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Originally Posted by CAL415
what did you guys use to test, i rekon a few of you have to be a fair whack out
I've checked my speedo against a tachymeter (using the 'odo check' km marks on roads) and the stationary radar machines that are around on some of Melbourne's freeways - It always reads 2-3km high at 100kph.
I did 10 runs last night using a Seiko stopwatch and got figures between 6.8 and 7.8 - Most of them occurring between 7.3 and 7.7
I'm pretty happy with that.
Well i went out to willowbank again tonight...
Out of my 2 best runs, my 660ft times were:
-10.515 @ 108.64 km/hr (16.208 @ 87.40MPH/140.65KPH)
-10.553 @ 109.86 km/hr (16.196 @ 88.06MPH/141.72KPH)
So would still be around the low 9's id say.
I had 5 people in my vl, and about 100 kilo's worth of crap in the boot and i managed a best of 10.31 0-100 using my mates stopwatch on his watch. say 1400 for the vl, 70kg's per person and the 100 kg's of ****, and its 1850kg's. i havent been able to time it anyother way.
had a few runs, best time of 8 flat, cars n/a auto with cai, blitz filter, advanced timing, extractors, striaght through cat, soon puting on 2 1/2" mandrel bent cat bak and xf tb, oh and the other night i was cruzin along at bout 60 and a bloke with a new 195kw VZ S ute with exhaust was behind me up'n it so i shifted bak to second and planted it till bout 125km/h and as i did that heard him give it the arse and he didnt catch me, so i was pretty happy with that
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Originally Posted by Boost Plz
had a few runs, best time of 8 flat, cars n/a auto with cai, blitz filter, advanced timing, extractors, striaght through cat, soon puting on 2 1/2" mandrel bent cat bak and xf tb, oh and the other night i was cruzin along at bout 60 and a bloke with a new 195kw VZ S ute with exhaust was behind me up'n it so i shifted bak to second and planted it till bout 125km/h and as i did that heard him give it the arse and he didnt catch me, so i was pretty happy with that
I had that with a VX berlina, the guy laughed at me at the lights and i beat him by half a car length. NExt set of lights he just looked at me and i laughed.
My VL does 0-100 in about 11-12 secs, 1/4 mile in about 18-19 secs, engine has done 350-360,000 ks approx (been flogged by previous owner), with pretty much no mods, just a Hi-Clone and a crappy exhaust.
Now tell me why it runs so crap?
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Originally Posted by bextor84
Ditch the hi-clone
Instant 4 seconds haha nah, but I imagine it'd be restrictive.
It is supposed to do the opposite though...
VLRB30ETT: Have you got the 2 hi-clones or just the one? My car is just under 300,000km's and still does consistant very low 16's. Yours is auto though aswell isnt it?
I'd say it will have something to do with the age and condition of your engine. Have you touche your airbox before? If not, get rid of the snorkle thing coming into the box, maybe cut the mouth a bit wider to let even more air in and get a much better flowing panel filter (K&N, Splitfire etc.)
Easiest way to make power out of a N/A is to get more cooler air through the engine. Next time your out at the drags just take out your air filter all together and see how it goes then.
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
Nah, the Hi-clone isn't meant to make it less restrictive, its meant to swirl the air.
But I haven't seen the shape of the one for the vl, but all the others I saw looked extremely restrictive.
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Originally Posted by sikcalais
this site should be called "calais laugh at everyone else turbo style"
ive got an efi 5litre in my vl now but it did have a very very healthy 304 carby engine.
it had standard headers, 2 1/2'' exaust, gas heads and as i said the motor was very healthy and very quick for a stocker. i did 0 to 100 using my mate and his phone as a stop watch and got there in about 8.5 seconds on average.
i have a book here which tells me a bit about the walkys with there twin throttles and such and they did the 0-100kph in 7.2 give or take a few 10ths of a second.
now if they do 0-100 in that time i dont understand why they would design and fabricate the twin throttles when apparantly the N/A with an exaust system, some cold air and a bigger throttle bodie ranges from like 7 seconds to 10? and EEVIL does it in 4-5 seconds with a cooler and 10 pounds.
correct me if im wrong but im lost
Your 100% accurate mate... I Think its exaggeration at its finest...
yeah my N/A auto VL (284000km) with Extractors and 2.5" exhaust (no cat) will crack 0-100km/h in around 8.5 seconds, but where it performs best is between 60 and 170km/h, when it gets up on its cam in second gear it just goes and goes, nothing can keep up it (except maybe a Turbo or a late model V8), not bad for a heavy old Calais.
My 87 N/A auto (done 143 000km) did 0-100 in an average of 9.24sec completely stock, since then ive done a custom CAI, and set the timing to 19degrees and now manage an average of 8.72... I cant figure out why its so fast!!! ive checked everything for modifications and its stock... At the lights i beat every Vl im up against(unless its engiens been worked in some way or its a turbo) and i have even beaten 2 turbos(must have been **** turbos but hey�) Cant wait to see what it can do with a complete 2 1/4 exhaust(including hi-flowcat) and a few other mods I got planned
I did a 0-100 ages ago, before any of the modding was done, just a 2" exhuast with one muffler......got 8-9 secs.....I will have to have another go one day....might get 7 - 8 now....lol
You got to make sure you use an accurate timer (i use a sports type stopwatch i acquired for my previous place of education) and to be accurate i reckon you need to do at least 5 runs and average it...
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Originally Posted by SirGeo
also.. i think most N/A's would struggle to hit 200k's
my n\a gets to 190ish then takes ages but eventually gets to 200 but 200 is it maxed out fully lol. in NZ we dont have to have cats cos we dont have a silly pollution law lol so VL's tend to go a we bit better here also cos its colder here as well which helps alot
