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Postby nick94 » January 4th, 2014, 4:29 pm : GLiTurbo Likes this post

Hey guys, so just a little about myself: my names nick I'm 19 years old turning 20 this year, I'm from Abury, NSW and I'm a first year fitter and machinist.

I'm a proud owner of a 1983 xe Fairmont that I'm the second owner of, and I've recently brought a el xr6 that I picked up in Melbourne.

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Postby icachn » January 4th, 2014, 11:23 pm

nice el xr6, paint job is superb on this thing,(honda nsx red) i have spoken to the old owner before and iv actually seen this car in the real, hope u look after it and enjoy her, shes a real beauty, and not many around these days either :D .
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Postby Commando » January 5th, 2014, 7:39 am

Nice EL! I had an XE on my P's as well, chuck up some more pics/details!
Previous: 1982 XE GL 3.3: 5 speed | 1991 EB Ghia 5.0: Vortech, Tiptronic, 4.11s, 232rwkw | 1995 EF GLi 4.0 wagon: LPG | 2006 BF Fairmont 4.0: JTG LiLPG
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Postby nick94 » January 5th, 2014, 12:13 pm : icachn Likes this post

icachn wrote:nice el xr6, paint job is superb on this thing,(honda nsx red) i have spoken to the old owner before and iv actually seen this car in the real, hope u look after it and enjoy her, shes a real beauty, and not many around these days either :D .


yeah well I went down to Melbourne just to have a look, but had the cash with me to buy it. saw it and took it for a drive and I just had to have it haha. its immaculate to look at, factory 5 speed and sunroof, well he got the whole roof off his ghia he had and put it onto this one. the front bar has been plastic welded so that the top is xr6 the middle is the ghia fog lights, with the bottom xr6 spoiler. I just fell in love with it

the previous owner even made up a cool boot trim, instead of having the ghia badge to open the boot, hes cut it out to fit a tickford badge in, so ill be buying a tickford badge soon and putting that off, one of the wooden trims in the interior is broken, but that's about all I have to do with looks.

I plan to made it a nice n/a, ive brought a 977b wade cam for it apparently custom grout, I plan to get some roller rockers and chrome molly push rods, also plan to put the tickford head off and put a standard one on and get it port and polished, just because Id like to keep all my standad parts.
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Postby nick94 » January 5th, 2014, 12:26 pm

Commando wrote:Nice EL! I had an XE on my P's as well, chuck up some more pics/details!


yeah its a classy ride to get around with on my p's, I used to have a bf magnet xr6 factory 5 speed ute and it was toxic green, lowered on its guts and on 20s. it was literally a "cop magnet"so I got rid of that and have been keeping a low profile in me xe.

The xe Fairmont was completely standard when I brought it, the engine still is completely standard carbi and still has the vac, ah its a 3 speed t bar as well. around 250,000 km when I brought it.

all ive done is lower it on super lows, paid a bloke in Wodonga to get 2 dents out and spray and give it a cut and polish, and I sprayed the venetians from black to vanilla which is the same colour as the car, and I also picked up a cheap set of 12 slotters. heres some snaps for you :)

the interior is immaculate btw
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Postby Commando » January 6th, 2014, 8:49 am

Love the XE. That interior shits all over my old GL's interior. I'll have to dig up the pics one day.
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Postby Sunboost » January 6th, 2014, 8:58 am

I almost bought that EL lol. Was getting it for a decent price but didn't have the time to fix up all the little niggles it would have needed done for a roady and the couple of marks around the kit.

Was definitely a good buy for anyone looking for a little project like that. Good luck with it!
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Postby nick94 » January 6th, 2014, 2:04 pm

Commando wrote:Love the XE. That interior shits all over my old GL's interior. I'll have to dig up the pics one day.


yeah id like to get it cleaned professionally soon. think it would come up nicely. yeah id like to see some snaps :)
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Postby nick94 » January 6th, 2014, 2:08 pm

Sundeep wrote:I almost bought that EL lol. Was getting it for a decent price but didn't have the time to fix up all the little niggles it would have needed done for a roady and the couple of marks around the kit.

Was definitely a good buy for anyone looking for a little project like that. Good luck with it!


yeah well I went for a blue slip last week, all I need to do is put standard springs in, secure the battery, fix the exhaust leak.
but he is pretty lenient, as ive taken all my cars there.

yeah its got a few little things I have to fix up, but nothing that a bit of time and money wont fix :)
I got it for a decent price I thought, my mechanic which is my good mate came with me.
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