My VT Olympic Edition....

[fitz_vt]

hey guys my vt olympic edition is fully stock (might put a chip and an exhaust on her one day but i am broke atm).

Currently she has done 104095K's picked her up at 103200 for $7990, nice car to drive lol step up from 1996 corolla (my sisters car).
havent got any pics yet that are small enough to upload (gotta photoshop them lol)
Description

3.8L ECOTEC V6 -
Cylinders: 90-degree V6
Capacity: 3.791L
Bore x Stroke (mm): 97.0 x 86.0
Induction: Electronic sequential fuel injection.
Valvetrain: Overhead valves, pushrods, 2 valves / cylinder.
Throttle body diameter: 68mm
Compression ratio: 9.4 : 1
Maximum power: 147 kW @ 5200 RPM
Maximum torque: 304 Nm @ 3600 RPM
Redline / Cutout: 5600 / 5900 RPM

Ryco Filters (apparently the best)
Champion Gold - RS9YX6
Stock leads.
Stock Exhaust.
Compression Test
1:200
2:200
3:200
4:200
5:200
6:200


Body
No body kit
Rear Spoiler
Colour Midnight Blue
its got the stock mags on it
(new SA plates with the S111 AAA format)

Electronics
CD player
Cruise Control
Power windows
Power Mirrors

Brakes
Bendix Pads
Stock rotors (need to get em machined)

Gearbox and Diff
GM Hydramatic 4L60-E 4-speed Automatic Transmission
Standard Differential with 3.08:1 ratio.

Suspension

Front: MacPherson strut, incorporating wet sleeve shock absorbers. Direct acting stabiliser bar. Progressive rate coil springs.
Rear: Independent Rear Suspension (IRS). Semi-trailing arm. Progressive rate miniblock coil springs. Stabiliser bar.

[fitz_vt]

My car has had to be returned to the dealer as it has sagging engine mounts, shes gonna be fixed..... my poor car... atleast when i had my wheel alignment they picked it up....

[nicko]

car sounds nice mate. get some photos up when u can. Have a hunt around the for sale section for some cheap rims it will set it off.

[fitz_vt]

shes back from the shop after having the engine mounts fixed.... yay .... but they were still floating or what ever so they adjustement not replaced them or something i dont care...

[fitz_vt]

just found out my suspension may be FFE2 because it was an ex country car and the previous owners may of had them fitted (how can i tell)?!?

[SAV_117]

lol if there black springs i dunno what colour the normal suspension is though

[fitz_vt]

lol if there black springs i dunno what colour the normal suspension is though

FFE2 Shocks it is lol......

[fitz_vt]

just put a K and N air filter and some new DBA rotors in her ..... cost about 160 for the rotors and 30 for the filter

[DVS]

Hey Fitz, very clean car you got there. What kind of DBA rotors did you get?

[Ozzie]

Wow nice to see a clean stock VT!

Just curious... whats the paint code on it say? I love the colour

[fitz_vt]

@ ozzie the paint code is b168 (sorry it took almost 2 years for a reply ) lol

[fitz_vt]

** Update Just Converted My AC Controls and Mode buttons To LED's (dash to come next when the globes blow) I'll post pics tonight when it gets dark enough theyre only white led's so the green filters stil come though a little.

[10WVN]

good to see you still got the car... love to see some update pics and of the led conversion . . . where did you get the kit from and price?

[fitz_vt]

i designed the kit my self solder led's and resisters from jaycar
quality of the pic isnt great as it came off my ipod lol. i'll take one with my digital cam when i get the car back up and running (putting a new radiator in)

[10WVN]

yeah my radiator just went couple days ago

i did a dash conversion to blue smd led . . not too bad for time being

[fitz_vt]

smd's i find give a broader light source but you need some fairly high MCD strength ones. with a bit of luck it comes in today and then it will go straight in after a cooling system flush.

[10WVN]

yeah i wasnt too impressed, but still alot better than stock green ones... something till i can afford something from ASR

[fitz_vt]

Yeah, i would suggest instead of using smd's if you wanted to do this i would go with 3mm led's 5000 mcd for the AC controls and one 5 MM led ive only got a 1500 mcd on mine could do with a 5000mcd or more i picked mine up from jaycar for about 3.65 each then you take the dome top off of them with a file and then tilt the file on a 45 degree angle and file a bit off on each side this will defuse the light and create a bit little better spread i have seen people mod thier lights alot and create soldered chains of led's which go around the dials which looks really effective but if you get really bright ones your ac controls are going be blinded at night lol

Currently working on a kit design that will supply leds and resistors pre soldered together with instructions on how to disassemble the dash and install the led's the correct way im also experimenting with the the old globes i took out all of which are blown so im taking the globes out of the holders and putting the led and resistor in there to make it look alot more professional then what ive done (just soldered the led's to the contacts on the circuit board . and yeah ive seen some stuff from asr theyre really amazing with some of the stuff they do i saw the vy console that rev needle changes colour as its going up

[fitz_vt]

Failure to seat a fanbelt see's me throwing one the moment i start it to bleed the cooling systen lol. oh well gives me an excuse to get a new belt going with a gates racing belt. 6pk2825R from supacheap for $33 only 3 dollars more then the bosch one