Always loved the G8! Ditch the hood and drag wheels, fix the stance, she’ll be a beauty! I was working in GMs wind tunnel in Warren MI, finishing a shift working on a Buick. The bay doors opened up and there was a crew prepping the Holdens to come in for aero analysis. Those were awesome cars!!! This was just prior to the launch of the G8. Always hard to tell in a video how crazy the exhaust is, but it sounds pretty rowdy, and you haven’t even opened it up yet! Personally, if I had a built car with a dump option, I’d tame the exhaust a bit to make it more livable and set the dump to open at WOT or a target exhaust back pressure. Good stuff man! Cheers from Canada! 🇨🇦
Thanks! That's part of the plan to change the look of the car to suit my personal tastes of OEM+. It's not terribly loud despite the exhaust being straight piped with the turbo acting as the muffler. My old cammed G8 was at least 2-3x louder when straight piped
Love it mate, from 1 aussie to another aussie i think the G8 needs a set of simmons wheels 🤣... Also the bonnet and bumper replacement should be a standard ve bonnet and a s2 ve ss bumper(with projector headlights).. would look killer in k-pow 💪 Btw love the content 🤙
It's refereshing to see a turbo G8. Also, I might be intereseted in acquiring the hood if you are looking to get rid of it (the hood on my 206,000 mile g8 is full of rock chips).
When I got the car, it had no intake manifold and a few other things. I replaced the front main seal, but it honestly looked fine. The car did have the OG crank bolt, which had a leak, and a new oem bolt solved that. Only issue now is the turbo oil drain leaking. We will see what happens when I'm finally able to get into some boost
Always loved the G8! Ditch the hood and drag wheels, fix the stance, she’ll be a beauty!
I was working in GMs wind tunnel in Warren MI, finishing a shift working on a Buick. The bay doors opened up and there was a crew prepping the Holdens to come in for aero analysis. Those were awesome cars!!! This was just prior to the launch of the G8.
Always hard to tell in a video how crazy the exhaust is, but it sounds pretty rowdy, and you haven’t even opened it up yet! Personally, if I had a built car with a dump option, I’d tame the exhaust a bit to make it more livable and set the dump to open at WOT or a target exhaust back pressure.
Good stuff man! Cheers from Canada! 🇨🇦
Thanks! That's part of the plan to change the look of the car to suit my personal tastes of OEM+. It's not terribly loud despite the exhaust being straight piped with the turbo acting as the muffler. My old cammed G8 was at least 2-3x louder when straight piped
@@Garagetopics lol, nice! Looking forward to where you take this one! 👍
I agree its a nicely put together car with a color to match
thanks!!
Oem tail lights would look better, those tail lights look to tuner boy for a muscle car
Give me a follow on Instagram and you will be pleasantly surprised 😎
gday mate .. looks like alot of fun with that big hairdryer.
dig the Bogan plates .. cheers from the Homeland🍻🤘
Thanks man!!
Love it mate, from 1 aussie to another aussie i think the G8 needs a set of simmons wheels 🤣...
Also the bonnet and bumper replacement should be a standard ve bonnet and a s2 ve ss bumper(with projector headlights).. would look killer in k-pow 💪
Btw love the content 🤙
Thanks for the love! And yes, spoiler alert, I have a ve hood and bumper to be installed
Ve hood.?@@Garagetopics
@@Garagetopicsohhh yeah mate💪 cant wait to see that happen 🤙
Alright more Holden content🤘😎🤘
Yes sir! Should be a whole lot more coming soon
The best way to spool a big turbo…. NOS!
U always rite 💯
It's refereshing to see a turbo G8. Also, I might be intereseted in acquiring the hood if you are looking to get rid of it (the hood on my 206,000 mile g8 is full of rock chips).
I'm selling the carbon fiber hood and the stock hood, both in perfect shape. Where are you located?
@@Garagetopics I live in Minnesota but I will be at Outback in the Midwest in Indiana.
#clubdirtyauto! Nice 2 c a gto again in this channel. You should make more contents! I’m following sinds the miata. Greetings from Belgium!
Thanks for watching from Belgium! My hope is to continue to make more videos more regularly
Would u ever sell it??
do you have the actual paint code or the RPO code
Color codes are either:
25U
WA449N
The color is called "k-pow" in Australia
@Garagetopics thanks I've got a 14 caprice ppv I've been wanting to have repainted with that color
are you going tell us how you fixed it? we all know it had a front main seal blown out. What caused that?
When I got the car, it had no intake manifold and a few other things. I replaced the front main seal, but it honestly looked fine. The car did have the OG crank bolt, which had a leak, and a new oem bolt solved that. Only issue now is the turbo oil drain leaking. We will see what happens when I'm finally able to get into some boost
@@Garagetopics Thanks
How much for the GXP bumper ?
For everything on the bumper (lights, trim, etc) I'm asking $3200 obo. Send me an instagram message if you are interested
So stupid that GXP bumper covers are worth that much.
@@lunchboxsG8 dont hate the player, hate the game