STRAY vr stato

[STRAY]

Name: Erwein
Model: Vr Statesman
Year: 1994
Colour: White and grey
Bodykit: hsv front and rear lips
Engine: Standard holden 5L
Engine mods: Acid bath, bore and hone out to 0,20 thou, polished crank, new cam bearings, rods resized, flat top pistons, new main and big end bearings, block decked, fully balanced, crane 286 cam, crane lifters, crane valve springs, new water pump, hi energy sump, romac balancer, blue top injectors, 70mm throttle body, gilmer belt drive, aircon removed, heads pulled down and cleaned, jp oil pump, alloy radiator, au thermo fans, hi torque starter
Power: 196.7rwhp before new engine will post new figures when tuned
Exhaust: Stainless steel HM extractors into 2 1/2 inch system with one muffler
Gearbox: Fully Rebuilt, trans cooler all new electrics, VT clutch pack, wider bands, corvette servo, stage 3 transgo shift kit, mall stall, capable of 500 hp (find out one day) built by WA Automatics in maddington
Diff: 3.9s LSD
Brakes: VT front calipers and slotted discs, standard back end
Suspension: Lovells superlows and Boags turbo shortened struts at all 4 corners and camber kit for irs
Wheels and tyres: 19 inch speedy Cheetahs and 245s all round whitewalled
Interior: Stock leather
Stereo: Pioneer dvd unit, alpine splits in front, sony xplods in pacel shelf, clarion amp running splits and crossfire amp and sub in the boot
Build Period: Too long still going
Cost: not telling the missus will find out
Future mods: whipple supercharger or trumpet manifold so i can put my bullet alternator bracket on cos wont fit with standard manifold and throttle body....

[jozlod]

looks very nice, though i must wonder why would you remove the air con?

[STRAY]

looks very nice, though i must wonder why would you remove the air con?

Cheers jozlod i dont use it as a daily so i thought it could loose some weight and somewhere down the track there will be a blower and it will only be used for burnouts but until then i thought id just get rid of it to run the gilmers.

[Zuicider]

Erwein you wouldnt happen to be a bp fitter by any chance?

[STRAY]

Erwein you wouldnt happen to be a bp fitter by any chance?

nah man im a digger op for macmahons

[r_i_d_a_h]

funk me.

that looks amazing!

xD im liking it alot!

[betts]

Engine mods sound good, let us know what kind of power you get out of it.

[Disturbed_vegeta]

looks tuff with the ss lip...was that hard to fit?

[<RaBBiT>]

****ing sweet

[dbarnes]

so nice!! sits perfect

[STRAY]

looks tuff with the ss lip...was that hard to fit?

nah man easy to fit payed a shop to do it, i cant wait till its tuned and i can drive it around thanks for the comments guys i appreciate them..

[Haydz]

Lips Look awesome. Im getting them on my vr soon hopefully.


just a few suggestions. maybe a caprice grill and foglights? just to make it that bit nicer.



got any interior shots?

[STRAY]

nah man not keen on the caprice grill and the fog lights, how bout a filter hanging out the bonnet thats my next mod hopefully...

[STRAY]

Finally got the old girl back today after 5 months of her living at a mates place and got 231.5rwhp on the dyno but had an extractor leak so after i fix that on the weekend ill take it out and rack up the kms and run the motor in....

[ethann]

Nice Stato man!
Gives me some Ideas thats for shore hahaha!

[NickVR]

That is an awesome looking Statesman mate. Those wheels suit it really well.

[STRAY]

cheers mate alot of people like these rims my bro inlaw even went out and got himself a set for his vy ss hahaha

[Silver_VS_II]

yeah mate looks heaps clean and rims do suit it very well, the white walls on it stand out alot and i think it looks really good.

[STRAY]

cheers man heres a video of the idle crappy quality but you get the idea...
YouTube - Cammed VR Stato

[STRAY]

well havnt been on here for a while, this is now being used as my daily and chews the juice hopefully i can park it up again soon and get my hi rise and filter out the bonnet some 20s and some bonnet gauges and i might be able to sneak into motorvation next year.......

[ParkwayDrv]

well havnt been on here for a while, this is now being used as my daily and chews the juice hopefully i can park it up again soon and get my hi rise and filter out the bonnet some 20s and some bonnet gauges and i might be able to sneak into motorvation next year.......

Coming out on the cruise today mate?

[STRAY]

Coming out on the cruise today mate?

nah i missed it but saw the ass end of it...seen a heap of commodores driving out of belmont

[ParkwayDrv]

nah i missed it but saw the ass end of it...seen a heap of commodores driving out of belmont

Spewin, you should of tagged in