{"id":137296,"date":"2025-08-29T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=137296"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:27:00","slug":"holden-calais-with-a-nascar-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=137296","title":{"rendered":"Holden Calais with a NASCAR V8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=137308\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137308\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"137308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=137308\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1363\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Holden Calais with a NASCAR V8 01\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Holden Calais with a NASCAR V8&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?fit=1200%2C799&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?resize=600%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Holden Calais with a NASCAR V8\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-137308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?resize=600%2C399&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?resize=1200%2C799&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?resize=1536%2C1022&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?resize=930%2C620&amp;ssl=1 930w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-01.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catherine Coleiro aka &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/driftcat.catherine.coleiro\/?hl=en\">DriftCat<\/a>&#8221; built a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holden_Commodore_(VL)\">Holden VL Calais<\/a> to drift. The car is powered by a 358 ci Dodge NASCAR V8 built by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shophemi.com\">Arrington Performance<\/a>. It features a Bryant crank, Carrillo rods, JE pistons, Comp solid-roller camshaft, NASCAR-spec P7 heads, and Daily dry sump. The motor produced 640 hp to the wheels tuned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChequeredTuning\/\">Chequered Tuning<\/a> on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haltech.com\/product-category\/ecu-universal-wiring-kits\/nexus-r5\/\">Haltech Nexus R5<\/a> and E85 fuel. Behind the motor is a twin-plate clutch and G-Force T101A four-speed dogbox. Read more details on the car at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/features\/cat-hewitson-nascar-vk-vl-calais-drift-car\">Street Machine<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lz-D2kDzw1g?si=jtLOv20sHa8cRdhl\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ydpec-SBTX4?si=0An7fjZhMkAi0bjy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=137309\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-08.jpg?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-08.jpg?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-08.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-08.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Holden-Calais-with-a-NASCAR-V8-08.jpg?w=1300&amp;ssl=1 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@haltech\">Haltech<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/features\/cat-hewitson-nascar-vk-vl-calais-drift-car\">Street Machine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Coleiro aka &#8220;DriftCat&#8221; built a Holden VL Calais to drift. The car is powered by a 358 ci Dodge NASCAR V8 built by Arrington Performance. It features a Bryant crank, Carrillo rods, JE pistons, Comp solid-roller camshaft, NASCAR-spec P7 heads, and Daily dry sump. The motor produced 640 hp to the wheels tuned by&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=137296\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holden Calais with a NASCAR V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":137308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[634],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodore-holden"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":148890,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=148890","url_meta":{"origin":137296,"position":0},"title":"GR Supra with a NASCAR TRD V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"May 22, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Daigo Saito loves building unique drift machines. 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