600HP Holden Commodore VL Turbo - An Aussie Icon with Nissan's LEGENDARY RB30 | CAR REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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In this episode, I share with you my insane experience vlogging and reviewing this pristine Holden Commodore VL Turbo. An exceptional example of a classic Australian icon that is very finely tuned in all characteristics and makes for of an extremely unique driving experience. Find out what I think of this car in the video!
Huge thank you to the owner Sash for letting me drive his pride and joy. Please go over to the link and check out his car in full detail!
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I miss my old vl turbo manual 😣 when i watch video's like this !
Why did you sell it.
Are you clinically insane. Please go see a psychologist and tell them you sold a VL Turbo. They will give you drugs straight away for depression.
Same. Pretty sure I remember this one from like 18 years ago on the calaisturbo forums
thats so sick
back 15 years ago my dad used to have one and he did a burnout in it and there was so much smoke the firefighters came
@@EnVyRe4per lit bro
AHHHH CANARY YELLOO FULLY HECTIC
CheekySweetroll who hear remembers when The boys in blue would defect your car with mods, And put sticker a yellow sticker on till you took it the the pits. We affectionately called that sticker a Canary cause of its colour.
Vl Turbo for life
PPPPPPPHHUTUTUTUTU
@@CL0WN Siutututututu
@@adambarnes3730 for for real
It's a 34 year old car that has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. Has very tidy engine bay great engine internal upgrages & turbo headrests aren't vl great car all round congrats to the owner.
@@upthecartel8725 i guess you are pretty closed minded 🤣
The dash when he floors it 😂
hahaha
Can never restore a old broken dash
Canary yellow VL, Simmons FR-1 rims, screamer pipe, mad turbo doses, 5 speed 👌🏻
Yeah so period correct with those wheels ay.
Classic!🤤
@@Clarky_AU I dont think anybody in their right mind would put 20 inch mags on a car in the late 80's, would look minter with 17 inch Simmons
I bought my VL Turbo back in 1994, 5 speed manual. I lost my license one to many to times, in that thing. Loved it though. Cops didn’t like P platers driving them, if I had a mate in the car I’d find myself on the side of the road, but when I had my Girl in the car they would leave me alone. The good old days👍🏻😎
ahh...yeah, nothing like getting harassed by law enforcement for the smallest, dumbest reasons like the kind of car you drive or the people in it. a good ol trip down memory cage.. I mean lane.
you've got a good outlook m8, sorry to hear you had to deal with those pricks for having a bit of fun
@@WhuDhat absolutely, I also got pulled over for having one many times for no reason.
Fantastic build! I love that the owner kept it as a street car rather than just another dedicated drag car being trailered around to tracks.
Id love to see some VN group A SS this clean and going like its brand new, these aussie sleepers are so unique
Very nice 👍
I purchased a factory white VL Calais turbo 5 speed manual with electric roof (yes manual) with 8k on the clock in 1990 for 13k from a grandpa that couldn’t drive it properly
I still have it in mint with 36k on the clock
The only thing done was bigger turbo and brakes upgrade
I
Apple Muffin factory manual calais??!?!,?!?!
I really think your channel is seriously underrated. Keep up the good work!
Really appreciate the kind words! Thank you brother.
Love them VL turbos. Sttututututu all day long
yeah and that noise is not good for turbos.. compressor surge is not good for the turbo system
Demanded and??
@Cayleb Mladenovic ok. i know whats right and whats not.. i have turbo cars and my mechanic is not a dick head.. so dont you dare tell me it is not what i said it is.. i know im right so
Demanded your not right
@@brodie8530 and what makes you a know it all? did you finish pre school.
Loving it do more holden/ford vids. Funny seeing familiar rds.
See m8 once you dive into the Aussie cars it’s hard to get off them!😍🔥 this car is so nice I’m pretty sure I know the owner from instagram🤙 good to see you showing off this beast
@@Bondmaster007 been following Clay for a while.. some cool cars mostly JDM so nice to see him getting some aussie cars..
hardly Aussie, German chassis and Japanese engine, aka the mutt
Hey Jon ..... How they hangin'?
As fellow VLT owner, Loved this video ! Watched many times ! This is one of melbournes beast vl’s
mick oo thanks brother much appriciated
im only 14 and i have a passion for rb30's, so very soon im going to put one in my gemini :)
No u not u gonna buy a wrx 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I'm joking lol
Fun fact : heads and block cast by Nissan,built developed ,cammed and tuned by Holden in Australia, not by Nissan. Hence why Japanese engine builders love the rb30 blocks for 26/30s and came here to get them because they didn't come out in Japan, 2. Yes we can develop awesome stuff here !
Sorry mate, couldn't find any information on the RB30 block being developed by Holden, all the sources I found point out that they simply bought rights for RB30 from Nissan, who were already using these engines for their R31 Skylines and Patrols for Middle East and Africa since 1985 (a year prior to Commodore's release). The RB30ET, on the other hand, was actually partially developed by Holden, but not the block itself, only lower compression bottom end, injectors and intake manifold.
@@K-offoh you can read the brochure
RB 30 com put in the Japs r31....we stole there rb30 for the vl becos Holden didn't have a suitable engine...the comment saying they came here to get the RB 26/30🤔.got me lost mate..no we go there to get those motors from them..they prob started that combo long before us...only thing we would have done is change the tune of emission..apart from that..everything comes from Japan..we can't claim nothing
@@K-offits amazing how wrong you were😂
@@tufstato бредик не пишем 🤭
My first car was a VL dam I miss that car!!!
Aussie icon. Keep up the good work more aussie icons always good to see. More Xr6 turbos,f6s vl turbos hq monaros gt falcon , xu1 torana slr torana in the future perhaps...
Would love to do more Aussie beasts brother! They are amazing😍. Need more owners to get in touch😅
Just stumbled across this channel and 2 mins into the video hit the subscribe button!!! Great video, great content and love seeing you drive these amazing machines. Nothing like a VL turbo reminds me of cruises to do chap laps in the early 2000s. Keep this comment coming will be sure to share, jump into some old school holdens and fords too.
Melbourneeee!!!!
One of the best cars on the channel! Also one of the better videos. Glad to see the overreacting tone is somewhat gone and we can hear the car a bit more. Keep it up bro! 😎
Thank you for the constant support and ongoing feedback Philz!🙏
You deserve more views and subscribers Bro, proper automotive content 👍
Thank you so much mate!
Awesome review mate! I like your excitement and enthusiasm. My best mate owned one for years, and although pretty stock, he is a mechanic with 30 years in the trade, and it flew! Well done 👍
Greetings from Indonesian Holden lovers 😀
Much love thank you!
Hello from Australia, I hear you guys love your holdens. Which models did you get over there?
5150gino I saw on YT here that they got the HQ’s HJ’s & HZ’s,
@@5150gino Indonesia has the Holden Ute, Gemini, 4-door Torana, Lincah, Camira, Kingswood, Calais/Commodore (Only VB, VC, VH and VL, the Indonesian spec VL has an RB20E instead of the RB30E and RB30ET. The VK Calais and Commodore wasn't sold in Indonesia.), Belmont and Premier.
for people who love jdm and aussie cars this is perfect
Subscribed, great videos looking forward to more!
Love the fact there’s a baby chair as well
Awesome, just don't crash it or it'll fold like origami 😁
Nice video mate, good research as well
Dude I love your videos and style. Keep it up, you got my sub
yeah bud
simmons
My friends mum back in the day had a VL non turbo manual 5 speed. Yes they made them very uncommon.
Anyway car was great such a relaxing cruiser. Really. Can't believe they sold it.
Clay your a god brother
love the baby seat, like youd put your kid in that death trap lol excellent presentation on the video Clay and equally well presented car.
funny thing, is that i always see this exact same care cruising around hoppers. its a beutiful car and the turbo flutter is unlike any other.
That’s my favorite color vl too🤤
Clay please do more VL reviews 100%
Never been a fan of this yellow... but for some reason i really like it on this vl 👌
Forza needs to add this in
My VL sucked , had it for 9 yrs , kept blowing crank angle sensors , smooth engine they were
Yeah, very common issue. The NRMA roadside guys used to carry spares back in the day as they went through so many
Hey Clay, 1st time viewer, the yellow vl's were used by vicpol as pursuit cars, TOG or Traffic Operation Group absolutely loved them unless they had to stop or turn....🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
That's a very nice car.
The standard VL turbos were not all that fast (150kw and top speed around 220 kmh). Did vicpol give them a boost? I had two non-turbo VL Commodores as company cars, 1986 SL and a 1988 Berlina. Though not particularly quick, the 3.0L Nissan engine was beautifully flexible and nicely balanced for the car. A very nice drive.
Power has increased since those days. My 2007 Saab 9-3 Aero has a 2.8L turbo engine made by Holden to Saab specs at Fisherman's Bend. Standard spec was 184kw and 350NM. Mine's had a couple of minor mods, a chip remap to the 2008 Saab TurboX spec and a big DO88 intercooler. It's now around 220kw and 430NM and speed limited to 260kmh. Times have changed.
Sick car
yeah bud
Zutututu! Baby seat in back
Can you do a review on you're own NSX? That would be an awesome one to see or another nsx
I like the fact that I have the same car
That thing is sick asf Thanks for the review
Not one for yellow VL's but this one pop's especially with those awesome rims.
I had a VL Calais brought it two weeks before my grandmother was killed! Sadly she never saw it
Yea the VL 🤙🤙
My grandfather has a all original 1988 vl sl auto and he is giving to to me when I turn 16,when I get my full license I am going to put a nice size turbo on it and go for about 450 kilowatts
Drove many of these back in 1987-1990.
my dad used to own 1 back in the day and used it for work
I NEEEEED ITTTTTTT
The baby seat at the back 😂
Great to see one of these again. Used to love seeing them in red. Does it have an LSD?
Sherwin Rayan they came factory LSD
Thanks mate! This one has a Borg Warner Differential!🤤
Cool car, and an awesome engine. But whats up with the wheels? 20in wheels on an 80’s car just looks silly in my opinion.
Jarle Finkenhagen 💯 bro
needs some convos
Naaa, Clay said they're period correct.
I didn`t mean the wheel design, just the sizing. 20in is way oversize:)
Jarle Finkenhagen yeah 17s were usually the biggest size you would go in the 80’s/90’s
Love the car, Sash well done bakiiii
Bakiii when we going for a bust?
The Holden VL would make for a good gray market import in the states
Two things: Tourism Victoria should be paying you a fee for filming around Melbourne- it is impressive, secondly, that particular "yellow" was used by the highway patrol around Oz and the VL RB30 turbo were known to be able to catch up to GTHO Falcons and Porsches cruising up the "Hume" from a standing start quicker than the V8 Holden and Ford of the time.
Nice car impressive power
Absolutly beautiful.
Love the video!!
Beautiful 🌻
Thats my old car geez i sure miss it now
I had a station wagon bright yellow in nz painted it mat black immediately.was rb 30 we didnt get them turbo here as far as i know.
nice mate, cheers Des Wong
Haven't seen many vls? Such a unique car. Yellow vl with Simmons. Where is this dude from?
The only commodore I would kill for
fully sick cuzzy
Wow What a Beast 2 Drive Hes Spent a lot of Monet 2 get it were it is . A Aussie V8 4 Shore
Boundry Rd!!!
I had a yellow vl in 2002. It cost 2 grand back then. I wish I kept it now
Need to get Hectic Habib on here to give the full rundown
Where’s the full review? Of this I want to know more haha
Notice the baby seat when he says a daily driver
That particular car is an exceptional build, the only major thing I don't care for are the ridiculous size wheels and rubber band tyres. Super low profile tyres don't grip around corners and adding greatly to wheel diameter overstresses axles and especially front suspension parts. On the whole the VL was a much better Holden for using Nissan's motor, but not at all an iconic car.
SuuuuuuuuTuuuTuuu 👌👌👌
Nice😀
Is he driving across the west gate or am I going insane
Lol with a baby seat in the back 🤣
The vl.a barra owners worst nightmare
I bought the extract turbo air freshener u have looks sick but does it spin when the air con turns on
Dude, no disrespect but learning to drive in a BT1 spec VL Berlina from new on L plates and beyond - they had power steering but definitely, there is a differing feeling between that body type and the following series, compared to an ex-cop VZ LS1, had more grunt 420/520 tweaked but maybe it's in the weight difference and chassis design - I preferred the VL (maybe with the LSX would be fun - blown)? Nice specimen
HABIB APPROVED!
Sold my white on white 87 sl turbo about 10 years ago and bought a r32 skyline, regret ever since
What seats are in it?
Excuse me clay, is that your Gucci handbag in the baby seat? 😂
I'm building a 1988 yellow vl bt1 now 1000hp everything the same as this yellow thing just bigger turbo set. Up . Good on the ower of this vl bt1 his done a beautiful job at. Building the car should get together for cruises once my vl is finished twins lol 😎
Any time brother
I owned a vl Calais turbo & as they are nice to look at it was the biggest piece shit I’ve ever owned! One problem after another I was spending my whole wage to keep it on the rd.
Thomas Luke lots of people tell me this but i can honestly say i have had no issues whatsoever. Loui build the car from start to finish and it has given me no issues whatsoever. Starts first time everytime.
This car will be worth 100 grand one day easy
What’s the difference between an SL turbo and a vl turbo
Hahaha you just drove past my old workplace on Boundary Road...
HP Boyz
Those fobs have nothing to do with Aussie cars lol
@@Hayesidentitycrisis I do, this car was featured in their music video OUT HERE.. way before this review was on.. shame ya gronk lol if you watch the video, at the beginning you can hear the sound of my people 💨💨💨😆😆
Can you get on all fours easy in the back seat?
YEAH BUD...
fully hectic cuz
Apparently a lot off these cars are in the uk
Beautiful car, although difficult to say everything’s been reupholstered when as you say that where the windscreen rubber joins the body you can see some terrible upholstery.
I hate how the plastics didnt line up even when new. They were always terrible quality.
All the money went to the most important part of ghe car, the engine 😂
rustywrench spot on !!!
shithouse wheels/tyres setup tho
Art Vandelay what setup do you have chanp?
Baby seat in the back LMAO VL is the best car ever made
Ugliest car ever made dont you mean