the giggle I got from the first drive with roller rockers

[VS 666]

Yesterday I took it upon myself to put some roller rockers into my ecotec
.
After hours of blood sweat and tears over sticky lifters they finally worked
.
They were in and settled... earlier that day i had installed a MACE manifold insulator and had great low end results from that and was excited about how roller rockers would affect my car...
.
i took the car out for a bit of a sensible hard time...
.
left home got past the first roundabout and remembered my licence was in my wallet which was back at home so i went to perform a U turn at the next round about...
.
usual thing ....turn... half way point turn harder and then half throttle out of the round about... not realising
what the rockers could do I ended up making an embarrasing mess of the exit with a small amount of smoke and most of the items in my rear seats finding new homes... would have looked impressive from the outside but inside i was terrified... with a big smile on my face
.
got my wallet and then hit the highway...
.
WOW I hardly need any throttle to putt around normally... and when I do plant my foot... it has a nice deeper roar and seems to love the higher revs...
.
I before hand I was about half a car length infront of my mates standard vs with similar ks... now im well over
a car length ... and this is only to 80kph
.
The biggest difference is up hills... for those who know the manchester road U turn in Mooroolbark Vic it now
hits 70 before the second house up the hill (from the one with the white stone garden wall)
.
Thanks mike and the guys from YT for all the help with installing the rockers.
.
Ps sorry about the dots between paragraphs I use a mainframe system at work and when you dont put em in it closes the gap... Im too used to it now i cant go back.

[tim005]

hey mate.
this sounds very impressive, love the accidental smoke show haha.
just wondering how much they set you back?
i have an vs ute and this sounds like a worthwhile mod.

[VS 666]

the insulator was $150 at sale price from last week at MACE engineering and the roller rockers I picked up on special from Yella Terra... Contact mike for prices cuz I got it from the weekend sale they had so I cant say whether or not they still have 1.84 ratio at that price or not...

[tim005]

the insulator was $150 at sale price from last week at MACE engineering and the roller rockers I picked up on special from Yella Terra... Contact mike for prices cuz I got it from the weekend sale they had so I cant say whether or not they still have 1.84 ratio at that price or not...

sounds pretty good, i'll have to get in touch when i get some mulla saved up.

[vn_v6]

they make them for gemmis? LOL sarcasm but they sound awsome

[WogBoyz]

They are a good mod and do add a bit of poke, however i think you need to go in a fast car sometime haha

my ute with all the bolt ons and a tune is slow as crap to mates v8s and silvias lol

[DevilDRake]

Are we talking V6 or V8 here?

[old mate]

v6 roller rockers mate.

[MICKY.D]

Yesterday I took it upon myself to put some roller rockers into my ecotec
.
After hours of blood sweat and tears over sticky lifters they finally worked
.
They were in and settled... earlier that day i had installed a MACE manifold insulator and had great low end results from that and was excited about how roller rockers would affect my car...
.
i took the car out for a bit of a sensible hard time...
.
left home got past the first roundabout and remembered my licence was in my wallet which was back at home so i went to perform a U turn at the next round about...
.
usual thing ....turn... half way point turn harder and then half throttle out of the round about... not realising
what the rockers could do I ended up making an embarrasing mess of the exit with a small amount of smoke and most of the items in my rear seats finding new homes... would have looked impressive from the outside but inside i was terrified... with a big smile on my face
.
got my wallet and then hit the highway...
.
WOW I hardly need any throttle to putt around normally... and when I do plant my foot... it has a nice deeper roar and seems to love the higher revs...
.
I before hand I was about half a car length infront of my mates standard vs with similar ks... now im well over
a car length ... and this is only to 80kph
.
The biggest difference is up hills... for those who know the manchester road U turn in Mooroolbark Vic it now
hits 70 before the second house up the hill (from the one with the white stone garden wall)
.
Thanks mike and the guys from YT for all the help with installing the rockers.
.
Ps sorry about the dots between paragraphs I use a mainframe system at work and when you dont put em in it closes the gap... Im too used to it now i cant go back.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH im glad you got her running sweet mate, and even happier that you love how she goes .

Cheers
Mike-YT

[DevilDRake]

v6 roller rockers mate.

Figured as much,

Which roller rockers did you get? 1:91:1 ?

[VS 666]

1.8.3 or 8.4 i forget but they were the last of them so they were real cheap... im fairly sure they only make 1.9.1s and up now... and yeah v6 ecotec...

[DevilDRake]

Ah okay thanks for that.

[miner_richie]

were they hard to install? Did you take any pictures? Im pretty interested in putting some in my v6, but yeah, not 100% sure on how to go about it...

[DevilDRake]

^ Apparently easy as piss, instructions are very good, even if you have no idea what you're doing.

[ADEM]

How did your fuel consumption go once you installed them mate?