The time has come for my brother to purchase his first car. So he got the trading post yesterday and has been marking all of these cool cars which are within the budget. He has a few cars in mind, EA, VL, R31 and possibly EB. With up to about $5000 to spend he has had no problems finding low kilometre modified examples of each of these cars.
So far I think he is keen on getting an EA S pak most likely manual. So this brings me to the point of this post - I'm jealous because this time around we know what to look for. He found a 5 speed S-pak close to where we live so we might go take a look today, the ad doesn't state whether it is multipoint or not.
Ah well, thats what I get for not researching when we first bought my EA.
Never
but seriously if an ea was your first car, which i think was for a few on the board, if we had the knowledge then well we would all have perfect ea's and this place would be a bit boring. And on the up side u could always "borrow" his car.
mate, my brother is looking at an EBII fairmont. ****ing prick. ive test driven 2 of them for him so far (hes 17, nearly 1 and theyre bloody awesome. heaps of power quieter interior, FOUR SPEED, MULTI POINT, 4.0 LITRE. ****ing bastard
$5200 is the latest one we're looking at. 170,000. needs a bit of work - clean ups, dodgy trims and stuff. all in all, a bit of work and it'd look nuts.
i have my standard 120kW EA 3sp and im so happy with its comfortability and power, i mean it picks up fully where u need it to and if your at 60 and slap it into 1 it BOLTS
i cant imagine what an MPI would do, let alone a manual MPI, let alone a manual MPI with mods, let alone Bass's MPI manual with mods....hehe
ill own a performance car one day, but i dont think it will be for city travel.
I have a 89 series 2 EA gl cfi 3.9 i/6,the series 2 has a btr 4 spd with power-4250rpm change + econ 3250rpm,these figures are the same as the power / torque peaks...no?My question is BEN when you are pulling away with the taps wide open ,what is the speed ( kmph ) your box changes from 1st to 2nd to 3rd???-mine are as follows ( aprox -no bullshit please )
(with power mode on , running pulp.)
1st to 2nd = 45 ish kmph
2nd to 3rd = 90 flat kmph
3rd to 4th = 4th is overdriven gear, and ive never held it flat thro 3rd ... a land speed record attempt is the only time you would.
With regards to gear change, at least on the 3 speed, it depends on how you are flooring the car and tension of your kickdown cable. Basically once it starts to labour it will go up a gear.
Gear ratios are the same on 3 speed and 4 (except for the 4th obviously) but the diff is slightly shorter on the 4 speed, which means it would up a gear at a lower speed (but same given RPM). I have a 3 speed and when fully floored it will kick up at around 80 kph @ approx 4300 rpm which seems to be consistent with your figures for the 4 speed.
Just went driving with mates,and really put my foot down,floored it infact(first time!)ive just been babying it because its my 1st car bla bla bla...anyway
flat to the floor is REALLY
1ST TO 2ND 75 KMPH
2ND TO 3RD 95ish( just under 100) KMPH
it kicked into 3RD at 95 & i reved it to 170 >
Fastest ive had it + im getting EB tail lights,
and 15'' EB fairmont alloys wiv 235s 50 series.
Haha.. jelous.. For those who don't know I am Kenaz brother. I ended up getting an EA1 s-paK 5 speed MPI. Stacked it not long after I got it. Took me a couple of years to get back into an EA.
for my 1st car ii wanted a vl, or r31.
but the exampls i test drove were real sluggish and fair shabby looking
i had a budget of $3000.
then i test drove the manual mpi EA, red, bodykit, and with mags. and it was by far the best car i had driven. so i bought it.
if i had my time over again with my knowledge now, i would have made the EXACT same choice on my 1st car.
i love my car, its quicker than most other stock ea's (sorry auto guys), and beats all my mates vn, vp's ect.. and with the bodykit it looks pretty decent too.
maybe i was just lucky...but i still bilieve to this day that my $3000 couldnt have been better spent on my 1st car.
(btw car came with rego and roadworthy)
yeah 3k is a very good price Bozza. I paid $3600 for mine, it was in shit condition with the ugly browny interior. I didn't care about that though, cause it went hard.
I didn't mine it. It was that falconxwing or whatever who has been spamming, was just a coincidence that it was a thread about my first car (kinda) although it went off topic for a bit.
I crashed the car and sold it to Doug (SPHELL) who used it for the MPI the T5 and the Head.
My car when it was an auto with 3.08 Diff gears, would do the following
1st - 84kmph
2nd - 135kmph
3rd - NA
It sucked at the drags, because when i was approaching the finish line i would have to change it into 3rd
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