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[Roy928tt]

I have a fond recollection of Gp.A racing, when manufacturers built what they raced, and Holden stepped up to the plate and built Bathurst winning Commodores. While Ford Australia did nothing. At least...

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Geez, I'm well sick of hearing about these fires and drought, you'd think NSW was the center of the fucking universe. Nothing happens till it happens in NSW, if these fires were in WA nobody would know...

[Roy928tt]

Couldn't have put it better, I had a 250 auto TC Cortina diabolical handling and brakes, but no shortage of go....

[Roy928tt]

Had a couple of little wins in the shed today, I picked up new M8 taps and finished the jig for the selector rails. Then I set everything up to check the 1st-2nd selector, disturbingly, it was pretty...

[Roy928tt]

I'd always imagined one in magenta with the GT stripes, GT/XT Fairmont wheel trims on widened wheels and drag radials and a stonking Windsor, I guess in this day and age a Barra is the engine of choi...

[Roy928tt]

I'm not sure that I want to start taking into account DNF's.... I think we can be assured that both got the same equipment. Maybe, how they used it varied? It's a can of worms I wouldn't want to open...

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It probably just comes with the territory, it is no small feat to build your own racing car (see Rosberg snr. re:racing cars description) and then develop it to compete at the pointy end of the field....

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22 posts in,finally. Absolutely, the transaxle Porsches including the 928.

Otherwise SAAB 900, you'd need to be keen, but I had a look around a coupe of years ago and by buying 2 or 3 cars...

[Roy928tt]

I've been spending some time in the shed the last couple of days building one of these....


It's a jig for setting up the selectors in a Hewland gearbox, the one pictured is for sale...

[Roy928tt]

Great article Muz, Thanks

[Roy928tt]

I took some time out today to catch up with an old mate of mine, he works in oil and gas in the middle east and lives in Brisbane so is a little difficult to catch up with. He has an early 60's Mini Cooper...

[Roy928tt]

Hmmm tough call, as it should be, but in terms of sportsmanship, we haven't seen Hamilton be quite as crude as Schumacher so I give it to Hamilton.

You know what that does? Makes Nico's Championship...

[Roy928tt]

You are right, there is a Bike V8 called a Hartley, but it isn't the Kiwi guys......

[Roy928tt]

I'm pretty sure you are right.

[Roy928tt]

Interesting, the car that ran 2nd at the A.H.C. Dean Amos, runs a Nicholson Mclaren V8 based on the Cosworth XB Indy engine, which was the successor to the DFX and the DFX was a contemporary to the Judd...

[Roy928tt]

WOW ! Did the Australian Hillclimb Championships at Bathurst sort the men from the boys.

.02 of a second between 1st and 2nd outright, but they were seconds ahead of the rest...
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[Roy928tt]

Laugh, you've gotta cry!

Overnight I've been exchanging emails with the US regarding racing engines, a few minutes ago I check again and there is another reply. I had rather hoped he would...

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Thanks, yes the bloody thing is getting faster....

I finally got a reply from the US about a Judd V8......

I asked the wise Ben about said endeavour, he wasn't entirely supportive....indeed...

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Yes, I'd expect you are right, but given I'm just using 2 X T28 from SR20's on a $300 Mazda KL to make 300 fhp in a 475 kg vehicle,I don't think I'm going to bother.....

Yes, that's 600h...

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Yes, we tend to forget that bearings are a wear item with upper and lower clearance limits, we tend not to give any thought to reusing them because they are so cheap and the labour cost is so high, it...