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I'm getting my parents banged up VL commodore to drive while my car gets its manual conversion. What are some fun cheap mods to do to a VL auto I can play with while I have it. This car is stock as a rock, nothing has ever been upgraded on it.

Shoot me some ideas, even stupid ones.

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advance the timing to 21deg and run premium :0 remove the air filter. go to BOC gasses and buy a 10kg bottle of nitrous, 3metre braided stainless hose and a slow release needle valve set to 1bar! veed the hose into the airbox :) hehe!

I had a mate in sydney with a ghetto nitrous setup on an old falcon same as above. he would stall it up and on launch and open the valve and instant tyre smoke

Nedless to say you will put a rod thru the block if you are not careful

I would cut the springs, spray it mat black and get at least 7 mates in it and drive around Braddon with smoke pouring out the windows and a crap sound system turned up too loud, Then when you get pulled over by the cops you too can ask.....

"Why are they picking on us?? What did we do???"

Seriously, hard springs and weld the diff... for some scary dori :(

Is it a VL Turbo? If it's a turbo, put a HKS pod on it, great flutter!!

If it's anything else, well, don't let anyone see you driving it I guess.

If it was a VL turbo I would have said that. It's a standard executive that still has the original hub caps it came with. My Grandparents had it since new in Canberra, then gave it to my Dad in Bathurst for nothing about 7 years ago. It's been a pizza delivery car for a few years, so it runs like crap and stinks.

I was thinking about suspension upgrade/repair and then a full-sik bodykit made out of cardboard for a g-up. It's not even worth the cost of the rego to keep it on the road, so I might paddock bash it to death or something when I'm finished with it.

What is a well deserving end to a reliable old VL?

VL getting a hard time in this thread!!.......I owned a VL for many years prior to the R33 and it served me very well.

Dont get me wrong though id never give up the skyline for one :D

Cheapest mods i mucked around with were advancing timing + timing belt check out:

http://www.calaisturbo.com.au/showthread.p...=advance+timing

www.calaisturbo.com.au is a good general site for VL and RB30.

Terminal

I think i have a heap of wheels, parts, gearbox, etc to suit at my folks place (if they havent all been dumped)... they are of no use to me let me know if interested and ill have a look.

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