Lowering the XW Falcon and Looking at Kevin's XA Fairmont Doors
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Hi Patrons, Sorry about the lack of available content, there will be more soon. The Munted Starlet is now not munted, so we can close the book on that car, the video will be up over the next few days. I'll also sort out a thumbnail for this video as well, cheers and as always, thanks so much for your support!
Well, as the title suggests we're finally replacing the rear springs on our beloved old XW Falcon, a car I completed the restoration of 7 years ago. We also get hold of 4 peachy XA Falcon doors for the soon-to-arrive XA Fairmont... hope you enjoy!
height looks great. spot on
It does!
Nice to see you still have that beautiful XW
Great going for a drive - so awesome and enjoyed your musings about the car too. Great vid, thanks!
Looks great! Keep it up mate.
Looks awesome mate. Very nice. Windscreen wipers and washes for cats.😄😆👍
She is looking much better Pete!
Vast improvement. 😊
Looks good
Wow that xw is something else
nice work Pete , my CL regal se used to sit high , went to center line suspension in Thomastown and they reset the springs, 20 years later and it's got over a million k's. still perfect. I put big swaybars and the handling is incredible. better than my Vy SS Ute.
Great to see the XW go for a ride. The rear end looks much better, before it looked all jacked up at the back. When you retire from teaching Peter you might have to set up a classic car rental business so your fleet gets driven.
Gday Pete, another great video mate 😎👍
Yay - Praise the Lowered!!
The XW look fantastic. Have a look at Competition Engines underdash electric power steering. Might be of interest.
years gone by there was a Ford wrecker on Canterbury Rd Kilsyth ,the owner was a fella named Sam ,back then you could buy anything Ford from XR to XE this man had it all ,in fact i bought a complete set of GS Hubcaps off a XR/XT for an amazing 50 dollars ....cash only of course,if only we had a time machine Peter
if u ever want a cast iron 4 b manifold sqarebore for your 51 w. we can work something out Pete . good to c the ol girl again.
XYs might get a lot of love but I rather prefer a nice XW. Yours is a peach!
I think your right Peter. There is something wrong with the position of the back wheels looking at it. I think your steering is out because the car is crabbing down the road. Hope you can sort it, love this car. Thanks.
Don't forget to readjust your headlights will be shining high now
Overloaded buddy, you're gonna have to see the local Gym to get rid of the spare tyre! :)
When you get a xa bonnet, if you want to get it turned into a gt one, there's a panel beater just before hastings that has got a template and can press in scoop recesses and the pins into a standard bonnet and doesn't charge much
The XW looks great with the new rear springs! Keep up the great work:)
Looks even better now Pete with the back lowered. Do you have the part number for the springs?
Great to see the XW again Peter. The new springs look excellent.
Great to see you out and about in the Fairmont Peter! That Windsor sounds pretty sweet! The rear looks much better, and should settle more with a couple of drives and a full tank of juice. Was the ride compromised at all?
Cheers, Marc
Thanks mate! At the risk of upsetting a few people, I think Windsors and FE's sound better than the Clevo's. The ride is very similar to what it was before, but it felt a lot less twichy when the power came on, cheers.
Much improved! Once the rears settle you'll want a re-align.
I didn’t realize you had a farm in your back yard lol 😆
Yay, back to some classic Ford content ( I'm afraid Starlets just don't float my boat).
What a difference in lowering the XW, it looks so cool with those orange stripes.
Glad to hear you mention about the guards for the XC, can't come quick enough, crack the whip with Graham ( I know, he's doing you a favour).
The XW looks good now you've lowered the back, nice to see her out on the road again. Keep up the great work mate.
Hi Peter, been following a number of your videos keep up the good work mate, on one of your videos that you were working on a single rail gearbox, I have just brought one and can not find any books , manuals etc on strip-down and rebuild would you know were I could get this info, please
now the front needs to come down just a little
Peter, I fitted a set of King FOR-501 leaf springs and Lovells ‘Super lowered V8’ coils in my XW Falcon 500 sedan. The car when full of fuel weighs 3160lb so probably several hundred pounds lighter than yours. I have 215/65 R14 tyres fitted and the ride heights from the floor to the guard lip at each corner (without the driver) are as follows: LHS front 625mm, LHS rear 628mm, RHS front 650mm, RHS rear 653mm. Unsurprisingly the right-hand side sits higher than the left. Would be interested to know what the heights are for yours. Either way I think your car’s ride height looks about right now.
Hi Pete, i love the way your XW sounds. Are you able to share the specs of the exhaust system you had fitted? Cheers
I don't really know, Ace exhausts supplied and fitted it. It's a twin 2" with triple flow mufflers but nothing else; no resonators, nothing. I'll dig out the receipt book when I get home. It's weird, Windsors and Clevo's have the same firing order, but the Windsor sounds more like an FE - they sound tougher than a Clevo in my opinion. The XW sounds a little better now since it has a few miles on it... like literally only a few haha
Awesome, thanks for the reply mate.
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10 months wow, I couldn’t last that long if that was in my shed, beautiful to see the xw out again
Falcon looks great 👍
28:17 put the sun visor down Peter can't see :-)
Good to see you going for a drive in the old girl, been driving mine every chance i get ✌
Hi there Peter
I thankyou also for your videos in helping me get my xw on the road again after being neglected 20 years.
My question is as I am looking to club register the car also and know the general procedure but not sure about the log book entries for eg. Say on a particular day I would take kids to school in morning then around lunchtime cruise around a bit then visit mum etc etc. Do you log these entries as individualy before you set off with time starts etc or can you enter just cruise till 11:59.....
Not sure about Vic but in NSW only need to log at start of day. Under NSW rules if you went around Aussie you would only have to log start of trip as the rest is deemed part of the single trip. Don't have to log to go to car club events.
@@farnthboy thanks for reply so that would mean i just put in log on the day "taking car for run"...im in s.aust.
Regards.
@@peterkarakoulakis5031 Here in NSW we log our starting point i.e. Norwood - usually you home point rather than what you are doing on the particular day.
PS got an XW 351 myself - small world eh. Cheers
Good vid Pete 👌👍i loved seeing the xw driving looks better lowered , looking at yours makes me want to v8 my xy
Life goes on ! Good to see some content of old . Fitted power steering from an xd to my xa 351 , was so much better , keep up the good work
Cheers
What is a slang term for Police in Oz? Like Rossers, rollers, bears, etc?
And with the power steering I drove an xr that the owner had fitted an XF power steering box and it drove the best of any of that generation falcon, he was very knowledgeable about engineering, not as much knowledge as you, he told me that only 1 bolt lines up so he to modify the rail by fitting 2 holes and crush tubes, grinding the rail slightly so the box can be rotated to line it up and using the XF pump and lines as something about them having a valve in them to reduce the power steering the faster the vehicle is moving, apparently the first model falcon to have this feature
Also had a 'limiter' so don't hold 'full lock' for too long as you will blow the pump...
The XW is why I started my youtube, just a great thing to look back on.
I love that XW, my favourite of the X series Falcons
Sits much better now, looks great. I thought the same about you with old cars but my mates son is looking for an escort for his first car and I really doubt something as classic as your xw will ever devalue at least in your lifetime 😉
so keen for the XA! and thankyou for saving one :)
Did you adjust the headlights? they will probably be pointing up!
Thanks Peter love the Falcon XW and Fairmont keep 'em on the road
Good covering of barn find dust on the SS 😜
The XW is fantastic but you need to lose those hubcaps. They just don't suit it.
A nice set of satin silver GT 5 slots with dress rims would be right at home with the new stance.
I tent to disagree, don't do that.
@@2burning2turning Why ? The hub caps are for XY not XW, so they are wrong anyway.
My 1976 XB 'Standard' (not 500), had a 200 engine and no chrome/radio/rear window demister, 3 in the tree, bench front seat and vinyl floors, had exactly the same door handles, they stopped working, so I adjusted the threaded nylon door lock pull and wired it to the opener rod, worked better than new - handles I believe are/were identical to the XA Fairmont....
what the when was this filmed ulp is 189. here why you only 155 diesel 195 you 1.00
Ride height is excellent now 👍👍
I put a xf steering box in a xy. No doubt you are aware of the bolt up issue as previously mentioned. The only care points is make sure the column goes in to make sure the rag joint alignment is correct and the column shaft is centred in the column tube. Being a column shift this is more important to you than me. Then you can mark/weld your crush tubes in the correct spot. The xf box is much bigger than xy and does have a small rail clearance issue. I’m sure you won’t have the exhaust issue I had with a clevo with alloy heads. So that’s nice. At the end of a the day it’s still a steering box which is a shame as it’s a big job. I wished I put a rrs rack conversion in despite the cost I should have just paid up and been happy. On a side note first stop in a v8 falcon is always the servo. As I was watching the drive footage I was thinking. Look at all these other cars on the road. Not one is going to be memorable in anyway.
That’s a better looking stance👍🏻
When you first showed me the height difference on the XW I could see it but I may have said at the time that it seemed like a lot of work for such a small change and if it were my car I wouldn't have bothered. But now you've done the work it makes a huge difference and really does look so much better. Have those white wall tyre lines yellowed a bit ?
They had drones checking people's gardens? I never thought Australia would become the authoritarian state that it has. Nice XW btw.
Hi Peter just wondering what the radiator fan guard is of on the xw?
This bloke sure likes to talk
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Really great looking XW, need 4 sp auto
Hi Peter
Great video mate
I love every single video u make , it brings a smile to my face eaverytime u post a vid.
Pete
What’s your email address I would lo get in touch with your