VF Random chat thread

[eman1]

I noticed the my16 Chevy ss have an oil cooler standard and trans cooler for autos.

Does the vf2 have an oil cooler standard? I can't see any info saying it does.

 

[blackve76]

Well the bi modal exhaust are hitting the 2nd hand market

Holden Commodore VF Series 2 SSV Redline Sedan Bimodal Exhaust System in VIC | eBay

asking big $$$$$$

 

[VS 5.0]

Excuse my ignorance, but don't you need the electronic gizmos for this to work ?

If so, only good for VFII ? And given VFII are all "new" with the same exhaust, who would pay those $$ for it ?

 

[markalan1two]

I find the HUD on my VFII Redline to be slightly out of focus unless I lower my head a little bit. Moving the HUD up and down doesn't change the focus but ducking down a little bit does.
Seat is already as low as it can go.

Any suggestions?

Have you tried cleaning the lens??

 

[CalaisNQ]

Excuse my ignorance, but don't you need the electronic gizmos for this to work ?

If so, only good for VFII ? And given VFII are all "new" with the same exhaust, who would pay those $$ for it ?

Only if you won't to have option to turn the bi modal exhaust on or off, but there would be better options for getting a better exhaust note for money they won't for that system.

 

[Forg]

Given this is Random Chat Thread, and this isn't really worthy of a new thread ... a mate & I have had a Mk1 Escort project in kinda/sorta startup phase since not long after we left high school, we pared everything down to only the good-nick or useful bits 15-ish years ago & the good shell's been sitting in my FIL's shed for the last 10 years ... the direction all this is heading is that the '14 Redline wagon was used as tow-car for the first time yesterday to bring (most of) the Escort back to my place in medium-north-west Sydney from my BIL's place way down south-west.

I'm definitely NOT Captain Trailers. The aforementioned schoolmate has been the one towing the cars around over the years, I think I've maybe towed twice before, and both times it was just little box trailers.

However it was a breeze behind the Redline! I guess 1800kg of car means you feel less of what's behind it; but just with the trailer itself (800kg), if I hadn't been taking out cyclists & children due to the width, it may as well not even have been there. Fuel use was nowhere near as hefty as I thought it'd be either, around the 14L/100km mark for ~200km. OK you could actually feel the car on the way back; kinda proving that what you feel is due to the distribution of the weight & how the car moves around, given that a stripped Escort shell with only wheels probably weighs ~300kg compared to 800kg for just the trailer.

Really happy we went for a big comfy car rather than the way more sensible semi-performancey hatch option. Plus the FIL's boat needs to be towed down to my BIL's place next weekend; and because they've all been sensible too, we're really the only sensible way it could get there (the plan before we intervened was to tow the boat down behind the automatic 1.8L 323 ... I dread to think how that would've turned out, I think the boat's probably borderline for the Commodore to be honest - fibreglass, has a small half-cabin area, and wide enough that to ship it out here in a 40' container he had to put a ratchet-strap around it & pull the sides in ...).

 

[jas555]

Hi does anybody know want date the VF black edition comes out? I read it was going to get released in April Looking to picking one up. went to a couple of dealers but they don’t know when they are getting them in.Holden’s got a special on with the free automatic transmission so I want to get one before the deal is over. And there are no details on the Holden website about the black edition.
Thanks

 

[blackve76]

Hi does anybody know want date the VF black edition comes out? I read it was going to get released in April Looking to picking one up. went to a couple of dealers but they don’t know when they are getting them in.Holden’s got a special on with the free automatic transmission so I want to get one before the deal is over. And there are no details on the Holden website about the black edition.
Thanks

None in the holden yard last night so haven't started building them, another run of US caprice cop cars there thought

 

[VS 5.0]

Someone (maybe Supercoach) posted a pic of a black edition the other day but I can't remember which thread, so they are about somewhere.

 

[crew_man]

It was likely a single model production run prior to the actual production schedule.

There is a picture of the Reserve Edition as well, even though production isn't scheduled to start until the beginning of May.