Coyote's EL XR6

[Coyote mk3]

Thanks guys,
Yeah a Coyote under the bonnet would be nice lol, I photoshopped one under there one day, looks neat haha.

Yes Rick, there will soon be a regency red EL XR6 frequently parked next to mine. Which is nice.
Great car too, under 200k, interior is immaculate and 100% stock. A few minor issues with the exterior, but oh well.
Only draw back is it is auto - but it drives very nicely. She really wanted a manual but for the price it was hard to say no.

I decided it is also time to fix up the front skirt, being aftermarket fibreglass it chips very easily. So after a few years it was starting to look very similar to a lamington.
I took it off tonight and tomorrow morning it will hopefully be all nice and perty again.

[Coyote mk3]

a couple of finished pics after yesterdays work.
Painted the lip, and polished the whole car ready for the show today.





Sorry for dodgy pics. Lens was dirty and didn't realise until halfway through the day.

[Coyote mk3]

I put the old spoiler on, because my paintwork on the new one isn't up to show standard. But it will get there.

[Another_ef]

I saw the pics of this and karlees car together mate, I gotta say you have skills with a camera I'm trying to get her to sign up but its not working

Your car is very neat mate and its good to see something kept so nice

[Coyote mk3]

Cheers mate,
Here is the other EL my girlfriend just got. Had to give it a polish tonight as it desperately needed it.
A long way from perfect, but it will get there eventually.

1997 EL XR6 auto in regency red. 189,000kms for 3.5k from a caryard. Interior and engine bay are pretty much immaculate...but no pics atm lol

Before


after

[Andy EL]

That looks pretty mint, very clean for what you paid for it you'll need to bring it past work so i can have look

[Coyote mk3]

I need to bring mine around to see if you guys can fix my dash cluster.

[Andy EL]

What wrong with your cluster?

[Coyote mk3]

It displays 555,555 kms and 35.9 on the trip meter ever time I turn the car on.
And when driving it counts up as usual from those numbers until I turn it off again.
Last time I was there at nova some guy reckons they could reset it to a reasonable nominated figure. Which I would have at about 280,000 kms.
He said it would cost around $100 but I don't want to spend that kind of coin unless it oa definitely going to work.

The cluster just decided to do this all by itself one day.. I haven't tampered with it or anything.

[Coyote mk3]

side by side

[Andy EL]

It displays 555,555 kms and 35.9 on the trip meter ever time I turn the car on.
And when driving it counts up as usual from those numbers until I turn it off again.
Last time I was there at nova some guy reckons they could reset it to a reasonable nominated figure. Which I would have at about 280,000 kms.
He said it would cost around $100 but I don't want to spend that kind of coin unless it oa definitely going to work.

The cluster just decided to do this all by itself one day.. I haven't tampered with it or anything.

Hhmmm strange it could be the cluster it self causing the problem but atleast bring it in and give it ago and see if it works.

[justa6]

looks good, your good with the polish. nice to see the mrs out there with the chamois.

[huggiebear]

throw in a new header tank, slap on a kit and i rekon she will steal the attention at shows lol

[Coyote mk3]

New plates on her

[Coyote mk3]

looks good, your good with the polish. nice to see the mrs out there with the chamois.

Cheers mate, yeah she'll be looking after it. I got my own to worry about haha.
Yeah huggie, not too sure about that just yet. But after a bit of paintwork you could be right.....although I love regency red I still prefer Heritage after its just been polished.
The good thing with the red though is it doesn't look dirty 30 seconds after you put the polishing cloth down

[thebeast.]

Nice work mate. What polish do you use

[Coyote mk3]

cheers mate,

Lately I have been using Bowdens own. Which is great stuff.
But I prefer to use tough seal paint protection.
It's just more expensive and I need to buy another batch.

[Coyote mk3]

Well I haven't been on here in a while.
I have done a few little bits and pieces since.
I still need to sort out rego stuff for the number plates. But it will happen eventually.

I managed to get my hands on a couple of bits from a written off EL xr6, which was a couple of seats, and a set of headlights.
My old seat was worn a fair bit in places so rather than try to get it fixed I replaced it with one in better condition

old and new


I also replaced my cracked headlight (learned how to remove the bumper)
new and old


I found a few fairmont bits on Ebay I decided were a must have, so I put in a rear courtesy light and the trip computer into her.
Don't know why I didn't do it earlier





I also got fed up with the crappy headlights so I installed a HID kit to high and low beams. Makes a huge difference. Also got LED parkers so they didn't look stupid being yellow



I also picked up a car bra in basically new condition (I have a feeling he never even put it on his car) for just over $100
I put it on to make the holes and fit it nicely. But it wasn't much use until I got the front bar resprayed


I also got some footwell lights from a ghia and wired them in.


and then replaced all the interior lights with a set of white LED lights I picked up. Which is great because now I can actually see inside at night.


and just this last week I sent some bits away to be resprayed. Being the Front bumper bar, door handles, spoiler and number plate light
before



after


the spoiler had to be smoothed off and sprayed.


and the bumper was covered in stone chips, but all back and looking good now.



Also took a few more pics with the GF's car now she has he P's




and one going through the kink at lakeside. Looking nice and low lol


Hope I didn't bore you too much

[huggiebear]

looks damn nice. where did you get the HID kits from and what sort of price?

[Coyote mk3]

Just from eBay mate, guy on there called ballastking or something similar
$50 for low and $50 for high

Just bought 1 H1 6000k and a H3 6000k
I couldnt be happier

[Andy EL]

How quick do your high beams come do they take a while? And be care for with the led parkers because mate from work with el xr got done for them because they said it looks like a cops light.

[huggiebear]

alot of white LED parker bulbs look blue. you need the SMD style for it to look white. and its true the cops dont like the blue colour

[Coyote mk3]

They do take a while to come on. But I have gotten used to it now.
I do need to get some smd parkers as these ones are a little blue. Autobarn didn't have them when I was looking

[Coyote mk3]

For any curious people, was pretty much what I expected.
Car ran well so I can't complain....Just got to work on Reaction time lol

[Bipolar]

Great scot man! 88 miles per hour!!

[Coyote mk3]

I hadn't even realised until you said that lol

Anyway now that I am back from the future, here is the latest to the car

[Coyote mk3]

I improved my time to 15.509 @ 90.1 MPH - Girlfriend got a 16.674 @ 85.39 mph

I also put in a new JVC headunit, and splits for the front, running off a 2ch amp under passengers seat, when i get the money I will get a 4ch and run the rears as well.

I also got myself a genuine EF/EL XR momo steering wheel, which I need to get re trimmed. Trying to sort that out now.


And my girlfriend got me some great mats as a present,



I also got a NOS red rear bumper insert as the one I have is a little bit damaged, hopefully that will be going on this weekend.

[Coyote mk3]

Got around to replacing the strip which was a bit more of an effort than i thought. Getting all of the old tape of was a bastard.
The biggest reason I wanted it replaced,

and this could have been sanded and cleaned up if I wanted


taking it off - trying to push it out from the inside corner was a little difficult too.


all off, nice look but the red is what makes it an XR


all done

[wombi90]

Looks good, now you've started you will have to do the rest of them, I need to re-do mine or get new ones

[Coyote mk3]

Cheers

The rest of them are pretty good, one of the sides has been painted before and is a little bit orange so I will need to respray that a closer colour at some stage.
The sides unlike the front and back are only painted on the EL's,the EF's were red plastics all round. Which means you cannot attack them with thinners to take away the sun damage. So I just polish them. The pic was taken before I polished it today, may take another pics of the whole side of the car tomorrow to see if there is much difference.

If I get my hands on a brand new set of sides and front I might do them just cos' but it is unlikely that will happen.

[thebeast.]

its re read the whole thread.
such nice work. paint is perfect.
i really need to get my roof and other bits done.
awesome work with the camera. i really need to get a decent camera too. seems to be a few members close enough, in down at caloundra, should do a club willowbank night

[Coyote mk3]

Thanks mate, yeah willowbank would be good.
It seems I have done a headgasket yesterday ad I have crap under the oil cap and been loosing coolant a bit. So I might see if I can manage that on the weekend.

Shame but from the service records I think this is the first one and it's done over 300,000 ks

[thebeast.]

not to bad for that amount of k. shame tho

[Coyote mk3]

haven't done much since Feb, apart from doing the headgasket.
One little thing I did do was giver her some more airflow
I cut a hole in the bottom of the airbox and ran some piping from the front bar up into the box. Not noticeable, which is what I wanted.






Whether it was that or the head being recondition I'm not sure but my time on the drag strip dropped down to
15.132@ 91.51 MPH, which I am happy with although i would like to get into the 14's.

I have to do the lifters as they can be quite noisy when the car is cold and sort out another issue that I think may be the distributor.

[Another_ef]

Did setup the timing right when you threw it all back together after you did the headgasket? Could be effecting your time down the quarter..

[Coyote mk3]

I just kept it as TDC cable tied the chain etc. so I don't see how I could have?

I think I need the dizzy replaced, because it hasn't run right ever since I drowned the engine bay while washing it But that was well after I did the headgasket

It will run rough and have no balls what so ever when i turn it on. But I can turn the car off while driving and rev it as I turn it on, when i do that it runs fine.
I replaced leads, dizzy cap and rotor button, ignition coil and spark plugs look fine. But still does it.
I have also made sure the electrical connections on the injectors are dry and clean.

[tqure]

love your car mate

did the added pipe to the airbox make a difference? does it respond quicker? keen on trying it

[Coyote mk3]

Thanks mate!
I cannot really say as I did the mod while doing the headgasket. And once it was back on the road it seemed to pick up much better.
But I can't say if it is the head being reconditioned or of it is that added air.

But it certainly can't hurt.

[MNTXR6]

heritage green ftw! where did you get the new red strip from mate? cars looking mint by the way

[Coyote mk3]

Thanks mate, red stripe is an original NOS one from ebay. Pretty sure the bloke has a few of them