Looks very nice mate:thumbsup: and the VC looks smicko too The L67 are tough little motors mate, must have felt good after the conversion:dance:
hey mate just wondering how did u do the l67 conversion do u just do the top end on to the stocker or was it full engine swap
How are those 3.7s going for you? I was speaking to a mate of mine about getting an L67 for my S1 Calais and he mentioned this sweet white Calais that was at his work for some diff gears. Im pretty much looking to do the same thing as yours (hopefully) after seeing Darryl's S2 in action and your car in the build.
Cheers mate, the brown Commodore is a VB not a VC lol. Thanks for the nice comments mate, it was parked up in a shed for a long time before i bought it. I would strongly advise against swapping the top end over, its certainly possible but the L67's main strength is it bottom end, where it is suited to forced induction by way of lower compression pistons. I did a full engine swap from a S3 Statesman. Yeah i recon, those mods will be on hold for a little while but im certainly keen to score some VE SS-V's as soon as i can. Yeah it was at Wangara Automatics last week getting the LSD and 3.7 gears, I like Gary, he always does the right thing by me so i will always take my cars to him. Does your mate work there? Im loving the gears, by far the best performance mod ive done to the car so far. I was up in Kalgoorlie 2 week ends ago, i took Darryl's for a drive to see what the 3.45 gears were like with a mini-spool. He let me lighten the rear rubber abit also :yeah: Top bloke, always keen to help out.
Yeah a guy named Luke. Pretty sure thats where he works. Now to keep saving and start searching for a Statesman or even Calais wreck to get an L67 from. Id like to have it done before Powercruise but that might be me getting way ahead of myself.
Have seen you out and about cruising quite a few times now, you must live up in the northern suburbs somewhere huh? Lovely car anyway mate, the plates definately make the car.
Yep, im NOR, theres heaps of Super6's up this side of the river. Here are some photos i took throughout the conversion. By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-08-24 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-08-24 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 500 at 2008-09-08 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 500 at 2008-09-08 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-10-26 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-10-26 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-11-10 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-11-10 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-11-10 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-11-10 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-11-10 By upeted1, shot with Canon DIGITAL IXUS 50 at 2008-12-03
The entire conversion was completed in one day. I started 6am Sunday and it started first time at 9pm that night. I must thank my old man Joe, his mate Jim and Justin(Astro) for giving me a hand at different times throughout the day. This is the video of its first startup, i forgot to connect a vacuum line on the rear of the drivers side head so it sounds cammed. lol YouTube - Car The following video is the dyno run when it was an N/A ECOTEC L36 YouTube - VS Calais The following is the dyno run once the Supercharged ECOTEC L67 was installed YouTube - MVI_7047.avi
Very clean car mate, i'm impressed. Can I ask what power your car run in n/a form? And how much the power increased with stock L67?
Power output is listed in the first post. Power: L36 = 154.6rwhp L67 = 210.6rwhp (Before intake was done) Torque was the biggest improvement with the L67, Pete ran an 11.9 second 1/4 mile with roughly 290rwhp. Dyno figures are not as good as track times:yeah:
hey mate, what rpm does your car do at 100 with the 3.7's in? I just had mine fitted and I swear theres like no change
Hey mate, yeah there should be a difference. 3.08 doing 100km/h - 1750rpm 3.7 doing 100km/h - 2100rpm Before i put my speedo correction kit in the speedo was doing 127km/h when the sat nav was reading 100km/h. So maybe your gauge is saying 100km/h when your actually doing 80km/h. The diff gears will make you speedo read much higher.
yeh man hahaha I tested it last night on the freeway after I put it in but no one was on it so I couldnt judge, but I was doing 100 today and everyone was flying past me and I was like wtf?? lol. What wire did u splice the speedo corrector into? im so confused on which wire it is.
There is a violet/white wire running from PCM to speedo (C5 on the wiring diagram). You simply cut it and wire it into the correction kit, then give it 12V & Ground, then follow the tuning instructions that come with the kit. To easy, however i strongly recommend reading the PM i just sent you, they list possible variations in speed sensors.
