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Cranky VSSSUTE 355 Twin Throttle Walkinshaw Build Thread

someguy360

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dobesz, will you be at C4C next weekend?

gotta check this thing out in person after watching the long build
 

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Yea I'll be at c4c mate for sure, just had red walls redone, hope to get y peice done for air box this week and a full detail along with bonnet finished!!
Bit of work ahead lol
Yea Tim it does go quite hard and yea so far it's eaten anything that's come near it! No stall n no diff gears so only going to get more epic
 

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Had a productive weekend! New red walls. Had slack in my pedal and couldnt figure out why. Discovered the vn and vs acel peddals have a differant size hole in them
The vn throttle cables have a dampner spring on them and on the vs pedal it had pulled through the larger hole, so had slack in peddal before throttles would open!
Also grabbed a bonnet from pick a part and cut reo! Bonnet fitted without having to cut skin!!
The biggest operation of the day was fixing the spring on bonnet release latch lol managed to get the bonnet stuck down!!! As when bonnet release cable is pulled the latch was not fully retracted.
So tony and i bent it to fix it, took a few attempts and yes we got the bonnet stuck down ha . but as we had cut reo, i could lift bonnet up enough that reo skin separated from bonnet skin so tony could unwind the #### off the bonnet. If it were not for that i would have been angle grinding a hole in bonnet.
Ute to proflow tomoz to have Ypeice made up for air intake. Side skirts and bonnet with Grp A buldge [painted over week then full cut n polish this fri and steam clean!!!

In other news diff is furked, absolutely howls lol hope she lasts for c4c!! Cranky has delbt out some spankings over the week. People are very surprised when the vs gets up n moves. I built it to be quick but has well and trulyout done what i wanted!Excited for diff gears!!!! Already loose as it is!
 

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You going for 3.9s? This thing would be off the hook!

To think, I always thought a standard 5L went hard in a ute..
 

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Na 3.7s as 3.9s just a bit high for highway driving! It's frying tires with 3.08 ratio so who knows what it will do with 3.7s
 

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Dropped car at proflow last night for y piece and a dyno run, also started work in the bonnet, coming along nicely! All reo cut neat, filled n smoothed! Side skirts getting a reprint to fix stone chips etc!!
Plenum getting repolished as well!!
Ordered 3.7 diff gears today, that should blow a bit of extra wind up her skirt!!
 

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how'd she run at C4C dobez? found some pics


looks a treat

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Thanks guys hopefully some good shots without scoop on! Yea ran a treat!!! 3.7s next week!!
 
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