Black VL Calais Turbo.

[Onslaught.Jnr]

Hey boys & girls.

first off;

Dial up beware

I have been reading on this forum for a while, so I thought it was about time I signed up to the forum.

A bit of history about my car, It is a Series I 1987 VL Calais factory 'Tuxedo Black' and produced with a RB30DE @ the Melbourne plant.

It has since then had a A8 motor dropped in (Turbo motor), with a T3 High flowed turbo, still had the N/A trans & the N/A diff. It was purchased from Melbourne by someone else in Adelaide and then I bought it off them.

I got it home with a blown motor (got ripped), but as per usual show must go on, so that weekend me and a mate got cracking into ripping out the blown motor.

I got the head fully reconditioned, with a stage I cam dropped in (Was lying around brand new so I thought why not).

I then found a really low kilometer s2 bottom end for sale with a trans for $100 so I then dropped the head onto that bottom end with a race series decomp plate (Steel head gasket).

The turbo goes without saying buying it with a blown motor was in a pretty bad way, lots of shaft play. But I still put it on the car and has done well for 5 months or so on 10psi.

The trans was a N/A trans, with a 2500 stall. As much to my amazement, the transmission is in really good condition and has never slipped once.

As soon as I bought the car pretty much I pulled the N/A diff out and replaced it with a reconditioned VL V8 LSD, I took the 3.08 gears off, and replaced them with the stock 3.45 gears and the diff is extremely tight.

Had the car on the road for about 2 weeks and got defected for 1 bald tyre on the back, and as soon as I got that defect cleared that weekend I got done again for regency. (bullsh!t I know).

Anyway, the car was off the road for about 3 months and now it is back to its normal state (cop bait ).

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Like we all do, I am now sick of the 10psi and the 170rwkw'ish it has.

So I have just taken it off the road and now its build time for me .

I am hoping it will be ready by the C4C5.

After reading this massive essay, Here are some photo's of what it looks like atm but be sure to stay tuned for lots of updates .

Thanks, Wayne.



Stock ride hight for regency.







Fresh head job



The bottom end



Half way in there



Straight after the first rebuild.



My original VL Calais Leather. (Very good condition for 20 years old.)













A small photoshoot with a girl I know, her idea (she aint the best looking, but a very nice body)





Enjoy, and again, stay tuned for more updates.

[VL_5SPEED]

Nice car and nice dose pipe.

[vs_ss_matt]

Looks sweet man, well done. Look forward to seeing some more pics soon!

[IMCRZY]

Not bad cant wait to see what else is done

[rch-13z]

very nice mate, black with white walls look nice man

its amazing to see how much VL's hold their value.. esp the calais...

[Onslaught.Jnr]

Thanks boys, upgrades soon .

[nicko]

nice ride, how about some rims?

[r_i_d_a_h]

your not wrong about the girl lol


hot VL man..i like it

[seans VL Calais]

looks nice mate, I saw it in the flesh when there was cruise one friday night i think it was, yous stoped in the seaford shoping centre carpark next to hungry jacks. love the black with chrome trim

[Archers]

wow nice mate really good job

[EX9C1SS]

Love your car my cousin used 2 have a worked calais 5 litre... **** man that girl looks like a monkey but i woudl still **** the **** out of her, just keep it doggy style or break out tuckerbag hahaha

[STEALTHY™]

Love the grandpa trims on the wheel arches!


Sure hope your 'friend' doesn't read this forum, haha, not the best looking.....Almost sig worthy!

[RVN 355]

nice vl,massive cooler and interior is mint,good idea to take some pics of the old girl down @ the port gives it some style

[SV6]

Looks tidy!

[SIK_VLT]

Sweet VLT buddy I like the calais rims with that ride height

[NEDWOB]

looks very nice in black..and your friend has some damn fine legs

[QWiK747]

I had a black vlt aswel nothing beats them man.

Nice car.

[boonga]

gangsta like the sleeper look keep up the good work

[VT SERIES II]

nice car- shame about the girl.....haha very brave tho....

[john_mete]

omg mate, ur car is mint i wish i had the money to do what you have done, atm i have a 1987 vl executive with 106,000 legit kms, ***n nice car mate, i cant say it any other way. lolz.

[VLDavo]

very nice .. not over the top either

[wetz vl]

nice mate lovin the tuxedo black wanna get my vl exec sprayed a shade of black not sure wat yet (pockets aint so full atm lol)

lovin the condish of the leather too man

check out my thread if you ever have time wld like to no ur opinion on my vl

hope all goes well n lookin forward to see it in the future peace out

wetz.

[seans VL Calais]

he sold the car not to long ago.hes got a 32 gtr now