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2k with a 5 speed would pullit up for me mate. Those gearboxes are weak as piss and series 1 ba engines are know as "skinny rod" engines, the skinny rods are about as strong as the T5 gearbox.

$3500 is too much. You need to cut stuff to fit it.

Must be some load on the stock axles when it's doing this too lol

14's clear the rear disc's easily. Ea/b/d xg and xh s1 all had 14's on them from factory and ran rear disc's. My wagon runs an eseries diff and i ran 14s on the back briefly. The 4 pinion eseries diffs will take a hiding too, mines now done passes into the 100s and is yet to give trouble, all stock internals too.

Can't go wrong with a stock ba/bf turbo on a 4l. The fg f6 retained the bigger turbo, only the xr and g6et had the smaller one. 300rwkw is just scratching the surface power wise of a boosted 4l (single cam or barra the principal is the same), there is really no need to look any further than the stock bseries turbo at that level.

Do you do gm delco's at all?

They will fit for sure,same offset no dramas.

There are/were tray back xr6 one tonners,they had 16" alloys factory.

Exactly as easy as you described it. I've done it a few times.

My wagon has been running an xd master with ed diff since it was built and has very good pedal feel.

Got any shots from further back?

Holy shit!

If you were to use the bonnet of an xg you would need to use the whole front clip,guards lights bumper etc. It all fits but it's different.

I've never had an fg one play up so have not had be pleasure of learning how to do one.

I know with ba and bf once you've removed the barrel you've fucked it and you need to replace the steering column. Good luck with that.