<\/span>The guys at Melbourne\u2019s C&A Auto Fashion do loads of late-model LS-powered Commodores, and John Hondrakis\u2019s VE Commodore, G8PSI, is one of their most extreme customer builds. The original 6.0-litre has been ditched in favour of a built 427ci LSX block, which Con and the guys at C&A have boosted with a big Garrett GTX55 turbo. On 20psi boost, the car comfortably put down over 1000rwhp on the chassis dyno.<\/p>\nBacking up the turbo LS donk is a three-speed TH400 gearbox with a transbrake, which sends drive to the treads via a Pro9 nine-inch diff. The car is still regularly street-driven and most of the factory interior remains intact despite the six-point rollcage inside. John even uses it to take the kids to school on the odd occasion.<\/p>\n
Calder Park was jam-packed on the evening, so John only got two passes in, but it was enough to get that eight-second timeslip. First pass saw the car gently roll off the line then come on boost hard at the 60ft marker, going through the traps for a 9.7@160mph. For the second pass \u2013 still launching soft off the transbrake\u2013 the car came on boost earlier, and John sent her through for an 8.96@164mph, making it one of the quickest street VEs in the country.<\/p>\n Street-driven single turbo LS-powered Holden VE Commodore runs eights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":8439,"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":[539,540,3607],"coauthors":[380],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ve-commodore-turbo-2-nw.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438"}],"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=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span>Last Friday was John\u2019s first night out at the track since a throttlebody issue hindered progress at his previous outing. This time, with everything sorted, he was there to run a number and crack into the eights for the first time.<\/p>\n
<\/span>There\u2019s still plenty more time to pull from the 60ft, and John is looking forward to running deeper into the eights next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"