nathans VS Calais

[nathanVY]

New ignition barrel is in! No more starting the car with a screw driver!!!
Also have my exhaust ready to get fitted! Just need the cash to pay for fitting

[Trayner]

sounds good mate.

WHat type of exhaust you get?

[nathanVY]

custom made one.

Pacemaker Headers > Twin HiFlow Cats > Twin HSV Mufflers > Twin 2 1/4"

second hand only cost me $150, might get the pacies painted and some dumper tips and should look and sound great.
just waxed the car too looks amazing, I took photos but they suck. Crappy phone camera ill get my girlfriend to take some real photos and post the up soon!

[commodorev6]

How did you replace the chrome on the door mouldings? - it looks good. Nice Calais by the way.

[nathanVY]

How did you replace the chrome on the door mouldings? - it looks good. Nice Calais by the way.

With much pain and frustration. Look in the how-to section of this site for removing sikaflex from panels.
Takes you many hours to get the glue off before you can stick the new chrome down.

Cheers man

EDIT: Have to take my headers to an exhaust place to get flanges welded on (currently welded Headers > Pipe > Cat) so a mate can fit them for me..
SO KEEN!

Also i'm currently without a cd player, anyone got one laying around you'd be willing to let go of for a few beers?

[DvS_Ls1]

hey mate car comeing along pretty gud keep it up just quick question where did u get ur car lowerd

[nathanVY]

hey mate car comeing along pretty gud keep it up just quick question where did u get ur car lowerd

thanks man, I bought the springs off ebay and got them fitted at a place called JaxQuickfit in Geelong. They have pretty good lowering packages if i had have known about them earlier i would have gone straight to them and not bothered wit second hand springs.

[vscalaishsv]

hay nathan got a price on the chrome door strips $70 each but they said they will get in contact with me cause of the clueless kid be hind the counter couldn't figure out the difference between series 1 chrome door strip and the series 2 door stripe that is wider and are colour coded to the colour of the car... i tryed explaining that to him but he didn't want to listen to me....

so $70 buck each isnt to bad but i will have to wait till next pay day to get some for mine lol

cheers patrick

[nathanVY]

hay nathan got a price on the chrome door strips $70 each but they said they will get in contact with me cause of the clueless kid be hind the counter couldn't figure out the difference between series 1 chrome door strip and the series 2 door stripe that is wider and are colour coded to the colour of the car... i tryed explaining that to him but he didn't want to listen to me....

so $70 buck each isnt to bad but i will have to wait till next pay day to get some for mine lol

cheers patrick

LOL the difference is somewhat huge. that sounds not too bad I might go for that in the end might look a bit better.

[vscalaishsv]

LOL the difference is somewhat huge. that sounds not too bad I might go for that in the end might look a bit better.

yea its a big difference. i will be getting the stuff you got off ebay for the front bumper and getting the stock chrome door stripes for the doors. but getting stege 2 shift kit fitted in a few days so the chrome stripes have to wait lol

[nathanVY]

yea its a big difference. i will be getting the stuff you got off ebay for the front bumper and getting the stock chrome door stripes for the doors. but getting stege 2 shift kit fitted in a few days so the chrome stripes have to wait lol

nice. make sure you run a trans cooler with the kit.

[Trayner]

Also i'm currently without a cd player, anyone got one laying around you'd be willing to let go of for a few beers?

I did have a spare one , ill see if i can find it lol . only problem im on the other side of melb lol lol

[nathanVY]

I did have a spare one , ill see if i can find it lol . only problem im on the other side of melb lol lol

lol maybe we can meet near the city, so you ever go in there? if not post is always and option haha

[vscalaishsv]

nice. make sure you run a trans cooler with the kit.

yea fitting that tomorrow morning

[nathanVY]

yea fitting that tomorrow morning

cool, where you getting it done and how much they charging you?

[nathanVY]

Installed my HID kit tonight. Took a while, didn't have to drop the bumper though.
Will post some photos tomorrow.

Seems the bulbs aren't being held in well enough by the stock clip and are jiggling when you go over bumps,
might need to put a few small screws in there? any ideas?

[Trayner]

Installed my HID kit tonight. Took a while, didn't have to drop the bumper though.
Will post some photos tomorrow.

Seems the bulbs aren't being held in well enough by the stock clip and are jiggling when you go over bumps,
might need to put a few small screws in there? any ideas?

Same thing happened to mine brother , just bend the clip a tiny bit where the sorta U bit is then the globe will be snugg as a bug

i got some 6000k globes for the holden high beam lights and Led parkers , the head lights look just like pure white coming out of them looks wicked as


enjoying the whiteness of them ????

[nathanVY]

ok heres the photos of the HIDs i promised

drivers side engine bay, ballast mounting, etc


passenger side engine bay. ballast is mounted behind the air box


ballast behind air box


at night, outside the car


daytime


updated the first post with more pics of the car too! comments please!

[nathanVY]

Same thing happened to mine brother , just bend the clip a tiny bit where the sorta U bit is then the globe will be snugg as a bug

i got some 6000k globes for the holden high beam lights and Led parkers , the head lights look just like pure white coming out of them looks wicked as


enjoying the whiteness of them ????

hmmm ok will have to try that. only problem is its all cable tied up so ill have to cut them and do it again

yeah I took my high beams out because they were yellow and the others were white lol, will buy some arctic white high beams for it soon. Need led parkers too.

I wasn't that impressed to be honest, was a lot of work and had a very sore back by the end of it only to run into issues with the globes not seating properly, etc and they don't show as much distance as I thought they would. Colour looks bloody awesome though


EDIT: Put some decent injector cleaner in it, was about time and hello my power is back! yay lol. Going out to drysdale tonight to get the rear main seal done (leaking water) and my coolant flushed and pressure tested. Plus possibly the auto shift kittttted!
Keen as. anyone have a super6 cai lying around? or air filter.

[nathanVY]

Anyone know some good spray painters in the geelong area? / people that will spray the doors for a slab

[vscalaishsv]

Anyone know some good spray painters in the geelong area? / people that will spray the doors for a slab

a dodgy back yarder

[nathanVY]

had the rear main seal done tonight, the coolant drained out and flushed. Was some horrible coloured coolant! Glad it's all over.
only cost me $450 so not too bad in the end.

Pics

new rear plate



my gearbox


completed rear main seal (made in canada lol)

[Lance2560]

nice car man, they superlows in the front mate?

[nathanVY]

nice car man, they superlows in the front mate?

cheers Springs in the front are great, really good height. The rears could be lower but my cambers bad enough as it is lol.
whats going on?

[Lance2560]

just ordered superlows for my car for the front, hope it's as low as your front end, look's the goods