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My 2002 VY SV8!

skappascrap

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Woke up from a knock on my door this afternoon (I work night shift) from a mate of mine that lives around the corner to let me know somebody had side swiped my car while it was parked on the street.

The person left their details and they only live around the corner too, insurance will be sorting it out. Just one thing after another.
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skappascrap

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Good of him to leave his number yesterday then change his story today.
Police won't let me file a report unless I have his registration number and address, which he won't give me because he's damaged the paint as well and doesn't want his excess to rise.
He has blocked my mobile number and there were no actual witnesses, so my insurance company won't do anything either.
I'm up bog creek in a barbwire canoe, if I want it fixed I'll have to pay excess which I shouldn't have to.

I know the street where he lives but I have no doubt he has either fixed it or parked it in the shed for a while.
 

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Some people just suck big ones .
Shame not to fix, hope it won't cost too much.
 

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Insurance claim has been processed, managed to find his all of his social media accounts, ABN number and Gumtree ads with pictures that have his house number in them. Enough evidence to make a claim.
Shannons have been a great company to deal with for the whole ordeal, no excess fees for me as I wasn't the person at fault (obviously).
They have all his details that I found, so it's just a waiting game now.

I forgot to mention, after this happened on Tuesday I went to a friends business and we installed a Blackvue DR750LW 2 channel dash camera system. 1080P front and rear cameras, 24 hour parking record mode, GPS speed and wifi to stream to my phone and save files.
 

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Made my way down to Seaford yesterday morning after work to get the tailshaft center bearing and strut top mounts replaced as both were knackered, then it was off to get a wheel alignment.

As you can see, they were definitely done for.
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New Superpro Polyelast strut tops, from what I can tell the are much better than new rubber ones with no vibration like I've heard about with the polyurethane mounts.
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Tailshaft center bearing was replaced in about 30 minutes as the splines weren't seized thankfully.
Turns out there was a minor leak between the flanges of the cats and exhaust too, so that was fixed as well.
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Wheel alignment before and after details for anybody interested, handles like a go-kart again with everything set correctly.
Still a bit of understeer but that's just from the tires being so hard and not made for grip.
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Lol, those knackered ones look just like my old ones in my maloo that lasted about 8 months when I fitted the bilstins . Amazing how much more load those shocks put on everything.
 

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The car is back from the panel repair shop for the insurance fix. Drivers side guard and mirror both resprayed.
I decided that since it is there I'll pay to have the passenger guard antenna hole shaved and resprayed, the car is different shades of red all over but so it was blended to the bonnet color, I'm very happy with the results.
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It's been a while between updates but here we go.
The car had developed a loud lifter ticking noise around mid December, a bottle of liquid mechanic (Nulon lifter free up) seemed to have
worked for my 2000km round trip to Victoria for Christmas. I left Christmas Eve at 10PM to go see my family for Christmas and about half
way between Keith and Naracoorte I hit a bunny, no damage to the car but he left some flesh on the exhaust flange where his back got caught.
After heading through Mount Gambier at around 5AM Christmas morning a wallaby jumped into the side of the car, he went straight into
the freshly painted drivers guard but didn't leave a single mark there miraculously, but the passenger door wasn't so lucky
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It's hard to get a picture of it but it is about 12cm wide and 2cm high.
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Sure enough after my trip the lifter noise had come back with a vengeance and I haven't been able to take the car off the road just yet.
I inspected all the rocker arms to see if the trunnions had any side to side shaft play with the valves closed and sure enough all 16 did,
that's what happens when monkeys tune cars and adjusts the rev limiter to 6500RPM on a stock valve train, lifters, cam etc..
I have no idea who actually tuned it but my guess is that it's at least 10 years old, well before my mate owned the car too.

I am absolutely certain the noise you hear is not the rocker arms, it's definitely a lifter.
The rocker arms were all removed in the correct order, inspected along with the pushrods for any wear and they were all okay, besides the trunnions.
Some of the valves were open during the video, when all the valves were closed all 16 arms had the same play side to side.

After a lengthy discussion about finances the engine is being removed to do the lifters, rocker arm trunnions, valve springs, retainers,
pushrods, oil pump, cam (STILL haven't decided what to choose, it's been weeks and I still can't make my mind up), cam bearings,
double row timing chain, new head bolts, full engine gasket kit, heads milled 0.050" for higher compression, 6 speed conversion,
a 3.73:1 LSD diff from a VY Clubsport, VCM plastic OTR and a new tune.
The workshop that is doing all of this recently bought and installed a brand new Mainline Dyno and will be doing a baseline run before
any work is done to the car, if it breaks on the dyno then at least it's in the right place to break!

That's all for now, more updates when they happen.
 

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I put a 232/234 comp cam in my sv8 manual go for 3.9 diff still great on the highway (driving from wallets to Osbourne) still under 10L avg. Personally don't go double row timing chain not required.
 

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I've come to two cam choices
VCM E5: 221/221 @0.050" 0.585"/0.585" lift 116 LSA
VCM 2: 224/224 @0.050" 0.564/"0.564" lift 114 LSA

It's still going to be a daily driver and I want to remain stealth, if I choose the VCM2 and add 1.8:1 ratio rockers it will have more lift
than the VCM E5, but at that point I'm not sure whether the piston to valve clearance will be an issue the the heads machined so much..
 
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