It's been a while between drinks with one of our good friends, Tim Holmyard and his amazing VX SS TUFSS3.

We originally feature the car way back in late 2006 and since then it has made it's presence felt on the Melbourne drag scene as well as the national LSX drag tables, running an astonishing 8.61sec at 161mph, leaving him perched at the top of the Victorian drag tables for quite some time.

Late last year Tim told us that he had shacked up with Phonsy and the boys at GM Motorsports and, as expected, this exciting venture has resulted in one hell of an update for this old favourite.

Ditching the sexy sheet metal Wilson manifold that the car wore most recently, Tim has gone for one of the best looking pieces of intake hardware available on the aftermarket - a lump of billet machined in to a sexy intake manifold by John Marcella. "It took eight and a half months to get the manifold made, but by the look of it it's been worth the wait," Tim reveals.

The intake manifold, which is eerily reminiscent of Eddy Tassone's Marcella intake set up, is topped by twin 2,000cfm throttles with Tim's trademarked overdose of nitrous plumbed in to the runners and ready to rock!

The heads are also brand new, and capped by uber sexy billet rocker covers. "The heads are Higgins-made LS7," explains Tim. "We're just waiting on pushrods from the States; we should have them in a few weeks. The it's off to GM for a tune then to the track!" he exclaims.

We can't wait to see TUFSS3 back at the track and, if all goes to plan, on show at the Melbourne leg of Cruise for Charity 9 in October this year!

We say it every time we bring you an update, but progress is really starting to speed up with the CWT Targa Commodore.

The boys have been sent these teaser shots from the crew at COME Racing who have assembled the bottom end and are ready to mate the short motor to those gorgeous alloy VN heads.

The heads are yet to be decked out with valvetrain and we're hanging to see how much power this beast can spit out, but know that you'll read about how strong this little motor is right here in the Street Commodores news room!

We’ve been thanking loyal readers of Street Commodores Magazine of late and offering great deals on subscriptions – I don’t know how they’re managing to get the price so low but I’d definitely be jumping on the bargains and signing up to a subscription today if I were you!

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The guys behind the Commando Welfare Trust Targa Commodore build got in touch and wanted to let us know that the COME Racing stroker motor for their corner-conquering VH HDT replica is well under way.

You may remember the dramas the boys had with a dodgy block which set their progress back a bit. They've overcome that and are ready to stuff the freshly machined block you see before you with the COME rotating assembly.

Of course this stout bottom end will be combined with the rip-snorter top end the guys have lined up, comprising of COME's freshly machined, 2011-spec alloy VN heads between which will be perched a COME single plane manifold.

In short she's going to be a monster and we'll keep you updated as to how she fairs on the engine dyno.

NEWS! The guys emailed us as this went up letting us know that COME had put them in touch with Australian Specialty Racecraft who will be supplying one of their circuit-style oil pans to seal the bottom of the COME-assembled short motor.

I’ll be perfectly honest with you when I say that it wasn’t the warmest of nights out at famous Sydney car moot, Harry’s Cafe de Wheels in Liverpool. Withstanding the nigh-on-arctic temperatures though, the VL meet up coordinated by the crew at calaisturbo.com.au brought out some of the neatest street VLs from the state of NSW, and some of the scenes most outrageous personalities.

The meet has been growing in popularity and organiser Jarrod Sweeny proudly told Street Commodores that at the peak of last night’s meet the crew attracted just shy of fifty VLs – a sight to behold for any VL fan.

Rolling in we saw the infamous beige VH of one Damien ‘Chubby’ Lowe who had heard of the meets and, not one to shy away from any gathering of modified vehicles (no less a Commodore meet) Damo’ rolled on down to check out what all the fuss was about.

It should come as no surprise that Anthony of Maatouks Racing made his presence felt at the meet. The car park was littered with tough VLs plastered with Maatouks livery, with the big man himself on hand to give the seal of approval to some of the neater cars at the event.

Ex-Street Commodores feature car EX HWY was on show looking as good as it did the day we shot it. Josh’s immaculate yellow over MX Grey BT1 is a prime example of a neat, street VL Turbo and with a recent switch to a big auto Josh is keen to explore the potential of the Maatouks-enhanced RB30ET set up.

Our good mate Jeremy from Brightline Fabrications was there with his range of stainless steel shrouds and covers to suit VLs and even brought out his immaculate SV88 for punters to ogle. We have to thank Jeremy, the consummate gentleman, for his rent-a-jumper business also.

If you’ve got a Sydney VL or, like me, are looking to live vicariously through other people’s VLs then keep an eye on calaisturbo.com.au for the next Sydney VL meet up, or one in your local area.

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