BF Powered XF Race Car

Installing the BF throttle pedal









Heaps easy to do this job while the front guards are off the car

Got the trailing arms done for the EL diff.  I went brand new super pro bushes in the body end of the trailing arm and the best original ones on the diff end.









Mel got her first fuel cell

Got all the cables terminals crimped thanks to autobarn





20L fuel cell



Marduk needed a little tinkering so she got to meet the new edition.





Getting things tidy



Time to play with the fuel system  with new fittings and fuel lines.  Also got oil for the gear box and some grease for the shifter. A new isolator switch in there too.



Setting up the fittings on the pump



Tail shaft is cut down and balanced.  Bloody beautiful job done by Pro Port engine performance.

A few brews and time to install the roll cage.





Next day I need some more fittings for the fuel system.





Fuel system done and ready to take to my mate to paint.

At my mates to paint !!



Pics of the fuel system I installed

Parts getting prepped for paint!

Parts are getting painted!



Cutting hole for the scoop







Colour!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Mels hard at the sanding!
 

 

 

 
More Colour!!!
 

 



 

Another update guys!  Not as huge as the last one but if i don't get it all up now I will make some more posts the next couple of days.

Car masked up and ready to undercoat









Undercoat

on

Got more color on! Shes looking great for a racer!

Next day sun baking!

Putting some parts back on

Another update guys!

So we pushed it out into the sun so she can bake the paint a bit. There is a lot of dents we missed but it still looks cool. Its a race car anyway so we weren't looking for a show n shine finish.








Shes a bit dusty inside but we will clean all that up.

Now the silver has been laid on for a couple of days its time to paint on the racing stripes!

Marking them out!





Taped up and lightly sanded where the stripes go.



Prep wash





And paint em on!!

Couldn't be happier with the result. Me and Mel are loving it. Our dream is coming to life!

looking mad with stuff getting bolted on.

Got more work done this afternoon!

Back bumper bolted on





Side skirts dummy fitted





Front bumber on






Hornet scoop on for all the killawasps lol

HI everyone just thought i'd make this post to keep everyone in the loop.  I only finished the car last night and I'm getting ready to load it onto the trailer today to go to our first race with it this weekend.  I haven't had a chance to make any updates as I have been working constantly on the car.  If i'm not at work I'm in the garage working on the car  So when I get home from our race this weekend expect a massive update from where I have left off till after our first race.  I also noticed stupid photobucket has broken all my links to my pics in this thread.  so there is many hours there just to fix that, god I hate photobucket!!

Anyway cheers everyone for following my thread and Just praying the car will go good this weekend at the Wondai Street Sprints.

Ok so here we done a couple of measurements so I could get a custom swaybar made.  I was using a XG Ute swaybar to measure from.





Gluing on the rest of the body kit!



I had to take off the back wheels to screw the kit on properly



using what every I could find to hold the kit to the car lol



And its done!

And so it was time to take her home to finish her!



back home safe!





New back rotors to suit the EL diff.





Time to take off all the racey suspension bits and big brakes from Marduk(XD) and put them onto the XF racer!

So off came the big brakes, XYZ coilovers and SPC upper control arms from the XD.



that hurts lol



fitting the crap springs and shocks back into the XD.



replacing all the ball joints in the XF while i'm going!





new bottom ball joints on the XF

Coilover and upper control arms installed into the XF race car!



new tie rod ends installed



Sub axle hub installed



one side done!

Other side getting done!



All transferred over and semi slicks bolted on!



time for a windscreen to go in thanks to Ben at windscreens obrien.





In and one happy camper!

So its was time to start on the arse end!  Our rear coilover weren't going to arrive on time for the race so I had to borrow springs and shocks from my brother from his old XF.  The tall spring is the standard one and the 2 short black spring are from our XE (The Sheriff) which are taxi pack springs.  We used my brothers red ones.





Our Super Barra stickers arrived in the post!



I decided to make a stronger gearbox mount so I used an old Banana crossmember from a T5 speed XF Gearbox and a plate of steel.

I mounted a fuel gauge for the fuel cell and a fire extinguisher.  Also made a mount for a tablet so we can have RPM, Coolant Temp and other gauges displayed on it.



Custom swaybar arrived in the nick of time.  You can see the difference from the XG to the custom one.  Also check out how thick it is.