Holden SS beater-wagon, my not so sensible daily drifter

[TeckniX]

finaaaaaaallly, For those plasying at home the first car has been in the build for 5 years and hasn't moved. We are all betting when it will be parted out....

I've got one like that, not the car, but a 6+yrs build that's just sitting. Parting out sometimes does give you more $$

[Beater_K]

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[Beater_K]

1. i like where this is going
2. i love the concept of the wagon
3. are you willing to ship parts from the good ol AUS to the USA????
P.S. my gto would love you for it

cheers buddy!
Umm ive got mates that might be able to help you out, what sort of stuff are you after?
Always see the yanks going crazy over our oem stuff on US cars on instagram and whatnot :P

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[Beater_K]

Great story yet again of your sort of progress.

That last pic is funny and yet so cool imho.

thanks mate, this car is always 1 step back 2 forward, breaking shit seems to motivate me hahah
And yeah I enjoy that shot, one of my mates caught the whole sequence, my ex girlfriend also got covered in dirt haha which wasnt such a bad thing but my interior is a sandpit currently :/

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[mullet]

1. i like where this is going
2. i love the concept of the wagon
3. are you willing to ship parts from the good ol AUS to the USA????
P.S. my gto would love you for it

[Beater_K]

nice omega

Poverty pic for my model was actually called the "executive" lol, which I probably should have bought for my daily duties because they had the boring l36 gm 3.8 v6 and 4l60e slushbox haha
But this is so much more fun


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[Suburuuh]

Great story yet again of your sort of progress.

That last pic is funny and yet so cool imho.

[Beater_K]

Update time
Ok so after the last drift day, my suspension felt a little funny, pulled to the left yada yada, so went down to see my long time suspension guru.
Just so happened to be a stock wagon in the car park

Anyway, as soon as we pulled the wheel off it was pretty clear to see what went down lol.
Due to a number of variables, my front coilover springs not being captive, which caused my cambertop to spin when I hopped a ripple strip, which caused me to get spastic castor, which gave me more lock, which resulted in my rack end becoming my new lock stop...
End result? A bent rack end a slightly lighter oem wheel haha

So fixed that, gave it yet another wheel alignment and went on my way.
Earlier that day I had also picked up some hsv spec brakes that I found dirt cheap and also came with some suspension I could sell to make it even cheaper

Now the growing problem was what brakes did I want to use

..yeah.. I kinda have a problem
Brakes and wheels are sort of my weakness.
Anyway, all 3 fronts are 330mm with the pbr and hsv brakes being 2 pot and the k sport being 8 piston, while the hsv and pbr also have matching 315mm single piston rears aswell whereas the ksports are just a pair.
K sports were sposed to be for my other car but its looking like thats going to be parted out to fund the wagon now haha
New problem was, that since it was sitting a little lower it was scrubbing wheel lip on guard again, which resulted in this..

Woo for custom self machining lips... -_-
So got together with a mate and set about butchering my guards haha

Removed bar screws to trim for clearance

You can see the rubber mist here where its was scrubbing and also the clearanced bar and tub liner before I tidied it up

The cut out lip (it's hard to take pics inside a wheel arch :p)

Why holden decided 3 layer guard lips was a good idea is beyond me, no wonder they were such a bitch to roll.

And here is the off cut, my wheel was making sweet sweet love to it

After all our hard work we jumped in the car and cruised to the coast for a feed.
Couldnt resist taking photos of it, even though it was mega mega dirty



will be getting a major service and some tlc this weekend and a new diff consisting of a truetrac detroit locker with 3.9 fd gears ready for my birthday night drifts where ill hopefully be doing more of this
And a little less of this :P
so stay tuned

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[Beater_K]

Forgot to upload these photos last week


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[Beater_K]

I wonder what the police will drive after this lol?? Holden Cruze? lol

Nice car dude, I'm not into Holdens that much, I was when i was younger. Only thing that would bug me is that rear not being lined up perfectly :|

What do you mean mate?

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[Evilist]

I wonder what the police will drive after this lol?? Holden Cruze? lol

Nice car dude, I'm not into Holdens that much, I was when i was younger. Only thing that would bug me is that rear not being lined up perfectly :|

[am4nf]

nice omega

[Beater_K]

I do want to visit Australia once again, want to ride from east to west.

There are some.great places to see here


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[Suburuuh]

The replacements sounds great, but not so Aussie typical.

You've got a nice speciment of a sleeper imho.
And when I visited Australia some few years back, I layed my eyes on every sporty Holden I would see.
I've been to Brisbane, looked around for 3 days. Then I made a 15 days roadtrip to Cairns.
Took a plane to Sidney and stayed for 3 days. Took another flight back to Brisbane and went back home.
I do want to visit Australia once again, want to ride from east to west.

[Beater_K]

Looks like a lot of fun .... with a family wagon!
Too bad we don't have those cars here and more sadly, they gonna stop making them.

Was so much fun, dumbest grin on my face all night, a few people were pretty into seeing a wagon come blazing around the track haha

Yeah sucks the commodore wont be made here anymore, but we may get camaros, vettes, chargers and other GM cars that we never got. I think the mustang is coming in late 2015 too lol

My wagon was only a limited run, I think they made a 1000 all up with only 350 black ones. Makes it a little special to me apart from all the utes (sports truck? Haha) and sedans.