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My New Daily - Vu Ss Fifty Ute

Started by MRLXSS , Apr 10 2008 08:29 AM

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#126 MRLXSS

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Posted 30 April 2010 - 10:55 PM

HAHAHAHA! Sorry Col..... I'll have a beer instead! HAHA!

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#127 Statler

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Posted 30 April 2010 - 10:59 PM

Have lots m8!
Drive those evil thoughts from you mind!

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#128 mitchg

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Posted 30 April 2010 - 11:01 PM

Sucks to hear about the ute mate, was a nice looking beast. Always loved the VU utes.
I reckon if you looked around a bit you could pick up a VX SS sedan with OTR, mafless tune and possibly a cam for around the 12-14k mark. Only problem is you may be looking at something with high kms but Im sure you could find one.

Good luck with it! But if you get a cheap 6, buy the ute back with the leftover payout, and put all the running gear in MRLXSS, I think that would be the way to go and your weekender will (finally) be faster than your daily!

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#129 _@milco@_

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 12:20 AM

i would get a ba xr6t, that will be my next car i buy prob next year or so, on injected liquid lpg best bang for buck car in the second hand market to date, cheap mods make huge power, 1-1.5k spent and you wil get 300+KW easy..... and you will easyly get one for under 14k and you might even have change!

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#130 dattoman

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 12:36 AM

If you buy a BA XR6T ute make sure you save enough for the new clutch and diff it will need
They fry clutches easily if loaded or towing
They are notorious for diff problems with that stupid Dana
9" conversion is the usual go ... about the same cost as fixing the dud LSD

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#131 _Drag lc_

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 07:12 AM

Hey my brother has a xr6 turbo ute manual live axle rear end he fried the after market clutch after a few months as he was driving it like we drive the lc dropping the clutch everywhere hehe.he has now fitted a npc multi disc one.it has been off the road for prolly a year now i guess as he had the engine hotted up properly h beams forgies rather large snail and all the fruit to go with it.
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Cheers Hayden

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#132 GML-31

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 09:04 AM

thought this would happen Matt when I first saw the pics... buy something cheaper and spend the rest on your house mate at least your investment will increase then.

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#133 MRLXSS

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 09:17 AM

Yeah Kev, that would be the smart thing to do... Some money might go towards a carport on the house so this will never happen again :(

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#134 orangeLJ

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 11:09 AM

Atleast keep an SS 50 badge! hahaha.

If you were closer, Id give you the front seats from my VT to throw in it (Ive got an SS interior to go in it)

Will the insurance pay out the loan +some? or are you stuck with a loan for no car?

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#135 MRLXSS

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 12:35 PM

Loan is only 7.7k so i'll have about 9k to play with in the end.

Just picked the car up from the panel beaters... I'm gonna miss it! Damn it goes hard!!!!

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#136 LhMusL

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 04:00 PM

Sorry to hear about all this Matt, Friggen sucks dude. Lets just hope something good comes out of all this, you never know whats around the corner

it might just be a bigger tyre shredder and more tail happy beast than the ute was :rockon:

I like the liquid LPG injected Xr6t idea!

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#137 _73LJWhiteSL_

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Posted 01 May 2010 - 04:36 PM

That sucks mate. :(

Steve

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#138 Heath

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 12:20 PM

Put a six and a slushbox in it before you give it back.

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#139 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 12:55 PM

Ignore Heath, and dont yell at me for this comment...

Get a VS with a six and auto for 2/5ths of frOck all and have heaps of money left over to play with stuff. There nice cars to drive. Mine owes me $800 and its got air con cruise control power steering abs irs elec windows tow bar velour interior etc etc bla bla bla...I hate the things but for bang for ya buck cant go wrong.

Cheers.

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#140 _OtG_

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 01:32 PM

Matt, I had a black VU SS (not a fifty though) that I sold a few years ago... still miss it... so I feel your pain.

If you've got $9k to play with... you could go and get another small loan and easily pick up a very nice warmed over VY or maybe even early VZ SS ute for under $20k. Guess it depends what you want.

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#141 _doogs_

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 03:39 PM

That's no good Matt, I will definitely choose to have salvage rights in future insurance policies I take out.
+1 for a liquid injected XR6T ! That would be an awesome car especially with a few mods, and be cheap to run.