Brads EL Fairmont Ghia V8 now Sold :'(

URZ2NV · Post by **URZ2NV** » August 10th, 2012, 7:03 pm

Looks mint man

kwikxr · Post by **kwikxr** » August 10th, 2012, 7:20 pm

Looks good mate! Twin 3" fits the rear bar perfectly I reckon. I went for a twin 3" rolled tip on my EF, but after seeing straight cut and staggered on your Ghia, it looks much better

Fark, I love this car lol. Such a sexy looking Ghia!

dannysebxr6 · Post by **dannysebxr6** » August 10th, 2012, 7:33 pm

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looks mint brad,
staggered does look good done like that though.
hows it sound now?
cheers
Daniel

braad · Post by **braad** » August 11th, 2012, 11:29 pm

URZ2NV wrote:Looks mint man

Thanks mate!

braad · Post by **braad** » August 11th, 2012, 11:41 pm

kwikxr wrote:Looks good mate! Twin 3" fits the rear bar perfectly I reckon. I went for a twin 3" rolled tip on my EF, but after seeing straight cut and staggered on your Ghia, it looks much better

Fark, I love this car lol. Such a sexy looking Ghia!

Haha thanks for the kind words. I can't take credit for its looks, someone else did the hard work before me and other guys popularised the look long ago. I'm glad you like it. Get a ticky kit for yours and It would like awesome

Yeah i have had rolled tips before and they're a pain to polish. These are 3" but being straight cut arent obvious. I'm glad you guys like the staggered look. I was lucky the bloke just finished a BA xr8 ute with twin 3" straight cut tips, they were even but BA's have a flat bumper. From that we agreed staggered was the only way to do it

Farken so happy with how it turned out. Glad i have a decent zorst bloke!

braad · Post by **braad** » August 11th, 2012, 11:45 pm

dannysebxr6 wrote:
braad wrote:

looks mint brad,
staggered does look good done like that though.
hows it sound now?
cheers
Daniel

Thanks Daniel, i like your tips but you also do have 4 of them

It's a bit less droney through the cabin, the exhaust didnt extend far enough before.
Love the sound, but definitely think pacies give them a better sound, without a doubt mate.
Maybe that'll happen one day

Cheers
Brad

icachn · Post by **icachn** » August 12th, 2012, 10:10 am

ex.tips look sweet mate.

braad · Post by **braad** » August 12th, 2012, 10:10 pm

Thanks mate, i appreciate it!

Its just another one of those little 1% items that all help the look of the car. Only 475trillion of them left

wombi90 · Post by **wombi90** » August 12th, 2012, 10:16 pm

My exhaust bloke doesn't have good taste I just told him to put something nice and neat on, went to pick it up and had a 4.5 inch single tip :/ apparently the twin tips don't fit in the gap, haha
I just cut it off when I got home going to see another join get similar to yours

braad · Post by **braad** » August 21st, 2012, 11:43 pm

wombi90 wrote:My exhaust bloke doesn't have good taste I just told him to put something nice and neat on, went to pick it up and had a 4.5 inch single tip :/ apparently the twin tips don't fit in the gap, haha
I just cut it off when I got home going to see another join get similar to yours

Hahaha ahh **** hey, that sucks balls. Some people have no idea, they must struggle through life
have you got it sorted?

wombi90 · Post by **wombi90** » August 22nd, 2012, 8:14 am

Haha yeah wasn't real happy when I picked it up, and nah haven't sorted it yet still just the 2 1/2 pipe I'll get to it soon it's starting to annoy me,

bng · Post by **bng** » August 22nd, 2012, 9:05 am

He must be retarded. Even though they do good work for you, I still won't go back them after the way I was treated straight after dad passed away. unless its for rego lol
Hopefully st George will be able to sort me out with my tips

braad · Post by **braad** » August 22nd, 2012, 4:38 pm

i'm not defending them, but we all make mistakes. I don't really deal with anyone but mario anyway, bar pink slips.

St George should be able to sort you out. richard likes them. can't be too bad

wombi, your guy is a spaz, you've gotta find a new one. bng has a single 2.25/2.5" (don't know what size) tip and it looks gay everytime i drive past it. needs big twins. not dumpers

wombi90 · Post by **wombi90** » August 22nd, 2012, 4:56 pm

Yeah I just want twin 2.5 or something, nothing to in your face

braad · Post by **braad** » August 22nd, 2012, 5:14 pm

twin 3" straight cut staggered sounds good

wombi90 · Post by **wombi90** » August 22nd, 2012, 5:27 pm

Get better pics of yours?

braad · Post by **braad** » August 22nd, 2012, 5:28 pm

i would but the cars dirty and its getting dark, so no point atm. i need to polish the tips up again, they've been scraped a few times

wombi90 · Post by **wombi90** » August 22nd, 2012, 5:30 pm

Lol yeah all good I'm in no rush for the tips just yet

braad · Post by **braad** » August 27th, 2012, 10:59 pm

Ahh **** I keep forgetting to take a pic

a small update, the car is no longer dual fuel. The LPG solenoid is being a dipshit and won't stop LPG when I switch to petrol, so it's hit & miss whether it will run on good old pet-rol. Fuckin love cars!

dannysebxr6 · Post by **dannysebxr6** » August 28th, 2012, 5:58 pm

Good old cars must be the color as we are now both having issues!

braad · Post by **braad** » August 28th, 2012, 6:15 pm

Haha I just posted in your thread, just found out that my pump has shat itself. Thankfully it runs well on LPG, I can still use it as a daily

Must be the colour

dannysebxr6 · Post by **dannysebxr6** » August 28th, 2012, 6:16 pm

Or the engine? Lol

braad · Post by **braad** » August 28th, 2012, 6:53 pm

Nah not the motors, Windsors sound too nice to give up on them. Yet.

dannysebxr6 · Post by **dannysebxr6** » August 28th, 2012, 7:01 pm

True just did a carby clean on mine **** it sounds
good when revving it! Lol

braad · Post by **braad** » August 28th, 2012, 8:29 pm

Yep, love Carby cleaner. It's the best part of doing it!

braad · Post by **braad** » December 25th, 2012, 9:59 pm

Finally polished the car, six months after buying it. Looked unreal, its the first time i have seen heritage sparkle (yes im isolated and simple)

My missus bought me some alpine components and 6.5" to replace the original torn cone speakers. What a gem!

So pump was replaced and car serviced properly. Found theres a small, slow weep from the passenger head gasket. Bugger hey.

Seriously cbf though. It drives well and i've started back on my project mini, plans for turbocharging and other fancy shit. So the Ghia shall remain as the daily driver for a long time now

wombi90 · Post by **wombi90** » December 26th, 2012, 1:56 am

About time it got a polish, heritage green isn't that bad if a colour if its polished and clean, only trouble is keeping it clean,

braad · Post by **braad** » December 26th, 2012, 10:27 am

I'll have to post some pics i took once polished. They're on another computer atm.

It lasted about 26 hours until it rained whilst i met up with some PBF guys

braad · Post by **braad** » December 26th, 2012, 11:37 am

some clean photos

If only i could use the DSLR

SnipeZ · Post by **SnipeZ** » December 26th, 2012, 4:17 pm

That drive ways a killer by the looks of it

Cheers

braad · Post by **braad** » December 26th, 2012, 5:27 pm

Yeah mate it is fucked. It is fucking retarded. I have posted pictures of it in either this or my old Xr8 thread. I am actually worried about getting the mini out from down the back one day. Oh well haha

.tapeworm · Post by **.tapeworm** » December 30th, 2012, 6:34 pm

The body is nice and free from shopping trolley dents. Yeah, your drive looks pretty fucked if you want to really dump your car!

braad · Post by **braad** » January 13th, 2013, 4:21 pm

yeah the body isnt too bad. The driveway is definitely fucked.

from top (the crest in those pics) to the lowest out back the height drops a full 2 storey brick house. That crest is inline with the roof and the back part is below ground floor level. so shit

dannysebxr6 · Post by **dannysebxr6** » January 13th, 2013, 4:50 pm

Bout time you polished it braad.
I did the same to mine day before my wedding then
it rained the next day. Pointless I think.

That driveway is definitely a killer, if that was mine
When I bout the ef I would of got stuck at the top of the drive.

Cars looking good though. Shame bout head gasket though!
Cheers
Daniel

braad · Post by **braad** » January 30th, 2013, 7:40 pm

Jeez, so it rained on your wedding day? That sucks!

Haha yeah it took me 7 months to polish. It looked great for a week, some PBF boys saw it polished and thought it was resprayed. That was nice to hear!

This has never been past that crest of the driveway. The XR8 just got down, but most of my cars have scraped. Shoo shitty

dannysebxr6 · Post by **dannysebxr6** » January 31st, 2013, 9:12 am

braad wrote:Jeez, so it rained on your wedding day? That sucks!

Haha yeah it took me 7 months to polish. It looked great for a week, some PBF boys saw it polished and thought it was resprayed. That was nice to hear!

This has never been past that crest of the driveway. The XR8 just got down, but most of my cars have scraped. Shoo shitty

yeah every time i seem to was my car it rains that day or the next one. pointless washing it sometimes but looks awesome when its clean.
same took me 4 months before i polished it. will do it again soon but have the cbf's.
looks awesome clean though.
cheers
Daniel

braad · Post by **braad** » February 20th, 2013, 1:21 pm

Thanks mate. It gets dirty bloody quick, i washed it saturday and it looked dirty by sunday night without any rain to help

dannysebxr6 · Post by **dannysebxr6** » February 20th, 2013, 7:12 pm

yeh mines the same,
wash it then it rains though. looks so good clean but looks dirty even faster.

So hows the el going still got head gasket issues?

braad · Post by **braad** » February 26th, 2013, 9:54 am

Yeah still got the head gasket "issue" lol. Theres been no change in it, so its just a case of keep calm and carry on!

braad · Post by **braad** » March 31st, 2013, 10:17 pm

Well i hate to say it but i will be selling the Ghia soon!
I will get a proper ad up too.

Its a shame but im moving to bowral and commuting to sydney every day, so im looking at a new Fiesta as a buzzbox/commutor. That means the Ghia will have to go

1996 EL Fairmont Ghia V8, fully optioned from factory, 168,000km - immaculate leather interior, electric drivers seat, factory sunroof, EL GT copy rims, tickford bodykit (deleted rear wing for smooth look), Pedders Coilovers, EL GT headers, high flow cats and a custom twin 2.25" mandrel bent exhaust into twin Stainless steel 3" tips (took 2 days to build from scratch at Carline Mortdale), LPG system installed in 2011 (i will check to be sure), new fuel pump, brakes replaced and frozen calipers rebuilt (new pads &fluid). I had it serviced every 5000km, so i will add everything done to it soon.

Thanks guys