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Posted 04 October 2014 - 03:55 PM
Plenty of Torana's showing their stuff!
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Posted 04 October 2014 - 09:38 PM
Thanks for sharing looks like it was great day
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 08:00 AM
Some good pics. It was good to catch up with Graham.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 08:46 AM
It was a great day. I came home cooked like a mudcrab from the glorious sunshine.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 08:49 AM
A shame your footage stopped just before Brett Mcniffs big Val exploded its bleeder tearing the floor open and punching a hole in the scuttle in front of the windscreen.
I don't think Ive ever seen a tranny in so many tiny pieces.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 01:39 PM
Sure was Warren and thanks for action shots 
Hi wot179, them's the breaks eh, I stopped to take some stills of the VL in other lane.
My mate and I were trying to work out the bits by looking at the camera pic and then as the wind was in our face everyone got a big wiff of oil.
Is that the mark on the Windscreen?
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 02:14 PM
The hole in the scuttle is only just in view, mostly obscured by the bonnet scoop.
The chrome windscreen moold was also knocked off in the excitement.
The trans tunnel was an almighty mess, with a section about 10 inches round peeled up on the passengers side.
He was lucky not to lose a foot.
It certainly slowed racing down while they cleaned up the massive mess of oil.
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Posted 05 October 2014 - 04:12 PM
The hole in the scuttle is only just in view, mostly obscured by the bonnet scoop.
The chrome windscreen moold was also knocked off in the excitement.
The trans tunnel was an almighty mess, with a section about 10 inches round peeled up on the passengers side.
He was lucky not to lose a foot.
It certainly slowed racing down while they cleaned up the massive mess of oil.
Ahh I see the little piece now, did it have a scatter shield or was it not fast enough?
At least they kept the one lane busy and they did great work on that closed lane considering the amount of oil down.
I took 1250 pics and 28 videos in total with my still camera which the most I have ever taken at one meeting and if the battery never went flat I would have taken a lot more. When the battery warning light came on I stopped videoing and carried on taking another 220 pics lol.
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Posted 06 October 2014 - 05:24 PM
An interesting looking na Holden 6 rail with methanol injection and what looks like a billet? alloy head in those photos.
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Posted 06 October 2014 - 06:54 PM
The blue one or the white one?
The white one is the late Joe Borgs car driven by his brother Mick.
It runs a Duggan head.
Dunno about the blue one.
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Posted 07 October 2014 - 07:07 AM
Yep,that one.
Never seen a head like it...no water either?
Never seen a head like it...no water either?
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Posted 07 October 2014 - 07:32 AM
I believe it's a "one of" at moment, he also cast the injection manifold with butterfly axles in the vertical plane, the plugs are angled as well & like most dragsters it doesn't run water, it also runs a "clutchflite" transmission.
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Posted 07 October 2014 - 04:24 PM
Was it worth the effort of trying to reinvent the wheel yet?
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Posted 07 October 2014 - 06:14 PM
Unsure where I found the pics, it was at least 4 years ago that I found them.
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Posted 07 October 2014 - 06:41 PM
Definitely different and looks impressive,is it delivering any results yet?
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Posted 07 October 2014 - 11:00 PM
When I had a talk to him at the track, he said he still using flat top pistons, so he hasn't got much compression, it needs lumpy top pistons to get the compression up.
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