Grennan's Black Manual VX SS - Bagged on Red and Black 20's!!

[Drawnnite]

sounds awesome what you have instore for it.

keep it up...
....i mean aired out =P

[Grennan]

LSX Garage you say. Drop in for a bourbon while you're out here...

I just gotta find a day I can finish work early and head down there and chat to them. I tried emailing them trying to get some workshop hours, hoping I would be able to duck down there on a Saturday. They emailed me a price of their drive in drive out Cam package and I just facepalmed so I had to call them. Turns out theyre only open on weekdays.

The goal is getting as close to 300rwkw as I can now. Just wanna sus out what stuff I should be doing whilst the heads are off.

[Sphinx]

yep, no Sat's is a hassle. I've gotta pull another 35rwkw outta my arse to make 300 haha

[Grennan]

I will, hopefully, be going a bigger cam than you. Yours is still, for the most part, a regular drive about yeah?

One thing that concerns me about LSX, is they push Magnatec on their website DO NOT WANT!

[Sphinx]

yep, mines still a daily doing 10.5 L/100 which ain't too bad. My cam is only a baby 223/223 so I'd hope you'd go with a bigger stick. Something like a 228/23x would be perfect, plus heads would do 300rwkw. LSX like camtech cams but just buy what you want from the states and get em to do it. Speed Inc is where I got all my stuff from with zero hassles. As for the oil, yeah, BYO.

[TrikkBen]

I will, hopefully, be going a bigger cam than you. Yours is still, for the most part, a regular drive about yeah?

One thing that concerns me about LSX, is they push Magnatec on their website DO NOT WANT!

If I was you, I would let them put whatever oil in they want then drop it when you get home. Don't give them good oil because you never know if they don't shelf it for the bosses car and put shit in yours and tell you its your royal purp..

[Grennan]

yep, mines still a daily doing 10.5 L/100 which ain't too bad. My cam is only a baby 223/223 so I'd hope you'd go with a bigger stick. Something like a 228/23x would be perfect, plus heads would do 300rwkw. LSX like camtech cams but just buy what you want from the states and get em to do it. Speed Inc is where I got all my stuff from with zero hassles. As for the oil, yeah, BYO.

Ill have to see what they say about supplying shit and how much they will sting me for Labor in lieu of charing for parts.

Cause I can get everything through work dirt cheap. New pistons are easily sourced, got a customer who does a lot of headwork for the V8 ute series etc and weve actually got a Crow i think its a baby cam sitting on the shelf for my car

[Grennan]

So went and brought a nice fancy car cover etc for it today. Its going undercovers now

Went and gave it a nice wash and took some pics before she got hidden away.

[VT_SS]

Hi mate i am sure its in the thread some where but who done the centre of your rims for you ?

[Grennan]

Custom job.

Rims are originally either silver with black spokes or black with silver spokes. The place i got the wheels from - FDO - arranged to have them done (it only took me laying down the 3 grand for the wheels and a week of them apparently doing nothing - then another week of me ringing them and chasing my ####ing wheels to get done, but it got done. The center caps unbolt from the wheel and the wheel actually looks pretty tough as just a plain black wheel.

Ive got some spare ones sitting here. I wanna get them painted up in a red marble or something for show.

[Trayner]

why is it going under cover ?

[Dirbatua]

he got a company car so no more daily driving.

[Grennan]

why is it going under cover ?

Got a work ute - The Burson Race Car - as some call them So its officially no longer a daily driver.

Credit card is all payed off and Ive got cash sitting here for mods. Whenever I get a chance to duck down to LSX Garage itll be going in for PROBABLY, Heads, Cam and seeing what we can do in the way of new pistons and pushrods. Will probably be in 5-6 weeks when the other guy at work gets off holidays.

Ive also been tossing up the idea of a new engine. But I need to check the compatability of the LS2/3 with the T56.

My whole driveway and where I park the car in the backyard is surrounded by trees that drop petals and shit in the wind so needed to cover it up.

[VT_SS]

Custom job.

Rims are originally either silver with black spokes or black with silver spokes. The place i got the wheels from - FDO - arranged to have them done (it only took me laying down the 3 grand for the wheels and a week of them apparently doing nothing - then another week of me ringing them and chasing my ####ing wheels to get done, but it got done. The center caps unbolt from the wheel and the wheel actually looks pretty tough as just a plain black wheel.

Ive got some spare ones sitting here. I wanna get them painted up in a red marble or something for show.

LOL Shit for 3 grand i would expect round the clock contact. Anyway cheers for the info and i must say i am liking the shoes mate and a cover is a good investment good job

[Trayner]

Got a work ute - The Burson Race Car - as some call them So its officially no longer a daily driver.

Credit card is all payed off and Ive got cash sitting here for mods. Whenever I get a chance to duck down to LSX Garage itll be going in for PROBABLY, Heads, Cam and seeing what we can do in the way of new pistons and pushrods. Will probably be in 5-6 weeks when the other guy at work gets off holidays.

Ive also been tossing up the idea of a new engine. But I need to check the compatability of the LS2/3 with the T56.

My whole driveway and where I park the car in the backyard is surrounded by trees that drop petals and shit in the wind so needed to cover it up.

Ahh nice man , nice ! . Yeh I heard LSX garage in my town is pretty good , thats where my next car will be going

[Grennan]

Ahh nice man , nice ! . Yeh I heard LSX garage in my town is pretty good , thats where my next car will be going

Well it went to another well known LS1 tuner and quite frankly I got burned.

He rang me early in the day saying he wouldnt do a Dyno Run without an oil change. Fair enough, I had the car for a week and hadn't done it yet, so I said well while youre there do plugs and leads.

10,000 km later I checked the leads (if even that, at the time i rarely drove the car and the plugs looking absolutely normal, no abnormal wear signs) and if they were changed ill eat 10 dicks, big black ones. One of them was so corroded im surprirsed I didnt have a miss.

Talking to other people that have been there have noted the same thing. Charging them for things they didnt want, charging them for shit that he didnt do.

Another member took their car to LSX and they were, frankly, shocked to see how bad the tune was on his car. There are also many other reports about his work whuch im sure certain members on here will be happy to divulge into, but in the end Ill be looking at LSX and also looking at Autotechnique in Ferntree Gully. Whoever sits down and has a good talk to me about my options will get my work, thats what I want from a workshop, someone you can talk to about everything, someone who explains stuff and someone that in the end you can trust with your car.

[Trayner]

Well it went to another well known LS1 tuner and quite frankly I got burned.

He rang me early in the day saying he wouldnt do a Dyno Run without an oil change. Fair enough, I had the car for a week and hadn't done it yet, so I said well while youre there do plugs and leads.

10,000 km later I checked the leads (if even that, at the time i rarely drove the car and the plugs looking absolutely normal, no abnormal wear signs) and if they were changed ill eat 10 dicks, big black ones. One of them was so corroded im surprirsed I didnt have a miss.

Talking to other people that have been there have noted the same thing. Charging them for things they didnt want, charging them for shit that he didnt do.

Another member took their car to LSX and they were, frankly, shocked to see how bad the tune was on his car. There are also many other reports about his work whuch im sure certain members on here will be happy to divulge into, but in the end Ill be looking at LSX and also looking at Autotechnique in Ferntree Gully. Whoever sits down and has a good talk to me about my options will get my work, thats what I want from a workshop, someone you can talk to about everything, someone who explains stuff and someone that in the end you can trust with your car.

Apparently when LSX garage in paky first opened they were shit/dodgy and most of the staff got fired and they re-hired / got new management , and now ive been hearing nothing but good reviews from them now

[Grennan]

Ok, so small update.

Starting to get things done before it goes in for power upgrades.

First step:



Arrived today. Nice shiny clutch and chromoly flywheel. Got it dirt ####ing cheap to

[hakhawk]

posting in this thread for the first time it seems, sup with that?

looks the goods, should bite nice too, ive got an xtreme clutch in the e21

[Grennan]

Yeah, apparently its supposed to be self adjusting and is supposed to feel very similar to the stock clutch so well see how it goes. Im still expecting to stall it 10 times when I leave.

My brother just walked in and is like, so when you putting it in? Putting it in yourself? Im like yeah go try and lift it. Thing weighs an absolute ####ing ton. So ill get it done next week by one of our customers, he said 300 bucks cash so i wont complain

Just gotta go find some Penrite MGO70-75, the only Burson store that carries it is Carrum Downs (because of Chevs) and If i order some I have to order a box So ill go get some from Carrum tomorrow

[HoZy]

Nice ^_^ Can't wait til some of the other goodies start rocking up

[Grennan]

Nice ^_^ Can't wait til some of the other goodies start rocking up

The other stuff got posted today. Should start seeing some more stuff roll in tuesday...

[Dirbatua]

an dennnnnnnnnnnnn

[Grennan]

an dennnnnnnnnnnnn

Oh yeah.

I have brakes now.

You know I just realised. I have spent 2 grand on my car this week, with zero power gains. Kinda depressing.

[Grennan]

So just a few pictures. Taken off the red covers on my wheels yesterday. Gonna give em a good scrub while theyre off. In the meantime however, ive grown fond of just the black wheels. Looks stealth as ####

Also, note to self. Do not park the car on grass, then air out. Moved the car and the grass under the cats was smoldering