History
Bought the car when i was 19, started playing with performance a year later and today it's a 278rwkw 780Nm pleasure cruise running 12psi of Vortech V2 SQ boost. Future plans are a Water to Air Intercooler, 3" exhaust system, then maybe up the boost a touch. Later on I'll be fitting the 18"x8" WORK MEISTER M1R's i purchased end of last year.
In the end the Work wheels that were made to fit didn't fit. The motor dropped a valve. Got rebuilt. Lunched the timing chain. Got rebuilt. Dropped a valve the next day. Got sold for $3,000. I'd spent approximately $50,000 on it in the 9 years of owning it. I should've bought an XR8 the day I got my full licence :D
Modifications
Full respray by VEREKER BRO's Kyneton, T5 Manual conversion, Dual Friction Hardcore Clutch by SUNBURY BRAKES, lightened factory flywheel, Billet Australia short shifter, PEDDERS Sportsryder suspension, DBA Gold Cross Drilled and Slotted front discs and Slotted rears, GATOR INDUCTIONS throttle body, K&N pod filter, JIM MOCK MOTORSPORT Dev5-6 engine, CNC Machined head, WOLF ECU, CAPA Performance Vortech V2 SQ supercharger kit running 12psi boost, Bosch 440CC green cap injectors, BA XR6 Turbo stainless steel fuel rail and 4bar pressure regulator, 380L/hr fuel pump, JMM headers treated by JET HOT COATINGS Castlemaine, RED BACK AUSTRALIA exhaust system, AU XR steering wheel, EL Fairlane chrome inner door handles, Kenwood sound system (no sub-woofer), Drift boost gauge, EL GT gear boot and SAAS knob.... and still original factory trim interior.
In the end it had 320rwkW 875Nm. The thing kept snapping valves and JMM had shut up shop when the engine destroyed it's timing chain and snapped a valve off for the final time.
