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best i can do for now

I'll see if I have a pic dean, might be in my thread.

Mine has been done, but the whole boot floor was changed and a new rail in that area was also put in.

Mine has been done, but the whole boot floor was changed and a new rail in that area was also put in.

CRS were advertising wilwoods that were adr compliant when i was at motorex a 2 years ago. They may have only been the dynalite series.

I know of wilwoods that are on xseries cars. There is a kit that does fit.

i have them on my xe but umm, unless you want to run a hq stubaxle and buy 67-69 camaro kit i kinda cant help lol. 
 
I have your top link on the rear of mine. Both front and rear on my car dont have the dust boots.

Sorry if this offends anyone but I'm going to say it anyway. LOL. Slotters belong on xw's and xy's and even then there are probably 1000 different wheels I'd put on them too before slotters. Sorry but just not a fan of em. I'll go get my flame suit on now before it starts to get to hot.LOL

I am going a T400 for mine scottly, hoping to be well over 400kw though. I had a C4 built for it with all the fruit before this. Cost me about 5k through Als Race Glides not including converter or bell housing. It had extra clutches the lot, and al warranted it to 1000hp. I have since sold it to fund a T400, which I should have ordered by now lol.

Sorry dude just realised your not running gold vertinis, dunno where I got that from...

Go the gold i reckon. Didnt know they were doing pre AU now. The stepped lip on the simmons looks better.  

Oh how I love reading these threads. Where to start? $5000 paintjobs are long gone and if you find someone that will do one at that price I guarantee that you will be unhappy with the result. If your not when you pick it up you will be when it all starts playing up in 6 months time cause ol mate cut corners and used shit products to try and make a buck out of his tight ass quote. I know your saying that its only going to be a daily but IMO your prep and products need to be of a decent quality and even more meticulous  for this reason. Its being exposed to the elements day in day out. Shit prep and product will f**k out in super quick time when exposed to the elements as opposed to a show car that barely sees the light of day humidity and moisture. Paint and panel rates are pretty cheap really compared to lots of the other trades. Some might argue that 15000 dollars is expensive but even at a conservative $50 dollars an hour its still only 300 hrs work. 7.5 weeks with a 40hr week .Charge it out at $80 and that's only 190ish hrs and that comes in at 4.5 working weeks. Having a car blasted and primed PROPERLY, not by a monkey who will f**k your panels and cause even more damage will cost at least $1800 at a minimum. The shop has overheads and staff to pay out of this too. So really I cant see how a panel shop is any more of a rort than any other business trying to survive. Fuck me I got charged 15000 to have a 7m X 5 M patio extension done and the builder was done in 5 days.
 
I've found that on a good clean rust free car that comes in stripped of everything and sand blasted with no to very minimal rust repairs and not banged up everywhere you need at least 350 - 400 hours to get a job that is done to an exceptional standard. READ covered by a paint lifetime warranty. Gaps that are nice with panels that fit properly and probably better than factory. Painted in and out and the undercarriage finished in a nice durable epoxy texture coat. These cars are the standard we stick to at work. We haven't had any customers that have been unhappy with the end result or the price they paid at the end of the job and many have paid ALOT more than 15000 to have paint and panel only done. That isn't put back together either. That's a rolling shell with hanging panels back on and gapped. I've got a mate who had his mustang painted by us and the paint on its 7+ years old and still looks as good as the day it rolled out of our shop. Its not what we call a show car but has won awards at the local shows it been entered in,  as has any of our other quality jobs. Painting isn't hard but the man hours leading up to the shiny stuff going on is where your dollars will go. Fact of the matter is its a labour intensive trade nothing more nothing less. The only way to reduce costs is in the labour. Which means corner cutting.
 
You have to be upfront and realistic with whoever you get to do your car and everyone needs to be on the same page before a hammer and dolly go anywhere near the car. Give them a realistic budget of what your prepared to spend straight up and they will tell you if they can do anything for that price and what standard of work they will deliver at that price! Have a weekly payment plan in place. Your panel shop will love it and you will too. Call in weekly to see where the hours are going and pay as they go. If your short one week they don't work on it simple as that. If it goes to shit and they fuck you over then you've only paid so much and you can pull the car at a moments notice  cause its all paid up and its not to late that you need to redo everything again. We keep in regular contact and encourage the owner to come in when ever they like to see how its travelling. Also remember a good smash shop doesn't always make for a good resto shop. If they don't do regular resto work and aren't keen on doing it walk away.
If they can't show  you any examples of their work or put you in contact with some of their happy customers to back their claims then they aren't worth dealing with. Again walk away.
 
Not digging at anyone but just trying to explain there is much more to a good paint job than meets the eye.

Thats my TD with the Barra in it...
Stock FG engine went 9.3 @ 149mph ..
Its now a built engine making over 1000Hp at the tyres
 
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=hSiyKAPjBYA&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsAxZgFjJ2UY%26feature%3Dshare

i dont understand why the price of the car comes into it? the kits are all around the same price, so if you want to try something like that you have to be prepared to pay the money. my front brakes were worth about the same price that i paid for my car, but i feel the purchase price is irrelevant to the end goal of what i want to see my car finish like.
 
if i was going down this track dave i like the global west stuff. i think  a few people on here have had success with it, and when i was looking it looked like the best made kit you could get.

Because i can and want too, it'll see the track and other events when ever i get the chance but It'll primarily be a fun toy. Its a Hobby and i could find a million other things to spend my money on but i enjoy cars, i know i'll lose money on it but thats not what its about. i'm not a fan of new cars to many problems, can never do things to em as simply as older cars to many technologies get in the road lol

Chaise I am pretty sure its Australia wide, I spoke to 2 engineers about twin turbo in the ACT and they referred me to VSB14. 
Formula is heaviest variant of model multiplied by 3 for blown or 5 for NA gives you the max cc.
 
So ESP was 1560 x 3 = 4680cc for blown and 1560 x 5 = 7800cc for NA. Which is a bit stupid considering how much power you can make with a NA 7.8L big block.. lol

dont worry blu xe a twin turbo 4.6 mod motor was discussed for a while.
 
there are more and more weld in front ends being developed for x series now, but most dont say that xd-f are compatible. they couldnt be too far different??
 
id love to see a 5.0 in a older car. far better than the old 5.4 lump that was before it. 

dont worry blu xe a twin turbo 4.6 mod motor was discussed for a while.
 
there are more and more weld in front ends being developed for x series now, but most dont say that xd-f are compatible. they couldnt be too far different??
 
id love to see a 5.0 in a older car. far better than the old 5.4 lump that was before it. 

Ive got a grey XF crash pad with no cracks hanging in my back shed, has been for about 3 years.
All yours for $50 which will buy me 1 litre of Southern comfort from Dan Murphy's 
 
Let me no if you want pics and ill get some when i come home from work tomoz.

TBRE stage 5....can't wait to hear this thing! I have the atomic stage 5 ones for mine (turbo though) when the time comes.
 
Congrats in your previous achievements and good luck with the future ones.

Yeah trev, engine will be running later this week,
ended up making some spacers out of laminex/melamine and used the felpro gaskets,

Today I got the top arms on and am fucking pumped TBH as now it's in the shed.Heater tools and no need to pack up at the end of the day just close the door...LOL
 
Anyway top arms installed...

 

 
Tunnel at ride height clearance...

 

 
So next weekend will be more of the same but in a warm dry shed...unless it floods in town here

Lol at comparing quality three piece rims, available in whatever offset and size you want, to some stock 1980s alloys...

I still love those wheels rob!
 
I had a small issue on my xe when I had them, they caught ever so slightly in the front of the front guards. Small amount of massage and all good.
 
Gold vertini drifts look great, and come in staggered widths like rob's roh 19's.