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  1. 19 hours ago, Nominal said:

    This part of the article is a little concerning.

    The Tertiary Education Commission has told polytechnics and universities to lift their pass rates.

    .I hope it means they have to teach their material better rather than just letting the failing students pass anyway.

     

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  2. A mate of my dad's worked at a Standard Triumph dealership back in the day. They also serviced Jaguars. He reckoned certain parts were interchangeable between the two but the genuine Jaguar parts cost four times as much the exact same thing in a Standard Triumph box. 

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  3. 58 minutes ago, governorsam said:

    Got this for the kid to learn to drive in.

    registered as a nismo sport.

    has nismo shocks, exhaust, black interior, body kit bits etc.

    fun to drive.

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    Is the insurance crazily expensive for an eighteen year old with a learner's licence? Also somewhat surprised young Sam is only just learning now. My eighteen year old has had a his full for some considerable time now.

  4. Bit of a cunt's trick parking in the charger space if not charging. Right up there with parking in the handicapped park without authorisation and filling your ice car then obstructing the pump while you fuck around in the shop for ages when others are waiting to fill up.

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  5. 38 minutes ago, Motu said:

    The cast iron Xflow was shit, so this had a good 250 in it, max torque at 1600rpm.  Put power steering from an XF in - bolt in. 

    You swapped in a pre-crossflow 250 from an older coon? Did it go appreciably better? I had always believed that the iron head crossflow was the best of the old coon sixes. Heard a few bad stories about the early XD alloy head 4.1s but they might just be hearsay, I have seen no real evidence.

    A colleague semi dailies an XD taxi pack that came to him with an Alloy Head II 4.1 in it but he swapped in a V8 over thirty years ago because it was cheap and available. A 302 Windsor with 289 heads if memory serves. He claims an average fuel consumption of around 25 mpg. 

    Interesting that the XF power steering fitted into an XC as easily as that. My wife hated driving my XC because of the heavy steering, heavy clutch, and three on the tree with a slightly dodgy shifter. Being heavily pregnant (again) and having to drive with a pillow behind her back cos the seat adjustment was rusted solid probably didn't help.

  6. Falcon wagon owner for twenty-four years here. Had an XC and three EAs (2 GLs and an S), all sixes.

    Bought the XC cos I needed a bigger car to accomodate an expanding family and I couldn't find a good Valiant that I could afford. Told my eldest, then aged six, that the extra (sixth) seat was for the baby. I didn't know that my then fiance, his soon to be stepmother, was already pregnant at this time.

    An after market third row bench seat is available for coon wagons from XD onwards. My first EA came with this already installed making it a nine seater. Technically fitting the extra seat requires a cert.

    The dizzy on OHC coon sixes is so far up under the inlet manifold as to be almost unreachable with normal hands. This is slightly worse on engines with multipoint fuel injection. The alternator on these engines is located directly beneath the power steering pump right where any leaking oil falls. I have had to replace at least two alternators for this reason. They also come with shitty plastic tank radiators. I've had to replace several because the shitty plastic tanks cracked. This is not a Falcon specific issue.

    Because the majority of E series Falcons were automatics clutch cables for them seem to be made of unobtainium. There is also an issue with firewall strength where the clutch cable passes through. My manual EA has had this area strengthened twice, once half arsed prior to my ownership and again properly by my wof guy after it broke again. I have also broken the manual pedal box twice. It is somewhat disconcerting to stamp the clutch to hook the next gear and feel the pedal fall off.

    The OHC 3.9 doesn't hog the juice as much as the pushrod 4.1. I used to get a pretty reliable 22 mpg out of the iron head 4.1 in my XC. The 3.9 should give 26-27 mpg although I have seen as high as 29 mpg on a long road trip six up and as low as 14 mpg when towing a double horsefloat.

    My real farmer neighbour has an EL XR6 which he has had from new and is very pleased with. He doesn't baby it, I've seen it pulling a big tandem axle trailer stacked up with round bales. Having been a passenger in this car many times and driven it once  I can report that it goes very hard for what it is.

    TLDR; Would I buy another old coon? In a second.

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  7. 30 minutes ago, Early jap nuter said:

    I know heaps of people that buy new private cars every year and don’t care what they lose, it’s more about having something new.

    Keeps the secondhand market going I suppose. Good cars only a year old, often quite low mileage with the first big hit of depreciation already taken off the price.

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  8. Wonder how many gallons per mile this thing got.

    A Mack NO 7½-ton truck doing exactly what is was designed to do, pull heavy artillery pieces. The Mack is a huge truck, weighing in at 14.5 tons on its own. It was powered by an 11.6 litre (707 cu in) straight six petrol engine that made 160 hp. The gun at the back is a 155 mm "Long Tom".

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