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December 10, 2019 at 9:22 am #30743
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VS 5.0 wrote:

Spotto !! https://www.whichcar.com.au/events/fuchs-adelaide-auto-expo-2019?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019_12_06_SM&utm_term=list_streetmachine_newsletter

“Almost as impressive are the widened factory Senator rear alloys”

seems to undersell it lol
December 10, 2019 at 10:31 am #30746
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Yea I read that too, just a little bit more involved than just widening them…
December 10, 2019 at 12:41 pm #30748
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Journalists and facts ? Surely you jest.
December 10, 2019 at 1:15 pm #30749
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Tbh pretty happy to be amongst the quality of those other cars, I reckon mine would be close to the only real driver maybe?
December 10, 2019 at 4:04 pm #30753
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Happy VL anniversary
December 10, 2019 at 8:19 pm #30755
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GMH is dead, the VL lives on, at least it has the iron lion, not some jap crap or god forbid an american LS.
December 11, 2019 at 10:11 am #30759
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Anonymous wrote:

Happy VL anniversary

I saw that come up too, time flies right. Bloody love that car, not sure why, it’s only making about 100kW, but just cool to cruise in.

vin wrote:

GMH is dead, the VL lives on, at least it has the iron lion, not some jap crap or god forbid an american LS.

Ahh yes, but my LS is iron not ally….
December 12, 2019 at 7:10 pm #30772
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technically then it would qualify
January 11, 2020 at 9:43 am #31047
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Wow, looks like Commodores Plus has its first 100,000 view thread. Given I created this forum I am pretty bloody proud of that!! (I know that’s self indulgent!!)
April 19, 2020 at 3:50 pm #31964
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Hey Gary any chance you could find out the degrees your engine sits back , straight edge on the face or the crank
April 19, 2020 at 6:41 pm #31967
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Hi Frazer, should maybe be able to, although I have it over at a secret squirrel location. while I do the Kombi. But as it turns out I thought its time to fire it up and take it for a drive. So had it on charge today. This is the first fire up for a few months, apologies the video is a little dark. But I think its a bit angry I have been ignoring it
April 19, 2020 at 8:14 pm #31969
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Isn’t it a fan of cold starts?
April 19, 2020 at 8:41 pm #31970
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Never has been Cav. I think it’s a down side of the ITB’s. Once it’s warm it’s sweet as.
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April 19, 2020 at 9:36 pm #31973
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Cold starts are one of the most difficult areas of the map to tune as you really only get one go per 24 hour period, the factory does such a good job everyone takes it for granted…
April 20, 2020 at 7:08 am #31976
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Cava when’s your going to start
April 20, 2020 at 8:57 am #31978
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Anonymous wrote:

Cold starts are one of the most difficult areas of the map to tune as you really only get one go per 24 hour period, the factory does such a good job everyone takes it for granted…

Hadn’t thought of it that way, makes perfect sense. I guess too by the time you have changed the map, the engines warmed up a bit.
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April 20, 2020 at 9:00 am #31979
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Yep, the second it fires everything after isn’t a cold start, really hard thing for Tuners to get right, it’s something I tweak myself as it takes so much time..
April 20, 2020 at 9:03 am #31981
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We sure take modern cars for granted. Hot, cold, rain, shine whatever, hit the key and they start and purr. They also use no fuel and are incredibly reliable.
April 20, 2020 at 8:25 pm #31984
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A workmates brother in law worked for GMH. He drove around in vehicles fitted with industrial dataloggers that monitored everything. The vehicles were his daily drivers so they they get bulk data for every part of driving in real world use.
June 12, 2020 at 3:46 pm #32318
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Just had a chance to take it out for a decent drive at lunchtime (some benefits in Iso). Prob first good drive since it tried to kill me. Did a plug change first as I hadn’t done that since the dyno runs etc. Started great, let it warm up and just beautiful. Man, I never tire of driving this thing. Really strong lumpy idle, actually relatively docile at cruise speed, but holy crap, just even squeeze the loud pedal and its just invades all the senses. Did the obligatory small burn out (on a private road), basically just off idle, would have easily just blown the tires off if I wanted without going anywhere near the limiter. Happy days, love it.
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