Petries EF XR & XH XR

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » April 23rd, 2014, 8:18 pm

Update!

over the easter weekend i have had a rear end stack, resulting in the rear bar faarked. skirt survived luckily.. so not so bad.

however was Racing an Fg Xr off the lights Sunday night when i took it for a spin, Grabbed 3rd and the clutch plate pretty much tore itself apart,
not so much winning! oh well. back to the shed

Avanti · Post by **Avanti** » April 23rd, 2014, 8:29 pm

Petrie wrote:And IAC delete done!

Was hating life with the new 977, I advise everyone to do this as it drives so much nicer!
Rpm doesn't lag returning to idle. Doesn't take seconds to return to idle at the lights. Excellent.

Do you find the car surges while decelerating?

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » April 23rd, 2014, 8:58 pm

Avanti wrote:Do you find the car surges while decelerating?

naah mate not at all, only thing that made a difference where the IAC Helps,
is full lock on power steering and aircon, where the IAC is supposed to raise the idle a little.
but i rarely use aircon when at the lights and full lock you just give it a squirt

didnt affect me, but if you dont warm your car up in the morning before you drive it its a bit touchy.. doesnt stall though.

NUT347 · Post by **NUT347** » April 24th, 2014, 12:32 am

A tune would make it work properly.

Have you tried resetting your base idle? Helped with my old ea and rev hang.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » April 24th, 2014, 8:18 am

NUT347 wrote:A tune would make it work properly.

Have you tried resetting your base idle? Helped with my old ea and rev hang.

No doubt a tune would fix it. I would have disconnected it anyway. Yeah base idle is set.
It runs good anyway. After not having it I find no need to put it back on.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » April 28th, 2014, 10:22 pm

This weekend coming if I get time I'll be ripping he interior out of the xr to start the fairmont loom swap. Cant wait for full electrics and climate in an xr6. Haven't heard of another such as yet!

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » May 17th, 2014, 10:21 am

In regards too the "option 20" chaser clusters, I've been told and read that they are up to 15% adjustable with the speedo reading? Is this true?

As I need about 12.5% adjustment when I put the fresh diff in with 3.9's.

Cheers.

Chargd · Post by **Chargd** » May 18th, 2014, 2:29 pm

not sure how much, but yes they are adjustable.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » May 18th, 2014, 8:31 pm

Chargd wrote:not sure how much, but yes they are adjustable.

Yeah sweet, I'll sus out what the maximum adjustment rate is.
If anyone knows let me know!

DJV8T5 · Post by **DJV8T5** » May 19th, 2014, 6:16 am

failing everything else, just change the gear on the speedo drive to something closer to what you need

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » May 19th, 2014, 7:49 am

DJV8T5 wrote:failing everything else, just change the gear on the speedo drive to something closer to what you need

Didn't think you could get a speedo gear to suit higher than 3.45's?

DJV8T5 · Post by **DJV8T5** » May 19th, 2014, 10:10 am

There is probably one available, just have to hunt around for it. There is always the Jaycar kit for adjustable speedo correction as well. Always a way, sometimes you have to look harder. I am sure there would be a speedo gear somewhere that would suit the application, even if it is for something else

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » May 19th, 2014, 11:14 am

DJV8T5 wrote:There is probably one available, just have to hunt around for it. There is always the Jaycar kit for adjustable speedo correction as well. Always a way, sometimes you have to look harder. I am sure there would be a speedo gear somewhere that would suit the application, even if it is for something else

I'll have a sus out. I had a Jaycar in my last commodore.
Would much rather a cluster swap over building another one of those Jaycar kits haha.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » May 24th, 2014, 11:15 am

Some good updates, some bad.

Xr now has full electric windows, yay!

On the other hand when I had the rear ender about a month ago it's snapped the rio bar slightly, broken bar clip, nothing bad! The rio has seen better days but isint gonna fall off so I'll just leave it.

New bar clips and then she goes back together!

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » May 30th, 2014, 5:05 pm

So I got the xr out and drove to work today (kinda had too) as the slowdeo's aircon comp seized and snapped all the belts. I know what I'm doing this weekend!

Anyway. Gave it a full detail before I left work. For the first time in months, and she came up alright.

And I put an aftermarket gear knob on (I know)

But the factory one is gay with the plastic thread and stripped last time I took it off.
So here is the result!

Anyway! Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » May 31st, 2014, 6:48 pm

Had a big day today. Some ups and downs.

Downs: when I installed the 977b I was in a rush as I was running out of light on such day.
Left two rags in the engine which I found today when I was pulling off the inlet manifold. Faaaark.

I now know why it took so long for new lifters to bleed up when cold.
How I didn't see that! What the?!

Anyway. Pulled the exhaust manifold off. Now to find another set of extractors. Hidden with an au shield. Something that fits nicely is the hard part. Lukey or genie style seem to be pretty close.

Replacing all the coolant hoses, porting the inlet manifold, then painting in matte black, Colour coding the rocker cover to heritage green. Replacing all the hard basket shit that's annoying to get to with a complete engine.

Waiting for mr CVE, to finish his billet fuel rails. One of them with some au injectors will go nicely.

Pulled the heater box out. New evap and heater core to go in.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » June 6th, 2014, 4:32 pm

Had a quick play with the Inlet manifold tonight. Not finished, but here is progress of porting the top half off the BBM.

Before:

After:

.tapeworm · Post by **.tapeworm** » June 7th, 2014, 9:58 pm

Wonder if it will run any nicer during your daily cruze, be good to see

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » June 9th, 2014, 4:38 pm

.tapeworm wrote:Wonder if it will run any nicer during your daily cruze, be good to see

I'll sus it out after it's tuned.

when it's running again haha

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » June 21st, 2014, 6:01 pm

Had a fair crack today, heater box and dash back in, trip computer installed (illumination issue, will fix tomorrow)
After a **** around with the body loom (CRT LMP) fuse was blowing. Common fault being the boot light shorting.

One more electrical gremlin to sort out tomorrow (no power to the drivers
Front door) potentially a broken wire.

If all goes well will have the t5 out and flywheel out for machining with new clutch.

Cheers.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » July 1st, 2014, 6:47 pm

Big update!
Body loom working sick. All windows work mad.
No more custom plates
Walbro 255
Au injectors
Ported intake manifold finished and painted matte black
Au hp xr6 rocker cover
1521A-112lsa
New head finished, ported&polished, 351C intake and exhaust valves installed,
heavy duty valve springs, decked 30thou and Reco'd
New 3.45 LSD and shortened shocks.
New heavy duty clutch
Rip shifter installed with a cube brass bush.
New side skirt (YAY)
New 7" touch screen head unit
Probably more I've forgot to mention but yeah! Will be running in under 2 weeks hopefully.

ELOVER · Post by **ELOVER** » July 2nd, 2014, 6:15 pm

good work, been busy!
what plates you get?

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » July 2nd, 2014, 8:36 pm

ELOVER wrote:good work, been busy!
what plates you get?

Yeah man! Should be going for a victory cruise in about two weeks.. Straight to get tuned haha.

Just standard plates ABK-749 or some shit haha.

ELOVER · Post by **ELOVER** » July 4th, 2014, 6:18 pm

i remember you telling me you had some custom ones in mind, was unsure if you got them or not.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » August 9th, 2014, 3:32 pm

Big night last night! First night back on the road. No real dramas at all. Some pics

Note: no more stickers. (Less attention), new sideskirt and! I got 3 streets down from my house on the test drive. First drive in months! And defect. Too low. I suspect if was only because it was in the gutter with a passenger still in the car. Any who! Great to have it back.

SnipeZ · Post by **SnipeZ** » August 9th, 2014, 5:28 pm

Hardly looks low at all.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » August 9th, 2014, 6:17 pm

SnipeZ wrote:Hardly looks low at all.

Exactly. I doubt it is. I'll measure it tomorrow.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » August 16th, 2014, 5:09 pm

I think it's time for some boost. That is all.

the sam · Post by **the sam** » August 17th, 2014, 12:44 am

nek minnut... GTX4202R, TL plenum & ex manifold, E85... 450rwkw...

Jayedxr6 · Post by **Jayedxr6** » August 17th, 2014, 7:32 am

^^GTX?? More like 600rwkw!!

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » August 17th, 2014, 1:04 pm

If anything, low boost like 5-6pound. Hah

200-220rwkw will be fine, just needs a Stustustu.

ef xr6 · Post by **ef xr6** » August 17th, 2014, 2:12 pm

You get defects once a week as it is with a car that doesn't look that low or having anything really illegal on it. So boosting it probably isn't a good idea

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » August 17th, 2014, 6:15 pm

ef xr6 wrote:You get defects once a week as it is with a car that doesn't look that low or having anything really illegal on it. So boosting it probably isn't a good idea

Second defect it's ever had, haven't been pulled over since last Friday, haven't really been looked at, needs a second muffler in the tailpipe though. Hate how droney it is.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » August 20th, 2014, 8:38 pm

Couple of really nice photos I've got over the last week or so.

Got it to idle real well for a base tune. Was sick of the thing almost dying Everytime it wanted to idle,
Hopefully get it tuned for realsies this weekend.

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » September 29th, 2014, 5:46 pm

End of one! Start of another.

Few weeks ago the xr sedan spun a bottom end bearing and punched a hole through a water jacket so I slapped another engine in it and straight swapped it for this:
Factory manual 8/96 build, XH 1
Has cruise, working Aircon and a nice tight box.
Still got the factory clutch in her so that's the first thing to fix.
Anyway! Pics as follow.

Jayedxr6 · Post by **Jayedxr6** » September 29th, 2014, 9:53 pm

I love a tight box

MNTXR6 · Post by **MNTXR6** » October 1st, 2014, 6:47 pm

what are the plans for the XH mate? looks clean

Petrie · Post by **Petrie** » October 3rd, 2014, 4:54 pm

MNTXR6 wrote:what are the plans for the XH mate? looks clean

Unsure as yet! SL front struts are in, 3" blocks in the rear, want to do something with the gearboot/knob as I don't like it haha.

Needs some stickers and a new tonneau cover cause it's not perfect enough. Maybe some El gt's I reckon.

As for the drive line. Lsd is still good. Might chuck a 977b or something similar in it. But mostly leave it all alone

Chargd · Post by **Chargd** » October 4th, 2014, 12:24 am

dont be gay, 1521a is where its at. you know you love that idle hahaha.

obsezd · Post by **obsezd** » October 5th, 2014, 6:41 pm

Au dash conversion and Console