GTOSE

iTrader: (1)

I love the UTE

Sweet cars.

ss1

iTrader: (32)

I'm watching Barrett-Jackson and they said GM confirmed today the UTE will be brought to the US as a Pontiac. Definitely cool to see more of the Aussie vehicles heading our way.

eappwr

iTrader: (1)

bad *** ride imo

eappwr

iTrader: (1)

i like the red 4 door as well

SS_Brute

Motors been done in my ute I'm running it in at the moment, ended up staying 346ci with SCAT I Beam Billet rods, ACL Forged dished pistons C.R dropped to 9.0, stuck with the 228 cam, and ditched the yella terra rockers cause they kept breaking. 2000kms to go on the motor then we go for 16 psi!

Also a couple of pics of my mates HSV VX Clubsport R8, 20" mags, full leather Coulson seats, sunroof, M6. Enjoy

jerrad

iTrader: (5)

Love the car. Any way you'd send me the engine covers?

macca_779

eBay VZ LS1 covers and you should get a set pop up every now and then

jerrad

iTrader: (5)

Awsome, thanks for giving me a lead on the covers.

camarojunky74

iTrader: (14)

so do we all agree it was a HUGE mistake to let the aussies to the gto, well for one there ugly, they dont sell, they only made it for a few years, and now we got a bunch of our ls1's down under, wtf send those motors back lol

btw im sure they are fast but imo they are ugly, but clean non the less

macca_779

Mate we had the LS1 quite a bit before the GTO. And it powers quite a few more models than that over here. And yeah I agree the GTO is ugly but Holden only designed it that way to Americanise it. Our Monaro design is much cleaner and nicer on the eye IMO.

ICEMAN 31

The red one is nice and the ute is nice also, not fgan of the color. But that grean one looks cheap and those rims are hideous.

camarojunky74

iTrader: (14)

holden had ls1's in the monaro before they designed the gto?

TheJoker547

I don't see a MAF on any of the Aussie cars? What gives?

suxgas-565

Here are some pic's of my 03 VY SS it has mafless tune, 4into1 headers, twin 2 1/4 system,has 3500 lock up converter, 3.9 gears with drag radials ran 12.88@104mph full weight



And here it is towing my race car back to the pits




And this is Australia's fastest LS1 and possibly the fastest Powerglide LS1 in the world with a 7.00@207mph

macca_779

We throw them all away. MAF's have been proven to be a restriction because of that and the superior throttle response Speed Density tuning provides it has become common place in our scene to run MAFLESS. Hell even HSV (The Australian GM Performance Devision) released cars MAFLESS. The days of SD tunes not being able to compensate for weather changes are long gone with custom operating systems like EFI LIVE's OS3. I don't understand why US Tuners haven't embraced this method. Perhaps their understanding of it isn't as sound as ours.

macca_779

We've Had LS1's in our cars since 99. Hell you could get an LS1 in a poverty pack Sedan if you wished back then. Like this one

camarojunky74

iTrader: (14)

[QUOTE=macca_779;8693096]We've Had LS1's in our cars since 99. Hell you could get an LS1 in a poverty pack Sedan if you wished back then. Like this one



wow i stand corrected

ICEMAN 31

I look at these cars and I just don't see it....I dunno, I respect that there fast and that they carry obe of the best american 8's ever made. But for some reason they do not appeal to me. I guess muscle is different in australia. To me seeing an LS1 in these cars is like seeing an LS1 in a miata or rx7....respectable and great engineering but just not for me regardless if it comes stock with it. They seem pretty weak looking, more sleeper like...which may be a good thing i guess.

throttlehappy

weak looking....
do they need a ram hood?

macca_779

I see where your coming from here, but to get it you have to understand what our cars come from. The core design is not purpose built muscle car. Rather its run of the mill family sedan. What we have though is an extremely strong following for performance in these such vehicles. Looking from an American perspective I can understand the unpure feelings of our vehicles being classed as muscle cars. Australia simply doesn't have the money to design, build and justify purpose built 2 door hero cars like the corvette. The monaro (GTO) was our last and it didn't sell enough to justify its future even with US sales. Instead our car makers modify the base product to a point where it becomes a sudo muscle car. You guys have the G8 now so you can have a taste of our entry level V8 cars. Still though we have far better products available in the HSV stable that the US will probably never see.

I look forward to going to Alaska next month and driving some of the US's finest