Boosted Falcon

Get it checked ffs, no point getting all twisted in the panties until you know what's wrong.

Probably something minor as,. And yup, karma for fucking with it.

did resetting the battery work? the ZF's have a habbit of self-tuning themselves... after kyle towed a trailer in his fairlane the zf was fuckin about for a awhile, then went back to the normal tune

The long thin core is a Power Steering Cooler. ZF's run a remote heat exchanger as nothin suss said.

SLY5LT wrote:

EFFalcon wrote: mine used to get 400+ then i changed the fuel pump... don't understand how that could make a difference though.

i'm puting in a new fuel pump today, hope mine does'nt do the same

after doing the fuel pump (i still had fuel starving issues)
i did the fuel filter yesterday with AWESOME results
along with getting full throttle back, the klm per tank/economy has gone up...even after a night on the hwy

ill give you 2k for it how it sits

Check for melted wiring around the exhaust??
And stop doing random shit to try fix it lol.

Lol's. Lol's everywhere.

has it burnt to the ground yet?

And then?

Inb4 hurr durr I love it to bits and I'm not selling it anymore.

Shouldn't be allowed anywhere near cars. At all.

Where did he go? Not like ev to be this quiet for this long.

t1MMy wrote:Shouldn't be allowed anywhere near cars. At all.

Only you have the power to fix that !!

Just kidding

Have you bought an Excel yet?

Poor Ev...

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I heard he got a Missus and doesn't need us anymore.

That or a car suited for a girl...

Last I spoke to him he was keeping it and had booked it in for the zf to be serviced and so on.

Updates Evan?

Yep, this......

nothin suss wrote:That or a car suited for a girl...

They say a change is as good as a holiday.

FUCKING LOL.

I AM THE CLIO COMMANDER!

Someone hack evs account?

Double

Unlucky

nstg8a wrote:Someone hack evs account?

Sadly not, this is actually what I have been reduced to now. Check the location of the photos, it's the same spot I have taken photos of my last couple of cars. The BF was going to end up too expensiveto repair, so I literally swapped it for that which has been dubbed 'The Tampon'. Oh, and the reason I haven't been around is not because I have a girlfriend, because lets face it, that'll never happen again. I have, for once, genuinely been busy at work. I am flying between Sydney and Brisbane twice a week. Plus, on top of all that, my housemate had enough of me and gave me my marching orders, so I'm moving house this weekend too!

So, as usual, fail all round!

"The Tampon" clearly did it's job and plugged you up for a while.

What was wrong with the BF in the end?

Well done with the new jerb!

"The Tampon". I are confuse. Isn't the tampon inside the ****, and not the other way around?

Commando wrote:Well done with the new jerb!

"The Tampon". I are confuse. Isn't the tampon inside the ****, and not the other way around?

This needed to be quoted rather than just "liked".

Oh Ill do that too lol

Commando wrote:Well done with the new jerb!

"The Tampon". I are confuse. Isn't the tampon inside the ****, and not the other way around?

[Sterling] wrote:FUCKING LOL.

Fucking lolled my ass off whilst sitting on the shitter at work

NUT347 wrote:What was wrong with the BF in the end?

Do we have an answer for this Ev? I am interested to know what was wrong that was going to cost so much to fix.

Yep, the ZF mainly. It was going to cost more just to fix the trans properly than the asking price for Renault! Plus seeing as it would limo off the line when I tramped it with the tc off, I'm pretty sure the diff was shagged too. Did mad circle work in second gear though! So the motor was still good. Anyway, I'd had enough of it, so just up and swapped for the Clio. Plus I am still driving to work, and this thing is getting over 550kms to a 42L tank! And I chopped a VS Statesman 5L to about 80 in it too, so it does alright! Helps that it weighs less than my left arse cheek!

So how much was it actually going to cost to fix the trans? I've sold 2 ZF Turbo boxes for $1800ea. but have seen some as low as $800 on eBay. Haven't seen a V8 one go though, but finding one for a XT would be a hard task. Word on the street is if it's an F6, it needs an F6 box from same year, if it's an XR6T it needs an XR6T from same year and so on and so forth. I don't know if that's true though.

that sucks, but I suppose cost of repairs v cost of other car makes a difference too. The BF looked like a pretty nice car too. Gotta make the hard decisions sometimes though

You can swap a part (valve body or something?) in the trans with your original so that it will work in a different car.

Lol @ going from a V8 BF to that thing! I wouldn't drive it if it got 1L/100k

Suppose it won't be long until your in something different anyway?

Ah ok. I might have to look in to it. It makes it so hard to sell these boxes or buy a car with a broken box when you don't know what the GO is with whether it's compatible or not.

A blown au xr 5L never looked so good.

well you probably got the car you wanted a while ago.

Aaaw, thanks for bumping those pics and making me sad! **** I miss that car somthing feirce! Easily the best car I have owned yet, and took the most punishment! The BF was either half stuffed when I bought it, or just weak as piss.

Sunny is exactly right, because of ZF computer its only possible to replace like for like, same year and type. So I was fucked from the start by buying the rarest combo ever made! From what I could tell, even an XR8 box wouldn't have worked, it had to be from another 3V, which is rare as rocking horse shit! Yes, as mentioned, it is possible to swap the mechatronics unit, but if that had water in it as the rest of the trans did, it required replacement. Which meant even if I rebuilt the box and replaced the unit, it would need to be reprogrammed, and the only place who has the factory programming for ZF's is Ford in Sydney. That's $700 just for a factory re-flash. Yes, there are ZF's available, but they are mostly XR6T boxes which was completely useless to me. Prices I was quoted was anywhere from $4k IF my vavle body unit was ok, to $11k for a complete assembly new from Ford! So, this is why I now have a shopping trolley.