my vk berlina

[ari666]

hi all. here is my ride.

VK 1984 berlina sedan
white, vomit blue interior

the HDT grille has been donated to someone elses car.


308 5 litre L31 VK black motor pre-ulp VT engine prefix 9.2:1 comp standard


inlet;

16' air filter
holley 750 VAC secondaries. brand new and SHINY grin
edelbrock performer inlet manifold

heads;


yella terra shaft mount roller rockers
hardened valve springs for to suit 500 lift
.194 inlet vlaves 1.6 ex,
unleaded seats
throated, edges taken off throats then mildly ported to match throat widths, polished exhaust ports.
chambers lightly deburred and brushed
oil gallerys deburred and polished
inlet and exhaust ports matched to manifolds
heads decked down to the hieght indicator
crack tested
new k-lines stem seals etc
cometic head gaskets

exhaust;
pacemaker headers
2.5' redback single system

internals;


engine valley and gallerys polished/deburred
crane 286 cam: 230 deg duration 496 lift
crane anti pump lifters
rollermaster timing chain
flat top pistons, crank/assembly balanced

carter fuel pump
holley fuel pressure reg. 6psi pressure
Z200 EFI fuel filter

bosch dizzy, regraphed by scorcher performance who made the advance curve so spasticly high the most advance i can get static is 11 degrees
Mallory coil
mallory 6AL ignition box
stock bosch plugs 6 heat range 1 mm gap
bosch steel leads

powermaster 140A alternator

transmission;
trimatic
stage 2 shift kit
2500 stall converter

diff:
3.55 LSD big salisbury 10 bolt

reco'd standard radiator
2x16'" craig davies thermos hard wired to 'on' position

CVR powertorque starter cos' standard starters dont like pacemaker headers. i killed two starter motors finding that out

standard VK sle alloy rims with crap tyres

running on optimax

[v8commy]

yeh pretty good what kinda power is it putin out?

[DANNY8]

Is this the one u said only put out 110rwkw?

[vkwalks39]

very nice, go the vk's. how much power are you looking at?

[ari666]

lol, i didnt realise people posted on this page. lol, ok well a few more pics anyway

flat tops


crank/block


almost complete




this block put out 110RWKW at its last dyno but i know for a fact it is a hell of a lot more than that now :P it puts a grin on my face... EAR TO EAR everytime is launches. cops like it too.

[v8commy]

whats it puttin out now?

[ari666]

i dunno yet. for some reason work has completely dried up so i am broke as f..k. its running a little on the lean side too so will stick a couple of bigger jets in it tomorrow then god knows when i can get it dyno'ed

my target when i first started was 220HP at the wheels cos' then on paper it would beat a 32 GTR.

you see, i work on japanese imports and my morkmates all poured scorn on me when i bought the VK saying "itll never go as fast as your GTR" which was stolen and with the insurance money i bought this instead with the idea that if it was stolen, i wouldnt care. but slowly i have been experimenting with mods to make it a bit of a weapon.

anyway, it breaks out at 60kmph if i tramp it and drop down to 1, which makes me smile

i would have to guess i hit the target of 220HP at the wheels but would really hope for more than that.

[v8commy]

yeh im aiming between 250-300 rwkw

[ari666]

lol, KW? not a chance. hp is being a little more reasonable but still not realistic. 300RWKW would be forced induction. i dont evn think the bathurst racecars had 300RWKW

[v8commy]

yeh 383 stoker vortec supercharger and if i have to turbo aswell

[ari666]

thought i may as well post this here;

[ari666]

thought i'd stick up a couple more pics

[AndyVKSSA]

all that work and it only made 147.5rwkw?

[monsteroz]

That is a very big carby for a 308

[ari666]

That is a very big carby for a 308

yeah, thats why dyno guy said. next mod is a HP body for my 650 double pumper and single plane manifold. he said thatll pump it up around 20 horses at the fly, but wont make much difference to RWKW, maybe 5-10

[monsteroz]

biggest problem with too bigger carby is lean problems at high revs.. or you are wasting fuel and down on horses... matched solution is best in this case.. bigger not necessarily better.. GO EFI

Sean

[ari666]

the whole challenge behind this build is to make a 308 to go faster in a straight line than a R32 GTR. the clauses are that it must be 308, not stroked, and carb'd. its a work thing, everyone still takes the piss outta me for modding a commodore...

[ari666]

so this weekend was a commitment of re-doing my inlet manifold, because i descovered that i could no longer remove my distributor ?!?! anyways, refitted the manifold without dramas, fitted a 1 inch phenlonic spacer, cut the choke horn off my 650 DP an ground it down nice an flat and fitted that.

only to descover to my dismay that this carby is nowhere near setup for this engine in regards to power valve, jets, pump shots etc. so now i have to go through the whole precess of getting it all working efficiently again.

*sigh*

[grovers_1983]

nice car sucks about the carby

[ari666]

meh, i put the quaddy back on in an attempt to save fuel. runs well, has no balls tho.

[Darren_L]

leave the Quaddy on and take the car to someone who knows how to set them up - you'll be much happier with the results.
the power output does seem a little low for the engine work you have done. Are you sure the cam timing is spot on ? A couple of degrees out can really dull an engines performance

[ari666]

yeah i dialled it in at zero. the cam card said 0.81(?) inlet lobe lift at TDC, thats what it measure up to @ 0 so thats what i did. advancing the cam with a matched lobes really doesnt achieve the same result as a cam with different lobe seperation, so i just left it alone.

my thinking has moved to a possible rouge lifter or dud valve install height, but i CBF taking the manifold off again to check them so everything is staying as is till the impala is back on the road and i can take the time to drop the engine back out of this car.

[old mate]

leave the Quaddy on and take the car to someone who knows how to set them up - you'll be much happier with the results.

agreed, quaddy's are a very underrated carb IMO, once you find someone to set it up, i bet you will be surprised.

my old man is running a quaddy on his 360 stroker 308, but its nearly at its limits, and he is also using the edelbrock performer manifold. pretty torquey motor, revs about the same as yours going by the dyno sheet.

[Calaber]

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[ari666]

wow, have not posted in here for a while... anyway. this is something i should have done months ago. there is a local smack head who keeps breaking into my car and f'ing the locks up. lets see him f' this one up eh?

as you can see he stuffed the lock up:


so instead of repairing it, i thought i would get rid of it altogether, since this car is remote central locking anyway:


grindie grindie:


after bog and some rubbing and some spray paint:


and it turns out that my missus decision for the dash colour in the impala is a really close match to my VK's colour so thats pretty kewl



am gonna block it back once its had a few days to dry. stay tuned for the drivers side