Recent content by PeteSS

ex demo from 2016. still a daily

Hi All, Long time member, though I usually lurk in the VF forum. Have recently bought a VK Calais which has an LS1 and T56. Has a few little quirks which I'm sorting through. On that is doing my head in is the Calais dash has a warning buzzer for certain things like coolant level, leaving...

Wouldn't a scan tool tell you where the issue is ? Mine was hesitant under acceleration with a rougher than usual idle. scan said issue with cylinder 6. ended up being a fouled plug

yep, very good numbers for the work performed, if its RWKW Things get a bit clouded nowadays as you have hub vs roller dyno. then you have auto vs ,manual. hard to judge what's what

Any photo's of the FE ?

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Pacemaker 1 7/8th . A bit tight near the right header as it was hitting everything in sight when they first put them on

Smart man. every dude needs a slush fund, or as I like to call it, the " for when I need to leave home in a hurry" account. This was my system when it was full 3 inch, with 100 cell cats. Since then the cats have changed to 200cell, mid section is 2.5, and also smaller mufflers. No loss in...

How quiet was it with the valves shut ? As quiet ads a stock system ?

Mine originally was that bad on cold start it would hunt for quite a while. Put it in gear and it would either stall or hunt as you drove along. Other times it would rev it balls off on startup, then stall when the revs dropped At certain revs when driving it would surge like crazy. plus the...

Agree. Mine is running a VCM5sc which VCM recommends having a 2500rrpm stall. Mine has standard stall converter was originally a bit of a dog, but after having the tune tweaked it's now fine. Idles around 700 and doesn't feel like it's pushing.

I have a 2300 Magnuson on mine with a smigin over 600rwhp. Had it for 7 years, about 70,000km with relatively no issues. As far as getting power to the ground.......:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

True, with added downforce you get drag. When circuit racing though , downforce is god An F1 car has that much drag that just taking your foot off the gas pedal will slow the car down with more force than many road cars with the brakes applied fully

Walkinshaw apparently took a car with HDT bodykit to England and threw it in a wind tunnel. it showed that no thought was put into the bodykit (apart from looking good) as the spoilers created lift, rather than downforce. The bodykit of the HSV VL looked hideous (still does) though it...

Not sure I'd agree. mine is an LS3 with a magnuson supercharger and vcm5SC cam. Stock bottom end, stock tranny, stock stall converter, and stock diff. Daily driver, and has been for nearly 7 years. Has oodles of power down low, even to the point of putting semi slicks on it and still having...