I also also bought a New Car...

[Hz-Lab]

Indeedly. BA XR8.. lurves it. Bit more stick than the LTD. mods to come shortly.

here she be.

[w00dsy]

black and green, your favorite colors No Wormwoods stickers on it yet?

[Dan]

Back window if I'm not mistaken w00dsy lol

[w00dsy]

correct, i didn't see that

[Hz-Lab]

hehe, yep, that was on it 2 hours after i bought it.

[Exar Kun]

Very nice dude. They may not have the handling of the six cylinder models but the sound more than makes up for it.

[Hz-Lab]

Although, I have a 95 LTD to compare it to Exar, so yeah, the thing feels like its on rails for me. No more floaty houseboat on wheels.

[Exar Kun]

Although, I have a 95 LTD to compare it to Exar, so yeah, the thing feels like its on rails for me. No more floaty houseboat on wheels.

Hehe - I can only go off what the motoring journos say anyway. They're the same people who always said the Gen III V8s in the Holdens lacked low end grunt too though - but bloody hell, couldn't notice that in my mates HSV GTO a few years back.

[w00dsy]

I stopped listening to motoring journo's, they are too used to high end cars and have trouble with the every day vehicles. Plus they have to find good and bad things to say. Plus they like to big note themselves by showing how many flaws they can find.

[ashsimmonds]

Plus they like to big note themselves by showing how many flaws they can find.

Not hard though hey.

[Vilante]

Congrats mate, looks fine

[Sambo]

mods to come shortly.

so heres what i'm thinking for stage one....





+

some wormwood paint



+

1x Ricer wing



:D

[Hz-Lab]

apart from the fact the wing will be coming off and staying off with no plans for a replacement. You're not far off. I'm undecided at this point wether it's going to be blown or not. I need to go talk to a few guys in town and see what they think is the best option for what i want to use it for.

I'm budgeting on :-
5 to 7k engine mods
3k for rims
2k on strengthening the driveline.

That should about cover it

I don't have to worry about Stereo as I had a pretty mad system in my LTD anyway, so i can pinch bits from that. I'm pretty happy with the standard sound minus the Sub anyway. While i love my music I am kind of Over the need to have a stereo that makes your nose bleed. But by my own admission, the Standard sub is pretty pissweak and doesn't kick you in the chest one bit.

[Archie]

You chose the best colour.
And you must have a problem with ya steering. In the outside photoes, the wheels are pointing left, and the steering wheel is pointing right.....

[TIMMY30]

You chose the best colour.
And you must have a problem with ya steering. In the outside photoes, the wheels are pointing left, and the steering wheel is pointing right.....

The wheels are fairly turned, maybe the wheel is already turned around once?. Or maybe he just took them at different times.

[Hz-Lab]

yeah the internal shots were taken the day before the external ones.

[ashsimmonds]

I'm budgeting on :-
5 to 7k engine mods
3k for rims
2k on strengthening the driveline.

That should about cover it

Well, I've never met a guy who spent anything less than 250% of his original budget, but assuming you're perhaps that one guy that can stay sensible and only spend $15k.... how long are you keeping the car for and how much do you expect to sell it for?

Basically, any money you spend on it now won't make any appreciable difference to the sale price to a future buyer unless they're stupid - oh but wait, someone buying a modified domestic pick-up.... insert scratch chin smiley

Anyhoo, just assume right now it's money that you're spending on yourself right now that your gf can't spend on shoes.

[pixelboy]

I'm budgeting on :-
5 to 7k engine mods
3k for rims
2k on strengthening the driveline.

That should about cover it

Jesus, no wonder you were in financial trouble.. 3k for rims

[Hz-Lab]

LOL! and yeah Ash, i realize it's not a great investment for resale. But it's a good investment in me having fun. I wanna take it to some track days and so on. Just get more involved with Motorsport. I just need to get it to a nice spec to do that.

Rims are last on my list of things to do anyway. And i am considering just going some big cheapies anyway.. and keepin the standards for track work.

[Hz-Lab]

well, some mods have been done to the car, 1st thing was exhaust, nothing major, Home made rear muffler in the form of none. cost me all of $26 and 2 hours to do that.. sounds like an 8 now. Then it went into the paintshop to get the bingle fixed. Came out like this..



and to pretty it up under the hood, some splashes of citric were applied liberally




now, the ECU shat me off from day dot, it looked a little damn ugly, so i whipped a cover up myself, countless hours of polishing resulted in this




but that's been ripped off now and sent on over to the Q-man to be etched with a little bit of Wormwood Flair.

I've been asked to put my car on a trade display at a local car show come October, so now Cosmetics have sorta jumped ahead on the cue. Rims are next, i have decided on these babies in 20" staggered, 8.5's on front, 9.5's on rear, gonna be pricey though, and i'll probably change my mind.. lol




so yeah, thats the thing so far, just thought i'd show it off a little in case anyone gives a fuck.. lol

[Vilante]

Looking good man, and in answer to your question, the top one's by far.

Good choice

[bengatta]

must be time for another shopping centre incident...

look on the bright side hertz ol mate... you will get a bit on the side...

[Hz-Lab]

my luck though, i'll end up getting rear ended.

[Gizmo]

You can say that again

[Hz-Lab]

well, couple more updates

thanks the the magical Q-man, my ECU cover now has a little bit of Hz-Flair (mind the fingerprints)




also painted a few things under the bonnet with the dark green, including the Reservoir cap, the dipstick and the Whiper Water Cap.



and i also painted my 8's green too, cos green is better



excuse the shit photos, was almost dark and had to go long exposure and rattle them off quick, i am a noob.