The next great fad?

[eXi7w0unD]

Nien!!!

[onfire]

Buying ex-taxis, dumping them and throwing on some 15 inch steel rims, removing the exhaust and filling the car with your closest Bros.. oh and sticking a turbo badge from a B Series on it.

[CAT600]

Originally Posted by Casper

Since when did this turn into an Windsor v's Boss AU v's BA thread???

It stops....now.

It is not X vs Y vs Z. The point I made was that nobody has done this swap in the aftermarket as far as I know, yet it has many merits. This thread is about "the next great fad" so I saw the opportunity to bring up fitting current-gen engines into a classic shape.

Why somebody would attempt to degradingly rebutt my comments is beyond me.

Daniel.

[Casper]

Personally I'd love to see someone put a Typhoon engine or a Boss290 into an AU. Cant see it becoming a fad but it would be great to see.
Would it be better than an AU SOHC with a turbo or a stroked Windsor? Who cares, it would be fun to see done. Financially it makes no sense at all but when has that ever been a factor with making mod decisions? :

[CAT600]

Originally Posted by Casper

Personally I'd love to see someone put a Typhoon engine or a Boss290 into an AU. Cant see it becoming a fad but it would be great to see.
Would it be better than an AU SOHC with a turbo or a stroked Windsor? Who cares, it would be fun to see done. Financially it makes no sense at all but when has that ever been a factor with making mod decisions? :

OK.

Will Do.

[StealthAu]

Originally Posted by DOC

Bucky yep i should be more gentle, but i dont hate people or what they do, that would be using the wrong words, all i see happening today is a McDonalds ( fast food whip in whip out ) approach used by many of the newer people in modding their cars, Old school when you built a tough coupe for example there were no ( fast food ) parts or approaches, you built a tough streeter, that was just that.

I see many people now that just grab a part be a front bumper, a badge, bulge, spoiler, stripes or whatever all of the shelf and go Wow look at my car, and yes they are nice and many people waffle on nice, ra de rady, but to me they are just plain boring, any one can with a few bucks put these lego bits together.

In that amongst it all there are some treasures where people have done a great Job, these people have not followed the trend's and gone more out side of the square and i just hope more people put a bit of themselves into their next mod rather than a Macca's style upgrade, these upgrades are now really common and boring. ( Flame suit on )

After thinking about this, really jack all has changed. With the "Old School" cars, they were doing the exact same thing, mocking up povo packs to look like something with a bit of street cred. There are more GT Fakers then the real deal. This seems to be the main course of action for both old and new cars, with only a small percentage of all game enough to do something different. Main reason for this is anyone that steps out of the norm gets shot down in flames.

[eXi7w0unD]

my next gen fad is going to be my au.. wait for it.. with out shockies. so it just sits on springs. so when i drive it it goes crazy up and down like hydraulics

[R0BD0G]

Originally Posted by eXi7w0unD

my next gen fad is going to be my au.. wait for it.. with out shockies. so it just sits on springs. so when i drive it it goes crazy up and down like hydraulics

recipe for disaster

[sly]

My vote for the next fad is...
Sniper 2-bar MAP sensor tunes on force-fed Falcons...

closely followed by...

Relocated sound system head units (something like marine CD/tuners with wired remote controls) allowing the head unit space in the console to be used for gauges eg boost, AFR, tranny oil temp etc.

Of course if anyone is developing a double-DIN real-time monitoring & diagnostics screen (like the aftermarket ECU "dashboards") that'd be a nice alternative to gauges...

[V3RSAC3]

i'd say self installing chrome strips and colour coding!

[sly]

Ummm helloooooo Nathan! Next fad, not old fads.....

They've been chroming & colour coding since before the hair slipped from the top of my head to the crack of my ar5e :

[AU2PWR]

[QUOTE=sly]My vote for the next fad is...
Sniper 2-bar MAP sensor tunes on force-fed Falcons...

closely followed by...

Relocated sound system head units (something like marine CD/tuners with wired remote controls) allowing the head unit space in the console to be used for gauges eg boost, AFR, tranny oil temp etc.

Of course if anyone is developing a double-DIN real-time monitoring & diagnostics screen (like the aftermarket ECU "dashboards") that'd be a nice alternative to gauges...[/QUOTE]

The New Capa Tuner does that but it sits like a GPS off the window

[sly]

Originally Posted by AU2PWR

The New Capa Tuner does that but it sits like a GPS off the window

That'd be the Livewire? I tried to get a Flash 2 (IIRC they called it xCalibrator 2 originally) but was told it wouldn't do data logging on an AU. Does the Livewire work on AU's or only on BA/BF?

[FTE217]

I think neons maybe the go by the looks of things on another thread !
Grrrrrrrr how sic---kening !!
If ever in Sydney a AU pulls up next to me with undercar neons it will be the first time I will slag a fellow Ford devotee !
Get a b!oody pulseless pulsar if your that much of a try hard :

[Dark Horse]

Come on Maurie, how about these for your car?



I reckon colour coded blue ones for the Blueprint beast.

[hrdcor]

Fairlanes. ;D

Cheap to buy luxury cruising...........

[InfernoSR]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

Come on Maurie, how about these for your car?



I reckon colour coded blue ones for the Blueprint beast.

Thats what i was going to do to my Blueprint XR6 :P

[RUKIDN]

Id also say forced induction well more turbo's have impacted heavily on the AU/I6 falcons in general, definatly become a hot topic for quite awhile and probly still is. One thing that was once pretty uncommon has now exploded, i couldnt imagine how many e-series and au running around with turbo's these days..