[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

so heres a few close ups of the rust she needs work

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

Thanks mate still a few little  adjustments to  make but its almost there

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

Same made a small bracket ive got it between  trumpets on 5 and 7 cylinders

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

Yes sure am ive got some sock filters from a company called outerwears  in the usa

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

so i promised more pics but here is a video instead bit of dyno sorry about the sh#$ camera guy i was nervious

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

sands vs wrote:

We have a matching numbers vh 253 vh and wanted to keep it that way…. BUT you can get the screaming along well we have a stroker 253/310 fully worked engine that will suprise people thats an option for you to keep numbers and get it moving. Want me info just ask. Should get up some more pics of it, where from here?

sorry mate missed your comment ill put up some more pics soon i think the old man just wants to keep her a stock 253 just a cruiser going to go all back to factory aside from springs and shocks not concourse but stock

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

SLE355 wrote:

Any word on the wheels mate?

going to keep the frs for the minute girlfriend may kill me if i spend any more on wheels haha but i will be changing them eventually

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

Ignore me if im wrong here but wouldnt you be better with a low pressure  lift pump in the main tank if your running a surge tank there wouldn’t  be a reason  to run such a big pump prior to the surge would there afterall youll have a pressure pump after it.

wouldn’t  you be running the chance  of aeration in the  fuel inside the surge force feeding it on start up and when the main pickup gets air

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[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Haha thanks sands sorry was at war with photo  bucket on point response  haha</p>

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

Well it appears  my engine is more famous  than me

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

So updates  well went in for its final tune made a decent  348rwkw peak but because  its a fresh engine we backed the timing off a touch and its running a very safe 330rwkw atm till ive run it in properly got photographed for sc the other day the photographer  couldnt believe  the detail and said hed try and convince  the  editor for a cover im so stoked haha other than that shes got just over 1000 kms on her now ill put some updated  pics up soon 

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SLO82 wrote:

i was only on SC yesterday looking at this again, no updates over there as the forum is dead… disappointed i logged off wondering what happened with its progress… today i find this forum. mate this thing is EXCELLENT, I have a VL Berlina in storage and Ive contemplated an LS conversion… your Calais may have convinced me

Mate just do it its all i have to say i love my 308s and rbs but  now this has had a proper  tune its just so good to drive if im under 3k rpm its so smooth i could drive it daily no issues but over 3k it turns into a tyre shredder

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VRSenator065 wrote:

Beautifil work mate, it’s the little things that make a big difference

Thanks mate sorry about the delayed  response  been so busy sorting the car out lol

 

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

vhman wrote:

Thanks for the Info capssy and dave, I have been looking into it further looks like Vl pedals $250 and slave $150 that’s about half the price of the mal wood set-up will call mal wood to find out about the Vt piston upgrade. What radiator are you guys both running?

pwr vl turbo in mine but the vl rad support is differnt for vb to vk you can modify a vh rad support to take a vl rad the vl turbo rad has inlet and out let on the drivers side makes life easy with the ls1

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

im running a mal woods shifter in mine works great firm shifts with the clutch master have you thought about going to a vl hydralic setup should bolt into a vh mal woods sells a vl master with a vt piston in it all youll need is a vl 6cyl pedal box

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

small updates nothing major booked in for a tune now just tidying a few things up that have been getting to me because i had to have the charcoal canister in the boot i wanted to hide it its pretty ugly think i did a good job also the autometer temp sender on the engine was a bit of an eye catcher so raided my scrap pile small amount of stainless problem solved

also decided to make up a pcv catch can air oil separator its made out of just scrap aluminium came up pretty good

boot before

boot after

engine before

engine after

catch can

not much else progress wise

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thanks for that mate looks like i may be able to use it sorry about the thread hijack lol

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VRSenator065 wrote:

capssy wrote:

hey mate are you able to give me some dimensions for the power steering pump im thinking the vl could use one but my space is limited aswell

OK mate, so have been able to do this. It measures 260mm high from the very bottom to the top of the black fill cap. The base is sort of rectangular, so excluding the two bits that protrude that are the mounting points its 150mm x 110mm Trust that helps

thanks mate any chance of a pic of the wiring and inlet outlet fittings cheers

[capssyParticipant Pro touring calais View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 178]

thanks mate whenever you get a chance 

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