My Ride

[knucklehead]

Hey guys

How is everyone?
i thought it's probably about time i uploaded photos of my car, some of you may have seen it at the kids cruise

Details are:

Model: MY10 VE SV6
Colour: Voodoo blue
Bodykit: Standard
Engine Type: 3.6L SIDI
Exhaust: Stock (soon to be changed to SS exhaust)
Gearbox: 6 Spd Manual
Rims: 20" DIP ICE D67
Interior: Onyx Leather inc Gear knob & HSVI Steering Wheel
Exterior: De-badged holden Badges, Chev Badges, Bee Sting Antenna, SSV taillights, 15% tint
Stereo: Alpine Type R Speakers + Sub
Future Mods: GXP rear diffuser, Quad tips, Chrome Door handles with color coded centre pieces & Lowered Suspension


P.S Forgive the dodgy pics they were taken on my phone

[FAVSSS]

Car looks great Brad.Keep the mods coming

[Vixen]

Love those wheels Brad! :D
Great ride you have there.

[Purple_Power]

Very nice!

[Larko_SV6]

Car looks awesome!

Where did you get the Chev grille and SSV Taillights from?

[knucklehead]

Hey Matt

I paid for my car to come with the chev grills from factory but if your looking to buy one as always Ebay is a recommendation to find one for a bit cheaper then retail, or i know www.holmart.com.au has the grills for about $149

As for the SSV lights i bought mine from holmart i managed to get mine for $110 each but last time i checked they're up at about $185 each but again check Ebay to see if you can't find them a bit cheaper

hope this helps mate

[knucklehead]

I Captured a couple of shots of the monster the other day so i thought i'd share :)

http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y364/knucklehead2708/VE/photo.jpg

http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y364/knucklehead2708/VE/photo4.jpg

http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y364/knucklehead2708/VE/photo2.jpg

http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y364/knucklehead2708/VE/photo1.jpg



Also as the series II is on the back burner at the moment (most likely will be closer to the end of next year before i think of buying it) i've decided to save my loose pennies and change a few things:

first off will be:
Pedders Extreme XA Coilovers
then
New Wheels....still deciding between the 2 at the bottom of this post


And last but not least (for now) i will be getting rid of the Chev badges...but havent decided weather i will be putting holden badges on or getting custom grills made up :)

also if anyone has any tips on where i can find a g8 diffuser i may think of adding that to the list aswell :)

[billygoat]

I have a white car but blue is my favorite color.
Ask Nathern for the diffuser as he got Greg and Anthony theirs.

[hastey]

Very nice ride and love the colour!!

[KarTaz]

I Captured a couple of shots of the monster the other day so i thought i'd share :)

http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y364/knucklehead2708/VE/photo.jpg

http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y364/knucklehead2708/VE/photo4.jpg

http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y364/knucklehead2708/VE/photo2.jpg

http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y364/knucklehead2708/VE/photo1.jpg



Also as the series II is on the back burner at the moment (most likely will be closer to the end of next year before i think of buying it) i've decided to save my loose pennies and change a few things:

first off will be:
Pedders Extreme XA Coilovers
then
New Wheels....still deciding between the 2 at the bottom of this post


And last but not least (for now) i will be getting rid of the Chev badges...but havent decided weather i will be putting holden badges on or getting custom grills made up :)

also if anyone has any tips on where i can find a g8 diffuser i may think of adding that to the list aswell :)

I might be looking at a used VE soon, god I love them to bits. Your car is tops, no matter what way you look at it. Put the lions back on it mate, best way to go, and it'll still look gorgeous.

I have a white car but blue is my favorite color.
Ask Nathern for the diffuser as he got Greg and Anthony theirs.

Well, he can't possibly be talking about me. Mind you, your not doing too bad for drinking night Grant!

As Grant said, see me for the G8 GXP Diffusers as I now stock them at work due to their seemingly overwhelming popularity. $55 including GST, special club price. Regular retail is around $85.

[knucklehead]

thanks heaps Nathan......i can give you money for it at the Xmas cruise if you are going

[GKW]

Have fun with the GXP install. Good fun....not. In need, call Grant he has a hammer that works wonders...:lmao:

Drop me a email at membersrep@clubcommodore.com and I can send you some base instructions and pics for the difusser install.

Need: flat files, small bladed hacksaw, a dremel tool makes life easy but not essential and a lot a patience.

Cheers

[FAVSSS]

Geez that car looks shiny Brad.How do you get it like that?

[knucklehead]

Well i had a bit of help in the first pic......it was the day after you detailed it for me lol
But what also helps is the $1200 camera lol......im hoping to get a few good shots on the Xmas cruise...hopefully i'll be able to do a proper photoshoot with some of the cars :)

[billygoat]

There you go Anthony,Just call yourself for a detail and you to can have a car that shiny.lol.

[FAVSSS]

Thanks for the tip Grant.I may just do that once all this rain goes away.

[billygoat]

I heard tonight that it is going to be a wet November.Joy Joy Not.
Its because i washed,polished and detailed my car on sunday,I should of known better.lol.And its not comeing out till the suns out this time.
1 day to clean and less than 15 min in the rain to ruin it all.Stuff that.lol.

[blackrb20]

Very nice car knucklehead, I am glad you are getting rid of chev badgers as commodores are made in Australia and Chevs are made in the U.S.A

[knucklehead]

yeah it was merely just a preference of the look of the chev grill over the holden badge. In my opinion i thought that the chrome strip in the chev grill gave the car a slightly more aggressive look. in the not to distant future i wanna play around with the grill and see if i can retain the chrome strip with possibly a colour coded or black holden badge

But lets not get into the age old debate of badges as it seems to get an opinion from everyone lol

[knucklehead]

Hey Guys

Quick question is the rear badge (in my case chev) held on by a screw or the adhesive stuff the other badges are held on with?

[mjvajv]

Its the same as your other badges (with glue) just be aware that there might be two holes from your original Holden badge.

[knucklehead]

i had the chev badges on from factory so would there still be the holes?

[KarTaz]

More than likely, as the bootlids are all the exact same. Make sure you have some cut and polish ahnging around, cause even though the paint is new the paint under the badge will be considerably sinier and better than the rest of the car!

[knucklehead]

Ok so i have ordered new holden front grill so should be in shortly
in the process of ordering a GXP Diffuser just waiting to hear back from my supplier AKA Kartaz lol.....what are peoples opinions im thinking of getting it sprayed Voodoo? (examples below)
Have lined up 60th anniversary chrome door handles and possibly chrome door trim.
also will be getting all my dash lights changed to blue instead of red (example below) as well as getting blue footwell lights for front and rear :)
Rims and suspension have been pushed back as just got rego in the mail yesterday lol

[mjvajv]

Hi mate,where are you getting your dash lights at as ive been trying to get somone to do that for me.
CHEERS

[knucklehead]

Hi mate,where are you getting your dash lights at as ive been trying to get somone to do that for me.
CHEERS

where abouts you live man?

[KarTaz]

Ok so i have ordered new holden front grill so should be in shortly
in the process of ordering a GXP Diffuser just waiting to hear back from my supplier AKA Kartaz lol.....what are peoples opinions im thinking of getting it sprayed Voodoo? (example of a red one colour coded below)
Have lined up 60th anniversary chrome door handles and possibly chrome door trim.
also will be getting all my dash lights changed to blue instead of red (example below) as well as getting blue footwell lights for front and rear :)
Rims and suspension have been pushed back as just got rego in the mail yesterday lol

Paint that bad boy, it looks absolutely stunning!

[blackrb20]

That diffuser will look good painted blue mate,did you guy's know that can blue bulbs on ebay from gates racing they are the good ones.I think they are about $20.00 for the kit.

[mjvajv]

where abouts you live man?

In the liverpool area??

[knucklehead]

In the liverpool area??

cool.....he is in cranebrook, his website is down at the moment but ill keep you updated when everything is up and running again

[mjvajv]

Sorry for the late reply but how is the website going???

[knucklehead]

Exciting news for me today :)

Due to Ashleigh borrowing my car last weekend for a girls weekend away and hitting a pothole or something the tyre went flat (she did me proud by knowing how to change the tyre:)) and when she got home and i had a look noticed the rim had a massive crack in it :(.....naturally she feels really guilty.....so being the awesome fiance that i am i punced on that guilt and was able to convince her to let me get my new wheels :hipnotise: haha (gotta love a quilty consience)
so the car is booked in for a service on tuesday and if that doesnt take all day i will have my new wheels on by the end of the day...just in time for XMAS Cruise :)

Oh and my darling fiance said she will by my new 60th anniversary door handles as my Xmas present so its all coming together nicely :)

[GKW]

Got love a new set of wheels. Not the way one wants to go about getting them, but thats the up side of big pot hole.

Pics come Tuesday pls.

Cheers

[knucklehead]

Always love anything new i can add to my car :)

Im quietly thinking to myself i should let Ash borrow the car again and then tell her she must of hit another pothole and broke the suspension so i can get my new coilovers sooner to haha

[mjvajv]

Always love anything new i can add to my car :)

Im quietly thinking to myself i should let Ash borrow the car again and then tell her she must of hit another pothole and broke the suspension so i can get my new coilovers sooner to haha

hahahahahahaha why wait tell the damage was more than you first thought and now because you got the new wheels the old suspension just wont do so coilovers here they come...

[knucklehead]

hahaha John your a genius

i'll try and slip that in after the new wheels get fitted i'll tell her that the guys in the shop looked at my suspension and told me it needs to be replaced asap haha

[mjvajv]

I convinced my wife to let me get a strut tower,new bushes all around and an adjusteble sway bay for the back by telling her itll make it safer for everyone specially in the wet(you can tell the difference it handles beautifully now)tell her if you had them in place than she would have missed the pothole as the car is more responsive and shell be alot safer to,worh a try or maybe pushing it just a bit???you can use that one next time lol

[GKW]

When I got the OTR, tune and full exhaust I used the "it makes the car more economical arguement" which in itself was very true. My car now uses less approx 10% less fuel which is great. The extra 20% in kw's, a mear added extra......evil laugh trailing off.

[knucklehead]

hahaha as much as i get away with my fiance is quite smart.....i've tried the "its safer/its better on fuel" argument and her reply everytime "So is a hyaundai Getz" i think the "you broke it and now i need to replace it" argument is the only angle i have to work with her.......damn she's good haha

[mjvajv]

you got me on that one (wait your fiance is coming to the christmas bbq right well we might have to get our better halfs to convince your misses for you)woman stick together just wait and see,try and take her along to as many events as possible and shell start being more understanding to your ideas lol lol.

[knucklehead]

A couple little changes i have made....plenty more to come though :)

Painted GXP Diffuser

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/4bc73287.jpg

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/6e07b16d.jpg

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/77dbced6.jpg

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/b96cb389.jpg



New Door Handles

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/b6aa6c83.jpg

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/07f45d22.jpg

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/b613a46f.jpg

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/4ee40240.jpg

[Vixen]

Lookin' good Brad! :D

[woodi]

Very nice unique touches brad!!!

[billygoat]

Looks good m8t.You must wash it every week as it is always clean.

[GKW]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...chrome....NICE! Love it Brad.

The colour matched diffuser looks great and something very original. Well done. I trust you had so much fun as Anthony, Grants hammer and I did doing the install. LOL

[knucklehead]

It was your door handles that inspired me greg lol,

Just as much fun as you guys did x 1Billion.....you see Greg in all my excitedness to get it sprayed and get it on the car i neglected to test fit it to the car before being sprayed, so imagine my distain when i realise that i now have to try and fit it without scratching it :(

in the end it all worked out though :) only ended up with 1 scratch which you can't see any way

[GKW]

Good to hear Brad. Hurts to make cuts in her, even when it's the part that can't be seen.

Barrell of laughs trying to get the three holes in the right location. LOL

[FAVSSS]

It was your door handles that inspired me greg lol,

Just as much fun as you guys did x 1Billion.....you see Greg in all my excitedness to get it sprayed and get it on the car i neglected to test fit it to the car before being sprayed, so imagine my distain when i realise that i now have to try and fit it without scratching it :(

in the end it all worked out though :) only ended up with 1 scratch which you can't see any way

Just like me Brad,only difference being you can see my scratch,hey Gregory:oops:
Car looks great though..Some really nice touches

[mjvajv]

hey brad looks the goods mate those door handles (droooolll) best colour i wish i choosed the colour not the wife but she agreed on getting the ss so i had to suck up eg the plates hahahahaha,hope your doing well and im glad your misses is letting you spend money on the car hahahaha.

[ScottyVEboy]

very nice mate. i think ill do the diffuser on my SV6

[knucklehead]

Thanks Scottie, what colour is your VE? Just an opinion as well I recommend getting the GXP Diffuser if your gonna get it painted the stock honeycomb ones don't look as good when they are painted, just my personal opinion though lol

[ScottyVEboy]

mine is white and yea i have seen the honeycomb ones painted and they dont look good so i am thinking of getting the GXP and it isn't that expensive which is awesome!

[knucklehead]

Yeam man they are a good little Mod that you can do thats cheap but makes a huge difference, although they are a bit of a pain in the A** to fit lol, Shoot Kartaz a 'PM' about it he hooked me and a couple other members up with them a little bit cheaper then retail cause of his staff discount with holden

[ScottyVEboy]

awesome thanks man! i shall do. are they hard 2 paint?

[knucklehead]

Just a little bit of an update

New wheels ordered today should have them around the end of May (no where seems to have blue ones)

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/145f7dfa.jpg

New paint Scheme for engine cover worked out

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/c9f3f398.jpg

also hopefully ill get some spare time soon to remove my chev badges as it looks as though someone has tried to take the one on the boot off but only got half way(thanks to them for doing half the work) but it looks like what ever they have used to pry it off has scratched the paint down to bare metal so i will also have to get that fixed up and hopefully be able to start on a custom grill which will involve calais chrome bonnet strip honeycomb mesh and some custom badges :)

so thats just a little update hopefully it will all come together with out to much hassle

[KarTaz]

Going to buy a spare engine cover and do something similar for my car. Did you get the new wheels, we want pics!

[Vixen]

Lookin' good Brad. :D

[FAVSSS]

Have seen those wheels on an SS that colour and they looked great

[knucklehead]

Unfortunately I did not end up getting those wheels as the place I went to get them told me it was about a 3 month wait so I waited and at the end of 3 months I rang in for a bit of a progress report and apparently they had forgotten to place the order so I told them not to bother and got my money back. But in a way it was a blessing in disquise because I have found a set of wheels that'll go better with the colour scheme of my car lol

[mjvajv]

hey brad long time mate,i need to try and get in contact with the guy that did our dash lights,he doesnt answer his phone and i need to speak to him please my number is 0409 121 019 any help would be appreciated.

thanks
john

[knucklehead]

Hey John

Been a while, Hows things? you gonna come on a cruise again anytime soon?
What number are you trying? i've got 0404 359 144
maybe jump on his website and send an email as well

[mjvajv]

hey brad sorry for the late reply but ive been really busy at work and its taking alot of my time right now,ill try that number but i dont have hes website details??i met up with grant about a month ago at krispy kremes and thats the last time ive spoken to him,hopeing to make it on a couple of events this year but everytime i want to so far something comes up.Good to hear from you and hope all is well..

p.s car looks unreal with all the mods you have done,keep it up(i havent done anything to mine except wash it hahahahaha)well done...see you and thank you.

[knucklehead]

Thanks for the compliments Mate always good to get them from someone with a Car as nice as yours. I do have a few plans that hopefully i'll be able to do soon but with most of my funds going away it does make it tough lol......Be glad you've been able to wash yours haha i've been working so often nowdays trying to save for my wedding and house that i think its been about 2 months since i last washed it lol

His website is: http://www.asr-audio.com.au/

Hope you and the family are well, hope to see you out with us again soon

Take Care

[knucklehead]

Hi Guys

So ive been wrestling with a few ideas to do the car so i jumped over to another forum where they have a guy who seems to know his stuff about photoshop and got him to mock up a couple of ideas

Here is one that caught my eye.....Whats your opinions?

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/c170e86f-2.jpg

[Vixen]

A very unique look Brad. It would certainly stand out. The only other car I've seen with this look was a photo of a Pontiac in the US with similar wheels.
I do like it. :D

[Friday13th]

I agree it just gives that lil extra zing :D

[knucklehead]

So saving for my wedding and a house unfortunately the car got a little bit neglected :stop: Please don't hurt me. But now that most of the wedding is paid for and I'm on track with a house deposit its time to put some love back into my pride and joy :)

First off will be a very VERY thorough wash (and maybe a visit to our resident detailing magician Anthony)

and next a belated Christmas present.....What do you guys think??

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/DSCN3088.jpg

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j390/knuckleheadd/DSCN3089.jpg

obviously i don't have the G8 front end but you get the idea :)
Its only something small but i find the little things are just as important and the big

[FAVSSS]

Oh the headlights.I thought you were talking about the pumpkins

[Vixen]

I LOVE it!!
That looks so good. :D

[knucklehead]

Oh the headlights.I thought you were talking about the pumpkins

No your right Anthony I was talking about the pumpkins. Just look at them they are awesome, I just wish that damn car would get out of the way so I could get a good look at them :p

[NatesV8]

Excuse me while I go change my shorts.

This is one sexy looking machine. Top job!

[GKW]

They'll look real good Brad. I like!

[Likwid]

on of my buddies just installed halos on his and they look awesome in person, he also matched the inside of the headlights to the car's paint color. here are some (crappy) pictures...

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f360/fhj178/482d044a-87ae-96f1.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f360/fhj178/482d044a-87be-adef.jpg

[DAZ]

They look real good