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26-06-2017, 10:40 AM
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I was having a bit of a yarn with a few mates over the weekend.
A few are tradies, and have some high powered utes. They carry their tools in the back each day, all week - and at the same time push well over 450rwkw. Anyone else on here have a high powered daily? A weapon that gets used, Monday to Friday - but is still ready to have fun with on the weekends?  Stories?
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26-06-2017, 10:59 AM
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Trev
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Location: Was Perth, now country Vic
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My 450+ MKII GT-E is a daily. Nearly 100,000km on it now.
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26-06-2017, 11:00 AM
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I am Batman
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Coast
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I used to.... 500rwhp supercharged ute. Was at the petrol station every 2 days and I am now saving loads now I no longer have it!
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Rebuilt Boss260 with #Kellogs 1500hp forged and balanced crank#Manley forged flattop pistons with a 9.5/1cr#4340 forged h-beam rods with arp bolts#Clevit performance rod and main bearings#full ARP headstud kit#total seal rings#Mantic twin plate development clutch and lightened flywheel#Mellings uprated oil pump#Mainforce Performance Supercharger kit#AU motorsport 345mm big brake kit. Now sat on an engine stand going nowhere
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26-06-2017, 11:26 AM
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Falcon RTV - FG G6ET
 
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Location: In Da Bush, QLD
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Similar story for the Lad, has a 520rwhp Ute.
He recently got another daily. The Ute comes out once a week. My Ute is my daily.
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 BAII RTV - with Raptor V S/C. RTV Power FG G6ET 50th Anniversary in Sensation. While the basic Ford Six was code named Barra, the Turbo version clearly deserved its very own moniker – again enter Gordon Barfield.
We asked him if the engine had actually been called “Seagull” and how that came about. “Actually it was just call “Gull”, because I named it that. Because we knew it was going to poo on everything”. |
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26-06-2017, 11:44 AM
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Seems like it's much more common than I thought!
I'd give it a crack myself, but E85 is just so impractical for day to day use..
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26-06-2017, 01:49 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Had a stock standard FG F6 that my mrs used 70% of the time for over 3 yrs till we got a run around. She had the shytes with me one time and took off up the road like a scalded cat - first thing I thought was 'gee that sounded alright' lol......I instantly forgot what we were arguing about.
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26-06-2017, 03:06 PM
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Solution Was Boost 4?, 6 & 8
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My BF F6 et10.80 street trim, FG Ute et10.38 street trim, now the Mustang not high powered expect a it will run a high 12, shall find out very soon.
Many 10 sec street cars these days, turbo section of the Forum.
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26-06-2017, 03:33 PM
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RS The Faster Fords
 
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When I worked for myself many years ago I drove a low and loud chevy powered one tonner. Customers always commented they could here me coming.
Sold that, bought and sign wrote a mitsi van, comments then were how professional it looked. They were the people I needed to keep happy so for me it was a better option.
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26-06-2017, 03:40 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Yes I have a 2011 FPV GT which has 100,048 KMs but still looks like new. It is my everyday car.
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26-06-2017, 03:42 PM
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26-06-2017, 04:05 PM
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Very clean example!
Interesting hearing about others that use vehicles with heavy artillery upgrades as daily drivers. Gives me a bit of confidence to daily mine haha.
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26-06-2017, 04:11 PM
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My sprint twins are daily drivers...
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27-06-2017, 02:03 PM
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525 rwkw Ba Fpv
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27-06-2017, 03:30 PM
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Boss 335
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390rwkw GT and a 335rwkw FG Turbo LPG
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27-06-2017, 04:04 PM
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WKII Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT - 6.4litres and 344KW of power, and of course a button that says "Launch". It cracks 4.6s for the 0-100km/hr when the kids aren't in the back.
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27-06-2017, 04:15 PM
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Bolt Nerd
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Ojochal, Costa Rica (Pura Vida!)
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My ute is my daily and has been since new (7yrs ago) Now on 170,000ks
Always chockas with toolboxes, Caddy welder, Mig welder, 60 & 100 tonne porta powers, grinders, hydraulic hoses & fittings etc, etc, etc... 363rwkw on 98, 400+rwkw on jfp105 
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27-06-2017, 04:47 PM
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2008 fg xr6 turbo ute with crappy alloy tray. 460rwkw on e85. 270,000km (1 rebuild at 240,000km due to 1 pos lower crank bearing failure) weighs about 1550kg
still carry's heaps and driven very hard (ku36 last about 7k) does 250km a week on average |
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27-06-2017, 05:50 PM
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1990 starlet , 1300kw or was that cc ?....the hatch can double as a ute and has been known to haul several 6m lengths of drainage pipe or up to 6x 1.8m fence posts balanced on the passenger seat, and 400 kg of bagged fert .....not at the same time
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27-06-2017, 07:22 PM
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Yeah I drive an XU6
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27-06-2017, 08:10 PM
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Used to have a 460rwkw G6ET as a daily. No dramas driving it to work then going to the drags running 10s.
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28-06-2017, 08:59 AM
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28-06-2017, 06:34 PM
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A mate of mine daily drives the last 430kw Gts Maloo.
But that might be swearing on here. 
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28-06-2017, 06:58 PM
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Have had plenty of high powered daily drivers including XB GT, XB GS 351 Coupe, EL XR8, FPV BF GT, and most recently XB GS 351 Ute, all were (are) manual and all had significant mods to make them go harder.
Fuel was starting to kill me as I travel a few miles every week, so about two weeks ago I bought a little Toyota hatch, 1.3 litres, 5 speed manual, seriously it's almost as much fun to drive as the V8's and it uses about 1/4 the fuel, so my weekly fuel bill has dropped from about $120-$150/week to $25-$35 per week  I stil have my XB GS Ute for week end fun and the occasional drive to work on a nice day. I also appreciate the V8 sound and feeling more now, as it's something special rather than a daily chore. A fitting picture in the petrol station 
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28-06-2017, 07:15 PM
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380rwkw and a manual makes for a fun daily! Can't wipe the smile off my face when driving it
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28-06-2017, 09:00 PM
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My kids think I'm cool
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GT was a daily until I bought the Sprint 10 months ago. Now the Sprint will go and I'll be dailying the GT again with the best part of 1000rwhp. Had no issues with it before apart from the obscene amount of fuel it goes through! Been more reliable at 730rwkw in 5 years than the factory stock as a rock Sprint 6 has been in 6 months, too.
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