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Social's Implusive 6L VZ Thunder

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Awesome being a member of the Thunder club

Name: Sean
Body Type: Utility
Colour: Impulse Blue
Model: VZ MY06 Thunder
Engine: 6.0L L76 V8
Engine modifications: Iridium Sparkplugs, 10.5 Eagle Leads, Maffless tune
Power: 244.4rwkw / 327.7rwhp
Transmission:T-56 6spd Manual with Billet short shifter
Intake: Growler big mouth / pod setup
Rims: 19" gloss black VX GTS wheels
Front Brakes: 320mm Rotors Twin piston Calipers with slotted rotors and Redstuff pads
Rear Brakes: 286mm Single Piston Calipers with standard rotors and Redstuff pads
Torneau Cover: Twin Flute Hardlid
Tint: 30% octane
Lighting: Lowbeam: Philips diamond white globes, high beam: 6000k hid
Suspension: King Spring Super Lows fronts with standard shocks, King Spring Super Low rears with pedders short shocks, nolathane diff cradle bushes + spacer, diff bush, z-bar, castor bar, lower control arms and rear sub mounts
Interior: Black SS Leather
Headers: xforce 4 into 1 extractors + 200cpi highflow cats
Exhaust: 2.5" Twin Cat back system
Headunit: Pioneer deck
Speakers / system : Pioneer 240W 6", Dynamat extreme on doors + rear cabin

Other Extras:
Guards rolled, binnacle gauges, Hall's towbar, custom plates

Completion List:
- replace exhaust with twin 2.5" system
- Lower rear end
- New 10.5mm blue eagle leads
- Oil/oil filter/air filter service (Penrite ten tenths full syn. Premium O 0W-50)
- New NGK iridium spark plugs
- Differential Oil Change (Penrite sing80)
- Transmission Oil Change (Penrite MGO7075)
- Rewire headunit to enable electrical aerial to work
- White lights for H3 (spotties) 16/5
- Sprayed Rims gloss black 16/5
- Sprayed calipers red 17/5
- New pads and rotors on the rear 18/5
- Fix hardlid water leaks 25/5
- White lights for h11 29/5
- Seatcovers that actually fit over the SS seats! 5/6
- New brake pads on front with machined rotors 8/6
- Rear Guards rolled by Kensington Park Tyre Power 19/6
- New tread on rear 20/6
- King Spring SL's in 21/6
- New 19" Pentagons 23/6/12
- Dyno 204.9rwkw 3/7/12
- New RH/LH side headlights 8/7/12
- Binnacle gauges 3/8/12
- Replaced Wiper Washer Bottle 4/8/12
- SS front bar lower grille mesh 4/8/12
- Hand brake adjusted ?/11/12
- Slotted fronts / red EBC brakes all round ?/11/12
- Halls Towbar ?/11/12
- Fuel filter change ?/11/12
- Z bar / Castor bar / lower control arm / Rear sub mount Nolathaene replacement 6/12/12
- New engine mounts 6/12/12
- Serviced
- New rear shocks + Diff cradle nolathane bushes
- Pentagons gone, cv8z's in
- 30% tint octane
- growler big mouth pod setup
- serviced, now using penrite full synth 5w-60
- high beam 6000k HID kit
- custom plates IMPLS3
- cv8zs gone 19" Vx GTS wheels in gloss black on
- high flow cats + xforce extractors 4 into 1
- maffless tune 244.4rwkw
- replaced both serpentine belts
- serviced
- dynamat doors + rear cabin 21/7/13


Things to come:
Previously said nothing but since then a list has begun..
- fix volume steering wheel button
- White LED dash cluster and surrounds to white conversion
- trutrac + 3.9 diff gears
- sprung button clutch
 
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HERONVY

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cant wait to see this thing in the pics, sounds like a nice unit

How much did you end up paying for it, if you dont mind me asking?

Al
 

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love it mate, wont disclose but was in the 20's

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MikeCuzzy

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I love it mate. Lower it if you must, but I reckon utes look better raised up a bit.

Must fix seat foam!
 

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Defs lower it so its sitting even mate, will look sick then, just looking at the drivers seat, but you must be either a short guy or the seat was just forward haha
 

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yeah il get that foam fixed at some stage, and defs needa lower it, seat was just forward lol im 6ft 4.5
 

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yeah il get that foam fixed at some stage, and defs needa lower it, seat was just forward lol im 6ft 4.5

It's a good height to be mate! Seat aaaaaaalll the way back :)
 

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Very clean mate... I've always had a sweet spot for the Thunders. Was thinking about getting one but the wifey said she wanted something I could put kids in the back of... :(

SO I got a 300rwkw+ R8 instead. :D rofl!

One question, i thought Thunders came with the binnacle gauges factory?

Very nice rig mate.
 

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Very clean mate... I've always had a sweet spot for the Thunders. Was thinking about getting one but the wifey said she wanted something I could put kids in the back of... :(

SO I got a 300rwkw+ R8 instead. :D rofl!

One question, i thought Thunders came with the binnacle gauges factory?

Very nice rig mate.

lol sounds like a win win for your part! the gauges your talking about im gathering are the ones that sit on top of dash (2 guages) and face driver? yeah mine didnt come with it, i do believe its the last of the thunders before VE too.. seeing as its the 6.0L
 

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lol sounds like a win win for your part! the gauges your talking about im gathering are the ones that sit on top of dash (2 guages) and face driver? yeah mine didnt come with it, i do believe its the last of the thunders before VE too.. seeing as its the 6.0L

Yeah, the thunders where all 6.0L. The SSZ before them, basically the same car but with the 5.7, came with them factory.

You should look into getting some, finish of the interior nicely.
 
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