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03-12-2009, 02:55 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sydney
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After years of reading this and the other forum as an outsider, I finally joined the ranks on Tuesday. Flew to Adelaide at 0635 (arrived 0835), had done the deal and left by 1030. Drove to Wagga that day and made excellent time- 950km or so in under 10 hrs including some short stops. Some great mirages out on the Hay planes etc (see below). It's amazing how vast this country is and how much "nothingness" there is...Gorgeous sunset on Tuesday as we got to Wagga. Did the remaining ~400km on Wed, also in great time. 1383km all up, 14.5hrs including breaks (30mins lost crossing the border/time zone)
Car is exceptional- August build 02 XR8, only ~67,000km on it when I picked it up (almost 69,000 now). Paint and panels are close to perfect and it goes like a rocket. Fuel is quite good- first fill up was 12.1 (Adelaide, hills, lots of overtaking), next was 11.1 (High average speed, overtaking) last fill up at Gundagai we turned the AC off and with a DTE of 400km we had 375km on the clock. That works out to be 8.8L/100km! This car has already exceeded all my expectations- it's now very obvious why people are so attached to the AU.     |
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03-12-2009, 03:41 PM
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Walking with God
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Welcome!
Great looking car. GK
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03-12-2009, 03:52 PM
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Treasure your balls?
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: NW Melbourne
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Well done. That is a great looking example and oh so young. Better put it on your avatar
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03-12-2009, 04:21 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 727
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Welcome to the club - you won't regret the purchase, power & economy all in one great package.
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03-12-2009, 06:47 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Between 2nd and 5th gear
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Welcome to the gang, nice pick up, is it Auto or Manual ? Now for the mods to begin
 first up it needs a AU.COM sticker then CAI maybe and then.......  :
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03-12-2009, 07:02 PM
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Lost Boost Gained Class
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Werribee, Melbourne
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Welcome to the Club nice looking car mate good pickup
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03-12-2009, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Canberra
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Welcome to the fold little buddy.
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03-12-2009, 08:21 PM
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IR84RD
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Penrith
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nice one mate,
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03-12-2009, 09:08 PM
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Just another mock-up..
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: In an AU Fairlane somewhere...
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nice mate.. great pick up...
good luck with it...!
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03-12-2009, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: In a cave
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Good looking XR low K's well worth the flight for that car. Hay plains a boring bit of flat straight road that is. Your new car will love the twisties enjoy your new car dont tell everyone how good they are the prices will just go up.
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03-12-2009, 09:42 PM
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Feel the boost
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Mount Gambier, SA
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Welcome to the Blue Oval Brigade mate, nice example of an xr8. My folks actually own a garage up round the area it come from. The hay plains makes for a nice strip of road to stretch the legs a little.
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03-12-2009, 09:42 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Adelaide Hills
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Nothing like aroad trip in a new toy. did the same when i bought the XE in Melbourne, drove it back to Adelaide, smile from ear to ear all the way!
Well done champ.
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03-12-2009, 10:09 PM
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own the road
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne
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congrats on the purchase mate, looks a beauty.
Enjoy it
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03-12-2009, 10:47 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sydney
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Hay plains aren't nearly as boring as people might think... A good pod cast and two or three overtaking opportunities every hour saw that day absolutely fly by- seriously couldn't believe how the miles just disappeared.
I'll have to record the exhaust and put it up because this car has the best exhaust noise I've ever heard, bar none. It's epic- relatively quiet when cruising but give it the beans and it's actually kinda scary. I'll probably put an extra muffler/resonator in there as it's quite boomy at 1600-1800 rpm but everywhere else it's great. As for mods, had all these big ideas about alloy 347 stroker but TBH driving it today has actually scared me a bit. Might do CAI and leave it at that for a while. I've seen some reasonable looking setups but not sure what to do. Is there one like the Bluepower B series intake? ...manual BTW. Getting into 2nd on full throttle runs without a crunch is difficult... Last edited by madmelon; 03-12-2009 at 11:02 PM. |
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04-12-2009, 09:56 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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nice limo you have ,well done, these are a good limo, and one of the best vehicles for towing imo.
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04-12-2009, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Congrats mate!
Can I ask how much you paid for the car? (very nice kilometers!) |
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04-12-2009, 10:42 AM
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Back to Le Frenchy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Back home.....
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Nice, white has to be one of the best colours on the AU XR's.
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04-12-2009, 11:11 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Adelaide
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nice work madmelon. Glad you took the trip over to SA to pick up a fine unit. On the open roads is where the fords excel in ecomony. I bet the trip was enjoyable. Now time to clean that baby up and take some killer pics.
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04-12-2009, 02:15 PM
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ROCKING THE EL FUTURA
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: HOW DARE YOU
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no other way to travel in comfort but in a ford.
Nice p/up mate and velcome mwaa hahaha...............
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04-12-2009, 02:29 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Bexley, Sydney
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Very nice.
That would be one of the very last AU XR8's aswell (AU's finished early september if i remember correctly) with low k's. I don't think you could have possibly found a better example.
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04-12-2009, 11:58 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sydney
Posts: 1,334
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Been very happy with it. 3 years I've been looking and until the last month limiting myself to NSW. I rekon I did ok at 14.8k with new radiator, new battery and 4 brand new Bridgestone Adrenalin tyres (~$1200 worth I think). Body is more or less immaculate, interior is like brand new. Definitely worth the trip.
Flat out for the next little while so probably won't get any pics. |
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