The Beige Bandit

[Pub247]

Well this is my new daily wagon had it for about a month and just decided to post it up. Its nothing special and will probably remain that way.


Name: The Beige Bandit dubbed this by my mates for its appearance and a uncanny knack of getting good laughs and suprising people with its prowess

Car: 15/10/1988 VN Commodore Wagan

Colour: Bandit Beige (as it has been dubbed AKA dildo cream)

Engine: 3.8 litre V6

Exhaust: Paccies with twin cats into 3 inch y pipe then 2.5 inch redback system custom modded to fit wagon

Transmission: Stock rebuilt auto with trans cooler Has been used for towing and sports a heavy duty tow bar
Diff: Stock
Suspension: Stock front with king springs lows in the ass
Brakes: Stock
Wheels: !4 inch with drift abilites
Interior: A dired out blood colour
Stereo: Hmm Stock tape deck with 4inch speakers in dash
Power: 140rwkw or there abouts
Mods To date:
Include the 5 minute swap to low springs in the back
custom made aerial
Ported head flow to 300hp shaved 15 thou
wade 992a cam
crow timing set with crow pushrod and rocker shims
and one sick roof spoiler (which im told is to keep dust off the back window)
pinstrpe removed and debadged
Future Mods: Replace front bar and front quarter and a matt black paint job. Was going to spool it but found out 14 inch tyres are just as good. And if i can be bothered i will chuck my HU and 6x9's in it and replace the 4inches with some response ones

[f1tzy]

LMAO nice aerial

[Pub247]

A couple more Pictures

[Pub247]

LMAO nice aerial

Cheers mate it pulls the chicks i swear to god!!
Nah it gets good laughs even from the girls

[Vg-ute-mad]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!! Must be fun to go shopping in with that aerial. Does ya mum give ya hell for it?? That's a real p*ssa

[Cobez]

That's heaps sick ayyyyyyyyy Drop an LS1 in it

[Pub247]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!! Must be fun to go shopping in with that aerial. Does ya mum give ya hell for it?? That's a real p*ssa

Nah why would she? My mum lives in QLD the missus find its funny too. I haven't had any trouble with it yet. driven a few police cars but they havent seemed to notice it

That's heaps sick ayyyyyyyyy Drop an LS1 in it

I'll see what i can do on monday i may have a suprise install

[rch-13z]

go the moon caps!

[Pub247]

go the moon caps!

Lol yer they're great! i need one more though as its missing one
An engine bay shot nothing special here just your standard series 1 motor with noisey timing gears AKA broken tensioner. Which is not bad for a 350,000 km motor easy $20 fix but i CBf doing it.

[Vg-ute-mad]

How much did your daily ride set you back?

[Pub247]

A bit fat $300 but then there are things like getting a roadie and rego but still just under a grand to get on the road i think is pretty good

[Vg-ute-mad]

Well done! Nice cheap purchase!

[Wagon_Wheel]

Good stuff Rory, now get stuck into the real car
Love the aerial lol

[LightningVP]

I have 14" moon caps (same as those) you can have it if ya want...

[Jo3_Blo]

Haha, love the aerial.

And a great pickup to get on the road for under a grand! Nice!

[Dan VS 231]

yep matt black paint, slam it on the 14's painted red with wide white walls and maybe some moon or baby moon caps. And chuck a mexican blanket over the seating...

Might work lol.

[ruggj]

those are some sexy pizza tray hub caps

[Morton]

ahhhh I saw that beast in person on Sunday night. I was wondering what the story was behind that mother ^_^

That's fantastic. A wagon, with the original moonies, and the fan-TASTIC brown/red interior That's classy. And a bargain too at the price.

I wish I could pick me up one of those for that price for a daily

[Pub247]

yep matt black paint, slam it on the 14's painted red with wide white walls and maybe some moon or baby moon caps. And chuck a mexican blanket over the seating...

Might work lol.

Lol not a bad idea i got some matt black gmh paint but it wont be enough When it cools down i'll get down to my mates joint and we'll give a spray

those are some sexy pizza tray hub caps

Thanks mate thanks to jolly rogers i got a full set now i was missing one

ahhhh I saw that beast in person on Sunday night. I was wondering what the story was behind that mother ^_^

That's fantastic. A wagon, with the original moonies, and the fan-TASTIC brown/red interior That's classy. And a bargain too at the price.

I wish I could pick me up one of those for that price for a daily

Lol sorry for the late replies somereason i never check my car threads. And that interior is the pinnacle of the late 80's and oozes class . I actually dont mind it now just needs the back door trim fixed and some new speaker grills in the dash for some reason theyve turned green. Its in need of a clean dust and spiderwebs seem to love it.

Last thursday on the way to tafe it decided to die on me. After a few minutes screwing around found there was no spark and did diagnostic test (quick tip always carry a paperclip) and as i suspected error code 41 crank angle sensor. Water trick didnt work so i came back in the arvo and manage to make it a halfway to work before it died again and no reviving this time. So i spent 2 hours after work on friday on the side of dandy-franga road fixing it Let me say series crank angle sensors ($33 delivered to work from bursons) arent fun later models are much easier to swap.

Anyways i also did the dfi and coils packs found that 1 and 6 coil terminals were burnt so it runs heaps better now.

[Pub247]

Well i had a few issues a while back concerning starting and charging issues. All that has been sorted with a new regulator for the alternator.
See this thread
Car playing silly buggers charge issue or something
Since then the battery has been on the blink if you leave the lights on for a few minutes or leave the radio on the battery will be near dead flat.
So i lashed out yesterday (after a rather bad one that needed a jumpstart) i bought a new century 470cca battery seems much better now, cranks quickly. Cost $150 and came with 2 year warranty. The old battery looked rather shabby and was only 200cca now wonder it was rather slow to crank
I also spent another $100 odd on parts to service the car i think it needs it anyway when i get around to doing hopefully it'll thanks me for it

Cheers Pub

[Pub247]

Bit of an update nothing new has really happended between now and since i last posted just been driving it everyday.
But something new is planned for it. I have purchased Powerslave's 140rwkw V6 for it and plenty of other goodies have come with it.
So its going to be a decent upgrade over the the tired and noisey 370,000 km motor, the new one has done half that amount of kays.

Big thanks to The Stig for giving me and dropping off an 8 bolt flexplate for it. All i need now is some flexplate bolts and itll be ready to go in this weekend coming.

In the meantime as of yesterday i replaced all the welsh plugs and sump gasket (has been leaking since cam change) and given it a little bit of a clean.

Add soem pictures now and will put more up when its done and running

[Pub247]

Well after a long weekend new motor is in Found out a few things along the way. Mainly that S1 and S2 wiring is different enough to make some headaches for you. Plugs under the dash at the ecu are different and so are the ones next to the battery for the engine loom. also the wiring for the alternator regulator isnt on the S2 engine loom so it required me to unpick it from S1 loom.
A note when workling on motor dont get dodgey with wiring i dodged mine up so it could get it started and see if it ran and it ended up leaving me strandedon the side of the road. Ended having to add a nice thick earth strap to solve cutting in and out issues.

Also fitted the pacies and twin cat into 2.5 inch system without rear muffler and it was ok to begin with but now its too loud for me i cant stand going to have to add the rear muffler now.
only reason why it isnt in the was the whole system was off powerslave vp sedan so it required a bit of modification to get it to fit and i was running out of daylight on sunday

The complimentry pictures. one of the old donk, 1 of the new donk in, couple of the wagon about to be gurnied, one of it on the hoist and one of the twin cat setup (sort of you can see one side is bolted onto stock system

[pow3rslave]

i know that engine! good to see it found a decent home. i know it's in a wagon but you should try to get it to a track to see what it pulls, i always meant to but i'm lazy, also i didn't know how the crap putty on the timing cover would hold.

also, damn i wish i had a lift in my garage.

[Pub247]

lol that silicon was on there good spent 15 minutes scraping and sanding it off the timing cover they sure put a lot on it.
Going good atm has a bit of an idle problem and its louds as **** im swear im going to get pulled over soon. only really loud at light throttle/high lods which is most of your normal driving so its fing annoying . At idle it sounds awesome and when your givng it some it sounds unreal like a real v6 should. but for a daily driver it just all round sucks.
Hoist is awesome best car tools ever... got a block and tackle right above it too so you can get engine and whatever out easy

[Pub247]

ahh blissful silence now cant beleive how much difference the rear muffler made. Took me like 3 hours to fit as i had to make a whole new pipe to go over diff and to muffler.
Still got an exhaust leak at the front coming from the paccies where it no 5 pipe unbolts from the headers near the collectorlooks like i need a new gasket for that.