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It’s not so cut and dried, a mate if mine recently did a 9.9 is a turbo statesman at AIR and wasn’t booted.

Thanks for the relay tip.  Would anyone be able to show me a basic wiring layout of how to do it?  I am guessing Supercheap would sell them?

Not going injected simply as I want to keep it original even though I know it would be better . Imo this car deserves to be left as it is. I think with a carby rebuild it should be sorted. The Quadrajet is a…[Read more]

Cheers, I might try cleaning up what’s there first, then if that doesn’t solve it give that a go.

Have driven the old girl to work for the last couple of days, I want to put some miles on it to flush out any problems.  So far so good, once it has started it runs perfectly.  But only little niggle is it loses cranking speed and so is hard to start once it’s hot, I am guessing the cable to the starter and/or earth lead are bit corroded, so m…[Read more]

I like the look mate, perfect height.

Yep, agreed very understated, I like it a lot.

That would be fun, at some stage I want to put mine on the weighbridge and see what it comes out at, the cast iron block, 12 bolt etc will all add some weight.  If you can trust those ET calculators supposedly if I hooked it up it would be nudging the high 9’s, but all I ever wanted from mine was…[Read more]

Sounds like a bloody awesome piece of kit mate!!  It’s a bit hard to compare the sound at this stage, as the whole set up is different really, it’s making roughly 150HP more than before so it will always sound different.  I was surprised on the dyno how nice it was at idle, given the large lift and cam specs etc I expected it to be rougher.  Th…[Read more]

Forgot to update this, been a bit distracted with the Senator!!  But I can confirm I love this car!! It’s such a cool cruiser. It makes you want to wind down the window, have the elbow out, one had on the wheel and cruise.  We have a race meeting coming up in Whyalla, and lately, it’s been hotter than the surface of the sun here in S.A. So d…[Read more]

Of all the later HSV’s these I like the most, very understated almost elegant looking.  I find all the others too loud and over the top.  Very nice.

Wow, that’s like 900 fwhp right?  NA?

Yep, 100% its the manifold, you can see it in the manifold vacuum.  Actually, Brenton just did all the maths on the numbers and it should spin quite well to 7,200.  It made up 150hp from 5-6k rpm, so who knows what its got in it.  my guess well north of 800hp, maybe 825.  It’s a streeter, that’s enough.  In all honesty anything over 500hp and it’s…[Read more]

Lol, yea my heart was in my mouth I have to say.  First time I have ever been involved with an engine dyno, I think its the way to go if you can.  Quite a few little niggles we were able to sort out quickly, that if it was in the car either would have had us scratching our heads, or much been more difficult to get access too.  Now when I get it ba…[Read more]

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Thanks, Sands, yea very happy to see how nicely it starts and idles, I just did the conversion and that’s 930Nm of torque, multiply that through the drivetrain and its going to be quite a torque monster, which is what I want.  Happy days.

I know right 

No Cav, the intake starts to choke it after 6k.  It would I think easily make over 800 if it could spin to 7 which it is capable of.  But that would mean a different inlet manifold which I am not doing.  I spoke to Brenton and he thinks the torque converter will be fine for street stuff as it is.  My plan is to drive and enjoy the bloody thing for…[Read more]

No Cav, the intake starts to choke it after 6k.  It would I think easily make over 800 if it could spin to 7 which it is capable of.  But that would mean a different inlet manifold which I am not doing that.  I spoke to Brenton and he thinks the torque converter will be fine for street stuff as it is.  My plan is to drive and enjoy the bloody thi…[Read more]

That’s on my ECU,  “should” drop it in, hook it up and hit the loud pedal.  Tbh before with ~600 it was mental, I am not sure what its  going to be like with 150 more, but can’t wait to find out.  Just so pleased with it, very satisfying assembling it myself, and hearing it.  The phone sound doesn’t really do it justice, happy days!!

Start and…[Read more]

750HP, pretty much on the dot :   Maxing out the intake, makes a shit ton of torque.  Sounds absolutely incredible in person, literally your rib cage vibrates.  Easy has 800+ in it if I wanted to cut a hole in the bonnet and go a big intake, but that not what I want, or what the cars about. Over the moon, so happy, for me the perfect st…[Read more]