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For those that remember the gold mid/late 90's 3.0L V6 Magna (rego: BOOYA) from the 4, 6 and Rotary Nationals... it looks like he decided to get serious! He was on the SA part of our forum for a short while too.

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looks like the photos were taken here at Wayville Showgrounds, with the Truckworks tow truck in the background of one pics, and a GTS Monaro with SA plates in another pic. Wasn't there a Street Machine show or something the other week at Wayville? Methinks he was down here for that. He is from Alice Springs fyi, and seemed like a nice enough bloke to talk to, but got mighty defensive (as I would too) when some of us bagged him on the forums for having a Magna :D

By the 'looks' of the modifications this thing has big hp potential! It's got a pretty big turbo, huge FMIC, serious fuel system (custom rail and just look at the hardware in the boot!) it even has a custom plenum. If the internals have been upgraded then it would be very interesting to see just how much grunt this engine makes? A turbocharged 3.0L V6 would have a bucketload of torque too.

Yeah, big HP and FWD are a scary combination.

Remember Nightcrawler test driving a hotted up turbo cordia many moons ago, me in the passenger seat, and this thing hitting boost and swapping lanes on us in the blink of an eye!

Never again I said.

yes that was certainly one of the scaries moments I have had in a car ..... luckily we were on MacIntyre Road and there was a lane to spare, otherwise we'd have been toast. I obviously didn't buy it after that experience.

hey i saw that car here quite a while ago ... he used to have a huuuuge wing ... LOL i guess all the baggin on this forum made him take it off ... but how much would all those mods cost to do?? and only 240fwhp .... thats like 180fwkw ... hardly seems worth it??

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