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i prefer counterbalance cranks but if you want the motor to spin up faster but can not use a supercharger the red 202 crank might be more for you, if you want more tourque natuarally aspirated i would suggest a stroker crank, if its just fast take off you want i wouldnt worry about a big cam...

is it injected or carb. maybe you left of a hose, got two hoses around the wrong way or there is a vacuum leak at the carb base. or if its injected maybe its got a leak between the manifold & tb or manifold to head. you say it was running fine with the carb on, did you have a efi pump or...

not in a commodore, i have old holden with a red 179, but i painted it grey to make it look like the early six, shes got good gear in her, hot ignition and a single 2" carb, runs a trimatic machined out with extra clutches, billet servo, modified shift but full auto shifting, ive wacked on a m90...

cant find my manaul, pulled the switch apart the other day when it was hot and the AC belt snaped, lost all the parts in the car thinking i had a good switch at home. turns out it was a passenger side switch i had at home. now i need to get the rear window back up before it starts to rain...

i have paid little attention in the last 15 years to mainstream car stuff, ive had my head burried in hotrod & custom cars but looking back when i first got my liscense i was from a sydney western suburb, i hung out with westy's and we hated snot nose yuppies in there commodores, they werent...

My wifes handbrake jammed up one day, a mechanic she knew f%^ked around with the lever till he got it half way down. I now have the lever out of the car, its a little butchered but its a public holiday and i ned to get it fixed and back togother today. I have taken the jamed rod out and got...

might sound silly but i think the smell was coming from a leak in the exhuast, the car seems to be running very rich, i am a carb person so i dont know were to start with that problem, 02 sensor maybe. the pass rear window was just a plug not fully connected, tomorow i might rip all the old...

ok, i got some L adapters for the rca out, the rca in from dvd is on a lead and no problem, i also bought a rite angle ariel extension but its not much shorter. All wires are soldered at different lengths so if one joint brakes through the heatshrink it cant rub through another, the memory and...

got it all together except i cant mount the hu becuase the rca and aeriel plugs wont let it go back enough, might nead some L plugs but once i got it all back together i had a problem, now there is a burning electrical smell when the car is running, its not there when only ign is on (reds), its...

just sorted it, i must have been using a guide for a lower spec or earlier model, the power ariel wire from the hu just goes to yellow/red.

I am just putting a new head unit in my wifes VP calais, it was all pretty straight forward till i got to the power antenna wires, it has one for up and one for down. The head unit like most has one power antenna wire. Now everything works but the antenna wont work even of the switches so...

my wife has a vp 5.0 irs calais, this is the only unleaded car i have owned for more than 3 months, a few years ago the mufflers rusted out and we replaced them with a redback cat back sports system, being unleaded it rusted out both mufflers in about 4 years, i now want to go to one muffler...

just went to the car and checked a few things, the ign relay is getting power when you switch on the ign switch, relay is working, but there is no power at the wire coming out of the harness along the firewall that goes to the coil.

im thinking of doing that,

my wifes vp calais is stuck on the side of the road with no spark at all, it had a problem earlier in the night then cleared up but then she broke down with no spark, it has a fairly new coil and leads, what should i check?

basic water injection consists of a nozzle, pump and tank, with boosted car it runs of a switch that is operated by manifold pressure, in a n/a car it might be something like throttle position. There are always plenty of kits in US, search www.ebay.com not ebay.com.au and you should find some...

what are you pepared to spend. black is the best but it has nasty smog gear witch should be hooked up to be legal, the oldest you can go in a VH is a blue motor(173 or 202) if you want a mild hottie read the street machine grunt hunt. Advantages of a red are a lighter crank that can spin up...

My wifes car has lost spark, I was thinking rather than buy a coil and then maybe a module to try and work out what was wrong I might as well just upgrade the ignition, i have a hi6 here i bought for my old holden and was thinking of buying another 2nd hand one for the wifes car, crane hi 6 is a...

I am after a holden 6 trimatic stall convertor, must be strong and good cond not just a gemini one painted green. I am in sydney but will pay for shipping costs elsewere. Cheers, FCCOOL, [email protected]

depends, there seems to be alot of mixing with and blue and red manifolds, eg efi manifolds on red heads, strata manifolds modified to suit the other and extractors swapped, I think some manifolds are even universal like redline hi-flow2 (is that what its called?) If you are going to a 350 I...

you dont really need to get the hu professionally installed, but if you are a millionare you could just give someone $100 to fit ya wireless while you sit there and drink beer or something. I dont know much about comodores myself, my wife has a vp calais wich still has the original hu (these...

I am looking for a manifold for a 12 port six head, I also need a carb unless I can find a adaptor for a 2bbl holley to a blue manifold preferably from a vh. This is for temporary use to run in my cam before I put the supercharger on and it needs to be in good running conditoin to maintain 1500...

Yeah it seams like thick powder coating, I need a quick way to do it as at the moment I have a bare rusty body and a whole lot of parts to complete a car that will be going to a major show in easter. I have just got the engine back from the shop, its been bored, tunnel bored, decked, O'ringed...

I am using a vk efi manifold for my 179 and want to polish it, I tried to removed the paint with a cup brush and a wire wheel but the paint was to tuff, I have also tried paint stripper wich barely softened the top of the paint. Ive seen a few of the polished and now wonder how the removed all...

two tricks I figured out a few years ago working on smooth concrete floors. No 1, drive up with the hand brake dragging then use it for brakes, dont use the foot brake period unless your handbrake dosn't work, this usully works well and the guys at work were always amazed by my then secret...

I am a carb person myself, but I think the reason people think carbs sound better than efi is becuase so many carb cars have free exhuast systems were most efi cars we hear have a catalitic convertor and are more likely to be stock. Despite being told over and over to go efi with my...

$15 for the throttle body. may need a bit of cleaning but was going.

yes it did have ac, interior is a burgandy colour, rear reading lights you can have for $10 a pair, if you want them posted it would probably cost about $5 to post. dome light is only a single light but, not like the calais. the car had some money spent replacing all the suspension by the...

does anyone ever fitted one of these starters, apparently they are supposed to be pretty common now yet know one knows anything about fitting them. I need to know how thick the required shims have to be?

I have just fitted a bosch mini starter to a 5.0L series 2 VP and it doesnt spin, I fitted 2 washers between the starter and the block and it worked for about 1/2 an hour but now it doesn't. does any one know the thickness of the shims required to fit these?

I have fitted a bosch bxh 136 starter to a 5.0 vp and it just seems to lock up, does any one know the thicness of the shims required to fit these mini starters

I am wrecking a vk berlina efi in seven hills, nsw

ok it came out but I think the engine mounts have sagged a bit. I fitted one of those bxh 136 mini starters, first problem was that although the starter motor was only supposed to require different bolts for a 89-91 vn it still needed different bolts to fit the vp wich cost $28. second problem...

I need to change my wifes starter motor and have little time, looks pretty packed in there. what is the easiest way to remove it? and should a vp v8 have 2 long bolts or 1 long and 1 short?

not sure what that colour is, I am about to wreck a efi vk berlina, interior is like a burgandy colour, dash has no cracks from memory.

what kind of budjet do you have for it?

do you really want to increase your compression that way, the 12 port head on your car is better flowing than the red 9 port, it is more common to fit a 12 port to a red than a 9 port to a black or blue. why not find a second hand 12 port head that has already had some porting and bigger valves...

brand spankin new bosch alternator, new belt, terminals are brand spankers and battery too, I have tried a couple of belts since I thought maybe I had glazed them, pulleys have been sanded over and over, previous alternator seemed to load up the belt, it still squeaks now and then with quick...

does any one know any one who knows much about these cars, I am a old holden person and am not really into them, we just have this car becuase my wife wanted a V8 commodore, its a bit modern for my liking and has just been a expensive pain in the arse to keep on the road.

gee I must have been pissed when I wrote this last bit should say- It then seemed not too bad for a couple of weeks but now it wont charge period, It will run with a booster pack on it but as soon as you remove the booster the motor dies.