HYPO-NL The Fairlane Ghia Concorde - 15.1 @ 92.39mph

by **huggiebear** » April 19th, 2011, 8:18 pm

well it was stated above that it deletes the factory snorkel so there is a massive restriction there. but there is plenty of ways to get air in there. id put some ducting down to the front bar.

by **justa6** » April 19th, 2011, 9:20 pm

NL_CONCORDE wrote:So i wasnt sure what to drop the tyre pressures too on the Mickey Thompson Tyres
so they went down to 26psi thinkin i might drop em down to 20psi next meet
Im guessing your not supposed to smoke em 1st n 2nd goin sideways to warm em up

definitely have them down around 20 to start with. i found 18 really good, i would actually be surprised if you could pull second with them at 18. all trial and error and alot of fun doing it.

by **NL_CONCORDE** » April 19th, 2011, 9:34 pm

Yeah at 26psi they redlined 1st so shifted 2nd and redlined also which is close to 100km/h to warm them up
Sure i'll go back to calder make a few changes and lower tyre pressures and will make a 14.7 pass
Same with street tyres but they will spin 1st and 2nd down the strip

by **justa6** » April 19th, 2011, 9:37 pm

were you in the water doing that or on the dry.

by **BROCKYB8** » April 19th, 2011, 11:49 pm

heebyJeebies wrote:
NL_CONCORDE wrote:
In sayin all this i had run a 15.3 then went back to my area unbolted the headlight and indicator
to see if the brockyb8 airbox would make a difference and had 3 15.1 passes straight after

im not sure if removing headlights & indicators is a good measure of how well the new intake works?

by the sound of it, the new airbox is restricting things

there is a place where u can put snorkle in it .
And actually i think you really need to look at Blue power and g and d air boxes as they are exactly the same . And they still manage to get alot air .

You get all the air going in front of car and also from behind the light .

by **NL_CONCORDE** » April 19th, 2011, 11:51 pm

I'll just modify a headlight to fit in its place but im not fitting another snorkel and i'll go to calder
before the cve dyno day and see what results i get but the vernier and cam might not be dialled in

Here's a link from when i ran against the Honda Intregra TypeR on my 15.106 pass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYU2r-FIN0Y

by **justa6** » April 20th, 2011, 6:29 am

just watched the vid. get it on the brake and get them smoking. the lower you go with pressure's the more power they will zap. so maybe leave them at 26, dump it in the water then move onto the dry on the brake. when you see smoke in side mirror, job done.

by **NL_CONCORDE** » April 20th, 2011, 8:37 am

sweet marty i know how to smoke street tyres but but unsure of m/t's
There are probably some vids where i do standstills but felt too much axle tramp
i'll def drop tyre pressures though and design a dummy headlight and indicator

by **BROCKYB8** » April 20th, 2011, 9:04 am

NL_CONCORDE wrote:sweet marty i know how to smoke street tyres but but unsure of m/t's
There are probably some vids where i do standstills but felt too much axle tramp
i'll def drop tyre pressures though and design a dummy headlight and indicator

Did you wheel spin with the micky t's
If you did you would lower.
If you didnt then i wouldnt bother dropping them

by **NL_CONCORDE** » April 20th, 2011, 9:52 am

That was with the Micky T's wheelspin 1st n 2nd
as i done approx 11 passes on the day all in the 15 bracket

Time to drop the pressures and test launch on a private street

by **NL_CONCORDE** » April 27th, 2011, 11:37 am

Here's some pics courtesy of hp heaven
as you can tell with 2 other events on there wasnt much of a crowd

by **SLO247** » May 17th, 2011, 3:10 pm

This looks nice, I love the later Concorde wheels. You done anything else to it since you updated last?

I'm wondering what ECU yours had. Did you use a J3 or just swap the ECU?

I have an NL Concorde too, and thought it should have a Tickford ECU, but I've pulled mine and checked it and its a 6DMA. I'm pretty sure the XR ones were 6TXX. What did you find in yours?

LTD looked awesome too!

by **NL_CONCORDE** » May 17th, 2011, 6:17 pm

The ECU im running is a EL XR6 Manual 6TAC. NO J3 has been used to this date.
On the Dyno it made 138.8 rwkw untuned on the 6DMA ecu (which im told has the wrong fuel maps)
and later on went back to the 6TAC and found more low end torque
i'll put up the dyno run vid

by **SLO247** » May 17th, 2011, 7:46 pm

Thats good power. Thanks for the info and video. Sounds nice too!

Who told you the ECU had the wrong fuel maps?

It appears that the EL Ghias and NL Concordes fitted with the Tickford motor from the factory had a 6Dxx ECU rather than a 6Txx. Should still have the correct tune on it.

by **NL_CONCORDE** » May 17th, 2011, 7:55 pm

Yeah think the only difference is cos i have a Manual i needed a manual ecu..
The 6DMA is a tickford ecu that also has speed sensitive steering
which is lighter steering as you would know.
But i have a few 6DMA ecu's as im told there rare.
Time to crack a 14

Mods left

*Herrod Motorsport Extractors
*Vernier Gear
*Dial in Cam
*Dyno Tune

Mission Complete

by **NL_CONCORDE** » May 27th, 2011, 1:34 pm

Mods left
*Herrod Motorsport Extractors - Fitted
*Vernier Gear
*Dial in Cam
*Dyno Tune

Mission Complete well almost
Reinforce the firewall which i didnt do has finally takin its toll

by **NL_CONCORDE** » June 19th, 2011, 10:58 pm

Thanks to Pat [D1SCNT] For his hard work and all the Blood,Sweat & Tears that went into this
Hope your hand is recovering and cant thank you enough for the hard work..

by **Willow23** » June 21st, 2011, 10:07 am

NL_CONCORDE wrote:Here's a twilight pic & some other pics of the DF

Hey mate quick question where'd you get that chrome pipe from you air box???

by **NL_CONCORDE** » June 23rd, 2011, 9:07 pm

That i made with a 3 inch mandrel bent pipe with a 60' bend cut to size and shined it up on a wire wheel
It really did make a difference

by **Willow23** » June 29th, 2011, 7:51 am

Thanks mate They both look sweet by the way

by **NL_CONCORDE** » July 13th, 2011, 7:24 pm

Goin back 30th July to calder park in a hope to crack a 14 sec pass...

by **NL_CONCORDE** » August 7th, 2011, 10:33 pm

Entered a burnout comp on the weekend heres a few pics from the day

by **NL_CONCORDE** » August 8th, 2011, 10:50 am

must say the car has a new fragrance smells like burnt rubber everytime i hop in it now.
Daylight a set of 14 inch stockies destroyed,Night a set of ba 16 inch stockies fried

by **huggiebear** » August 8th, 2011, 11:53 am

atleast you got good smoke. everyone else seemed to struggle. looks great tho

by **SLO247** » August 8th, 2011, 3:37 pm

Haha well done, nice pics too.

by **pHaT`eL** » August 8th, 2011, 5:58 pm : **Eb Barbie Likes this post**

Ughh!! Get that spoiler off stat!!!

by **NL_CONCORDE** » August 11th, 2011, 8:58 pm

pHaT`eL wrote:Ughh!! Get that spoiler off stat!!!

by **NL_CONCORDE** » September 4th, 2011, 1:38 am

i found a guy on ebay wrecking a black nl concorde so i'll get the boot off that pending price.

After 5 months of torture this clutch endured it finally gave up
severe score marks and groves, cracked in a few places
deemed to say this pressure plate is beyond machining
R.I.P Exedy h/d clutch not built like they use too.

by **SLO247** » September 5th, 2011, 10:57 pm

Any chance of a link to the Concorde being wrecked on eBay?

Have you changed the gold badges for chrome ones or did it always have the chrome? Looks much better than the gold.

I reckon the spoiler looks alright too.

by **NL_CONCORDE** » December 11th, 2011, 12:49 am

NL Concorde series1 had gold badges and pinstriping with 5 spoke 16in wheels
Series 2 had silver pinstriping and normal chrome badges with mesh style 16in wheels(mine)
This is what i think anyway but could be wrong
Havnt had a chance to get back out at calder
So i put the semi slicks on and went on street to try and find a decent launch rpm.
Here's some pics of how it looks currently till i get some tyres for the factory wheels
These pics show the street slicks fitted but currently has 205's all round now

by **YBHVE4** » December 12th, 2011, 2:56 pm

very tuff. love it.

by **MOB5TR** » December 13th, 2011, 7:14 pm

looks awesome mate

by **galapogos01** » December 13th, 2011, 7:20 pm

Looks great!

by **XR_Lightning** » December 13th, 2011, 7:26 pm

looks tuff Joel!

by **NL_CONCORDE** » December 13th, 2011, 9:02 pm

Thanks everyone i was looking at calderparks schedule and looks like i'll gear up for Friday 20th January.
Will get this 14sec pass and retire this old girl and start building the EB..

by **NL_CONCORDE** » December 14th, 2011, 8:59 pm

Decided to go to calder and see what times i run as its the last saturday off-street drags for awhile.
So i'll update this on sunday and will race on ceptors ive decided..

by **NL_CONCORDE** » December 19th, 2011, 5:59 pm

Havnt seen any pics but i ran a 15.3@90mph which i gave it everything it had but is in need of a decent service,dyno tune and maybe a j3

by **NL_CONCORDE** » January 16th, 2012, 1:12 am

Few pics from Calder-

How its rolling now on 17's (Wheels for the EB)

by **DJV8T5** » January 16th, 2012, 7:59 am

You have done a great job with this, would be good to see it crack into the 14s, which it shouldn't have too much trouble doing. I would go for the J3 and get it dyno tuned. I got a 30rwkw increase in my XH from a J3 so they are well worth it IMO.

by **NL_CONCORDE** » January 17th, 2012, 7:18 pm

Yeah well i'll be changing extractors to pacemakers as these genies are the only items i changed since getting the 15.1 pass genies got 15.3.
And im just running on the el xr6 man ecu with the isc disconneted and adv timing
so i'll look into j3 and a decent tune as the cam should be feeding more power than it feels
but before tune will be diff rebuild with 3.9 diff gears,extractors,ba injectors maybe bigger throttle body.
As im told to use a ba throttle body but arent they fly by wire so how do you modify it to suit?

Thanks,

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