RX8 is gone, Long live the VXR [Archive] - Performance Nova Group

Saloony

24-12-09, 06:43 PM

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Saloony

24-12-09, 06:45 PM

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Southie

24-12-09, 06:46 PM

Santas been very generous, you must have been extra special this year. lol

vaughanmc

24-12-09, 06:46 PM

Some beast!

Stuart

24-12-09, 06:50 PM

gay

love you

Saloony

24-12-09, 07:00 PM

Love you too your gayness

John

24-12-09, 07:01 PM

double gay!

BODGSI

24-12-09, 07:01 PM

good choice mate!

bmw156

24-12-09, 07:02 PM

jubus thats a big engine lol.

good choice though :)

pikey1986

24-12-09, 07:04 PM

ive just done a sex wee lol

Spudly

24-12-09, 07:26 PM

How the fudge did he fit that down your chimney, lmfao lol

Stuart

24-12-09, 07:27 PM

How the fudge did he fit that down your chimney, lmfao lol

you can fit a LOT in Craigs chimney ;) lol

Spudly

24-12-09, 07:32 PM

you can fit a LOT in Craigs chimney ;) lol

No, i mean the one on his house, not THAT chimney lol

valvercorsa

24-12-09, 07:33 PM

Bout time ya got rid of that gay car and bought a real muscle car Hahaha

craig green

24-12-09, 09:56 PM

Nice.

smcgsi16v

24-12-09, 10:00 PM

Love you even more now big boy. Great choice.

Saloony

24-12-09, 10:13 PM

Awww im feeling the love

loggyboy

24-12-09, 10:18 PM

Are you a Saudi oil Baron?

Saloony

24-12-09, 10:20 PM

What gives you that idea lol

Nova_Tek

24-12-09, 10:33 PM

Pure Shex! Always have wanted one. Is that the VXR 500 version?

Saloony

24-12-09, 10:34 PM

No the 500 has a charger on it ;-)

Nova_Tek

24-12-09, 10:37 PM

Oh right so this is the 'normal' VXR, if there's such a thing lol

Saloony

24-12-09, 10:38 PM

Hmmm normal sort of, bar the mods that have been done. It dont sound normal thats for sure lol

Stuart

24-12-09, 10:43 PM

you work for vauxhall to know that?

Saloony

24-12-09, 10:45 PM

Yeah, i serviced it meself and got staff discount lol

Nova_Tek

24-12-09, 10:45 PM

What mods?

Saloony

24-12-09, 10:51 PM

Wortec headers, cats, cat back system, lambdas and wiring, Maf pipe, senor, wiring, remap, ripshifter and low ratio diff

rwaggers

24-12-09, 10:53 PM

6 litre:eek: someone is going to be a wee bit skint lol

sulphur

24-12-09, 10:53 PM

Lovely!!

How many horses has she now?

Saloony

24-12-09, 10:55 PM

460bhp

rwaggers

24-12-09, 10:59 PM

460bhp
do you know how much torque mate?

Riggy

24-12-09, 11:19 PM

very nice mate :thumb:

Welsh Dan

25-12-09, 12:25 AM

Thats a funny looking engine cover for a vectra ;).

burgo

25-12-09, 03:23 AM

pease may i cut the floor pan out and weld a nova to it??

ade

25-12-09, 07:31 AM

Thats a funny looking engine cover for a vectra ;).

AFPMSL!

Nice pressy matey - have fun!

wwmnw

25-12-09, 10:08 AM

Holy ****, DO WANT!

Saloony

25-12-09, 10:46 AM

do you know how much torque mate?

Cant remember, Picador (dealership) kept the rolling road cert along with a pic of the car as it was owned by the head chief (owner) of the dealship, and then his best mate, now me :p

Spudly

25-12-09, 11:19 AM

I can has passenger ride please nice mr Craig :d

Rexy

25-12-09, 12:49 PM

arrrhhhhh Lushness :D

Hows she growl Mr craig?

Saloony

25-12-09, 01:35 PM

Jack

25-12-09, 01:41 PM

Can't beat that In-Vee swagger. Even my tiddly-in-comparison V6 tries to leap sideways if you give it some rev when standing :d

wwmnw

25-12-09, 01:49 PM

She sounds fcuking angry. Will get some vids no doubt later on. Noticed earlier that sitting in traffic the car is rocking, bloody sexual, im sure it'll make some females moist lol And i sh!t you not it has theee most comfortable seats in the world.

More likely to make some men moist, mate I've got a ****ing mega hard on looking at the pics of it, I would love to hear the growl, get some videos asap, please :) Would love a go of a car like that

Saloony

25-12-09, 02:06 PM

lol ive just been out for a crimbo 'Wake southampton up' drive by. Roads are fairly quiet, but many about just standing in admiration as i stick my hoof on the loud pedal. Still finding it all Surreal really, those that know my history know what ive come from and now what i have made for myself, just sit and think, this cant be me surely lol

wwmnw

25-12-09, 02:11 PM

I don't know you that well, but you're on a Nova forum so I can guess lol :p

Spudly

25-12-09, 02:16 PM

Benn

25-12-09, 02:36 PM

You c**t.

Hobbit

25-12-09, 03:07 PM

plus rep for ditching the gay ford and getting a proper car :) I want one.

edit, gonna need to find something else to rib you about on facebook now lol

Saloony

25-12-09, 04:38 PM

plus rep for ditching the gay ford and getting a proper car :) I want one.

edit, gonna need to find something else to rib you about on facebook now lol

HAHA.. dude you can try, but leave my handbag fetish out of it lol

Ernie

26-12-09, 07:39 AM

Very nice Craig.

mayhem

26-12-09, 09:14 AM

i hate you :(

we dont even have them here :(:(

Saloony

26-12-09, 10:04 AM

Understandable as they dont do it in left hooker i believe

L33 LEG

26-12-09, 11:25 AM

Such an amazing car, very jealous! has to be the nicest sounding cars you can get. Sooo much better than that mazda you had.

My mission in the next few years is to own one of these!

spanishfly

26-12-09, 11:34 AM

I seen a VXR with added Wortec charger for £16k... the missis won't let me buy that or the GT3 aero kitted 911 C2S :( I hate having to buy a house:(

Saloony

26-12-09, 03:46 PM

Yeah i saw that one too. Too be honest its not really needed, especailly out on these roads. Yeah i done both, within a month of each other, house then the car.

spanishfly

26-12-09, 08:35 PM

Yeah i saw that one too. Too be honest its not really needed, especailly out on these roads. Yeah i done both, within a month of each other, house then the car.
Thats the thing, if I had a house I could buy the car. London sucks for housing:(

Benn

26-12-09, 09:11 PM

Move away its much nicer out of the big smoke.

Saloony

26-12-09, 09:22 PM

And cheaper

spanishfly

27-12-09, 09:40 AM

Looking around Kent and Surrey any how! Wouldn't wanna go any further!

Saloony

28-12-09, 09:39 PM

lol i can average 20mpg round the town..

blue_peg_16v

28-12-09, 09:40 PM

you luck bar steward very nice mate

Jack

29-12-09, 08:39 PM

Burble burble vroooom :d

Slowest seats in the WORLD though lol

blue_peg_16v

29-12-09, 08:41 PM

the other month when i picked my lpg conversion up for the vectra the bloke turned up in a black vxr 500 i almost did a sex wee sounded awsome

Saloony

29-12-09, 09:53 PM

Burble burble vroooom :d

Slowest seats in the WORLD though lol

lol and i didnt even get to open it up, yeah seats are gay and dont move forward enough and the sound system is some what down on the BOSE system of the rex... meh.... burble burble 3car overtake burble burble lol

Nova_Sean

29-12-09, 10:49 PM

Get some vids up! Need to hear some of those burbles!

Saloony

29-12-09, 10:59 PM

Im gonna do a brighton tunnel run soon so hopefully ill take me camera and get some window down sounds going

Saloony

11-01-14, 04:25 PM

So I started spending a lot of hard earned on parts. This is all being done ready for one last stage to be added bit later to make use of all that I did.

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Sent the heads off to a lovely company called CTM, used them in the past always been impressed with their work so seemed rude not to use them once again.

Saloony

11-01-14, 04:36 PM

Pathetic little chain. But needs to be off to make way for a Monkfish magic cam. Also after seeing the standard chain guide it made me nervous. So opted for the later Vxr8 example.

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May also notice the anti roll bar, worth the agro.... Cam!

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See the difference in the guides

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All back in/on

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Heads are back... Shiny

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Saloony

11-01-14, 04:44 PM

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Whilst I was waiting on the heads me and the boy, set about tidying a few visual things, rocker covers, coil mounting plates, w/p, chain cover, disc bells, and heat wrapping the exhausts. And also some cosmetic wrapping by my mate Tony.

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Saloony

11-01-14, 04:49 PM

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That's it for now, just waiting on my new roller rockers the in the new tax year the manifold will be off again and replaced with something a bit trick along with a mapping session.

blue_peg_16v

11-01-14, 08:13 PM

Sweet ready for forced induction then

Benn

11-01-14, 08:23 PM

Looking great dude.

Saloony

12-01-14, 12:58 AM

Sweet ready for forced induction then

No, end of story.

blue_peg_16v

12-01-14, 08:31 AM

Bike carbs then

Stuart

12-01-14, 09:09 AM

Why are gm so ****e are making chain guides / tensioners... :(

Saloony

12-01-14, 10:14 AM

Tell me about it Stu. The original damper did feck all, the slack in the chain was crazy. I know it's ran like that for 25k but just didn't feel happy leaving it. Fitted that jobbie, all sweet. But the back lash I'm getting over fitting that over on the Holden forum is stupid.

BRoadGhost

12-01-14, 10:03 PM

Such a primitive engine

Saloony

12-01-14, 10:56 PM

Such a primitive engine
Yeah, some would say a blessing. The whole car is rather crude. But is all owing to muscle car status. If I had all the bits in one hit from start to finish the whole job would of been completed in less than a day. Big, crude, reliable horsepower... Can't beat it.