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| Posted:Jul 9 2004, 08:18 PM |
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howz it goin guys, just bought an '88 telstar tx5 ghia, mannual for $1900
interior is sweet with everythin workin fine, runs smooth as aswell. Just wonderin what would be a good start to gettin it goin good. cheers  |
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| Posted:Jul 11 2004, 11:42 PM |
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hey dan,
they guy i bought the car off was a good mate of mine. the car was lowered when i got it, but my mate lowered it by cutting the stock springs. so in order to get a roadworthy, i had to get new springs. my mate's been working with cars for a while, and he knew what he was doing, so he helped me put the new springs in.
im not sure how much it would cost to get them put in by a pro. It took us about 2.5 hrs to do, and we took our time, so im pretty sure you'd just have to pay a mechanic or suspension pro about 2hrs labour to get them put in |
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| Posted:Jul 11 2004, 11:50 PM |
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hey ehblah,
when modding a car, the thing most people usually start with is the exhaust system. After that, maybe lower it and put a set of rims on it. Then the car will be looking and sounding good.
With modding under the hood, i dont know a lot, but i'd probably start with getting more cold air into the engine, so probably get a cold air intake/induction kit, or make a custom one, or put an aftermarket flat panel pod filter in your standard air box. As to where to go from there, i have no idea. I had a port and polish performed on the head, which upped the performance significantly.
good luck man, EJ |
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| hey man i got the covers from autobarn for 50 bucks each front and 100 for the back.heaps of colours.your car would look sweet with white rims and paint ur wipers white too.l8r bro |
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| Posted:Aug 24 2004, 12:43 PM |
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| hey man thanks, yeah i'm gonna go into autobarn l8er 2day n have a look. i was thinkin about gettin a set of white 17" matrix rims...but then again, i've got no cash...but i've almost got myself a full time job, so i'll have a fair bit of money comin in, so i was thinkin about rims and a new paint job and tinted windows...i may just get it resprayed white, and if i do i'll get a set of white rims |
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| Posted:Aug 26 2004, 06:45 PM |
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Hey Qik, you still want my old rims?? 
You can have them for less if you want them  |
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| Posted:Aug 30 2004, 06:00 PM |
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| sorry man, i'm having job problems, and i can barely afford petrol at the moment. otherwise i would man, sorry. thanks neways |
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| Posted:Jan 20 2005, 01:12 PM |
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| i read ya profile as i got an 88 tx5 turbo i wanna get moving quickly if anyone has any low cost big power suggestions(if there are such things)please let me know |
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| Posted:Feb 8 2005, 10:25 PM |
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I keep asking people for advice and then i keep changing my mind about what im going to do, so sorry about that people. i've made my final decision tho.
after some thorough research i've decided to keep my current tx5 and do the J-Spec FE3 Conversion. i've got a pretty rough idea of what it's gonna cost me, and for the price it will be hell worth it for the performance gains i will get. at the same time im going to replace the factory ecu with an aftermarket one, so that the FE3 runs how it's supposed to run, and at tht same time i will replace my injectors with bigger ones (fd rx7 ones most likely) to increase performance even more |
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| Posted:Feb 9 2005, 08:55 PM |
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| FE3 is a much better conversion than the F2, unfortunately you still will have massive issues with your diff if you have decent grip on your tyres... you will still need to upgrade it to a least an F2 version.. which at any rate is still considered rather weak... they wont handle 300hp for very long if you driving hard. |
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| Posted:Feb 16 2005, 07:20 PM |
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| cooked my clutch dude getting it replaced this weekend then no mods for a few months you still going to the all ford day cos i might come depending on financial status |
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| Posted:Feb 20 2005, 10:58 PM |
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| yep i was told that i'd need to replace the diff. i was also told that i'd need a stand alone engine management system as a minimum...is this true? why do i need this? what is it? howcome you said 300hp? 300hp = 21kw i'd need to turbo it to get that kind of figure |
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| Posted:Feb 22 2005, 10:09 AM |
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| 210kw* |
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| Posted:Mar 20 2005, 09:07 AM |
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| Nice looking car. looks almost identical to my other TX5. Do the Fe3 but keep the exterior stock. then leave a stupid 16 y/o kid in his crappy VN commodore in the dust. |
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| Posted:Mar 20 2005, 04:04 PM |
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when i get done with modding the exterior and interior im going to do the FE-DOHC Turbo swap, put a lot of money into it and hopefully get it to run 12's
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| Posted:Mar 20 2005, 04:05 PM |
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| p.s. my ride beats stock vn's as it is |
