Uniacidz Ride VX SS Monaro Themed

[kangavxss]

10mm? lol good luck on that lol

Um you know thats a bumper off jobby more then likely?

"Life wasnt meant to be easy"....who quoted that??

 

[djdomohudson]

He did.
It was Him who said it.


Who???

Him.

 

[uniacidz]

Probably some smart man referring to women.

Well, my parts still in transit. So looks like a no worky on car weekend.
Maybe a wash only or a rinse down.

Think maybe i need to buy a litre of Dextron III for the trans cooler etc.
Thats about it.
Dunno what to do with myself now.
Females are strange, car parts not around, have an open weekend now

 

[uniacidz]

A mate did this for me on Grand Turismo 6 on PS3

Couldnt get a VX happening so think was a VZ he was able to do.

If i had owned a VZ or VE, would be similar style as well.

Looks good IMHO

 

[Mk2]

Such a shame that Turn 10 have no respect for Australian cars. I'd love to see at least one representation in Forza of each Commodore gen and then some older stuff like Geminis, Toranas, Falcons, etc., and instead we have one VE. Gran Turismo is **** but at least they have a couple of Commodores from what I've seen.

 

[uniacidz]

Such a shame that Turn 10 have no respect for Australian cars. I'd love to see at least one representation in Forza of each Commodore gen and then some older stuff like Geminis, Toranas, Falcons, etc., and instead we have one VE. Gran Turismo is **** but at least they have a couple of Commodores from what I've seen.

Actually Im a PC gamer, when time permits and i remember. So used to be such a geek it wasnt funny.
Dont have any consoles, ex-flatmate took my Wii so just PC Gaming.

Also need to upgrade as well, CPU still good, but mobo, graphics and ram need a boost as new OS.
Apparently, windows 9 looking the goods.

 

[djdomohudson]

Windows 9 seems to be all speculation about the OS merging Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Smartphone 8 together.
Windows 8 seems like they added a clumsy Start App to Windows 7 and left it at that. Hence the $25 price tag.
Similarly... Macintosh's OS X Mavericks update seems to be bitterly complained about, as was iOS 7. At least iOS 7 only looks rubbish, it's actually a well ran OS on my 5th Gen iPod Touch. But I refuse to upgrade to Mavericks until compatibility issues are ironed out and it has had at least a couple of updates. I can't afford to lose running Adobe CS and Serato just yet.

As for consoles, I don't have any anymore. I used to love Gran Turismo and Forza. At least Forza had the V8 Supercar Falcons and Commys. (select few). But Gran Turismo I don't think ever looked to Holden much. GT 4 had a VZ SS and the Monaro on it. But I didn't know Holden's existed back in 2004 hahaha.

Apparently GT5 didn't update to the VE commodore, it just kept the VZ SS and Monaro, and again same with GT6 which is a shame really!!

 

[uniacidz]

Ok so I'm tired.

4 out of 5 things i did.
Still need to come up with a full proof way to make side clips of bumper sit flush.
Still thinking of ways, but in all, holes need to be drilled. and im like hmmmmmmmmm
However can get it sitting virtually flush now anyway.

1. Bumper mesh
Photos really explain it
Used 3 nuts and bolts along the top with mesh hooks that came with it.
Along the bottom, 5 hooks expoxyed in and then silicon across the top.
Prep work involved cleaning, wet and dry a bit and wipe down.

Photos bad, but will take some more later in daylight of it completed.

2. Bumper lift
Did this about what 3 weeks ago, using some old tyre material used to interlay between a front loader washing machine and a dryer on top.
Basically, cut to size, siliconed and gaffer tape onto bumper reinforcement and it lift the bumper, especially good when its been warped for a while.

3. Trans cooler Inline
Pretty straight forward.
Noticed there was some brackets already in place but not connected right so removed and just used the ones on the trans cooler
Easiest way to install, remove line from cooler, remove thermo fans and top radiator hoses and sacrifice some coolant loss.
Lift radiator a bit and feed lines though small gap

Amazed after driving a bit how hot it gets, glad its installed, no leaks.



4. 2000c Fahrenheit heat tape for CAI
Used i for the air intake, will see if makes any difference.
Came from America. Couldnt get any round here.

Intially used a heat tape to secure a halved thickness oif my old roof lining material sound deadening and heat resistant material and wrapped it round the CAI
Then used the 2000c Fahrenheit tape over that.

Hoping the roof lining material will created a barrier between the tape and any radiant heat, even though the tape can handle a hell of alot.

Before

Bumper Raise

Bumper Raise

 

[uniacidz]

Results

Trans Cooler + CAI wrap
Definately less heat soak. Far better running in hot conditions and under stress.

Very very happy with results.

Might be able to improve on the CAI a bit more, adding some ideas possibly later.

Mesh
Damn looks good IMHO
Glad i waiting it out and didnt choose some other smaller holed version. This is perfect.
Dont think there is another version out there that would suit it better...

Air flow perfect, looks decent and makes people focus on the mesh instead of awful AC Condensor.

Very happy with results.

Will let some daylight pictures speak for themselves.

Not fantastic pictures, but definately much better then prior ones i did.

Roof Racks
Picked up some Rola Roof Racks sport type for $89
Virtually new.
Happy on that as well, and photos taken whilst picking up racks.

 

[JMearns]

OH man that looks amazing!
Where did you get the mesh from?

Love what you've done with the car!
Mint.