Ash's XR6T

by **RAVEN** » November 12th, 2007, 11:05 am

good work for a near stocker.

by **Kenaz** » November 12th, 2007, 6:47 pm

Cheers for the comments guys and girl

by **someLS1** » November 13th, 2007, 7:09 am

Your too quick Ash sif plant it at the drags lol well done mate

by **Sunboost** » November 13th, 2007, 10:34 am

Check this out -

XRENVI wrote:After driving with just the exhaust and intake done, overboost was a problem and we decided a computer mod was needed but with all things it didnt stop there!!! Vlave springs rods and fuel pump were added to the list. But there was something not right with a friends engine, who had simialr mods- he put a rod through his block which prompted a compression test on our engine. Look what we found.......All this from only have a 2nd CAI and exhaust system.

Is that sht common?!

by **Commando** » November 13th, 2007, 10:39 am

Fark that's nasty!

by **Steady** » November 13th, 2007, 10:58 am

He says it was overboosting though.
I imagine hitting boost cut constantly wouldn't be good for them, I think its a fuel cut in these things.
My old mans used to do it before Ford reflashed it with an updated PCM, and it was harsh as ****.
You'd be planting up the freeway ramp and it would almost put your head through the windscreen.
It's like hitting the rev limiter, except hitting the rev limiter right where you are making peak torque.

by **Sunboost** » November 13th, 2007, 11:20 am

Jared I've read another thread yesterday in which a guy had done similar mods to XR6T but hadn't had it tuned. It went in to a limp mode that would only allow it to rev to 4500 and it limited the boost constantly.

I don't know what you are describing? It was probably just fukked

by **Steady** » November 13th, 2007, 12:06 pm

It's still going now, not farked yet.. :lol:

Sometimes, due to weather or whatever, or uphill, it'd built boost quicker then normal, spike, and hit the boost cut.
And it was harsh.
It never did the limp mode thing, dads is a MK1, they might have changed the boost cut later on, dunno.
My point was, if it did the same thing, and the driver kept hitting it, itd be like driving around hitting your rev limiter all the time.. do it enough, maybe bend rods?

Dunno, either way, no kent with say 220rwkw is gonna bend a rod driving normally and not noticing anything that could have caused it.
Like the thing pinging its arse off.
I call shenanigans on that blokes story.

by **Sunboost** » November 13th, 2007, 12:15 pm

Yep, that's a fair bent rod for those mods I thought!

by **Dansedgli** » November 13th, 2007, 12:53 pm

You cant put an unrestrictive exhaust on the T's without a tune.

Once you free up the restriction behind the turbo the flapper valve cant keep up and it overboosts quicksticks.

More boost and no tuning = detonation.

I think whether or not the ECU shuts it all down before it breaks is a bit hit and miss.

So in short. E Series rods FTW.

by **TUFED6** » November 13th, 2007, 2:55 pm

Yep don't do exhausts mods on a XR6T if you aren't going to get a flash tune at the same time.

I think you can get away with removing the center muffler, but highflow cat is a no-no.

by **Kenaz** » November 13th, 2007, 3:12 pm

Way to bring down the mood of the thread Sunny

by **Sunboost** » November 13th, 2007, 3:27 pm

Lol... well now you know - exhaust and flash tune must happen at the same time!

Fk I'd hate to be up for a rebuild on a XR6T.

by **Commando** » November 13th, 2007, 3:29 pm

Beats bending a rod Ash

by **Kenaz** » July 5th, 2009, 4:18 pm

So yeah I still have this thing.

In the last one and a half years since the last update I haven't really done anything with it. I remember Bomber put some Ultra lows in it not long after the last update. :drinks2:

Then I went through a long period of working in a low paying job and having no money and/or motivation.

Anyway a couple of months ago I got a new job working in the city, which meant I was now using the train for my daily commute and the BA went into semi retirement. My girlfriend and I also finished buying furniture for our place, so now my attention and spare cash was directed towards the BA. The first thing was to make it look respectable again. Even though I've always kept it clean, some people may remember seeing it with busted R/H headlight and fog lights. I sourced some near new parts off eBay and fitted them. Much better. Around this time I also came across some cheap BF tail lights, yep I'll grab them too. Then I had a RDO one day and I was a bit bored so I paid a visit to Sunny at his work and he hooked me up with some slim line number plates. :-P

(Too bad I was a bit late for XBA :cry:

)

A few weeks ago I popped some cystal vision globes in the headlights and got some blue visions for the fog lights too. They look good and night time visibility has improved out of sight!

Last week I had the opportunity to grab a BA F6 cooler and I had to think about it for while because I had some other ideas in mind. But then I figured when I get it tuned in the next couple of months I'll only be going for around 240ish kW at the wheels so I thought the slightly bigger cooler would compliment a mild tune nicely.

A noticeable difference in size, but the F6 cooler still isn't huge by any means.

So that's where things sit now. Apart from an upcoming tune and lots of detailing, I wouldn't be expecting regular updates to this thread :wave:

p.s. If any mods are reading this, could you please move this to the showroom. It's not really a 'build' lol

by **[Sterling]** » July 5th, 2009, 4:37 pm

Bout time you fixed that light! haha good stuff ash, what are you doing with the old cooler?

by **Kenaz** » July 5th, 2009, 5:03 pm

[Sterling] wrote:Bout time you fixed that light! haha good stuff ash, what are you doing with the old cooler?

Trying to sell it. $30 :good:

by **bentls** » July 5th, 2009, 5:23 pm

good price haha

tune sounds good... how many k's on it now?

dont forget to include new brakes in ya build up bit

by **Kenaz** » July 5th, 2009, 5:30 pm

bentls wrote:good price haha
tune sounds good... how many k's on it now?

dont forget to include new brakes in ya build up bit

126,000

I used to do over 500ks a week. I don't think I've done 500ks in the last 2 months

New brakes wasn't a mod, just maintenance/servicing

Dave will remember how bad the old pads and rotors were :oops:

by **bentls** » July 5th, 2009, 5:47 pm

a bee's dick infront of me

im at 123k now hehehe... your car always looks mint good job... i cannot be fucked cleaning mine as much as u... everytime i see it, its sparkling lol

by **bng** » July 5th, 2009, 6:05 pm

Firstly, very nice car. Hows the f6 cooler go? Feel any difference??
How do the bf xr6turbos go with the bent rods?? Seems from what i read, ba's seem to like bending them

by **SnyperEB** » July 5th, 2009, 6:13 pm

Nice work Ash about time you did something to it.

by **Kenaz** » July 5th, 2009, 6:40 pm

bng wrote:Firstly, very nice car. Hows the f6 cooler go? Feel any difference??
How do the bf xr6turbos go with the bent rods?? Seems from what i read, ba's seem to like bending them

The cooler goes alright. It makes the car feel marginally quicker, but what it's really good for is maintaining performance. With the little stock cooler after putting the foot down a few times you could feel the performance dropping off. I guess the F6 one keeps the air cooler for longer.

BFs from 6/06 onwards got F6 bottom ends so I reckon one of them would be the best bet. Having said that, there's a BA with stock bottom end running 9s and few running 10s. I wouldn't hesitate getting another MK 1 BA, I reckon they're tough!

by **LOW_XR** » July 5th, 2009, 6:45 pm

good work ash. looking good mate

by **Commando** » July 6th, 2009, 7:26 am

Dave will remember how bad the old pads and rotors were

If you chucked them on a turntable you'd be able to vaguely make out the intro to Metalocalypse, they were that bad.

by **Kenaz** » August 16th, 2009, 2:26 pm

So this week I managed to pick up a set of genuine BA XR 18s for pretty cheap

I'm a big fan of low BAs on factory Ford wheels. Like Dylan's car or Tristan's old ORSM54.

Eventually I want to lower it to roughly the same height as ORSM54 but even with just the SSLs in it, it doesn't even get out of my driveway without scraping

If I get bored later 'sarvo I might put them on the car, but the tyres are pretty shit so I might just hold off until I take it to get new tyres on my RDO next Monday week.

by **pHaT`eL** » August 16th, 2009, 2:30 pm

Should look the goods mate!! Is the spoiler staying off too?

by **Kenaz** » August 16th, 2009, 2:59 pm

pHaT`eL wrote:Should look the goods mate!! Is the spoiler staying off too?

Nah spoiler has been back on for ages, it's just not low enough to get away with it I reckon.

by **Kenaz** » August 16th, 2009, 4:44 pm

And here you can see the BF tail light too..

Sorry about the picture quality I couldn't find my digital camera

by **Sunboost** » August 16th, 2009, 6:41 pm

Looks sweet. I kinda prefer the lowered on standard 17's look though!

by **Kenaz** » August 16th, 2009, 9:21 pm

Sundeep wrote:Looks sweet. I kinda prefer the lowered on standard 17's look though!

Thanks man! I definitely hear what you're saying.. I was never a big fan of these 18s because you usually see them covered in brake dust, on dirty standard height XRs with mudflaps. I'll probably store the 17s away in the shed because they still have 4 good tyres and are fairly mint.

by **LTDHO** » August 17th, 2009, 8:05 am

Mate, I swear the Silver BA I saw on Thursday and Friday has KENAZ as number plates.

by **Kenaz** » August 17th, 2009, 9:01 am

LTDHO wrote:Mate, I swear the Silver BA I saw on Thursday and Friday has KENAZ as number plates.

Those plates used to be on a Porsche 911.. Maybe the GFC hit him pretty hard :-P

by **EFFalcon** » August 17th, 2009, 9:44 am

Kenaz wrote: Maybe the GFC hit him pretty hard

Maybe he rear your sig?

by **Kenaz** » August 17th, 2009, 7:12 pm

EFFalcon wrote:
Kenaz wrote: Maybe the GFC hit him pretty hard

Maybe he rear your sig?

Yeah that would also make sense

by **bentls** » August 17th, 2009, 8:02 pm

lol the front really doesnt look like SSL height man... you sure you bought SSL all round??

those wheels look sick when de spoilered and low as balls.... we have a customer with a bf mk2 ghia 3v without spoiler with them on ultras all round looks sooooooooo farken tuff

by **Kenaz** » August 17th, 2009, 8:55 pm

bentls wrote:lol the front really doesnt look like SSL height man... you sure you bought SSL all round??

Pretty sure the fronts are just King XR height replacement springs. The front didn't even drop 1mm

by **SnyperEB** » August 17th, 2009, 10:07 pm

Looking good Ash you will have to let me take it for a drive again. This time less alcohol!!

by **Troutman** » August 19th, 2009, 11:13 am

Looking great Ash, still don't think I've seen it in the metal... I still haven't been in one of these so I might have to start rocking up to meets again. :mrgreen:

Did you use any particular launching technique to get your 13.97?

by **Kenaz** » August 19th, 2009, 7:59 pm

Jack, I haven't been to a meet in ages but heaps of former E-series guys drive these now

The 13.9 was achieved by stalling it as much as possible without spinning the wheels. It took a while to work out, I started the day with a 14.7 and whittled it down to the 13.9 Apparently I did a 13.8x too, but that's unconfirmed because I never saw that slip.

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