My VP Calais

[Troyziee]

Been meaning to make one of these for a while now, so here it is, my ride;

'92 VP Calais

couple of things done to it, but nuthin major (no $$)

Suspension: Front Super-Super Low King Springs, Rear Ultra Low King Springs and front strut brace, with monroe GT gas struts.

Interior: VQ stato dash trim, VR front speaker pods.

Stereo: JVC Headunit, Blaupunkt 6.5" splits in front, with tweeters up in dash, Blaupunkt 6.5" 2-ways in rear, Audiobahn AW122N 12" sub, Audiobahn A8002T 2-chan amp, bridged running the sub at 800watts RMS, Jaycar 1 farad capacitor.

Engine: K&N performance Pod, with custom CAI, removed bellmouth, custom greenfoam memcal tune.

Exterior: Removed all Badging (including front fender 3.8lt badges) silver metallic front grille, VP SS front spoiler FINALLYYYY INSTALLED and Phillips Blue Vision headlights,
NEW: HSV WH Grange 18"s

[Noy]

Clean ride

[1991_Vn2nV]

Nice ride man, VP Calais are a sweet car... Love the two tone and the wheel arch spats

[R Photon]

thats sweet man...nice one

[Troyziee]

cheers guys

i wana try and find a really nice location and go for a good photoshoot, then ill put up sum more pics, plus i gota take sum photos at night with all tha lighting throughout tha car.

any suggestions of sum nice locations in tha western suburbs for a photoshoot?

[Lumps of cheese]

Very nice ride mate.

[HRT 666]

Nice, gotta love a calais. like your chev sticker on rear window, night shot with the led's on sould look cool. Allways take your camera when you go out and take heaps of pic's sort through them when you get home and there's bound to be one or two that you really like.

[Troyziee]

ye i usually got my camera in my car, but then neva end up takin it out, or its 2 dark for any decent shots, so i stoped takin it with me, but now its good weather ill start takin it bak out with me

[Troyziee]

Quick update, just got a new exhaust tip installed

was about to buy it from an auto shop, but diameter was to small, so went local exhaust shop and it was tha same price installed

so evn though i didnt have money 2 blow in tha 1st place, im happy with it, much beta than the old thing that stuk out a mile

[Charg'd]

nice ride, pretty clean for the age, got a pic of the new tip?

[phat_com]

Looks like a sweet as calais man! i love the green and silver or blue and silver the best! BTW does the chev sticker mean its an 8 banger? or a good ol' trusty V6?

[Troyziee]

thanks mate,
nah tha chev stiker just means i wish it was a chevy, shes jus a 3.8 V6

[G4orce]

Nice looking car But I do think It needs a good dumping LOL. I like the VP Calais. Just a question as well, How did you make the panel on you boot lid. I want something like that but not too sure where to start.

[Troyziee]

lol ye thanks mate, i couldnt agree more about gettin her sittin ALOT lower, shes on kings atm, but i think there from a V8 so didnt drop her much, when i get tha money she'll b goin down

as for tha boot are u interested in makin a sign or just to carpet it??

[G4orce]

lol ye thanks mate, i couldnt agree more about gettin her sittin ALOT lower, shes on kings atm, but i think there from a V8 so didnt drop her much, when i get tha money she'll b goin down

as for tha boot are u interested in makin a sign or just to carpet it??

Well the carpet and I was looking at putting something in the middle of it like yours but i dont no how to get the shape, keep it stuck to the boot etc...

[Troyziee]

its pretty piss,
i started makin a full MDF template to go underneath tha carpet, but i was doin tha final sandin on it n thought bugger it rather jus put tha carpet str8 onto tha boot.

The sign is jus tha perspex base, with sum small mdf peices glued on tha sides like a wall, then a top peice of MDF with tha middle cut out of it, then u jus drape tha carpet over it and that forms tha shape for ya. tha signs just stuck to tha boot with sum good glue (didnt want to go drillin)

tha carpet was 18buks for 1x2meters and i jus bought a can of decent spray adhesive sprayed tha boot, then gradly draped tha carpet around, creating tha curves n **** i wanted. then with a VERY sharp blade went around and cut it runnin along the edges.

tha lighting in it has a neon connceted to my tail light loom so that wire was easy enough to run through tha rivets in tha boot, then a couple of leds which are connected up2 tha number plate lights in tha top of tha boot.
there all done so they turn on with my parkers/headlights.

Hope some of that made sense, i think i got sum pics of tha sign in tha boot b4 tha carpet went on, but there on my otha comp, so ill chuck em up nxt time

[G4orce]

How did you bend the MDF The rest I should be good with

[Troyziee]

bend it? i assume u mean for tha top of tha boot were it goes into tha garnish and number plate...? i didnt bend it, i made a big peice for tha main area, and would have just made anotha peice for tha smaller section, but i just draped tha carpet over it (didnt use tha mdf underneath) and just pulled it and folded it to make tha curve i wanted, its a lil lumpy around that area, cause it goes from solid metal to big holes and that, but not tha noticable.

[guss]

nice ride, where can that carpet be bought from is it a marine/automotive carpet ??

[Troyziee]

thanks mate

tha carpet on tha boot is a really thin carpet (i wanted that cause i used tha thick automotive carpet for my amp rack, and uv got no chance of moulding that into tha shape) but i bought it from autopro, sh*t cheap, and u can get it in grey blak red blue, i duno wat other shops sell it but

[Stan MR . VP]

very nice ride buddy take good care of her

JUST a quick question
the add on strip ontop of the back wheels do they come off and would they fit on a normal vp exec?

[Troyziee]

cheers mate
as for tha rear wheel arch, there not an ad on, there stock on tha calais, aand yes they do come off but it has metal bracketing under it which is part of tha body, so u can put them on exec.s but ull need a bit of modification 2 sumhow attach em, if ur handy with that sorta stuff should b pretty piss 2 design sum brackets

[agrocm]

top ride mate imo it doesnt need to be lowered maybe just bigger rims or some vz calais rims would set it off fine nice sound mods to love the amp in the boot and the sub in the arm rest its a tidy setup
check out my future mods The Statesman

[agrocm]

sorry my bad the link i was useing was to the statesman ride i posted something about his interior and yeah been usen ctrl v for the link didnt relise here is mine my new vu ute

[Troyziee]

ye thanks mate, i reakon she needs 2 b lower, nuthin sexcier than a nice clean scrappin' vp calais (well in terms of cars anyway....) as for rims i dont mind tha polished alloys as long as there kept clean, if i were 2 buy anything id get 17" internationals, but im happy with tha 15"s

as for tha stereo that was my aim all along keep it neat and nice same as i try to keep tha car, but ur ride is sweet, luv all tha interior work uv done on it and tha boot, a while back when i was lookin through ur ride u were actually the one that made me decide to make my boot lid carpet and sign, from tha pics u had of tha making of urs. so cheers for tha inspiration :P
once i get sum $$ ill probably b lookin at re-doin tha boot, boxing it all in with MDF panels.