I have had many commodores over the years. My first road car I owned was a yellow vc commodore with a 2.85 blue motor. The guy I bought it from destroyed the original manual gearbox. He had money (general manager of a large company) he went and chased down a XU1 manual gearbox with the straight cut gears. That car used to blow mild worked 202 in ipswich and at the goldcoast. But the best v8 I have owned was a white vl berlina auto. But the plan is to strip the vh all the back bare metal and do it properly.