The flexplate was jammed against the engine stand

@shane Scotty's Nuts get enough abuse as it is mate and its not nice to talk about the length of a blokes bolt......

@@tony66au 🤣🤣👍

@@tony66au hmmm... very technical terminology.

It's known as a "nut fucker".

LOL, I had a rats tail in the early 90s.

@@STREETMACHINETV TAVOtail mate.....

Full blown mullet!!

oi mate ill have you know cleetus mullet looks good

Thanks 👍

I did the balance shaft removal once before, it really didn't achieve anything to my mind.

lolllllll

I owned one and no it won't. It will just make noise.

Sometimes its best not to know

@@STREETMACHINETV Bahahahaha...good call.

@@STREETMACHINETV yeah, it suddenly mushrooms out of control, its like if you check, it's never good news. 👍

The more you check the more you discover and the more you have to do. They'll be shagged, not going to the moon on it so just send as is. :)

Scottie's going to be pulling that motor down again :D

well stock supercharged V6 is around 190Kw at the flywheel, so this thing should make around 250 to 280Kw at the fly easy if not more ,especially on e85 ?

@@7071t6 these were only 171kw hsv xu6 was 181kw, with what they're doing don't see 250+kw at wheels being an issue though :)

was just thinking same thing lol gotta luv a twisted mind !

Next time!

We had the heads inspected they reckon they're fine.

I also had to modify rh exuaust to clear the steering rack and the transmission was sitting to low in the vn chassis. I heard a vs commodore transmission or maybe just the pan was the solution but i was over it buy this stage and sold it

Cracked heads are just a way of life in mang mang world

Yeah, same. This is my first time doing it this way.

More to come!

The problem wasn't the bores themselves but the build up of varnish on the lifter itself under the bore

washed ya hands? whatarya mate a big girl?

@@shredBucketheadshred I'll let you eat gear lubes for lunch

Pulling it down any further could have revealed deeper issues. I wasn't ready for that pain right now.

@@STREETMACHINETV Yes, we've all been there and done that and, I imagine, your decision was one made from past experiences. I tip my hat to man that knows when to pull back from a potential disaster as he chases "better" and just be happy with what he's got.

Shit does indeed happen

If it was a complete bolt and nut change I would agree to a point, but these are different

And the last engine ran fine until the chain snapped

Air to Air

@@STREETMACHINETV sweet the vn will be whinning all the way to the bank lol

So I've heard

@@STREETMACHINETV Buick basically created the worlds first Modular engine.... Or they where massive tightarses lol

not sure whether to go pistons, rods, head work, cam, arp studs all through and a big spooly boy or just turbo the stock motor, (it'll be a china turbo either way I aint rich enough to afford a garret lol) it has to come out anyway to do the horrid rope rear main seal which I heard involves having to pull the crank :( so figured while it's apart may as well make it better lol converting it to t5 while it's out too, going for like 300bhp to start with but would ultimately like around 5-600rwhp out of it although I don't think the t5 will live long behind it, hopefully by that point I can afford g-force internals... although in 2 frames of mind with that 1 min I wanna go manual next min t400 hahaha but if that's the case the t700 can stay until then...

L67 was factory fitted in VS Calais so engineering would be a piece of piss

@@dizza1993 not in Victoria dude, it's a shitshow to engineer a car here , u can drop an l67 in any vs and not need engineered as it was factory fitted in that model, however u drop one in a vn u need to get it engineered as it wasn't factory fitted to that model, it's dumb yes but unfortunately that's the way it is. They'd still have to pass emissions, upgrade the brakes then do the brake test plus engineers cert, it's roughly 4 to 4.5k to get it all done ,it's bullshit tbh and that's why I've decided to go full race car instead, for 4500 I can get my elite 2500 and ic7 dash I've been eyeing off which to me is money better spent. The cost has driven many to just do a dodgy and go on h plates instead, just look at majority of the cars at drag challenge this yr ,barely any of them is engineered cause the cost is obscene and it also goes up the more heavily modified the car is, e.g. a car like allshow would cost somewhere in the vicinity of 10k ,is disgusting, it's done by Vic gov to discourage people from modifying their cars with their constant push for green nonsense, we are now public enemy number one apparently 🙄🤣 fine I'll just build a race car instead since for me engineering is prohibitively expensive, u know another 2 maybe 3k and it'll be running n driving and I'll race as is, get into bracket racing or something as the car will only be in the 12s to begin with 🤔

Yeah, i don't want to even look at them. Let's pretend they're fine

Basically the same engine as the Pontiac GTP and the similar Buick

LOL

Crank pulley is a bit different, but camshaft seems nuts

@@STREETMACHINETV my thoughts exactly.

Maybe

Maybe, we'll see. It's here for a good time, not a long time.

Great comeback! Here for a good time not a long time haha

@@knight2425 Guess he's not so smug now ;)

@@blownvnv6637 when was he smug? Nothing worse than someone that walks round like they know everything. At least with this show they try things and we see what works and what doesn’t, now we see this thing get taken up a notch which can only be a good thing

We machined the guides.

Doesn't matter as long as as timing marks line up.

Cost at the moment

We had our pro-video team come in and shoot some stuff in-between Whichcar episodes

I've removed them before and it made little difference

Hmm, maybe.