Veewhyfan
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Hi Commodore nerds!
I've bought a VY of a mate at work for $1000, in effort to tow my race car 5 years ago when my Volvo S40 Turbo was getting annoying. And, it's been the most satisfyingly boring, reliable, comfortable piece of transport I think I've ever owned.
Would ya look at that.
Anyway as I was pretty confident this was the last VY on earth that didn't have some super lows in it,
Ahhh, now it looks like all the others.
When I was a wee P plater, the cops used to get around in these things and well, they left an impression to a kid with only a handful of points left at any given time. But no ****, I'm in my mid 30's now, what the heck am I doing putting lowering springs in commodores :S
Anyway, a chance arose to enter a spot as part of the NSW Road Race's Club 6hr Regularity.
www.nswrrc.com.au
If you haven't been a dofus as part of an event like this, highly recommended. You will have a freekin ball. It's designed to get a load of mates together (usually teams of 6) and then you take it in turns being on the track during a 6hr "race" . I say race.... because as it's designed, you get about 15mins on track then you cool down for 40, 45 before you go again, so everyone just fangs it like animals, but heck. it's a freeking joy
Here is the stock registered daily driver $1000 commodore with 280 thousand km's enjoying a break after the event last year.
I'm about to head to NSW to do it all again March 12-13th. The plan is to meet up with my Dad (he lives up further north) and we will take it in turns driving the pile of mush around in circles.
Oh, don't you have a race car I hear you say? well yes, and no, its on jack stands like all good project cars that are nearly rarely done. :S And no not a commodore, a '71 Renault of all things. Don't worry about it, I'm pissed at it at the moment.
Anyway I was honestly surprised how much fun I had in this thing, there is nothing quite like out breaking wosses in MX5's, having the ABS dance like a bronco, then lighting up a single wheel as you try to smoke them out of the corner hahah.
And it was super great to share this experience with my Dad. Like all boomers he used to fsk around with rally cars in the 60's and 70's, then he was just cruizing around the milk bars with chokes pulled out making it sound like you had a phat cam in your Dads then Morris Minor, then he had kids yarda yarda and never got a chance. He hadn't done anything like this before on a race track, had a dam ball.
Do this to your Dad too.
One thing that did suck last time was getting tossed around in the stock seat, so there was a shitty Sparco in the garden shed, and thanks to some ebay seller (crank) he saved me the hassle of welding braces and tabs onto the stock seat base. So I have a "complete seat" I can quickly swap out when I get up there.
Noice!
She's due for a service and bunch of bushes now anyway (all stock and wobbly underneath), so thanks to all you, well I've gone and got a polyurathane kit coming to replace just about everything, and you know, since I'm doing all that, would be a shame to put the stock sway bars back in. So again, thanks to all you before me a whiteline kit is coming too. Jesus there is some sh1t on this place but something that resonated with most of you was how much you enjoyed the stiffer front sway bar. I'm excited now too.
Finally, yeah brakes are due also (again, haven't replaced them after buying it 5yrs ago, talk about economy) so some slightly fancier slotted DBA's with $$ pads are en route also.
That should do it. it's a freeking daily after all either way.
If I have some cash left over I'll get some second hand Yoko's AO's or something, but again, once we dropped the PSI in the... actually I'm not sure what they are.. oh they are "Goodride, SA-07" hahaha, ah well there ya go, they were plenty comfortable for at least ~7, 8 laps of SMSP before they got proper sloppy, pretty sure we ran them at ~28psi, More credit to how well these stock sh1tboxes handle then if we had all that fun on a set of SAO's. Perhaps that also explains the one wheel skid show when ever we got near a MX5
Anyway, next weekend I should have bushes, hopefully it's dry and It can swap em all out before dinners ready.
But a genuine thanks to all the ramblings here, it was great to read over you whom have done similar things, it really helped nail down what I wanted to do. Cheers!
Go do motorsport in your commodores everyone.
I've bought a VY of a mate at work for $1000, in effort to tow my race car 5 years ago when my Volvo S40 Turbo was getting annoying. And, it's been the most satisfyingly boring, reliable, comfortable piece of transport I think I've ever owned.
Would ya look at that.
Anyway as I was pretty confident this was the last VY on earth that didn't have some super lows in it,
Ahhh, now it looks like all the others.
When I was a wee P plater, the cops used to get around in these things and well, they left an impression to a kid with only a handful of points left at any given time. But no ****, I'm in my mid 30's now, what the heck am I doing putting lowering springs in commodores :S
Anyway, a chance arose to enter a spot as part of the NSW Road Race's Club 6hr Regularity.
NSW 6Hour
If you haven't been a dofus as part of an event like this, highly recommended. You will have a freekin ball. It's designed to get a load of mates together (usually teams of 6) and then you take it in turns being on the track during a 6hr "race" . I say race.... because as it's designed, you get about 15mins on track then you cool down for 40, 45 before you go again, so everyone just fangs it like animals, but heck. it's a freeking joy
Here is the stock registered daily driver $1000 commodore with 280 thousand km's enjoying a break after the event last year.
I'm about to head to NSW to do it all again March 12-13th. The plan is to meet up with my Dad (he lives up further north) and we will take it in turns driving the pile of mush around in circles.
Oh, don't you have a race car I hear you say? well yes, and no, its on jack stands like all good project cars that are nearly rarely done. :S And no not a commodore, a '71 Renault of all things. Don't worry about it, I'm pissed at it at the moment.
Anyway I was honestly surprised how much fun I had in this thing, there is nothing quite like out breaking wosses in MX5's, having the ABS dance like a bronco, then lighting up a single wheel as you try to smoke them out of the corner hahah.
And it was super great to share this experience with my Dad. Like all boomers he used to fsk around with rally cars in the 60's and 70's, then he was just cruizing around the milk bars with chokes pulled out making it sound like you had a phat cam in your Dads then Morris Minor, then he had kids yarda yarda and never got a chance. He hadn't done anything like this before on a race track, had a dam ball.
Do this to your Dad too.
One thing that did suck last time was getting tossed around in the stock seat, so there was a shitty Sparco in the garden shed, and thanks to some ebay seller (crank) he saved me the hassle of welding braces and tabs onto the stock seat base. So I have a "complete seat" I can quickly swap out when I get up there.
Noice!
She's due for a service and bunch of bushes now anyway (all stock and wobbly underneath), so thanks to all you, well I've gone and got a polyurathane kit coming to replace just about everything, and you know, since I'm doing all that, would be a shame to put the stock sway bars back in. So again, thanks to all you before me a whiteline kit is coming too. Jesus there is some sh1t on this place but something that resonated with most of you was how much you enjoyed the stiffer front sway bar. I'm excited now too.
Finally, yeah brakes are due also (again, haven't replaced them after buying it 5yrs ago, talk about economy) so some slightly fancier slotted DBA's with $$ pads are en route also.
That should do it. it's a freeking daily after all either way.
If I have some cash left over I'll get some second hand Yoko's AO's or something, but again, once we dropped the PSI in the... actually I'm not sure what they are.. oh they are "Goodride, SA-07" hahaha, ah well there ya go, they were plenty comfortable for at least ~7, 8 laps of SMSP before they got proper sloppy, pretty sure we ran them at ~28psi, More credit to how well these stock sh1tboxes handle then if we had all that fun on a set of SAO's. Perhaps that also explains the one wheel skid show when ever we got near a MX5
Anyway, next weekend I should have bushes, hopefully it's dry and It can swap em all out before dinners ready.
But a genuine thanks to all the ramblings here, it was great to read over you whom have done similar things, it really helped nail down what I wanted to do. Cheers!
Go do motorsport in your commodores everyone.
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