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### Article: The Making of a Beast: Tim Layla’s Custom Commodore VL
#### Introduction
Tim Layla and his team have created something extraordinary with their custom Commodore VL. Dubbed "The Big Unveiled," this car is a perfect blend of high performance, attention-grabbing aesthetics, and a deep respect for its origins. In this article, we’ll take you on a detailed walk-through of the car, exploring its engine, wheels, interior, and racing aspirations.
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#### The Engine: Powerhouse Under the Hood
At the heart of this Commodore lies an **APM-built 540 Cube Big Block Merlin** engine, water jacketed for serious racing. This monster engine is paired with a **1471 PSI blower**, producing a staggering **34 pounds of boost** and pumping out **2105 horsepower on the engine dyno**. The car’s intentions are clear: drag racing.
The team has plans to push this engine even further, possibly upgrading to **alloy rods** and cranking up the boost to **40 pounds**, which would bring the power output close to **2600 horsepower**. However, such a move might require switching to **titanium valves** to reduce weight in the valve train.
The engine bay is a sight to behold, with its **big carbon hat** serving as both a statement piece and a functional component that matches the car’s number plate.
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#### Custom Wheels: A Statement on Four Wheels
The wheels are where Tim Layla truly shines. Initially planning to use Simmons wheels, he decided at the last moment to go for something different. Collaborating with **GT Wheels** on the Gold Coast, they created a custom set that would complement the car’s bold styling.
The final result is a stunning combination of **Simmons barrels and lips**, with custom centers fabricated in just six weeks. The design was inspired by a stance car, giving the Commodore a unique look that balances excessive power with understated factory styling.
Underneath, the car features a **13-inch-wide wheel** setup, which is as wide as it gets for a Commodore without a full rear clip. This wide stance is supported by a **full floating rear end**, an anti-roll bar, and a track locator to manage chassis twist.
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#### Interior: A blend of Vintage Style and Modern Functionality
Inside the car, the team has preserved much of the original **SV-88 trim**, with its two-tone leather upholstery and SV stitching. The seats are wrapped in **Kirky racing seats** with harnesses, and the roll cage is tastefully hidden behind the pillars.
The steering wheel is a modern addition, as the original SV-88 model featured a smaller unit. However, the interior remains true to the car’s heritage, with flat-floored sections, custom carpeting, and electronics tucked neatly under the passenger seat.
The car’s electrical setup is state-of-the-art, with air-assist shifting to avoid manual gear changes. This ensures that even the interior feels as cutting-edge as the rest of the car.
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#### Chassis and Setup: Built for Dominance
Underneath the car lies a heavily modified chassis, strengthened during the build process to handle the immense power and torque. The rear features a **20,000 Strange diff** and full chromoly exhaust housing, along with floater axles—everything needed to dominate at the drag strip.
The team has notched the rail slightly to accommodate the wide wheel setup, and they’re confident that this car is ready to hit high six-second passes. Tim Layla’s goal is to achieve a **7.0 or even 6.99-second run** once the car is dialed in.
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#### Exterior Design: A Homage to the Past
The car’s exterior is a nod to its past, with a **doorwood blue top and dual blue bottom**, matching the original SV-88 color scheme. The bumpers and moldings are one color, while the body is another, creating a striking two-tone effect even under the car.
This attention to detail ensures that the car feels like a true homage to the **Les V8 Commodores** of old, which were known for their full-color matching style. Tim Layla’s approach respects the car’s history while pushing it into the future with modern modifications.
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#### Racing Plans and Future Goals
The team has big plans for this beast. They aim to compete in a new category for steel-bodied cars with big-block engines, blending the Pro Street era with modern drag racing technology. Cars like Adam’s Capri, with 3000 horsepower but still streetable, are paving the way for this new breed of racers.
The car will make its debut at **Motor X 2023**, where it has been a showpiece at the entrance. After that, Tim Layla plans to take it home and prepare it for drag racing, with a focus on achieving low seven-second passes.
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#### Challenges and Rewards
Building this car was no small feat. The team picked up the shell for just **$8000**, far from the $100,000 price tag of a matching-numbers example. However, they’ve given this car a new lease on life, transforming it from a forgotten project in a paddock into a showstopper.
Despite its bold modifications, the car has been well-received by enthusiasts and critics alike. Tim Layla’s philosophy is simple: “It’s your car—do what you want with it.”
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#### Conclusion
Tim Layla’s Commodore VL is more than just a car—it’s a statement of intent, a labor of love, and a testament to the creativity and skill of its builders. From its powerful engine to its custom wheels and thoughtfully preserved interior, this car is a perfect blend of old-school charm and modern performance.
As Tim Layla says, “We’ve given this car a life it wouldn’t have had otherwise.” Whether on the show circuit or the drag strip, this beast is ready to make its mark. Stay tuned for when it hits the track—it’s going to be one wild ride!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthank you motor X 2023 Tim Layla excessive the VL big unveiled someone else mate yep big unveiled big on Veil high impact high impact I'm kind of speeches mate I do love VLS not being biased there or anything like that what we want to do with Tim we've got Timmy we might take a bit of a walk around the car what do you reckon you can let us know a little bit of info about the you know the engine package it's very serious yeah yeah and the wheels and all the other stuff sounds good yeah cool I'll flip this around so come to your mind take us for a bit of a walk awesome so so up front here we've got the APM built 540 Cube Big Block Merlin four block water water jacketed so we can go racing do drag and drive um that was always the intention with this uh 1471 PSI blower making about 34 pounder boost to pump out 2105 horsepower on the engine Dyno um the big the big carbon hat that's sort of a bit of a bit of a statement piece um no other reason except for we wanted to do it we've got to do these things and it matches the number plate too because it does it's all pretty excessive exactly right yeah as I said it made 2 000 horsepower on the engine Dyno at APM there we want to drag race it we want to go a lot a high six second low seven second pass in this car we've got the power there it's still still Rod still so we've still got a little bit up Our Sleeve so if we want to we can put an alloy rod in this car in this motor crank it up to 40 pounder boost we should say 2600 might have to move to a titanium valve to do it just get a bit of weight out of that valve train but if we want to we've sort of got a little bit there to move to make it a little more serious what I think is really cool is the fact that people might think this is a show car while it is at the moment you do intend on really racing this absolutely like this car has been tacked the cage was inspected during the build to make sure that we could run the times that we want to run in this car so yeah with the car has been built like we can move around to the underside of the car you can see the chassis strengthening that we've done in order to get this car to where it should be to do the times what we wanted to do do you have an idea what sort of time you want to run and awesome well let's let's maybe what sort of uh drag stuff you want to race in any sort of brackets or yeah there's a the new category that um Tristan ockers and um uh Kreiger have sort of come up with uh steel bodied cars uh they've also a big Cube engine yeah a big Cube yeah both those boys so it's sort of evolved from that Pro Street era moving into a more serious drag level and I think that's that's a really practical category these days that's what a lot of these cars have evolved into you know we're just speaking about Adam's Capri up the top there 3000 horsepower but it's still a steel bodied car where do you take those cars they're not pro mods they're nearly making the same power what do you do with them so I think this new category indexed at I think 690 yep I think it's it's going to be great for cars like this yeah wonderful I'm sure you you really can't wait to get in and thrash it and absolutely you know I'm not so dirty enough but give it some stuff yeah yeah yeah like so far we haven't started the car a lot of people have asked what it sounds like this or that on the engine Dyno it sounded insane we were actually blocking our ears from the blower wine but um you know we wanted to keep the engine bay the paint really good for this show and after this we uh we take it into full drag mode yeah awesome we might move around and just check out some of the wheels like the combo and wheels of this is absolutely insane yeah I think I think they really set this car off I think that we originally built the car around a set of uh Simmons uh we got six weeks out from summernats and I went I don't want to unveil a car with Simmons on it we've gone to what we had to the effort that we had with the car and I just wanted something a little different so we contacted GT wheels up on the Gold Coast and basically said can we do it in the time frame and he said absolutely not and hinchi actually came up with the idea of can we send you a set of Simmons barrels and lips and you build the wheels inside of them because the car was built around the Simmons it's really interesting oh yeah so in six weeks we had the custom centers made bolded together and uh yeah this is this is the package of wheels that we have today we actually we actually looked and got the design off a stance car yeah wow saw a picture of a stance car where like that is a killer wheel that would suit the car and yeah and the car at the end has got a really individual look like it does yeah it was it's interesting everyone always says it's not overdone and you look at the car and you think how can people say it's not overdone you know you got the you got a 2 000 horsepower big block a 13 inch wire Wide Tire under the car but I think keeping the factory styling with the uh with the color factory color the the trim inside still trimmed in sv-88 styling yeah I think it sort of tones down the really excessive parts of the car and maybe the number plate the part that matches is like um you'll love this it's actually a genuine sv80a it is actually absolutely but you know what it's your car I love it when people do this you do what you want with it yeah yeah absolutely but like in all fairness J bends we picked this car up out of a paddock um it was a bear shell yeah it had still had Trim in it but it didn't have a motor it wasn't a matching numbers car you know like I'm it's not like I started with an Immaculate example we uh we we got we got what we had and I went this is what I want to do with it and it was an 8 000 shell when I bought it we're not talking I didn't pay a hundred thousand dollars like that worth now I paid eight grand for the show and the great thing is is that you've actually given the car a life again that it would not have had absolutely that car was going to waste in that Paddock so yeah I mean there's enthusiasts out there that don't don't like what I did with the car but that everyone's got different tastes exactly exactly to me it's your car mate let's maybe walk across here and have a look at some of the trim yup tell us a little bit about the interior and some of the the audience behind that design okay so that basically without the cookies that is an sv-88 trim that that's the color of leather that's the two-tone uh even down to the SV stitching in it that is exactly how an sv-88 trim was we've obviously added the race spec Kirky seats to it harnesses roll cage in there tried to hide the roll cage as much as we could in behind the pillars Eminem shifter we're gonna have air assist shifting so we don't have to grab gears um yeah but uh walking style steering wheel that's probably the only thing that we didn't get to was sv88's came out with a walkie wheel but was colored blue we've still got it in the walkie black but I mean other than that the trim is the carpets the same color it's all flat floored in there um you know the floor pan is completely different all the electronics are under the passenger seat there which there are a lot of electronics on this car so it's basically an air fire style car computer-controlled car with mechanical fuel so we have all the data on this car for when we go racing how good yeah we got pulled over there I'm sure people would love to know fit in this big of a wheel under the back but still having the capacity to be able to go drag racing in the other you know yeah so we we've notched the rail slightly it's got a 13 inch wide wheel on it um Aaron that's going to help us set this car up and drag race it always tells me it hasn't got enough Tire under it 13 inch is pretty big for a Commodore without putting a full rear clip in the car that was as big as we could go got an anti-roll bar there to help us with chassis twist uh you've got the track locator instead of panard bar so it's got It's got a full floating rear end in it so full drag racing spec rear end that's a 20 000 strange diff under there yeah um it's it's ready it's ready to go yeah awesome we'll come around the back here we might talk a little bit because what people you see on the outside if you look underneath yep which you'll see here and you're also seen some of the b-roll that it is very worked yeah yeah like the you know as far as we go with custom custom Fab um you know set up for drag racing it's got everything we need it's it's going to perform the way we want it to we've got the exhaust all the way through um you know we want to do a lot of things with this car and at some point I'll skate it we want to try and get rid of as much of those gases from underneath um try not to have fires so got the exhaust all the way through yeah everything's fabbed up under there um full chromoly deaf housing as I said floater axles it's ready to go could you know that this car was an sv-88 when you got it yeah I did but I didn't actually know what an se88 was yeah yeah my mate that sold it to me was like yeah they got walking Trim in it that was the part that uh that attracted me that they had walking through we want to stick around this side and that's what I was going to ask you about the paint it was never going any other color other than this no so this this is the original se88 color we've got a doorwood blue on top dual blue down the bottom everything that bolts onto the car your bumpers um all your Calais molds they're all one color the body is another color and because of that you can see under the car we've got the the one color here and the separate color of the so you've got two-tone even underneath the car because the body's one color and the seals are different you know so um but yeah it was never going any other color Joe events like that's you know it's the homage to the sv-88 yeah I think uh Les and se88s were the only full color match style card that came out from Holden in those that era so it's pretty cool you know like they're they're they were the upper echelon very very cool have you had a chance to drive the car like on this you know no we haven't even started as I mentioned um you know we've got four inch exhaust there a lot of painted surfaces on this car um until we got it through motor X we never in we never planned on this car to be a show car as long as it has been but I think it was so well received of a job man that was well I just think it was so well received that uh you know we wanted to give it a bit more time um and I really think that once we start racing this car a lot of things will happen to a little Transformer it's going to get stone chips on it it's you know it's not going to be a show car anymore very common though in this in this scene that you know do the show scene maybe a year and a half and then really race it yeah you know yep yeah so uh motor X was the goal for us get it down here um show it here then we get it back home we've got a Cohen Pro Mod style T400 for it that was four months late so we we plan on having a go on four summernats Once the Box solo didn't show up that sort of ruined those plans we've got the box now got a converter on its way we'll get it going in the next two to three months yeah too good if you want to uh check out Timmy's car you can check out the show scene for a little bit longer I wouldn't say heaps longer maybe a bit more yep and basically it's a showpiece here right at the entrance here at motor X mate well done for the build on the car and we love seeing at the shows thanks everybody good luck racing thank you very much check it out when it's on the Circa there pumping times what sort of time you reckon uh 7-0 we'll go 7-07. that'd be a cheeky 6.99 yeah yeah somewhere in there so good all right thanks for watching thanks thank you foreignthank you motor X 2023 Tim Layla excessive the VL big unveiled someone else mate yep big unveiled big on Veil high impact high impact I'm kind of speeches mate I do love VLS not being biased there or anything like that what we want to do with Tim we've got Timmy we might take a bit of a walk around the car what do you reckon you can let us know a little bit of info about the you know the engine package it's very serious yeah yeah and the wheels and all the other stuff sounds good yeah cool I'll flip this around so come to your mind take us for a bit of a walk awesome so so up front here we've got the APM built 540 Cube Big Block Merlin four block water water jacketed so we can go racing do drag and drive um that was always the intention with this uh 1471 PSI blower making about 34 pounder boost to pump out 2105 horsepower on the engine Dyno um the big the big carbon hat that's sort of a bit of a bit of a statement piece um no other reason except for we wanted to do it we've got to do these things and it matches the number plate too because it does it's all pretty excessive exactly right yeah as I said it made 2 000 horsepower on the engine Dyno at APM there we want to drag race it we want to go a lot a high six second low seven second pass in this car we've got the power there it's still still Rod still so we've still got a little bit up Our Sleeve so if we want to we can put an alloy rod in this car in this motor crank it up to 40 pounder boost we should say 2600 might have to move to a titanium valve to do it just get a bit of weight out of that valve train but if we want to we've sort of got a little bit there to move to make it a little more serious what I think is really cool is the fact that people might think this is a show car while it is at the moment you do intend on really racing this absolutely like this car has been tacked the cage was inspected during the build to make sure that we could run the times that we want to run in this car so yeah with the car has been built like we can move around to the underside of the car you can see the chassis strengthening that we've done in order to get this car to where it should be to do the times what we wanted to do do you have an idea what sort of time you want to run and awesome well let's let's maybe what sort of uh drag stuff you want to race in any sort of brackets or yeah there's a the new category that um Tristan ockers and um uh Kreiger have sort of come up with uh steel bodied cars uh they've also a big Cube engine yeah a big Cube yeah both those boys so it's sort of evolved from that Pro Street era moving into a more serious drag level and I think that's that's a really practical category these days that's what a lot of these cars have evolved into you know we're just speaking about Adam's Capri up the top there 3000 horsepower but it's still a steel bodied car where do you take those cars they're not pro mods they're nearly making the same power what do you do with them so I think this new category indexed at I think 690 yep I think it's it's going to be great for cars like this yeah wonderful I'm sure you you really can't wait to get in and thrash it and absolutely you know I'm not so dirty enough but give it some stuff yeah yeah yeah like so far we haven't started the car a lot of people have asked what it sounds like this or that on the engine Dyno it sounded insane we were actually blocking our ears from the blower wine but um you know we wanted to keep the engine bay the paint really good for this show and after this we uh we take it into full drag mode yeah awesome we might move around and just check out some of the wheels like the combo and wheels of this is absolutely insane yeah I think I think they really set this car off I think that we originally built the car around a set of uh Simmons uh we got six weeks out from summernats and I went I don't want to unveil a car with Simmons on it we've gone to what we had to the effort that we had with the car and I just wanted something a little different so we contacted GT wheels up on the Gold Coast and basically said can we do it in the time frame and he said absolutely not and hinchi actually came up with the idea of can we send you a set of Simmons barrels and lips and you build the wheels inside of them because the car was built around the Simmons it's really interesting oh yeah so in six weeks we had the custom centers made bolded together and uh yeah this is this is the package of wheels that we have today we actually we actually looked and got the design off a stance car yeah wow saw a picture of a stance car where like that is a killer wheel that would suit the car and yeah and the car at the end has got a really individual look like it does yeah it was it's interesting everyone always says it's not overdone and you look at the car and you think how can people say it's not overdone you know you got the you got a 2 000 horsepower big block a 13 inch wire Wide Tire under the car but I think keeping the factory styling with the uh with the color factory color the the trim inside still trimmed in sv-88 styling yeah I think it sort of tones down the really excessive parts of the car and maybe the number plate the part that matches is like um you'll love this it's actually a genuine sv80a it is actually absolutely but you know what it's your car I love it when people do this you do what you want with it yeah yeah absolutely but like in all fairness J bends we picked this car up out of a paddock um it was a bear shell yeah it had still had Trim in it but it didn't have a motor it wasn't a matching numbers car you know like I'm it's not like I started with an Immaculate example we uh we we got we got what we had and I went this is what I want to do with it and it was an 8 000 shell when I bought it we're not talking I didn't pay a hundred thousand dollars like that worth now I paid eight grand for the show and the great thing is is that you've actually given the car a life again that it would not have had absolutely that car was going to waste in that Paddock so yeah I mean there's enthusiasts out there that don't don't like what I did with the car but that everyone's got different tastes exactly exactly to me it's your car mate let's maybe walk across here and have a look at some of the trim yup tell us a little bit about the interior and some of the the audience behind that design okay so that basically without the cookies that is an sv-88 trim that that's the color of leather that's the two-tone uh even down to the SV stitching in it that is exactly how an sv-88 trim was we've obviously added the race spec Kirky seats to it harnesses roll cage in there tried to hide the roll cage as much as we could in behind the pillars Eminem shifter we're gonna have air assist shifting so we don't have to grab gears um yeah but uh walking style steering wheel that's probably the only thing that we didn't get to was sv88's came out with a walkie wheel but was colored blue we've still got it in the walkie black but I mean other than that the trim is the carpets the same color it's all flat floored in there um you know the floor pan is completely different all the electronics are under the passenger seat there which there are a lot of electronics on this car so it's basically an air fire style car computer-controlled car with mechanical fuel so we have all the data on this car for when we go racing how good yeah we got pulled over there I'm sure people would love to know fit in this big of a wheel under the back but still having the capacity to be able to go drag racing in the other you know yeah so we we've notched the rail slightly it's got a 13 inch wide wheel on it um Aaron that's going to help us set this car up and drag race it always tells me it hasn't got enough Tire under it 13 inch is pretty big for a Commodore without putting a full rear clip in the car that was as big as we could go got an anti-roll bar there to help us with chassis twist uh you've got the track locator instead of panard bar so it's got It's got a full floating rear end in it so full drag racing spec rear end that's a 20 000 strange diff under there yeah um it's it's ready it's ready to go yeah awesome we'll come around the back here we might talk a little bit because what people you see on the outside if you look underneath yep which you'll see here and you're also seen some of the b-roll that it is very worked yeah yeah like the you know as far as we go with custom custom Fab um you know set up for drag racing it's got everything we need it's it's going to perform the way we want it to we've got the exhaust all the way through um you know we want to do a lot of things with this car and at some point I'll skate it we want to try and get rid of as much of those gases from underneath um try not to have fires so got the exhaust all the way through yeah everything's fabbed up under there um full chromoly deaf housing as I said floater axles it's ready to go could you know that this car was an sv-88 when you got it yeah I did but I didn't actually know what an se88 was yeah yeah my mate that sold it to me was like yeah they got walking Trim in it that was the part that uh that attracted me that they had walking through we want to stick around this side and that's what I was going to ask you about the paint it was never going any other color other than this no so this this is the original se88 color we've got a doorwood blue on top dual blue down the bottom everything that bolts onto the car your bumpers um all your Calais molds they're all one color the body is another color and because of that you can see under the car we've got the the one color here and the separate color of the so you've got two-tone even underneath the car because the body's one color and the seals are different you know so um but yeah it was never going any other color Joe events like that's you know it's the homage to the sv-88 yeah I think uh Les and se88s were the only full color match style card that came out from Holden in those that era so it's pretty cool you know like they're they're they were the upper echelon very very cool have you had a chance to drive the car like on this you know no we haven't even started as I mentioned um you know we've got four inch exhaust there a lot of painted surfaces on this car um until we got it through motor X we never in we never planned on this car to be a show car as long as it has been but I think it was so well received of a job man that was well I just think it was so well received that uh you know we wanted to give it a bit more time um and I really think that once we start racing this car a lot of things will happen to a little Transformer it's going to get stone chips on it it's you know it's not going to be a show car anymore very common though in this in this scene that you know do the show scene maybe a year and a half and then really race it yeah you know yep yeah so uh motor X was the goal for us get it down here um show it here then we get it back home we've got a Cohen Pro Mod style T400 for it that was four months late so we we plan on having a go on four summernats Once the Box solo didn't show up that sort of ruined those plans we've got the box now got a converter on its way we'll get it going in the next two to three months yeah too good if you want to uh check out Timmy's car you can check out the show scene for a little bit longer I wouldn't say heaps longer maybe a bit more yep and basically it's a showpiece here right at the entrance here at motor X mate well done for the build on the car and we love seeing at the shows thanks everybody good luck racing thank you very much check it out when it's on the Circa there pumping times what sort of time you reckon uh 7-0 we'll go 7-07. that'd be a cheeky 6.99 yeah yeah somewhere in there so good all right thanks for watching thanks thank you foreignthank you motor X 2023 Tim Layla excessive the VL big unveiled someone else mate yep big unveiled big on Veil high impact high impact I'm kind of speeches mate I do love VLS not being biased there or anything like that what we want to do with Tim we've got Timmy we might take a bit of a walk around the car what do you reckon you can let us know a little bit of info about the you know the engine package it's very serious yeah yeah and the wheels and all the other stuff sounds good yeah cool I'll flip this around so come to your mind take us for a bit of a walk awesome so so up front here we've got the APM built 540 Cube Big Block Merlin four block water water jacketed so we can go racing do drag and drive um that was always the intention with this uh 1471 PSI blower making about 34 pounder boost to pump out 2105 horsepower on the engine Dyno um the big the big carbon hat that's sort of a bit of a bit of a statement piece um no other reason except for we wanted to do it we've got to do these things and it matches the number plate too because it does it's all pretty excessive exactly right yeah as I said it made 2 000 horsepower on the engine Dyno at APM there we want to drag race it we want to go a lot a high six second low seven second pass in this car we've got the power there it's still still Rod still so we've still got a little bit up Our Sleeve so if we want to we can put an alloy rod in this car in this motor crank it up to 40 pounder boost we should say 2600 might have to move to a titanium valve to do it just get a bit of weight out of that valve train but if we want to we've sort of got a little bit there to move to make it a little more serious what I think is really cool is the fact that people might think this is a show car while it is at the moment you do intend on really racing this absolutely like this car has been tacked the cage was inspected during the build to make sure that we could run the times that we want to run in this car so yeah with the car has been built like we can move around to the underside of the car you can see the chassis strengthening that we've done in order to get this car to where it should be to do the times what we wanted to do do you have an idea what sort of time you want to run and awesome well let's let's maybe what sort of uh drag stuff you want to race in any sort of brackets or yeah there's a the new category that um Tristan ockers and um uh Kreiger have sort of come up with uh steel bodied cars uh they've also a big Cube engine yeah a big Cube yeah both those boys so it's sort of evolved from that Pro Street era moving into a more serious drag level and I think that's that's a really practical category these days that's what a lot of these cars have evolved into you know we're just speaking about Adam's Capri up the top there 3000 horsepower but it's still a steel bodied car where do you take those cars they're not pro mods they're nearly making the same power what do you do with them so I think this new category indexed at I think 690 yep I think it's it's going to be great for cars like this yeah wonderful I'm sure you you really can't wait to get in and thrash it and absolutely you know I'm not so dirty enough but give it some stuff yeah yeah yeah like so far we haven't started the car a lot of people have asked what it sounds like this or that on the engine Dyno it sounded insane we were actually blocking our ears from the blower wine but um you know we wanted to keep the engine bay the paint really good for this show and after this we uh we take it into full drag mode yeah awesome we might move around and just check out some of the wheels like the combo and wheels of this is absolutely insane yeah I think I think they really set this car off I think that we originally built the car around a set of uh Simmons uh we got six weeks out from summernats and I went I don't want to unveil a car with Simmons on it we've gone to what we had to the effort that we had with the car and I just wanted something a little different so we contacted GT wheels up on the Gold Coast and basically said can we do it in the time frame and he said absolutely not and hinchi actually came up with the idea of can we send you a set of Simmons barrels and lips and you build the wheels inside of them because the car was built around the Simmons it's really interesting oh yeah so in six weeks we had the custom centers made bolded together and uh yeah this is this is the package of wheels that we have today we actually we actually looked and got the design off a stance car yeah wow saw a picture of a stance car where like that is a killer wheel that would suit the car and yeah and the car at the end has got a really individual look like it does yeah it was it's interesting everyone always says it's not overdone and you look at the car and you think how can people say it's not overdone you know you got the you got a 2 000 horsepower big block a 13 inch wire Wide Tire under the car but I think keeping the factory styling with the uh with the color factory color the the trim inside still trimmed in sv-88 styling yeah I think it sort of tones down the really excessive parts of the car and maybe the number plate the part that matches is like um you'll love this it's actually a genuine sv80a it is actually absolutely but you know what it's your car I love it when people do this you do what you want with it yeah yeah absolutely but like in all fairness J bends we picked this car up out of a paddock um it was a bear shell yeah it had still had Trim in it but it didn't have a motor it wasn't a matching numbers car you know like I'm it's not like I started with an Immaculate example we uh we we got we got what we had and I went this is what I want to do with it and it was an 8 000 shell when I bought it we're not talking I didn't pay a hundred thousand dollars like that worth now I paid eight grand for the show and the great thing is is that you've actually given the car a life again that it would not have had absolutely that car was going to waste in that Paddock so yeah I mean there's enthusiasts out there that don't don't like what I did with the car but that everyone's got different tastes exactly exactly to me it's your car mate let's maybe walk across here and have a look at some of the trim yup tell us a little bit about the interior and some of the the audience behind that design okay so that basically without the cookies that is an sv-88 trim that that's the color of leather that's the two-tone uh even down to the SV stitching in it that is exactly how an sv-88 trim was we've obviously added the race spec Kirky seats to it harnesses roll cage in there tried to hide the roll cage as much as we could in behind the pillars Eminem shifter we're gonna have air assist shifting so we don't have to grab gears um yeah but uh walking style steering wheel that's probably the only thing that we didn't get to was sv88's came out with a walkie wheel but was colored blue we've still got it in the walkie black but I mean other than that the trim is the carpets the same color it's all flat floored in there um you know the floor pan is completely different all the electronics are under the passenger seat there which there are a lot of electronics on this car so it's basically an air fire style car computer-controlled car with mechanical fuel so we have all the data on this car for when we go racing how good yeah we got pulled over there I'm sure people would love to know fit in this big of a wheel under the back but still having the capacity to be able to go drag racing in the other you know yeah so we we've notched the rail slightly it's got a 13 inch wide wheel on it um Aaron that's going to help us set this car up and drag race it always tells me it hasn't got enough Tire under it 13 inch is pretty big for a Commodore without putting a full rear clip in the car that was as big as we could go got an anti-roll bar there to help us with chassis twist uh you've got the track locator instead of panard bar so it's got It's got a full floating rear end in it so full drag racing spec rear end that's a 20 000 strange diff under there yeah um it's it's ready it's ready to go yeah awesome we'll come around the back here we might talk a little bit because what people you see on the outside if you look underneath yep which you'll see here and you're also seen some of the b-roll that it is very worked yeah yeah like the you know as far as we go with custom custom Fab um you know set up for drag racing it's got everything we need it's it's going to perform the way we want it to we've got the exhaust all the way through um you know we want to do a lot of things with this car and at some point I'll skate it we want to try and get rid of as much of those gases from underneath um try not to have fires so got the exhaust all the way through yeah everything's fabbed up under there um full chromoly deaf housing as I said floater axles it's ready to go could you know that this car was an sv-88 when you got it yeah I did but I didn't actually know what an se88 was yeah yeah my mate that sold it to me was like yeah they got walking Trim in it that was the part that uh that attracted me that they had walking through we want to stick around this side and that's what I was going to ask you about the paint it was never going any other color other than this no so this this is the original se88 color we've got a doorwood blue on top dual blue down the bottom everything that bolts onto the car your bumpers um all your Calais molds they're all one color the body is another color and because of that you can see under the car we've got the the one color here and the separate color of the so you've got two-tone even underneath the car because the body's one color and the seals are different you know so um but yeah it was never going any other color Joe events like that's you know it's the homage to the sv-88 yeah I think uh Les and se88s were the only full color match style card that came out from Holden in those that era so it's pretty cool you know like they're they're they were the upper echelon very very cool have you had a chance to drive the car like on this you know no we haven't even started as I mentioned um you know we've got four inch exhaust there a lot of painted surfaces on this car um until we got it through motor X we never in we never planned on this car to be a show car as long as it has been but I think it was so well received of a job man that was well I just think it was so well received that uh you know we wanted to give it a bit more time um and I really think that once we start racing this car a lot of things will happen to a little Transformer it's going to get stone chips on it it's you know it's not going to be a show car anymore very common though in this in this scene that you know do the show scene maybe a year and a half and then really race it yeah you know yep yeah so uh motor X was the goal for us get it down here um show it here then we get it back home we've got a Cohen Pro Mod style T400 for it that was four months late so we we plan on having a go on four summernats Once the Box solo didn't show up that sort of ruined those plans we've got the box now got a converter on its way we'll get it going in the next two to three months yeah too good if you want to uh check out Timmy's car you can check out the show scene for a little bit longer I wouldn't say heaps longer maybe a bit more yep and basically it's a showpiece here right at the entrance here at motor X mate well done for the build on the car and we love seeing at the shows thanks everybody good luck racing thank you very much check it out when it's on the Circa there pumping times what sort of time you reckon uh 7-0 we'll go 7-07. that'd be a cheeky 6.99 yeah yeah somewhere in there so good all right thanks for watching thanks thank you foreign\n"