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[Mort]

I read this thread on Thursday, went to Mackay Friday and you wouldn't believe it they were everywhere, Chevy badged Crummydores

[SP5000]

I think the only Commodore that had any remote tie to Chevrolet was the first of the Series 2 VT in about 1999 that were fitted with the 5.7 litre LS1 engine, these were the ones that they had trouble with burning oil, and rattling pistons when they were cold, these were used until Holden were able to start manufacturing this engine locally, I knew a guy that had a new Statesman at the time, and he had a new engine fitted under warranty

 

I stand to be corrected though

[Dr Terry]

I think the only Commodore that had any remote tie to Chevrolet was the first of the Series 2 VT in about 1999 that were fitted with the 5.7 litre LS1 engine, these were the ones that they had trouble with burning oil, and rattling pistons when they were cold, these were used until Holden were able to start manufacturing this engine locally, I knew a guy that had a new Statesman at the time, and he had a new engine fitted under warranty

 

I stand to be corrected though

No, AFAIK all LSx engines are fully imported, it is the V6 which is built in Melbourne.

 

Also the LSx engine are not a 'Chevy' engines in the same sense that the SBC BBC were. The are built by GM-Powertrain & fitted to several different GM cars, not just Chevs. Most Chevy cars are FWD shopping trolleys with either 4-cyl or V6s fitted.

 

Dr Terry

[Mort]

Yeh but they are race cars not street cars and the only thing Holden on them is the shell and that even looks the same as the Ford these days

[Mort]

Feeling Ryan feeling.

[yel327]

Holdens have been badged as Chevrolets and sold in South Africa, among other places, for many years.

http://www.bing.com/...ts &FORM=IQFRML

Not that I'm about to go out and stick a Bowtie on the HZ or anything...


And lets not forget the V8 Supercars are running small block Chevs and no-one's kicking up a stink about that. There's more Holden in a Starfire Corona than one of those.

 

Most of them are actually assembled in South Africa many using parts unique to those cars like the Chev SS (based upon the HG Monaro). There are lots of unique Chevy parts in many to like 250ci 6cyl engines and TH350 boxes, although some did use GMH stuff. This is a far cry from badge Engineering seen here where GMH built Lexens and Corollas for Toyota and Toyota built Apollos for GMH.

[yel327]

Warren
Badging a Commodore as a Chev in my opinion doesn't make the engine a Chev engine, otherwise a Lexcen has a Toyota engine, a Nissan XF ute a Nissan engine, a Maverick a Ford engine etc. That is all simply badge engineering. The GM Powertrain engines are to me no different to CAT, Perkins, Allison etc engines in for example F trucks. You don't go and put a Dodge badge on your Perkins powered Massey Ferguson tractor just because a Dodge used Perkins engines.

Isn't that anomoly with the ISOVIN for VY on actually a GMH error?

[UCSLE]

http://www.chevrolet...l-overview.html

[lakeside]

His bloke thinks one is not enough.

[308 Sunbird]

 I like Chevs, but as a proud Holden fan- this rebadging stuff gives me the shits.

[Potta]

Here we go again.....

 

One thing I can say that I'm not sure has been said before, I'd prefer a Chev badge to a blue oval.

[Tyre biter]

Good on ya Skap - stirrer

I have to admit, I am guilty of this - in 'a former life' - as evidenced by;

 

Yet I'll call it a performance enhancement - ridding the grille of that dinner plate sized Holden badge and replacing with a Chev bow-tie opened up more airflow for the OTR...

Well that is my story in any case...

And surely the Chevrolet rocker covers offered a few more ponies as well...

 

 

Having said that including poking fun at myself for doing this, I am not sure why folks get their noses so out of joint about this - it's just a badge and it isn't even on your car, and so really why do 'we' care so much - sounds like a 'first-world' problem to me.

 

In any case, the below photo taken from some posts above isn't so sad as some would suggest: The sticker is for Chev's Performance Centre in Carrum Downs VIC and not related to Chevrolet.

The owner's name is Gary Cheverly whose nic-name is 'Chev' hence the apostrophe - it is his performance centre and not a performance centre for Chevrolets.

Great bloke and very handy on the spanners - built my VE to 333rwkw (NA), and more recently built the 308 in my hatchback - yes he does a lot of LS engined cars but he loves the 'old school' stuff as he terms it and his garage always depicts an eclectic mix of marques.

http://chevsperformance.com.au/

 

 

Cheers, TB

Edited by Tyre biter, 23 July 2014 - 10:11 AM.

[Redzone]

I saw a Chev badge on a TL Magna the other day. Fastest Magna around obviously.