I have just started dismantling a VT Calias for a donor car, I think the commodore is an overlooked donor in Australia, I am going to try and use as much of the driveline as can be adapted.
While the car has to be more rigid for the v6 in Australia, and even more so for me as I am using a supercharged v6, I believe that it will still come in under 750kg's, the main things that need to be changed are that I will be using 30x30mm shs with 2mm walls instead of 25x25mm 1.6 I am having a friend draw it up in autocad right now, but my engineer is convinced that the increase in size and wall thickness along with a few extra well placed bracing pieces will get me where I need to be.
Commodores are plentiful and cheap, I got mine as a repairable write-off at auction for $1300 including auction fees and the tow home, and will get some of that back selling extra bits I don't need. And this is not uncharted territory as the brunton super stalker uses this same configuration
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