FG X, The Last EVER Falcon - Picture & Discussion Thread

[peaterj]

Another dealer in NSW with a GTF theme on an XR8.

http://www.carsales.com.au/dealer/de...7232332/?Cr=32

[asagaai]

After having ordered my manual smoke FGX XR8 late October 2014, I am told it is here tomorrow, tint and my mods (oil breathers) to be installed Monday/Tuesday, and pick up Wednesday, with a work trip slotted for Friday from Newcastle to Port Macquarie...

[AUS GRUNT]

I've been having a few ideas if i should put stripes on or not when i get an XR8, i don't want to go too overboard like with the hockey stick stripes (which i think doesn't suit the FGX style TBH)...i don't have photoshop, so this is abit of a rough job based off the GS style stripes but i think it would look pretty good.

[asagaai]

Originally Posted by AUS GRUNT

I've been having a few ideas if i should put stripes on or not when i get an XR8, i don't want to go too overboard like with the hockey stick stripes (which i think doesn't suit the FGX style TBH)...i don't have photoshop, so this is abit of a rough job based off the GS style stripes but i think it would look pretty good.

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I like your idea- but have you thought to lower the profile of the initial curve, and make the black curve underneath lower profiled and longer to be representative of the bonnet bulge - which is longer and lower?

Good Concept !!

[AUS GRUNT]

Originally Posted by asagaai

I like your idea- but have you thought to lower the profile of the initial curve, and make the black curve underneath lower profiled and longer to be representative of the bonnet bulge - which is longer and lower?

Good Concept !!

Hmm, that could work also...but i just thought it would probably be easier to follow the line of the indent in the doors.

[davenl5l]

Xy style stripe above the door handles stopping at the front guard vent would look good

[FGX008]

Originally Posted by peaterj

Another dealer in NSW with a GTF theme on an XR8.

http://www.carsales.com.au/dealer/de...7232332/?Cr=32

What they have done to the bonnet? Sorry, personal taste I know, but it doesn't work for me...its looks awful.

Cheers, Brent

[AUS GRUNT]

Originally Posted by asagaai

I like your idea- but have you thought to lower the profile of the initial curve, and make the black curve underneath lower profiled and longer to be representative of the bonnet bulge - which is longer and lower?

Good Concept !!

I've been having a play and lowered the curve profile slightly and lengthened the lower section curve like you suggested, then i thought maybe to colour in the whole lower section back to the falcon head

[FPV-800]

Just want to know if anyone who has ordered a new XR8 been receiving updates via emails from Ford concerning there build stage, the reason I ask is mine is due next month and have'nt received any updates. I questioned my Dealer today and he said some people are getting them and others don't, double checked correct email I gave them as well. They had a lightning strike XR8 waiting in the showroom for its new owner to pick up, looked very nice, also had a XR6 in the new aero blue there also, looked better than I thought it would

[Tbm1121]

Originally Posted by pj-apples

Just want to know if anyone who has ordered a new XR8 been receiving updates via emails from Ford concerning there build stage, the reason I ask is mine is due next month and have'nt received any updates. I questioned my Dealer today and he said some people are getting them and others don't, double checked correct email I gave them as well. They had a lightning strike XR8 waiting in the showroom for its new owner to pick up, looked very nice, also had a XR6 in the new aero blue there also, looked better than I thought it would

Dealers on the new qc2 program will have there customers get auto updates direct from ford.dealers that havnt changed over yet(probably yours) won't have auto updates from Melbourne.

[Hemihunter]

Can someone with FGX XR8 confirm that the passenger side mirror tilts when in reverse... Dealer tells me its not part of the XR8 package...

[fgpsi]

Originally Posted by Gothefalcon

Bit of a dodgy "through the showroom window shot"... but I saw this XR8 at Stillwell Ford (Adelaide) tonight, on the way home from the shed....

imageIMG_8323 by Gothe Falcon, on Flickr

something a bit different !??

D

Looks shockin

[fgpsi]

Originally Posted by AUS GRUNT

I've been having a play and lowered the curve profile slightly and lengthened the lower section curve like you suggested, then i thought maybe to colour in the whole lower section back to the falcon head

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Leave it - no stickers

[dazzlexr]

so got the call yesterday to tell me that my car had arrived and was sitting in the dealership went on there Facebook page and here it is cant believe this is actually happening don't get off my P plates until Wednesday the wait is killing me knowing that its sitting there waiting to be driven

[PTR_NITRO_FG]

^^^ lucky kent.....wish I could spend 60K on my first car after P's lol

Enjoy the beast....looks the goods

[FGX335]

Originally Posted by AUS GRUNT

I've been having a few ideas if i should put stripes on or not when i get an XR8, i don't want to go too overboard like with the hockey stick stripes (which i think doesn't suit the FGX style TBH)...i don't have photoshop, so this is abit of a rough job based off the GS style stripes but i think it would look pretty good.

I think the Supercharged part looks a bit naff. I would use the XR8 logo instead, would look sweet.

Originally Posted by pj-apples

Just want to know if anyone who has ordered a new XR8 been receiving updates via emails from Ford concerning there build stage, the reason I ask is mine is due next month and have'nt received any updates. I questioned my Dealer today and he said some people are getting them and others don't, double checked correct email I gave them as well. They had a lightning strike XR8 waiting in the showroom for its new owner to pick up, looked very nice, also had a XR6 in the new aero blue there also, looked better than I thought it would

I never got updates, doesn't mean that the build isn't happening.

Originally Posted by Hemihunter

Can someone with FGX XR8 confirm that the passenger side mirror tilts when in reverse... Dealer tells me its not part of the XR8 package...

It's not meant to, only in the G6E does it have the dipping mirrors. If you got it somehow, that's pretty cool.

[ST]

Originally Posted by FGX310

Anyone else think the back of the XR8 would look better with the chrome garnish matched with body paint and the badge higher up?

Like this (very rough but you get the idea):

[Hemihunter]

Originally Posted by Black F6

seen my first FGX in the flesh today, was a xr6 and wasnt impressed at all

you need to drive one, that should put a smile on your face.

[AUS GRUNT]

Originally Posted by FGX335

I think the Supercharged part looks a bit naff. I would use the XR8 logo instead, would look sweet.

Yeah i thought about that to and already had an pic done with the XR8 badge to compare...just the vision i had in my head with the supercharged logo looked better than that rough edit, but i was thinking it would perhaps look better if the supercharged logo were put down each side of the bonnet bulge instead.



EDIT: the font on the supercharged logo is probably not the best, but i think this font would be better suited...

[LASTXR]

Got an email from my dealer yesterday.
An update on my Aero XR8.
Car is due at the dealership (subject to change)
in June, week ending on the 19th.
Not long to go now

[BJP]

Originally Posted by FGX335

It's not meant to, only in the G6E does it have the dipping mirrors. If you got it somehow, that's pretty cool.

According to the brochure, the G6E turbo AND the XR8 get the auto dipping mirrors with memory. But hey.. the brochure could be wrong.

[asagaai]

Just got my FGX XR8- one word-Dope.

Big thanks to David Winter for the engine-

Love the car with manual- cannot understand the complaints about the box-is tight and precise-and for me the handling with the manual box sits better for me- I can feel what the rear is up to.

I had more fun punting this tonight than the BMW M3 4 litre v8.....

[Till_Lind]

Not usually a fan of big wings and all, but I really feel these XRs need a taller, chunkier rear wing from the factory.

[AUS GRUNT]

Originally Posted by Till_Lind

Not usually a fan of big wings and all, but I really feel these XRs need a taller, chunkier rear wing from the factory.

Yep i agree, when i first went in to a dealer to see an FGX XR, it was the first thing i picked out...can't even fit ya hand under it, an inch or two taller and similar to the fpv gt style would be better.

[Bonn]

....we speaka the same language :-)

[Ghiaman]

Originally Posted by BJP

According to the brochure, the G6E turbo AND the XR8 get the auto dipping mirrors with memory. But hey.. the brochure could be wrong.

Unfortunately the brochure is wrong. I asked the question in a seperate thread hoping it wasnt but a couple of owners set me straight.

[DJR David]

SO having had my fgx xr6 for 3 months now, and loving it mind you, and not seeing another single one on the road, yesterday I saw 3 !

[asagaai]

Just for guys that have newly picked up an FGX XR8, a few things that may help some:

1. I picked up the car yesterday with 25 on clock, last night did about 160 km, with the last 35 very spirited. So, I put two JLT/Herrod oil separators on, at the dealer with 25 km from factory. I checked the oil separator cannisters this morning, drivers side had like a large tablespoon full in it from 160 km spirited driving. Non drivers side had like a line 5mm long by 1/3 mm or less in thickness, just like a smear-sweet bugger all.

But, I would recommend when buying new put the oil separator on drivers side-no brainer. This is to me a requirement that should be done to prevent the intake diffusor becoming coated with oil and loosing it's efficiency.

2. Brakes felt doughy and seemed to have too much give with no bite- gave me no confidence. I then did a breaking in session late last night, ie 11 runs of rapid fire accelerate to 100 -hard braking down to 10-15, immediately repeat, doing this some 10-12 times-brakes should be smoking and stinking nicely, then drive at constant speed of some 60 -80 for 30 minutes, then park up for the night.

The brakes now feel much much firmer, solid and high, and have bite.

Anyway, my two tips that may help others.

[Hemihunter]

what the hell are the oil seperators?

[asagaai]

Originally Posted by Hemihunter

what the hell are the oil seperators?

Go to the thread show and shine and look at the FGX thread- I posted photos of my car yesterday, one showing an internal shot of engine.

You will see that the top of both rocker covers at the front is a pipe that comes out the top front of both rocker covers- is a vacuum pipe that connects to the intake manifold- this sucks air from the engine, but given the suction, for some reason on the drivers side especially the air sucked includes oil. This is not good because the air and oil then goes into the top diffusor plenum area and then into the engine itself.

The oil separator causes the sucked air and oil from the engine travelling through the vacuum pipe to go into the canister, firstly through a metal gauze filter, where oil coats/is trapped by the metal gauze and then drips into the bottom of the canister, and the air without oil continues out the pipe on the other side, and then continues via the vacuum tube to the intake manifold connectors, without oil.

That's the theory, and based on my observations they work, you can see the 2 black canisters with round blue stickers on top connected to the vacuum tubes on both rocker covers.

Cheers