Tark's "Tuff 6" VT Calais, Stroked and blown!

[muvro]

Hey guys,

Might as well put some pics up of my car.

It's a VT series 1 Calais.

Interior;
-Carbon fiber dash
-Standard leather interior

ICE;
-Alpine DVD player
-Alpine fold out Screen
-Alpine Digital sound processor with Dolby digital.
-Alpine 6 stack cd player.
-Alpine F407
-Alpine 1507
-MTX 6000 5 1/4" splits and 6 1/2" splits up front
-Pioneer 8" 3 way rears
-Soundstream SPL 15 x2
-Custom made boot enclosure.

External body mods;
-SS front bar lip
-Custom bonnet.

Suspension mods;
-King superlow front springs with two coils cut off... (long story)
-King superlow wagon HD springs in the rear.
-KYB AGX adjustable shocks all round.
-Superpro rear adjustable bushes.

Wheels;
-DTM 19"

Engine mods;
-Pro-Stroke 4.2L Pro race bottom end. The bottom end was built at Pro-Stroke with everything hand finished to pro race specs. Pistons were custom made in the states to get the CR down to 7.5:1. It runs Cometic MLS gaskets with standard heads and Yella Terra Ultra lite rockers. Roll master double row timing chain. Ivan tighe custom grind cam.
-The lower inlet manifold has been smoothed inside and out and ceramic coated.
-It runs a Whipple 3.3L screw blower ontop of a Yella Terra Whipple adapter intercooler which was modified by YT to suit. I then modified it further for better cooling and by-pass.
-A top the blower sits a Edelbrock 2000CFM four barrel throttel body and above that is an Enderlie bugcatcher that houses a custom K&N air filter.

Exhaust system;
-2" primary extractors, into 4" copllectors. Dual 4" Catco cats, into a dual 3" X-Force stainless system for the street.
I made the extractors, then got them ceramic coated.

Fuel system;
-A standard intank pump supplies fuel to a 5L custom surge tank, with internal baffles and twin outlets to dual Bosch 044 pumps. Each pump supplies it's own 1/2" aluminium fuel line that supplies each fuel rail on each bank. There is a balance pipe between the two after the one way valves for even supply and as a back up incase a pump fails.
-Pressure is regulated by a Edelbrock EFI reg.
-All hoses, pipes and fittings are Russel.

Driveline mods;
-The gearbox is standard bar a corvette second gear servo and a manual valvebody modified by Furious Performance.
-Diff is a BW80 with a tightened LSD and 3.73 gears.

Power;
-It currently runs 300rwkw (400rwhp) on a safe run-in tune. The motor has only done around 2500kms. So when I get up to around 5000kms we're going to push it a bit harder and see how much we can screw out of it. Then take it out for a run at the strip.

Apart from the mentioned places that carried out work on the car I did everything else myself. It had between may and december last year over 1000 hrs spent on it in my spare time. Just to get it to the nats for YT.

Mods to come;
-Way too many to list.

Cheers

Tark

Here's some pics,

At the nats on the YT stand.



Engine pics and parts.













Engine in the bay.




Engine bay painted.



Engine painted in the booth.



Trial fitting everything before the new motor.






Dual Innovate A/F guages (one for each bank)



The bonnet










The Exhaust






Old and new extractors.



The merge collectors into 4" pipe.





Fuel system pics






Wheels and brakes



An old pic at the drags



The old engine setup







Some videos;

YouTube - TRK Performance "TUFF 6" - Commperformance

YouTube - Tuff 6 - 2008 Street Commodores Skid Pan Day

Tark

[Wagon_Wheel]

Holy hell, tuffest V6 Ive ever seen......
Should have that motor sitting in a VP though, would be much tuffer, and lighter too!!

[nicko]

very nice!

sounds great on the skid pan

[rch-13z]

that's an absolute animal! congrats mate...

[PONTIAC GTO]

youre unbelievable

[badaz]

Holly crap I just watched those vids, well done your beast is tuff as. I wouldn't like guess how much blood sweat and tears have gone into her.

[cxcxcxvcvcvc]

Tuff as guts nuff said

[.:TRIXTR:.]

god i love this car it has got to be one of my fav vt's bays pulls so many looks!

[muvro]

Thanks heaps for the comments guys!

Muchly appreciated!!!

Holly crap I just watched those vids, well done your beast is tuff as. I wouldn't like guess how much blood sweat and tears have gone into her.

Yeah man, bloody ****e load!!!

In between June and December last year I clocked up over 1000hrs outside of my normal work hours just to get it finished for the nats. Not too many tears though. Everything was pre fitted and planned. Basicly had no dramas apart from the cooler needing some adjustments that were expected anyway. But there was plenty of blood and sweat shed. lol

[muvro]

Tuff as guts nuff said

Thanks man!

[muvro]

god i love this car it has got to be one of my fav vt's bays pulls so many looks!

Thanks heaps TRIXTR!

The bay is a long way off being finished, yet. But it's stage one tranformation seems to have done the trick for a while. I'm eventually going to get rid of all the crap in the bay so it'll look like an early first gen commy in the bay. It hasn't been done yet coz I don't want to immobolise the car as I'm having too much fun driving it. hahaha

Maybe next year. See how it goes.

Cheers

Tark

[.:TRIXTR:.]

hell yeh i cant wait for the updates!
was good to see it close up at NSW C4C5

[holden_102789]

PUT THE BUG CATCHER BACK ON! man it looks tuff, i didnt think you could put them on 6's :S

[holden_102789]

wait it is on, i didnt read the "old pics" part lol

[muvro]

hell yeh i cant wait for the updates!
was good to see it close up at NSW C4C5

Cheers mate!

Yeah, C4C5 was a good day!

[muvro]

PUT THE BUG CATCHER BACK ON! man it looks tuff, i didnt think you could put them on 6's :S

LOL, yeah, they are the pics of the very first A2A setup. Before FIT started making them.

Yeah, with the right blower you can put a bugcatcher on.

I don't reckon you can go past a bugcatcher for a scoop.

[holden_102789]

was this done to a stock commodore v6? or was it a whole new engine?

[muvro]

Not 100% sure what you mean, but here it goes.

The engine originally was a supercharged V6 from the factory L67.

The new motor uses the original block and sump and that's about it.

[djeyecon]

running cost?

****in amazing dude. i am seriously in love.

[muvro]

At the moment it's a bit harsh on the back posket. But once it's gone in for it's proper tune it should be a bit better. Though it doesn't bother me as it's a fun car not a daily.

[Cobez]

Jeeezarz, i'll agree with most of what has been said here. That is seriously the toughest V6 i have ever seen. You are a nutter dude!

That's ****ing fantastic! Very well done man, very well done!

[muvro]

Jeeezarz, i'll agree with most of what has been said here. That is seriously the toughest V6 i have ever seen. You are a nutter dude!

That's ****ing fantastic! Very well done man, very well done!

Cheers man!

Much appreciated!

I'll be at the Summernats this year at the Yella Terra stand. So if anyone's around, pop in and say G'day.

Tark

[walesy]

i remember this from c4c5 in syd... couldnt believe the look of this thing! awesome!

[Jo3_Blo]

.........Wow..............



Nuff said.

Tuff 6 is an understatement. Think that's one of the very few times I've seen so much work gone into a VT. And probably the first V6 I've seen like that.
Well done.

[muvro]

i remember this from c4c5 in syd... couldnt believe the look of this thing! awesome!

Cheers man!