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I’m a full time guillotine and brake press operator at a sheet metal factory, the little guy that gets little to no recognition :stress:
wow, pretty nuts install! Is your mate Callum from coin slot by any chance? I know he changed business names recently?
Hey mate, thanks!
Yes, same Callum- his new business is called AV-DC and now located in Panorama
Looking awesome mate, some great work being put in to it. I have seen Loudz Creations work on Facebook and am a huge fan. One day I would like to get some done for the VR one day but need to buy the aftermarket Altezza lights for him to modify. Plus would cost a bit to get done too.
Jamie has done some awesome work with Loudz, we originally discussed what we were going to do with my VS headlights, you will need the altezza headlights for the clear lenses, as the stock glass lenses will screw with light projection :whistle2:
I will not publicly put a price on what mine cost but if you’re curious with roughly how much it will cost PM me Nick
Oh look, it’s just a lex-
HOLY MOTHER OF TITTY F*CKING JEEBUS!This I was not expecting at all, this is an amazing example of high end engineering, along with more dedication than I will probably ever have with my car!
My hat goes off to you sir!
And the most recent update as of yesterday:
Erm…
Done front pads and rotors, then a swapped my stock grey series 1 dash pad with a black series 2 calais dash pad, including all of the lower dash bits
Future tutorial will be added when I take it out again, for a certain reason… ;)
Okay, I forgot to add that I bought some eBay Altezza lights with projectors, shown below installed not long after buying the car.
These projectors were f*cking terrible for light output, even with Philips +60 globes in and literally hours of trying to adjust them with the beam not moving.
0/10 do not recommend.
I have a good friend who does custom car lighting and accessories as a hobby, so he hooked me up a good deal.
I dropped off my old headlights that came from the car and he worked some damn good magic with them.
Wanted to keep a stock OEM style look and I reckon it was achieved quite well.
Lenses before being restored to near new, 15 years old and not looking so pretty.
After being restored and with 3 coats of clear on the lense, that way the lense will NEVER fade or go yellow and hazy, AGAIN!
The new headlights have high quality Morimoto projectors and housings retro fitted, along with a custom park light setup.
During the installation process.
Done!!
Now some pics of lighting day and night.
Finally done, thanks for looking.
Okay, continuing form where we left off.
These pillars are eventually going to be painted beige to colour match the rest of the interior beige trims.
We were so damn close to leaving them in black texture coat..
But no we didn’t, we ended up painting them white because that’s all the paint store had at the time.
Near finished pic of them.
At this point the car was sounding the best it ever had, even running off the head unit!
This happened mid December, hadn’t touched it since.
Okay, time to continue!
Next on the agenda was some custom A-pillars for the small drivers I had bought quite a while ago.
Callum at AV-DC was more than awesome to turn these around in 3 days, still not quite completed but they are 90% of the way there!
Next day, hand sanded then filled, ready for primer.
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Nick.
Then me and 10 other guys haulled ass to Echuca Moama for a car audio event one weekend and cleaned up quite nicely.
By cleaning up, I mean winning most of the trophies LOL!
Best score I got from that setup was 151.5db @41hz musically.
Done hair tricks too!!
Then I broke one sub and it was over.
Upgraded to VY tail lights with looms for cheap.
Got a dash cam at the opening night of my friend’s audio and electronics business.
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First, installed the new Aerpro single din facia kit for VT-VX, sweet!
This setup netted a 151.1db @45Hz, was fun to beat on while it lasted.
Next one was a bigger, more badass box for my two prototype 18″ subs!
Bunnings screwed up at the register, so I only paid $30ish for 3 sheets of 16mm MDF LOL.
My mates piss farting around, discussing how stupid this is going to be (in a good way)
Each corner of the box got a steel radius to maximize efficiency in air flow.
Gotta make that cable as neat as possible!
Big f*ck off radius round overs on the front.
For size reference, my mate is similar size to me, and because lolz.
Few pics of installation.
Thanks Gary, I’m hoping to give my contributions towards the forum with How-To guides for VX Commodores and V6 Ecotec engines, slowly but surely
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