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Hey chaps. On my VE SS with L98 v8 I’ve had a mystery oil in exhaust making copious amount of smoke. Now it’s done so 3x each on a second drive after a very short drive at cold start. Once the smoke clears it drives perfectly. There is no change to oil pressure when this occurs. Checked...

Looks nice. Had a disco3. Was good until we had to throw it away after it split the coolant matrix 50km outside of Alice springs. Toasted the rings so it cost more to fix than car was worth. Prob a good idea to check this part lol.

I like when they put the chev badge on the v6. Kinda like putting an m badge on the blisteringly quick 318i or amg badge on the lowly 180c merc. I don’t thing Great Wall have a performance aftermarket badge as yet so nothing to aspire to with those utes.

Commodore owners aren’t bogans. They are distinguished ladies and gentlemen. It’s stereotyping at its best. It’s like saying all men that hold hands and have poo in their mustaches are gay.

Not sure what nittos u have. The ps4 or ps4s are excellent tyres for straight line traction. As for track days u prob need something with harder sidewalls. That’s why I’m going for the RE-71R as I’ll only be an occasional track day warrior. Not many locals have used these as they are special...

my login seems to work perfect . I haven’t been banned from anything since annoying the old ladies at the Hobart casino poker machines. 24 hrs they banned me for. Bastards

I’ve acually gone the other way on the commodore mainly due to a change of wheels. Went from ps4 to Bridgestone s02. The car actually is more fun to drive now as the ps4 had so much grip that it was a little dull where due to the less grip of the Bridgestones it’s more fun. Prob due to the...

Reading the posts here is almost as amusing as when my friend tried to explain why he stole the baby Jesus from the local nativity display when he was drunk. Keep the insults going. People have got to realise that often people are taking the piss. I guess the Koreans are making some semi...

Not sure what would improve the zb commodore. It’s more unloved than Rolf Harris at the nudist camp. Maybe they need to sex it up a little. Or add some options. Roof racks with old school luggage and bbs rs 3 piece wheels with some overstretched tyres perhaps?

That sucks. Especially after 50 quality posts.

Btw I hate dissing on Holden almost as much as changing the cat litter box. It’s pretty sad really. Seen a handful on the road now. They kinda got that homogenised 5 door hatchback look about them where it’s hard to tell who makes it. They need to make a sexy nice powered car sub 60k...

Been going the no sugar option on the mixed drinks. 400kj instead of about 1000kj per drink. So far sampled (mike Literous homeowner rating out of 10 compared to normal non sugar options) bundy (8.7) Wild turkey 101 (9.1) Jack Daniel (7.8). Have not tried the Jim beam as yet. Any other...

I’ll be looking at some Brembos shortly also, as I have a set of redline staggered rims. Does the caddalack 4 piston brembos need some reversal of the link pipe?

Lol who’s house are you casing out. Should I leave a trolly for you to wheel the tv onto the Ute.

I turn mine off every time I start the car. Can u permanently disconnect it by pulling the switch or pulling a fuse Update. Pull fuse 9 on the engine fuse box and traction control goes away on VE SS. No warnings or no lights on dash

Yes I’ve been partial to the Holden brand since I had my LX torana back in 85’. The prognosis is not good. Hope dosent go the way of GM SAAB. I guess at the end of the day market forces will dicktate what happens. Either ppl will buy the product or it won’t. So far they aren’t. I feel...

Update. Picked up car yesterday fresh with koni adjustable shocks, some new front roll bar links and 2 new diff mounts. Front on full soft and rears with 1/2 turn from full soft. Ride is much improved in the way it takes the initial harshness out of rough roads. Seems to improve...

I’d prob wait to the warranty runs out before modifiying it. Congrats on the new ride. Must be a true petrol head, thinking about modifications the moment u pick up a new car. Brother I know how u feel

Haha yes all bmw owners will go to hell. I must admit I’d prob like it more if it had come from a different manufacturer and didn’t have a Kia badge. Maybe I’ve had the image of the Damir Docic from the ad campaign from some years back. Badge snobbery is hard for me to overcome. I’m seeing...

Liking a Kia I’d imagine will be almost as painful as licking the white dog ****.

Simmons will look nice without whitewalls IMO. Maybe consider going 19” with more sidewall as tyres will have more grip to harness all that engine power. With grip, it will be even more fun than watching girls finger each other on the internet.

Sad but u gotta make cars people want. And you should have some aspirational models. Is the CEO going to drive around in a new commodore. Prob not. Ford (the previous laughing stock) seem to be doing much better as they have some popular cars being the mustang, ranger, festva, and focus...

Yes no duplicate threads now. Sorry LOL

Yes no duplicate threads now.

Business idea or hobby. Maybe if u have the time buy late model wrecked cars and dismantle them and sell off the good bits and scrap the rest. Perhaps at $440 per week u are in the wrong job. Even labour hire in Melbourne on construction sites will earn well over $300/day. Often on the...

Cool. Last few posts have caused duplications which is a pain. Nevermind

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Bit of a fred revival but couldn’t be bothered making my own. Finally pulled the pin on some koni yellows for the VE Ute. Had them in a few cars and they are really good, especially in controlling the initial bump on our crappy public roads. The last straw with the king/Munroe setup was...

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I like it when the petrol prices go up. Less traffic as the poor people are not driving as much. Should increase it to over $2/ltr

36 lb/hr only gives about 310bhp on 6cyl @ 3bar fuel pressure. I’d probably go slighly bigger and use an adjustable FPR and if u have too much fuel trim the fuel pressure down. That way if u wack up the boost u have some margin for error. Depends how u are adjusting fuel but the injectors...

U can run wider 255 or 265 if the clearance allows but oversized tyres tend to wear the centre of the tread out and it kinda looks wrong. Like a skimpy bikini with the rendering hanging out the sides.

Run as big a pipe as u can. All my pipe on the vortech bmw 540i runs 3” for about 600bhp. Prob min 2.5” but the larger pipe u run the less static pressure (air resistance) u have so effectively the less boost u lose due to the high pressure plumbing.

I’m pretty impressed by the AMG’s time. Nearly 2 tonne of luxo car should not be anywhere near as fast

Cool. 120k for a ranger? Gold lined engine bay perhaps LOL

Cool. 120k for a ranger? Gold lined engine bay perhaps LOL

I’ve never owned a performance automatic so I can’t comment. On the diff gears though it’s not a straightforward answer. As the power levels go up, low diff gears can be counter productive If u carry weight, tow, or car power is still modest (say under 300rwkw), or u like making effortless...

If u get 40 points do you receive a packet of anusol wipes that are now discontinued.

On a track day I may get 8psi variation with std air so u have to pump tyres up to 28psi cold to get 36hot. 28 makes for an interesting first lap.

As Molly Meldrum said - do yourself a favour. Just building a set of bbs RS for the e34. Rears will be 18x10.75 should be able to fit 275/35/18 on there Just drilling 136x holes in 10mm of aluminium as we speak. New lips were not pre drilled unfortunately.