When Autolife Requested a few feature cars , we didn’t hesitate when we were offered to shoot the eye catching HSV owned by Ryan Allen
Ryan bought this car back in November 2006 when back then it looked like the photo below , just a plain white HSV SS streeter , he told 
us he bought it “ because it was a Manual, V8, HSV, well looked after and had a few modifications such as Koni front struts, exhaust and CD player
Since its purchase the car has been fully re-sprayed in the Holden color VY 
quicksilver with the top half of the car and engine bay painted Holden VE atomic green.
Between the two colors is a custom airbrushed “can opener tear”. At this time he also added the GTS styled front bar and have had the body lines on the side of the car deleted and most of the badges have been removed.
Ryan’s also tinkered with the engine and exhaust a little and has added pacemaker extractors, a high flow 3” cat & 3” exhaust. The K&N air filter, a HDT computer and was last tuned by Active Automotive by the previous owner,. we asked him how much power it has and his response ‘ enough for now ‘ but a new engine is currently in the build so look out! , at this stage the car hasn’t been down the ¼ mile so we will be reporting on the results when they come to hand.
Other goodies in this package include a Sony CD player, 6” JVC splits with a 200watt amp, kicker 6×9’s, Sony 1300watt 12” sub with a 
Alpine 400watt mono block amp all kicking out 127db , Autometer comp series 5.5” monster tacho, Momo steering wheel, gear knob and leather boot and the car has been tinted with ceramic tint.
On the outside the car has been fitted Kings ultra low springs front and rear with munroe shocks in the rear and koni shocks upfront , Slotted and cross drilled front rotors and a set of VE SSV 19”wheels.
All this for around the 30k mark
Ryan tell us his intentions for this build was for something he can enjoy putting in car shows, have fun with on club track days and still drive on the street.
On the award side of things its won Best paint at Street commodores Cruise for charity 6, and also won readers ride in the same mag and more recently Westcoast Commodores “King of the Track” 2011 and im sure plenty more to come!
We’d like to Thank Ryan for allowing to shoot this unique looking street machine for Autolife
Quick Stats :
Owers name : Ryan Allen
Model Of Car : HSV SS
Make of car : HSV
Year of car : 1996
Purchased :Nov 2006
What other cars Does Ryan own :
97 Vs Commodore ute (3 seater, 6 banger) White
Audio :
Sony CD player, 6” JVC splits – 200watt Amp
kicker 6×9’s – Sony 1300watt 12” sub , Alpine 400watt monoblock
Kicking out 127db
Interior :
Autometer comp series 5.5” monster tacho
Momo steering wheel, gear knob and leather boot
Suspension:
Kings ultra low springs front and rear , munroe shocks back and koni shocks upfront
Brakes:
Slotted and cross drilled front rotors
Wheels:
VE SSV 19”
Under the hood/driveline mods:
pacemaker extractors, high flow 3” cat, 3” exhaust, K&N air filter, a HDT computer , strut brace,
gilmore blet drive, thermo fan with adjustable temp sensor
Paint:
Holden Vy quicksilver
Holden VE atomic green
Custom airbrushing
Kits:
GTS styled front bar
Thanking :
A special big thanks to peter at Airborne Suspension for doing all exhaust work and suspension .
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