Air con regassed at 250,000.
Transmission crossmember snapped on the freeway, caused the transmission to drop about 3 inches. The engine/transmission dangled off the engine mounts and caused the car to shake violently as stopped the car. Snapped the A/C lines, powersteering lines and caused a leaky transmission.
Aside from the slight drama I encountered on the freeway, the commodore has been an excellent car.
It is an ex-cop car, fitted with FE2 suspension and bigger/wider wheels.
It is fitted with a pod-filter which I have found to be the easiest, cheapest and most cost effective performance modification. It gives the car so much more grunt, which can be felt at about half throttle or more.
Normally the car drives around with minimal throttle, and takes about 12 litres for 100km. The engine has so much torque and response. At full throttle the car gets up and moves it's ass really good. It gets from 0-60 km/h in 1st gear, then 60-110 km/h in 2nd gear... all in about 7 seconds flat with the pod filter.
A good car to thrash and drag rice-boxes with. Takes heaps of fuel when you push it though.
My Commodore did the same with the cross member, luckily I was only doing roughly 60 kph and the car made a huge bang sound, came to a slow stop and then when trying to drive it back to a friends house for repair it kept making loud banging noises, thought it was going to explode!! But that was due to a lazy mechanic who didn't tighten the bolts properly.
Does it make much of ma difference putting on a pod I have a normal air filter and thinking of putting one on. The people who had the car before me cut a hole through the bottom of the air cleaner box for air flow. apparently it is common that vn's don't have good enough air flow.
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