VL Calais Turbo w/Sunroof

[padrickz88]

lmao i know.... hurry!

[cypher967]

Paint and wheels look perfect, good job!

[spike77]

90% there..

I went the option of a bigger cam as current cam was restrictive.

[YBUYNEW]

Schweet mate, Awesome ride

A+

[spike77]

Cheers dude

Yeh car is back and diff is ran in full lovin it...


POWERSKIDS FTW

[BXHD]

ur car is sick!!!
wish my calais looked like that!
the sunroof is amazing, how much to put it in?
have you had any problems with those fake vy sigs? i want some, the genuine ones are hella expensive for my budget LOL
Nice work

[padrickz88]

The sunroof is factory, so doubt mike would know how much it would cost.... Ask wagonwheel how much his cost

and as for the sigs, i dont think he has had any problems.... look pretty good in the 20's aswell



*patiently waits for mike to get a new set of rims, been more then to weeks*

[spike77]

BXHD: Thanks man

Don't believe everything you read on net/other forums about fake sigs snapping n stuff

I've had no issues with my 20's at all.. and I know quite a few with fake 19's and haven't had an issue.
What I saw was a once off thing and IMHO I reckon they used undue force on the rim to make it do that.
The 20's look awesome when driving, got my cuz to drive it around while I watched & was like Woaaah


As the muzza aka Rick said above it's a factory sunroof

Bahahaha very funny Rick... NAWT!

It's been more than 2 months, let alone 2 weeks... lol

Mate took a couple of shots, but was the only clearest one he could get on boost... lmao

[jahan_86vl]

Nice pic muzz

How's is goin atm?

What's next for this machine??

[BXHD]

BXHD: Thanks man

Don't believe everything you read on net/other forums about fake sigs snapping n stuff

I've had no issues with my 20's at all.. and I know quite a few with fake 19's and haven't had an issue.
What I saw was a once off thing and IMHO I reckon they used undue force on the rim to make it do that.
The 20's look awesome when driving, got my cuz to drive it around while I watched & was like Woaaah

very nice, yeah the 20's look awsm!!

yeah ive seen a vx gts rim snap on the dyno Dx i dont know if it was genuine or not, but even with geniune rims, your going to run into trouble if u drive on dirt roads with pot holes (my dads Vz maloo cracked 4 rims!!!!!)

[VL'NZ]

Awesome vl. Hope to turb mine and get her doin 10 sec passes on pump gas.(one day) vl's r not that common over in NZ so not heaps of people know stuff about them most people don't even know they got rb30e's in them. Ne way sweet VL

[Jordzz]

this thing is a beast I hope when i get my VLC i can make it look as shmick as this one

[spike77]

Update:
After my diff snapping on the JPC's dyno as they kept pushing at it... GRRRRR!
That has since been re-built with 3.7's and ran in but not by them.
Tune re-adjusted and made a healthy 306rwkw @20psi

I wanna low mount a T04z next, but got a few other minor things that need fixing before that happens

[spike77]

Bottom end went KAAAAAAAAA-PUUUUUUUTT

[05 Senator]

poor bloke. awesome thread hey and sic vl. hope ya get her goin soon. hopefully mine will be that tidy one day soon. goodluck with it bro

[Nackerz]

nice ride man, good work!!

[spike77]

Thanks guys

A few weeks ago, my engine started to develop a ticking noise which lead onto a clunk clunk & found as suspected to be main & big end bearings with slight damage to the crank.
I could of got it fixed but would only be a bandaid option and after thinking about and discussing it with a few people, I decided seeing as it's out and stripped to go a full rebuild.
Also while the engine is out, I decided to get my front end fixed up and bay resprayed.

Engine out.


My messy bay.


Just welding/filling in the unused holes.

[Panama]

take your k frame out and repaint t if you can be bothered mate. much easier with no motor in.

[padrickz88]

Looking good mike, So roughly how long till the engine is built? going to throw even more boost into it?

[spike77]

Panama: My K-Frame was repainted not that long ago, can't really see it cause of the dust. Sprayed it silver instead the boring black

padrickz88: Thanks Rick. Should have the engine bay sprayed this week and I think so far the engine has been acid dipped, cracked tested and bored for the new goodies to go in. It'll be able to handle more boost quite easily, but I have to run it in on a run-in tune on 10psi for 500-1'000km before they can do a full tune. 30psi here I come

[spike77]

Bay has been pretty much done now

[1SIKR8]

must say, i am a huge fan of this car. not over the top ... its mint ! =D

[spike77]

Thanks dude..

2 months later and still at that stage, gotta love workshops

[Calais-Turbo]

Great Lookinm Calais Mate , Bluddy good job , Hope u stick with it ,

[spike77]

Thanks dude, I've gone to far to give up or sell now

Engine has been built and is awaiting it's transplant