World class car what does that really mean ? but I hear it a lot nowadays.

My Hz sl parts car has GV4 does this indicate3:36 ?all parts appear to be original so she might get rust repairs and reassembled what needs to be sent to Holden historical to get the printout? Will it show if it had a/c and sports dash/wheel etc? Has a/c but not sure original and the dash was removed by previous owner

You have to remember that a standard A9X drives pretty much the same as a UC Sunbird or any other UC. Sure the A9X had better brakes, more power and more rubber (E sized tyres rather than B sized) but that is what the car was. If GMH had continued with a 5.0L and manual in UC no-one would even speak about LX A9X today, it would have had one run at Bathurst and lost. 1978 and 1979 would have been UC A9X and it would be the car to have. Every person wanting a "replica" would be paying stupid $ for UC hatchbacks and building UC A9X replicas. It is also pretty harsh comparing a VB to an A9X, you really have to compare a VB with a standard LX, say a stock LX SS which isn't a very nice looking car at all as a standard car- the ugly stripes, 13" wheels with those plastic hubcaps and that ugly dash. Compare to a nice VB SL/E. If you compare an A9X to anything it really has to be to the HDT Commodores - a VC or VH HDT is a nice looking car, certainly not ugly compared to an A9X. I agree A9X's are good looking cars, but they are not and were never designed to be performance cars. Basically the SLR5000 finished and so did 5.0L on SS. From that time they were almost all A9X if they were 5.0L, and they had bits added for homologation purposes only, that was their sole purpose. The cars were never intended to race, in fact many of the 1977 and 1978 race cars were L34's with A9X homologations added. The rest were special build LX race shells, with afaik the odd few road cars by privateers. The real hidden muscle car in all of that era is an early LX SS manual hatchback. From what I've been researching some of those early cars got a bigger exhaust than the standard Torana twin peashooter, we think they fitted them with the same pipe size as the Holden twin system. Combine that with the 250hp pre ADR27A 5.0L and the cars were rockets. Road testers of the day were stunned with how quick the cars were, they were expecting them to be the same as the original SLR5000's with the HQ engines. Articles even comment about having to go back and compare to the acceleration times they recorded with the GTS350's and GT Falcons.
A9X with an L34 engine wouldn't be that much different to a HJ engine - either would be far better though than the stock ADR27A engine it got. But A9X was never intended to be anything other than a homologation mule and the L34 engine was already homologated. The L34 engine as standard wasn't all that much better as installed than a HJ engine was. It is effectively the same engine as a V5H VH-VH 308 engine - the L34 had higher compression and had better exhaust "manifolds", but the V5H had the better cam but with around 1/2 point lower compression. Both had hogged out inlets, both had a better spark system. The V5H got a better breathing air cleaner. The V5H in Commodores got a better exhaust system from the manifolds back than the L34. When you look at stock rear wheel kW they are about the same give or take a few kW. Sure the L34 engine had the advantage once you put a bigger cam in and changed the exhaust from the "manifolds" back but HDT did the same thing with their engines and got similar power upgrades.

Holden gave it to us 33 years ago:

The standard V8 valve bounce at 5000RPM in top gear you can get 5500RPM out of them in other gears but I must be because of the time spent at such revs the springs go wonky.
So that was 5000RPM at 200KM/H I found with my Sandman and SL/R 5000 that I had to back off because the stock engine would valve bounce, both had 3.08 diff and 14in wheels.

185KM/H would be top speed with a 3.36 and 165KM/H with a 3.50 ratio, a mate had a stock 202 but for twin carbys LH G Pack Torana 3.50 ratio 14in wheels and it valve bounced at 165KM/H.

Both my stock 308's had extractors and good free twin exhaust and free air filter and this makes a big difference to how they come from the dealer floor, and I am sure off idle they will take off if you dropped the clutch out directly.
I put a 2.78 ratio in the SL/R5000 when I snapped an axle and yep 1st gear was a bit to high and it would of stalled I am sure by dropping the clutch out then, but she had that much torque it was not a problem to drive anywhere.

I have reversed enough trailers on shitty job sites and stupid drive ways in 43 working years and yes the M21 reverse is bloody high but their is a trick to working the clutch the right way to make it much better, you never rev it up high, I use the lowest rev I can to get it rolling off the mark and if it stalls near the top of the drive way that's it, I just start shovelling out the sand of the trailer from their, it maybe a fast reverse but if you
have confidence in you trailer it can be done, with a bad trailer that jack knifes like a bastard no way.

But that VY SS ute I had, 1st and reverse were bloody high and I would fill it with sand and bags of cement once a week and never buggered the clutch up because of it, it did bugger up at 100,000KM but that was a fault they had fixed in the VZ but I did put a heavy duty AEC ? stage 3 In it then but the peddle was heavy due to that and that had did 130,000KM when I sold it. did a lot of city work in traffic and just would idle and let the clutch out a bit and she would move along, I remember doing about 6KM of that due to a smash, when I got to it 3 dills have just had a slight nose to tail shunt but just sat on the bloody road, I was pissed off and got up them to move ya f ing cars of the f ing highway for f sake you pack off c---so


Yep your HJ Premier would be a good cruiser with 2.78 ratio for sure.
I like the 5.8L ZH Fairlanes for long trips they had the 2.75 ratio a mate had one and sitting in the back drinking was a pleasure to eat up the km as was his WB Statesman Caprice.
I remember tossing my cookies in the marquis once, bloody electric power window did not work.