EXCESSV has arrived.....

[Troy711]

mate, your car is totally tits. love it. the black on black wheels will suit it very nice

[nathans1987]

i saw you at the drage the other night but you ran a 15.1 and 14.2 or somthing(the ones i was watching anyway). it would have been a couple of weeks ago now. i was hopeing to see a 12 :P i guess somthing was wrong then.

[EXCESSV]

i saw you at the drage the other night but you ran a 15.1 and 14.2 or somthing(the ones i was watching anyway). it would have been a couple of weeks ago now. i was hopeing to see a 12 :P i guess somthing was wrong then.

i was at the drags about 3 or 4 weeks ago...
first run clutch stuck to the floor - common VE issue when the clutch gets too hot...then it never came back so i let the car cool for a few hours

ended up managing a PB of 13.2 @107mph for the night with the clutch still slipping....

12s passes are coming soon...stock clutch, stock tyres & diff ratio arent helping running into the 12s
got a mate to drive the car soon to put it into the 12s as the car is capable...just the driver is **** currently

[SSimsy]

Mate, do u live in HW? Saw your car Im sure, u live like 3 houses down from me. Anyways, Im hoping to pick mine up on Monday ( Black VE SS, Manual).

[EXCESSV]

Mate, do u live in HW? Saw your car Im sure, u live like 3 houses down from me. Anyways, Im hoping to pick mine up on Monday ( Black VE SS, Manual).

HW??? i am in perth....northern suburbs

[SSimsy]

High Wycombe dude. Had to be your car...yeah?

[EXCESSV]

High Wycombe dude. Had to be your car...yeah?

i was in high wycombe a few weeks back but i live about 30km away from high wycombe...so not really a regular that way

[EXCESSV]

stereo install complete
will get night shot pics soon

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at night boot pics....
will be screwing mdf with carpet on the parcel shelf and routering a trench for a LED Stick in blue to replace standard interior light soon...then it will be better

the parcel shelf is the only bare/non carpet part of boot so need to finish it off

[albert5268]

very nice! where did you get the install done? and what type of box is that?

[EXCESSV]

very nice! where did you get the install done? and what type of box is that?

install was done by my mate who has his own car stereo shop here in perth

the box was custom made by mate to suit shallow subs, perspex, subs facing through ski port on 45 degrees and also to still give me access to adjust my Tein Coilovers

[CSP]

Very nice install! What are the full specs of your system? Are you using the factory head?

[EXCESSV]

Very nice install! What are the full specs of your system? Are you using the factory head?

Components:
Pioneer TSC131PRS - splits & tweeter for front doors
Pioneer TS-A1672S - rear door speakers...i think
Pioneer PRS-D4000F - 4ch amp to run the speakers - 150W x 4
Pioneer PRS-D1000M - Mono block amp to run subs - 1200W
Pioneer TS-SW1241D x 2 - 12" shallow subs - 1400W each
custom sub box with perspex window at rear with SS logo frosted on it with blue neon lights inside
amp wiring kit and and the little bits and pieces
LOC converter for now until a VE processor is released
Rockford Fosgate 10Farad Capacitor
2.5 BULK packs of dynamat later...


Factory head unit for now with LOC until processor released soon

[nathans1987]

i saw u racin again on monday the 14th whatver the date was :P still no 12? i saw a few 13.5s i did a 13.7 in my vx (the black ss standard looking one u may have seen me) which is standard without 270rwkw mine probably has about 180rwkw.

[EXCESSV]

i saw u racin again on monday the 14th whatver the date was :P still no 12? i saw a few 13.5s i did a 13.7 in my vx (the black ss standard looking one u may have seen me) which is standard without 270rwkw mine probably has about 180rwkw.

yep we were in test mode....clutch sticks to the floor on the VE V8s when given some stick..common fault

myself along with drew(black sv8) were testing some different things for John @ Street Quick Performance and Dan @ Chipmaster

47degree track temps and 18knot head wind werent exactly fast time producing conditions.
the assholes closed the drags early just as it was cooling down!


ur car auto or manual?
and were u running streets or stock tyres?

[nathans1987]

its manual and stock tires at full pressure still (whats the difference between street and stock tyres?). how much do you think better temps are worth? yeah they did close it early not many people there tho which was good and probably why they closed early.

[EXCESSV]

better temps should drop the times by about .3s off the ET

no difference between the stock tyres are the ones on the car and "streets" are MT Streets...softer more grip and usually put on smaller rim size...massive side wall for flex and usually run them at 22psi..

[CSP]

How's the info on your clutch mod coming along?

[nathans1987]

better temps should drop the times by about .3s off the ET

no difference between the stock tyres are the ones on the car and "streets" are MT Streets...softer more grip and usually put on smaller rim size...massive side wall for flex and usually run them at 22psi..

really so i could do a 13.4 given the right temps? or not so apparent in a car without CIA and a tune?

[SSTEALTH]

Gday Dean !

I've joined this forum as well ! Good to see a familiar plate
The car pics look great mate !

Cheers!

[EXCESSV]

How's the info on your clutch mod coming along?

so far so good....still nutting out the hydralic issue with ve clutchs

really so i could do a 13.4 given the right temps? or not so apparent in a car without CIA and a tune?

no CAI & Tune is killing ur times...u seem to be able to peddle a manual car well...

without the CAI and tune then cooler night should see .1 maybe .2s off the ET....

Gday Dean !

I've joined this forum as well ! Good to see a familiar plate
The car pics look great mate !

Cheers!

hey mate...welcome
less politics here so enjoy

[EXCESSV]

some more power added to EXCESSV....all these mods and not even 10months old

cam and clutch done
224/228 112LSA custom grind by SQP
Chipmaster installed and tuned
also custom SQP clutch with VE Hydralic issue fix

net result....306rwkw/410rwhp with 540Nm of torque hock:


new diff had the holden bushes taken out and anti axle tramp hit ones put in....
diff sitting at the Chipmaster workshop ready to be installed next week hopefully...

[CSP]

Yeah that's pretty damn impressive! Love your work.

So, how did you resolve the VE clutch issue?

[EXCESSV]

Yeah that's pretty damn impressive! Love your work.

So, how did you resolve the VE clutch issue?

not entirely sure to be honest

its a new clutch, braided lines, modification to return valve, modification/different model slave cylinder, etc etc

[EXCESSV]

thanks for the kind words denizengt & holden8304


these are the brakes i bought today...just waiting to get here from over east now...obviously the big new ones...not the stock ones they are being compared to hahahaha




and these are the rims ordered that i am waiting for too...20x8.5 front and 20x10rear


once they are on i have the G8/CalaisV lip spoiler painted and ready to go on too
HSV 3.7 diff to go in with rest of anti axle tramp kit in the next week or two as well
and thats it for the car for performance mods....got some cosmetic mods planned just to make it different to the other Black VE SSV with black 20" rims running around perth 8)

[CSP]

Nice six potters you got there.

Do you know for certain that they fit behind the new rims? I know a lot of HSV owners have had problems with 9.5 and 10 inch non-standard rear wheels fitting over the brakes due to the offset.