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Texy_5 profile, 1988 Ford Telstar TX5 AT2, 2.2NA

zorb_rules Forum Junkie Group: Members Posts: 322 Member No.: 1812 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Mar 31 2005, 07:42 AM why dont ya juts got out and buy blue led globes they fit fine and cost like 15bucks much more effcetive if done right...im doing it soon gonna have differtent colours for each of my gauges.... zorb_rules Forum Junkie Group: Members Posts: 322 Member No.: 1812 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Mar 31 2005, 07:43 AM ohh btw if ya go to autobarn and ask for the autometer globe boots ya can get the same effect also there like 10 bucks for a back of 4 and they just go over the top of the globes where the old green ones used to be...they come in red, blue, green. Texy_5 Occasional Poster Group: Members Posts: 50 Member No.: 2675 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Mar 31 2005, 05:10 PM i tried doing the led in the stock plugs and the light covers but ford (or mazda) have mixed a green tinge into the "white" writing therefor anything behind the dials are not going to work ive got two blue neons shining down onto the front of the dials to light them up, simple, except you cant see any red so no redline, no empty on fuel and no hot on the water guage. zorb_rules Forum Junkie Group: Members Posts: 322 Member No.: 1812 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Mar 31 2005, 05:21 PM hasnt happened for the ones ive seen they just replaced the bulbs that was it...more info on mx6.com if ya need help..but from all the ones ive seen they've just used LED"s/globes and cahnged the colour of the whole cluster...maybe what your talking about just occured in the earleir models. Texy_5 Occasional Poster Group: Members Posts: 50 Member No.: 2675 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Apr 8 2005, 10:07 AM got my new motor yesterday first thing i found was a larger throttle body in the throttle body there is two butterflys the top can open before the other and in the Aus NA throttle body the top butterfly opens cosiderably before the bottom one and the top one is smaller than the bottom 41mm-44mm in my new throttle body the top is larger and doesnt open that much before the bottom 47mm-41mm there is only 3mm differance in the whole lot Aus 41+44=85 and Jap 47+41=88 but it might make a differance i hope Texy_5 Occasional Poster Group: Members Posts: 50 Member No.: 2675 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Apr 19 2005, 09:15 PM alright i got the new motor in(2 weeks ago) and it took a bit of encoraging to start ended up gettin it started but on 2 cyl and spewed smoke everywhere so it went back to the guys where i got the motor from (1 week ago) and they got it going on all four and claimed to have fixed it what they were saying it was doing is filling up the black box under the intake pipe and sucking the oil into NO.4 cyl but the smoke still is pouring out (tonite) what do you guys think of it. zorb_rules Forum Junkie Group: Members Posts: 322 Member No.: 1812 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Apr 20 2005, 05:52 AM well last opil problem i had on my car took em enalry two weeks to get rid of all the spoke before the engine and exhuast were right again..this was when my turbo blew...apaarently oil builds up on the muffler and cat which starts to burn adding twice as much smoke so it could just be reminants...i know my mates was so bad he had to remove the muffler. they cut it in half and it was chock a block full of unburnt oil. QIK-TX5 Regular Poster Group: Members Posts: 103 Member No.: 1555 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:May 5 2005, 09:58 AM well dude, all that 'getting a new car when i get a full time job' talk is over. i got a new job yesterday and it's giving me an extra $300 per week. and what does that mean, you say? well, it means that in 6 weeks time i will have my parents paid off and then 3-4 weeks after that i will have an Fe-DOHC sitting in my garage this is if all goes to plan. usually i cant save for peanuts, except when i really want something. and i REALLY want this! i've wanted to do this for a long time, and now it may finally happen. i mean the motor will be sitting in my garage gathering dust until i can save up the cash for the engine management system and the labour to wire the motor up and tune the EMS (putting it in can be done without the help of a mechanic cos it just bolts straight in exactly the same as the f2) but that doesnt matter cos once it's sitting in my garage i'll be motivated to work my ass off to get the cash to get it into my car. this isnt another one of my 'ideas'...this could actually happen! and when it does i'll have more power than a stock standard f2t...and because i've already got the gearbox in my car, nothing else needs replacing Booyah! Texy_5 Occasional Poster Group: Members Posts: 50 Member No.: 2675 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:May 29 2005, 08:56 PM finally got a gearbox goes in tomorrow nite, watch out im back Telstar_New Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Member No.: 3297 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Jun 20 2005, 10:22 PM can u tell me where to get a new dash.....Like ur white one???????? TRBOMX Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Member No.: 3238 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Jun 21 2005, 01:58 PM that's just the stock dash. he sanded it back, primed it, then sprayed it white. Very BRIGHT! Texy_5 Occasional Poster Group: Members Posts: 50 Member No.: 2675 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Jun 22 2005, 08:56 PM gearbox is in now its a bit weaker than my old one, i can feel it through the accelerator and clutch and especially through the shifter, plans are to repair the old one and strengthen it with (ahem) TURBO (ahem) parts with the dash its a light sanding followed with a spray plastic primer and then spray paint form autobarn the cans are only $10 each. if your going to do it, take the parts out and do them individually the paint is called powerplus its good i used it on my front grille, it used to be red, QIK-TX5 Regular Poster Group: Members Posts: 103 Member No.: 1555 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Jul 17 2005, 10:14 PM yeah glen, and i wonder WHY it was red! *COUGH* Texy_5 Occasional Poster Group: Members Posts: 50 Member No.: 2675 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Jul 18 2005, 09:36 PM she diddnt deserve it do you know how oxidised the paint was on it , i saved that grilles life, the stupid woman has still not washed her car and the grille was "sold" six months ago MXSTYL Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Member No.: 3506 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Aug 9 2005, 02:16 PM hey man, elliott here. i re-did my car profile on totalrpm and put up the new photo's i took after i removed the spoiler and FINALLY got my Turbo Timer working. Check it out, profile is MXSTYL - oh yeah, and that lady doesnt deserve that tx5 if she hasnt washed it in 6 months! my mx6 on the other hand is nice and shiny...pitty i cant drive it! gombatron2000 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 47 Member No.: 3674 Car Profile: Available Status: Offline Posted:Oct 9 2005, 11:31 PM good idea with CAI, i was going to do something similar but only duct it through a scoop coming out the side of the front bar -------------------- L|V3 F45T, D|3 5|d3W4Y5!

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