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The material delaminates from the board, you can't fix it. Replacing the material on the roof lining board is the fix.

With the good size range of drag racing tyres available today, I'd at least try a set that'll fit the car first and see how they go.

You'd need some strong conclusive evidence that a 15" wheel will significantly improve the vehicle performance over a wheel size that'll fit for the effort of fitment and cost of this kit.

Unless you were chasing a motorsport championship worth more than a plastic trophy and an hour of fame, the most I'd consider is fitting V6 brakes on the rear to fit smaller wheels. There's enough drag tyres available in 16/17/18" not to bother with a modification as radical as this for minimal...

Great stance on that Calais for a radical lowering! Note the front ride height matching the rear and maintaining the ideal roll axis for the suspension geometry. The popularity of dumping the rear only on the VE/VF platform, maximises understeer potential, the opposite of what's needed for a...

Yes! I've seen them on a black MY16 Redline with the chrome window and front bumper trim, lowered nicely with dark window tint and the car was a standout to me and looked really good! The full "black out" on black is too much black and isn't a look that inspires me.

We don't have any periodic examination requirements in SA for registered vehicles but the states who do, I'm thinking there would surely be some authorised workshops passing anything for the right fee.

I'm a fan of panhead's ute too with the silver Vossen wheels on it!

No, just the standard equipment GenF2 Clubsport/Maloo wheels.

How about these HSV wheels on a black Calais for a premature reproductive disfunction?

If you're using 15" wheels for drag racing traction, leave the sway bar disconnected. Sway bars increase spring rate on one rear wheel and unloads the opposite tyre from the road surface. Traction wise, rear sway bars make the car behave like an open diff vs a locked diff as a simple explanation.

I've fitted a couple of Calais and HSV head units with CD players into cars that don't have the Bose system and amp, and the speakers, fader controls etc work as normal. I only changed the VIN to unlock them from the donor vehicles and retained the OEM Calais or HSV software.

I had the Simmons wheels, springs and shocks and a set of RDA rotors we got for free to test waiting in the shed whilst my Redline ute was in transit from QLD. It rolled up on a tilt tray and that day, and I drove it whilst stock to the rego inspection place on a permit about 14km's from us...

The BMW Signature Forged wheels (proper one's) I bought in from the USA 2019 were around $6800 AUD landed. They'd go well over 10k looking at today's prices for the same wheels. These are ultra-light weight machined from a forged billet.

Ironically the brand of wheels on my Redline ute are "Forgestar" likely giving the impression that all of their wheels are forged. Although the company does a custom forged wheel, the shelf wheels I purchased are called "flow forged" which is a cast centre and spun rim. I must say for a...

I agree! I like the Senator bumper with the one-piece grill I think would work well on a Redline without over-emphasising the fitment of odd HSV parts.

Fortunately, we don't have much necessity to use tight car parks and avoiding places vulnerable to car park dents probably helps minimise the potential for wheel damage. If you're exposed to tight parking on a daily basis, the risk of wheel damage increases.

When my wife kerbed a wheel on my week-old VR GTS in 1995 with great composure to avoid losing my cool, I told her she needs to be more careful, and I'll have to buy a new wheel, she apologised and said ok. I got my wife to pick the new wheel up and write the cheque to pay for it, a stupid...

A proper forged wheel is machined from a billet that has been compacted with extreme force to a particular standard, the reason a good set aftermarket forged wheels today are round 8k. There's few claims of forged wheels that I'm a bit skeptical are the real deal.

"Gutter rash" a term that implies poor judgement and carelessness better described as crap driving is normal!

The Clubsport with the spoiler option to me, is a better looking car than the GTS. I don't the like yellow brake calipers or the black exhaust tips on the GTS along with the chrome window trim and rear spoiler.

Some may disagree, but I think the silver wheels on my old R8 makes the car look better than my mate's GTS with black wheels on red!

I don' think the GTS spoiler covers the holes, it's the Hyperflo R8 that does like this one.

An R8 spoiler will cover all holes.

KW are the best for track work. You'll be faster on the track with R spec tyres, stock suspension and a good set of brake pads.

I'm a black wheel hater, unable to erase the vision from my mind of an old VK with the hub caps missing!

The only Maloo with these wheels but in matte black was a GenF2 SV Black. I'm not aware of that style of wheel in gloss black. Sorry, I posted this before reading they've been repainted gloss black!

I haven't fitted the mode dial to a Series 1 to see how it functions.

I'm not into sound systems at all, but the fader not working annoyed me and discovering the rear speaker wires are in the dash harness plugs, I fitted those 6.5" Rockford Fosgate speakers in the rear of my ute wired to the fader and the sound system sounds much better!

A few weeks ago I called a shop in the US about torsion bar rates for a particular sprint car chassis and spoke to a couple of blokes who couldn't really answer the question. They put me through to their lead mechanic who runs their primary car in the World of Outlaws series and a woman answers...

The 9's are 3mm inboard or have 3mm less poke than the 8.5 at +48. The wider 275 tyre fills the guards a bit more. I think Holden rim widths and offset suck anyway and perhaps the cream roof lining bloke did the wheels too! HSV front wheels aren't bad with an 8.5 +36 and 255 tyre but the...

Ebay sellers and mobs like Holmart, like to imply they have the last of obsolete parts when in fact, they're not obsolete and are still available from Holden Parts dealers at a much cheaper price. The other day I bought a VF2 air intake sound tube blanking plate and cost me $39 with 26 in stock...

It's a Series 2 SSV Redline ute. The mode dial will fully function on any Series 2 V8 with the SSV dash cluster. Series 1 non-HSV doesn't have the bimodal exhaust for the mode dial to open and close the exhaust valves.

The rain sorts the men from the boys! I remember watching Shane Van Gisbergen in the wet in the early days and told our guys he's better than Whincup and they all laughed at me. About 3 weeks later, Roland Dane picked him to drive for Triple 8 and the rest is history!

Morgan Park is a good track, we raced there last in 2010 and blew an engine with a 5 second lead in the first race. We couldn't afford a spare engine and the loss of 3 races cost us the national title by 4 points that year.

We raced at Symmons once with a VN Commodore in 2006 at a Shannon's round of the National Series. We won the previous round at Wanneroo in WA and tested at Symmons with same setup and seemed to work the same. We won that round also and set the lap record still standing today although I don't...

Yes, the Bend owners bought Mallala a few years ago and is still used for state level circuit racing cars and bikes and drifting. It's a great track for handling setup and developing engine torque and if a car works at Mallala, it'll pretty well work anywhere except Wanneroo in WA and Symmons...

Yes indeed! I learned the hard way leaving cast cranks and pistons in engines for too many race km's despite crack testing, ended up in catastrophic failures. If only I'd changed those components at their use by date, we would have saved a lot of money in the long term.

With a 6 litre race engine that made 335rwkw with the stock ECU and I wouldn't say the tuner was exceptionally good, we ended up making 348kw with the Motec ECU playing around with injection timing and Indvidual cylinder trim along with the bonus of wideband lambda trim. At Mallala, we gained a...

I remember the first V8 Supercar engine I freshened up in 2012, was a Garry Rogers Aurora Chev from a VZ cost 24k in parts, 10k in the lifters and titanium valves, the camshaft with a different firing order only one bloke can supply was 2.5k. Easy to see how a brand new engine like these and 410...