Kramar’s Commodore

While my own design CS Performance intake was probably the best intake available based on the conventional factory setup it was not the ultimate in cold air intake as it still had bends in the system and air does not like turning corners.

When a fellow Holden enthusiast and businessman approached me wanting to use my car as a guinnea pig to design a new OTR intake i was more than willing to assist.

So his fabricator set to work on designing the new intake and we used my car for tweaking the design to ensure good fitment.

What you see in the attached image is the end result of the hard work and is now one of, if not the best, Over the Radiator intake currently on the market. It takes one of the biggest filters of any other known OTR and can run with or without the MAF sensor.

I was not sure if there would be aby gain over my conventional setup but soon found there were indeed gains both in throttle response and power, particularly at open road speeds.

One customer saw a 15rwkw power gain from simply fitting one of these intakes….very impressive numbers for fitting nothing but a new intake!

These intakes are available through Partsco.com Ltd so if you want to get good bang for buck and great under bonnet looks dont hesitate to contact us.

Better spark from MSD Leads

When people start generating more power in their cars an often overlooked part of the chain is ignition leads but these are very important to ensure a good electrical flow which in turn ensures good spark and a strong, full ignition.

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Positive Crankcase Ventilation and oil issue.

A common practice on many modern engines is the plumbing of PCV (positive crankcase ventilation) lines back into the intake - this is done in accordance with emmissions regulations.

The issue with this is that many engines have this excess air bled from the rocker covers where there is lots of oil flying around, so this excess air becomes heavily contaminated with oil before entering the intake……as you may know oil retards the ignition process and therefore dampens power.

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Improving throttle response without buying new parts.

A friend and fellow Commodore owner, John, who lives locally to me and is also a gun on his laptop with EFI Live (pcm tuning), has also got into porting and polishing the factory throttle bodies on the commodores.

While I had heard that upgrading the throttle body was a good mod i always believed this was more to do with buying a bigger diameter throttle body which were rather pricey, so when John got into upgrading the factory throttle bodies I wasn’t expecting much of a difference…….. how wrong I was!!!

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With my car stepping up in the power stakes i now felt my single 2.5″ exhaust system was getting restricive - so i did a little more homework and after finding some back to back dyno tests carried out by Rage exhausts i decided a single 3″ Rage system was to be the weapon of choice.

Some say a single system acts as a better scavenger of spent gasses from the engine over a smaller diameter twin system.

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Carbon Fibre piping under the hood.

Always one to be thinking of ways to improve something I never felt happy with the intake on my car so I set to work designing my own intake, I wont go into the history of my company but the end result of many months of R&D and trial and error resulted in the carbon fibre products we produce today, namely the MAF Pipe, MAFless Pipe and Cold Air Box.

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A new carbon fibre cold air box was in order..

The standard factory intake on the VT V8 Commodore was not overly free flowing due to restrictive entry points into the airbox. The introduction of the Monaro coupe brought about a new apporach to the air intake, the Monaro ran the same airbox but incorporated a shroud that cupped in behind the headlight and had two larger holes which mated up to the existing airbox - with a K&N panel filter fitted this really freed up some hp and throttle response. At around $40 it was a cheap mod and very popular at the time of release.