My Custom '89 VN 3.8 V6

[jpeg.picky]

Hi All

Thankgod finally found the commy forums, took me a stupidly long time to find them lol.

Anyways heres the pics of my baby.

1989 VN S 3.8ltr V6
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****EXTERIOR****
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Custom bodykit + Sideskirts
Blueprint Metalic Paint
Hornet Hood Scoop
F***in big Spoiler (AMR Racing?? II'll check it next time i get in the car)
5200K Headlights
Red Neon hooked up to brake light jus behind rear bumper grill
blue neon behind front mesh
17" BBS Rims

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****INTERIOR****
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Autotechnica Steering Wheel
VP Window Handles, front seats, door panels, roof lining.
Clarion 7" Touch screen DVD Player
6*9 Parceal shelf speakers of unknown brand but damn theyre good!
Custom Parceal shelf to take 6*9
1000RMS Boss Amp
Water, Eng.Temp, Oil Presure Gauges

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****Under HOOD****
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Series 1 V6 3.8ltr
K&N Pod Filter
LPG Conversion
Engine Sway bar
Custom FE2 Suspension
Other stuff im still finding and learning about - more to come


Boots been completely stripped for a custom build which im still designing. Plans for the next 6 months are:


Cold Air Intake
Clean up engine Bay and paint
19" Rims
Upgrade S1 Cluster to S3 Calias cluster mmmm so cant wait
Autotechnica handbrake and Gearshifter and Newer steering wheel.
Window Tint (limo darkness)
Statesman back plate (goes between brakelights - see HOZY's VN he's got it)
Tint brakelight - advise and instructions needed on this one... as dont want to go illigal as cops in ballarat already pick on me lol

Ideas for things to do are muchly appreciated, grabbing tons from JC forums, and always coming up with lil ones, but they usually leave my mind by next morning

[Charg'd]

well, congrats on the effort first of all, & indeed it is custom, personally its not to my liking, but each to thier own

[1991_Vn2nV]

Definitely lose the rear wing and hornet style bonnet scoop man....

The car looks sweet with the kit, looks like an SV5000 style kit with slight differences but the rear wing and bonnet scoop ruins it...

Love the colour too

[tr3nt]

BAD: This is what most commodore owners will call RICE. Spoiler/Bonnet scoop when clearly un-neccesary.

GOOD: I love the rims and colour!

not my cup of tea.

[AGRO_38]

looks very different! which i gather you were trying to achieve?
love the colour and i think the scope makes it look tuff..well different. good job

[wes_v8]

good lookin car i rekon, but i agree with the above lose the wing and bonnet scoop and would look tons better

[MT269U]

nice ricer.

[NBAERO]

it nice but lower the ass and lose the wing and out a different one on or keep it off, a bit ova done but its your car. nice ride anyways. love the color

[fabz]

nice ricer.

Lovin it LMAO
Love the colour tho Nice job.

[NickVR]

i have to agree with the others in saying that the rear wing and scoop have to go. but it's your car and its what you like. nice colour and rims the rest of the kit looks good too. the future plans sound good.

[flyen]

looks good mate, would have me staring at it on the street

got to agree with the others, not a fan of the scoup and wing

but if you like it then thats all that matters

[HoZy]

Nice color, But dear god. Hornet scoop on stock v6 commo, A spoiler that'll fall off over 100km/h.... No idea what you were smoking with those ideas.

Cheers
MaT

[fordsarebetter]

jeezars mate thats horrid.

[VRFURY]

finally found the thread trent was talking about.

i like it, who gives a crap what these idiots think, :P

nice rims too

[Statesman87]

Thats atrocious! If the scoop and friggen huge wing at the back werent on id say "wow thats awesome" but no.. what the hell is that!?

[brohawk]

nice ride man but loose that ****in towel rack it ruins the car

[PaRaDoX]

she looks nice man, the bonnet scoop is ok but the VN's dont need the wings,

im not the biggest fan of the SV5000 kit, thats just me tho,
nice colour and most of all nice effort, shes real clean

[VRFURY]

i still stick by the fact it loks cool, would deffinately turn alot of heads.

[R Photon]

personally i think you ruined it by putting the spoiler and the bonnet scoop on

but man i like the kit, the colour and the mags

[stocky]

gotta agree. spoiler and scoop dont suit it. is that scoop even legal? maybe a group a bonnet bulge instead?

got any photos from the rear?

[s_pack]

Man, definatley piss off the ironing board and scoop.. Maybe if you had a great big carby fed 8 poking out the bonnet, it would be alright...You shouldn't be able to get too far without being defected I would imagine too. Love the colour though

[jpeg.picky]

thx for the replys guys. Yes it was ment to be diff, and a head turner. Actually been in the shed for 2 weeks cause waiting on pay day for a new alternator (damn thing died on me) and set of sparkies.

In regards to all those (all of you) saying loose the wing - its happening, hopefully next weekend - some twat scraped a nice chunk of blue out of my back left bumper at the supermarket :'(, so i'll fill the 12 odd holes from the wing and get the back end repainted at hte same time.

In reply to hozy.

Nice color, But dear god. Hornet scoop on stock v6 commo, A spoiler that'll fall off over 100km/h.... No idea what you were smoking with those ideas.

Cheers
MaT

Lol - she's been up to 180 and the wing hasn't come off, wierdly enough it did its job and pushed the back end of the car down for better traction...

As for the hornet scoop its staying - in a year when i finally get to 21 Im dropping a V8 in it...so it wont be a stock v6 no more... so can't wait - bloody age restricting power rules in victoria.

gotta agree. spoiler and scoop dont suit it. is that scoop even legal? maybe a group a bonnet bulge instead?

got any photos from the rear?

No photos yet, soz, want to get the statesman back plate first and tint the rear lights. Yes the scoop is legal, it went through a full road worthy back in March, and passed w. flying colours.

As for what i was smokin...lol thast another story... nothing a nice bottle of bacardi and a pack of B&H w. pen and paper do for ideas for my car.

Thanks for all the feed back guys, however aside from the wing and scoop looking for ideas for the interior - currently nothing done aside from 3 custom gauges, center consol painted along w. the surrounds of the cluster...so fire away.

Wouldn't mind throwing 20 or 30 LED's in the roof lineign and have them come on when doors open or w. the interior light.

Regards,

James aka.Picky

[blocka]

Mate I Absolutly ###ing Love it as it is. Don't change a thing, not enough people have the courage to do something different to there commy, you did and you made it look good!

Keep up the good work and cant wait to see the beast with a V8!!

[stocky]

Wouldn't mind throwing 20 or 30 LED's in the roof lineign and have them come on when doors open or w. the interior light.

have you been watching top gear too? a new rolls royce has that. if youre going to do that, find a way to connect a dimmer switch to it

[jpeg.picky]

LOL yes I have been watching TopGear - im british anyways - but yeh got all the seasons on my computer slowly going thru them, god damn i wanna meet the "stig" he's a ****ing awesome driver....