Quote: Originally Posted by calaisv8 well to start of with wanna get the motor in chase up a 5 speed conversion theres a getrag conversion on ebay 4 $400 cant believe it anyway oh well ill get one when the time comes lol but yeah when i get the money together after getting everything in and runnin and so forth i wanna take the motor back out and stroke it to the good old 355 by a mate in syd then get a blower setup for it im tryin to get in the friggen mines so ill have more money as soon as that happens everything will happen alot quicker power wise i havent got numbers in my head as to what i am chassing i just wannt get it stroked, blower and tune it all and see where i get at basically i want a quick car not for compition or whateva just for fun cruise around and take it down the quarter mile here and there and with these mods i will be doin i have considered keeping the auto setup so it'll have better qurter mile times just somethin ive been thinkin What 5 speed are you going for? A T5 will last about 5 minutes behind a blown 355 You should be able to get 250-280rwkw by supercharging a stock 304 which is pretty good fun in a VL. More power than that and your looking at big $$$ to build and even bigger $$$ when you start breaking things on a regular basis Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by NZ EVLHSV What 5 speed are you going for? A T5 will last about 5 minutes behind a blown 355 You should be able to get 250-280rwkw by supercharging a stock 304 which is pretty good fun in a VL. More power than that and your looking at big $$$ to build and even bigger $$$ when you start breaking things on a regular basis yeah T5 would die in the ass lol i was thinkin the getrag 5 speed just want a 5 speed that will handle it, coz ive read a few things that you did to your vl and sounds like getrag would be the go see thats the thing to with what i want done to my motor i think first of i would want to supercharge it get eveything sorted cruise around for a bit like after engineerining and everything then later on stroke it and get it all tuned so i suppose if i did simmilar to your setup you have as in when you superchargerd it do a couple things and got that power out of it that would be heaps of fun till later on when i do want a fair bit more i just love researchin a fair bit before i do stuff so i have a slight idea on what i want done lol

Let me know when your ready for a 5sp, I have a mate with one sitting in his shed out of a late model commodore.

Quote: Originally Posted by Duke57TT Let me know when your ready for a 5sp, I have a mate with one sitting in his shed out of a late model commodore. sounds good dude what model commodores it out of?

Well... thats the story. It was in a VS series 2 Calais, but obviously that was a conversion from a 6 to the 8 and the getrag. Not real sure where it was before that but from memory it came out of a HSV of some kind. He is a member on here. PM and I will forward on his contact details. Im not even sure how much he wanted for it.

Prochargers are the go and yes they are the most expensive, but you do get what you pay for. With the right setup, 1000hp is a breeze on pump fuel and will cruise around like a stocker. And as for not being good for drag racing.....the record with a Procharger is 6.25 @ 227.65mph.

F%$K sounds good man i like the sounda that ide cry with happiness with 1000hp in me vl lol

Hey guys i'm going to look at a Paxton blower tomorrow, It's a friend of a friend and he said I can grab it for $1500, apparantly it's only been ran for around 1000km's. Does anyone no if people have used these on the holden 304's and what sort of power output people are makiing with comparison to the vortech kits.