My VP Calais

[calais_cruzin]

Hey all, been round ere for a while, bout time i made one of these.

Name: Jason

Model: 92 VP Calais

Km's: 164 XXX when purchased May last yr, now on over 300,000km
Colour: White/Grey 2 tone

Engine Type: Stocko Buick 3.8

Engine Mods: VS CAI, K&N Fliter ,927 injectors instead of 906

Power: 126.7hp but lean, afr is on around 13.7 all the way across

Exhaust: 2 1/2 Cat back 1x resi.

Gearbox:Standard soon to have B&M S2 shift kit in

Diff: Standard with new oil

Brakes: Slotted Fronts, standard rear, Bendix HD all round

Suspension: King spring Super low Fronts, Low rears

Wheels/Tyres: Big Ol 15inch stocko calais rims Dunlop SP300e 225/65/15

Interior: HSV leather Wrapped Gear Knob
White Cluster Dials
1x Blue 100mm CCF tube behind cluster
1x White 100mm CCF tube infront of cluster
1x Volt Guage Blue LEDs
Other Mods: SS Driving lights

Old Stereo:
H/U: Alpine CDA-5851 swingface
AMPS: JBL 75.4 540w 4ch amp
Kenwood 2ch 600w briged, 120w x2 normal
Fuse: Responce 120amp breaker with volt readout
Subs: 2x JBL 12inch 250wrms 1000peak ported box that is now sealed
Rears: JBL 6 1/2 splits
Front: Pioneer 4inch 2ways
ICE: 2x 7inch TFT Screens on headrests
Aux: 30gig Ipod Video running thru interface to h/u. H/U has control over ipod
Cap:Response 1 farad

NEW STEZZA:
Alpine CDA-5851 swingface
AMPS: Soundstream Picasso 4x85w
Soundstream Dtower DTR1.2200D 2200wrms@1ohm
Fuse: 200amp ANL for Mono's 50amp for 4ch
Subs: 2x Alpine X Type 12"
Rears: Response Kevlar 6 1/2 splits
Front: Focal VB165 6 1/2" splits
Aux: 30gig Ipod Video running thru interface to h/u. H/U has control over ipod
Cable: 0 Guage front 2 back, bloody exy stuff eh

Cost: 5g for car n bout 7K on mods
Future Mods: Extractors, Tint, Camber kit for front, n a heap of dynamat.

Repairs: Rad, Rad Hoses, Trans lines, exhuast knocks, leaky tail lights,ECU, BCM
Pics:
Car at previous cruze
H/U
IPOD
TFT's
Subs when they were just floatin around
6 1/2 Splits B4 tweeter are mounted

Now these pics of stezza were takin about 8months ago if not more, i have added sum things n tidyd it up alot, i will get sum more pics of car n stezza very soon, as ive found my phone cord yipee

Anyway let us know wat use all think.

Here are sum more pics, will get more of ouside wen i find a cam to use

___________________Mounted tweeters

Subs_________________________ Cap
My cracked garnish

Link to Pic of Stezza Thread#361

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[Troyziee]

niceee, defintaly gota go out for a proper photoshoot though, get sum proper shots of her up

hard to tell but tha 1st pic of ur car, tha rear looks alot nicer height than myne, iv got lows aswell, but i think there from a V8, but urs looks nice

but get sum good pics up!!!

[calais_cruzin]

[VSSPak]

I love it you know it...If i was you i'd take off those mud flaps, get color coding and some nice 19's ! but thats just me...a vp calais of any sort = potential.

P.S Loving the audio setup nice n neat bro 10/10

[calais_cruzin]

HAHAH Mud Flaps are stayin, they give me a idication of how much room i got b4 scrapage.

Colour codeing would have been there if she was a S2 but i dont mind the black handles, least it has white mirrors.

As for mags im currently looking at sum thru my dads work, but got a few things that need to be fixed b4 them, and im goin 17's i dont want a really ruff ride.

I need my Racks and pwr steer pump fixed and i think my Diff CV is on its way out, got a nice clunk if u hit a bump and goin a good speed.

Cheers for ya comments

[Tekka]

Hey man nice car, I see you live in the tweed aswell. I think i might have seen you around, i got the green calais that cruises around alot thru tweed,cooly.

I really should make a tread in my ride

[calais_cruzin]

Yesterday i did a bit of a shonky reverse park, anyway the gutter ripped off one of my rear mud guards soo they have all been removed, hope u like that VSSPAK.

Tekka goin to have to meet up one time, go out for a cruze round town.
And i cant work out how u didnt know about any of the cruze's we have had....

Thinking about buying sum 16inch 5 spoke mags n 2x12in P1 Rockford subs and RF 900w mono amp, his VL is heading to the wreckers n has these for sale.

I wouldnt mind the amp n mags, but dont really want the subs as there SQ isnt as good as my JBL's but mine dont go anywhere near what the P1's pump out, soo im deciding if i should go SPL ova SQ or just make a completly sealed bandpass box to try make it a bit better SQ, ino a bandpass witha port sounds crap but im not sure how it would go without a port n being fully sealed chamber front n rear of sub.

Goin out there on Sunday have a listen n work out if i should get em or not.

Til next update Cya's round,Cheers for takin the time to look in ere.

[VSSPak]

W00t w00t haha i LOVE it! only things left are now to slam it, personalised plate , maybe some nice 19's a colour code job and ur all good!! hot!

i think u have the audio aspect of things pretyt much covered

[calais_cruzin]

Audio will never be preety much covered, there is always romm for more or better stuff.

Wouldnt mind dumpin the ars a bit more, but would have to get exhaust fixed up as it hangs low near the diff coz they couldnt bend for crap, soo im just gettin a new one, coz dude wont fix it, he recons it will only go up another cm but there is bout 4cm room there, he didnt even looked just asummed.

[Jo3_Blo]

Need some more pics dude, car looks awesome BTW!

[calais_cruzin]

Cheers Jo3_Blo, i will get sum more pics up, just gotta get a camera, could take em on the 2mg phone cam but they look dodgy, thats wat most of those pics are takin with.

I got a bit bored the other night soo decided to have a play around with photo-shop, havnt used it much found it a bit confussing, but after useing other programs i have worked out how to use photoshop. IT GREAT!!

This is wat i came up with, just "borrowed" sircruzealotvs's rims, tinted the windows and that was about it. Looks good with rims i cant wait to get sum.

[shumway]

boy jas the car looks good,even with that custom install of the subs.How much did the performance ocy strap cost thats holding them in ,must have been a bit ive just got to get myself one of them.hahahahaha

[calais_cruzin]

U will crash ur car if u put sum of these performance ocy straps in, too much power to add to wat u already got.

Its alrite in mine, ive only got a stocker not a stroker.

[shumway]

ok ill stick with my street machine rubber bands then,lol

[totq]

This is wat i came up with, just "borrowed" sircruzealotvs's rims, tinted the windows and that was about it. Looks good with rims i cant wait to get sum.

Hmmm, i dunno.....but the guy on the left holding a can of coke looks like he's waiting for someone........to pick him up.......
The car looks good bro....when you get rid of the mudflaps.

[calais_cruzin]

Hmmm, i dunno.....but the guy on the left holding a can of coke looks like he's waiting for someone........to pick him up.......
The car looks good bro....when you get rid of the mudflaps.

HAHAHA smartars.
I hate that pic, damm you shaggerz, why couldnt you just get a shot of the car.... but its a good pic to chop.

Mudflaps went on the 29th if ya read that post right, but i spose you have to think alot harder to get stuff to get thru to ya now, uno in your old age and that.

[totq]

I meant chop the mud flaps from the pic phool, nothing to do with my memory/age.

[Jo3_Blo]

THe rims look dodgy on that photoshop.

[Troyziee]

any luck with tha door chrome moulds yet? im hanging to c if ur right, so i can go out n do em :P

[calais_cruzin]

Yeah you were right, i couldnt get them out, seems tho they are apart of the door mould or are just really really hard to get out. Mine now has screw driver marks under it from tryin to pry off.

Least we got the front n rears done tho, mine were stufffed

[Troyziee]

lol ye i was sure i was right,
ye tha bak n front were tha most important, there tha 1s that get buggerd hard, n jsu that lil thing makes a massive difference

[totq]

Them chrome strips are part of the rubber moulds boys...

[calais_cruzin]

Yeah i found that out now, after a attack with the screw driver.

Hows urs goin, still havnt put it back on yet?

[totq]

Nah, not yet, not a priority...i'll leave it until the car gets something done at the panel beaters then get them to stick it on too.
The problem is my car's too damn fast and they keep coming off!
I did swap the rear resonator back to the silent one yesterday, ahh, nice and quiet again.....

[calais_cruzin]

OK so here is a update on what ive done, lost a bit from host doin the runner soo ill try and see what i can remember.

In July did full service, engine, trans, fuel filter, oil filter, installed a bigish trans cooler,bnew brake pads, changed the injectors to higher flowing onse, bu needs a slight tune to make it not that lil bit lean.

Um Reckless motor sport gave me sum new white dails to test out for him again, much better than the last batch, this lot there isnt a 6missing off the RPM and the blue comes thru alot darker, but still a bit patchy tho.

Today ive just made up sum boards with LEDS in em, should bring the blue out alot more.

The LEDS are:
5mm
vf 3.6v
am 75
MCD 10,000 in blue

Ive got em setup in series, 3 per bank with 4 banks, should do the trick i recon, once ive done the dash then its off to the climate control, then center consol, then under the hood.

Cost me about 38 bucks in LEDs, resistors and the board to mount them on.

Also now have another amp, had it for about 3months now, its running one of the 12's and my other 4ch has the other 12 off it and then i have amped the splits, its heaps better now, no lookin back.

Me bro just got a job as a cabinet maker, soo he has been building up a steady supply of 18mm MDF so that i can make a nice custom box n false floor.

Um got a new 120amp breaker for me amp cable, has a Volt read out, upgraded the grounds to 4g all round cept for engine ground, car now has a very steady 13v when car off and 14.1 when running, has about .2v drop when subs are pumpin, barly a dimm, its good.

Lookin at gettin a 120amp boshe alternator soon, when funds are avail.