Supercharged VK Calais - Page 2

Wrayza · #26 04-01-2007, 04:16 PM

Just a quick update with a nicer picture of the bay all tidy, still needs some filling and a respray. Got all the gear and some paint mixed up, need to find the time now!

les82 · #27 07-01-2007, 11:28 AM

nice car mate love the vk's

Wrayza · #28 10-03-2007, 10:46 PM

A few updates..

I picked up the last few bits of a body kit I'll be putting on the VK today from the good people down at EastComm Wreckers. I'm using a group A front bar, Group 3 wing and rear bar, calais director side skirts and an original group A grille.

Decided to go with 2 tone, the grille and wing will be painted in the body colour when I have an insurence claim done. What happened? Someone in my family opened the electric roller door and reversed into the vk, minimal damage to the offending vy, $1250 damage to the vk's rear 1/4 and bumper.. Thank god for insurence, even better when its not my excess to pay :P

Also spraying a ported, polished and cleaned up intake manifold in body colour (casting marks cleaned up and egr valve tig welded over).

Pictures soon...

Wrayza · #29 19-03-2007, 07:32 PM

Dropped the car off today to have part of the kit fitted, decided to go with a HDT scoop aswell when a deal came up I couldn't refuse, thanks again Brad!

Heres a photoshop of what it will look like...

VLturbs87 · #30 20-03-2007, 11:06 AM

hot vk!!!!

VRSS · #31 09-04-2007, 09:37 PM

any updates on this? should look awesome with the kit!

Wrayza · #32 10-04-2007, 05:31 PM

Some, but the kit is only half fitted at this stage. Have to find some time to send it away for the front and side skirts to be fitted and painted. There currently sitting on the outdoor table.

I'll take some pictures tonight or tomorrow...

The panel shop did outstanding work too! Aswell as fitment of the kit they repaired a ding in the rear 1/4 panel covered by insurence, bare metal finish by a friend who works there.

shrekVK · #33 10-05-2007, 04:35 PM

nice.. just interested, how does the gearbox handle it all.. Just bought 1 cos i was sick of the crap 4 speed...

Very nice car! well dun

Wrayza · #34 31-08-2007, 06:13 PM

Gearbox handles fine mate, 2nd gear will crunch if i shift fast while its cold. But it has since i installed it, probably a worn syncro.

A friend had 185rwkw and ran his BW M76 for a while and it was fine. First gear bearing became noisy just before he put a supra box in thats the only thing. Could have been general wear and tear?

Might aswell show you guys where the cars at now, heres a couple of shots..
...Hmm upload thingo seems to be stuffed...

Wrayza · #35 31-08-2007, 06:15 PM

Ok I might do a quick run thru of whats happened over the last few months like most people are doing on here to combat the loss of a bunch of posts..

---------- The Kit ----------

During the big chunk between now and my last remaining post I have finished putting the kit on, pictures from the following day after I got the car back from the panel beaters should be in the introduction post.

Big thanks to the boys who did the kit for me! There wont be any shameless plugs however, but if someone wants a good panelbeater to do one of the group A or 3 kits drop me a PM (there in Melbourne's eastern suburbs).

They did a top job at fixing the GRP A front skirt to the aftermarket bar (these are trickier to do than the GRP 3). Most jobs I see have had the centre suport cut and left hanging, with mine they modified the original support to include 2 tabs which folded under the new skirt, then glassed and filled around it. Result was an extra strong bar that looked factory.

Rear bar was pretty strait forward, they used nice big rivets inside the arch to hold the skirt to the bar so hopefully they shouldn't ever crack thru. Sides were fitted to the car and then sprayed, aswell as all the door moulds receiving a fresh coat of Asteroid Silver, they only used 3 flat screws to secure the skirt along the top inside the door jams and the flex of the skirt does the rest (it doesn't even really need screws!).

The grille, bonnet scoop and rear wing where sprayed and left for me to fit to save a bit of time and money. From memory I used 8 or 10 screws to hold the scoop, and 4 to hold the wing.

---------- The Motor ----------

In my attempts to get the car starting properly again (never been good since the Microtech went in) I decided to replace the balancer which had slipped some 30deg with a new Powerbond Steet one. I'm told these are much stronger than the original holden ones, so after one bent bearing puller and some 1000 hits with a mallet a mate and I had the new balancer on. 1000 hits? Seemed like it! We did it with only the radiator removed and there wasn't a whole deal of room to work with.

So I could then get the timing spot on 10deg and let the Microtech do the rest (adjusts timing to around 20degrees over most of the rev range and allows for variations each 500rpm). However it was still a pig to start, before this I'd tried nearly every part of the ignition system, even the starter, battery, alternator.

I ended up hitting the wiring diagrams and tracing each wire in the custom loom we'd made some 5 months before, everything checked out fine. I got desperate and decided to fault the +12v ignition send, jumper from back of alternator to coil, cranked her over and she roared into life within a second. So it was the ****en ignition send all along...

Whether its a contact in the key barrel or in one of the old loom plugs I don't know. I put together a quick circuit and used the old ignition to switch a relay and supply a healthy 12v back to the coil and dizzy. Problem solved.

---------- The Stereo ----------

Got cracking on the stereo at about the same time I fixed the starting issue. I wanted something that sounded good and went loud when it had to, but didn't want to loose all my boot space. So I settled on a false floor with the amps under 6mm safety glass, a couple of crossovers and a 200A breaker are under glass too, and theres a removable panel allowing access to the battery.

Components are:

- Sony CDX-M8800 Headunit
- Response 4x50wrms (looking at the digital 4x100wrms model up)
- Response 1x800wrms monoblock
- Boston Acoustic Pro60 Series fronts
- Pioneer rears (came with the car, might upgrade)
- Digital Designs 3512D (Dual 1 ohm)
- 480cca Century battery
- Aerpro 200A circuit breaker
- All cabling in bay upgraded, 0gauge from battery to bay

---------- The Blower ----------

Initial plans involved a SC12 a friend picked up for me for a steal at $70 delivered from NSW. But I've since changed to a SC14 (a couple hundred extra cc's of displacment), I'll be getting it from the post office tomorrow bright and early. Then work will start on brackets, that will be the hurdle. Piping and machining a pulley will be easy, I'll be starting with a 7psi pulley and see how things go.

Cheers for reading, stay tuned...

VRSS · #36 02-09-2007, 05:36 PM

that looks tough as!! well done mate id more than happily drive that. looking forward to seeing the blower on it

Wrayza · #37 16-09-2007, 06:59 PM

The bay is messy I know, I don't see any point finishing the paintwork until the blower is all in.

Will be having the pulley machined this week and be ordering the intercooler, stainless and silicone bends off ebay. If all goes well it should be done for October

Wrayza · #38 26-09-2007, 05:32 PM

Went down to Maztech yesterday for a quick tune up and a power run. I wanted to know where it sat before the supercharger is up and nunning. Heres a couple of shots from the day.

Intercooler just arrived too, 600x300x76mm delta finned /w 3" inlets.