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Started by 355LX , Mar 14 2007 01:52 AM

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#1 355LX

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 01:52 AM

Hi guys, just wondering if anyone knows the owner of this yellow hatch.

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He has fitted a VL Walkinshaw twin thrott manifold, and attached to it a carbon fibre air filter assembly.

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Does anyone know who makes these, or was this a once off?

Or can someone contact the owner or give me the owners details so I can try and chase one up.

Regards,

Dave

Edited by 355LX, 14 March 2007 - 01:59 AM.

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 03:01 AM

Nice hatch.

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 05:42 AM

Perkins engineering made the original "bellmouth" intake for the Walkinshaw race cars, that is what is pictured..
There was one on ebay recently, sold for over $1000....Like all original group A race parts, the cashed up collectors will set the price.
Best make your own i would think!
Get onto some fibreglassing websites and start learning!
You can make up a plug out of surfoam and then disolve it after the glass has been laid up and set.....

Cheers Greg..

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 11:31 AM

Dave pm me, i know who owns that car.

i believe it is up for sale.

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 03:07 PM

Thanks for that Greg, sounds like an expensive exercise just for an air intake!!

I have a couple of options, I have the 'y' piece that makes up half the VN group airbox assy, but I'm missing the other parts, can make it work though.

Or I take a completely different route......

Thanks again,

Dave

ps: PM sent RTS guy

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 03:57 PM

Last weekend I was told by a Torana enthusiast that some guy in Victoria is about to market some twin throttle body manifold intakes using the old VN style banana intake, he's apparantly cutting them down and using the base with a top that presumably bolts on.

I have not seen these as yet nor can I say how much better they should work.

Word has it they might be in the vicinty of $600.00

If and when I have more info on these I will post it, until then you know as much as I do about them.. SFA

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 04:43 PM

I think those are the ones being sold by Trickshift herne,they have a link to them on streetcommodores.com site.

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 06:22 PM

Yea dave they are definately off the racing walkinshaws i have a pic of an engine bay at home somewhere i can show ya.
Interesting to see the hole next to the radiator for the inlet too.

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 08:28 PM

This car may be of interest.
http://autospeed.dri...66/article.html

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 09:20 PM

NICE FCN NICE

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 09:28 PM

Nice yellow hatch. Craigs car was very very nice, tastefully done to a car that wasn't very original to start with, but he could easily reverse what he did to it. I believe that engine is long gone now and the car returned to something closer to stock.

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 12:30 AM

That truely is a beautiful car, the guy has done himself proud!! Does'nt get much tougher than that!!

THe airbox he has used is what i'd like to have, I'm just missing the airbox itself and the rubber pipe that connects it to the y piece.

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 09:25 AM

Have you tried holden.

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 03:48 PM

dave you can get the boxes at a lot of places and they will just give them to you. go and see Brett at Formulatech. good fella, friend of a friend.

if you do get that box i can also show ya what mods i did insite the gts one to get a bit more power.

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 04:21 PM

Does anyone know where u could get the 'y' piece?
my manifold never came with it and I was frightend i might have to spend a few hours with the tig and make an ally one.
cheers guys

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 04:36 PM

That red one ^^^^^^ is sweet - I can't believe I have never seen it before

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Posted 17 March 2007 - 07:31 PM

I had made the assumption that I would have missed out on anymore from Holden, but I guess I'd be mad to not at least try, so I'll give it a go REDA9X.

Failing that, I'll try the guy at formula Tech, thanks for that Phil :spoton:

Interested to see what mod's you did as well, let us know when your in town next,

Dave

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Posted 17 March 2007 - 08:55 PM

should be back in perth about April 4.
Hopefully to put my motor together and back in the car

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Posted 17 March 2007 - 10:04 PM

My mate bought all the VN Group A intake from holden a few months ago, so may still be available

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Posted 18 March 2007 - 12:02 PM

Thanks again Red, I'll be straight down there tomorrow in that case!!

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Posted 19 March 2007 - 03:45 PM

How much does he want for the yellow hatchback. Is it a SL or an SS?

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Posted 20 March 2007 - 12:15 AM

hatchssv8 best bet is to PM RTS guy for details on hatch.

As for the intake, thanks to REDA9X I now know how I will do my intake setup, which is different to both the yellow car and the red car.

It's the way I originally intended, but was unable to find one of those flexible joiners to make it happen. Now I have ordered two of them brand new from Holden, so thanks again for that, I should have tried there first!!!

Thanks to everyone else as well,

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Posted 21 March 2007 - 09:12 PM

glad I was of some help. Here are some pics of my mates ute setup. He did all of it himself, and the original setup was the standard VN type. When he originally did it, it was a fairly new thing to do and you couldn't buy any adapters of any sort, including extractors. He now does conversions for people regularly
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 11:49 PM

i had one of these perkins air intakes on a 355 VS ute and reckon it was a prick of a thing as the K&N filter kept coming loose and sucking inside the air box especially after i washed it and the filter become slightly stretched , made it worst

if i was to go a twin trottle set up again i,d go for the factory air box
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