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Bluterus
19th May 2010, 05:11 PM
This is my 2006 BF XR8 and the reason my KE70 project has taken 1.5yrs. I bought it with 23,000km's on it about 9 months old and have had nothing but problems. From faulty electrical to snapped wheel studs to full respray to rebuilding the motor.

Even with all the problems I've had and the ridiculous amount of money I have spent on it I still love it. People say these don't handle very well which is true but when you learn how to drive it properly its very good for a ute and much better than old utes. The main problem is changing direction suddenly at high speed causes the tail to slide very easily.

I spun a bearing in the bottom end and had to rebuild it although Ford said the warranty is void due to CAI being fitted. So bought whole new bottom end just the crank alone cost me $1450 plus all the bolt on mods tuned twice so far making 231rwkw and 500nm of torque should end up with a final figure around 240-50rwkw.

Yes V8's are heavy, don't handle well, guzzle petrol and aren't that quick anymore but you cannot beat the sound with the thing wide open throttle pullin 6700rpm out of a big V8 nothing sounds better. Plus knowing I built the motor makes it even better.

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I learnt that drifting V8 utes is expensive
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KurtHS
19th May 2010, 05:57 PM
Hell yeah, nothing can beat the sound of this!

shift_rook
19th May 2010, 07:15 PM
if you want it to handle better let me know petey, you know i've got the hook up

Bluterus
20th May 2010, 12:19 AM
Hell yeah, nothing can beat the sound of this!

Cheers Kurt you should come for a drive sometime its like having two 4AGE's under the hood. It is a 5.4L quad cam 32 valve V8 after all so a little bigger than two 4AGE's.


if you want it to handle better let me know petey, you know i've got the hook up

LOL thanks for the offer Chris but 10k on the motor is enough for me all my money is going into the KE as the utes going to be a tow car.

Bluterus
20th May 2010, 12:40 AM
Just a short vid of me on great ocean road. I didn't speed in this video its 80 along here and I wasn't going to risk it. Just a vid so you can hear the induction suck and the exhaust. I was only revving to 3000rpm.
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ae71
20th May 2010, 03:40 AM
thats no good with the motor in a 4 year old car! the only time i drive my car i have it banging off the limiter and its on the original motor 18years later and still going strong.

Bluterus
20th May 2010, 11:29 AM
Tell me about it man I really looked after it to and did not drive it that hard at all. I did push it hard sometimes but barely ever hit the limiter and I never flogged the crap out of it. I've had cars that I have run the same oil for 30,000km's and flogged the living daylights out of them and had no issues.

I've heard a lot more stories about these new Ford V8's but unfortunately at the time when I bought mine none of the problems had arose yet till now. From speaking to other guys Ford 9 times out of 10 try to get out of the warranty work. The problem with the Boss 260 was the compression is too low like when the piston reaches TDC there is still 70thou of cylinder bore before the combustion chamber even starts. That's why all the FG XR8's run the higher comp boss 290.

So when I rebuilt It I had the block machined to get the comp up to the same spec as 290, bored, honed, bathed and new welch plugs, new crankshaft, bigger titanium pistons, acl race bearings, stronger rods, melling billet high flow oil pump, new valve stem seals, iridium plugs, 25% underdrive pulleys, throttle body spacer, blue power airbox with massive K&N pod its 10" long and 5" intake pipe, Billet products rip shifter, new stock clutch (Bad Decision), Difillipo 4-1 tuned length S/S headers 1 3/4" primaries into 3" with 3" S/S 200cpsi difillipo cats.
All up it cost me around $10k never added up the receipts and don't want to either. Just the gasket kit was $1200 lol.

Stock clutch was a bad choice though as the thing is making that much power now if you rev out 1st, 2nd then 3rd once you back off there's no clutch and while your flooring it especially 3rd you can just watch the clutch pedal fall towards the floor. Then you have to wait for the motor to spin down a bit and pump the clutch to get it to come back. You can just hit 4th sometimes but 3rd does 160 so that's enough.
Whats happening is the motor is spinning up way faster now than it use to and the inertia on the stock pressure plate causes it to lose pressure on the clutch. Its probably why I'm losing so much power to the wheels as the motor made 307kw and is only making 231kw at the wheels. Going to go with a Malwood option 3 clutch but at $1200 I'll wait till the stock one goes.

sun_moon
20th May 2010, 11:40 AM
awesome car. i like this.

would be nice and comfortable, it has a v8, it manual, what more can you need.

Bluterus
20th May 2010, 12:28 PM
awesome car. i like this.

would be nice and comfortable, it has a v8, it manual, what more can you need.

Back Seats! Something I can throw around without worrying about smashing it or a Toyota with a 4AGE! The engines are unbelievable for their age.

The ute is great to drive has lots of power but after my last 2 cars before this ute being utes I really really want back seats. There's so many times when I'm driving going man I wish more people could be in the car to experience this road or skid or whatever it is I'm doing.

It is very comfortable I must say though driven to Newcastle 1200km's many times and it just cruises in 6th. One time I even went with my jetski in the back an L20B and gearbox and still had more than enough power to overtake quickly. L20B's are bloody heavy too lol even beat an R32 GTS-T with it all in the back he didn't try running me again at the next lights.

It makes a great daily and more than adequate tow car and the 4AGTE KE70 will be for fun. Plus I'd much rather drive home tired late at night in my comfy new XR8 cruising in 6th. Than belting along in the KE with only 1 muffler Going BOOOORRRRRRRR

sun_moon
20th May 2010, 12:35 PM
i been driving an mr2 for the last couple of years, so forgive me for forgetting what back seats are LOLOL

like seriously i actually forgot that cars are supposed to have 4 seats.

good car, its nice to have things like electric windows and other luxuries.

Bluterus
20th May 2010, 01:09 PM
i been driving an mr2 for the last couple of years, so forgive me for forgetting what back seats are LOLOL

like seriously i actually forgot that cars are supposed to have 4 seats.

good car, its nice to have things like electric windows and other luxuries.

And A/C OMG I remember when the ute was off the road during the bush fires and driving round in the KE with no A/C on a 47 degree day wow that sucked. It was cooler with the windows up lol.

ae71
20th May 2010, 05:56 PM
i have back seats in my car but they are useless unless your a 45kg 5'6 japanese school girl.....

i can really say that id love to have a good clutch for a daily driver.. a HD full face clutch is the way to go IMO

shift_rook
20th May 2010, 06:05 PM
man my dad's car for 3 years was an s13, trips to the other side of melbourne sucked! haha

KurtHS
20th May 2010, 07:19 PM
Your parents cars are farkin cool, I'd much rather stick it out in the back of an S13 lookin fly as fuck across town than a Hyundai Accent or a car of equal shitness.

Bluterus
21st May 2010, 09:50 AM
i have back seats in my car but they are useless unless your a 45kg 5'6 japanese school girl.....

i can really say that id love to have a good clutch for a daily driver.. a HD full face clutch is the way to go IMO
Yeah I know exactly what that's like soo many cars that really should be only 2 seaters like all the nissan Z's, Preludes, Silvia's or nearly every jap 2 door. I remember squeezing in the back of my sisters Z32 300ZX omg head was against the roof and knee's up around my ears.


Your parents cars are farkin cool, I'd much rather stick it out in the back of an S13 lookin fly as fuck across town than a Hyundai Accent or a car of equal shitness.
My old man use to have a 1993 Saab 9000 wow it was gay and the non turbo version too so it was sooo slow. It was comfy though.
He bought this about 8 years ago its the total opposite from the saab hard as fuck ride but quick as hell.
The power is not too bad, The brakes are insane, The gear changes are vicious there is no way you can change smoothly in this thing with the throttle wide open and having a ceramic clutch. It handles better than a wrx and that's with sports mode suspension off. It has ecu controlled oil filled shocks so you flick a switch and it stiffens up and it sticks like shit to a blanket!
This thing is a real drivers car no ABS, Traction control, flappy paddle gearbox or that shit just a straight out race car really. Funniest bit is it has a warning light on the dash that says Slow Down never seen it on but only been in it till 280
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Great you tube video on them.
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peter_soj
25th May 2010, 07:00 PM
Your old man lets you drive his ferrari. top bloke haha. bet if you dont already have a missus that gets you some tail.

Any chance of the ke being ready for the weekend?

Bluterus
26th May 2010, 10:53 AM
Your old man lets you drive his ferrari. top bloke haha. bet if you dont already have a missus that gets you some tail.

Any chance of the ke being ready for the weekend?

No way KE will be ready man I'm waiting for steering arms so I can finish the front end, then fit the motor, then do the rear end, then do the paint, then do the stereo, then put in the interior. Still 4-5 weeks away.
Haven't been able to do anything this week as I've been doing 3 3000 word essays that are due tomorrow for my business course.

Yeah he does but its really not that interesting anymore. Like at first it was fn awesome now its just like meh its just a car. Funny the way people portray you in it though. Me and my dad walked out of the casino to the valet carpark just dressed very casual. My dads given the concierge his ticket and the guy totally ignored him just kept his head down and gave the keys to a valet. We walked over to where the car comes up and when the concierge has seen the car he came running over to open my dads door. He just said to the bloke F off you See you next Tuesday.
It does get girls attention but if I was in my XR8 or rolla they wouldn't look twice so meh not interested in them.

Jip86
19th June 2010, 12:19 PM
i love shockwave blue but because of the paint problems i ended up buying a ba mark 2 in velocity. its 100% stock and its soo quiet.

warranty runs out in a month and i was thinking of getting ceramic coated 1 3/4" 4-1's with 100 cell cats and dual 2 1/2" system.

where did you get your rear bar?

Bluterus
22nd June 2010, 04:50 PM
Yeah mine was a BF series 1 and had the paint problem but got it all fixed under warranty. Yeah my difillipo headers and cats are insane and worth every cent of the $1400 I paid. My warranty was void the bastards 2006 model and they voided it Fraud are wankers.

I got my rear bar from bayside bumpers http://www.baysidebumpers.com.au/

Its a plastic bumper not fibreglass too so mega strong I've backed into a steep driveway and crushed it and all it did was scuff the bottom. If it was fibreglass would have cracked.

sotiros86
22nd June 2010, 06:49 PM
Nice looking ute.

Just out of curiosity, what are those wheels? As my mate got a set of them free with his BA series 2 XR6 ute

Jip86
22nd June 2010, 09:48 PM
how did you go with clearance for the exhaust around the spare on the left side?

Bluterus
23rd June 2010, 12:32 AM
They're XHP Sabers I'm not a huge fan but they were on it when I bought it and can't be bothered spending the money to swap

Bluterus
29th June 2010, 12:32 PM
how did you go with clearance for the exhaust around the spare on the left side?

The clearance is pretty tight but its there for looks not performance. The bracket had to be welded instead of using rubber mounts because when it flexed it was hitting the tyre.

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leigh4110
15th August 2010, 02:57 PM
i think i spotted this thing on dorset rd last night around 11pm (sat).. i was driving the astra that got a mad second gear chirpy next to ya then you were gone hahaa ute sounded tuff man

Bluterus
16th August 2010, 12:22 AM
LOL Reddy Marroon Astra? sure was me man. That your mums car where was the rolla? Not done yet?

leigh4110
16th August 2010, 07:57 PM
yeah thats mum's jet.. haha, ahh.. my rollas running, not driving though. because of the r31 diff running disk brakes, i needa upgrade my brake cylinder as my rear pads will only kinda rub on the disk. so needa figure that out before i take it driving lol

Bluterus
17th August 2010, 12:58 AM
Pajero master from AJPS?

leigh4110
17th August 2010, 12:05 PM
that or either an s13 or r32 non abs one.. apparently their a direct bolt up but yeah really dont know.. gonna go raid pidwells old corolla stuff n see what his got at the factory hahaa

Bluterus
17th August 2010, 12:49 PM
Lucky man how bout you get me some stuff too. I think the Pajero would work as he sell's them with the RX7 brake upgrade.