THE age-old saying goes that there ain’t no substitute for cubic inches, and with 615ci worth of Sonny’s Racing Engines fat block on board his LX Torana hatch, it’s a theory that Sydney bloke Rob clearly subscribes to.
Rob’s previous toy, a VL Calais that we featured in Street Machine LSX Tuner #5, was also an all-motor affair, packing an LSX454R, which at the time was GM’s gnarliest crate engine. Rob was quite content with the Calais, and rightly so, but peer pressure can be a powerful thing.
“We were at Summernats in 2017 when my best mate, John Saad, got a phone call asking if he knew anyone who might be interested in a Torana
