Talk me out of buying a Commodore.

[RavenLS1]

Originally Posted by t2te50

12.5 1/4 mile for 5,000K? Thats . Mate blokes on this forum with ED xr8 sprint's with stinker cams run 13 flat. 5.0L!!!!!!!!!!!
Supercharge that same motor (1 bar) and you'll run mid 10's. Mustangs are 300kg lighter and run low 9's with these kind of setups in the states.

Mate when did ED's come into this?or mustangs for that matter????13's with a cam , nice, my car's unopened, if i put a cam in and strip some weight i'll have low 11's.the fastest unopened ls1 runs 11 flat.

Originally Posted by BENT_8

Pfft...what a crock of .... from some!
The guys got enough money to buy a VX SS not a BA/F XR6T.
Yeah the Xr6T will go better with only 3K thrown at it but add that 3K to the extra 10K it'll cost him to buy in the first place and it's adding up.
He said he wants to mod it in future so as Raven said, you can get the LS1 moving for reasonable money infact if he spent the extra 13K that the XR6T would cost him modded on a VX Calais he could wack a manual behind it and have plenty left for engine mods, that solves the trans woes plus he'll have full options and lots of gadgets to play with.

As for the TE/S50 argument, i believe they are Tickford vehicles, how do they compare to a VX GTS300 by HSV?
It's hardly fair to compare a factory SS with a tickled FTE built car yeah.

And what ever happened to the old saying "THERES NO SUBSTITUTE FOR DISPLACEMENT"? oh yeah they hung a ricer hairdryer off a 4.0l i6

exactly!