MatthewXD302c

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Guys I have finally started the Build on my XD. After turning 18 in June last year and finishing school I have found myself an apprenticeship as a electrician. It's been a good 3 months into the build now and you can follow it all on Instagram @1tuffxd302

Cheers

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Here's some pics for you guys if you don't have Instagram.

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Guys I have finally started the Build on my XD. After turning 18 in June last year and finishing school I have found myself an apprenticeship as a electrician. It's been a good 3 months into the build now and you can follow it all on Instagram @1tuffxd302

Cheers

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@gerg all the above lol. When it was running good PB'ed 15.0077/94 with heap of wheelspin (street wheels), then runs crap & runs low 16's, &
slicks bog the engine down, currently has timing out, running hot & possibly bad headgasket. bigger stall would help, but still runs out of rpm,
Need to build a more serious engine.
 
@MatthewXD302c Engine was around $2800 inc. new performer intake & Holley carby,

That's a healthy little clevo right there, why is it a failure as a drag car? Traction? gearboxn stall speed? not enough power? That combo should get you in the 13s no probs

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As a crusier my 302C has been alright, apart from 4.11's killing economy. as a drag car has been a fail.
I started the build as I wanted to make around similar power to AU 2or3 XR8,
Did a basic reco, hot tanked, honed, all new bearing, moly rings, recoed heads with upgraded valve springs, retainers, locks, hardened pushrods,
Crow cam & lifters, cam is a 21603 214/214 @0.050'' .510"/.510" 110lsa makes power till 5500 rpm, edelbrock performer, 650 holley, extractors 2.5" twin exhaust.
made 240rwhp last time it was tuned
 
see my build thread link XE V8 drag ute for info & videos of it running
 

Will something like this give me a good note to the old 302? https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com.au%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F112057002092

This is from the thomastown exhaust shop you were talking about sparky.

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Hey buddy cheers for the help,

Iv decided on this for the build.

1. Rip motor out, spray engine bay (silver) and tidy up the motor, install a mild cam, refurb the carby. Then I will be installing a 2500 hi stall and change diff gears or swap out the diff to a XG. Also add a quick shift. Once all done put motor back in and install and exhaust system. Then get the car dyno tuned. Touch up paint like what dean said, use a touch up pen for the scratches, also spray the rear bumper, front bumper etc.

2. Save up enough cash and respray the car.
I have decided on leaving the interior unless someone can fix the huge hole in the seat.

3. Figure out new rims and tyres, either want 19" globes or like the boys said before, (forgot what size rims) I think they said 15x5 front and 15x8 rear not to sure. Obviously globes.

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yeah everyone's different
i don't care about paint.. pic of My gemini engine below currently(i had the engine out, could have detailed it but wanted it driving asap.. next engine will be tidy, see painted rocker cover) probably still won't paint the engine bay, because you can't see it when driving..

Still sounds like a fairly big project. Try to make sure you have the money to finish it before pulling it apart.  Or  have a good shed that for it and the parts to be stored until finished 

8inch wheels of the correct offset with 265 profile tyres,
is about the max you'll fit under the back of an XD with stock diff.
 
Any wider, and you will have fitment issues for sure.

Hey buddy cheers for the help,

Iv decided on this for the build.

1. Rip motor out, spray engine bay (silver) and tidy up the motor, install a mild cam, refurb the carby. Then I will be installing a 2500 hi stall and change diff gears or swap out the diff to a XG. Also add a quick shift. Once all done put motor back in and install and exhaust system. Then get the car dyno tuned. Touch up paint like what dean said, use a touch up pen for the scratches, also spray the rear bumper, front bumper etc.

2. Save up enough cash and respray the car.
I have decided on leaving the interior unless someone can fix the huge hole in the seat.

3. Figure out new rims and tyres, either want 19" globes or like the boys said before, (forgot what size rims) I think they said 15x5 front and 15x8 rear not to sure. Obviously globes.

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back in the olden days.. people would fit an XY diff to XA to XD to get a wider wheel in.

you can get wide wheels in on the stock diff, but it's just a matter of measuring back spacing(always confusing, there's different measurements used) 
 
but most 8" rims for cars pre AU will fit on the rear. 
you can go wider (there is space in the wheel wells for 10" wide wheels, but you'll need the correct offset(aka back spacing) 

i prefer the 7" on front and 8" on the rear, but you can't rotate the tyres if so.. (who cares?) 

8" with the correct offset can fit the front, also depends how low the car is. 
 
you'll either have to copy what someone else has fitted or do some learning and measuring for the one off type wheels for width and backspace/offset
 

a diff conversion place will cut the axle tubes, re weld them an inch or so inwards(to offset the wide wheels) 
sometimes they'll have axels that suit, otherwise they'll need resplining to suit.. 
$1000 min for that probably.. 
 
can see an example here, not bathurst globes but weld wheels look
 
 

 

Hey, what are these rear wheels off? The off set looks wrong as they sit to far inward, plus needs more tyre in my opinion.

No one here wants to see you waste money and end up annoyed with your end result. I’d be writing down your wants vs needs for the car, if I was 20 again I’d laugh at myself for saying that, but over the last 12 years of playing with my XD, I’ve changed direction so many times with things because I never really had an end goal with the finances I had.

For performance and wanting to chop your mates, like what has been said above a standard auto 302c XD is going to get smoked easy by the average new car, I’m not taking the piss but I’d bet my left nut a Ford 1.0 ecoboost would own it. A stock good running XD 302c took about 9 or so seconds to get to 100kmh, a camshaft and a tune isn’t going to get it down to 6 seconds...

If it was my car, I would pick a direction of either tidying the body up and putting some wheels on it and making it look mint OR spend money to make it sound and perform better. If you have a bit of this and a bit of that you may regret what you end up with.

Maybe just do a complete service on it, plugs, leads, oils and filters and then use the car for a bit, get use to it and then see what you’d like to do.






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