my new EL ghia

by **ef6ghia** » September 29th, 2009, 9:21 pm

This is my new car I bought to replace my stolen EF fairmont ghia. People might recognise it as YBHVE4's old car.

Being an EL ghia it has the tickford engine and 3.45 lsd. It's pretty standard at the moment which suits me because I do alot of km's and need a reliable, non defectable and efficient car. The deviation's from standard are;
Rebuilt head (to suit gas), 2.5 inch exhaust, ss inductions intake, pod in the box, whitewalled standard 15's, UL rear and SL front with shortened rear shocks, NF/DF/etc cornering lights wired as fog lights, white rear venetians, mesh grill, ba fairlane bonnet badge, some head unit with USB (JVC I think), 12" JL sub, an amp of some sort (can't be bothered going out and checking).
Next year it will most likely get some boost. I want to get a cheap daily to run around in then turbo this but keep it looking pretty much the same for the sleeper look. Maybe just a bit of a tidy up.

This was my EF ghia which was stolen and stripped to the point of being a write off :cry:

by **bjjxr8** » September 29th, 2009, 9:28 pm

nice EL, love the white walls. shame about the EF

by **ef6ghia** » September 29th, 2009, 10:20 pm

Thanks mate,
never thought I'd be happy rolling on 15's but think I like the look of the whitewalled stockies more than the 18's on the EF.

by **YBHVE4** » September 30th, 2009, 6:36 am

still looking good. glad it went to a good home.

i see you have made some changes....very nice :good:

by **BROCKYB8** » September 30th, 2009, 10:47 am

Looks nice mate .
Any mods going to happen on this

by **Bomber** » September 30th, 2009, 12:47 pm

ef6ghia wrote:This is my new car I bought to replace my stolen EF fairmont ghia. People might recognise it as YBHVE4's old car.

Welcome to Boosted Rory been ages never thought you end up on here

should bring the el down to the mini meet in hallam on tuesday night.

Cheers
Mark

by **pHaT`eL** » September 30th, 2009, 5:33 pm

See this all the time down in Hastings. Absolutely LOVE it!! Although it reminds me too much of my old EL.

by **ef6ghia** » September 30th, 2009, 5:37 pm

No mods in the near future. Trying to save dollars at the moment but next year I'll be looking at perhaps buying a cheap run around and turboing the EL.
Only mods so far are 2.5" cat back, ss inductions snorkel and a boxed pod.
At the moment I'm happy with the way it is, as I do alot of kms and want it reliable and loving getting 450+ kms from $30

Hey Mark,
I signed up ages ago but never really checked out the site. I've never been to any cruises or meets, I think I'll have to come check it out.

by **ef6ghia** » September 30th, 2009, 5:43 pm

Cheers pHat el,
I work down at bluescope so I'm often down there. Was your car the burgandy turbo ghia on carsales a few months back?

by **skewy_33** » September 30th, 2009, 5:53 pm

where are you from mate i got a really big feeling myt mate brought ur stolen car at car auctions did you have clarion speakers in doors and a custome pipe at the bottom or your air intake pipe

by **pHaT`eL** » September 30th, 2009, 5:57 pm

ef6ghia wrote:Cheers pHat el,
I work down at bluescope so I'm often down there. Was your car the burgandy turbo ghia on carsales a few months back?

Yeah, that would be the one. ATM in in either a red EF gli or the white wagon with walls.

Will be sure to beep/flash when I see you next.

by **skewy_33** » September 30th, 2009, 6:14 pm

also did u have a famous sticker on the bottom right of the rear window?

by **ef6ghia** » September 30th, 2009, 6:14 pm

Your old ghia was awsome I seriously thought about checking it out but I remember you mentioning the bottom end needed replacing and I really just needed something to drive asap. I think your 4sale add was where I got the idea for the venetians from. lol! I think I saw the wagon a little while back. Was an ea, eb or ed from memorey and the walls were on stockies. If it is the one, I thought that was really cool

The ef was going to the auctions. I think I had clarion speakers and I did have an extremely dodgy hole in the air box which I would like to apologise for to the person who ended up with it.
It was missing airbags, interior door handles, front grill and a few other bits and pieces.

by **ef6ghia** » September 30th, 2009, 6:18 pm

Yeah thats the one. I had the famous sticker. I put that sticker on over four years ago. Now I see them everywhere, its like having jet pilot stickers on ss utes.
Did your mate get it for parts or to fix up?

by **skewy_33** » September 30th, 2009, 6:20 pm

yeh thats it, my mate on here david21 brought it from pickles auctions in tulla and fixed it up he been waiting to know what mods you did to it because it goes really well??

by **ef6ghia** » September 30th, 2009, 6:38 pm

Thats great, I'm glad someone could make something out of it. I actually thought I saw it from a distance at the airport a few months ago. It did start having the dreaded tick tick from the top end just before it got nicked. Was meaning to change lifters. All it had was the exhaust that I put on and the previous owner had put a different cat on(with standard exhaust). There was a k&n filter which was also taken. I'll look him up. It did have some unnecasary gauges which is why he may have noticed some holes inside and a pioneer dvd.
Appreciate the info mate

by **david21** » September 30th, 2009, 7:58 pm

hey mate, welcome to eseries
my name is david
im the guy that bought ur ef fairmont ghia from the auctions, sorry about the part that it got stolen
yer ive been fixin it up
i can send u some pics of it on how it looks now or we can catch up one day n i can show u want ive done to it???
well so far ive put 4499's paceys, 18inch anz wheels, new jvc headunit n momo block amp, n 12inch sub, put kingsprings superlow alround, kicker speackers in the front, sprayed the dash n center console silver n door handles, custom grill, slotted n drilled rotors on front, put blue led lights in the dash, but neons on the floor under neith ur feet alround, sprayed airbox snorkle radiator bottle n power steerin pump as the same color of the car, n im gettin it dyno tuned this week n i think thats about it lol
catch, david

by **ef6ghia** » September 30th, 2009, 8:50 pm

Hey David,
My names Rory. Thanks for letting me know, I wondered what happened to it. It really did need extractors. I'm guessing you got the ticking noise sussed? I was thinking it was a dodgy lifter but then thought maybe an injector coz it sounded like it was coming from the fuel rail. You would have noticed the lack of one coil from the back springs. lol! I know why its not the best way to lower a car now I have one with propper lowered springs and shocks. Glad to see you've done it properly. lol! Sounds great what you have done, would definately be interested in seeing some pics and catching up at a meet or something.

by **david21** » September 30th, 2009, 10:31 pm

lol yer i noticed when i went for viv the springs feel straight out n there were cut

yer next meet u go too let me no ill come so u can see it
just wonderin if u still got the central lockin remote control lol????
soo what happened to the car how did it get stolen n where did they abanded it coz there was alot of bird shit stanes on it lol???

by **ef6ghia** » October 1st, 2009, 4:36 pm

Yeah I have dug up two remotes but I think one might be from my old eb ghia(they look the same). I'll get them both to you and you can give them a try. Theres a meet in Hallam this tuesday night I think I'll go to.
How they stole it, I don't know. I was hopeing you might have been able to tell me because you obviously sorted the wiring out and got it going. I thought maybe they plugged there own ignition barrel in. I didn't check it out to much I just got a few posessions that weren't taken. I saw it at the towing place and I nearly teared up. lol! As you can see from my pics up the page it looked quite different to how it ended up. The cops said it was found under a tree(explains the bird shit). The messed up thing was the cops told me it was fine to pick up and was fully intact. I had to wait a few days to find out it wasn't because the towing place was closed due to Easter. Not fun times!

by **david21** » October 1st, 2009, 5:18 pm

oh ok sweet that would make life heaps easier with the remote lol
i honesly dnt no how they did it, i saw a couple of wires in the fuse box one went to a fuse n one went to the door for an earth but then how did they undo the steering lock :confused:

yer the car was in a huge mess when i bought it was missin almost everything that was good in it, suprise they didnt take the motor n that
did the insurance pay u out???
when u had it did the rear passenger window didnt work??
so what mods did u do to it coz it goes awsome???

by **ef6ghia** » October 1st, 2009, 6:10 pm

Yeah remotes all yours, its obviously of no use to me. No mods mate. Just the cat and exhaust which you would obviously know about. I'm thinking the thieves were up specing a base model seeing as they took chrome handles, ghia and tickford badges etc. Maybe a fairmont seeing as they took the EL grill. I've heard they are pretty hard to get going because of the smartlock but they would have had a fair bit of time because I had it parked in a back street in the city and I was pretty far away. Umm! the window, that broke along with the front one, the head gasket and fuel pump in the space of 2 weeks of owning the car so I did a bit of a dodgy and chocked it up with a piece of wood behind the door trim.
Insurance payed out. Had fire and theft and got the maximum 5000 for third party. The car was worth more to me because of wheels, stereo etc but was happy just to get some money out of them in the end. They made me feel like the criminal when I was making the claim. I had a real bad run of luck around then. I managed to smash the VE commodore rental the insurance company gave me.

by **Biggie.c** » October 1st, 2009, 6:18 pm

nice matey howd u white wall ur tyres? i once slaped on paint on mine but it peels off kinda.. im lookin at getting 19's on my fairlane but liked the white walls just looked dodgey lol

by **skewy_33** » October 1st, 2009, 6:22 pm

Biggie.c wrote:nice matey howd u white wall ur tyres? i once slaped on paint on mine but it peels off kinda.. im lookin at getting 19's on my fairlane but liked the white walls just looked dodgey lol

u get people that work for a business the white wall tyres professionally

by **Biggie.c** » October 1st, 2009, 6:45 pm

skewy_33 wrote:
Biggie.c wrote:nice matey howd u white wall ur tyres? i once slaped on paint on mine but it peels off kinda.. im lookin at getting 19's on my fairlane but liked the white walls just looked dodgey lol

u get people that work for a business the white wall tyres prefessionally

know of any in qld?

by **skewy_33** » October 1st, 2009, 6:52 pm

na sorry mate only know a few in melb

by **ef6ghia** » October 1st, 2009, 7:46 pm

Yeah like already mentioned theres people in Melbourne that do it. I scuffed mine on a gutter and tryed patching it up. Looked well crap though!
Speaking of whitewall, I had a random guy come up to me today in a carpark and say that he had just been defected for his whitewalls. Apparantly the cops are on to it and its unroadworthy because the tyres label is lightly rubbed back before painting.

I'm sure the writing on a tyre is an integral part of the sidewalls strength! lol!

by **YBHVE4** » October 2nd, 2009, 7:51 am

yeahs its a new thing thats come out. but apparently according to vicroads that it only applies for tyres made 2009 and newer.

my mate got a defect for them 2 weeks ago. went to vic roads and they said there is no problems with it. :blink:

by **marty's xr** » October 2nd, 2009, 10:33 am

Love the ghia wheels and white wall! looks so hot, thinking of going red wall on my ef xr6 15's =)

by **david21** » October 2nd, 2009, 3:44 pm

hey mate do u live near hallam??
ifn so im goin to hallam tomorow mornin to get my car dynod
if ur not busy u can come down or i can meet u somewhere to pick up thew remote
call or text me on 0431019032
cheers david

by **pHaT`eL** » October 2nd, 2009, 4:04 pm

Walls are legal, its only when they take too much off the tyre and you cant read the specs that its illegal.

by **ef6ghia** » October 2nd, 2009, 4:20 pm

Cheers mate,
The red walls would look good I recon. Kind of like the old GTHO's. Would go well with the red side moulds too. Saw a VN SS with red walls on factory 15's the other day, looked good.

So its not about affecting the integrity of the tyre but more about the info on them?
I'll just tell the cop he can read the specs on the other side of the tyre!

by **pHaT`eL** » October 2nd, 2009, 4:23 pm

Last time I was down at the Whitewall joint they had just been at the copshop and thats what they told them. What they take off, is replaced by the walls. Some dodgy places take too much off and you cant read the load ratings. I think it applies more to people who have 20" low profiles and want a 10mm thick wall. On a 15 it hardly matters.

by **EFFalcon** » October 2nd, 2009, 4:26 pm

pHaT`eL wrote:Walls are legal, its only when they take too much off the tyre and you cant read the specs that its illegal.

basically yes... but they're now targetting cars with them so be aware.
even if the walls are done the legal way, they might just get something else on the car.
sucks

by **ef6ghia** » October 2nd, 2009, 5:29 pm

Cheers for the info, I've finally got rid of my P plates now I have to worry about being targeted for having walls.

by **ef6ghia** » October 3rd, 2009, 9:47 pm

Need advice.
I'm thinking of getting the chrome trim pieces that go over the wheel arches. Never been a massive fan but think it will tie in well with the cars theme.

by **forbsy** » October 3rd, 2009, 9:49 pm

hey man any ideas on how you done that to your grille and wats that bonnet emblem you have

by **ef6ghia** » October 3rd, 2009, 10:02 pm

The emblem is off a BA fairlane and the grill is just some mesh behind an EL fairmont grill. I bought the car with both already done. YBHVE4 is the guy to talk to about the specifics.

by **marty's xr** » October 3rd, 2009, 10:16 pm

Hey mate quick question bout your tyres. are they 225's? my 15's look like they have a bigger bulge in the tyre then yours. once again, i love the white walls! ha ha guess i should be telling YBHVE4 that i love the white walls

gonna look at getting my red walls very soon

by **ef6ghia** » October 3rd, 2009, 10:34 pm

They are 205's.

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