Cars LSV have Supercharged (F.A.O Tiler)

[A57 HSV]

Following on from Stu's recent topic, in which I made an apparently Extra-Terrestial comment about the no. of LSV S/C Monaro's I thought there was.
Having today booked my HSV in to LSV, I asked Mark.
Here are the figures:

4 x Monaro, one of which is a 6.3lt. (less than I thought)
21 x 4dr HSV (more than I thought)
Also:
2 x Ford Focus (sorry EHRob!)
1 x Golf 4Motion
1 X Honda S2000 (interesting)
12 x BMW's (various models)

So there you have it. I had no idea that there were so many S/C'd 4 drs around. Shame more of the owners don't contribute to this forum.

[stevieturbo]

I dont want to sound negative here. But if they have done so many, why did Wills car have so many problems ?

[uk hsv]

Some of the 4 door cars must be "CAPA" or import cars as I have an incomplete list of UK HSV's and there is not enough room for 21 S/C cars.......

[booster]

Stevie, I have no idea of the circumstances that led to Wills problems but it could be that he was attempting to squeeze quite a bit more power from it than the other supercharged HSV's/Holdens.


>> Edited by booster on Friday 16th December 16:23

[linden]

I forgot to tell Tom, that I have the complete list of all hsv's that have been imported into the uk.
One of the cars that we supercharged was a ute, which is producing in the region of 600 bhp from a 5.7 ls1.

We have also undertaken numerous mods to a host of various makes and models, not just hsv/monaro
I (Mark) have been modifying cars for the last 25 years, not just the hsv holden.
I built a 200 mph cosworth sierra back in 1989, maintained gt prototypes for 3 different teams over 15 years, raced my own alfa for 9 years (prepared by myself).
If any of you have doubts in my ability and require a cv or letters of satisfaction from many of my customers, just ask!
Stop knocking somebody, most of you have never met.
Thanks!

mark

[DAVE52]

Well put Mark.

[raggyman]

What 21 of them!!! Wow, thought it was only a couple. Be good to find out where they are all at.

[caspy]

Most people havent met Tony Blair, but.........

[Doug Duguid]

The point being?
or has Tony Blair got a secret S/C Monaro?

[caspy]

[quote]The point being?
or has Tony Blair got a secret S/C Monaro?[/quote]

Well if he did, we wouldnt know, or it wouldnt be a secret would it!!!!

[stevieturbo]

And if he said he owned one, would you believe him ? One thing we all know about Mr Bliar, is that he's fond of making things up.

BTW, thats not in any way a dig at LSV, just our lieing useless 2 faced PM.

[caspy]

[quote]Stevie, I have no idea of the circumstances that led to Wills problems but it could be that he was attempting to squeeze quite a bit more power from it than the other supercharged HSV's/Holdens.


If only they had know of Stu's armpit beforehand, could have saved months of development!!

[crazy of cookham]

Wow I thought for a moment I was the only 4dr HSV left in the country. Still think one day its an option.

[V8HSV]

Possibly a cracked cyclinder liner was the root cause of failure in the first instance...

[stevieturbo]

And the root cause of the cracked liner ? I was led to beleive that severe detonation could do that on the rather thin LS1 liners.

[Boosted Ls1]

stevieturbo said:

And the root cause of the cracked liner ? I was led to beleive that severe detonation could do that on the rather thin LS1 liners.

I've had first hand experience of this. An after market ecu was mapped for engine 1 and subsequently fitted to engine 2 by a third party without re-aligning trigger settings. Timing was probably out by a couple of degrees but not much more. Engine was hammered despite obvious pinking. Big bang, cracked piston, cracked liner and technically a scrap block. Lsx liners and pistons are perfect for stock applications, nice and light etc. Severe detonation for whatever reason will kill them, easily.

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