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Nice to see some fellow petrol heads in this forum.
Now that you've got me all wet Geotrail, Nice piece of machinery that 1!!
I myself have an old Aussie muscle car which I bought 2nd hand in 1983 I think it was. It is a Holden Torana SL/R5000 & is running a holden V8 motor which was originally 5 litres capacity. I have had it over bored & fitted a set of 327 Chev forged flattop pistons to it, giving me a capacity of around 5.4 litres. I have done a full engine balance & blueprint toleranced all bearings. It has enlarged valves with Chev ratio roller rockers being driven by a custom made camshaft giving me 517 thou + 519 thou lift @ the valves & 280 degrees duration on Chev anti pumpup lifters. Fuel is delivered via a mechanical 2ndry Holley 650 CFM double pumper carburettor. Ignition is a Mallory dual point dizzy with a high energy coil for sparks. Exhaust is via twin 2 inch extractors.
Total is around 400Bhp & the car is good for low 13's over the standing 400 metres. ( Officially timed @ 13.24 secs from when I used to occasionaly throw it in a CAMS race assoc quater mile sprint )

I would post a few pics of it but atm it is not in the best condition since it got stolen out of my garage while I was away on holidays last year & I have been too disheartened to get it repaired since getting it back. ( no major damage though, just cosmetic stuff thankfully & all very fixable. )

Anyway, if any1 is interested, here is a little demo thingy I made up 1 rainy sunday afternoon & shoved on my bosses computer ages ago because he is a 1 eyed Ford supporter. It has a pic in it pre - being stolen.
Click here to download (TheFool might even recognise the music in it )

Holy cow! You used some of my old music in it! I'm proud

Since then i have become much better technically [and spent a lot more money on equipment and vst's hehe], so the latest time i have actually been doing some rather nice snippets. I still like this old melody though. It was at the time where i didn't even know what a compressor was. I just selected some presets i liked, made a drum track from some samples and then i wrote the tune i had composed in my head


The car looks really nice, though. I wonder if you could fit a compressor on it.. Well you could.

I love muscle cars. I don't have one though. Denmark is probably 300% more expensive than norway on cars :/
AND i don't have the technical experience to work on the engine. I just know how it works peh.

You need some wild hood scoop / intake though

I hate car thiefs. Plonk an alarm in it, will ya

Hm, is this the car from the fast and the furios?

It looks like this, even this "house" in the background and so on.

Franky wrote:Hm, is this the car from the fast and the furios?

It looks like this, even this "house" in the background and so on.

Yep

Baldrick wrote:13.24 secs

Wow, that is pretty good for a "small" engine
Most drag car don't use engines below 7 liters in the big leagues
Maybe if I get myself down under I could ride shotgun with you.

Maybe one day I'll move to the Isle of Man I think it was, where they have no speed limits hehehe

I actually got to work & started the old thing up this morning after charging the battery overnight. I had almost forgotten just how loud & obnoxious the sound of this old thing is. When I kicked her up, the iron roof of my garage actually started rattling. It is still a really nice ego trip to own this thing even after having owned it for 24 or so years
Mind you, because I havent started it for something like 10 months, it is running really rich & the fumes had my eyes watering & actually drove me out of my garage. I might get it out & take it for a run out to the farm next weekend I think.

I did some searching on the old Aussie Torana's looking for some video clips of which there are dozens.
Here is 1 Ok 1 I found, with the black car @ the end.
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?do ... 21709804&q
here is another little 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 1081&hl=en

And a hero's lap of the Brock Torana legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5JkiaXG ... ed&search=

BTW Geotrail, this might explain a little as to why it is that I have managed to lose my licence 3 times over the years.....

Looks like a fun ride

Baldrick wrote:BTW Geotrail, this might explain a little as to why it is that I have managed to lose my licence 3 times over the years.....

Maybe we should start our own club hehehehe