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Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 19th, 2011, 8:44 pm
by LOW_XR
stevo wrote:You really get 800kays from a tank?! No way?
Id have trouble not flooring your ute any chance I got

lol im always flooring it in this.

nah i got about 540km out of the tank. not to bad as i was flooring it up and down mount bulla.
also our camp site was a 30minute drive on adirt road which was just like continous speed humps :( that killed the fuel too. still not to bad for what it is i think :good:

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 19th, 2011, 8:46 pm
by LOW_XR
SVT8 wrote:fark thats some good power, you got a vid clip of this thing?

cheers, um only the facebook link a few pages back. ive still not heard this from the outside yet. so i have no idea how it sounds myself.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 19th, 2011, 8:52 pm
by LOW_XR
Troutman wrote:G'day Dylan,

Looking tops mate... did you figure out the tyre pressure monitoring in the end? I've got my owner's handbook here.

Also, how have you found the C&A people? They have a special on currently, $990 for tune and intake which if it's any good I would consider - they do servicing as well which I need.

cheers man, um nah im assuming mine doesnt have it as i havnt come across it yet.

C+A are awesome mate. always helpfull. even before i bought this, they were nice and helped me out a few times. ive heard the c+a intake has made the most power out of them all and its not badly priced.
i do like the factory look of the vcm intake tho. all in all- if i was starting again i would use them again. very happy with there service.

you sould see some good numbers with intake and tune alone. and if you want some hsv headers and cats to make some more power, give me a yell :good:

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 20th, 2011, 7:09 pm
by LOW_XR
so i was very busy over the holidays working flat out on my tbird. and then i had to swap the clutch over. this was alot easyier than in my ba. got the box out fine.

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then as pulling the box out the slave fell aprt into like 6 pieces. it was shagged big time.

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the pressure plate and flywheel had a lot of hot spots on it. clutch plates still had a fair bit of meat left on it. so with a machining of flywheel and p.plate i could of reused clutch. but opted to use my new one to be safe.

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Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 20th, 2011, 8:11 pm
by Dansedgli
Did you refit already?

Ive got the stock slave cylinder from my BA box if its any good to you. Its new.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 20th, 2011, 8:45 pm
by LOW_XR
Dansedgli wrote:Did you refit already?

Ive got the stock slave cylinder from my BA box if its any good to you. Its new.

yeah all done man. thanks anyway tho. and i was told i had to use a genuine gm slave with my clutch or something.
i think the ba slaves have a plastic body yeah?

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 20th, 2011, 8:47 pm
by TUFED6
Yer they are. I swapped my plastic one out for a GM alloy one after it sharted itself.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 20th, 2011, 8:47 pm
by Dansedgli
Yep they have a plastic body.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 20th, 2011, 8:56 pm
by BLKPHN
Dansedgli wrote:Did you refit already?

Ive got the stock slave cylinder from my BA box if its any good to you. Its new.

Already refitted, i gave him a hand last week lifting the box in..

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 20th, 2011, 9:11 pm
by private9
What clutch did you go for?

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 20th, 2011, 9:22 pm
by LOW_XR
justin- went for an extreme. C+a use them and have no problems with them.

so with massive thanks to scott, brad and tristan we got the box in and all going again. after 2 weeks of driving a shitbox laser, was good to drive this again.

the bleeder on these are wayyy better than on a ba. the bleed nipple on this sticks outside of the bellhousing where my ba sat in a few mm and i didnt know when putting it together you need to put a small socket on the nipple so it doesnt lean against the b.housing. then if its hard against the b.housing you cant get a socket over it to bleed it, if that makes sence lol.

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and not sure how it happened but it did. this is part of my old slave
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Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 6:46 pm
by LOW_XR
ok so i went on a cruise yesturday with the hsv club. good cruise and some bloody nice cars too.some of the boys loved my ute with the work thats been done to it .did almost 400kms yesturday alone. heres a few pics:

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YEP!!!!!
on the way home, almost asleep , 30 seconds from home if that- these boys spotted me doing 19kms over.
top cops really,i stuffed up so im happy to cop it. he looked over the car and said how nice it was.(after following me into the car park with the ute idling like a pig lol.)
was all good, got my fine and points and they jumped back in their car to take off.
then he pulled up beside me and was like- "hey dylan? this car isnt registed!"
ive had the rego canclled on me too! so pretty bloody expensive sunday :banghead:

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 6:53 pm
by xr6berto
spewing that sucks man,
have you transfered this into your name/

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 7:00 pm
by LOW_XR
nah cos i wanted to use up all the tassie rego and then either 1, put it in my name or 2, sell it.

transfurs alone are over $1500 then $624 for rego then $30 for plates and $40 odd to make an appointment to do it all lol.
then there is the $240 fine for speeding and $??? for a rwc and whatever they find :(

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 7:07 pm
by Dansedgli
Swap for au ute with rego? :-p

that sucks man, gotta be careful with driving a car under someone else's rego.

I thought you would have gotten a letter saying it was cancelled at least though. That's what happens with vicroads.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 7:10 pm
by LOW_XR
Dansedgli wrote:Swap for au ute with rego? :-p

that sucks man, gotta be careful with driving a car under someone else's rego.

I thought you would have gotten a letter saying it was cancelled at least though. That's what happens with vicroads.

lol was thinking on way home tonight i should sell this and just buy some cheap car but i dont think i could do it.

i woulda thought id get a letter too! the cop says that maybe he lost the paper work with my name on it and has just canceled it without giving the tas RTA my details?

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 7:12 pm
by justa6
shit that's bad man. at least they were nice about it.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 7:15 pm
by LOW_XR
justa6 wrote:shit that's bad man. at least they were nice about it.

yeah well i was nice too to them i guess. i fucked up so no point being shitty at them hey?
lucky they didnt see shit id been doing on the cruise earlier :lol:

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 7:52 pm
by someLS1
Tough luck mate...... nice pics... hate the hsv knts tho think they are gods gift

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 8:33 pm
by LOW_XR
haha yeah some of the blokes are nice, the group i was with yesturday were all ok. didnt seem too up em selfs :lol:

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 24th, 2011, 9:21 pm
by someLS1
hehe yea they prob not all bad...

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39

Posted: January 25th, 2011, 6:30 pm
by private9
LOW_XR wrote:
justa6 wrote:shit that's bad man. at least they were nice about it.

yeah well i was nice too to them i guess. i fucked up so no point being shitty at them hey?
lucky they didnt see shit id been doing on the cruise earlier :lol:
Good attitude man - it probably saved you from copping EPA or similar.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 25th, 2011, 11:22 pm
by LOW_XR
yep thats it hey. sometimes it pay's to be nice i guess lol.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 25th, 2011, 11:31 pm
by needfordspeed
That sucks man (N) Gonna be expensive getting Vic rego, learnt that from the F6 :S

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 25th, 2011, 11:34 pm
by LOW_XR
yeah not looking foward to it.

on a up note this now chirps 3rd nice due to new clutch. :thumbsup:

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 27th, 2011, 8:05 am
by BLKPHN
Spewing man!!

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 27th, 2011, 9:43 am
by bentls
Now when you get it Vic rego you can get fpv plates

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 27th, 2011, 10:22 am
by EBOOST
needs more chev badges :P
cheers josh.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 27th, 2011, 10:35 am
by OED666
BA-FG and VTII to VZ slave's are the same height. VE factory slaves are 20mm longer, so you would need a spacer to use an earlier slave.

How much did you pay for that VE slave???

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 27th, 2011, 5:21 pm
by LOW_XR
EBOOST wrote:needs more chev badges :P
cheers josh.

yeah man they are on order. just waiting for them to color code them for me :P

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 27th, 2011, 5:22 pm
by LOW_XR
bentls wrote:Now when you get it Vic rego you can get fpv plates
yep it was a toss up between fpv plates and those zodiac plates. :thumbsup:

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: January 27th, 2011, 5:24 pm
by LOW_XR
OED666 wrote:BA-FG and VTII to VZ slave's are the same height. VE factory slaves are 20mm longer, so you would need a spacer to use an earlier slave.

How much did you pay for that VE slave???

yeah well not sure if its true but i was told with the clutch i went i had to get a genuine slave. :banghead:

cost like $450 ish. i know you coulda got cheaper but i just wanted it fixed.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: February 1st, 2011, 8:36 pm
by LOW_XR
also when the car was on the hoist while i was doing the clutch, i painted my calipers and discs.
i hated how they were that faded red before.
it actually took a bit of work to do these right. i didnt just hit them with a spray can :drinks2:

all stripped down ready to prep
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the kit i used. pretty good kit for $63
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This is just a rust proof coating you put on before your top coat. and it helps with coverage too.
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top coat!
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Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: February 1st, 2011, 8:39 pm
by LOW_XR
also the disc's
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as you can see i painted them black. i was going to paint the hubs silver but as i plan to go gts wheels i think it would better all black.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: February 1st, 2011, 9:17 pm
by EFFalcon
shoulda painted the actual rotors, woulda looked sick

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: February 2nd, 2011, 11:22 am
by Troutman
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Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: February 3rd, 2011, 7:18 pm
by LOW_XR
lol i did that on the rears as i had them machined and it saved me masking them up lol.

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: February 3rd, 2011, 7:25 pm
by LUXO_8
oh yeah ya did too haha... just looked closer at the pic :cool:

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: February 3rd, 2011, 7:34 pm
by LOW_XR
yep. id already had the fronts machined so i had to mask them up lol

Re: Dylans HSV VE Maloo R8 #39 (now without rego) :(

Posted: February 4th, 2011, 11:36 pm
by LOW_XR
ok so everyone on my facebook knows this but for those who dont, i got caught in narre warren today(floods).
looks like ive bent rods etc etc. hydro lock is my guess without striping motor down.
its really fucken killed me. pretty shit year for me so far