kurts VYII SS ute

[kurt27]

hey all im kurt, im a 19 year old chippy and new to the forums. howdy!

im from the gold coast, few months ago bought myself a vy series 2 ute in silver, love it to bits. its a daily that will see willowbank and qr often. sorry no pics as i dont have a post count, if someone can throw them up for me?

Name: Kurt
Model: VYII SS ute
Colour: Quicksilver
Bodykit: Standard SS
Engine Type: Ls1 Gen3
Engine Mods: none yet
Power: stock
Exhaust: twin 2.5" cat back with rear muffler removed
Gearbox: M6
Cluch: Standard
Diff: standard 3.45 lsd
Brakes: Standard
Suspension: fe2 with lowered kings in the back (guessing SL's as it now sits level)
Wheels/Tyres: standard 17" vy
Interior: standard cloth
Other Mods:
Stereo: alpine headunit, eclipse splits, eclipse 4 channel, eclipse mono block, eclipse 10" sub

future plans: as soon as my other car sells headers, twin 3" or single 3.5", otrcai, 3.9s, springs, cam, tex clutch, possibly heads. looking for around 270kw for now

[ovt55]

sounds good mate got any pics

[kurt27]

sounds good mate got any pics

sure do but i cant post them but ill try to link them from somewhere

[KuRT12]

Haha, im Kurt & 19.. How bizarre


Sounds like a nice ride mate!

[kurt27]

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[KuRT12]

sweet ute mate, how you go about this car on your p's?

[kurt27]

hey kurt i got my P's a few months before all the bullshit came in. im un-restricted whereas the new p platers cant have a turbo, v8 or cars over a certain power output. i also dont have to show plates :yahoo:

[KuRT12]

Haha nice... i would love a v8... i got a 16 week replacement on my sv6 so i might look at trying to get an exemption and get an upgrade

[kurt27]

haha good shit. well im taking her to willowbank wedneday night with dad in his xr8 and a few other blown ford boys. im expecting a low 14... pretty spot on?

[kurt27]

drove all the way to willowbank tonight to find it rained out :bawl:

theres always next time i guess, but still no stock time :flipoff:

[kurt27]

couple of updates, last week took her out to willowbank to get a stock time. managed 14.5 @ 101mph with a 2.3 60 footer. so defiantly gottta get the launch better. anyway got it back today with a set of pacemaker 4-1's, 100cpsi high flow cats, and 3 inch pipework to the twin 2.5" catback. will leave it as is now until it starts choking it

tonight also purchased an OTR off a forum member, so just gotta book her in for a maffless tune and watch that ET drop!!!

[shel86]

Nice ute buddy... very clean

[kurt27]

thanks mate. The exhaust makes the car totally differant. Im so happy with it. Itching to pick my otr up and get that tune done

[kurt27]

ages ago bought an otr, test fitted it but it fouled on my bonnet. So sold that. When closing the bonnet i cracked the radiator. Joy. So put a new rad in. Bought a set of heads and throttle body, so saving madly for cam. Waiting on selling a fridge i have and will get a ziggy otr and take it to hitorque to tune. Least i got the dart heads cheap with valve springs, so its save mode now. Also is there any reason i cant throw heads on before i do cam?

can anybody answer this?

can anybody answer this??

[michaels1v8]

Your going to need a tune when the cam goes in anyway so I wouldnt bother putting on the heads yet.

Throw on the OTR if your keen but IMO wait until the cam is going in and get it all put on and tuned at one time to save coin.

You could go a mail order in the mean time if you think it will be a while before the cam is put in. That way your only wasting $300-600 rather than a full custom tune cost

[kurt27]

full custom tune only 660 anyway, gonna put on heads and see how she runs regarding pinging/detonation. hoping it will be ok with the comp. will see anyway. thinking about getting cam real soon and getting it in, just hate having a mortage lol

[JS57SS]

nice ute mate, yeah it sucks when all your car money goes into your mortgagae. i got one when i was 18 definately stops you spending money on stupid things, makes you save and plan your mods well for me anyway.


..........jacko

[kurt27]

yeah for sure i was also 18 when i bought my house. Slowly coming together now :)

[sszkid]

Very tidy mate, I like it. Got to love the old P plate laws haha.

Will be great once you get those heads and cam done, have fun.

[red-rocket]

nice tidy ute mate

[kurt27]

cheers gents. heads should be at my door tomrorow so am super keen to order pushrods and cam :smilesandbanana:

[kurt27]

few small updates. gave her a bit of treatment, clay bar and a polish. come up great, unfortunatly camera phone cant pick up the depth like the eye can. painted brake calipers red, and bolted up an 80mm throttle body. makes the car funner to drive and real responsive. set of dart heads arrived a while back, and a DUS otr which is being fitted and tuned next monday by the lads at HITORQUE.
missioned it out to willowbank sat arvo to find out it was canned :bawl: so looks like ill go next wednesday after tune, cant wait to run it again, so much fun :smilesandbanana:

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[kurt27]

well just got the ute back from fitting otr and tune, results came back at 251.7kw. Car feels so much better especially in the mid range. Will post up sheet when i get home. Hoping to get out the willowbank wednesday night to see how she goes

[VX_INT]

Isnt 250rwkw for a 5.7L tune and OTR a bit high, should be more at the 230rwkw mark...

[kurt27]

made 216 before otr and tune. Guess the track tomoro night will tell

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[kurt27]

last night ran a best of 13.7 at 106. Still cant better that 60 footer under 2.2.

[decoupe]

How did your Dus OTR go ? Did it rub on the bonnet anywhere and what sort of price are they ? Would be interested in a photo of the fit and to know if there were any problems fitting ?

[kurt27]

mate i bought it second hand from this forum for 500 delivered, was the monaro one, so basically sits lower to accomodate for the nostrals in the bonnet. hi-torque fitted it as i could not drive it with it on to the shop, but i had a dummy fit and also when i got it home from fitment i couldnt see any cutting, cept for the tab on the back of the thermos, which i previously had cut off. they give you instructions for fitment with the otr.

found that on long drives the bonnet underlay would sorta melt and leave shit on the otr, so i ripped that off, other than that no clearence issues at all. very happy with the product, now want to paint it properly lol

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[decoupe]

Yeh , looks like a bit of a rub mark in the centre on top there ? Geez I wish someone would make one that would clear under the bonnet properly !!!

[lowhsv]

coming along awesome mate, it looks to be a good motor and should respond well to head and cam. whats your aim with the ute 11's and daily driver?

[kurt27]

decoupe it does not rub anymore. Low hsv yeah daily. Not sure about numbers, 12s i hope. Have heads already just gotta order a cam and slot it in. New clutch and ets should see me a 12

[[PHATSS]]

nice ute mate, if you reckon it looks good clay barred and polished give some dodo light fantastic wax a go- paint will look amazing after it.

what size cam you gonna go for?

[kurt27]

yeah im gonna put some dodo products on my christmas wish list. Cam im thinking 232 234 or there abouts. All depends on ptv clearance with my new heads.

[kurt27]

well the order is away.
TSP 232/234@112
arp hex head bolts
arp harmonic balancer bolt
LS2 timing chain

so over christmas holidays in she goes with my heads. cant wait :smilesandbanana:

[Toast]

Nice ute mate, I'm thinking of doin the same with my ute after new years is over.

Pretty big cam for a daily. Will be interesting to see what numbers you pull though!

Good luck :)

[kurt27]

yeah cheers toast. it is a daily but im not to fussed. heads should tame it a bit i think. im thinking around 300 or so. cant wait to get a new clutch and get it to willowbank again!!!!

[kurt27]

well the parts arrived today, cant thank trevor from texas speed enough, super good service and speedy delivery :bow:. planning to do this next weekend, hoping hi-torque will be open the following week to touch up the tune. if not it will have to wait till christmas holidays. either way im stoked and cant wait!!!!

awaiting a set of pushrods tomorrow and have to buy head gaskets, what a rip off they are!

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[red-rocket]

there's some nice goodies

[255-LS1]

sweeet. i want a cam now.

[-SONIC-]

mmm *froth froth* haha. Bet you can't wait.

[rosey]

awesome mate, definately doin it right the first time :goodjob:

[kurt27]

cheers for the compliments gents. cant wait for that first start up

[brennan]

makes me want to hurry up and get the cam for mine now haha, let us no what time you can grab hey when its all runnin sweet

[kurt27]

ran the ute one last time before i do heads and cam, ran a 13.3 @ 107 on MT streets. 60 footer was 2.1 so still alot of launch practice to be had!!!

utes booked in on the 6th on Jan for its tune at hi-torque :smilesandbanana:

[kurt27]

well had a major setback over chrissy and didnt get around to heads and cam.
did the work this weekend and she is booked in for a tune tomorrow, been driving it a fair bit today and cant get the smile off my face. sounds like an animal

[QSVZSSUte]

Very nice ride Mate, I had a VY SS Series II Ute in red, with a set of 19's on it from Tempe Tyres, hard top, twin 2.5 exhaust with extractors, loved it, but sadly it went to Heaven... Just recently got myself a VZ SS Series I Ute in silver, hard top, leather trim, standard SS 17's and Chev grill, looking to upgrade to 19's and throw a new exhaust on same as what I had on the VY SS and also replace the Chev badge on the grill with a gold badge and also a gold badge on the tail gate.

Awesome car mate, I had alot of fun in my old VY SS Ute.

[kurt27]

cheers mate! Even untuned can believe the torque it has down low. Bumped the compression up to 10.9:1

[Duncs]

thats the go, have you got a power figure yet?

[kurt27]

nah mate goes in tomoro for tune :)

[kurt27]

not sure if you guys can view this but here how she sits atm, shit phone camera doesnt record sound to well though


http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=1708551642#!/video/video.php?v=1125884483158

[rankys_ss]

not sure if you guys can view this but here how she sits atm, shit phone camera doesnt record sound to well though


http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=1708551642#!/video/video.php?v=1125884483158

nice ute mate, can't see the facebook vid though

[kurt27]

this is the facebook embed code, does anyone know how to bring this up in a post????

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[kurt27]

long time since i have updated this.
after tune it made 395hp at the treads, will try post up dyno graph. stock cat back really kills it up top. upping the compression to 11:1 really made such a huge differance to the bottom end!!!
the thing is an animal defiantly pulls pretty hard
havnt been out to willowbank as the clutch keeps letting go but if all goes well i should have a mal wood option 3+ in the next few weeks, and ill drop the box off to get new synchros :bawl:

so hopefully embrace some of this cold weather at willowbank soon

then its off to get 4.11s purely for drivability

[rosey]

nice work mate, making some healthy power with quite a similar combo to mine. :goodjob:

[kurt27]

cheers rosey

got a tex z grip in her now, took her down willowbank. managed a 12.4 @ 115mph with a 2.02 60 footer

ran 12.4 @ 111mph with a 1.8 60 footer, but missed 4th haha. woulda been the low 12 i was chasing :rofl:

cant wait to go out again, defiantly want diff gears next :goodjob: