Hotel California

[foxdie]

You can sell up but you can never truly leave

Just picked up @ttdevotee's PFL Auto, needs a bit of work (mainly just the age of the car) but it'll be restored to full glory soon

[SGHOM]

Hi, & welcome newbie

Just don't do anything daft with it !!

[foxdie]

Just don't do anything daft with it !!

You know me too well

First job is to refurbish the AYC pump, something I've never done before but I've bought a kit and a spare pump to do it.

Need to find help with swapping it out and giving the car a service and belt change, @Davezj / @adaxo you guys interested?

[Davezj]

Way hey
Welcome to the the the club
If it has not been lpg'ed yet get it done. ASAP it will save you a fortune.
And allow you to spend the saved money on toys.

[foxdie]

Can't spend much money on it bud, got a strict budget for the rally, but I can get it serviced at least

[MarkSanne]

Good news Jason! Although you never left, welcome back officially
And what about the VXR8?

[foxdie]

Hey Mark

The problem with the VXR8 is I'm bored of the power. I thought about supercharging it but options are limited because it's a 6.0 LS2 (could probably get it to 575 - 600 HP), additionally it's got 60k miles on it now and although it should be fine, I want the peace of mind I'm going to build an engine that's going to survive many thousands more miles under forced induction by starting anew.

That leaves me with the option to swap in a crate engine, in particular the 6.2 LS3 which can be supercharged to well over 600 HP and lets me do things like upgrade the oil pump (a known weakness, the stock ones cavitate over 6200 RPM and you lose oil pressure), swap out the cam and install the supercharger a lot cheaper because the engines out the car already.

So my plan is to sell my car through a local dealership whilst prices are still favourable, buy a cheap VXR8 that's either a rolling shell with a blown engine or a high mileage (I know of one of each) and then ask a local fabricator / V8 swap specialist to put it all together

[giblet]

What's the total expected cost for all that?

We had a supercharged VXR8 at a dyno day I arranged last year and it was bonkers.

[foxdie]

Probably circa £23k :/

[giblet]

That's not too shabby for a stonking V8. The one at the dyno day made 707bhp. Sounded sublime and obviously shifted like **** off a shovel.

[adaxo]

You know me too well

First job is to refurbish the AYC pump, something I've never done before but I've bought a kit and a spare pump to do it.

Need to find help with swapping it out and giving the car a service and belt change, @Davezj / @adaxo you guys interested?

Which belt you talking about? cam belt?

Sure we can figure something out but is not @Nick Mann much closer to you?

[foxdie]

Hi @adaxo - Unfortunately @Nick Mann doesn't have time these days, he has a busy work schedule that's got him booked until the middle of next year

I don't know when any of the belts were changed on this car so I want to do them for peace of mind, it would be all belts and a full service I need.

[adaxo]

Hi @adaxo - Unfortunately @Nick Mann doesn't have time these days, he has a busy work schedule that's got him booked until the middle of next year

I don't know when any of the belts were changed on this car so I want to do them for peace of mind, it would be all belts and a full service I need.

I need to talk through it with @Davezj as in this case (mean possibility as a one day job) we need to go on to it together, unless of course you able to leave car here for few days. Thing is I only get odd sat off but always day off during week, but then Dave working ect.

[adaxo]

That's not too shabby for a stonking V8. The one at the dyno day made 707bhp. Sounded sublime and obviously shifted like **** off a shovel.

I remember this car well, its hard to forget this rumble, just leave it there.

[Davezj]

I am sure we can work something out.