Carbon Obsession: The FG G6E Jet
Every business starts somewhere. For RB Innovations, it started with this car.
The G6E Jet is my personal FG Falcon build, and it's been the testbed, the inspiration, and the reason I started making genuine carbon fibre parts for Australian platforms. When you're building a car yourself, you develop strong opinions about what's available in the market and how good it actually is. That frustration is where RB Innovations came from.
It started life as a daily driver. These days it's a weekend car, which tells you everything about where the build is headed.
The Barra: 500whp and Climbing
The heart of the Jet is a Barra inline-six, which if you know anything about Australian car culture, you already know is one of the best foundations for big power on the planet. The factory G6E Turbo is no slouch to begin with, but factory numbers aren't what this build is about.
Right now it's making 500 wheel horsepower. That's enough to make it a serious handful on the street, which is part of why it's moved off daily duty. But 500whp isn't the destination. Sitting in the shed is a Garrett G42 turbo, and the plan is to push this thing well past the 1000hp mark. The Barra platform handles big power better than almost anything, and there's still a lot of headroom left in this build.
The rocker cover has been custom painted, which gives the engine bay a bit of personality while still looking clean. The star of the engine bay, though, is the carbon fibre coil cover, moulded to sit over the Barra like it belongs there. It's one of the first carbon parts I made for the FG platform, and it's held up perfectly through everything this engine has thrown at it.
Carbon Inside and Out
The interior is where the build really comes together as a cohesive theme. The steering wheel is a carbon fibre unit, aggressive enough to remind you you're in something serious every time you get behind it.
Drop your hand to the console and there's the carbon fibre shifter surround, one of the parts we now sell for the FG and FG-X platform at RB Innovations. It integrates cleanly into the factory layout without looking like an afterthought, which matters to me. I've never been interested in bolting things on just to say they're there. If it doesn't look like it belongs, it shouldn't be on the car.
The shifter surround in particular is something I'm proud of. We offer it in a few finishes, including gloss twill, gloss forged, and matte forged, all genuine carbon fibre, vacuum bagged and heat cured. If you're building an FG and want to know what it looks like fitted, this is it. You can see the full range of FG carbon fibre parts on the site.
The Stance
The wheel and tyre setup is a big part of what makes this car look the way it does. It's running chrome multi-piece wheels, 19x9.5 at +18 offset up front and 19x10.5 at +25 in the rear. Those are aggressive numbers, particularly the front offset, and the car sits slammed. There's no gap, no fender roll gap, nothing. It fills the guard properly.
Getting fitment like that right on an FG takes work. The +18 offset on a 9.5-wide wheel at the front is not something you just bolt on and drive away. It's the kind of detail that separates a build with a clear vision from one that's just collecting parts.
From Daily to Weekend Car
There's something that happens when a build crosses a certain threshold. The car stops being a tool you use every day and becomes something you're more deliberate with. The G6E Jet crossed that line a while back.
500whp on public roads isn't something you take lightly, and with bigger power on the way, keeping it as a weekend car just made sense. It means I can push the build further without compromising on what the car needs to do. When it does come out, it comes out properly.
That's the approach I've always had with builds. Everything should be intentional. Every part should earn its place. It's the same standard I hold our carbon fibre parts to, which is part of why I started manufacturing them in the first place. If you're curious about what goes into making genuine parts versus the cheap stuff that floods the market, our post on how to spot fake carbon fibre before you buy covers it in detail.
What's Next
The G42 is waiting. The supporting mods to push past 1000hp are in the planning stages. This build is nowhere near finished, and that's the point. A car like this is never really done, it just moves into the next phase.
As the build progresses, I'll be documenting it here. And where parts get developed or refined along the way, those will find their way into the RB Innovations catalogue as well. The Jet has always been the proving ground for what we make. That's not changing.
If you're building an FG or FG-X and want to talk parts, get in touch through the site. And if you want to see more of the build, check out the gallery.
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