Vr Gts Replica
#1 _UDLOSE_
Posted 06 February 2008 - 06:42 AM
This is my compensation for having to sell my last VR. I bought RedA9X's VR SS back in 2005 i think it was. It was the most mint condition car of it's age I'd ever seen. I started my own business 10 months later and I just couldn't afford the payments and fuel while earning next to nothing.. So I had to sell the poor girl and I've missed it ever since. Now a few years on my business is on it's feet so I decided to compensate myself by getting another one. This thing is nothing like the SS in terms of condition, but I reckon I can fix it up and make it a nice car to cruise around in on the weekends.
Here's my old SS for those who haven't seen it:
Cheers
Marty
#2
Posted 06 February 2008 - 12:19 PM
#3 _UDLOSE_
Posted 06 February 2008 - 02:19 PM
It's T700 unfortunatley.Auto or Man? and what is a 'limmo'?
Does someone want to tell Heath what a limmo is?
#4 _tyre fryer_
Posted 06 February 2008 - 02:58 PM
Edited by tyre fryer, 06 February 2008 - 02:59 PM.
#5
Posted 06 February 2008 - 05:27 PM
#6 _Bomber Watson_
Posted 06 February 2008 - 05:57 PM
Nice car mate, looks the goods.
#7 _TORANASS_
Posted 06 February 2008 - 06:39 PM
Thats cos you've only been around for the past 17 years lolNever seen it called that in my life.
John
#8
Posted 06 February 2008 - 07:09 PM
#9 _high_rpm_
Posted 06 February 2008 - 08:07 PM
sorry about stealing your thread
#10
Posted 06 February 2008 - 08:18 PM
#11 _evil UC hatch_
Posted 06 February 2008 - 08:27 PM
I bet, I went to buy a VS SS a little while ago and the finance company said I had to get a car newer than 98, with my budget I ended up with a V6 auto VT I hate itvr ss's are awesome dailys, got one myself is your new one a bt1(Excop)? id say so with irs and ss interior
#12 _high_rpm_
Posted 06 February 2008 - 08:44 PM
and bt1 stamped on the complience plate lolBT1's are easy to tell from an SS, BT1 has a rear windown brake light, SS does not.
#13
Posted 06 February 2008 - 09:47 PM
yep, that too, but a few years ago, many dealerships were selling VR and VS SS's. It was easy to just walk round and check the rear window before opening the bonnetsand bt1 stamped on the complience plate lolBT1's are easy to tell from an SS, BT1 has a rear windown brake light, SS does not.
#14 _UDLOSE_
Posted 07 February 2008 - 07:06 AM
It sure was Mic! It's still the best example of an SS I've ever seen in the flesh. I really miss it, my mates have spotted it around the penrith area a few times. I've got some good quality pics of it that I took when I sold it, do you want some high res pics for your album?Boy that grey SS was a nice car
High RPM - I was thinking the same thing. I wasn't sure how to tell the difference, I'll take a look at the compliance plate tonight!
Cheers
Marty
#15
Posted 07 February 2008 - 03:37 PM
#16
Posted 07 February 2008 - 08:29 PM
#17
Posted 07 February 2008 - 08:57 PM
One of the burnout pics he sent me was BEAUTIFUL. An excellent photo, I think you should have a geeze at that.no burnout ones thought, that would kill me hehe.
#18
Posted 07 February 2008 - 09:16 PM
#19 _UDLOSE_
Posted 08 February 2008 - 10:43 AM
Nah didn't it turn out it was your old number plate, not the standard issue one I ended up with?Sure I wouldn't mind some pics, no burnout ones thought, that would kill me hehe. I have never seen it since I sold it, but I did get a speeding fine for the plates that were on it....
Stop revving him up Heath, you know I don't do burnouts
Here's some high res pics for Mic;
http://marty.serious...SS/PA190712.jpg
http://marty.serious...SS/PA190715.jpg
http://marty.serious...SS/PA190722.jpg
http://marty.serious...SS/PA190731.jpg
http://marty.serious...SS/PA190732.jpg
http://marty.serious...SS/PA190749.jpg
http://marty.serious...SS/PA190760.jpg
http://marty.serious...SS/PA190762.jpg
Not much changed from when Mic owned itt. I put the clear indicators on it, changed the CD player to an MP3 one, put a sub box in the boot and put VT front brakes on it and lowered it more.
BTW you guys were right, I checked the compliance plate and the white VR is a BT1. So what else were BT1s supposed to have? Were they 185 chipped?
Cheers
Marty
Edited by UDLOSE, 08 February 2008 - 10:48 AM.
#20
Posted 08 February 2008 - 04:16 PM
yeah the plates i got a speedng fine for were not the ones on the car when you bought it, but they had been reissued to another grey VR strangely enough....
what happened to the front spoiler
#21 _high_rpm_
Posted 09 February 2008 - 01:47 PM
#22 _LXChev366_
Posted 09 February 2008 - 08:36 PM
and it just happens to be for sale as of today.
#23 _UDLOSE_
Posted 10 February 2008 - 08:21 AM
I skimmed something parking a week before I sold itwhat happened to the front spoiler
Is the 185 chip just simply changing a chip or is there more to it?
On the white one, I bought a new engine mount for it yesterday. The engine had been clunking when u back off, the guy i bought it off said the mount needed replacing when i bought it.
So I got under there to change it out, I was looking at it and thought wow that mount looks pretty good... After a closer look I realised that there were no bolts holding the adaptor plate to the block
#24
Posted 10 February 2008 - 05:05 PM
185 involved (from HSV) the chip, knock sensor, intake and exhaust. The HSV exhaust was into a single cat, twin mufflers and back into a single resonator.
#25 _UDLOSE_
Posted 10 February 2008 - 07:32 PM
wow, i didn't know u could buy stronger ones? I still found a way to snap it :( A very easy job to change them though.VR's and breaking engine mounts very common, I replaced the rubber and the metal ones with stronger ones before I sold the car.
185 involved (from HSV) the chip, knock sensor, intake and exhaust. The HSV exhaust was into a single cat, twin mufflers and back into a single resonator.
I got some bolts for the white one today and attached the mount back to the engine. Drives alot better now. Only prob is one of the small ones is snapped off in the block. They must have rattled loose one at a time and the last one couldn't hold it. Hopefully 2 will hold it..
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