean to.good time to chuck some thermos on.Good luck with the repairs. :drinks2:

by **EDXR61994** » September 21st, 2009, 9:04 pm

cheers....wont know anything till hopefully tomorrow as to whether its fixable or they will write it off.....its insured for an agreed value of 6200....however I get the wonderful fun of coughing up a 700 dollar excess. which is a bit of a sting. Given there are like no ED XR6s for sale atm in Queensland and that I loved this car its my hope that she is fixable.

will hopefully have pics up tomorrow night.

by **EDXR61994** » September 22nd, 2009, 2:34 pm

ok here are pictures I wish I was never going to have to see.

Its going through Crawford smash repair atm....hopefully it is fixable for less than 6200.....I dont want it to be a write off.

by **burnoutxr6** » September 22nd, 2009, 3:26 pm

You did a good job of her,fingers crossed they bring it back to life they are starting to get a bit rare now.good luck mate. :cray:

by **EDXR61994** » September 22nd, 2009, 6:09 pm

tell me about it.....Crawford crash repairs said its going to be close. They are getting hard to get panels for and it is going to take a fair amount of work. He said it may even take a month or two to get the parts in. He reckins he did one recently that had been rear ended. He said it was difficult to find a rear bumper for one. I said well i've got another front bumper for the car it just needs to be painted but he didn't seem interested in second hand parts.

He reckins he has found a place that is remaking them so beats me. I am praying to god and hoping...that it doesn't cost 6200 or more to fix. I will say tho......I hate fucking bunny rabbits right now......and people who decide to slam on breaks for them.

by **EDXR61994** » September 22nd, 2009, 6:28 pm

photos of what damage is done under the bonnet.

by **EDXR61994** » September 23rd, 2009, 1:25 pm

Its a write off 8000 dollars to fix. Without any filewall damage and with no real subframe damage. 7200 without aircon or radiator. Thats fucking bullshitly gutting. Sigh

by **mad_keen** » September 23rd, 2009, 3:16 pm

how much are they giving you for it then?

by **OED666** » September 23rd, 2009, 5:30 pm

note to self... eyes on the fries, expect the person in front to do that shit... and maybe a bit more room between the car in front. sad to see another ED XR thats going to end up rusting away. :cray:

by **EDXR61994** » September 23rd, 2009, 8:55 pm

Well made me cry pulling my sterio and front lip off the car turns out the lip is actually ok I thought it was split but its not. I have another plan up my sleeve but first I have to find out what it is going to cost me to buy the car back off suncorp. If its affordable all may not be lost.

I really dont seem to have much luck with anything right now. And well the following distance I left is the normal amount I have always left and never really had any issue pulling up till that fateful night.

Factors that worked against me. Breaks were probably getting on the shitty side. Car is automatic so hitting the break peddle is about all I could do. Note to self autos can never have never and will never stop as effectively as manuals.

Especially when the manual has 12 years technology to it's advantage.

by **EDXR61994** » September 24th, 2009, 3:45 am

hmm prices he informs me that he was given.
600 dollars a pair of headlights.
400 dollars for a grill.
550 bux for an unpainted bonnet.
wasn't able to find a quarter panel mould
or a front bumper mould.
guess there is some big labour charges? /shrug...beats me...

by **StockEB** » September 24th, 2009, 5:46 am

Don't you still have the headlights and grill from the white one...?

If I were you I would buy it back, hunt down parts and fix it later. The other parts are cheap and plentiful mate.

by **OED666** » September 24th, 2009, 8:13 am

pretty sure you can get aftermarket bonnets for $120

by **BROCKYB8** » September 24th, 2009, 12:43 pm

Lol well its prob just easy for them to write off the car.
Well get it back and part it out and buy something else in meantime.
Im sure RM or TDW could find u something soon enough

by **Reetz** » September 24th, 2009, 4:53 pm

Did the ABS kick in? Or could you not get the foot down hard enough?

And dont think it would have been much different in a maunal... usually the time it takes for clutch in- pick/find gear- clutch out takes longer than you would imagine in that situation. And is usually not much more effective than a working emergency brake (i know its in a shit place) The brain naturally freezes.

Anyway mate. Sorry to hear about the loss and i hope things work out :good:

by **EDXR61994** » September 27th, 2009, 2:14 am

The ABS I think worked but the issue I have with it.....in new age cars. ABS breaks then lets the break off and then back on really fast. in the ED I found that period where the car lets the break off is alot longer then it should be.

As for if it worked.....well I left no skid marks but It looks like I flat spotted the rears. /shrug beats me. As for the delay in clutch.....compression locking combined with new age breaks that the HSVs come out with no way my girl was going to stop in time. Other factors are that my pads and rotors were worn I knew they were....I just being unemployed for 4.5 months...I wasn't able to afford to get them done

.

In regards to plans my brother spoke to a friend of his who is a proper panel beater like actually beats panels he restores cars and such. Reckins he could fix it for 1 10th of the price that crawford reckin. Problem is suncorp are being bitches and trying to tell me shit like they will have to delay my payment by canceling it to reapply it by subtracting the buy back price (what a crock of shit) so my plan is to get the pay out and then try to buy her back. If I have enough cash to atm I need a good car to get around in. I am looking at a nice futura classic in same colour that is even straighter then the XR6 was.

Questions I have tho.......what features did futura classics have over futuras?

btw this is a link to the car

http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/pri ... d&trecs=38

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