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Post by Bart "Taki Inoue" Hendrikx on Oct 18, 2014 14:13:42 GMT -5
Opel Manta is cool in a strange way
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 16:11:11 GMT -5
Opel Manta is cool in a strange way Yep, very cool in its day. But then so was a Chris Waddle mullett hair do....... nuff said. And the 2000e, I know im showing my age.....
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Post by Mark "WiFI" Dyall on Oct 19, 2014 4:00:23 GMT -5
The Cortina was a very popular car hear in Australia to. I had a TE that had a falcon 4.1 6 cylinder in them and they were the bee's knee's
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 15:31:39 GMT -5
My current "real" race car.
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Post by Mark "WiFI" Dyall on Oct 21, 2014 23:48:01 GMT -5
I just got the some of the bad news about my car and now just waiting on the phone call to tell me how much it's going to cost. In the beginning I thought the big V8 had a problem with the timing chain but I learnt it had bent 2 conrods and now I find out it had a bent 8 valves as well. Luckily I sent the car to Herrod Motorsport who are specialists in my car and they have had to remove the engine, regrind the crank shaft, replace 2 conrods and 8 valves. The bill is going to give me heart attack!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 11:49:05 GMT -5
That sucks Mark "WiFI" Dyall but on the bright side, she should be good for a long while after this. Jimmy
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Post by Mark "WiFI" Dyall on Oct 22, 2014 18:17:15 GMT -5
It sure dose @jimmyo but we are talking about standard Ford parts here as I have been told that they should of been done when the engine got it's rebuild after it blew up the oil pump which all most destroyed the engine and I'm a bit miffed at why the mechanic at the time didn't suggest to do them seeing as though the rebuild with a few extra's cost me 13k. I just whish I had the extra $1200 for a set of Manley H Beam rods.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 19:09:48 GMT -5
13k with a few extras..... Sir I doubt it was a few However you are correct. You could have bought a bullet proof crate engine for that money. Ford Racing 331 CIDJimmy
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Post by Mark "WiFI" Dyall on Oct 22, 2014 23:09:32 GMT -5
Yeah but 13k don't get you much when it's quad cam 5.4L boss engine and now I have to add another $6800 to that for two bent conrods and 8 new valves.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 8:27:00 GMT -5
Your a better man than me sir. I would kick that mechanics ass for not doing the job right the first time.
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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Oct 23, 2014 17:36:25 GMT -5
Good God!
That's more than what we have into the whole camaro, and that's including the first motor we blew up! Lol.
My concern with the situation is that no problem was actually identified. Bent rods and valves are the effects of a cause, not causes. If you've bent a quarter of the rods and a quarter of the valves on a freshly rebuilt motor, it's time to go back to the old mechanic and shit on their driveway cause that's nuts. If something left my shop and that happened I'd pull the motor and they'd get free labor and replacement parts haha.
I don't know much about FoMoCo engines and even less about the 5.4 DOHC engines. But for how much you have into it... You could probably build a pretty nasty cam/heads Coyote 5.0.
-Travis
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 18:02:52 GMT -5
5.4 DOHC was the GT500 engine and still is. Just blown for the application. A good friend of mine had 816 at the wheels with a Mammoth supercharger on his Super Snake GT500.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 14:37:05 GMT -5
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Post by Mark "WiFI" Dyall on Oct 26, 2014 20:21:08 GMT -5
Love the Mustangs @jimmyo but you can keep that Jeep 4WD's don't do anything for me.
As you know the black one is mine and I got the silver one for the GF.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 20:41:19 GMT -5
Mark "WiFI" Dyall Ive actually been toying with the idea of getting a 2015 Chevy SS which you know is a Holden as well .... Its just scary with GM saying they wont be making Holdens anymore in a few years. Jimmy
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Post by Mark "WiFI" Dyall on Oct 26, 2014 23:34:04 GMT -5
Yeah I wouldn't buy one lol but I know what you mean it would be like try to buy model T parts when it's a new car. I been looking into getting rid of mine for 2015 Mustang that's coming to Australia but I want to know who is fitting the engine, If Ford Australia have anything to do with it they can shove it but I am sure they will mess with as the ADR standards (pollution) want be the same as the US standards so they'll detune the ass out of it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 23:48:27 GMT -5
I hate to say this Mark "WiFI" Dyall I think the 15 Mustang is the ugliest mustang I have ever seen and that includes the terribles from the 70s. The reason I say that is in the 70's the car was designed because of federal restriction on fuel mileage so they had to go that route to make the car a dofus timy thing. In this day and age there is no reason to make a car that flippin ugly. They could have done all the cool upgrades to the latest bodystyle and atleast made it look good. But damn Ford get off Aston Martins nuts and design your own shit. And believe me the mustang looks nothing like an Aston but quite a few of their cars take the styling cues from it. Just my opinion. Jimmy
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Post by Patrik Runald on Jan 3, 2015 20:02:49 GMT -5
Just took delivery of a 2013 BMW 335i XDrive with MSport and Dynamic Handling Packages (plus a bunch of other packages/options that'll be fun to explore). Got rid of the Ford Fusion Energi. The BMW is up in Utah so haven't driven it myself yet as a buddy helped take delivery but I'm pretty sure it will be a blast to drive I'll know on Thursday when I'm up there.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 1:33:17 GMT -5
Never owned a car. Have to get a license sometime. Have driven a few though. Guess that explains,
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Post by Marco "AkArO" Abbate on Jan 4, 2015 3:26:35 GMT -5
My cars: Renault Clio 1.2 Seat Arosa 1.4 Peugeot 205 1.4 Cabrio Roland Garros Peugeot 205 1.9 GTI Peugeot 106 Rallye 1.6 Honda Civic Type-R 30th anniversary sometimes I drive this.....
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