21 cars ran up on the rollers last sunday for the first MCF dyno day at Gerrys Automotive, 300 snags were consumed and a tonne of fuel was burnt. The turn out was huge, props to everyone who showed up to have a look even if they weren’t running their car up on the dyno, also a big thanks to Heath (IVA302) for manning the BBQ all day, nice work thanks mate.

Highest HP - Rob in his supercharged VT GTS with 605.6 hp - Video

Highest NA (carby) HP - Luke Jago in his pink LX Torana WLD77X 360.9 hp - Video

Highest Forced Induction HP - Blown 56 Chev with 475.6 hp - Video

Most Impressive Dyno run - Harry Heffernan in his BA XR6 Turbo SEXR6T - Video

Lowest HP on the day - Dave Murphy in his 1969 GT 1600 Capri - Video

Luke & Harry - pm me your address details and i’ll send out the meguiars pack, robbo’s voucher and burson stubby holder.

Thanks to Dave, Gerry and crew for working their asses off all day and keeping the cars on the dyno.

Big thanks to the sponsors on the day :

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Final Results on the day :

Videos From Dyno Day

MY05VS - White VS 5Litre (Jeremy/TUFGMH) - 183.3hp

WLD77X - Pink Torana 330cubes - Luke Jago - 360.9 hp

Nathan Falza T- Bucket - 219.4hp

BA38WF George - VX SS Commodore - 351.5 hp

NON202 Ryan Nash - 355 stroker - 292hp

TEA55A - TC Cortina 347cubes - 340hp

AWY77G - Rob - VS SS 5L - 198hp

SEXR6T - Harry Heffernan BA XR6 turbo - 437.6

Dave Murphy = 1969 GT 1600 Capri - 42hp

VTGTS - Rob - VT GTS- blown 355 stroker - 605.6hp

1VC2NV Ray - VC Commodore 355 stroker - 336.3hp

FLI20Y - Michael Ramsay - Datsun 120Y CA18DET - 300.4hp

PMJ911 - 1981 porsche 911 - 143.3hp

KINGHZ - Simon White - 284.3hp

‘23 T-Bucket Ford - Darren - 195.5

ZBEAST - David Said - ZC Falcon - 331.9hp

CYCOV8 - Shaun Petrie - TC Cortina - 348.7

AU74BU - LJ Torana - Joshua Tonti 6cylinder - 122.8

XYGS - stock XY GS - John - 120.9

FATR8 - Paul & Rebecca - R8 Clubsport - 273.4

CHV56b - 56 Chev - Blown BBC - 475.6

Thanks for making it a great day out everyone, see if we can’t have a track day in the not too distant future (if you’re interested in a track day hit me up)!

Videos From Dyno Day

Discuss Dyno Day

Ingham Car and Bike Show 2009!! Never has it taken me so long to recover from an event, Ingham Car show is insane! Big crowds, tough cars, skids all day long, premo show cars on display and pretty ladies all over the shop.

Promo girls are a big attraction at Ingham, sexy girls in bikinis serving drinks at the bar, promo girls in sexy outfits are everywhere you go, not to mention bikini & lingerie shows (vid compilation). Saturday night is hours of enjoyment if you like to perv on beautiful women with next to nothing on and in the Wet T-Shirt Comp NOTHING on!

Late Friday night after one or two Chandy’s, Clint Ogilvie found himself in a little tied up after a couple of the boys found some ductape! We won’t talk about the camo undies though Clint don’t worry.

Let’s not forget the cars, burnouts start early and continue late into the night on Saturday and then kick off again early Sunday morning! Eight toughies from way down in Mexico made the trek all the way to ingham to shred a few sets of tyres for the crowd. John Taverna (BLOHSV), Leroy Rees (BIGV8), James North (FRYZEM), Clint Ogilvie (frontback), Dennis Maloney (ratrod), Donny Elphick (ONBOC), Steve Loader (UCSMOKE), Aaron Mackley (VANTSY). All put on a great show, with UCSMOKE setting the rear guards alight, FRYZEM decided it was time for a new motor and destroyed the motor right after smashing a set of tyres, VANTSY sang the rev limiter song on Saturday night skinning the tyres and proceeded to dig through the concrete pad with alloy rims! BIGV8 sounded tough as usual but had problems with a fuel pump belt jumping off, BLOHSV was on song destroying 4 sets of tyres over the weekend.

There were some very tough local cars out on the pad along with some interesting backyard jobs, a flamed buggy which could have begun life as anything popped tyres all weekend, a couple of local girls banged tyres in their ute all day long showing the boys the girls can do it too!

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Late Saturday afternoon is the Street Cruise, with Police escort front and back 40 or 50 cars made their way up and down the main street of Ingham. The locals came out in their droves and everyone was well behaved bar a few import coppers(Brisbane coppers) who defected a couple of cars in the cruise (great police work - give yourselves a big pat on the back!).

All in all Ingham is one of those shows that you just have to experience, when it comes to atmosphere and pure fun value! I was absolutely stuffed by the time I got home, but it was well worth it. Huge congrats to Peter, Jodie and all their helpers for putting on a fantastic weekend, i’ll be doing everything I can to get back up there next year that’s for sure!

Also Peter if you’re reading this - shoot me an email i’ve got a few things to send up to you!

Ingham Car and Bike Show 2009 Photo Gallery

Ingham Car and Bike Show 2009 Videos

Discuss Ingham Car and Bike Show 2009!

When it comes to burnouts, Steve Loader’s ‘69 HT Premier “UCSMOKE” doesn’t just grab your attention, it slaps you up the side of the face and says “F’N TOUGH”! Out of all the big horsepower cars hitting the burnout pad right now, Steve’s HT gets more love than a hooker offering free rides. DART Bigblock and an Enerle Big and Ugly Hat pump out near on 900 ponies at the rears and take no time to massacre tyres.

Steve started off skidding his 318 powered VJ Valiant ute at Easternats ~5 years ago, upgraded to a 355 powered UC Sunbird Torana which is where the name “UCSMOKE” originally came from. The HT was then bought to be a clean cruiser, Steve bought the HT from a little old lady and only paid $800 for the 186 powered HT! Since then, the 355 from his UC Torana was slapped into the HT and the skids began. From there the HT has had 8 yup 8 different motors , 3 different trannys, gone from mini tubs to a full 4 link rear end, completely custom two tone leather interior and finished off by a Showwheels V-Rods!

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The photo above was taken at Gazza Nationals 2008 after UCSMOKE underwent a major overhaul, engine, rims, paint and interior!

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The interior is completely custom two tone leather covering the seats, roof lining, cage and dash, full custom dash with autometer gauges and B&M Pistol Grip shifter. The rear seats are gone, tubs take up most of the rear seating area now, but if you’re really keen you can sit right on top of the tubs for a really comfy ride.

Unlike most of these burnout cars, Steve has fitted some VE Clubsport calipers and rotors for a whole heap of stopping power even though the rear brakes no longer exist.

…I shit myself when it caught fire at Gazza Nats, i’d just resprayed and retrimmed the car and the last thing I wanted was to have to do it all again, luckily there was no damage from the flames, it was only a broken tranny line caused the flames…

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“I’ve owned the HT for about 5 or 6 years now and have had about 8 motors and 3 different trannys in it. Bought it for $800 from a granny with the 186 in it, painted it black, slammed it on white walls and drove it around like that for a while”.

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.. Motor wise I’ve had the 186 in it, then a 308, 355 stroker, tunnel rammed small block, another small block, then blown carbied small block, blown methanol injected small block, and now the blown methanol injected big block ..

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“The only reason I initially painted it black was because a mate had 20L of industrial black 2pac laying about so we just painted it black.”

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What happened at summernats? “I was cruising along and the injector hat got stuck open, it froze from the methanol and smashed into a barrier. Spent the night getting it ready for the next day and got to skid it with a new nose cone fitted”.

What’s Next? “Looking at a new motor combo and have my motor up for sale at present”.

Quick Specs

Steven Loader

1969 HT Premier

Colour : Black

Age : 25

Occupation : Own a Tyre shop - Tyre Style

ENGINE

Make : 540 cube Dart Block
Induction: Enderle Big and Ugly Hat - injected Methanol
Heads : DART Pro 1 Heads
Ignition : MSD 7AL
Exhaust : Twin 4 ” with 2 1/2″ primarys on the headers and 4″ collectors
Cooling :custom alloy radiator
Power : Est ~900 hp
Performance : 10.0 “running like a bag of shit”

TRANSMISSION

Gearbox : 2 speed Powerglide
Converter : TCE 3800rpm stall
Diff : 9″ 3.55 moser centre and 35 spline moser axles

SUSPENSION & BRAKES

Shocks & Springs : 90/10 pedders up front with Strange coil overs on the 4 Link rear end
Brakes : VE Clubsport rotors & calipers upfront with no brakes on the rear

INTERIOR

Seats : retrimmed RCI low back fronts and no rear seats
Instruments : All Autometer gauges
Dash : Custom

RUBBER & RIMS

Tyres : Rear - 18 * 7” Front - 20* 13”
Wheels : Showwheels V-Rods

THANKS

Thanks to my missus (Kylie) and all the boys who have give me a hand with UCSMOKE over the years.

Propipes, SOC Upholstery, Hi Gloss, Speed Pro, Burko Transmissions

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Video Compilation of UCSMOKE

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Matt Legh, owner of Hot Rod Hi-Way is currently building a seriously wild HZ wagon (design concept pictured above), I thought it might be interesting if we get to have a bit of an insight as to how a shop progresses through the build up of a show car.

The HZ will feature :

• Full custom smoothed body
• Shaved door handles
• Shaved gutters
• Fully seam welded
• All steel interior
• Airbag suspension on a full custom chassis
• Fabricated 9″
• Floating hubs
• Monster Brakes
• Powered by a Big Block
• Rolling on 20″ rears and 19″ front rims
  

To get the ball rolling here are a few images of what stage LOWBLOW is at right now, in the next few weeks Matt will gives us more details on the work that has been done and progress photos!

Stay tuned for more updates on LOWBLOW!

Hot Rod Hi-Way

Discuss LOWBLOW

Well i’m sure you have all noticed MCF has undergone a couple of changes in the last 24 hours. Pepsi Max is sponsoring us to promote their new competition to Win a trip $30,000 trip to the UK and a track day where you get to meet The STIG. I wonder if he’ll be wearing his getup or you’ll actually be able to see *who* he/she is?

Anyways be sure to check it out, it would be an awesome trip, meet the Stig, go for a fang around the track and attend a Top Gear UK recording!

www.pepsimax.com.au

Discuss!

Well now this isn’t exactly a modified car, but and this is a big big big BUT it is a car that any of us would jump at the chance of slipping into even if it is for a brief stint! So time for something a little different, we’ve had a bunch of seriously tough highly modified cars so far, so why not check out one that is built from the factory to turn normally sane grown men into drooling apes! Welcome the Maserati GranTurismo S!

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As with most cars in the same stratosphere as the GranTurismo S, cornering at any speed, even far beyond the realms of sanity doesn’t fluster it at all. Naturally this can be attirbuted to the suspension setup, along with the near perfect weight distribution. The engine is set back behind the front axle giving a weight distribution of 47 percent over the front axle and 53 percent over the rear axle. Approach a corner blip down a gear, turn the wheel and forget about braking, it just isn’t necessary.

Having said that, massive 6spot BREMBO calipers are draped over some not so small cross drilled rotors which have no problem in bringing the Maserati to a standstill.

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Powered by what most of us would call a baby V8 at 4.7litres (4691cc), it still pumps out a tidy 440bhp and propels the 1.9 tonne Maserati to 100 clicks in just 4.9 seconds. The power and styling are amazing, however the most notable feature about this goddess of the roads is the sound it emits whilst driving whether it be simply cruising along or pushing your foot through the firewall. You see there is a special little button named ’sport’ hit this and baffles in the exhaust open, allowing the car to breathe better, not to mention stifening up the suspension, locking up the diff, firming up the gear shifts and adding a bit more grunt into the mixture.

“…if the engine revs are above 5500 and if the accelerator is at 80%, the car’s electronics change gear in just 100 milliseconds rather than the usual 300. The shifts are super smooth and 0-100 km/h is covered in only 4.9 seconds”. Imagine having to wait a whole 300 milliseconds to change gear……….

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Power is put to the ground via a “six-speed electro-actuated gearbox” aka paddle shift. In sports mode whilst using the paddles, down changes come with a neat blip of the throttle giving you the feeling you’re a professional race driver perfectly matching the revs for a nice smooth down change, kinda like a very surreal playstation experience. It kinda makes you want to change gears up and down far more frequently than necessary just to hear the blip of the throttle then crackle of the exhaust as you back off.

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No gear stick, simply start her up hit the ‘R’ button in the centre console to select reverse or click up on the paddle on the steering wheel.

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Lightly touching the door handle causes the door to click open, a waft of leather upholstery hits your nostrils and you’re presented with a sea of buttons, dials and gauges. All of which lure you in, to touch turn and prod……

Hope you all enjoyed getting a closer look at this beasty, as it was a blast to take photos and vids of it!

Quick Specs

ENGINE
Make : 4.7 Litre V8, Peak torque is 490 newton metres at 4750rpm

Power : 440hp at the wheels

Performance :0-100 in 4.9seconds

TRANSMISSION
Gearbox : Tremac Treo 600 manual
Clutch : Electronic double clutch

SUSPENSION & BRAKES

Brakes : BREMBO brakes and calipers

RUBBER & RIMS

Tyres : Rear - 20 * 12” Front - 20* 10”

Full Gallery of Maserati GranTurismo S

Video Compilation of Maserati GranTurismo S

Discuss the Maserati GranTurismo S

As the story usually goes, Lee bought his now mint XB Coupe as a $500 stocker about 5 years ago. It was almost driveable when it was first purchased, a quick run down to PBR for a master cylinder kit and an hour or so spent out the front of old mates house getting the brakes working and she was ready for the drive home. Two years later Lee’s XB emerged from the shed better than when it first rolled out of the factory.

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A toploader helps get the tyres moving, SAAS seats and steering wheel help create a nice comfy driving experience. The centre console has been taken from a BA falcon, Lee reckons that it is pretty much a straight swap, not a bad add on. As with most older cars there was no centre console or the ESSENTIAL drink holders in the XB previously!

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All panel work was done in Lee’s shed. The Coupe was originally a burnt orange and Lee didn’t like it so painted it matt black in an attempt to get a bit of the mad max appeal going. However the matt black colour always looked dirty no matter how much you cleaned it and the local Constabulary seemed to be attracted to the colour and pulled Lee over far too frequently for his liking so the matt black had to go. The current colour is BA Blood Orange (perhaps the paint maker had a bit too much curry the night before naming this paint…) and looks absolutely mint on the old XB.

…heading back from a cruise night…drove past the lolly pop bloke, I heard a loud thud..

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“About 2 years ago, I was heading back from a cruise night and the road was blocked off to a single lane for road works. We all rolled through at about 10k’s an hour, I was the last to go through and as drove past the lollypop bloke, I heard a loud thud. Pulled up and saw that he had whacked my car with his stop/slow sign. The bloke pretty much told me stiff s%^t and after making reports to the police and council I ended up giving up and just got it fixed for myself”.

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Motivated by a 351 stroked to a 357, the cleveland is pumping out a stout 260rwkw (~350 odd bhp) in its current form.

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“When I first got it back on the road in 2007, I drove it upto the Hardtop Anniversary Nats and ended up taking home Best Modified and Custom Coupe. I was pretty happy with it because I was up against 40grand paint jobs and mine was build in the back shed.”

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What’s Next? “I’ve got new 4.56 diff gears lined up and hope to hit Calder for a mid to low 12 when it opens up again”.

Quick Specs

Lee Jarvis
1975 XB Coupe GS
Colour : BA Blood Orange

ENGINE
Make : 351 stroked to 357
Carby : 750 Holley
Heads : Port & Polished Ford Motorsport
Ignition : Bosch, CRANE LX-92
Exhaust : Twin 2.5″ with 2 mufflers
Pistons : Keith Black Hypers
Comp : 10.5 to 1
Cooling : Aussie Desert 4 core radiator & AU thermos
Power : 260rwkw
Performance : Not run the quater yet

TRANSMISSION
Gearbox : 4spd Toploader
Clutch : Single plate clutch
Diff : 9″ spool, 3.7 gears

SUSPENSION & BRAKES
Shocks & Springs : lowered 2″ all round
Brakes : standard

INTERIOR
Seats : SAAS
Instruments : Autometer and Stock
Dash : Recovered in black velour
Console : AU console

RUBBER & RIMS
Tyres : 15*6″ up front and 15*10″ on the rear
Wheels : Weld Prostars

AWARDS

Best custom and modified coupe at the 30th year hardtop Nationals, Performance Ford Mag May 2008.

THANKS

Chris for spraying Justin, Burger

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Video Compilation of XBCQUP

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Not your average burnout event, The Ultimate Burnout Challenge (TUBC) had attracted 87 of Australia’s finest burnout machines, all anxious to vapourise their tyres. Melbournes weather however had a different idea as to how this day would unfold, after the devastating heat of the past few months, the clouds blanketed the morning sky and proceeded to piss down copious amounts of rain. This however didn’t seem to deter the entrants, promoters or Mr Optimistic (Jason Bean aka Loudmouth - pictured above), all of whom were keen to wait out the rain for some burnout action, with $10,000 smackers on the line .

By early afternoon the rain had subsided and it was time to dry off the track with what else but a few skids! [vids of the track drying experience] . All these skids were unjudged, so it gave competitors a chance to have a little fun, get to know the track and most importantly DRY the track!

The mud and rain couldn’t come close to stopping this dedicated bunch from getting their machines ready for action. ONBOC (Donny Elphick - pictured above) spent the morning changing over blower gaskets in the new found dust free environment of Avalon Speedyway’s pit area! Despite the muddy conditions, the gasket was changed and Donny managed a top ten placing for his efforts!

A few spectators took it upon themselves to entertain themselves whilst waiting for the skids to start - interesting how any *sane* person could decide getting inside a rubbish bin and rolling down a hill could be a good idea, but hey it was funny to watch!

With the track now dry, judges took their stations and entrants slid across the mud to the burnout pad. First judged skid off the ranks was COPTZE (COPTZE video) a tough blown VP commodore followed by an array of tough cars all sacrificing tyres for the hungry tyre gods!

The quality of entrants meant that everyone was giving it just that much more which always equates to a whole lot of flames followed by engine parts strewn over the pad. TUBC wasn’t without it’s fair share of blow ups with CMEFRY the first to show how easy it is to disassemble your motor at 8,000rpm (see image above and below)!

The seemingly indestructible engine of Leroy Rees (BIGV8) was put to rest after having a new inspection hole made in the side of it at full noise! No doubt BIGV8 will return bigger and better than ever!

So who was able to rise to the top in this elite field of burnout fiends? (links take you to their burnout video)

1st Place - Harry Haig in his Ford 1967 Ute ($10,000 PRIZE MONEY)

2nd Place - James Rees in his 500hp 253 powered VB commodore wagon ($4,000 PRIZE MONEY)

3rd Place - Joe Pagano in his Blown 1994 ute ($3,000 PRIZE MONEY)

4th Place - Glen Eastwood in his blown Torana Hatch ($1,000 PRIZE MONEY)

5th Place - Gary Myers GM176 ($500 PRIZE MONEY)

6th Place - Adam Uebergang in his yellow HK wagon ($500 PRIZE MONEY)

7th Place - Steve Titcombe (CRITTA) ($500 PRIZE MONEY)

8th Place - Donny Elphick (ONBOC) ($500 PRIZE MONEY)

9th Place - Craig Waldron in his one Tonner ($500 PRIZE MONEY)

10th Place - John Taverna in his Blown XD BLOHSV ($500 PRIZE MONEY)

The spectators truly do deserve a big mention, the weather was atrocious or worse, yet just over 1200 people passed through the gates all looking to get their burnout fix. Congrats on a job well done Steve Loader, Leroy Rees, Clint Ogilvie and their partners - also to all the volunteers - can’t wait for next year!

Photo Gallery From The Ultimate Burnout Challenge

Videos From The Ultimate Burnout Challenge

Discuss The Ultimate Burnout Challenge

Love them or hate them the 1988 VL Group A Walkinshaw is a part of Australian motoring history, the group A replaced the existing Holden VL Commodore SS Group A (which had been developed by Peter Brock’s HDT Special Vehicles company} as Holden’s Group A race car. With so much use of plastic in the massive bodykit, the Walkinshaw was soon picking up quite a few nick names - “Plastic Pig”, “Winged Warrior” and “Plastic Fantastic” to name a few. Other, less derogatory nicknames included the “Walkinshaw” and the most common of all, “Walky” (after TWR’s chief Tom Walkinshaw).

18 years ago Paul Howard walked into a dealership looking to purchase a Porche 930 turbo but it turned out to be a “piece of crap”. Driving past the Suttons dealership in Wiatara Paul spotted 3 Walkinshaw’s sitting in their show room, after a few friendly negotiations on the Group A that only had 3000k’s on the clock. Paul was the new owner of long lasting obsession. Over the past 18 years this Walky has been put throught it paces but never ever treated without respect. She has spent many a lap around race track all around the country also spending quiet a few laps on the hill climb circuits. Paul has decided to give her a rest from the racing duties and just enjoy cruising the car on the street and taking it to the occasional show and shine.

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The Walkinshaw’s power plant was the first of the Fuel injected models to come from Holden. “Power Destined for Glory” was just one of the catch phrases that HSV used to promote this new breed of what they where calling a de-tuned version of the Group A race car. These cars were the first of a long lasting line of performance but yet still comfortable cars being produced by HSV. The Walkinshaws were not a pure race car unlike other models previously brought out by HDT, they had air conditioning, power windows, power door locks, 4 speaker stereo system and a security system. Even with all these luxury extra the Walky was advertised as being able to propel its self in standard format from 0 to 100 k’s in 6.5 seconds with amazing highway fuel economy of just an advertised 9.2 liters/100km.

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Paul’s Group A Walkinshaw specifications have well exceeded what TWR and Tom Walkinshaw could have ever dreamt up back in 1988. Residing between the strut towers now is a full house 355 COME Stroker with COME alloy SST heads, Group A Twin throttle body intake manifold, 42lbs Bosch Racing injectors all controlled by a Haltec E6GMX this combo produces 380 asphalt destroying horse power. All that power is transfer through what Paul describes as an indestructable Tremec TKO600 5 speed with a custom made Extreme ceramic single plate clutch. Turning those beautiful 19” FR19 Simmons is a Borge Warner Turbo Walkinshaw diff running a limited slip center with 3.7:1 ratio gears. As you can imagine this combo propels this sweet looking Walky into warp speed with just so much as a touch of the loud pedal.

…I circuit raced the car for about 4 years with the Australian Racing Drivers Club. We raced at Amaroo Park, Oran Park and a couple of rounds at Eastern Creek when it first opened until Ii put it into the wall..

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You put it into a wall ? “Yeah i was at a race day at Oran park probably traveling at about 100 ish k’s in second gear came into a corner a little hot and locked up the brakes put the rear quarter into the wall the the bugger spun around and just touched the front aswell. That day ended up as an expensive exercise”.

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.. I have always enjoyed driving the car i’m not one to leave it in the shed and never get out and have some fun in it..

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“I’ve taken the car to the Nats a couple of times taking full advantage of some secret little hidding places i have in the car.”

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What’s Next? “I have been thinking about supercharging it lately but I am having to much fun with this combo as it is only 3000k’s old. So I might just open up the heads a little and try and crack the 450’s at the wheels”.

Quick Specs

Paul Howard
1988 Holden VL Group A Walkinshaw Built Number 95
Colour : Panarama Silver (Original Colour)
Age : 38

ENGINE
Make : 304 stroked to 355
Induction: Twin Throttle body Walkinshaw EFI
Heads : Come SST Alloy
Ignition : MSD Coil, Haltec E6GMX Computer
Exhaust : Stainless Steel Twin 2.5” into a single 3” at rear
Crank : COME 355
Comp : 10.5 to 1
Cooling : VY 2 Speed Fan with Custom Dessert Cooler radiator
Power : 550 Fly Wheel HP and 380 rear Wheel HP
Performance : Not run the quater yet

TRANSMISSION
Gearbox : Tremac TKO600 manual
Clutch : Custom Extreme Ceramic Single Palte
Diff : Borge Warner Turbo Walkinshaw 3.7:1 ratio LSD

SUSPENSION & BRAKES
Shocks & Springs : Blistein and Kings
Brakes : VY Clubsport Twin Spot Callipers and Slotted Rotors

INTERIOR
Seats : Standard Group A Walkinshaw
Instruments : Autometer and Stock
Dash : Stock

RUBBER & RIMS
Tyres : Rear - 19 * 8” Front - 19* 8”
Wheels : Simmons FR19’s

THANKS

Geforce Engines, Kings Auto Electric, and most of all my wife Jacquie and my kids Elizah and Ewan, Chris Bale Automotive Toronto.

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Every now and then you come across a car that really stands out from the crowd, Luke’s 77 LX Hatch not only stands out from the crowd, if you’re not careful it will jump on your head. With paint that look so deep you could fall into it and an engine bay that you could shave in. This little LX Hatch back Torana has been built to be different and to turn heads.

Originally Luke was looking for a 56 Morris when he came across the Hatch by accident 6 years ago as a stock rolling shell. Over the next four years it has gone through an ever contiuning massive transformation. The further you look over WLD77X you really get the feeling that Luke is totally passionate about his car. Just from the small touches the car has like custom billet alloy trimings from the way it is maintained and basically the way he stands near it like a rotweiller guarding their dinner.

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Starting from the front, when you open the bonnet of WLD77X the first thing you will notice is an ocean of chrome, stainless and billet alloy covering a very stout 330 cubic inch stroker. Luke decided to go with a 330ci because from experience they are a “happy engine” not streched like the 355 and 383 strokers. The smaller cubed 330 has a distinctive sound and are very happy to rev all day long. Consisting of a combination of chev pistons, hemi rods, Dave Bennet Hiport alloy heads, torque power manifold and an 825 Barry Grany gold claw carby this smaller cubed 330 makes a ship load of reliable power. “It can sound much like a rotary at idle because of a combination of the huge overlap and the cubes”

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Backing up this tough little combo is a full manual reverse pattern BMS valve body Turbo 350 with a Dominator 4800rpm stally built to handle what ever the 330 can throw at it. Getting all that power to the black top is a purpose built 4 link rear end with Strange coil overs a minispooled 9” 4.1 gears and 31 spline Moser billet axles.

“Originally it was on the road for about 18 months. I went to a car show with a couple of tubbed Toranas and after following them to and from the show I decided I needed tubs. So on Sunday arvo I got home from the show and by Sunday night I had taken to the car with a grinder”.

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“I havn’t thrown it down the quarter with the current combo but it should be good for mid to high 10’s, the old combo a 308 with head work went 11.7″

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Why Pink ? “… well to be different and brown is far to messy and i was sick of reds and blues….”

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” The 330 cube turned out makes around 350 at the treads it still has a bit more left in it with a good tune, untuned it turned 337 at the bags at Powercruise 2008″

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What’s Next? “Well cars are never totally finished but the next things on the to do list are a cage, nitrous, two tone paint and would like to get it on the 1/4 for a run”.

Awards and Trophys Best engine bay a few times, Runner up best competition, Best detail and Presidents choice at Singletone Car Show 2008

Quick Specs

Luke (WLD77X)
1976 LX Hatch Back Torana
Colour : PINK !!!!
Occupation : Cheeky Bastard
Age : Really Old haha

ENGINE
Make : 304 stroked to 330
Carbie : 825 cfm Barry Grant Gold Claw
Heads : Alloy Dave Bennet Hiports
Ignition : MSD 6al
Exhaust : Twin 3” (lopsided thank Phil) with 4 mufflers
Cooling : Alloy radiator, electric water pump, thermo
Power : 350 at the treads with more to come with a good tune
Performance : Really fast cause it is PINK

TRANSMISSION
Gearbox : Turbo 350
Converter : 4,800rpm Stally
Diff : 9″ 4.1 Minispool 31 Spline Moser Billet Axles

SUSPENSION & BRAKES
Shocks & Springs : 90/10’s up front with standard 6cyl springs, Strange coil over in the rear

INTERIOR
Seats : Retrimmed Grey and Pink
Instruments : Standard and Autometer
Dash : Torana painted pink.

RUBBER & RIMS
Tyres : Rear - 15 * 8” Front - 15 * 4.5”
Wheels : Centreline Convo ET

THANKS

Lindsay Project HT for detailing car and polishing, John from Unique Performance (Engine) and Tim for all his machine work (all the billet bits and peices in the car)

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