"S1NGLE" Built for fun!!

[YBNV.4]

i picked this up back in september 09 for a daily driver. it was stock other than a dirty cat back exhaust, venetian, lowered and a faded bonnet with a knock in the bottem end on cold starts. but less than 3 months later the inlet manifold gasket let go, instead of replacing it i thought it was time for a rebuild. thats where it got out of control and 5 months later it was back on the road as this


Name:
Trent (MENT4L)
Model:
1994 VR Calais
Odometer:
220k+
Colour:
Anthrecite Grey
Engine Type:
304
Engine Mods:
Bored .020', honed, chemically cleaned, balanced, 0 decked, 304 crank re-ground and polished, A9L rods resized and balanced,
ACL Race Series bearings, Hypatec flat top pistons, Hastings plasma moly rings,
10:1 Compression, High Energy Sump, Crane 286 cam, crane anti pump lifters,
Rollmaster double-row timing chain, Powerbond superstreet balencer,
heads shaved .020', K-line guides, crane springs, retainers and colletts, Crow .080' shorter push rods, YellaTerra Roller Rockers, Fab-tech Gasket set, Fel-pro head gaskets, gilmer drive, 10mm Top Gun leads, NGK Iridium plugs
Exhaust:
Pacemaker extractors, hi-flow 100cpi balistic cat into single 3" system with rear muffler removed and twin 3" dumps
Gearbox:
built 4L60E, TCT Accelerator 3000rpm stall with lockup, oil cooler
Diff:
rebuilt BW IRS with minispool and 3.7 gears
Brakes:
VT front brakes, Slotted DBA rotors, bendix ultimate pads
Suspension:
Tein coilover front, pedders rear shocks, slam specialty evolution drop in IRS bags
Wheels/Tyres:
19" VE GTS or black ceptors, chrome dress rings, chrome alloy centre caps and whitewall tyres
Interior:
Anthrecite leather HSV Coulson front and rear seats with matching suede door card inserts, new black cutpile carpet, Custom mats, autometer Pro-lite for oil pressure, HSV enhanced dash badge, lots of Dynamat, white venetion
Exterior:
S1NGLE plates, clear side indicators, Chrome Isotta windscreen wipers, tint, detailed brakes,
chrome grille insert, full S pac kit including bobtail, 3/4 of the car resprayed, new chrome body moulding, autometer ultra-lite guages and pro-lite on bonnet, front and rear HSV badges
Stereo:
Kenwood motorised screen with full iPhone intergration, Option Audio 6.5" splits and coaxials (rest to come)

Future Mods:
custom tune
new intake manifold
complete stereo
sunroof
OR TRANSFER ALL THE GOOD BITS INTO MY VL CALAIS

IDLE VIDEO : YouTube - MOV02E.MOD

heres a quick vid after i fitted the gilmer

YouTube - gilmer.MOV

and heres a 0-100km run (still laggy, needs manifold and tune)

YouTube - 0-100.MOV

[Trayner]

Looks mint mate ,she must hammer , bet those chairs are nice and comfy as :P

[GothicKidd]

Wow man, Beautiful car. Sounds lovely.. and the calais colour theme is awesome.. Great car man. Jealous :P

[YBNV.4]

Looks mint mate ,she must hammer , bet those chairs are nice and comfy as :P

cheers mate, yeh she does ok but its still being held back from the stock inlet manifold, fuel system and tune... the seats a pure sex, one of the best investments iv ever made on a car

Wow man, Beautiful car. Sounds lovely.. and the calais colour theme is awesome.. Great car man. Jealous :P

thanks bud, its got a note of its own thats for sure. i love it!! haha yeh im a fan of the good old factory 2 tone, pretty happy i got the anthrecite cause its my favorite of the VR. just like silver slate is my favorite VL colour and i was lucky enough to find that aswell

[Cpt Awesome]

Wooooooooooow... those seats are erotic O_o how much they cost ya??? i'd love to put them in my V6 project

[YBNV.4]

The seats I got from a bloke who was having his car repossessed, i paid $1500 for front and back seats aswell as matching door cards!!!

[VS_Pete_1]

Sweet ride. The wheels look good.

[TY318]

woow vry nice mate luve the gilmer belt are you running thermos now

[Rexy28]

Always see you around Bendigo,
And, not once have I not just stared at it, such a good looking car.

[walesy]

sweet lookin ride mate i think i seen this in SC at a skid pan day or something?

[YBNV.4]

Cheers people's
Yeh I'm running a single 16" zirgo 3000cfm thermo, gets a little warm in traffic still!!
Haha cheers, yeh most people in Bendigo have seen (or heard) it around as it had been my daily driver for the last 10 months but it's been retired from daily duties now, only comes out for a cruise on the odd occasion now although I'm thinking I might drive it to work tomoro lol

Na never had it at a skid pan day, a few people have said it made a quick appearance on the c4c DVD so u may have seen it on there?

[walesy]

yeah maybe it was on that, i just remember seeing the numberplate and it was on some sort of track couldnt remember where though

[YBNV.4]

Ahh they may have been on my mates old red VT clubby in the burnout comp at spring nats a few years ago... He had standard plates so we put S1NGLE on it lol

[YBNV.4]

well smashed the 1 and only chambered muffler on S1NGLE!! Took it in to Ed's Exhaust and had the boys raise the whole system and weld in a straight thru muffler... YEAH BABY!!! Sounds awesome but iv got a feeling A defect won't be far off hahaha

The t700 is starting to slip slightly into 3rd so Adam at ATS is building me a tuff t400, going a 4500 stall to this time

[neet_wagon]

Nice looking car, see it around town every now and then.

Good to see there's a few boys from the "hoon-capital" on jc. Thought I was the only one.

[YBNV.4]

Cheers mate, she doesn't come out to often now days but it was my daily driver for the last 10 months or so!!
Theres a few of u's on here but we rarely troll the forums, hard to find the time.

Can anyone help me get in contact with Greenfoam?

[YBNV.4]

Greenfoam??? Anyone???

Also selling the box and stall if anyone's keen?

4L60E auto with stall but has started to slip into 3rd (only slightly). Box also has a stage 2 shift kit. Auto was supposedly rebuilt prior to me buying the car but no paperwork was supplied, car has done 20,000km since I purchased. stall has only done 10,000km and cost me just shy of $1k

Stall converter is a TCT 3000rpm with lockup and anti ballooning plate, done 10,000km behind my 304 as a daily driver, 3 passes at the track and that's all!!
Box will be out of the car within the next month, although car is no longer daily so can remove earlier if needed... Will also come with standard torque converter in like new condition

Pm me if interested

[VR028]

greenfoams long gone. he has an ebay account where he sells memcals rarely. nice car btw, anthracites the best colour

[YBNV.4]

cheers mate!!

[GTP 85]

Look tough and sounds tough! good work mate

[dobesz]

Greenfoam is on street commodores!

[YBNV.4]

Thanks for the comments!!
Sweet I'll try and track him down on Stcom then.

Well S1NGLE is venturing out for the Queens Birthday cruise on Sunday in melbourne so it's being treated to a quick detail today, I'll try and get a few pics when I'm finished if it's not to dark already

[YBNV.4]

Finished work today and raced home to grab S1NGLE to get it out to a dyno day held by Tonys Turbo Tuning @ Precision Clutch and Brake!!
Wasn't to fazed with what power it was making but more as to what the air fuel ratio was like... Rich as a mofo hahaha just like I thought...

So stock top end (exept roller rockers and valve springs) and running rich enough to fuel another car behind it she made 190rwkw/254rwhp, 557Nm of torque @ 134km!!

I was pretty happy considering, bring on the new box, manifold setup and tune

[TI3VOM]

Hey mate if you happen to track Greenfoam down please let me know how to contact him directly as I need a re-tune for my car.
By the way very nice car you have there, I love the look of it.

[Oken]

Sounds quite tuff with the new muffler should haul arse with the new auto and tune