Thanks mate, I often wonder if I'm just putting those in to make myself laugh so glad at least one other has enjoyed them! 🤣 With this setup at least it's well ahead, plenty of little things you could do to make that up. Even a smaller wheel/tyre would probably help but I think what we have will suit our eventual end goal better - lets see. Cheers mate and hope you enjoy what we have coming up 👍

@@BrowneysGarage What's a 6 speed worth? Would that be a viable swap into your model? Just curious. And I can't believe that for how long they've been around I've never heard anyone call a Garrett turbo "Peter". That's brilliant. I'm looking forward to the future adventures of Browney and Pete, lol.

@woopimagpie 6 speed auto? Sure I’ve seen it done before but looks like a lot of work, from memory it may even require swapping in most of the wiring loom for a donor car. Haven’t gone too in depth though in saying that cause the price of the gearbox seems pretty high and they have their own issues. If I was to swap I’d likely go to a 6 speed manual. For the price the BTR’s aren’t that bad, plenty of them and support about and with some boost/diff gearing change/or a high stall it’ll wake up quite a bit. Thanks mate, I was pretty pleased with myself on the Peter Garrett part too... but I am a huge child!

@@BrowneysGarage Hmm. It sounds like it would be a lot easier to just acquire a car that had a 6 speed auto in it already if you were hell bent of having one, which I know you're not. I was just curious. I'm totally with you on preferring a manual if you were going to go to that trouble. As a guy with some circuit racing and hillclimbs/time trials in my past a manual is a no-brainer, but drag racing is a totally different animal and having a manual in that application doesn't really seem to help, especially once you start getting into big power. Broken drivetrain components would be a regular occurrence with a manual it seems. Funny enough, I used to scorn the drag racers among my peers back in those days, but if I were to get back into motorsport I'd probably opt for drag racing as my recreation of choice now. Not sure how I'd go about that exactly with no drag strips anywhere near me (mid-north coast of NSW), so for the time being I'm content to watch and learn from others like yourself on youtube. Don't get too carried away with Peter Garrett - sometimes the quest for power and speed is at the expense of enjoyment and fun. I've owned a couple of properly quick cars in my day, and spent some serious money along the way, but the times I remember as the most fun have always been with the hopeless shitboxes. Funny how that works. My daily driver these days is a lowly little Daihatsu Terios with a few little dodgy backyard mods (not necessarily improvements - mostly just cheap fixes and cheeky shortcuts), but far out it's a super fun little car to push along. I can mash the pedal to the floor and it will rev its head off, and careen around with squealing tyres and hot brakes whilst still well under the speed limit. It's hilarious, and is the most fun I've had driving a car by far. Sometimes I arrive at a destination literally laughing it's that much fun. I don't ever remember doing that in my full house rally-engined hillclimb Gemini, or my Windsor-powered XP Falcon, or my wife's fairly well modded Fiat X19. All those cars were quick, but ended up costing a bomb, and my current little Di cost 4 grand 10 years ago.... Go figure. I've never owned any other car for half that long, but it's such a laugh I can't let it go. I have a mate who has a Mark II Mini Clubman with a blown 1100 motor - I'm half thinking about persuading him to sell it to me so I can see what kind of fun can be had with it. A Honda B series engine would be a tempting swap for the blown 1100, but I'd probably be running the gauntlet on the speed vs fun equation.... Probably just rebuilding the 1100 would be a better (and cheaper) option if it's not too far gone. The Daihatsu has made me a convert to small modestly-powered cars, that's for sure. Or maybe a Daihatsu engine would fit in the Mini.... lol. I look forward to seeing what you do with your current gearbox, if anything, and how it can be transformed into something half useful at the track. As a total auto newb you can bet I'll be enjoying learning some things watching you do it. I doubt I will ever own a Falcon again (been there, done that), but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the hell out of watching someone else play with one and have some fun and learn some things along the way. Congratulations on making it to the end of my essay. Keep that sense of humour mate, and have fun. Cheers.

@@woopimagpie I made it through mate, sounds like some good history behind you. Taking things too far is always a concern, especially when a lot of KZfaq and the car community just want to see that peak figure! Can't guarantee things won't get out of hand on one of the cars at some stage but generally I'm happier working on and driving beaters or at least less than perfect cars. I've had a low km, perfect example type car before, a manual EL XR8 with all the right options... I drove it probably 2 or 3k kms in the several years I owned it cause I was constantly on edge driving it, parking it etc. Was by no means a huge dollar car but was to me at the time! Cheers mate, I'll do my best to keep the videos and dad jokes coming 👍

Cheers mate 👍

Better sell them on to pay for more parts! Think she actually wants me to hurry up and turbo it already so she can have a go 🤣

Yeah it's a bit of fun, especially if you're a child like me! Sure it would, plenty of life left in her yet mate.

Of course it would!!! Those NA Barras are good for at least 500k if the servicing has been kept up to date!!!

@@dazzamac70 Yeah mate just bought myself a clean FG XR6 with 45,000kms on it, Thing's gonna last longer than i will

Legend, thanks mate. Will do my best, plenty to come 👍

Awesome, glad you enjoyed mate and thanks for watching along. Hopefully a couple of good series (and a LOT of work) coming, and some smaller videos as well 👍

Thanks very much mate, plenty in the works 👍

Thanks very much mate 👍

Thanks mate I’m pretty excited to see, going to be a big year I think with some awesome stuff coming.

Hey thanks mate. Not sure about that but it's been great to receive so many kind words, subscribers and views from good people like yourself! See how we go 👍

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed 👍

Plenty more to come, thanks for watching mate.

Thanks for coming along with us mate 👍🏻

Damn that's a lot of my dumb jokes in one day, sorry mate! 😂 Thanks very much for watching.

Thanks, will do my best!

Thanks Marc, I've really enjoyed the series and the improvements have been well worth it for street driving and for what the car is. Plenty more to come just need some more of that little free time thing - doesn't help that I have a few of your videos to catch up on to help distract me too! Hope you're well mate 👍

Thanks that’s very kind, and plenty more videos to come 👍

Those shifts are aggressive with the kit on, great fun! Thanks for watching mate 👍

Too good, thanks mate 👍

Cheers mate, can’t crank out the quantity of some other channels but I’m trying to keep improving the quality bit by bit. Hopefully quality over quantity works 👍

Legend, thank you for watching mate 👍. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks there's elements in any work/learning that transfer over to areas you'd never expect.

At least the edited versions look easy! Couldn't agree with you more mate and well said, it's all just nuts and bolts... mostly at least. It does and will hopefully all suit the next setup/end goal a little better than even now, but I've been really happy with it on the road. Thanks for being here and supporting mate 👍

Wow thanks very much mate, that's very kind. Honestly there must be something wrong with me, I think I quite often have just as much fun tinkering on the cars as I do out driving the cars! At least when things are working for me in the garage anyway. Thanks for watching.

Awesome, that's very high praise as I spend a lot of time working on how to tell the story more than just pumping out videos - thanks very much mate 👍

Thanks mate, pretty pleased with this Peter Garrett!

I generally don't spend too much time on the burnout pad side of the track largely for this reason! Haha Thanks mate

Cheers mate, I've been very proud of how this one came out. Sure a lot of us car guys feel the same way about these things. Thanks for following along and supporting 👍

Camera hides a little bit, both on the car and my head I think! Thanks very much mate and hope you enjoy the channel and what's coming up.

Most people don't realize this has actually been a series about poor dad jokes with the occasional work on a car thrown in! Maybe for the best. Awesome feedback mate cause that's exactly the sort of thing I'm going for and enjoy watching normally myself. Thanks and cheers for your ongoing support Glen 👍

Thanks mate 👍

You’re the legend mate, cheers for watching and supporting!

Awesome mate that's really cool, don't be afraid to let me know how you go cause I'd love to hear. And cheers, hopefully everything is slowly getting better bit by bit, there's a lot to learn both on the cars and all the video skills. Thanks very much for the support mate 👍

I love MCM and always watch but do miss some of the earlier days. I’m just enjoying what I do and trying to make something I want to watch but couldn’t really find. Thanks for watching and enjoy the FG mate, great cars 👍

Hey thanks James, hope you enjoyed mate 👍

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching mate.

Thanks very much mate, will do my best. Plenty to come 👍

Cheers, good things are coming 👍

Legend, thanks very much mate

Had thought about playing around with something like this, may yet do so in the future. Cheers mate 👍

I better keep working away, you'll be caught up in no time! Thanks for watching mate 👍

Sure there's people out there that could do their whole commute in first with the BTR! Thanks for watching mate 👍

That's awesome, love hearing from people who are looking at these jobs a little differently now. It can pretty well all be done by the average person at home, with a little time at least. Being FG it should wake up with a few mods pretty well, hope you enjoy it mate and thanks for watching 👍

Awesome thanks mate and glad you enjoyed. Wish I was closer to our track... and had an FG Ute! 🤣 Enjoy mate

Perks of being tight with your money, as most of us have to be at least at some point, makes it much more relatable I think. These are the sort of videos I wanted to see but there wasn't enough of! Thanks mate, I love it and want to push them out more often too and will continue working on it but it's really hard unfortunately. Takes a heap of time and I have a damn job that they want me to be at! Haha

@@BrowneysGarage yeah and it is 100% relatable too. I have a BA xr6turbo and I totally understand what you mean, its all about a budget otherwise it can get away from you real quickly

Thanks mate. So did I, just hope I remember some of it!

Cheers mate 👍

Me too mate! Going to take a little time before it's all done with a few steps along the way I think but result should be worth it, and I reckon it can still be done pretty cheap. Thanks and good luck with your BF 👍

Yep that ZF seems to make a pretty big difference off the line and I'm sure it will feel a lot better, especially at this level and without stall/gear mods. You'll have better base to start from that's for sure! Thanks mate, and happy to be a bad influence on you if I can! 👍

Great engine, I might have to snap a few spares up before the yanks take them all! Thanks mate

I like your thinking mate, would be awesome to give it a go. And to me something like a PD supercharger sounds like a perfect option for a street driven car for instant, all round response and boost - to a level any way. Just a shame they aren't so cheap and they weren't nearly as common so the second hand market is pretty weak, would love to have a crack at fitting one to a car one day though. Thanks mate and hope you'll enjoy what we have coming up 👍

Thanks very much mate 👍

Thanks mate, hope you enjoy what we have coming up.

Glad to have had you along for the ride mate, thanks. And yep, bring it on!

@@BrowneysGarage No worries Browney , keep up the great content mate . Cheers 🍻

Thanks very much mate, some exciting things coming up 👍

Cheers mate, and the cradle falling off clip still hurts me even after seeing it far too many times! Happy with the MPH, shame we couldn't drop the time more but it's only diff gears away really. Would love to give it a go but think we'd be going back to what we have with the turbo anyway and that's always been the end goal. Thanks for watching mate 👍

@@BrowneysGarage Haha, I feel it 🤣. Definitely wouldn't help the turbo doing the gears, the 4sp move really well with not alot of power. Excited to see the build, your vids are so easy to watch.

Thanks very much mate, glad you enjoyed 👍

Sorry about any Territory jokes that were made then! I really do like them as well as the Falcons 👍

@@BrowneysGarage it’s all good brother as watching your channel gives me ideas what to do with my territory

'Bar leaning money boys' - I like that one! That's it mate, trying to keep it relatable because that's the sort of thing I watch mostly... and because that's I'm cheap! Thanks very much for watching mate, hope you enjoy what we have coming up 👍

Thanks mate 👍

Me too mate but these take a long time to get done, I'm too damn slow finishing these, research etc takes time... and I have a job that people keep telling me I need to show up for! I'm working on it though, thanks for watching and supporting!

Nice! Damn good time there mate. Wish I could have got closer to your time but doesn't matter, time to make some turbo noises I think. Cheers for the support 👍

What mods for 14.4, almost half a second better than factory time of 14.8

@@lukesm5747 factory would be a 15 wouldn’t it?. So I have Street Fighter cold air intake 20% underdrive pulley kit Genie tri y 4490 headers MagnaFlow 100cell high flow cat Xforce 2.5 inch stainless cat back exhaust SSL king springs all round with KYB GasAJust shocks Custom tune I’m getting LSD diff with better diff gears later and a retune. Goal is 13.9

Thanks very much mate and sounds like some killer car history, I constantly have half an eye out for a well priced and clean EL Fairmont even though I shouldn’t - beautiful cars. Hope the XR6 serves you well and enjoy what we have coming up too, oh and no one here said you have to grow up as you grow older! 👍

Thanks mate, sure plenty would feel I'm another wanker too don't worry! 🤣

Thanks mate, plenty of exciting things to come 👍

Thanks very much for watching mate, means a lot to have people watching along. Just trying to have fun with it and do the things I want to see but weren’t being covered! Pumped to see you excited about the next car, but cannot confirm or deny 😂

Awesome, hope you're enjoying the car and what a great colour Blueprint is. Very much looking forward to getting to the turbo series when I can, and there'll be more on my very first car in our next video... but I think you won't be disappointed 👍

Legend thanks very much mate, means a lot. Stick with us, I have no intention of making this a Ford only channel and I’m sure we’ll work on other makes in the future 👍

@@BrowneysGarage all good mate. I got a lot of time on my hands lately due to a terminal illness. And I like watching all sorts of cars worked on 👍🏻

@@kryptux2463 Damn sorry to hear that mate, hope we at least entertained you for a minute 👍

Very off topic but my brother had the plates JBSXR6 from memory, were on his EL XR6 and then BA XR6T. Sound like you've got similar taste 👍 As for the new (old) car, you know I can't confirm or deny it just yet! Thanks for watching mate

Was wondering when I’d hear from Ol’ mate Jesus again! Thanks guys 👍

@@BrowneysGarage he may be in trouble with youtube again 🤣

@BearCat Racing Haha bugger, sure he’ll rise again after scamming a long weekend off or something!

Me too! Will suss it out a bit more and start collecting the final parts I need soon 👍

Not bad for what it is, BF would likely be even better again... lucky bugger! Thanks very much mate 👍

I was too mate but I think we've proven that it's definitely there and perhaps even quicker if you wanted to do diff gears or develop the NA mods a little more. Think we'll be well suited to the turbo setup though and I'm keen to get into that so didn't want to get too preoccupied with getting every last bit out of it now. NA + T should be a fun setup, good luck with yours as well and thanks for the support 👍

@@BrowneysGarage got my factory turbo Ba on the strip in the weekend managed a 13.6 105mph run with only minor mods so gives us both a target to aim at.

@Geoff kydd Damn good time there mate, definitely sets a target and gets me excited for the conversion. Sorry if you’ve mentioned but what mods was this with? BTR or manual?

@@BrowneysGarage stock BTR which really sucks as could only stall up to 2000rm so no real boost off the line and best 60ft of 2.2 secs . mods are a homemade CAI ( removed fog lights and ran ducting up to airbox) mace intercooler which fits in stock position requiring zero mods(30% better flow) cat delete rest of exhaust stock. header wrap on exhaust manifold down to dump pipe., turbo beanie, turbo smart wastegate actuator. I did have issues on day one which i suspect was fuel starvation with 1/4 tank of gas and could only manage 14.2 filled up to 3/4 and instantly ran a 13.7 @ 96mph yes breaking hard to try not to break out of my dial in time ( fail went out in round 3)

Damn good times and power for an NA mate, killed it! And got that 13 too, congrats. That ZF makes a huge difference, at least at NA power levels.

@@BrowneysGarage Ran it again yesterday with the interior out , except for rear seats and lighter front wheels and managed a 13.7@102. Gearbox still not happy though and I feel it could go faster !!

Thanks mate, and I can;t recall either now if you got back to me! Thanks though mate, seems to line up with what others have said. Would have been interesting to test but think it's time we keep moving. And cheers for watching 👍

May have been worth a go but don't think the handbrake would have even held it at idle at the moment! Cable has stretched badly on one side and will likely need replacing. Had tried finding more info regarding any torque protection and couldn't find a great deal. Have you seen this effect even NA cars?

It better! Haha

Thanks mate, good cruiser and very 'safe' for overtaking car, for what it is at least. Pretty lucky there mate, she's got a wicked sense of humour and despite my joking really couldn't care what I spend... at least that's what she says anyway!

@@BrowneysGarage make sure your next long cruise you can splurge on a little holiday together preparing her for the next round of mods. Maybe even let her sit up front haha just joking. Now I'm hoping she doesn't read the comments 😂. At least the boarders are open now for a longer cruise

@@chriscrouchman2155 Haha she generally doesn't read them but boy am I going to make sure she checks this one out! It's either that or I'll recycle the joke and get myself in trouble! We managed a weekend away not long ago so all good there, shame we couldn't stray to anywhere too exciting but next time.

@@BrowneysGarage Goodluck mate I'll be watching👍

If only it was worth half as much as the XY! Crazy how far performance has come since those days.

Thanks mate, not a bad time at all out of the 302. Sounds like it would be a fair swap then - interesting in trading the XY!? 🤣

@@BrowneysGarage Haha, that was 30years ago; and I'm in NZ. Still love me Falcons. I've previously owned '67 XR wgn, 2 XY's, XF, EA, and EF. I would like a very good condition FGX one day though !!

@@arkhsm Worth a try! Some awesome history you've had there mate. All the best 👍

@@BrowneysGarage Thanks, love your content !!

Sounds like a nice setup and great car, could be biased on that last part though. Stall would definitely help but so will building a bit of boost on the line! Sounds like you're set on the stall but just for reference the few people I've spoken to, including my tuner, highly recommended diff gears even over the stall converter. Just something to consider, sure you've probably gone over it plenty before deciding on the stall converter anyway though. Good luck with it mate, and let me know how you go 👍

Some pretty simple mods really, shows there’s plenty of potential there still I think if someone wanted to. Thanks mate 👍

Can't confirm or deny... but I do love the E-series cars 👍

Higher stall or diff gears would be good if staying NA, but time to play with a cheap turbo conversion 👍

Genuine OEM, seem good enough for plenty of big power cars. Firing earlier? I'd rather have the ignition timing do what the tune expects it to be doing even if that is true. I'm sorry mate, glad you're happy with them and I'm sure they work but anything I've read on the subject still recommends genuine - I could always be wrong though!