My 99 AU Fairmont Ghia. Barra 240T Powered

by **xr6tjet** » October 23rd, 2012, 8:41 pm

KR1STO wrote:Fair enough.. I always wanted to do mine, but never got around to it..

maybe on a white car they won't stick out like dogs balls. a tip though to if you do it though. get em dipped in chrome. looks much less tacky...

by **xr6tjet** » October 24th, 2012, 8:09 pm

anybody who is going down to c4c this sunday. I will be displaying with Freshest Whitewalls stand from 9am onwards

feel free to say hi!

cheers, alex.

by **esp-6** » October 26th, 2012, 2:04 pm

im not really a fan of AU's but this one, this one is one sexy AU. well done.

by **xr6tjet** » October 26th, 2012, 5:46 pm

esp-6 wrote:im not really a fan of AU's but this one, this one is one sexy AU. well done.

thanks mate, I appreciate it

by **esp-6** » October 26th, 2012, 6:48 pm

might have actually convinced me to get one its so damn sexy ahaha
but doubt mine will look that sexy cause i cant go anywhere near that low. driveway is a struggle for my dads standard typhoon to get up. lol

by **xr6tjet** » October 26th, 2012, 9:04 pm

esp-6 wrote:might have actually convinced me to get one its so damn sexy ahaha
but doubt mine will look that sexy cause i cant go anywhere near that low. driveway is a struggle for my dads standard typhoon to get up. lol

A lot of people told me that my car has convinced them to get an AU, which is really good because they are a great car. Definately consider one, they are a bitch to get sitting low though lol. This car has never skipped a beat

and I am really content with how she looks now!

by **esp-6** » November 13th, 2012, 9:01 pm

yeah, they go good. most reliable car out. my grandpa has one and its got about 500,000 +++ ks (ex cab) and its still going 100%. how come they are hard to get low ?

by **xr6tjet** » November 15th, 2012, 10:37 pm

Yup, they are cars that just keep on going. Well they are hard to get low because (SSL) ultra lows just don't get it low enough, the tyre sits above the guard. Gotta go through compressing springs and such to get it low. Even then you get the bumpstops kicking in. After lowering the car about 5 times now I finally have nailed my height tucking my entire 20 inch tyre with no rub (my guards have been done)

by **xr6tjet** » April 8th, 2013, 11:20 pm

Thought I might drop an update on this thread, only mod I've done in a while is remove my whitewalls ! decided to go for a subtle clean look. I have been building up my XF ghia and is currently getting a lot of work done to the motor(cam etc) but after that is done and my respray goes through on the old girl I have a few more mods I want to do this car

by **SnipeZ** » April 9th, 2013, 7:28 am

Cos white walls are for shit ****
Looks so much cleaner now

Cheers

by **xr6tjet** » April 9th, 2013, 9:11 am

They were fun for a while but now I'm over them

easier to just clean my wheels every wash and put some tyre shine on instead of cleaning my whitewalls every few days lol.

I've been looking at some sort of way to increase the travel from the rear shocks (my car is on the stops) I have KYB short shocks but the ride is horrible. Any ideas? I think they are short stroke shocks and not short body... I have heard about extending the shock towers but how safe is that? I have tried pedders coilovers and they didn't get the car low, XYZ coilovers maybe?

by **nstg8a** » April 9th, 2013, 9:46 am

Extending the shock towers is very common in x series cars, commonly called mega towers. Basically chop them in half and get a pro to weld a length of appropriately sized steel tubing in between the two halfs. Safe as houses if welded properly, obviously not something to DIY if your still fairly noobish with a mig. Once welded get them painted or powder coated to prevent corrosion and your done.

Just need to maintain whatever angle the shock tower had originally obviously.

But I'm not sure if au's run the same style of shock towers?

Is your IRS or solid axle?

by **misk** » April 9th, 2013, 9:58 am

theres a car really similar to this in my old street in north dandenong
thought it was the same car for a bit!

you can extend the towers in e-series as well, you just get a second pair and cut them at the base or wherever you want and cut the top off the other pair and weld together.
pretty simple stuff

by **EFFalcon** » April 9th, 2013, 10:52 am

Its a fairmont, so it'd be live axle.

by **KR1STO** » April 9th, 2013, 11:33 am

It's a ghia isn't it..?
IRS rear end..

by **KR1STO** » April 9th, 2013, 11:34 am

Scrap that..! Just read first post.!

by **xr6tjet** » April 9th, 2013, 11:43 am

Nah its not IRS, just built it up with all the ghia bits

People have been telling me not to do it blah blah blah... I'm running 60mm compressed SSLs so I need some travel. Anybody know a shop who could weld up some shock towers for me? I am inexperienced with a welder.

by **xr6tjet** » April 9th, 2013, 11:49 am

My shock tower is the same as the E series/x series ones. Is it actually safe assuming the welds are done correctly ?

by **misk** » April 9th, 2013, 12:09 pm

yeah its fine...
the shock doesn't take the weight of the car remember, it still needs to be strong, but its not taking all the weight.

by **xr6tjet** » April 9th, 2013, 12:48 pm

Okay cool, know anybody that could do something like this if I provided 4 shock towers to make 2? Will pay $$

by **icachn** » April 9th, 2013, 7:10 pm

looks really nice and neat with those 20s, yeh better without walls imo.

by **nothin suss** » April 9th, 2013, 10:37 pm

xr6tjet wrote:Okay cool, know anybody that could do something like this if I provided 4 shock towers to make 2? Will pay $$

I often pondered raiding wrecking yards and mass producing these. But anyone with a a grinder and welder can do it.
If you CBF paying two lots of postage and $50 for my time i'd do it. I'm sure someone local can help you out?

by **xr6tjet** » April 9th, 2013, 11:30 pm

nothin suss wrote:
xr6tjet wrote:Okay cool, know anybody that could do something like this if I provided 4 shock towers to make 2? Will pay $$

I often pondered raiding wrecking yards and mass producing these. But anyone with a a grinder and welder can do it.
If you CBF paying two lots of postage and $50 for my time i'd do it. I'm sure someone local can help you out?

I've been asking around but everyone doesn't want to do it as its "risky" and requires an "engineering" cert. Simply going to ask some fabricators to do it. Where abouts were you located I don't mind a day trip !

by **nothin suss** » April 10th, 2013, 11:52 pm

I'm 25 mins past Geelong but the old mans got my welder for a while until I wire up my new shed. Too hard basket perhaps?

by **xr6tjet** » April 11th, 2013, 9:55 am

I sent you a PM

by **xr6tjet** » April 14th, 2013, 5:40 pm : **staunchxr Likes this post**

Fixed my ride quality problem. Inspected everything in the rear and found my bumpstops to be huge... ended up taking them out and the ride is amazing. Soft as anything... Car is actually lower now since it was resting on the stops before... about 10mm, tucks rim lol. Looks good however I think its time to coilover the front to drop it more..

by **wombi90** » April 14th, 2013, 11:06 pm

Lol! Would of been rough as guts

by **xr6tjet** » April 14th, 2013, 11:54 pm

wombi90 wrote:Lol! Would of been rough as guts

It was horrid man, girlfriend had to hold on to shit when we went over a bad road haha. Quite happy now that when I go over a bad road its soft and bearable... being pretty low its great. I just ordered XYZ coilovers for the front hope to get them in on the weekend to stiffen up the front... over my standard ssls lol. need to level it out!

by **staunchxr** » April 14th, 2013, 11:59 pm

Pissed that the guy at pedders told me his shit cvnt touring 6403 springs would sit the same as kings ultra lows its fucking high as a boat, did have choppies tucken like this what springs are they xr6jet? looks boss man might take my bump stops out and go get some ultra lows! top job mate once again seriously clean car love it champ :drinks2:

by **xr6tjet** » April 15th, 2013, 9:18 am

springs I'm running are compressed and its the only way to get really low. couldn't get coilovers to sit this low so I made up some custom springs.

by **staunchxr** » April 15th, 2013, 9:54 am

yeah were abouts would you get that done? could just do that to my pedders cheers

by **xr6tjet** » April 15th, 2013, 3:35 pm : **staunchxr Likes this post**

get it done at suspension shop man. No idea where you would get it done down your way! I'm in melb haha

by **xr6tjet** » May 23rd, 2013, 12:32 pm

Heres a little update: front coilovers are in as of a few weeks ago. so much adjustment I love it !

by **EBOOST** » May 23rd, 2013, 12:47 pm

Thats looks so good.

by **TechXR** » May 23rd, 2013, 1:06 pm

In that photo is that the lowest the front coilovers will go?

Looks awesome :thumbsup:

by **staunchxr** » May 23rd, 2013, 1:49 pm

Looks boss mate awesome

by **xr6tjet** » May 23rd, 2013, 2:31 pm

Nah man the coilovers go literally all the way to the ground, till the point you can't even move the front wheels without hitting the top of the guard haha. I have about 3 inches left of thread in this photo 'lol'

by **xr6tjet** » January 22nd, 2014, 12:06 pm

Haven't updated in a while - I have been busy preparing my XF ghia for a respray. Its currently getting done and I expect it back in a few weeks leading to AFD. In addition I've also been doing finishing touches on my XE ghia aswell. 3 cars, girlfriend, full time job and uni keeps me busy!

Now onto the AU - I was so wrapped with the front coilovers I ended up getting rear ones too. They are such a good unit and they are worth every penny. I have them wound all the way down in the rear and the car drives amazing. Front is adjusted so it doesn't scrub, low enough. Very happy overall with the car. I am planning to start putting the turbo conversion in the works in the next few months. Already know what I'm doing and it should be a nice addition to the car.

by **misk** » January 22nd, 2014, 12:26 pm

one of the best AUs around i reckon.
makes it look so much better than a standard car haha

by **apoc** » January 22nd, 2014, 12:44 pm

Looks sweet, I agree.

That bloke with the black AU XR6 needs to start mass-producing that epic bobtail spoiler though!
Im looking forward to my AU looking even half as neat/clean as this. Great work!

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