Harris2
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- VU SS Drift Ute
Name: Chris
Model: 01 Vu SS Ute
Body Kit: N/A
Colour: House Paint Dark Green (Yes house paint for the lolz)
Engine Type: LS1
Engine Mods: (Before it went bang)
- Mellings Hi volume oil pump
- Baffled Sump
- No AC
- No Power Steering
- No Water Pump
- Relocated Idler Pully
- New leads/plugs oils etc etc
- Custom 4inch Y pipe intake
- 25% under driven pulley kit
- Elite Engineering Catch Can
Engine Bay Work:
- Tray mount radiator setup
- Remote water pump in tray and relocated overflow to tray
- Remote electric power steering
- Relocated battery to try
- Oil Relocation Kit
- Oil Cooler and fan
- Power Steering Cooler
- Custom Strut Brace
- Reinforced Strut towers
- Front bash bar
- Stitch welded
-ABS delete
Tray work:
- Custom spring/shock mounts and strut brace.
- Hole cut in floor and scoop built for rear mount rad.
- Rear cab wall cut for air flow.
- Under side of tray tubed and braced.
- Rear wing mounts
- Cut tail gate
Power: Factory 232xxxkm motor.
Exhaust: Stock extractors twin 3inch straight pipes no cross over. Side exit
Gearbox: T56 with Cube Short Shifter
Diff: Mini Spool 4.11
Steering: Modified knuckles
Brakes: Stock with braided lines
Suspension:
- BC BR Coilovers 10kg front 12kg rear Spring rates
- Relocated rear spring mounts and shock mounts
- Camber kit/bushes in rear end.
Wheels/Tyres/Guards:
- Koya SF01 18x10+0 fronts and 18x10+5 rears + Other skidders etc
- 235 RSR's on the front and just what ever on the rear.
- 25mm hubcentric bolt on spacer on the front.
- Blow torch and hammer widened front/rear guards.
- Not as much bog as expected.
Interior:
- Entirely Stripped except basic wiring.
- Custom dash
- Switch panel
- Sound deadening removed
- Hydro (inline)
- Isolator
- Asus Tablet Dash
- Sparco Fixed bucket seat
- Random passenger seat
- Sparco Harness 6 Point for both seats
- Alloy door cards
- Drift wheel
- Bus hang ring
Stereo:
- Cheap headunits
- Cheap 6x9s
Build Period start: 1/12/15
Cost: Don't even want to know.
Future:
- Twin turbo
- Built head with cam motor. freshened up bottom end
- Tube front
- Tube rear
- Rear diffuser
- Fuel System
- Few tweaks to the cooling system as its overly efficient
- Cage
- Slightly softer rear springs
- Raise diff as I keep breaking axels
- Move steering rack forward
Instagram account has some more photos on it.
https://www.instagram.com/cloudyharris/
Probably some other stuff that I've missed but its a start.
Car was built of the intentions to be different to all the Jap cars in the drifting scene and to rustle some feathers. All built at home in the shed with a few mates.
Car was going great handled fairly well need to make a few changes. I was at the last 2 Drift Matsuri at QLD Raceway but will miss this one in march hoping to make it for the October one. Motor finally let go at the last Friday night drifts I went to. It started to knock pretty badly at OCT Matsuri so called it for the weekend. Did a oil change some thicker oil. Did the rear mount rad setup and took it out for 1 last go to test the cooling system and a few other things so that if it failed i'd only cook the broken motor and not the new one.
Car preformed awesome and finally let go at the end. We're leaning towards a busted ring as its got zero power and is blowing smoke and bulk oil out one of the cylinders. Can't remember which tho. Surprised it lasted as long as it did for 232xxxkm's and lots of belting the piss out of it, guessing the oil cooler and regular oil changes helped.
Few major things to note:
-I tore my front strut towers off the body due to the car being so stiff. Thus reinforced.
-The cut rear wall will be filled in as I was hoping air would flow through the cab and from under the car to cool the rad. But air ended up coming back into the cab so i'll be refilling that and running 2x fans there instead.
-The tray seams are starting to tear apart as well due to stiff springs and tubed underneath. Will be stitch welding this before my next outing.
- Coolant Temps wouldn't surpass 100degrees during a run and would drop back down to 70 before I got to start my second run. Oil temps wouldn't surpass 90ish and would drop down to 80ish. LS's prefer to run warm so i'm looking towards running multiple switches for my fans so I can stage them or even look at putting in a controller to do it automatically.
P.s. I Do run the wing when i'm out drifting, just the below photo was the last Friday I went to and at matsuri I backed the car into a wall and bent all my mounts and hadn't built new ones yet.
Model: 01 Vu SS Ute
Body Kit: N/A
Colour: House Paint Dark Green (Yes house paint for the lolz)
Engine Type: LS1
Engine Mods: (Before it went bang)
- Mellings Hi volume oil pump
- Baffled Sump
- No AC
- No Power Steering
- No Water Pump
- Relocated Idler Pully
- New leads/plugs oils etc etc
- Custom 4inch Y pipe intake
- 25% under driven pulley kit
- Elite Engineering Catch Can
Engine Bay Work:
- Tray mount radiator setup
- Remote water pump in tray and relocated overflow to tray
- Remote electric power steering
- Relocated battery to try
- Oil Relocation Kit
- Oil Cooler and fan
- Power Steering Cooler
- Custom Strut Brace
- Reinforced Strut towers
- Front bash bar
- Stitch welded
-ABS delete
Tray work:
- Custom spring/shock mounts and strut brace.
- Hole cut in floor and scoop built for rear mount rad.
- Rear cab wall cut for air flow.
- Under side of tray tubed and braced.
- Rear wing mounts
- Cut tail gate
Power: Factory 232xxxkm motor.
Exhaust: Stock extractors twin 3inch straight pipes no cross over. Side exit
Gearbox: T56 with Cube Short Shifter
Diff: Mini Spool 4.11
Steering: Modified knuckles
Brakes: Stock with braided lines
Suspension:
- BC BR Coilovers 10kg front 12kg rear Spring rates
- Relocated rear spring mounts and shock mounts
- Camber kit/bushes in rear end.
Wheels/Tyres/Guards:
- Koya SF01 18x10+0 fronts and 18x10+5 rears + Other skidders etc
- 235 RSR's on the front and just what ever on the rear.
- 25mm hubcentric bolt on spacer on the front.
- Blow torch and hammer widened front/rear guards.
- Not as much bog as expected.
Interior:
- Entirely Stripped except basic wiring.
- Custom dash
- Switch panel
- Sound deadening removed
- Hydro (inline)
- Isolator
- Asus Tablet Dash
- Sparco Fixed bucket seat
- Random passenger seat
- Sparco Harness 6 Point for both seats
- Alloy door cards
- Drift wheel
- Bus hang ring
Stereo:
- Cheap headunits
- Cheap 6x9s
Build Period start: 1/12/15
Cost: Don't even want to know.
Future:
- Twin turbo
- Built head with cam motor. freshened up bottom end
- Tube front
- Tube rear
- Rear diffuser
- Fuel System
- Few tweaks to the cooling system as its overly efficient
- Cage
- Slightly softer rear springs
- Raise diff as I keep breaking axels
- Move steering rack forward
Instagram account has some more photos on it.
https://www.instagram.com/cloudyharris/
Probably some other stuff that I've missed but its a start.
Car was built of the intentions to be different to all the Jap cars in the drifting scene and to rustle some feathers. All built at home in the shed with a few mates.
Car was going great handled fairly well need to make a few changes. I was at the last 2 Drift Matsuri at QLD Raceway but will miss this one in march hoping to make it for the October one. Motor finally let go at the last Friday night drifts I went to. It started to knock pretty badly at OCT Matsuri so called it for the weekend. Did a oil change some thicker oil. Did the rear mount rad setup and took it out for 1 last go to test the cooling system and a few other things so that if it failed i'd only cook the broken motor and not the new one.
Car preformed awesome and finally let go at the end. We're leaning towards a busted ring as its got zero power and is blowing smoke and bulk oil out one of the cylinders. Can't remember which tho. Surprised it lasted as long as it did for 232xxxkm's and lots of belting the piss out of it, guessing the oil cooler and regular oil changes helped.
Few major things to note:
-I tore my front strut towers off the body due to the car being so stiff. Thus reinforced.
-The cut rear wall will be filled in as I was hoping air would flow through the cab and from under the car to cool the rad. But air ended up coming back into the cab so i'll be refilling that and running 2x fans there instead.
-The tray seams are starting to tear apart as well due to stiff springs and tubed underneath. Will be stitch welding this before my next outing.
- Coolant Temps wouldn't surpass 100degrees during a run and would drop back down to 70 before I got to start my second run. Oil temps wouldn't surpass 90ish and would drop down to 80ish. LS's prefer to run warm so i'm looking towards running multiple switches for my fans so I can stage them or even look at putting in a controller to do it automatically.
P.s. I Do run the wing when i'm out drifting, just the below photo was the last Friday I went to and at matsuri I backed the car into a wall and bent all my mounts and hadn't built new ones yet.
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