{"id":7180,"date":"2018-03-01T04:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/news\/castle-hill-exhaust-performance-vt-commodore-at-lights-out-video"},"modified":"2023-08-15T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:22:24","slug":"castle-hill-exhaust-performance-vt-commodore-at-lights-out-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/tv\/drag-racing-tv\/castle-hill-exhaust-performance-vt-commodore-at-lights-out-video","title":{"rendered":"Castle Hill Exhaust & Performance VT Commodore at Lights Out \u2013 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALE Heiler\u2019s Castle Hill Exhaust & Performance-built VT Commodore has been around the traps for a number of years now. The full-chassis race car used to run a 436ci LSX donk with all the fruit and a big single Garrett GT55 turbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span>That motor took the heavyweight VT to a PB of 7.3@194mph before it went into Nathan Farrugia\u2019s Mazda RX-3<\/a> with twin turbos. Back in 2017, Nathan claimed the quarter-mile world record for a 275 radial car, running 6.77@208mph<\/a>. So yes, that motor was a killer bit of gear. However, that left the VT engineless, so Dale stepped up to a big-block.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The big blue Commodore now rocks a 548ci Dart Big M with a Callies Magnum crank, JE pistons, GRP rods and Brodix heads, topped off by a Plazmaman billet intake manifold with 16 injectors. This time Dale has gone for twin 98mm turbos, and the result is 2400rwhp on 28psi. So far the car has seen a 7.0@207mph, and Dale expects to see sixes out of it in the near future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the workshop car; I just drive it,\u201d said Dale. \u201cThe boys at the shop do most of the work on it, and they\u2019re largely responsible for how it performs.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>We caught up with Dale at Sydney Dragway\u2019s Lights Out<\/a> event last weekend, where the car went 4.61 in the eighth-mile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dale Heiler’s seven-second radial VT Commodore race car at Lights Out Sydney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":7181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[539,540,570,726,834,2121,3711],"coauthors":[348],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vt-commodore-twin-turbo-big-block-2-nw.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}