Vr ss thrashed!

[Rusty]

Hi guys,

As some of you may be aware, i have been doing up a VR SS for a couple of months now. Some also may be aware that the VR SS has recently been stolen AND recovered relatively intact.

My question is?

What should i be looking for when trying to fix a car that has been absoloutely THRASHED for approximately 100km's.

The car has done decent burnouts and doughnuts shredding both the rear tyres. Hammered along a dirt track for approx 55km's (highway for 45km) and has hit something hard enough to send the front left tyre up into the guard resulting in the guard to be dented.

The car had done 170 000kms and was running beautifully before it was stolen. When i picked it up it was running rough. Idling rough as guts with poor wheel alignment (from hitting something).

Obviously it is a bit hard to say what the issues are without driving it or knowing more, but if your car was stolen, what are all the things you would check? The car has been driven as hard as it could! Still not losing any oil or fluids whatsover and not overheating or anything.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated, Cheers in advance!!

[Poms308]

Sorry to hear about your car mate, i feel for ya all that hard work and money down the drain, id be checkin the transmission/gearbox because if they were young like you were saying in your other thread they probs held it in 1st or didnt no how to drive and were ridin the clutch like no tommorow (if manual?)

[Rusty]

Is an auto, they did some surprisingly good burnouts and doughnuts for the ages of them! I basically followed the rubber to find my car!

[admir87]

sorry to hear bud.

sounds as though they revved the shit out of it if its running rough

i would do a compression test first to confirm the heads, gasket, and valves are still alright.

then give her a good service, plugs oil, etc and make sure you change the autotrans oil as it could be burnt due to the burnouts.

goodluck with it

[vn_v6]

sorry to hear your pride and joys been demolished, id kill the kids, (not literally b4 someone jumps on my case and reports me to no avail *cough* )

like said, gearbox fuid ect, check for leaking hoses underneath, such as petrol bla bla, check suspension bushes ect, check plugs, what fuel is in it, dirt in air filter bla bla, basicly think of anywhere they couve taken car and what negatives could happen from that, check if the exhaust or extractors are dinted, seeing it sounds likes it been bottomed out

[VrWagz1]

The suspension is the biggest thing id say. If they have hit things that hard, i have no doubt that somthing (prop multiple things are bent) and will require replacing. Best thing to do there is take it to a suspesion shop and have them put it on the hoist and explain to them what happened.

[Rusty]

Cheers for the advice guys, may be cheaper to strip it and get another SS to swap out the interior. Am planning on moving over east so it's going to cost me approx 2k to send on a truck. Still trying to figure out if its worthwhile ditching and starting again in Brisbane (that way i save 2k transporting a possibly stuffed car).

Still living in country town so any major work is going to easily outweigh the value of the vehicle.

Other costly thing will be fixing front bar and two side panels. Because its pearlescent paint or whatever ya call it = major pain in ass.

Interesting info for you - the forensic investigator who came out to fingerprint the car claimed that my type of paintjob is the only type you can't lift fingerprints from. He claims it is due to the speckle in the paint or some crap. I dont really buy it! Anyone else heard of this??

[vn_v6]

go to pedders ask for the 14$ check, lol youlb e ripping them off with all the work theyre doing, check the major bits ike front of the car isnt bent who knows, then decide to keep it or not

[Rusty]

No pedders up here unfortunately, no one will look at your car for less than 150 an hour labor, even for quotes. Bit low on $$$ as i have had 6+ weeks off work from motorbike accident so getting robbed an car stolen was a major inconvenience!

[Poms308]

Yeah like vn_v6 said check leads, oils etc. just give it a major service first then see what you think from there..hope its all good, effin barsteds!!

[Rusty]

Had lil look under the car today. Exhaust is smashed almost closed. Fair few panels dented under car. Flywheel ok, transmission pan ok. Need to get it on hoist for good look!

[Poms308]

Had lil look under the car today. Exhaust is smashed almost closed. Fair few panels dented under car. Flywheel ok, transmission pan ok. Need to get it on hoist for good look!

'Exhaust is smashed almost closed' that could be the main reason the car runs so ruff..?

[Rusty]

UPDATE


Took exhaust off the other day. Car running much smoother but obviously sounds soooo loud. Could hear it over 6 streets away! Good news is that it is running a lot better. Waiting to have car shipped from WA to QLD so once it arrives i will begin restoring it again

[Excale]

Id also check the windscreen, if it's dirty that could be why your cars idling rough but im not a mechanic

[WogBoyz]

glad to hear its running good again, id still give it a good service and change all fluids/oils plugs and air filter, maybe even fuel filter if it hasnt been changed before

[Rusty]

For sure mate, all oils and leads due to get changed. Sucky thing is that it had everything done to it prior to getting flogged. All oils, filters, gaskets, leads etc had literally done less than 20km. Time to start again!

[wortus]

I'd just check the spark plug leads and if there within spec leave them. When you said the underneath had been bashed in a bit what panels and to what extent have been damaged? Is it something you can live with or does it need to go in and be repaired? I'd be pretty concerned about the suspension and the parts of the car that it mounts to it needs to be looked at to see if anything is bent and whether any bushes and ball joints have been damaged. Also check the prop shaft to see if it has been damaged as it would be out of balance and have the rims checked for any damage.