Kyle's Grandpa Cruiser - BF Fairlane

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 21st, 2010, 1:43 am

Iv'e had this for nearly a year and only have just now convinced myself to do a showroom thread on it(Being non boosted blah blah). Here is the general rundown:

Car: Ford
Model: 2007 BF Fairlane Ghia
Colour: Silhouette
Transmission: ZF 6 Speed Sequential
Motor: I6 Barra 190 (190kw)
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For sale ad:

First night out

Some pics I took when I got it:

Pic NL_CONCORDE took

A Trip to Heathcote:

And how it stands to this day:

Current Mods:

Lovell's Sports Lows All Round,
K & N Panel filter,
BF LTD Grill,
BF Fairlane G8 Headlights,
Alpine Type S 5x7's with an 8" Rockford Fosgate Sub,
BA2 19" GT-P's

Future Plans:
Possibly Boost

Cheers

by **SLY5LT** » September 21st, 2010, 3:36 am

it's looking good with the new shoe's :grin:

by **SLO247** » September 21st, 2010, 4:45 am

Very sexy

by **hamoudy10** » September 21st, 2010, 7:08 am

Now that's one sexy grandpa cruiser!!

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 21st, 2010, 7:54 am

Cheers everyone

by **KR1STO** » September 21st, 2010, 10:20 am

Looks great mate...
And I must say it drives very well...!!

About time you got some pics up!!

by **SnyperEB** » September 21st, 2010, 10:27 am

Very nice Kyle!!

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 21st, 2010, 10:47 am

KR1STO wrote:Looks great mate...
And I must say it drives very well...!!

About time you got some pics up!!

Cheers Kristo, glad you liked it

. Yeh thought it was about time I put a showroom thread up

SnyperEB wrote:Very nice Kyle!!

Cheers Shaun

by **ELDanny** » September 21st, 2010, 5:35 pm

Love the 'Lane Kyle, looks mint with the wheels

by **misk** » September 21st, 2010, 5:39 pm

needs more broken parts and ghetto mods, only then will it have character

looks nice mate!

by **R1XSTA** » September 21st, 2010, 6:59 pm

Looks awesome man!! Love the change of the height too.

Was it just SL springs?

by **pHaT`eL** » September 21st, 2010, 7:05 pm

Looks good, needs to be lower in the arseend though I reckon. Its got the 'caravan tower' look to the back

Also, what do the plates mean? Noticed the swap since the first pics.

by **R1XSTA** » September 21st, 2010, 8:03 pm

If i remember correctly. I think his first ever car had these numberplates, So its kind of a centimental value thing for him.

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 21st, 2010, 10:08 pm

R1XSTA wrote:If i remember correctly. I think his first ever car had these numberplates, So its kind of a centimental value thing for him.

Yep, there the factory plates off the ED

by **krisisdog** » September 21st, 2010, 10:18 pm

Very nice, sunroof and all :grin:

by **Parfrey** » September 21st, 2010, 11:25 pm

lookin good! i like the wheels :grin:

was a pisser watching you trying to get up the hill at Mt.Donna :good:

by **BROCKYB8** » September 21st, 2010, 11:44 pm

man keep this a stocker. Looks good man . nice daily

by **hamoudy10** » September 22nd, 2010, 8:56 am

Does the Force lip spoiler fit on the fairlanes? If they do it'll make this look awesome!

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 22nd, 2010, 2:58 pm

Cheers fellas, nah they don't make the force lip for these. But I like fairlanes without lips and spoilers personally.

And one for a laugh

, here are the plates(Yes I know this pic has been posed up a million times)

by **SnyperEB** » September 22nd, 2010, 3:27 pm

Looked very clean last night matey!

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 22nd, 2010, 4:47 pm

SnyperEB wrote:Looked very clean last night matey!

Cheers mate

by **huggiebear** » September 22nd, 2010, 4:59 pm

the lane looks awesome on the GT-P's

by **burnt turtle** » September 22nd, 2010, 6:09 pm

hamoudy10 wrote:Does the Force lip spoiler fit on the fairlanes? If they do it'll make this look awesome!

yes they do......apparently
nice rims kyle ;-)

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 22nd, 2010, 6:35 pm

burnt turtle wrote:
hamoudy10 wrote:Does the Force lip spoiler fit on the fairlanes? If they do it'll make this look awesome!

yes they do......apparently
nice rims kyle

Haha cheers Josh, they don't look bad on B Series Fairlane's ey

by **burnt turtle** » September 22nd, 2010, 8:28 pm

yeh.....seems like your copying me

by **ronza** » September 22nd, 2010, 9:48 pm

HaHa i recognise those wheels ... :rotfl:

Looks Mad mate keep up good work ...

BUT ...

Dont go overboard with mods .... :good:

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » September 22nd, 2010, 11:11 pm

ronza wrote:HaHa i recognise those wheels ...

Looks Mad mate keep up good work ...

BUT ...

Dont go overboard with mods ....

Cheers mate, yeh that's the plan, anything I do to this car will be subtle.

by **SLY5LT** » September 22nd, 2010, 11:19 pm

burnt turtle wrote:yeh.....seems like your copying me

not just you mate :grin:

by **pHaT`eL** » September 24th, 2010, 8:05 pm

Lip spoiler will fit according to the B-Series guys.. Would suit it pretty well i reckon.

by **jazza312** » September 24th, 2010, 9:40 pm

looks great buddy. fairlanes with GT-P's for the win hahaha
wouldnt mind one the same but with an 8. wouldnt complain havin a 6 tho!
can never get enough LWB fords!

by **Barnsy** » October 11th, 2010, 8:44 pm

How much did you pay for the BA2 GT-Ps, thats what I want on mine, looking good :cool:

by **bentls** » October 11th, 2010, 8:53 pm

Kyle the ED4LTR wrote:BF Fairlane G8 Headlights

lol whats the difference between them and ba xt or is it nothing and your just making them sound better?

no offense, im just curious

by **Barnsy** » October 11th, 2010, 9:09 pm

I believe the G8 had the black background behind the lens, instead of all silver. See the drag day pic then the one below.

by **bentls** » October 11th, 2010, 10:01 pm

So does ba/bf fairmont ghia and ba/bf xt
futura fairmont fairlane all had all chrome

by **NL_CONCORDE** » October 11th, 2010, 10:33 pm

from memory think he said the looms are different in the headlight from ba to bf
but dont quote me on this one

by **SLY5LT** » October 11th, 2010, 10:43 pm

i think bentls is on the money, mine are from a xt & from what i've seen are different the the G8's or G220's ?
kyle did say that the loom from ba to bf was different as joel said.

i'm still to see it with the new rim's, but the looks good :good:

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » October 17th, 2010, 8:52 pm

SLY5LT wrote:i think bentls is on the money, mine are from a xt & from what i've seen are different the the G8's or G220's ?
kyle did say that the loom from ba to bf was different as joel said.

i'm still to see it with the new rim's, but the looks good

Yeh pretty much XT, just thought G8 was more fitting being a Fairlane. But yeh BA2 onwards they changed the parker loom and globe holder, made the mistake of getting some second handies off FordForums and finding that my parker looms would not plug in, and my parker holders would not sit in the BA headlights. $400 later i got the right ones

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » October 17th, 2010, 8:52 pm

Barnsy wrote:How much did you pay for the BA2 GT-Ps, thats what I want on mine, looking good

Cheers Barnesy, they cost me $1200

by **get_an_ea_today** » November 14th, 2011, 12:07 pm

Love it!!!

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » December 19th, 2011, 2:52 am

Time for a bit of an update I think.

Basically in late January early Feb I got caught in the floods and waterlogged the motor resulting in a piston through the bottom of my sump, this was after I also did a full flush and got the gearbox serviced.

Didn't do too much to it for a few months until my diff bushes decided to **** up (Good ol' B Series :/), I thought this may be a good opportunity to upgrade the diff and IRS, so I scored an M86 style Cradle and LSD diff out of a BF F6 and got that all fitted up, then find out that the diff was wearing after 2 days of being fitted. I Had to get a custom tailshaft made up to suit the M86 Center and 6 Speed Auto, would have got one out of a wreck but finding a BF V8 being wrecked out was proven difficult :banghead:

. After finding out the diff was wearing I took it in the chin and threw in an Eaton TrueTrac, best diff iv'e had by far

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Next came the cat converter collapsing, so instead of replaceing it with a standard cat I bought some extractors and a high flowing cat converter. Booked it in for a retune a fortnight after to get some more power out of it and shut of the Engine Malfunction Light that likes to pop up in BF's whenever something has been changed in the exhaust system. Got the car retuned down at BluePower and while I was there got a ZF tune and a BluePower Intake, with the retune, airbox, Extractors and Hiflow with a standard catback pulled 157.4rwkw. :drinks2:

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Next mod came the brakes, all my pads and discs wore out and grabbed a set of Premium XR8 Brakes off a BA Super Pursuit, was looking at Brembo's but I wanted to be able to put the factory alloys on if the time came that I needed to, stops and pulls up quite nicely now

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Well thats the latest, sorry if i've rambled on :blush:

, i'll throw some pics up tomorrow if I get time.

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