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A little extra advance is good, just use decent fuel. Retarded timing is much worse.

A fibre glass sleeve works well to reduce heat.  I double insulated my starter motor cables on my last early girl Commodore.

That wire has certainly seen better days…

Good to hear it’s sorted

Are you familiar with the standard automotive relay which you can get from any major automotive retailer?

Basically, grab a 12v, 30amp relay from your preferred supplier and mount it somewhere on the passenger side.  Take the +12v wire that is normally connected starter motor solenoid and connect it to pin 86 on the relay and connect pin 85…[Read more]

The starter motor relay kit is highly recommended as it will improve starting and also stop the ignition switch burning out which is a common fault in the early girl Commodores.

I’m not intricately familiar with the VL wiring  but if it’s similar to the earlier VB-VK it is also good to fit extra relays into the headlight harness which again is…[Read more]

Good work, that torque curve is going to make a lot of fun/smoke….

Tuning is an art, the stupid thing is the max power/torque part is probably one of the easier bits and what most people are interested in (for bragging rights).  The cold start, idle (from cold to hot) part throttle applications and all the transitions between those points is where the time is spent getting it right.

I recon it will go past 800hp.

6 forward + 1 reverse

Nice work.

I’m really not a fan of the VL’s but good luck with the build.  Did you manage to get the rear tailgate lock mechanism out?

Great little recipe there 

A true coil over for the rear of a Commodore that’s bolt in?  Tell me more

Getting the sucker off is only half the problem, re-installing can be just as much fun.

Well I’ve been out driving for an hour or so and the rear end is a lot more planted, even the missus commented it cornered better and was much more stable.   Previously it seemed to float/shimmy a bit when cornering under power.   I’m calling it a success. 

Now to sort out the subframe alignment issue.   Will pick up new bushes and figure…[Read more]

Here you go, this is mine fitted.

I also did new rear shocks so it’s gonna be hard to say exactly what difference the diff mount will make but I just took it up the road and the rear end felt a lot more solid.

I also figured out that the rear subframe is probably out of alignment.  The diff mount is as far back as it will go on it’s mounting…[Read more]

The inserts can be quiet hard to fit, I know with mine I had to trim it slightly to make it fit.  I should refit it, I changed diffs and used the one fitted on the spare diff at that time.  That diff was only supposed to be on the car temporarily but it’s  still going ok so haven’t bothered to change it out yet.

I think mine is a Tuff Mounts one, I got it from a supplier on Trademe in NZ but looking at the pics it’s identical and that supplier has other Tuff Mounts stuff for sale.

I’ve got the standard rear diff mount ATM, I also previously had the standard mount with the urethane insert.  With the insert I noticed a bit more vibration in the rear.

I have a new billet  alloy rear mount that has 2 rubber bushes, similar to this one but not from this c…[Read more]