Project Phoenix - VR Grange tribute/replica

[someguy360]

Very reliable engine , just a bit outdated in terms of power and economy . But the sound they make is 100 times better then the newer LSX engines

True that, my fuel is paid for by the company so economy didn't bother me. (infact in the first week I went through 4 tanks)

It's not the engine that's unreliable its the rest of the car being so old (e.g suspension and driveline components)

Only thing that went wrong is a uni joint has started getting some play so that will have to be done sometime soon

 

[someguy360]

Looks good with the whitewalls man , needs to be a tad lower in the rear thou . Just so its a little bit more level

If anything I would only be lowering the front, the photo is deceiving....there is actually heaps of clearance in the front guard which annoys me.

The back I don't want to lower as the guard is sitting flush above the tyre (I don't like tyre tucking) and the front I would like the same, just above the tyre.

But at the moment there is dozens of defect stations set up around Adelaide, and weekends leaving Adelaide and arriving into my town at approx 3-4AM I am the only one on the road in a town with 4-5 police cars on patrol all the time I am a target so needs to stay relatively stock for now :/

 

[VS-S]

Wow what a nice car! Can't believe I haven't checked this thread (or maybe I have).

 

[someguy360]

Wow what a nice car! Can't believe I haven't checked this thread (or maybe I have).

Thanks mate,

Went out with my photographer again last weekend, he is just editing the photos then I will upload them.

Got some photos of the interior for a change, it's amazingly clean.....looks like nobody has ever sat in it.....perfectly preserved.......the cleanest example I have ever seen for a car of its age

 

[someguy360]

Interior pics.....all stock except for the headunit and that's how it will stay

Also this happened today....probably bumped the volume up around 15db (hopefully still within legal limits) but boy did it change the sound...so much nicer.

A little bit of drone up top due to not having a resonator but down low it sounds it really starts to throb like a V8 should now, if I can be bothered I will hook the go pro up over the weekend and get a vid.


Next job is to get rid of the ugly black statesman badge on the bootlid

 

[iChris]

very nice. I just know I'm going to miss my VR after seeing these pics. also dat classy ass.

 

[someguy360]

Updates:
Ended up getting rid of the 18's.....they were just too boy racer for me, ended up sourcing a set of VS Calais wheels (I wanted either polished VS Calais or VS caprice to give it that classy look) and set about polishing them and cleaning up the surface scratches etc, 19 hours later they are done, not quite happy with the result so when I need new tyres I will strip them off and take them to a commercial metal polisher.

Sneak pic as the long saga began (will get photos over the weekend)

Floating car:

Went for a cruise with <RaBBiT> on the public holiday down to the beach.

 

[VS 5.0]

Any progress on sorting out the exhaust drone ?

 

[someguy360]

Any progress on sorting out the exhaust drone ?

Well I got the rear hot dog installed last week, which made a difference, it made the exhaust much deeper and meatier which is good.

It's getting better now its carboned up a bit.

It's getting a lot of drone in cabin but nothing that can be heard from outside, had a mate take it for a drive and I could hear nothing but sweet exhaust note from the outside, which is the main thing (I would rather have the drone in the cabin than on the exterior and make everyone I drive past pissed off from the sound, I am a considerate bloke like that)

Thinking of dynamatting the boot area as people in the US with in cabin drone do this and seems to work quite well.

 

[Trayner]

The vs calais wheels will look mint when polished , Ive still got my s3 caprice rims lol .